the analysis of conversation discourse and narrative

... etc The steps of the study are as follows: 1) Collect the bulletins and reports from the daily newspapers and from the Internet sites 2) Study the materials to assure the reliability and the ... in the area of discourse ( Hatim and Mason, 1990; Baker, 1992) Format of the Study The study is composed of three parts Part I: introduction This part introduces the rationale, the scope and the ... This chapter is the main part of the thesis which investigates the nature of economics language The thesis involved analysing economics texts in English and Vietnamese for their use of metaphor to...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 12:58

... Interpersonal Themes, on the other hand, reveal something of the attitude of the speaker or the writer And Textual Theme is the link between the clause contains that Theme and the rest of the discourse ... that of the Interrogatives is the Interrogative word and that of the Imperatives is the Imperative form of the verb And Rheme is the remainder of the message, and also the part in which the Theme ... Interpersonal Themes, and Textual Themes -Theme and Mood 3.1.1 Unmarked Themes and Marked Themes The Themes are often identified as the part chosen to be the departure point for a clause and in different...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2013, 12:59

... sub-sector Analysis of the structure of the commodity system usually focuses on the characteristics related to the Chapter number and size of firms in relation to the size of the market, the presence ... failing to meet their objectives this may be because of lack of assets or that their aims are in conflict with those of other, more powerful, groups One of the key principles of the SLA is the attempt ... opportunities and the returns they can achieve G the access of the poor to social, human, natural, financial and physical capital and their ability to put these assets to productive use G the changing...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... California The views and opinions of authors expressed herein not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof, or The Regents of the University of California ... stay in the fields to enrich the soil are collected As an example of the magnitude of the CO2 intensity of collecting and transporting biomass residues, according to the Biofuels Emissions and Cost ... assumes that the latent heat of vaporization of water in the material is not recovered, whereas the HHV includes the heat of condensation of water This report provides the energy content of fuels...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20

... Committee of the American Society of Appraisers He has served as president of the board of directors of the Chicago Chapter of the American Society of Appraisers and as an adjunct professor of finance ... with being the father of modern economics Unquestionably, he was the father of the classical school of economics Smith accepted some of the physiocrats’ theories For example, the concept of laissez-faire, ... versions of the CAPM and an intertemporal version of CAPM.29 The results of this analysis suggest that the ERP varies over the business cycle The ERP is lowest in periods of business expansion, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 10:20

... Column A, gives a sense of the distribution of the 271,572 jobs created in the investment phase and sustained during the first seven years of the investment cycle The majority of new positions (162,541 ... allowing oil and gas exploration and production in the designated OCS Planning Areas located between and 200 miles off the coast of 20 U.S States The economic analysis was based on assessing the economic ... Becker (of the University of Chicago) and subsequent work to see the logic that taxpayers rationally choose to pay the lower of the costs of tax avoidance or tax liabilities Indeed, the problems...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... my mother, father, grandmother and grandfather, who shared their love of reading and learning with me from my earliest memories In their own special ways, they each showed me that education and ... merchants or other points of service The value of the card is stored on a central server, not on the card, and is read through the magnetic strip on the back of the card Prepaid and stored value ... research and my deeper understanding of the issues and research findings The Staff and Faculty of the Doctoral Program have given me wonderful assistance and encouragement throughout my classes and...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 00:59

... 80% efficiency The top PCB is smaller than the other two and dissipates V? of heat generated by the other two boards Furthermore, the top surface of the enclosure is insulated and the surface temperature ... 4.6 shows the temperature profile over the chips and the opposing wall in the left channel while Figure 4.7 depicts the temperature profile over the chip and the opposing wall in the other channel ... At and Aj are the areas of surfaces i and j, respectively, and /? ,and Pj axe the angles between the position-dependent normal vectors to surfaces i and j and a line of length r connecting the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:25

... itself by the creation and integration of new members and the maintenance of the validity of norms and the legitimacy of institutions, a social theorist interested in the use of the term “solidarity” ... actors themselves.24 THE BASIC TASK OF THE SECOND VOLUME of the Theory of Communicative Action, the distinction between lifeworld and social system, grows out of the most urgent problem in the discourse- theoretical ... solidarity The most basic methodological premise of the Theory of Communicative Action is the inadequacy of the philosophical model of the isolated, autonomous subject, and the demand instead...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:21

... each permutation, the p-values were re-computed and the number of genes significant at the 0.001 level was noted The significance level of the global test was the proportion of the permutations ... largest variance over the samples of all such orthogonal linear combinations, and so on The samples were first centered by their means and standardized by their norms, and then the multi-dimensional ... combinations of the miRs That is, they represent independent perpendicular dimensions that are rotations of the miR axes The first principal component is the linear combination of the miRs with the largest...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... collected the data, and drafted the manuscript FL designed this study, analyzed the data, performed statistical analyses and drafted the manuscript All of the authors read and approved the final ... by changing the types and thresholds of these variables in order to find the best regression model to predict the early femoral failures The final regression model determined whether these five ... take place as a result of the following thermal osteonecrosis of the underlying bone [2, 10] Both of these complications are unique to hip resurfacing procedures and neither occurred in stemmed...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... tutorial on SDL-92, the language used for the exercises in the rest of the book Chapter contains the simplified version of the V.76 protocol specification, some analysis MSCs and the corresponding ... indication on the other side of the connection; then, if the layer above accepts, it transmits a response, translated into a confirm on the side originator of the request 3.2 SPECIFICATION OF THE V.76 ... primitive), the DLC entity shall respond to the SABME command with a Disconnect Mode (DM) response Upon reception of the UA, the originator of the SABME command shall stop timer T320 and consider the...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

... the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research The object of the NBER is to ascertain and present to the economics profession, and to the public more generally, ... matters, and how they were handled Publications of the NBER issued for informational purposes concerning the work of the Bureau, or issued to inform the public of the activities at the Bureau, ... acknowledge the substantial contribution of a number of people whose contribution was critical to the success of this book and of the original Conference on the Analysis of Firms and Employees...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 14:20

... The views expressed herein are those of the authors, and not of the Federal Reserve System, nor the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, nor of any of the employers of any of the authors, nor of the ... thought of as a measure, specific to the model and the data, of the degree of “job match” between the driver and his employment at the firm In the context of the model, it is the number of miles ... and using them to create multivariate models of turnover and productivity Two main emphases are on the use of survival analysis to model the flow of new employees into and out of employment, and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 14:20

... one quarter of the time or more, hurrying for less than a quarter of the time, and never The hurry variable, respectively, takes the value 4, 3, 2, and according to the intensity of the pressure ... big influence on the employee’s wage or promotion, followed by a list of eight items We compute the ratio of the number of yes responses to the list of items, on the number of yes and no, which ... one of the advantage of collective work was to share the burden of higher levels of effort between workers However, other effects might play a role here The DGU model (as well as the analysis of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 14:20

... demographics for the universe of German workers covered by social security and their employers from 1975 to 2003 and is further described in the following The goal of the first part of the paper is ... 1995) These results also underline the importance of efforts to understand the empirical sources of firm-entry cohort effects and their theoretical underpinnings The descriptive results in the previous ... lack of data Another strand of literature examines the extent and determinants of wage changes at job loss in detail, but typically pays less attention to the role of past job characteristics.2 The...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 14:20

... and 47 percent of the full DEED, and the number of children (for women) is 0.75 in the SEDF and 0.73 in the DEED Nonetheless, there are cases of somewhat larger differences Race and ethnic differences ... difference between the share of Hispanic and the share of white employment in the industry (or if there is a large difference between the isolation and exposure indexes).29 The results of these alternative ... measure of the comparability of the estimates, the last row of the table shows that the estimated percentage point and percent changes are highly correlated across the two indexes (0.78 and 0.83,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 14:20

... other The employer and the employee share the surplus, or rents, from the investment; the relative bargaining power of the two parties determines how these rents are allocated This standard theory ... effect across the two cohorts suggests that the introduction of the program affected the pool of workers attracted to and hired by the employer The results from tables 6.5 and 6.6 show that the observable ... between the two cohorts persists A shortcoming of the case study analysis is whether the findings can be generalized to other employers and programs While the tuition reim- The Effect of Tuition...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 14:20

... level of analysis, there are clearly large differences among the three ownership types in both the level and the structure of wages they pay It is interesting that the mean wages of the two types of ... trends The F-tests in each case reject the exclusion of the FE and the FT at significance levels of 0.0001 Next, we carry out Hausman tests of the vector of coefficients of the FE model relative to the ... performance The reliability of the real wage measure is, of course, strongly influenced by the quality of the deflator (in this case, the CPI), and the large changes in quality and availability of goods...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 14:20

... from the firm, and movements across job titles for the whole time interval We find that in the Soviet era, the firm maintained career paths, some of them leading to the very top of the company (these ... files of 1,538 white-collar workers of the firm We use the raw data from the human resource department An employee’s personnel file contains the date of accession, the date of separation, dates of ... job outside the firm—for instance, in an informal sector 11 For any given individual, we know (a) the date of accession into the firm, and the accession job title (b), and the duration of stay on...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 14:20