... example, contend that English "is turning into an increasingly international language, rapidly losing its national cultural base and becoming associated with a global culture" (p 30) Yashima ... fluctuating and often contradictory efforts of language learners in her study Whereas motivation treats desire to learn a language in the same manner as it does gender and age, as a static trait assigned ... suggesting alternative concepts that allow us to address the separate issues of linguistic ability and language loyalty While linguistic ability certainly can impact language loyalty, and vice versa,...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:06
... POLITICS AND IDENTITY IN SOUTH AFRICAN MEDIA of mixed racial descent) and Indian people united in the struggle against apartheid, and coloured and Indian people are now, in most scholarly works, included ... in a patriarchal society Family life, Tin argues, was defined by descent, conjugality and patriarchal authority (although this was sometimes vested in a female) and family life had captured and ... post-apartheid South Africa: ‘Learning to belong’ through the (commercial) media 124 Sonja Narunsky-Laden Media restructuring and identity formation after apartheid Finding a home in Afrikaans radio...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 08:20
A computational study to investigate the effects of insulation and EGR in a diesel engine
... [29] Arash Nemati, Shahram Khalilarya, Samad Jafarmadar, Hassan Khatamnejhad, Vahid Fathi Numerical parametric investigation of a gasoline fuelled partially-premixed compression-ignition engine International ... He has nine papers in International journals and has presented and published 17 papers in International (ASME) and National Conferences He has authored a text book on Thermodynamics which was ... Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India He has 14 years of teaching experience He has one paper in national journal and has presented and published one paper in National Conference His research interest includes...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11
New headway- rooms and objects in a house
... Cooker Washing machine Telephone Cupboard Cup Sofa • • • • • • • an armchair a fridge a television a coffee table a shelf a plant a stereo • • • • • • • a lamp a cooker a washing machine a telephone ... Starter Rooms in a house Living room = sitting room Bedroom Kitchen Dining room Bathroom Toilet Objects in the house Armchair Fridge Television Coffee table Bookshelf Plant Stereo Lamp Cooker ... a shelf a plant a stereo • • • • • • • a lamp a cooker a washing machine a telephone a cupboard a cup a sofa ...
Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2013, 13:10
A case-study in IVF - paternalism and autonomy in a ‘high-risk’ pregnancy
... pregnancy There was a significant further advance of her renal disease, necessitating the initiation of haemodialysis (a kidney machine) two years later, and a living, related donor renal transplant ... remaining remarkably stable The pregnancy was complicated at 20 weeks’ gestation by a right deep vein thrombosis, affecting the femoral and external iliac veins, and anti-coagulation with heparin ... egg-donation IVF In both instances, one could argue that as long as the risks associated with fertility treatment and pregnancy were thoroughly explained to and accepted by the woman (and her partner),...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20
Tài liệu SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN IN A CHANGING WORLD pdf
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 07:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Liars and Saviors in a Sentiment Annotated Corpus of Comments to Political debates" pdf
... Theresa Wilson, and Claire Cardie 2005 “Annotating expressions of opinions and emotions in language” In Language Resources and Evaluation, volume 39, 2-3 We are grateful to João Ramalho for his assistance ... Topic-Sentiment Analysis for Mass Opinion Measurement, Hong Kong Ganapathibhotla, Murthy, and Bing Liu 2008 “Mining Opinions in Comparative Sentences” In Proc of the 22nd International Conference on Computational ... Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Prague Krippendorff, Klaus 2004 Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology, 2nd Edition Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 05:20
Coral Reef Fishes: Dynamics and Diversity in a Complex Ecosystem ppt
... Center, Santa Cruz Laboratory, Santa Cruz, California 95060 Jonathan A Hare (243), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, ... for the appearance of many antipredator adaptations, including increased external ornamentation in gastropods (Vermeij, 1977), and infaunalization, boring, and cementation in bivalves and other ... land masses are Gondwanan fragments The break up of Gondwana extended over a period of about 80 Ma from an initial separation about 135 Ma to the final separation of South America and Africa in...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:21
Báo cáo khoa học: "Generating Usable Formats for Metadata and Annotations in a Large Meeting Corpus" pptx
... generation of annotation and metadata databases to enhance search and browsing of meeting recordings This goal can be achieved by providing plugand-play databases, which are much easier to access ... generates the global tab-separated files for each annotation The script also generates an SQL script that creates a relational annotation database and populates it with data from the tab-separated ... important information is spread in many places, and can be found as attributes of a meeting in the annotation files (e.g start time) or obtained by parsing file names (e.g audio channel, camera) The...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21
Socioeconomic position and health in a population of Brazilian elderly: the Bambuí Health and Aging Study (BHAS) pdf
... reliability of the data gathered, standardizing procedures and instruments, training of field-work and labo- ratory teams, and adjusting for several confounding variables Internal validity was assured ... (puntuación en el Cuestionario General de Salud, autovaloración del estado de salud y de la agudeza visual, grado de dificultad para caminar 300 metros, incapacidad para realizar las actividades ... appointment because of existing lines, and in obtaining medicines because of financial problems or any other problem (Table 4) ple, in China and India, higher income levels, particularly in urban...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20
School Crisis Guide: Help and Healing in a Time of Crisis pot
... activities Make mental health services available, including Employee Assistance Program, if applicable Practice active listening and acknowledge pain and anxiety as well as a healing process that has ... counseling; classroom lesson planning; and where to reassemble students and staff if the school building is unavailable ● Training and practicing Training needs, dates and types of training to ... students, families and staff? ● Provide regular information updates and maintain open communication with teachers, other staff and parents? ● Monitor rumors and maintain timely, accurate information?...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20
Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by smear microscopy and culture in a tertiary health care facility: Biology and Medicine docx
... being achieved Passive case finding is the mainstay of case finding in most developing countries This relies heavily on sputum examination by smear and culture, chest radiology and tuberculin ... precautions and suitable decontamination techniques were followed, a large number (11.4 %) of the samples were contaminated Paramsivan et al (1987) reported a contamination rate of % This contamination ... of Science, Jazan University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia *Corresponding Author: kismail@jazanu.edu.sa, sayeedkhatib@hotmail.com Abstract Smear microscopy and culture forms the backbone of tuberculosis...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20
Effect of hydrogen peroxide on the destruction of organic contaminants synergism and inhibition in a con
... the reactor was taken using a sampling/drainage valve Sample filtration and analysis was performed immediately after collection 2.3 Analyses Analysis of 4-CBA was performed using an Agilent Series ... M Saquib, M Muneer, Desalination 155 (2003) 255 [63] E.R Bandala, S Gelover, M.T Leal, C Arancibia-Bulnes, A Jimenez, C .A Estrada, Catal Today 76 (2002) 189 [64] A. E.H Machado, J .A de Miranda, ... photocatalytic treatment of organic contaminants in water, Ph.D dissertation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2001 [68] T Hisanaga, K Harada, K Tanaka, J Photochem Photobiol A: Chem...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:07
Geochemistry of inorganic arsenic and selenium in a tropical soil effect of reaction time, ph, and comp
... potential groundwater and surface water contamination by these contaminants Arsenic can exist in inorganic form, organic form, and gaseous state The oxidation states of As in the natural systems are ... values of their parameters as well as the correlation of determinations (r2 ) Arsenate and Se(IV) adsorption increased significantly with increased adsorbate loading initially and then increased ... metals and occurs in about 50 minerals (Kabata-Pendias and Pendias, 2001) It is present in four different oxidation states in aqueous and subsurface systems, namely )2, 0, +4, and +6 The fate and...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:25
Health-related quality of life of elderly living in nursing home and homes in a district of Iran: Implications for policy makers pdf
... 322 13 Kiani S, Bayanzadeh M, Tavallaee M and Hogg RS (2010) The Iranian population is graying: Are we ready? Arch Iranian Med 13(4), 333-339 14 Lasheras C, Patterson AM, Casado C and Fernandez ... physical health, total mental health and SF-36 score health, and total SF-36 were calculated using scoring Total physical Total mental Total SF-36 algorithms The association between variables was ... Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria 25, 3139 35 Yang C, Mark W, Rosenbergm B, Wuyi WC, Linsheng YC and Hairong L(2011) Aging, health and place in residential care facilities in Beijing, China Social...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20
Arctic Alpine Ecosystems and People in a Changing Environment pdf
... central Arctic have warmed by 0.5°C), temperatures in Canada’s Hudson Bay and in Greenland, particularly in the Davis Strait area have decreased (Chapman and Walsh 1993), suggesting that climate ... Nordic Arctic Research Programme National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA Indian and Northern Affair’s, Northern Contaminants Program Normalised Difference Vegetation Index National Environmental ... northern Canada; the Kalaallit and Inughuit of Greenland; the Saami of Fennoscandia and Russia’s Kola peninsula; and the Chukchi, Even, Evenk, Nenets, Nivkhi and Yukaghir of the Russian Far North and...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20
THE IMPACT OF CULTURAL EVENTS ON THE CINEMA AND TOURISM IN A COMMUNITY, BUSAN pot
... growth of the cinema industry and organizations in Busan Busan started to support a cinema as an alternative industry to manufacturing Busan Film Commission (BFC) and Busan International Film Commission ... PIFF and Busan Cultural and Tourism requesting data KNTO’s library Korean National Tourism Organization in Seoul has its own library Some of the data was researched at magazines, books, videos, and ... different categories: opening and closing, new current, a window on Asian cinema, Korean panorama, world cinema, wide angle, open cinema, retrospective and special cinema PIFF concentrates on Asian films...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "User Expertise Modelling and Adaptivity in a Speech-based E-mail System" doc
... Adaptive Information Processing for Mobile Speech Interfaces, Geneva, Switzerland Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock 2001 Adaptivity and Response Generation in a Spoken Dialogue System In van Kuppevelt, ... Hungary Diane J Litman and Shimei Pan 2002 Designing and Evaluating an Adaptive Spoken Dialogue System User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction Vol 12(2/3):111-137 Cécile Paris 1988 Tailoring Descriptions ... Message length 24 lines U: Read Sakari Rantala's message S: Third message, from Sakari Rantala, about Re: Comments about the draft [reads the message] Message read You are in the first message...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 19:20
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN THE HOLLYWOOD FILM INDUSTRY: COMING TO AMERICA - TALES FROM THE CASTING COUCH, GROSS AND NET, IN A RISKY BUSINESS pdf
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 12:21
From the Critics’ Corner: Logic Blending, Discursive Change and Authenticity in a Cultural Production System* potx
... world has entered a period of cultural declassification – the unravelling and weakening of ritual classifications critics in as disparate fields as pop music, painting, and literature bemoan aesthetic ... played piano, bass and various brass instruments, Mr Schwartz covered classical music, including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Opera, for the Journal-Constitution as a free-lancer ... Industries, and the Miniconference on the Sociology of Music, August 2003 in Atlanta, GA We thank EGOS and ASA participants for their constructive comments, as well as Candace Jones, Anand Narasimhan,...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20