The social cognition of medical knowledge, with special reference to childhood epilepsy

This paper arose out of an engagement in medical communication courses at a Gulf university. It deploys a theoretical framework derived from a (critical) sociocognitive approach to discourse analysis in order to investigate three aspects of medical discourse relating to childhood epilepsy: the cognitive processes that are entailed in relating different types of medical knowledge to their communicative context; the types of medical knowledge that are constituted in the three different text types analysed; and the relationship between these different types of medical knowledge and the discursive features of each text type. The paper argues that there is a cognitive dimension to the human experience of understanding and talking about one specialized from of medical knowledge. It recommends that texts be studied in medical communication courses not just in terms of their discrete formal features but also critically, in terms of the knowledge which they produce, transmit and reproduce

MOESM1 of Biotic and abiotic drivers of intraspecific trait variation within plant populations of three herbaceous plant species along a latitudinal gradient

Additional file 1. Overview of the selected functional traits for the functional diversity analysis. Description, scale, percentage of available data for all species and main data sources are given for each trait

Les drames de l'adultère ou Le mari de Marguerite : roman parisien / par Xavier de Montépin

Contient une table des matièresAvec mode text

Additional file 3: Text 1. of Habitat properties are key drivers of Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) prevalence in Ixodes ricinus populations of deciduous forest fragments

Methods: technical details. (DOCX 16 kb

Additional file 7: Figure S1. of Habitat properties are key drivers of Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) prevalence in Ixodes ricinus populations of deciduous forest fragments

Flow chart of the overall data processing procedure. (PDF 46 kb

Additional file 4: Text 2. of Habitat properties are key drivers of Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) prevalence in Ixodes ricinus populations of deciduous forest fragments

Details on how correlation factors were derived and what the name components of the internal variables mean. (DOCX 15 kb

Additional file 11: Figure S3. of Habitat properties are key drivers of Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) prevalence in Ixodes ricinus populations of deciduous forest fragments

Response profiles of infection prevalence for each significant driver. Shown are the prediction line, confidence band (alpha = 0.05) and the partial residuals. The driver groups are macroclimate, landscape, macrohabitat, microhabitat and ontogeny. η2 values represent the relative contribution each variable has in explaining variation in the response. Adult infection prevalence. (FA) = variable is a correlation factor, ‘abund.’ = abundance, ‘disp.’ = dispersules, ‘SLA’ = specific leaf area, ‘tree2’ = lower tree layer. (PDF 254 kb

Additional file 2: Table S5. of Habitat properties are key drivers of Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) prevalence in Ixodes ricinus populations of deciduous forest fragments

Meta-data on study setup. Outline of the most important meta-data, such as center of each studied landscape window, dates of sampling, number of forest patches and a couple of landscape metrics to characterize the respective landscapes. (XLSX 26 kb

Additional file 5: Table S6. of Habitat properties are key drivers of Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) prevalence in Ixodes ricinus populations of deciduous forest fragments

Loadings of all correlation factors. (XLSX 16 kb