SIGNS AND OBJECTS IN OP-ED ARTICLES ON LONELINESS IN THE US AND SINGAPORE NEWSPAPERS: A SEMIOTIC INTERPRETATION

Signs and objects in op-ed articles on loneliness in the US and Singapore newspapers: a semiotic interpretation

Semiotics uncovers signs and objects in narrative accounts and vivid descriptions in the larger body of texts through the power of an interpretant.A sign is an idea that stands for something bigger while an object is a possible interpretation or meaning of that idea.An interpretant is best thought of as the understanding that we have of the sign-ob

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Transitioning a Marquee Orientation and Transition Program for Increased New Student Engagement and Retention Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

One mid-sized public flagship institution in the Mountain West was forced to abandon a INCENSE COCONUT brand-new marquee orientation and transition program, which had contributed to the first increase in first-time student retention numbers in a decade.As educators around the world were faced with similar challenges, three main concerns arose for t

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Are all negative words alike? Behavioral differences in processing negative words associated and not associated with physical and social pain

Studies examining whether stimulus valence affects cognitive processing and motor responses yield mixed results, possibly due to treating negative words as a homogeneous category.Words related to pain may hold distinct status because of their relevance to survival.Thus, they offer a unique opportunity to investigate semantic influences on cognitive

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Separase loss of function cooperates with the loss of p53 in the initiation and progression of T- and B-cell lymphoma, leukemia and aneuploidy in mice.

Cohesin protease Separase plays a key role in faithful segregation of sister chromatids by cleaving the cohesin complex at Filters the metaphase to anaphase transition.Homozygous deletion of ESPL1 gene that encodes Separase protein results in embryonic lethality in mice and Separase overexpression lead to aneuploidy and tumorigenesis.However, the e

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