FROM HOOLIGANS TO THRASH TALK: EVOLUTION OF THE GENRE

From hooligans to thrash talk: Evolution of the genre

The article deals with the thrash talk as a speech genre.The term, which came to modern Russian from English, refers to a speech practice in which offensive statements are formulated against the opponent, designed to disturb the opponent’s here psychological equanimity.It can be a form of bragging or insulting in competitive situations.T

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Optimal designs for population pharmacokinetic studies of oral artesunate in patients with uncomplicated falciparum malaria

Abstract Background Currently, population pharmacokinetic (PK) studies of anti-malarial drugs are designed primarily by the logistical and ethical constraints of taking blood samples from patients, and the statistical models that are fitted to the data are not formally considered.This could lead to imprecise estimates of the target PK parameters, a

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Immunity to LuloHya and Lundep, the salivary spreading factors from Lutzomyia longipalpis, protects against Leishmania major infection.

Salivary components from disease vectors help arthropods to acquire blood and have been shown to enhance pathogen transmission in different model systems.Here we show that two salivary enzymes from Lutzomyia longipalpis have a synergist effect that facilitates click here a more efficient blood meal intake and diffusion of other sialome components.W

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Method and system development of external target designation with target indication for armoured weapons samples

When conducting scientific research, the authors solve the problem of implementing a multi-purpose and accurate external here target designation in real time, for the targets and critical facilities along the line of sight and beyond it.They achieve minimal dependencies of the external target designation result on the complexity of the target envir

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