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Possible Strategies for Listening Comprehension: Applying the Concepts of Conversational Implicature and Adjacency Pairs to Understand Speaker Intention in the TOEFL Listening Section doc

Possible Strategies for Listening Comprehension: Applying the Concepts of Conversational Implicature and Adjacency Pairs to Understand Speaker Intention in the TOEFL Listening Section doc

... that the view of listening has changed from the mastery of discrete skills in the 1970s to new theoretical models of comprehension from the field of cognitive psychology in the 80s and 90s Then the ... but the same format The efficacy of the strategies and the Volume Number November 2009 28 Accents Asia effects of strategy training were examined through the data of class-discussion and the ... Handout for ‘Conversation implicature’ Conducting the series of strategy trainings to my students, I used their L1, Japanese, for the explanation of the form and purpose of the strategies, and...

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The concepts of art and poetry in Emmanuel Levinas’s writings

The concepts of art and poetry in Emmanuel Levinas’s writings

... of the work of art as an event that ‘holds open the Open of the world’.20 The work of the work of art is the uncovering of ontological difference: Art and poetry in Levinas 221 In the midst of ... ‘brings into the world the obscurity of fate’ summarizes neatly the thesis of the materiality of art (namely that the artwork [is] an event of darkening of being in the general economy of being, ... rather, disturbance and restlessness are the consequences of art The experience of modern art is no longer intelligible from the standpoint of an aesthetics of beauty, with its premium upon the...

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 Báo cáo y học: "The association of meat intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes may be modified by body weight"

Báo cáo y học: "The association of meat intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes may be modified by body weight"

... the amount consumed in lians (50g/lian) per unit of time A lian is the unit of weight in China equivalent to 50 g The reproducibility and validity of the FFQ was assessed in a random sample of ... For other participants the average of the baseline and follow-up FFQ data were used in the analyses The average daily intake of individual food items (g/day) was combined to compute intake of red ... knowledge there are no other reports of a direct link between poultry consumption and risk of diabetes or of interactions between poultry consumption and BMI and the risk of type DM Red meat consumption...

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Henrietta: The story of love, tennis, and thaking chances

Henrietta: The story of love, tennis, and thaking chances

... leg, and the other leg is bent at the knee, and the calf is horizontal to the ground His sink is a miracle of detritus There were a couple of cans of Edge Gel shaving cream with the tops off both ... ran There were thousands of entries Then the other notebook told the date he played someone a tennis match, the name of the someone, and the set scores Hugo’s a tennis pro Then there were coin wrappers ... shaving cream with the tops off both of them and the top of the cans were rusty There was a box of Qtips There were used safety razors There were stacks and stacks of old pari-mutuel tickets that...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 17:33

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RESEARCH ON THE CHANGE OF 2-AP AND OTHER VOLATILE COMPOUNDS IN PROCESSING BUN FROM RICE

RESEARCH ON THE CHANGE OF 2-AP AND OTHER VOLATILE COMPOUNDS IN PROCESSING BUN FROM RICE

... extraction of the 2-AP high concentration materials like Pandan leaf (Phan Phuoc Hien, 2011) Based on the two methods we studied for extraction and quantitative analysis of 2-AP in the pandan leaf and ... collidine as internal standard Duration of extraction was 30 minutes from apparition of the first drop of water in the bottom of the condensed tube Volatile compound extracts were then concentrated ... rate of 1.9 ml/min at 250C The injection was performed in splitless mode first (5 for SPME and for SDE), then in split mode to the end of the cycle (38.5 for SPME and 70 for SDE) After warming the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/08/2013, 16:28

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The effects of bottom up techniques in teaching listening skills to first year students at the university of fire fighting and prevention

The effects of bottom up techniques in teaching listening skills to first year students at the university of fire fighting and prevention

... nature and the content of the listening text itself If one of these is forgotten, the whole process of activity can be failed She especially emphasizes on the importance of the nature of the listening ... complicatedly The topic and the content of the listening text plus the students' interest decide the success of the while-listening activities Students may get bored if they have to the same kind of work ... reexamination of the concepts most relevant to the thesis’s topic Firstly, an account of the theory on listening is made Secondly, the teaching of listening skills is discussed Finally, the listening...

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The integration of lean man and 6 sigma

The integration of lean man and 6 sigma

... 16 The intersection of lean management and Six Sigma The performance of a business is determined by the complex interactions of people, materials, equipment, and resources in the context of the ... level is the standardized process variation (see Figure 2), OFD quality is the NCPPM if the process shifts a full 1.5 sigma units, and the probabilities in the table provide the proportion of final ... proportion of the time A company that is producing to stock will gain from reduced lead times by decreasing the horizon of their forecasts and by replenishing stocks more often, thereby increasing the...

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The economics of money banking and financial markets 9th edition   frederic s mishkin

The economics of money banking and financial markets 9th edition frederic s mishkin

... and the Stock Market 152 152 The Theory of Rational Expectations Formal Statement of the Theory 154 Rationale Behind the Theory 154 155 Implications of rhe Theory The Ef icient Market Hypothesis: ... at the Fed? 32 Why the Chairman of the Board of Governors Really Runs the Show 330 How Independent is the Fedl Inside the Fed 32 325 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Inside the ... CHAPTER The Behavior of Interest Rates 91 Determinants of Asset Demand Wealth 92 92 Expccr.cd Returns Risk 92 Liquidity 93 Theory of Asset Demand 93 Supply and Demand in the Bond Market Demand...

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Tài liệu The perception of time, risk and return during periods of speculation pptx

Tài liệu The perception of time, risk and return during periods of speculation pptx

... point of view, the benchmark return is beta times the market return, enhanced by a factor equal to the square root of the ratio of the trading frequency of the stock to that of the market Furthermore, ... measured in years, then the units of µ are per cent per year and the units of σ are per cent per square root of a year The dimension of µ is [time]−1 and that of σ is [time]−1/2 The riskless bond ... return proportional to the traditional beta of the stock, further enhanced by the square root of the ratio of the stock’s trading frequency to the trading frequency of the market This relation...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 14:15

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Tài liệu Cisco MPLS based VPNs: Equivalent to the security of Frame Relay and ATM docx

Tài liệu Cisco MPLS based VPNs: Equivalent to the security of Frame Relay and ATM docx

... customers accept the level of security that Frame-Relay and ATM offer as layer VPNs, however they might have concerns about the level of security that an MPLS based VPN offers The goal of this paper ... router doesn't know any of the IP addresses of the PE router, it is still attached to the PE router via some method, and could thus guess the address of the PE router and try to attack it with ... only to the port(s) of the routing protocol, and only from the CE router MD5 authentication in routing protocols should be used with all PE-CE peers MPLS Label Spoofing At the core of the MPLS...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 19:15

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The effect of using light and darkness expressions in symbolism in english literature

The effect of using light and darkness expressions in symbolism in english literature

... Son And Lovers) - sun: the star that shines in the sky during the day and gives the earth heat and light -sundown: the time when the sun goes down and night begins = 22= -sunrise: the time of the ... between light and darkness, while at the same time we find an association of the abstract ideas with the images of light and darkness, we can then speak of the imagery of light and darkness and we should ... that the light of the match is very strong and bright In the above poem by Coffin, the light of a match symbolizes the love of one father for his son He lights the match on a very dark night The...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2013, 12:59

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the stock market, the theory of rational expectations, and the efficient markets  hypothesis

the stock market, the theory of rational expectations, and the efficient markets hypothesis

... k e ) PO = the current price of the stock DIV1 = the dividend paid at the end of year ke = the required return on investment in equity P1 = the sale price of the stock at the end of the first ... Pt + C Pt R = the rate of return on the security Pt+1 = price of the security at time t+1, the end of the holding period Pt = price of the security at time t, the beginning of the holding period ... Rationale Behind the Theory Rof > R* ⇒ Pt ↑ ⇒ Rof ↓ Rof < R* ⇒ Pt ↓ ⇒ Rof ↑ until Rof = R* In an efficient market all unexploited profit opportunities will be eliminated Stronger Version of the Efficient...

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the structure of central banking and the bank of canada

the structure of central banking and the bank of canada

... for the operation of the Bank rests with a Board of Directors, which consists of fifteen members: • the governor (currently Mark Carney, who is the chief executive officer and chairman of the ... regulatory oversight of the national payments system, operated by the CPA • acts as the holder of deposit accounts of the federal government, the directly clearing members of the CPA, international ... independence (ability to set the goals of policy) • “ 1) in the ordinary course of events, the Bank has the responsibility for monetary policy, and 2) if the government disapproves of the monetary policy...

Ngày tải lên: 05/01/2014, 16:57

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Tài liệu "Promoting healthy diets and physical activity: a European dimension for the prevention of overweight, obesity and chronic diseases" doc

Tài liệu "Promoting healthy diets and physical activity: a European dimension for the prevention of overweight, obesity and chronic diseases" doc

... and sedentariness and the role of sport in the context of education and as a means of restoring the balance" http://europa.eu.int/comm/sport/documents/lotpaderborn.pdf these include dietary therapy ... that they not object to having their responses, or parts thereof, published on the Commission’s website and/ or quoted in reports analysing the outcome of the consultation process19 III.4 Given the ... health professionals, food chain operators and the general public on the impact of nutrition on health) with scientific advice and assistance (on the role of EFSA in the establishment of food-based...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20

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Tài liệu The Centrality of Money, Credit, and Financial Intermediation in Marx’s Crisis Theory: An Interpretation of Marx’s Methodology pptx

Tài liệu The Centrality of Money, Credit, and Financial Intermediation in Marx’s Crisis Theory: An Interpretation of Marx’s Methodology pptx

... intensification of them, are unavoidable.57 At the end of his treatment of the “Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall” in Part Three of Volume Three of Capital Marx links the rupture of the contractcredit ... smoothly The most abstract form of crisis (and therefore the form of possibility of crisis) is thus the metamorphosis of the commodity itself; the contradiction of exchange-value and use-value, and ... Marx’s theory of accumulation and crisis centers on the rate of profit: in fact, there are two different profit rate variables in Marx’s macro theory The gross rate of profit is the ratio of interest...

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Tài liệu CHEAP POSTAGE REMARKS AND STATISTICS ON THE SUBJECT OF CHEAP POSTAGE AND POSTAL REFORM IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES ppt

Tài liệu CHEAP POSTAGE REMARKS AND STATISTICS ON THE SUBJECT OF CHEAP POSTAGE AND POSTAL REFORM IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES ppt

... many of them the treasury is amply remunerated, and more, by the increased sale of the public lands, the increase of population, and the consequent increase of the revenue from the custom-house And ... defray the expense of sending mails to the new and distant parts of the country There is no justice in it The extension of these mails is a duty of the government; and let the government, by the ... have the pleasure to send you the copy of a paper I have prepared, at the request of Mr Webb, of Boston, to show the progress of increase of the number of letters by the post-office here, since the...

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Tài liệu Ghost Wave - The Discovery of Cortes Bank and the Biggest Wave on Earth pptx

Tài liệu Ghost Wave - The Discovery of Cortes Bank and the Biggest Wave on Earth pptx

... Island They would then cross another thirty-two miles of ocean to the southern flank of San Clemente Island, a naval base and artillery range populated by unexploded ordnance and a dwindling herd of ... had seen from the air and set a course that soon put them within earshot of what seemed the loneliest bell on the face of the planet The tiny man-made island was laden with guano and inhabited ... breakfast into the deep blue sea The buoys stayed anchored, offering the surfers a point of reference and a measure of relief When the next set of four or five waves broke, they showed that the surf...

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