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This book focuses on abstract entity anaphora in argumentative
texts with Asher’s (1993) Segmented Discourse Representation
Theory (SDRT) as the theoretical framework, investigating its
pragmatic features and exploring its referent interpretation. The
data sources include more than 160,000-word argumentative texts
(80,000-word English texts and 80,000-word Chinese ones) selected
from newspapers, journals, and books in China and America. At
first, a comparative study was done between Chinese and English
argumentative texts so as to compare the pragmatic features of
abstract entity anaphora in the two languages. Then, referent
interpretation is explored within the SDRT framework. Although SDRT
can account for most of the instances of abstract entity anaphora,
it appears incompetent in dealing with some phenomena in the data
of our study. Seven problems in SDRT were found, and corresponding
solutions were proposed in an attempt to improve this theory. In
general, this book has three aspects of significance. Firstly, it
establishes abstract entity anaphora as an independent and a
special kind of anaphora. Secondly, the research methods are the
combination of empirical study and theoretical hypotheses as well
as the coalescent of dynamic study and static study. Thirdly, the
book is not limited to the application of SDRT to Mandarin Chinese
and backward anaphora. Instead, based on the linguistic phenomena
in the data, it challenges and improves the theory, and it even
negates some aspects and meanwhile brings forward new solutions.
This book provides fundamentals, highlights recent developments and
offers new perspectives relating to the use of electrolyzed water
(EW) as an emerging user- and environmental-friendly broad-spectrum
sanitizer, with particular focus on the food industry. It addresses
the generation, inactivation, pesticide degradation and safety of
food by EW, illustrates the mechanism of the germicidal action of
EW and its antimicrobial efficacy against a variety of
microorganisms in suspensions. In addition, the sanitizing effects
of combining EW with various chemical and physical sanitizing
technologies have been evaluated, and recent developments and
applications of EW in various areas including fruits and
vegetables, meat, aquatic products, environment sterilization,
livestock and agriculture has been described. The book can be a
go-to reference book of EW for: (1) Researchers who need to
understand the role of various parameters in its generation, the
bactericidal mechanism of EW and its wide applications for further
research and development; (2) Equipment producers who need
comprehensive understanding of various factors (e.g. type of
electrolyte, flow rates of water and electrolyte) which govern the
efficacy of EW and developing its generators; (3) Food processors
who need good understanding of EW in order to implement it in the
operations and supervisors who need to balance the advantages and
limitations of EW and ensuring its safe use.
This book introduces readers to essential advances in the
application of physical processing technology in food processing
that have been made in recent years. It analyzes and describes the
application of Power Ultrasound, Pulsed Electric Field,
Supercritical-CO2, and Infrared Heating in the contexts of food
sterilization, extraction, modification, drying and safety control.
Covering all aspects of food physical processing, from basic
principles to the latest technological developments, it offers a
valuable application guide for food engineers and food researchers
alike.
This book introduces readers to essential advances in the
application of physical processing technology in food processing
that have been made in recent years. It analyzes and describes the
application of Power Ultrasound, Pulsed Electric Field,
Supercritical-CO2, and Infrared Heating in the contexts of food
sterilization, extraction, modification, drying and safety control.
Covering all aspects of food physical processing, from basic
principles to the latest technological developments, it offers a
valuable application guide for food engineers and food researchers
alike.
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