Construing Ideational Meaning in Electronics Devicesadvertisements in Jawa Pos: a Systemic Functional Linguisticmultimodal Discourse Analysis

This research deals with multimodal discourse analysis. The data were collected from printed advertisements ofJawa Pos newspaper. Generic Structure Potential of printed advertisement (GSP) proposed by Cheong (2004)and Halliday\u27s (1994) transitivity were applied. Cheong\u27s framework is applied to reveal the elements of visualand linguistic elements, meanwhile Halliday\u27s transitivity is used to know the processes. Thereby, this researchdiscovers the relationship between image and text in one context. The result shows that visual elements in theprinted advertisements are Lead, Emblem, and Display. Lead consists of Locus of Attention (LoA) andComplements to the Locus of Attention (Comp. LoA). Meanwhile, the linguistic elements are Announcement,Emblem, Enhancer, Tag, and Call-and-Visit Information. Finally, it is found that there is interconnectednessbetween the visual and linguistic elements in the printed advertisement. It causes high ContextualizationPropensity (CP), narrow Interpretative Space (IS), and also small Semantic Effervescence (SE)

A Survey of the Knowledge of Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis among the Medical Staff of Intensive Care Units in North China

<div><p>Background</p><p>Guideline concordance for venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in critically ill patients in intensive care units (ICUs) varies across different countries.</p><p>Objective</p><p>To explore how the medical staff of ICUs in China comprehend and practice VTE prophylaxis.</p><p>Method</p><p>Questionnaires comprising 39 questions and including 4 dimensions of thromboprophylaxis were administered in ICUs in North China.</p><p>Results</p><p>In all, 52 ICUs at 23 tertiary hospitals in 7 Chinese provinces and municipalities were surveyed. A total of 2500 questionnaires were sent, and 1861 were returned, corresponding to a response rate of approximately 74.4%. Of all surveyed medical staff, 36.5% of physicians and 22.2% of nurses were aware of the guidelines in China, and 19.0% of physicians and 9.5% of nurses comprehended the 9^th edition of the guidelines of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP). Additionally, 37.6% of the medical staff chose a prophylaxis method based on the related guidelines, and 10.3% could demonstrate the exact indication for mechanical pattern application. Worries about skin injury, difficulty with removal and discomfort during mechanical thromboprophylaxis were cited by more than 30% of nurses, which was significantly more frequent than for physicians (graduated compression stockings: 54.3% VS 34.1%, 60.7% VS 49%, and 59.4% VS 54%, <i>p</i> = 0.000; intermittent pneumatic compression: 31% VS 22.2%, 19.2% VS 13.9%, and 37.8% VS 27.2%, <i>p</i> = 0.000).</p><p>Conclusions and Relevance</p><p>The knowledge of VTE prophylaxis among the medical staff of ICUs in North China remains limited, which may lead to a lack of standardization of VTE prophylaxis. Strengthened, standardized training may help medical staff to improve their comprehension of the relevant guidelines and may finally reduce the occurrence of VTE in ICUs and improve the prognosis of critically ill patients with VTE.</p></div

Self-evaluation of comprehension of VTE prophylaxis.

<p>Self-evaluation of comprehension of VTE prophylaxis.</p

Tendencies in VTE prophylaxis pattern choices in various ICUs.

<p>Tendencies in VTE prophylaxis pattern choices in various ICUs.</p

How to perform VTE prophylaxis.

<p>How to perform VTE prophylaxis.</p

General information about the medical staff involved in the survey.

<p>General information about the medical staff involved in the survey.</p

Concerns about mechanical prophylaxis among the medical staff.

<p>Concerns about mechanical prophylaxis among the medical staff.</p

Principal component analysis (PCA) and orthogonal partial least square discriminant (OPLS-DA) analysis of metabolite changes in GCs and MCs after HCO₃^- treatment.

<p>PCA was performed using four replicate data of relative metabolite abundances in the cell-types at 0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 120 mpi, and the generated PC1 and PC2 were plotted. PCA of two cell-types showing a clear separation of the two groups based on the 268 metabolites for the effect of treatments in (<b>A</b>) GCs, and (<b>B</b>) MCs. The effects of only <b>(C)</b> time and both (<b>D</b>) ‘treatment x time’ were displayed. In OPLS-DA, the metabolite changes as a result of interactions among ‘cell-type x treatment x time were displayed in <b>(E)</b> GCs and (<b>F</b>) MCs.</p

Summary of the increased and decreased metabolic pathways in (A) GCs and (B) MCs after HCO₃^- treatment.

<p>Summary of the increased and decreased metabolic pathways in (A) GCs and (B) MCs after HCO₃^- treatment.</p

Stomatal movement in response to 1 mM HCO₃^- added at time 0 min.

<p>Data were obtained from 60 stomata in three independent experiments and presented as means ± SE. The asterisks indicate significantly different mean values at P <0.05.</p