Contrastive analysis

This study aims to explore the cultural, pragmatic, and social concepts encoded in shop sign language through cultural metaphors. The data was collected and observed from American and Vietnamese contexts respectively.

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The quandary of the choice between the use of English-only policy or mother tongue in learning and teaching English for Specific Purposes has been ongoing for the past few years at the tertiary level. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness and practicality of implementing the two teaching and learning approaches.

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This article is focused on some similarities as well as differences of the idioms and proverbs between English and Vietnamese. Consequently, to assist close the multicultural divide and establish efficient communication, learners utilize idioms and proverbs linked to relationships in both languages.

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The research clearly outlines some brief information about the structure of compounding between English and Vietnamese to find out its similarities and differences in both languages. In addition, the factors can be used in the contrastive analysis of compounding between the two languages. Learning the foundations of language, understanding how words fit together, and looking at the meaning behind them helps us get a full picture of how language works.

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The research purpose of the topic "Comparisons of discursive structures of English and Vietnamese" is to review the background knowledge of discourse analysis and resignation letters, to point out the similarities and the difference between the discursive structure of the English - Vietnamese resignation letter, to give some suggestions for writing resignation letters in English and Vietnamese.

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This thesis is comprised of eight chapters. Following this introductory chapter, Chapter 2 provides a summary of literature relating to OHS accountability and examines issues relating to OHS performance management. Chapter 3 presents a review of stakeholder, legitimacy and institutional theory literature. The research method employed is discussed and justified in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 presents the results of the stakeholder survey and in doing so describes stakeholder demand for OHS disclosure.

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This study aimed at pointing out the similarities and differences in the types of pun used in English and Vietnamese advertisements in men‘s magazines. That aim is achieved by identifying the common types of pun used in advertisements and the devices used in creating these types of pun.

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This study aims to investigate idioms that carry conceptual metaphor about power based on the theory of Lakoff and Johnson. To go further, this study is done to explore the similarities and the differences between the use of metaphor about power in English and Vietnamese idioms that reflect the culture of each language community.

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The result of the study will be another illustration for the beauty of language, especially when it is used under the observation of cognitive semantics and metaphor. The findings of a contrastive analysis of English and Vietnamese will be a great benefit for Vietnamese learners of English. Moreover, the deep investigation will help them improve their understanding of meanings of words denoting the Names of human body parts and get better results in reading comprehension, translation work as well as in everyday language.

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Quercetin 2,3-dioxygenase (2,3QD) is a copper-containing dioxygenase that catalyses the oxidation of the flavonol quercetin to 2-protocatechuoylphloroglucinol carboxylic acid with concomitant production of carbon monoxide. In contrast to iron dioxygenases, very little is known about copper dioxygenases. We have characterized 2,3QD from the fungus Aspergillus japonicus by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (EPR). At pH 6.0, 2,3QD shows a mixture of two EPR species. The major form has parameters typical of type 2 Cu sites (g// ¼ 2.330, A// ¼ 13.

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Strictosidine glucosidase (SG) is an enzyme that catalyses the second step in the biosynthesis of various classes of monoterpenoid indole alkaloids. Based on the comparison of cDNA sequences of SG from Catharanthus roseus and raucaffricine glucosidase (RG) from Rauvolfia serpentina, primers for RT-PCR were designed and the cDNA encoding SG was cloned from R. serpentina cell suspension cultures. The active enzyme was expressed in Escherichia coli and purified to homogeneity. Analysis of its deduced amino-acid sequence assigned the SG from R. serpentina to family 1 of glycosyl hydrolases.

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Recombinant glycerol dehydratase ofKlebsiella pneumoniae was purified to homogeneity. The subunit composition of the enzyme was most probablya2b2c2 .When(R)- and (S)-propane-1,2-diolswere used independently as substrates, the rate with the (R)-enantiomer was 2.5 times faster than that with the (S)-isomer. In contrast to diol dehydratase,an iso-functional enzyme,the affinity of the enzyme for the (S)-isomer was essentially the same or only slightly higher than that for the (R)-isomer (Km(R) /Km(S) ¼1.5). ...

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Escherichia colilow molecular mass penicillin-binding pro-teins (PBPs) include PBP4, PBP5, PBP6 and PBP6b. Evi-dence suggests that these proteins interact with the inner membrane via C-terminal amphiphilica-helices. Nonethe-less, the membrane interactive mechanisms utilized by the C-terminal anchors of PBP4 and PBP6b showdifferences to those utilized by PBP5 and PBP6. Here, hydrophobic moment-based analyses have predicted that, in contrast to the PBP4 and PBP6b C-termini, those of PBP5 and PBP6 are candidates to form oblique orientateda-helices....

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In rod phototransduction, cyclic GMP synthesis by mem-brane bound guanylate cyclase ROS-GC1 is under Ca 2+ -dependent negative feedback control mediated by guanylate cyclase-activating proteins, GCAP-1 and GCAP-2. The cellular concentration of GCAP-1 and GCAP-2 approxi-mately sums to the cellular concentration of a functional ROS-GC1 dimer. Both GCAPs increase the catalytic effi-ciency (kcat /Km) of ROS-GC1. However, the presence of a myristoyl group in GCAP-1 has a strong impact on the regulation of ROS-GC1, this is in contrast to GCAP-2....

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In this article we compared the metabolism of phosphorylated and unphosphorylated oligosaccharides (cellodextrins and maltodextrins) in Fibrobacter succinogenes S85 resting cells incubated with the following substrates: glucose; cellobiose; a mixture of glucose and cellobiose; and cellulose. Intracellular and extracellular media were analysed by 1 H-NMR and by TLC. The first important finding is that no cellodextrins were found to accumulate in the extracellular media of cells, regardless of the substrate; this contrasts to what is generally reported in the literature....

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p-Hydroxyphenylacetate decarboxylase from Clostridium difficilecatalyses the decarboxylation ofp-hydroxyphenyl-acetate to yield the cytotoxic compoundp-cresol. The three genes encoding two subunits of the glycyl-radical enzyme and the activating enzyme have been cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant enzymes were used to reconstitute a catalytically functional system in vitro.In contrast with the decarboxylase purified fromC.

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The expression of the colonic mitochondrial 3-hydroxy 3-methyl glutaryl CoA (mHMGCoA) synthase,a key con-trol site of ketogenesis from butyrate,is lower in germ-free (GF) than in conventional (CV) rats. In contrast,the activity of glutaminase is higher. The objective of this study was to investigate whether the intestinal flora can affect gene expression through short chain fatty acid (SCFA) and butyrate production. GF rats were inoculated with a con-ventional flora (Ino-CV) orwitha bacterial strainproducing butyrate (Clostridium paraputrificum,Ino-Cp) or not (Bifidobacterium breve,Ino-Bb).

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Chicken metallothionein (ckMT) is the paradigm for the study of metallo-thioneins (MTs) in the Aves class of vertebrates. Available literature data depictckMTas a one-copy gene, encoding an MT protein highly similar to mammalian MT1. In contrast, the MT system in mammals consists of a four-member family exhibiting functional differentiation.

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Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5A (eIF5A) is the only cellular protein that contains the unusual amino acid hypusine [N e -(4-amino-2-hydroxybutyl)lysine]. Vertebrates carry two genes that encode two eIF5A isoforms, eIF5A-1 and eIF5A-2, which, in humans, are 84% identical. eIF5A-1 mRNA (1.3 kb) and protein (18 kDa) are constitutively expressed in human cells. In contrast, expression of eIF5A-2 mRNA (0.7–5.6 kb) and eIF5A-2 protein (20 kDa) varies widely.

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Mature lung surfactant protein C (SP-C) corresponds to residues 24–58 of the 21 kDa proSP-C. A late processing intermediate, SP-C i, corresponding to residues 12–58 of proSP-C, lacks the surface activity of SP-C, and the SP-Ci a-helical structure does not unfold in contrast to the metastable nature of the SP-C helix.

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