determining the main idea and supporting details

Finding the Implied Main Idea

Finding the Implied Main Idea

... stated main idea. If you recall from Lesson 2, a main idea is defined as an assertion about the subject that controls or holds together all the ideas in the passage. There- fore, the main idea must ... inference about the main idea or point of the passage. LESSON Finding the Implied Main Idea LESSON SUMMARY This lesson shows you how to determine the main idea of a passage in which the writer has ... expresses their main idea, many times, they simply omit that sentence and instead provide a series of clues through structure and language to get their ideas across. Finding an implied main idea is...

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Tài liệu Determining the Cost of Producing Ethanol from Corn Starch and Lignocellulosic Feedstocks pot

Tài liệu Determining the Cost of Producing Ethanol from Corn Starch and Lignocellulosic Feedstocks pot

... one standby). The wet grains leave the centrifuge at 35% by weight total solids. The thin stillage from the centrifuge is partially recycled as backset, and the remainder is concentrated in the ... report and the process design and model described was the starting point for the creation of the simplified model used for this project. Assumptions about yields, operating conditions and other ... plants. The ethanol industry's history goes back to the oil embargo in the 1970s and the concern at that time about a lack of reliable energy sources. Since then, the technology used in the ethanol...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Determining the Specificity of Terms using Compositional and Contextual Information" pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Determining the Specificity of Terms using Compositional and Contextual Information" pptx

... each other. As the proposed methods don't use domain depend- ent information, the methods easily can be adapted to other domains. In the future, the system will be modified to handle ... terms. For example, the distribution of co-occurrence words of the terms, the distribution of predicates which have the terms as arguments, and the distribution of modi- fiers of the terms are contextual ... information theory, when a message with low probability occurs on channel output, the amount of surprise is large, and the length of bits to represent this message becomes long. There- fore the large...

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Cambridge.University.Press.Brittany.and.the.Angevins.Province.and.Empire.1158-1203.Oct.2000.pdf

Cambridge.University.Press.Brittany.and.the.Angevins.Province.and.Empire.1158-1203.Oct.2000.pdf

... of Rennes, Cornouaille and Nantes and the Broe È rec. 4 penthièvre and léon The absence of ducal authority in these regions is indicated by the fact that the dukes never went there, and their lords never ... tenants. These were Bretons from the north-east of the duchy who received grants of land in the midlands, the south-west and the Welsh Marches, mainly from Henry I. It is self-evident that these ... salt-works, the castellany of Blain and the forest of Le Ga à vre. 24 South of the Loire, ducal domains included the castellany of Le Pallet, 25 estates on the south bank of the Loire and another in the...

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Cambridge.University.Press.The.Works.of.Archimedes.Volume.1.The.Two.Books.On.the.Sphere.and.the.Cylinder.Translation.and.Commentary.May.2004.pdf

Cambridge.University.Press.The.Works.of.Archimedes.Volume.1.The.Two.Books.On.the.Sphere.and.the.Cylinder.Translation.and.Commentary.May.2004.pdf

... triangle having the same base as the segment and an equal height. 3 Later, theorems worthy of mention suggested themselves to us, and we took the trouble of preparing their proofs. They are these: first, ... equal to the line drawn from the vertex of the segment to the circumference of the circle which is the base of the segment. 5 Next to these, that, in every sphere, the cylinder having a 1 The later ... smaller. /3/ And similarly, that among surfaces, too, which have the same limits (if they have the limits in a plane) the plane is the smallest. /4/ And that among the other surfaces that also have the...

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101 ielts speaking part two tasks about the past present and future

101 ielts speaking part two tasks about the past present and future

... about the Past, Present and Future The most challenging and least likely tasks in the exam are the tasks that are mainly about the future (towards the bottom below), with the easiest and most ... What the interior of the building was like - What facilities there were in the building and the local area And say if you would like to study somewhere like that in the future or not, and why ... know them - When and how you first met them - How long you have been working or studying together And say whether you think you will get to know that person better in the future or not, and...

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Bơm ECD-V - P - Determining the Injection Timing

Bơm ECD-V - P - Determining the Injection Timing

... position signals, and determines the "Basic Target Injection Timing". The higher the engine speed, or the larger the accelerator position, the longer the advance. Target Injection Timing = Basic ... Timing" match the "Target Injection Timing", the duty ratio of the timing control valve is calculated. Feedback control is performed to make the injection timing the same as the target ... Calculating the Injection Timing Target injection timing formula ã Basic Target Injection Timing The engine ECU calculates the engine load from the engine speed and accelerator position signals, and determines...

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Working paper series the phillips curve and long-term unemployment

Working paper series the phillips curve and long-term unemployment

... for both the standard and the modified models. For each of the specifications, the coefficient on the unemployment gap and standard errors are reported. Additionally, for the duration model, the value ... estimate the standard and modified models of the Phillips Curve. The main results are presented in Tables 4 and 5, and Figure 3. Estimation values show that the coefficient on the unemployment gap ... robust to the use of alternative starting values. The final issue concerning the use of the Kalman filter deals with the smoothness of the NAIRU. This is a problem akin to the selection of the smoothness...

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The Case of the Missing Market: The Bond Market and Why It Matters for Financial Development

The Case of the Missing Market: The Bond Market and Why It Matters for Financial Development

... between the borrower and lender in which the borrower may draw down and repay loans over time, the lender monitors the activities of the borrower, and the borrower may purchase other services from the ... investment in the fixed costs of maintaining a specialized staff of loan monitors and legal and workout experts. In addition, by handling other aspects of the borrower’s financial dealings, the financial ... which the change in value is transferred at the maturity of the contract or the futures contract in which the change in value is transferred day by day over the term of the contract, part of the...

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Báo cáo y học: "Foramen Magnum Arachnoid Cyst Induces Compression of the Spinal Cord and Syringomyelia: Case Report and Literature Review"

Báo cáo y học: "Foramen Magnum Arachnoid Cyst Induces Compression of the Spinal Cord and Syringomyelia: Case Report and Literature Review"

... adhered to the cerebrum, pons and cervical spinal cord. The com- partments were then separated and the posterior wall of the cyst was excised to break down the cystic structure. The tissue ... the remaining arachnoid cyst (which was slightly smaller than before surgery), the compression on the cerebellar tonsil, the reduced pons and cervical spinal cord. However, the syrinx was the ... cyst were then surgically per- formed. A straight median incision was made on the skull via the posterior temporal route. The occipital squama was cut off and the posterior edge of the fo- ramen...

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Vietnam’s exports to the eu Situation and recommendations.doc

Vietnam’s exports to the eu Situation and recommendations.doc

... services in their operations to exploit information and put their information into the websites and publicize their products on the market. In the other hand, they can find out almost the information ... abundance) to the US. It can then use the proceeds from sales to buy Pima cotton from the US. Thus, people in Finland get cotton they would otherwise not have. Although the US has vast forests, the wood-based ... (8.1%), Holland (7.9%), Spain (4.6%), Denmark (1.3%), Egypt and Australia, Holland stand at the same position (with 0.8%), Portugal and Luxembourg in turn with 0.2% and 0.1% are ranked at the end...

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