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This study concerns the development of the determiners MINE/MY and THINE/THY in the Early Modern English period. The -N forms had essentially been ousted before words starting with consonants over the Middle English period, and over the subsequent centuries, these forms also fell into disuse before words starting with initial vowels and "h." While the rise of the N-less variants has been the object of several previous studies, the present investigation aims at accounting for the fate of the declining N-variants in the "Corpus of English Dialogues 1560-1760," a data source comprising speech-related texts. We look into the chronological stages of development for the declining MINE and THINE forms, the genres that maintained these forms longest, and the speaker groups that were the last to use the forms. Comparisons are made with the results obtained in previous studies on MINE/MY and THINE/THY variation.

The article presents the discussion on outcome of a symposium held at MidSweden University on 23 October 2020 organised by Terry Walker and Rachel Allan. Topics include focusing on the medical humanities where second special issue together with guest editor Rachel Allan concentrating on a number of key areas within data-driven learning (DDL); and highlighting the research profiles of subject didactics and corpus linguistics.

The article discusses the contribution of the Medical Humanities, including English literature and language to understanding chronic illnesses and issues related to medicine, illness, and health in the Nordic countries. It mentions that there has been tremendous growth in the Medical Humanities including dedicated centres, networks, and academic positions. It illustrates the multi-faceted approaches the study of English can contribute to the understanding of health and medicine.

Pretreatments are often needed for lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks before either thermochemical or biochemical conversion processes. Our previous research has demonstrated the potential of bioleaching, with its superior capability of removing certain inorganic compounds compared to water leaching, to improve biomass quality for thermochemical conversion in biofuel production. In this study, the bioleaching process was scaled up from 250 mL beakers to be carried out in customdesigned 2.5 L bioreactors. The fungus Aspergillus niger was used in the bioreactors for leaching sorghum straw biomass with an initial ash content of 6.0%. The effects of three operating parameters on leaching efficiency (i.e., residual ash content) were extensively studied, including the fungal mass added to each reactor, leaching time, and glucose concentration in the starting liquid phase. Response surface methodology (RSM) was used for the experiment design. The results showed that the average residual ash content of the sorghum feedstock after bioleaching was significantly lower (3.63 ± 0.19%) than that of the ash content (4.72 ± 0.13%) after water leaching (p < 0.00001). Among the three parameters, glucose concentration in the starting liquid phase had the most significant effect on leaching effectiveness (p = 0.0079). Based on this outcome, subsequent bioleaching experiments yielded reductions in residual ash content to as low as 2.73%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The University of California at Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital created a healthier environment with inexpensive business procedures. Reported are: removal of billing responsibilities from faculty, separation of discharge functions from receptionist's functions, billing system/medical records system, and use of credit cards and revolving finance charges. (Author/MLW)

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