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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"scientific texts"”.
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The doctor will fix everything : intersexuality in contemporary culture
… dissertation sets out to demonstrate that the scientific narratives are no less cultural products than are fictional and personal accounts, and argues that scientific texts are merely specific forms of cultural product. Therefore, I do not structure scientific or medical texts as opposites of …
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A Nation in Sight: Visual Technology and Literary Culture in the Early United States
… version of the nation. On the other hand, the scientific and material realities of vision were problematic, giving rise to notions that any attempt at representation was deeply fraught from the outset. Even though optical devices allowed viewers to perceive the world in illuminating ways, they …
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Investigating Natural Language Interactions in Communities
… in communities. First, we study how authors of scientific textsexplain how their paper relates to another. We propose a new task, relationship explanation generation for scientific texts, by using in-line citation text as a source of evidence. We introduce a new model, SCIGEN, empowered by …
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Communication in the Sciences: Genre and Gender Differences in Scientific Writing
… of technology and its impact on society, scientific literacy is increasingly important. This study examines two major genres of scientific writing: academic journal articles and popular science magazine articles. The first aim is to improve the efficacy of writing in the sciences by …
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AnnoTool : crowdsourcing for natural language corpus creation
… annotators can create annotated corpora of scientific texts. Currently the variety and quantity of annotated corpora are limited by the expense of hiring or training annotators. The expense for finding and hiring professionals increases as the task becomes more esoteric or requiring of a …
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The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century
… together fictional tales, travel writings, and scientific texts, I show that U.S. authors who enthusiastically celebrated these myths distorted rather than escaped the bounds of history. Their literature results in an uncanny historicism that unsettles narratives of material progress by …
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The Age of Obsolescence: Senescence and Scientific Rejuvenation in Twentieth Century America
… <em>The Age of Obsolescence: Senescence and Scientific Rejuvenation in Twentieth Century America</em> traces the emergence of these attitudes toward old age back to the turn of the twentieth century when a publicly shared conception of aging was emerging in relation to advances in science and …
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Authority and the production of knowledge in archaeology
… factual, solid archaeological products, like scientific texts, reconstructions or museum displays. It asks, what makes a person, a thing or an account of history something that is authoritative? What makes someone an authority on the past? What is archaeological authority? This thesis …