On the whole, the frequency rates of possibility and ability modals appear to be less topic-dependent than obligation and necessity modals in the L2 writing of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean speakers.
For different number of topics (T = 200, T = 100, and T = 50), Table 9 shows that these ascending order of the values of average entropy for the three genes is: ANXA1<NR3C1<NOS2, suggesting NOS2 tends to be involved with more topics while ANXA1 tends to be associated with less topics.
She wanted to switch to a less desperate topic.
A less sensitive topic is his desire, like Alan Partridge, to get into television.
On a less contentious topic, countries would commit themselves to combat cigarette smuggling, a provision supported by both Europeans and American negotiators.
But the once-daily scrutiny of East-versus-West — including battles over changing street names celebrating Communist heroes — is an ever less frequent topic.
A veteran of the once hugely successful Industry Standard, a magazine that imploded along with the digital economy, she has turned her attention to a less trendy topic: food.
Alajbegovic was at Columbia to meet the actor Viggo Mortensen, who, that evening, was to reënact a lecture that Camus had given at the university during his trip, on no less a topic than "The Crisis of Humankind".
He relaxes as we move to the less contentious topic of Strava's growth plan.
On the other hand, the combination of multiple balancing mechanism is a less visited topic.
