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Irony, relevance and pragmatic interpretation in Spanish
(2010)
This article examines the interpretation of irony in Spanish. It first looks at traditional approaches such as the Gricean model, which classify irony together with other tropes like metaphor, hyperbole, or understatement. ...
Ecological determinants of Bemisia tabaci resistance to insecticides
(Springer Nature, 2010)
Managing wound pain during application and removal of dressings
(2010)
Wound pain is a common experience in patients with acute and chronic wounds, and also post healing in some cases, with scars (Stavrou et al, 2009). This pain can cause patients considerable suffering and distress, and ...
Conservation biological control at the landscape level: measuring and modelling
(IOBC/WPRS, 2010)
The incorporation of landscape management into Conservation Biological Control (CBC) strategies is a priority area of research but is hindered by a lack of harmonisation of the means to describe and measure the effectiveness ...
Spectropolarimetric evidence for a kicked supermassive black hole in the quasar E1821+643
(2010)
We report spectropolarimetric observations of the quasar E1821+643 (z = 0.297), which suggest that it may be an example of gravitational recoil due to anisotropic emission of gravitational waves following the merger of a ...
The thermal and nonthermal effects of high and low doses of pulsed short wave therapy (PSWT)
(2010)
The study aimed to investigate the thermal and non-thermal effects of pulsed short wave therapy (PSWT) using high and low dose of PSWT together with placebo and control conditions in healthy subjects. Method. A single–blind, ...
Dementia, dignity and quality of life : nursing practice and its dilemmas
(2010)
The need for healthcare practitioners to respect the dignity of older people is widely recognised in England, where it has been given attention by politicians, professionals and health service regulators. This article aims ...
The case for e-trust
(2010)
Trust is generally understood as a relationship in which an agent (the trustor) decides to depend on another agent’s (the trustee) foreseeable behaviour in order to fulfil his expectations. It is a fundamental aspect of ...
Search for the coolest white dwarfs in the Galaxy
(American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2010)
A number of so-called ultra-cool white dwarfs have been detected in different surveys so far. However, based on anecdotal evidence it is believed that most or all of these ultra-cool white dwarfs are low-mass products of ...
Reduction in left supplementary motor area grey matter in adult female fibromyalgia sufferers with marked fatigue and without affective disorder : a pilot controlled 3-T magnetic resonance imaging voxel-based morphometry study
(2010)
This study aimed to test the hypothesis that structural grey matter brain changes might occur in the chronic intractable pain disorder fibromyalgia when this is associated with marked fatigue in the absence of a DSM-IV-TR ...