... approach into teaching composition ina real classroom Practically, the research provides language teachers and learners with a number of activities and exercises using the model- based approach ... (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) so that Vietnamese, L2 students are able to communicate well in the target language However, teaching-learning quality at many places is still far from ... (1983), there are six approaches to teaching writing, namely: The Controlled-to-Free Approach, The Free-Writing Approach, The Paragraph-Pattern Approach, The Grammar-Syntax-Organization Approach, The...
... changed our experimental setup Instead of dividing datasets during 10-fold cross-validation into training and test subsets with the ratio of 9:1 we randomly split the data into training, validation ... with increasing experience in terms of training set size We want to remind the reader that our two algorithms are aimed at small datasets We randomly split each dataset into 10 subsets where each ... subset was a test set and the corresponding remaining sets were merged to a training set We kept the labels of the training set to determine model parameters through maximum likelihood estimates and...
... and dialogue modeling In Proc ICSLP Robert Kass and Tim Finin 1988 Modeling the user in natural language systems Computational Linguistics, 14(3):5–22 Kazunori Komatani and Tatsuya Kawahara 2000 ... Shijo-Kawaramachi to Arashiyama? User: Yes Sys: Bus number 11 bound for Arashiyama has departed Sanjo-Keihanmae, two bus stops away Figure 1: Example dialogue of the bus system learning algorithm using ... that annotated models of a user change during a dialogue, especially from ’indeterminable’ to ’low’ or ’high’ The number of labeled utterances is shown in Table Using the labeled data, we evaluated...
... trail was maintained throughout the analysis process Triangulation Within the qualitative data analysis process, triangulation was used to refute or confirm emerging findings within each data ... with a validation process, thereby increasing the trustworthiness of our findings Quantitative data analysis Numeric data analysis was managed in SPSS, Version 15 Analysis of each survey instrument ... (informal leader 10); 'However, again because we've not been a culture that is very strong on accountability, if you don't hit that target again and again and again, what does that mean' (formal leader...
... trail was maintained throughout the analysis process Triangulation Within the qualitative data analysis process, triangulation was used to refute or confirm emerging findings within each data ... with a validation process, thereby increasing the trustworthiness of our findings Quantitative data analysis Numeric data analysis was managed in SPSS, Version 15 Analysis of each survey instrument ... (informal leader 10); 'However, again because we've not been a culture that is very strong on accountability, if you don't hit that target again and again and again, what does that mean' (formal leader...
... Rush in California; then present their findings or create a multimedia account, e.g imagining they are involved and recording their experiences with audio/video/photography/theatre, etc You Are ... write a text (e.g an informal email) including all of them; write the text again using literal English instead of idioms; what’s the difference? Further Study • SS research the period described in ... syllables, and stressed vowel sounds; notice different stress (rhythm) because it’s a song; notice more deliberate phrasing and clear SP accent; watch a performance of the song in its original language...
... engine could offer users a new interface a ordance (e.g., sort search results based on different meta-data), or search paradigm (e.g., engage in an instant messaging conversation with a domain ... requiring only one automaton per candidate episode All automata are initialized at the start of every sequence, Xi ∈ DY , and the automata make transitions whenever suitable events appear as we ... Y) An outline of the training phase is given in Algorithm The algorithm is assumed to have access to some historical (or training) data in the form of a long event stream, say sH To build a prediction...
... (PHA) coating showing 11% osseointegration (intermediate level, anterior quadrant) D: Plasma-sprayed titanium surface with hydroxyapatite (PHA) coating showing 100% osseointegration (diaphyseal ... New Zealand White rabbits were used in our study After institutional review board approval, rabbits underwent bilateral femoral intramedullary implantation under general anesthesia All animals ... IM All animals were allowed unrestricted cage activity, and food and water ad libitum Temperature was maintained at 24°C and humidity at 70% All rabbits tolerated the anesthesia and surgical procedure...
... moving speaker tracking Generally, an LS-TDE ina single-frame-based process easily confronts the lack of data problem because the Yang and Kang EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing ... Gaussian assumption becomes invalid thus a delay estimator which does not include a maximum searching process easily fails Conventional linear regression model basically assumes that the phase ... Received: 31 May 2011 Accepted: 10 January 2012 Published: 10 January 2012 References S Nakamura, K Hiyane, F Asano, Y Kaneda, T Yamada, TN Kobayashi, H Saruwatari, Design and collection of acoustic...
... Streptococcus mutans in plaque [13], to look at homoserine lactones and biocide efficacy in biofilms [14] and also to study biofilms and coaggregation in the freshwater bacteria Blastomonas natataria and ... Table 1: Mean [± standard error] zones of clearance (mm) around all the antibiotics for Gram negative bacteria [NM – Not measured Amoxycillin/ Clavulanic acid Ampicillin/ Sulbactam Ampicillin/ ... efficacy against a named organism, in this case E.coli, would be investigated usinga zone of inhibition test (ZOI), according to NCCLS guidelines [16] on agar Where a zone of clearing was detected...
... various values of n and h’ showing that q&dquo; q q increase as , h’ increases and that q, and q decrease and q increases as n increases The cumulative selection differentials in this and case ... selected using the measured trait and they each have n sons in year and in year One son is selected from each of the s sire families in year and has n sons in year There is now overlap ip year with ... that , By adding together equations so that the mean for animals not selected it can be shown that merit of animals in year t is half the mean merit of their fathers The in year t is the mean...
... female animals Each animal was acclimatized before the surgical procedures, housed ina separate cage, and given standard dog food and water three times a day All experiments were performed in accordance ... nerves remained in the nerve allografts in the PA0.1 and PA0.05 groups but that no cells of donor origin survived in the nerve allografts in the PA0.025 group Nakayama et al Journal of Brachial Plexus ... Tacrolimus, an update of its pharmacology and clinical efficacy in the management of organ transplantation Drug 1997, 54:925 12 Undre NA, Stevenson P, Schafer A: Pharmacokinetics of tacrolimus: clinically...
... Vaccine and Pediatrics, Pearl River, NY) and David Briles (University of Alabama, Birmingham) and passaged through rats via intraperitoneal challenge as described previously [7] Passaged strains ... result in pneumonia in approximately 50% of animals, without causing bacteremia Usinga similar inoculum with a serotype 19F isolate (106 cfu), pneumonia was produced in all challenged animals, ... determined intravenous catheter immediately upon dissection An animal was considered as having had pneumonia if any area of polymorphonuclear infiltration or infiltrative consolidation of lung parenchyma...
... the aim being to maintain adequate oxygen delivery to all organs and to the gut in particular In addition to noradrenaline (norepinephrine), adrenaline (epinephrine), dopamine and dobutamine, ... dopexamine infusion during intestinal hypotension, but dopexamine brought about intestinal vasodilatation [10] In postoperative cardiosurgical patients dopexamine increased jejunal mucosal perfusion ... leucocyte activation (a marker of inflammation) in experimental sepsis Key messages • Dopexamine improved intestinal microvascular blood flow ina sepsis modelinrats • Dopexamine reduced endotoxin-induced...
... how all members of the team participate and engage in the scenario training Simulation is widely used [12] in medical training particularly in hospital operating room anaesthesia training or teaching ... training It is of importance to participate and act ina realistic manner, use gloves, use stretchers in the same was as ina real-patient situation Involving other members of staff and using ... real equipment in the scenario is important for keeping participants in the zone as well as for maintaining a high degree of realism in the scenarios Bredmose et al Scandinavian Journal of Trauma,...
... specifications The data were analyzed usinga standard multivariate linear sire model (LM), a recursive multivariate linear sire model (R-LM), a standard Gaussian-threshold (GT) sire model, and a recursive ... between mastitis and MY during the first 180 days of first-lactation Norwegian Red cows For comparison, the data were also analyzed using standard multivariate linear and Gaussian-threshold models, as ... (Tab IV) DISCUSSION 4.1 Estimation of recursive effects using Gaussian-threshold vs linear models Many diseases are measured as categorical, rather than quantitative, traits and often as binary...
... on statistical data analysis, and all of the HUPO PPP participating laboratories for making their data available for this analysis The collaborative HUPO Plasma Protein study and the data analysis ... software packages rely on a protein database against which to search As a result, even the most exhaustive protein database search is limited to the data available in the current public databases ... 18 18 0 Apolipoprotein A- I precursor (Apo-AI; ApoA-I; contains apolipoprotein A- I(1-242)) APOA2 ENSG00000158874 5 Apolipoprotein A- II precursor (Apo-AII; ApoA-II; contains apolipoprotein A- II(1-76))...