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The role of language in adult education and poverty reduction in Botswan
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05/11/2012, 16:27
... examines the role of language in reducing poverty in a community by enhancing
its self esteem, image, identity, and encouraging participation in education and civic society.
It argues that in ... out. In an education system where English dominates the
majority of learners get little benefit from schooling, either in terms of acquiring the
necessary language proficiency or in terms of ... repertoire of
language systems whilst sustaining the primary language through the schooling process
instead of subtractive bilingualism found in the current educational system whereby the first
language...
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Some aspects of American culture and society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through a number of selected short literary works
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07/11/2012, 15:01
... any boys in the
world walking “lollingly in bare feet, beating tangled vines and bushes with long sticks”
(Schorer, p.885), twitting each other in a swimming hole in the woods after playing truant ... the result of his never-stopped
watching, listening, involving and writing.
The examples of Earnest Hemmingway and Nguyen Tuan are to prove that literature is the art of
employing language as ... what is happening
and what is going to happen next or, moreover, the suspense of readers – a type of involvement
of the readers in doubting and speculating the coming events of the story.
II.1.3....
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The role of advertising in society
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16/04/2013, 11:05
... categories of business-to-business advertising
are industrial and professional advertising
b.1. Industrial advertising
Advertising targeted at individuals who buy or influence the purchase
of industrial ... remain in the
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Index
Introduction
Part I : General knowledge of advertising
1. Some typical concepts of advertising
2. Classifications of advertising
Part II : The role of advertising in society
1. ...
Industrial advertising is often not designed to sell a product or service
directly, since the purchase of industrial goods is often a complex process
involving a number of individuals. An industrial...
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Slide an investigation into some approaches to vocabulary teaching and learning and the application of games in teaching and learning vocabulary at pre – intermediate level at foreign language center – haiphong university
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29/01/2014, 14:36
... Application of games in vocabulary
teaching and learning
teaching and learning
1.What do you think of the games your
1.What do you think of the games your
teachers used in your vocabulary ... used in your vocabulary lesson?
a.
a.
Very interesting and useful
Very interesting and useful
b.
b.
Rather interesting and useful
Rather interesting and useful
c.
c.
Interesting and useful
Interesting ... Advantages of the use of games in vocabulary
teaching and learning
teaching and learning
1.5. Advantages of the use games in
1.5. Advantages of the use games in
vocabulary teaching and learning
vocabulary...
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Tài liệu Health Education in Schools – The Importance of Establishing Healthy Behaviors in our Nation’s Youth pptx
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14/02/2014, 13:20
... Services. Reducing the health consequences of smoking: 25 years of
progress; a report of the Surgeon General. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CDC,
Office of Smoking and ... health of our children and youth. In the United States, chronic
diseases are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality; however, engaging in healthy
behaviors, such as participating in physical ... Science Policy, Institute of Medicine. Defining a comprehensive school health program: An
interim statement; 1995. National Academy Press: Washington, D.C.
Health Education in Schools...
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Tài liệu DESIGN creation of artifacts in society ppt
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19/02/2014, 17:20
... integration of art and craft. Gropius articulated a set of design principles
including “organically creating objects according to their own inherent laws,
without any embellishment or romantic flourishes.” ... to the sound of a recording of Aretha Franklin; the feel of a warm
whirlpool; the taste of a chocolate truffle; the smell of spoiled meat; the ac-
celeration of a rollercoaster in a sharp turn. ... is your aesthetic response? What is your mental
physics processor telling you?
Aesthetic Features are Honest Signals of Quality
Signals are essential elements of our means of making sense of...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "The impact of language models and loss functions on repair disfluency detection" pptx
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20/02/2014, 04:20
... split
the corpus into main training data, held-out train-
ing data and test data as follows: main training con-
sisted of all sw[23]∗.dps files, held-out training con-
sisted of all sw4[5-9]∗.dps ... words inserted into the reparandum are
very closely related to those in the repair. Indeed,
in our training data we find that 62% of the words
in the reparandum are exact copies of words in the
repair; ... shows, the repair often contains many of
the same words that appear in the reparandum. In
fact, in our Switchboard training corpus we found
that 62reparandum also appeared in the associated
repair,
to...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "An Empirical Investigation of Discounting in Cross-Domain Language Models" ppt
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20/02/2014, 04:20
... second point in constructing
our language model, an advantage of our approach
over subsampling is that we use our entire training
corpus, and in so doing compromise between min-
imizing errors ... N-
gram Weighting: Reducing Training Data Mismatch in
Cross-Domain Language Model Estimation. In Pro-
ceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in
Natural Language Processing, pages 829–838.
Dietrich ... as
shifts in the subjects of news articles over time or in
the style of the writing between newswire sources.
The increasing rate of discount growth as the source
changes and temporal divergence increases...
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NOTES ON THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS AND GROWTH ACCOUNTING pot
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06/03/2014, 21:20
... it best. There
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is, of course, a great deal of evidence that differences in schooling are a
major determinant of differences in wages and income, even holding
many other things constant.8 Also, ... them) are, of course, required for discussions of; optimal
investment in education programs.
IIIEDUCATION AS A VARIABLE IN
AGGREGATE PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS
MUCH of the criticism of the use of such ... few restrictions on it. An
interpretation of E as an index of embodied quality in different types and vintages
of labor, fixed once and for all and independent of levels of K, would be very
restrictive...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "The Use of Statistics in Language Research" docx
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07/03/2014, 18:20
... finite resolving power; it is not
the result of an intrinsically indeterminate use
of a discrete set of symbols however compli-
cated. This being so, language can certainly
be described in ... by the methods of the linguist than by
those of the statistician.
The indeterminacy which does exist in lan-
guage is the indeterminacy which arises from
the mapping of a continuous territory ... have in
mind is to find out how large a dictionary must
be in order to contain, with a given fiducial
probability, all the words of particular kinds
of text. A secondary application is in finding...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "FACTORIZATION OF LANGUAGE CONSTRAINTS IN SPEECH RECOGNITION" pptx
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08/03/2014, 07:20
... number of
operations grows linearly with the number of
arcs in the decoding network. As the overall
number of arcs in the decoding network is a
linear function of the number of ares in the ...
ambiguity in finding the best matching string.
The performance can further be improved if the
acoustic matching information used in the
recognition process is incorporated into the
language decoding ... distance (Levenshtein, 1966) between
two strings is defined as the minimum number of
editing operations (substitutions, deletions, and
insertions) for transforming one string into the other....
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