HUMOR IN OP-ED ARTICLES

Humor in op-ed articles

The main goal of this paper is to analyze the humor in 844 different opinion articles published in the Spanish press by different authors and consequently, to resolve the differences in the use and treatment of humor.It starts from a double theoretical foundation: the characterization of opinion articles as a genus of news discourse, and the concep

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Co-inoculation of aflatoxigenic and non-aflatoxigenic strains of Aspergillus flavus to study fungal invasion, colonization, and competition in maize kernels

A currently utilized pre-harvest biocontrol method involves field inoculations with non-aflatoxigenic Aspergillus flavus strains, a tactic Slippers shown to strategically suppress native aflatoxin-producing strains and effectively decrease aflatoxin contamination in corn.The present in situ study focuses on tracking the invasion and colonization of

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Effect of the assignment of ancestral CpG state on the estimation of nucleotide substitution rates in mammals

Abstract Background Molecular evolutionary studies in mammals often estimate nucleotide substitution rates within and outside CpG dinucleotides separately.Frequently, in alignments of two sequences, the division of sites into CpG and non-CpG classes is based simply on the presence or absence of a CpG dinucleotide in either sequence, a procedure tha

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