... performance in the Listening and Reading tests short summary Summary of Lesson #5 To build a good impression in the assessor s mind in the Speaking test Think about: At the beginning of the Speaking ... organised answer, and this creates a professional impression of YOU in the mind of the assessor Imagine this: it may be just test anxiety which causes you to think that every possible second has ... mistakes create a more negative impression than others when read by a native speaker 4 Types of Grammar Mistakes That Annoy an Assessor the Most Mistake Type #1 VERB TENSE a) Talking about the...
Ngày tải lên: 30/07/2014, 12:22
... of the Galaxy, the SOS ship heading on collision course with the sun, was making its maiden run from the assembly satellites of Earth across the inner solar system via the perihelion passage ... considerable distance A hundred miles a second a very considerable normal space speed Increasing… Ever since they had left Earth 's assembly satellites, Sheila Kelly had seen a lot of a Secret Serviceman ... could hear the hum of the subspace drive-unit and the faint whining of the stasis generator Then the Captain bolted out of bed after unstrapping himself In his haste he forgot the ship was in weightless...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 09:20
An analysis of the inaugural address by g w bush in the u s president election 2004 from a perspective of discoure analysis
... at the beginning of the war), fighting against terrorists and so forth This has been the issue that sharply divided the U .S and is still causing many controversies in the society as the fatality ... loss of the U .S (in the attack and the wars) is quite massive and devastating, both in terms of casualties and finance Thus, any direct reference to that would cause no heals but deeper pains The ... people and political parties As a result, keeping a vague tone of the war and the losses turns out as a strategic tactic as inaugural speech is not a place where controversial issues are brought...
Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:08
Tài liệu Mothers’ Investments in Child Health in the U.S. and U.K.: A Comparative Lens on the Immigrant ''Paradox'' docx
... ages), instrumental support (age only), and social integration (age only) Although we present and discuss the parameter estimates, changes in relationships across nonlinear models are best assessed ... immigrants These findings suggest that, although there is great disparity in the quality of mothers’ health-related behaviors and parenting inputs across nativity groups, these disparities are, ... white, South Asian, black African and Caribbean, and other (largely East Asian) immigrants in the U.K Studying mothers’ own behaviors provides a proximate assessment of intergenerational and family-level...
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu The Decline in the U.S. Personal Saving Rate: Is It Real and Is It a Puzzle? pptx
... (personal saving + business saving) ϵ private saving, i.e., that total private saving should at least cover total gross investment, or (1) private gross investment – business saving ≤ personal saving ... major swings in the saving rate The FoF Measure of the Personal Saving Rate Estimates of the assets and liabilities of the personal sector are available in the FoF accounts of the Federal Reserve ... major revisions as income data are progressively revised Besides these general limitations of the standard BEA and NIPA saving rate measures, a number of statistical and measurement issues have...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu engineering education in the people s republic of china report of a visit ppt
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 13:20
Tài liệu A Comparison of Conventional and Organic Milk Production Systems in the U.S. potx
... the scope and the depth of data supporting the analyses This study addresses these limitations, taking advantage of a unique nationwide data set of organic and conventional dairies Data Data used ... costs the value of the coefficients decreased with successive size categories indicating economies of size associated with these costs Costs declined as size increased as fixed amounts capital ... manage pasture as a dairy feed source These areas also have a long history of small dairy operations and thus have the infrastructure available to provide inputs and manage the output from several...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20
Chronicles of a Dallas Cowboys Fan: Growing Up With America''''s Team in the 1960''''s by John Eisenberg pptx
... grassy spot every week The late morning was cast in a slanting light, the anticipation in the air almost palpable The crowd was casually dressed and mostly male, wearing cotton shirts and slacks ... returned The Texans‘ only hurrah came in a Thanksgiving Day game in Akron, Ohio, against the Bears Three thousand fans were in the stands on a dank afternoon The crowd was so sparse that Phelan jokingly ... outside Austin ―It was awful,‖ Donovan said ―It was so hot that the ants stayed in the ant hills There were these huge rattlesnakes in the tall grass by the field If the ball went into the grass, no...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20
''''The Worst Place in the World to be a Woman or Girl'''' – Rape in the DR Congo: Canada, Where Are You? docx
... compile data on mineral-rich areas and to make the map accessible to the global public Canada, as the largest non-African investor in the DRC 's mining industry and global leader in mineral exploration, ... expertise in fields such as law, information operations and training who work at MONUC headquarters in Kinshasa and the divisional headquarters in Goma, see, National Defence and the Canadian Forces, ... funding to the Justice and RCMP departments in the Canadian war crimes unit, to facilitate more investigations and trials of suspected war criminals residing in Canada Specifically, Canada must investigate...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20
Ele ctricity Use d by Office Equipment and Netw ork Equipment in the U.S.: Detailed Report and A ppendices ppt
... such as external discs and tape drives are not included in CPUs mainframes at 10 kW We also assumed that CPUs of minicomputers and mainframes are always on but their associated peripherals are ... in minicomputers The various kinds of peripherals associated with minicomputers such as external discs and tapes Based on sales data, we assumed that the IBM AS/400 is a representative minicomputer ... assumptions, there are significant uncertainties Notes on Displays and Terminals We assumed that the usage for displays and terminals is same as that for desktop computers Notes on Commercial and Industrial...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World by Tina Seelig
... lenses, and made $650 These students determined that the most valuable asset they had was neither the five dollars nor the two hours In stead, their insight was that their most precious resource ... restaurants while the female students sold those places in line They also learned that the entire operation worked best at restaurants that use vibrating pagers to alert customers when their table ... chance at earning a big reward The next most common suggestion is to set up a car wash or lemonade stand, using the five dollars to purchase the starting materials This is a fine option for those interested...
Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 18:42
scientific american special edition - 1990 01 - is the brain's mind a computer program
Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 16:23
Man''s Place in the Universe
... prepared and then he argues that all the are also inhabited Again he says MAN S PLACE 16 IN that when same THE UNIVERSE [CHAP size as the Earth, was found that Venus was about the with mountains and ... of supposing that the Creator of all this unimaginable vastness of suns and systems, fill we know endless space, should take any special interest in so mean and pitiful a creature as man, the ... his dwelling -place, the earth, in an insignificance vastly increased not only the planets of the solar system, but also those which circle around the myriads of suns, are if And these persons are...
Ngày tải lên: 06/06/2014, 22:01
Báo cáo y học: "Pooled indices to measure rheumatoid arthritis activity: a good reflection of the physician’s mind" pdf
... calculator (SDAI and CDAI) The fact that all of these scores have similar validity increases the choice of instruments available to physicians, allowing them to pick the index that best fits their ... This study was based on the ratings of 35 expert rheumatologists We re-analyzed these data to correlate SDAI and DAS28 scores of 32 paper patients (i.e disease activity profiles of real RA patients) ... References Aletaha D, Smolen JS: The definition and measurement of disease modification in inflammatory rheumatic diseases Rheum Dis Clin N Am 2005 :in press Vander Cruyssen B, Van Looy S, Wyns B, Westhovens...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20
Báo cáo y học: "Response to the commentary ‘Pooled indices to measure rheumatoid arthritis activity: a good reflection of the physician’s mind" pdf
... discriminant score and the DAS28 The absolute difference between the discriminant score and the DAS28 was similar in the higher and the lower ranges of disease activity Finally, we agree that the ... DAS variants may have strengths in specific situations In our analysis, we found that the DAS28-ESR correlated slightly better with the decision to give a dose increase than the other 28 joint ... count disease activity scores, including Simplified Disease Activity Index (SDAI) and Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) This appears to contradict the findings of Soubrier and coworkers [7],...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22
spitzer - government's place in the market (2011)
... consensus that the libertarianism that had dominated Washington for 30 years was an abject failure The repeal of critical statutes that had structured the financial-services industry for decades ... permission in writing from the publisher mit Press books may be purchased at special quantity discounts for business or sales promotional use For information, please e-mail special_sales@mitpress.mit.edu ... Think about that What once was seen as dangerous to people, something to warn them about, is turned into something that creates value This was the way we masked the problem In the analyst cases,...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 17:46
phillips - banking and the business cycle; a study of the great depression in the u. s. (1937)
... arrive at a mathematical result It seems hardly necessary to add that the process just described is the same as obtains when banks utilize excess reserves to grant loans to customers, instead of ... were able and willing to make such advances to the local banks as would enable them to maintain adequate legal reserves This process increased the deposits in the banking system as effectively as ... in the banking system in much the same fashion as does the granting of loans The banks thus place in the hands of entrepreneurs a volume of purchasing power in excess of the volume of real savings...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 19:39