... deal of pragmatic insight by the speaker and therefore are often rich with data that reveal the cultural orientation of language learners (In many languages, compliment responses require the language ... when they choose the ways of giving and responding to compliments - With the difference, this study gives the explanation based on theof cross – cultural study - With the result found, the research ... investigate the culture factors that have influence on the word choice of interlocutors; (3) to enrich the knowledge of second language learners about the importance of culture factor in leaning target...
... data analysis Organization ofthestudyThestudy is organized into three main parts: Introduction, Development and Conclusion Part A - Introduction provides an overview ofthestudy including the ... study Therefore, all the students here are ethnic minority people coming from provinces inthe north ofthe middle area in Vietnam: Ninth Binh, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and ... most ofthe students at S2EPS wished an improvement in teaching and learning process ofthe speaking skill In other words, the changes in teachers‟ teaching techniques and strategies can make the...
... unique profiles ofthe informants inthestudy Following this, I will present two sections ofthe data The first in chapter five explains motivations and the workings ofthe migrant network in retirement ... explaining inquisitive Singaporeans ofthe dissonance between their imagination ofthe kampung and my field site Far from being ‘uncivilized’ or ‘rural’, Kampung Makmur lies inthe middle ofthe ... 1989) His later study outlining formal organizations inthe ‘administrative village’ expanded the thesis, focusing on the increasingly politicized nature ofthe kampung administration and kampung...
... MSC THESIS BY DR ANG HUI CHI, ANNETTE the underlying condition of all ofthe sinuses, and assess the anatomy ofthe paranasal sinuses inthe event of surgical intervention (Figure 1) On CT, the ... oedema ofthe mucous membrane ofthe lateral wall ofthe nose Rather, it is likely to be a de novo inflammatory growth ofthe mucosa ofthe lateral wall ofthe nose inthe area ofthe uncinate ... The differences are: a marked increase in number of eosinophils inthe lamina propria of nasal polyps; an alteration ofthe structure of glands in that they are fewer in number and markedly inspissated...
... review and drafted the manuscript TZ conceived ofthestudy from the Israeli standpoint, participated inthe design ofthe study, and helped draft the manuscript SW conceived ofthestudy from the ... States standpoint, participated inthe design ofthe study, performed the statistical analysis, and participated inthe drafting ofthe manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... as the first-line test inthe case of suspected appendicitis, and its use is increasing [15,16,20] In this international study, we compared the performance of CT and US inthe evaluation of suspected...
... low insulin-mediated growth in utero and insulin resistance in adulthood [6] It has been proposed that infant length or weight measured up to the age of two increasingly reflects the influence of ... genotype and fathers' fasting insulin There was no association between father's D1/T or D2/T genotype and fasting insulin (Table 1) The P values for fathers' fasting insulin were little changed ... influence ofthe infant's own genes on the growth trajectory since the influence ofthe maternal intra-uterine environment is no longer present [7,8] Since reduced weight in infancy is also associated...
... state in borderlands This question is intrinsically limited in understanding the complexities of borderlands where the ebb and flow of people are continuously occurring and the informal/unofficial ... about many changes to the lives of my former informants and the landscape of Mae Sot Many of them were now staying in Mae Sot where the presence of alien people has become more prominent Therefore, ... leaving so many “red spots” on many parts ofthe roads inthe town; and they “kill time” by chatting and drinking tea in typical Burmese teashops which are found all over the town Inthe field of...
... 36 37 38 34 宋元强 Song Yuanqiang( ) The Selection of Civil Officials Through Imperial Examinations inthe Qing Dynasty and the Competitive Mechanisms”, Social Science in China, 1996 (02) Summer, ... 起,透过科举 终是 一 的 。他也 出不 一个人或其 在 上 45 Linda Walton, “Kinship, Marriage and Status in Song China: A Studyofthe Lou Lineage of Ningbo, 1050-1250”, Journal of Asian History, Vol.18, No.1 (1984), pp.35-77 ... Hugh R Clark, Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship inthe Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the Late Tang through the Song (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press,...
... farming, maintenance and running errands In turn they too assisted inthe chaining of other patients with mental illness For some informants the church and the shrine provided important social and ... Principles) [6] In response to the lack of progress in meeting the minimum standards enshrined in these principles, the Institute of Psychiatry inthe UK launched 'Principles to Respect', an 'Initiative ... group inthe region as well as in Ghana as a whole, and adopted by many others as a lingua franca Other widely used languages inthe district include Hausa and English, which is the official language...
... to the investors, when utilizing external financing, particularly external equity financing This is because the cost of debt financing is smaller than equity financing, as the differences inthe ... decisions inthe area of corporate finance These include dividend policy, project financing, issue of longterm securities, financing of mergers, buyouts and so on One ofthe many objectives of corporate ... structure The ones reviewed in this section will be the trade-off theory, the agency cost theory and the pecking-order theory 2.2.1 THE TRADE-OFF THEORY The trade-off theory explains firms’ choice of...
... accounting financial of bank Another way to characterize performance is to distinguish between financial and nonfinancial performance (Ittner, 2008) The financial performance is often measured using ... central role inthe Company’s corporate governance and oversees the work of management and the execution ofthe Company’s business strategies on behalf ofthe Company’s shareholders The board of directors ... which the objectives ofthe firm are set, and the means of attaining those objectives and monitoring performance are determined Furthermore, according to the principles of corporate governance...
... (1990) Analysis of time series subject to changes in regime Journal of Econometrics, 45: 39–70 Hamilton, J D (1993) Estimation, inference and forecasting of time series subject to changes in regime ... Denoising Non-Stationary Time Series using Daubechies Wavelets.Seminar Kebangsaan Matematik & Masyarakat (SKMM), UMT Terengganu 13-14 February 2008, Grand Continental Hotel, Kuala Terengganu (In ... decomposition: the wavelet representation IEEE Trans Pattern Anal.Machine Learn 11(9): 674-693 Resnikoff, H L and Wells, R O (1998) Wavelets Analysis: A Scalable Structure of Information Springer-Verlag,...
... empirical studyofthe “Information Synthesis” task, defined as the process of (given a complex information need) extracting, organizing and relating the pieces of information contained in a set of relevant ... have the highest sentence overlap with the manual summaries The second step increases the quality ofthe baselines, making the task of differentiating manual and baseline reports more challenging ... treatment ofthe information inthe documents, and therefore are more interesting from the point of view of Information Synthesis We have, however, decided to keep the two IE topics; first, because they...
... grasshopper from the jar and examine it carefully Count the number of legs, wings and joints inthe body How many joints inthe legs? Examine the tip ofthe foot for a soft pad and on either side of it ... confinement for study Many of them are ofthe greatest importance to man; a studyof them becomes of special value In pursuing a studyof nature and her creatures one should go into the woods and fields ... and the pupa are taking air from the surface ofthe water through their breathing tubes The life ofthe mosquito is quite interesting and is an excellent example ofan insect which lives in the...
... Gao, and Xiaozhong Fan 2004 Chinese chunking with another type of spec InThe Third SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing Yuqi Zhang and Qiang Zhou 2002 Chinese basephrases chunking In ... robust chinese shallow parsing In Proceedings of ROCLING2005 Sujian Li, Qun Liu, and Zhifeng Yang 2003b Chunking parsing with maximum entropy principle (in chinese) Chinese Journal of Computers, ... Nianwen Xue, Fei Xia, Shizhe Huang, and Anthony Kroch 2000 The bracketing guidelines for the penn chinese treebank Technical report, University of Pennsylvania Hongqiao Li, Changning Huang, Jianfeng...
... the importance ofthe value ofan objective in contributing to the value of its parent inthe tree (e.g., in Figure location is more than twice as important as size in determining the value of ... about the same house, tailored to the same subject, for k ranging from to –1 The constant k Inthe definition of s-notably-compelling?, the constant k determines the lower bound of scompellingness ... with houses inthe Hot List3 is randomly assigned to one ofthe three conditions Then, the subject interacts with the evaluation framework and at the end ofthe interaction measures ofthe argument...
... mirror, and oxygen which, being a gas, escapes from the tube The presence ofthe oxygen is shown by lighting the end of a splint, extinguishing the flame and bringing the glowing coal into the mouth ... the product ofthe combustion of iron It is evident that the products ofthe combustion of any substance must weigh more than the original substance, the increase in weight corresponding to the ... Application of these methods to the determination ofthe composition of water The determination ofthe composition of water is a matter of great interest not only because ofthe importance ofthe compound...