collectivism as seen in japanese vs american karaoke

... in the study area The purpose of these interviews was to obtain in- depth information on the study phenomenon - 12 - In- depth case study interviews: Sixteen case studies half of whom were coping ... suffering or getting infected with HIV/AIDS, a sexually transmitted disease and/or an unwanted pregnancy In this article, HRSB was taken to include engaging in one, some or all the following behaviours; ... with past research which noted that in conflict settings; poverty, insecurity and gender inequalities usually increase and play a role in perpetuating HRSB [47-49] These factors compromise individuals’...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... there was no gross distortion of structure The melting point temperature was determined by monitoring the change in CD signal at 216 nm while increasing the temperature at °CÆmin)1 (Fig 5B) In the ... neuroserpin: a neuronal serpin involved in a conformational disease FEBS Lett 25171, 1–5 16 Im, H., Woo, M.-S., Hwang, K.Y & M.-H (2002) Interactions causing the kinetic trap in serpin protein folding ... onset is in keeping with the faster rate of polymerization of Ser52Arg neuroserpin compared with Ser49Pro neuroserpin It was surprising that Ser52Arg neuroserpin was almost inert when incubated...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... He was probably then desirous of being as silent as he dared be concerning Indian participation, since he, in virtue of his being chief in command, was the person mainly responsible for it In ... done in furtherance of the scheme while Lane was engaged in Missouri but, in October, when he was back in Kansas, his interest again manifested itself He was then recruiting among all kinds of ... supervising affairs in Kansas, and William G Coffin, The American Indian as Participant in the by Annie Heloise Abel 39 the southern superintendent.[165] It was the first time, since his appointment...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 00:20

... lẫn kinh tế tài Phát luật quy định quyền nhân quyền từ sớm Họ tiếp nhận ảnh hưởng sâu sắc đến vấn đề The issues affecting individual freedom in the American family Individual liberty in American ... the East in general and Vietnam in particular Therefore, divorce has long been a part of our culture and it has long been illegal This is also a factor affecting individual freedom issues in the ... family in America American culture also has many differences American culture places a high value on individualism They uphold the freedom of each individual This is also a factor affecting the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/10/2014, 21:00

... torrent, rain, ice, tear, etc Its activities are even more various: pouring, flowing, overflowing, flooding, spilling, streaming, rushing, drifting, showering, sprinkling, welling, rising, churning, ... swimming, sinking, washing, bathing, drinking, etc Things also need water to float or buoy up Water evokes the feeling of pleasure because it is cool When water takes the form of ice, it is freezing ... 4) Based on cognitive linguistics, another point of view emerged, defining metaphor as ―understanding one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domain‖ (Kovecses, 2002) Similarly in...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:20

... Metaphor in literature 1.3 American short stories of the 20th century 1.4 Vietnamese short stories of the 20th century 10 Chapter 2: Water and fire as metaphors in American ... UNIVERSITY, HA NOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES PHÍ THỊ THU TRANG A STUDY OF WATER AND FIRE AS METAPHORS IN AMERICAN AND VIETNAMESE SHORT STORIES OF ... CENTURY NGHIÊN CỨU ẨN DỤ NƯỚC VÀ LỬA TRONG TRUYỆN NGẮN THẾ KỶ 20 CỦA MỸ VÀ VIỆT NAM MINOR M.A THESIS FIELD: ENGLISH LINGUISTICS CODE: 602215 SUPERVISOR: VĂN THỊ THANH BÌNH, M.A HÀ NỘI, 2010 iv TABLE...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:20

... convey information in a figurative and impressive way The presence of idioms in every aspect of life such as in conversation, on mass media, in game, in sport, in politics, in journals etc has proved ... only interesting in their form of expressing the ideas but also their origins attached to the idioms The famous places in the world or in Britain are smoothly integrated in the idioms and bring ... Newcastle Send owls to Athens Taking, bringing or carrying coals to Newcastle is doing something that is completely unnecessary 13 Castles in Spain/ build castles in the air Have plan/ hopes etc...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:32

... communication as well as maintains the distinguished feature of literature Therefore 30 American stories and 30 Vietnamese stories of all stages of the 20th century are randomly picked out as the database ... things which are able to exclude themselves Therefore, it is fascinating to explore how water and fire metaphors are created in literature and used in real life To conclude, because there has ... water and fire as metaphors in literature though water and fire in culture has been scrupulously investigated, this study is hoped to contribute something to the research of metaphors in literature...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:47

... expressions containing the word: ‘sea / ocean/river’ 2.3 Findings Based on the analysis of the idioms in British English and Vietnamese, it can be seen that all the idioms containing the words of ... (1998) is: - Informational: Evaluative: Situational: Modalizing: Organizational: 1.2.3 Classification of idioms Classification of idioms based on meaning Classification of idioms based on structures: ... people, containing words of advice or wisdom and often appear in the form of whole sentences - to be adapted into proverbial form 1.3.3 Idioms vs collocation Collocation as defined in the Oxford...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:51

... of my initial observation of feminine sentence-final particles being over-used in dubbed Japanese versions of American TV dramas Finally, in order to identify translation norms, I will examine ... translationese in spoken language, specifically Japanese dubbing, has not yet been examined In addition, considerable studies from the standpoint of Japanese linguistics have been conducted on how feminine ... selected Hollywood movies and American TV dramas in terms of the use of feminine sentence-final particles and dubbed -in voices During the second phase, by interviewing audiovisual translators and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2015, 15:55

... http://www.medsci.org Int J Med Sci 2009, d) pKillerRed Lamin B1 vector - Lamin B1-localized KRED protein Figure Physical map of the vector expressing the fusion protein KRED-Lamin B1 The Lamin B1 was inserted into ... as a response to caspase activation as documented by the Barros Okada group22 With increasing duration of light exposure of HeLa cells expressing the KRED-Lamin B1 protein, the cell number was ... mentioned protein expressing KRED constructs Cell survival was calculated by the decrease of the cell number expressing different FPs after illumination for increasing time periods measured The current...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... activity against solid tumors, but less nephrotoxicity and gastrointestinal toxicity than CDDP [14] In phase II clinical studies, NDP was found to be highly effective against solid tumors, including ... on CT scans, the recovery was defined as an “uncertain CR” after confirmation of no progression for at least months An “uncertain CR” was included as a CR when calculating the CR rate When these ... was defined as the complete disappearance of all measurable and assessable disease at the first evaluation, which was performed month after the completion of CRT to determine whether the disease...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:53

... creatinine as a filtration marker in glomerulopathic patients Kidney Int 1985; 28(5):830–838 Perrone RD, Madias NE, Levey AS Serum creatinine as an index of renal function: new insights into ... of digoxin in Japanese patients The serum levels of Cys-C and Cr in the patients were higher than those in the healthy elderly subjects, but the increase of Cys-C was more predominant in the patients, ... Creatininase F-DAOS assay with a Dimension RxL (Dade Behring LIMITED), respectively The serum concentrations of digoxin were by Particle Enhanced Turbidimetric Inhibition ImmunoAssay (PETINIA)...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 17:08

... increase in coal ash use and a corresponding gradual decrease in blast furnace slag use in cement However, its use in other related areas, such as a material for concrete aggregate, is increasing ... dozens of industries, and utilizing wastes in this way, the cement industry can be seen as the nucleus of an industrial cluster Furthermore, when thinking of the cement manufacturing process as a ... Gypsum Textile Sludge Waste plastics Molding sand Paint residue Used tires Agriculture Waste plastics Pachinko Used pachinko machines Industrial clustering model with cement industry at the core...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... salient influences on the interpretation of insults in both cultures In some cases while a comment was perceived as insulting in workmate talks, it might be interpreted as a ludic insult in friend ... considering them as inferior to others Especially, while being commented as a dog was perceived as a little insulting or even a banter in American culture, it was perceived as very insulting and ... and American respondents didn’t feel insulted Interestingly, while being commented as the trouble may have been interpreted as a little insulting in Vietnamese culture, it was also interpreted as...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:16

... English in forming grammatical endings, and in pronouncing of grammatical endings Vietnamese learners have difficulties in pronouncing suffixes showing grammatical meanings that are not 33 present in ... consonants in final position such as student, steak, assistant, top, pop, like, look, work Thirdly, linking exercises in which ending in these consonants are followed by words beginning with vowels ... Consonant Clusters in English 25 2.2.6.2 Consonant Clusters in Vietnamese 26 2.3 Sound Linking .26 2.3.1 Sound Linking in English .26 2.3.2 Sound Linking in Vietnamese...

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Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:59

... 2007) The biomass burning aerosol layer in the mid troposphere was shown to produce a −1 ◦ large increase in the heating rate of 2.8 K day at 20 solar zenith angle within the biomass burning aerosol ... temperatures, including during the arrival phase over Frankfurt in the second sub-period of the heat wave for which FLEXPART indicates a descent (adiabatic heating) of the plume In contrast, there was also ... remains negative as observed during the heat wave period In the following, we analyse measurements from 04:00:00 UTC to 08:00:00 UTC (early morning observations) during the heat wave period as...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

... visualizing opinions and sentiments in a multi-dimensional vector space Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, pages 385–393 E Cambria, R Speer, C Havasi, and A Hussain ... categories (12 two-liners in each): priest, woman, computer, robot, and to normalize against individual humor biases, humanmade two-liners were mixed in in the same categories Two-liners generated ... sense disambiguation using wordnet domains In Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology, 2008 ICETET’08 First International Conference on, pages 1187–1191 IEEE H Liu and P Singh 2004 Conceptneta...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 19:20

... type as a mass in terminology So the transitions of Pf and Rf, with changing N, express the changes of the status of the morphemes of each type in the terminology In terminology, Pf can be interpreted ... and otherwise, in which p is now grouped for the same value and indexed by the subscript j that indicates in ascending order the values of p In using some explicit expressions such as lognormal ... essential points was the relation between the performance-based measure and the competence-based concept of productivity As the growth rate is by definition a performance-based measure, it is...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20