... magazines, books etc In short, a language is called a “global language” when it achieves the official status and education priority in almost every nation, as a result, that language “will eventually ... eventually come to be used by more people than any other language” [1] How a language becomes a ”global language” There exit several explanations about how a language achieves a “global status” ... and education priority I also have given examples and cite ideas of [1] explanation to the way a language achieve the status To explain how a language becomes “global”, I follow Crystal’s assumption...
... Falling-Rising/Fall-Rise/Dive d Rising - Falling a The Falling/Glide-down In its shortest form, the Falling tone starts fairly high and then falls low In case there are several syllables, it starts fairly ... syllable The second stressed syllable is a little lower, the third stressed syllable is lower still until the nucleus is reached and the fall takes place on this nuclear syllable which is often ... of utterances occurs in every language, but such variations in pitch are not all alike in all human languages Vietnamese has two kinds of pitch contours: syllabic pitch for individual syllables...
... N2 as the carrier gas and the peak area was used to calculate conversion based on a standard curve previously prepared from authentic xylitol Each reaction was performed and analyzed at least ... important for proper cellular function, as in Nature NAD is used almost exclusively for oxidative degradations that eventually lead to production of ATP, whereas NADP is typically utilized as a reductant ... and 3¢-hydroxyl groups of the adenine ribose moiety of NAD in WT PTDH, and an Arg replaced Ala176 to stabilize the additional negative charge of NADP PTDH-E17 5A ⁄ A1 76R displayed relaxed cofactor...
... Falling-Rising/Fall-Rise/Dive d Rising - Falling a The Falling/Glide-down In its shortest form, the Falling tone starts fairly high and then falls low In case there are several syllables, it starts fairly ... syllable The second stressed syllable is a little lower, the third stressed syllable is lower still until the nucleus is reached and the fall takes place on this nuclear syllable which is often ... of utterances occurs in every language, but such variations in pitch are not all alike in all human languages Vietnamese has two kinds of pitch contours: syllabic pitch for individual syllables...
... calculated, as can γmax and γmin Fora chosen γ value in the allowed range, Uge can then be calculated from Equation (28) The model code is available as [Additional file 1: heritability12.xls] ... of individual alleles at each locus) plus a smaller dominance term (the sum of contributions from pairs of alleles at each locus) and – usually neglected – epistatic terms (involving potentially ... correlations None None Method Total phenoptypic variance given by: VP = Vg+Ve VP is input anda single solution for Ve and Vg calculated Heritabilities are given by: H2 = Vg/VP h2 = VA/VP Ve and...
... financial services, telecommunications and technology, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology and professional services All company sizes were represented: 56% of firms polled had an annual ... Products and services that relate to ease, convenience, peace, stability, independent living, active lifestyles, social engagement and good value Sell! Products and services that are brand-centric, ... director for professional and public affairs at Philips, a healthcare and wellbeing company Some firms, such as Smith & Nephew, a British manufacturer of artificial hip and knee joints, already publicly...
... Euro-English Part two tests the acceptability of ten features that have been claimed to be specific for mainland Europeans Results of this study reveal that there is little awareness of non-native varieties ... 77 Awareness of other Varieties of English 78 Awareness of Euro-English as a Topic of Discussion 80 Student Age Groups and Motivational Levels 83 iii CHAPTER page Varieties of ... investigates the acceptability ofa new variety of English among the English teaching community in Germany A number of linguists claim there is a new variety of English developing in continental...
... withdrawal latency (PWL) to radiant heat and paw withdrawal threshold (PWT) were used to evaluate thermal hyperalgesia and mechanical allodynia respectively as previously described (23-24) To measure ... important for intracellular signal transduction and play critical roles in regulating neural plasticity and inflammatory responses (38-39) Accumulating evidence shows that all three MAPK pathways ... suppression of TLR4 with intrathecal siRNA delivery could alleviate pain responses in a rat CCI model, suggesting that siRNA targeting TLR4 could be of practical value in clinical situation Conflict of...
... pNF-jB-Luc plasmid (Stratagene, Santa Clara, CA, USA) (150 ngỈwell)1) and phRL-CMV, containing Renilla luciferase cDNA (5 ngỈwell)1), using Lipofectamine and OptiMEM medium (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, ... on NF-jB activation, a transcription factor that regulates neuronal survival [44], and experimentally observed its quenching These aspects are particularly relevant for an understanding of the ... eIF 5A, RPLP2 andits mitochondrial paralog L7 ⁄ L1 2) were less abundant after dopamine treatment, suggesting attenuated translation at both cytoplasmic and mitochondrial levels under cellular stress...
... promotes an a percent change in flux J A negative value means that input variable and flux vary in opposite directions Input variable (I) Input variable physiological value (illuminated leaf cell) RI AdoMet ... calculated as a function of each input variable The fixed input variables were set at their physiological values (Table 2) Although the curves in Fig are displayed fora large range of the changing ... branch-point model (Eur J Biochem 270) 4619 Table Estimated values of the input variables in a leaf cell chloroplast The values of the input variables were derived as indicated in Materials and...
... indicated by conjunctive and case/adverbial particles and adverbial verb forms, coupled with the FO contours flat-fall and rise-fall Ward & Tsukahara (2000) modeled the location of backchannel continuers ... a backchannel backing-off was applied, forcing the language model to count the pause as a unigram However, after missing this location, the model might well place a backchannel slightly later, ... placement of backchannel continuers, using only limited processing and information that is readily available to current spoken dialogue systems Pause duration anda statistical part -of- speech language...
... on Researchand Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’00), pages 144–151 David M Blei and J Lafferty 2009 Topic models In A Srivastava and M Sahami, editors, Text Mining: Theory and Applications ... and Applications Taylor and Francis David M Blei, Andrew Ng, and Michael Jordan 2003 Latent dirichlet allocation JMLR, 3:993–1022 David M Blei, Thomas L Griffiths, and Micheal I Jordan 2010 The ... consists of several n-gram (n ∈ [1, 3]) language models, none of which makes use of the hierarchical information available from the corpus Under these models, the probability ofa given string is given...
... Origins MacMillan London, England References R Barzilay and N Elhadad 2003 Sentence Alignment for Monolingual Comparable Corpora Proc EMNLP M E Boismard 1972 Synopse des quatre Evangiles en francais, ... Analysis as a Mediator of Educational Technology and Knowledge Discovery Proc IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT) F Mosteller and D L Wallace 1964 Inference and Disputed ... linguistic and literary-critical approaches to text-reuse analysis, and can be especially helpful when dealing with a large amount of candidate source texts Acknowledgements This work grew out ofa term...
... program loses its appeal as a work-saving device A related limitation is that itsmodelof the speaker's goals is static, rather than dynamic (e.g., the speaker is always assumed to have a goal of ... realieed in computational form Finally, research in social psychology has looked at how personality traits affect interpersonal interaction For example, Kiesler (1983) formulated general rules ... interesting area forfuture exploration is the problem of applying the model to letter understanding as well as generation This problem is potentially difllcult, as there are a variety of social reasons...
... g~nki na (healthy) verbal - adverbial waratte (laugh -and) , amaku (sweetly) verbal - adnominal warau (that laughs), amakatta (that was sweet) The syntactic rules define three ways of building signs ... Japanese: An Autosegmental Theory of Tonology Kaitakusha, Tokyo Kaplan, Ronald and Joan Bresnan (1982) Lexical Functional Grammar: A Formal System for Grammatical Representation in The Mental ... that is, the correlation of metrical labelling with discrete terminal grid values Note that the standard Liberman and Prince convention equates the grid values of the last element in the two cases,...
... and negatively correlated with livestock holding Panels 2D and 2E show sample means for one environmental variable: long-term annual rainfall andits interactions with cattle and land These variables ... UNICEF Victora, Cesar G., Adair, Linda, Fall, Caroline, Hallal, Pedro C., et al (2008), “Maternal and Child Undernutrition: Consequences for Adult Health and Human Capital”, Lancet, 371 (January ... Kenya in the 1990s provided curative and preventive care, including family planning and vaccinations, a situation that still prevails However, preventive care and family planning are provided...
... such as Malaysia and Singapore and this warrants further exploration Finally, alternative research designs could add insight to our understanding of the relation between organizational status and ... examine are the internal auditor’s dual role as a provider of both assurance and consulting activities, the organizational status of internal audit, internal audit’s involvement in risk management, ... evaluated the literature on internal audit quality (including objectivity and independence) However, much of the research cited relates to external auditors’ evaluations of internal audit quality...
... molecular orbitals (HOMOs) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals (LUMOs) of these molecular chains As shown in Fig 2, the gaps for the two kinds of molecular chains rapidly level off to a ... SU-2MR modelof silica molecular chains It is proposed to be a more appropriate growth modelof 1D silica nanowires because of their higher energetic and thermal stabilities and chemical reactivity ... their ionization potentials (IP) We calculated their vertical IPs for several representative structures For example, the vertical IP of the ES-2MR chain at n = 12 is 14.82 eV, and that for the SU-2MR...
... human annotation In Proceeding of AMTA T Takezawa, E Sumita, F Sugaya, H Yamamoto, and S Yamamoto 2002 Toward a broad-coverage bilingual corpus for speech translation of travel conversations ... in the real world In Proceeding of LREC-2002, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain D Xiong, Q Liu and S Lin 2006 Maximum Entropy Based Phrase Reordering Modelfor Statistical Machine Translation In ... Tanaka corpus2 were also used to train our language model We ran experiments on an IWSLT challenge task which uses IWSLT20063 DEV clean text set as development set and IWSLT-2006 TEST clean text...
... kasvun maantieteellinen jakaantuminen, kuidun saatavuus ja hinta, korvaavat tuotteet, alhainen arvonmuodostus koko arvoketjussa sekä globaalilla tasolla alhainen konsolidaatioaste, jotka johtavat ... joko luotava kokonaan uusia tuotteita tai uudistettava radikaalisti liiketoimintamallejaan leikatakseen kustannuksia, jotta tuotteiden ja palveluiden lisäbulkkiintuminen voidaan pysäyttää Vaikka ... osa-alueita samanaikaisesti, ja tämä asettaa uusia haasteita yritysten taloudellisille ja johdon resursseille Kaikkein suurimmillakaan yrityksillä ei v lttämättä ole resursseja kehittää kaikkia...