the red list index for birds in different ecosystems

... learning for speaking skills? Scope of the study The study is limited to the area of learning vocabulary in the current learning materials for the first year students at THCCA This minor thesis ... interviews with the teaching staff and the first year students that are fully responsible for the teaching and learning English vocabulary in speaking sections in the learning material “Lifeline-Elementary” ... and Arts in developing vocabulary for speaking in different subject areas” with the hope of making a small contribution to finding out some problems students at THCCA have met with when they use...

Ngày tải lên: 04/08/2015, 09:40

... may also find they are denied a place in the school of their choice Doing really well, for example, in the mathematics part of the GMAT ® will compensate for a weaker performance in the verbal ... Services, based in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States, but this could change, with a different administrating body taking over You can find invaluable information about the GMAT ® and ... non-scoring, as they are being trialed for inclusion as scoring items in future tests You are not given any indication as to which are scoring, so treat them all with the same determination Things...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 23:28

... fieldwork provided an escape for many in the face of the crisis If so, in their escapist forays they encountered a different world out there in their longing for holistic theories of culture, and ... information, making and organizing field notes (in the field, and later) But before all that should have come acquiring viii Foreword linguistic and cultural competence; finding or selecting informants, ... for describing the cultural Other in writing? The reasons lie hidden in the sonic shadows of the musical practices we are privileged to study The power of Shadows in the Field music resides in...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:15

... 222 IN AN OLD GARDEN 243 BIRDS IN A CORNISH VILLAGE: I TAKING STOCK OF THE BIRDS 265 II DO STARLINGS PAIR FOR LIFE? 275 III VILLAGE BIRDS IN WINTER 287 IV INCREASING BIRDS IN BRITAIN ... remarked the same thing in other singing birds, species in which the harsh grating or piercing sounds that properly express violent emotions of a painful kind, have been nearly or quite lost In the ... streams In the deepest part of the coombe, in the middle of the village, there was a well where the cottagers drew their water; and in the summer evenings the youths and maidens came there, with...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 19:20

... basis indexed by non-crossing link patterns: the latter are by definition pairings of 2n points on a circle, in such a way that the pairings can be represented by non-crossing edges inside the circle ... one can derive the Giambelli determinant identity for double Schur functions starting from Eq (4.1) and pulling the determinants out of the integrals In terms of non-intersecting lattice paths ... parity on the other side the boundary must have the same shape) or (ii) by two individual holes, with the parity being such that there are forced edges going inwards on both sides The weighted...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 13:21

... of working in paediatrics (in excess of five years) Both raters participated in a training session on the FPI-6 and had equal exposure to the index prior to start of the study The training session ... changing raw FPI-6 scores into a data form suitable for parametric analysis but for this, large data sets are required [9] Without transformation the index produces categorical data and therefore ... 0.83) Therefore for further analysis, the left foot only was considered Results Thirty participants were recruited into the research and further information on gender and age-range is presented in...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... enrolled in the study in particular These experienced clinicians were also very familiar with standard clinical measures such as the 6MWT and the FEV1% predicted Many of the clinicians involved in the ... analysis All the other authors participated in the formulation of the a priori hypotheses and contributed to the drafting of the manuscript Authors’ information MJS is an investigator at the Faculty ... percentage predicted, closest in time to the date at which the patient enrolled in the study The cut-off point for FEV1 %predicted was ± days of when HRQL was assessed; for the 6MWT the cut-off...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... added into the tool box of red fluorescent proteins for use in plants Methods In addition, the plasmids created in the course of this work are convenient tools for the investigation of the subcellular ... primer binding in the vector backbone and the other one in the CaMV 35S promoter or smGFP4 coding sequence in our psmGFP4 clearly show that the multiple cloning site is not orientated like in pUC118 ... ligated into plasmid peqFP611 The 99 amino-acid long N-terminal part from KAT2 including the peroxisomal targeting signal (from amino acids to 34) is now fused in frame upstream the eqFP611 coding...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:20

... phonemes and timing information The phonemic representation, including the timing information, of the given text is used to generate lip movements Phonemes in the phoneme string are taken as ... Dividing a polygon (a) to triangles (b) After calculating the normal vector for points in each triangle of the mesh in second step by using Phong shading algorithm, in the third step, we deform the ... in VRML format or our hair format, for the face and only need some fine tuning to get the suitable hair They also can easily modify the length and the number of the eyelashes by controlling the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2015, 09:44

... Vicostone in those markets as follows: 40% in Oceania, 30% in Europe, the remaining approximately 30% in the Americas In Asia, there are two factories in China (two lines), a factory in Korea (two lines), ... capital Additionally, there is a need of adjust the budget by increasing cost of Marketing and training in order to developing the national market Continue maintaining the stability of solvency ... Location positioning in the market: According to existing information gathered, the companies providing high-grade products of paving stones on the market are Vinastone, Rich Stone, Vinavico among...

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Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2015, 11:03

... respectively for the corrosion of aluminium The corrosion and inhibition behaviour of aluminium in HCl in the presence of polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP), polyacrylamide (PA) and their blends in the temperature ... while the presence of polymer A (the highest molecular weight) accelerates the corrosion of tin in M NaCl indicating that the inhibition decreases with increasing molecular weight On the other ... from the three independent methods employed were in good agreement The results obtained are summarized in Tables and for C-steel in 0.5N HCl and 3N H2SO4 in the presence of PEG respectively The inhibitive...

Ngày tải lên: 27/04/2015, 09:08

... measurements remain mandatory for bringing a comprehensive and consistent picture of forest conditions 2.1 Remote sensing in the optical domain In the short wavelengths ranging from visible to infrared (4002500 ... absorption in the SWIR is less intense than in the visible range for typical green leaves and therefore the reectance of tree canopies in the SWIR is greater than in the visible range and lower than in ... determined by combining the annual clear cut map with ground inventory plots In April 2000, IFN used the clear cut mapping method for assessing the damages of the 1999 storm over the northern...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... publications in Book Citation Index As book citation data grows Thomson Reuters will further refine the selection of publications for Book Citation Index SUMMARY WHAT KINDS OF BOOKS WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE ... text in a language other than English are also considered for coverage in Book Citation Index Including English language Bibliographic information (e.g chapter title, author abstract, keywords) in ... Journal and proceedings citations to books in these series indicate that they are well-integrated into the scholarly communication network The Book Citation Index uncovers another dimension of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 21:20

... REQUESTED TO PAGINATE THEIR FILES IN CONFORMITY WITH THE COURT FILE IN ADVANCE NOTE II: COUNSELS ARE REQUESTED TO PROVIDE LIST OF BOOKS/ACTS ON WHICH THEY ARE RELYING IN ADVANCE NOTE III: IN REGULAR ... bench matters listed before his Lordship in Court No.15 Hon'ble Ms Justice Indermeet Kaur will hear single bench matters listed before her Lordship in Court No.16 matters listed before DELETIONS ... CONTROL FOR CRICKET IN INDIA AND ANR Vs PRASAR BHARTI, BROADCASTING CORPORATION OF INDIA AND ANR BOARD OF CONTROL FOR CRICKET IN INDIA AND ANR Vs PRASAR BHARTI, BROADCASTING CORPORATION OF INDIA...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:20

... v: the treegram including every node found on the first h levels of the subtree rooted in v This approach keeps the index small but introduces another problem: A query treegram may not appear in ... small enough for the tree matcher; only for those it determines the corresponding index treegrams (5) VENONA processes these selected treegrams until the candidate set has the desired size if ... matching treegrams for that subtree (c) It is quite expensive to intersect the tree sets T(DB, g) for all treegrams g contained in the query q VENONA addresses these problems by the following...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:20

... for the three scales are available in Additional Files 4, and Differential Item Functioning No DIF was revealed for any of the five examined person factors for any of the scales, indicating the ... and Gender Differential item functioning is used to examine contextual factors for invariance, preventing such factors being a source of confounding effect in the phenomenon being measured Item ... exceed point on the 100 point scale, meaning they were clinically insignificant (see Table 4) For all three scales 89-95% of cases fell within the 95% confidence interval constructed for a normal...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... ideal for studying ways to improve care for diabetes patients in the primary care setting During the A-TRIP project, making the patient-level SQUIDs available to the clinicians responsible for the ... track them over time Because the denominator (referred to as 'E' in the algorithm) used in calculating the SQUID reflects the total number of relevant indicators for a given patient, a rather intuitive ... the study, thus reducing the values of the overall practice-level SQUIDs When the SQUID algorithm and preliminary findings were presented to clinicians participating in site visits or attending...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... of the NFI-MS In practice, the resulting domains were in accordance with the conceptual dimensions found in the qualitative phase, including the notion that the sub-dimensions were part of a single, ... eigenvalues exceeding the values obtained from the corresponding random data set are retained for further investigation Parallel analysis was conducted using the software developed by Watkins [25] Items ... dependency, including multi-dimensionality The summary findings related to the analysis of each domain are given in Table Physical scale Rasch analysis of the 16 Physical items identified in the PCA indicated...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21