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

Data Paper. Data Paper

<h2>File List</h2><blockquote> <p><a href="environmentaldata.csv">environmentaldata.csv</a> -- 30 KB, ASCII text, comma separated. No compression scheme was used.</p> <p><a href="speciesdata.csv">speciesdata.csv</a> -- 323 KB, ASCII text, comma separated. No compression scheme was used.</p> </blockquote><h2>Description</h2><blockquote> <p>This data set consists of vascular plant and bryophyte species composition and plant and soil biogeochemical data from 153 acid grasslands located in the Atlantic biogeographic region of Europe. Data were collected between 2002 and 2007. The grasslands all belong to the <i>Violion caninae </i>association and were managed by grazing or cutting but had not received fertilizer inputs. These data provide plant composition from five randomly located 2 × 2 m quadrats at each site with all vascular plants and bryophytes identified to species level with cover estimates for each species. Topsoil and subsoil were collected in each quadrat, and data are provided for pH, metal concentrations, nitrate and ammonium concentrations, total carbon and N, and Olsen extractable phosphorus. Aboveground plant tissues were collected for three species (<i>Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus, Galium saxatile, </i>and <i>Agrostis capillaris</i>), and data are provided for percentage N, carbon, and phosphorus. These data have already been used in a number of research papers focusing on the impacts of atmospheric N deposition on grassland plant community and biogeochemistry. The unique data set presented here provides the opportunity to test theories about the effect of environmental variation on plant communities, biogeochemistry, and plant–soil interactions, as well as spatial ecology and biogeography.</p> <p><i>Key words: Acid grasslands; Atlantic region of Europe; plant tissue chemistry; soil chemistry; species composition</i>.</p> </blockquote

Dataset for De Pauw et al. (2024) Nutrient-demanding and thermophilous plants dominate urban forest edge vegetation across temperate Europe

 Understorey plant community data and statistical code * vegetation matrix * species list with species' characteristics * dataset with vegetation response variables and predictor variables used in mixed models R code scripts * script with mixed models explaining vegetation response variables by urban edge distance, forest structure and interaction *script with mixed models explaining vegetation response variables by PCA predictor variables based on soil conditions and microclimate variables & drivers *script that produces figures with vegetation response predictions in terms of urban edge distance and forest structure</p

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

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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