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Using experimental methods to assess the persuasiveness of corporations' trust-repair discourse strategies

Persuasion and manipulation have been central concerns of Critical Discourse Analysis since its beginnings (e.g. Hart 2014; Van Dijk 1996). Traditionally, the persuasive and manipulative potential of texts has been explored by means of interpretive analysis. However, the actual perlocutionary effects of the strategies identified through this process are rarely (if ever) evaluated empirically. This

Health and social service access among family caregivers of people with Parkinson's disease

Background: Being a family caregiver for a person with Parkinson s disease (PD) can negatively impact health and wellbeing, but it appears less clear to what extent caregivers health/social service needs are met. Objective: We explored the extent to which PD family caregivers experience sufficient access to health/social services, as compared to age-matched controls; and the associations between t

Guidelines for the use of magnetic resonance imaging in diagnosing and monitoring the treatment of multiple sclerosis : Recommendations of the Swedish Multiple Sclerosis Association and the Swedish Neuroradiological Society

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is associated with inflammatory lesions in the brain and spinal cord. The detection of such inflammatory lesions using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is important in the consideration of the diagnosis and differential diagnoses of MS, as well as in the monitoring of disease activity and predicting treatment efficacy. Although there is strong evidence supporting the use of