... this class language, and then trying to class words based upon m a y expand into the class of all nouns Once word how they distribute with respect to suffixes classes are found, lexical features ... is assumed • FIRST LAST t h a t the states are equivalent The set of all suffi• LITTLE MUCH ciently similar states forms a word class By varying • MEN PEOPLE MAN the level considered to be sufficiently ... class of nominative pronouns This is because the p r o g r a m currently deals with bimodals by eventually assigning t h e m to the class whose characteristics they exhibit most strongly For another...
... value ofa firm s assets, its intangible assets, and its managers‟ abilities Financial managers and analysts often talk about the quality ofa firm s earnings or the quality of its balance sheet ... forecasting (to use as the basis of business decisions).5 We will write: Yt = response of interest at time t Standard analysis of business time series involves smoothing trend assessment, assessment ... measure the benefit rate after each financial year Reviewing and assessing financial information bring about an understanding ofa company s strengths and weaknesses, how its annual plan has...
... a few bright variable stars, with the same sort of periodic variation of luminosity as was already familiar for a class of stars in our galaxy known as Cepheid variables The reason this was so ... the same size and shape as our own galaxy They appear elliptical because most of them are viewed at a slant, and of course they are faint because they are so far away The idea ofa universe filled ... towards us, the time between arrivals of wave crests is decreased because each successive crest has a shorter distance to go, and the wave appears to have a shorter wavelength It is just as if a...
... Artificial insemination (AI) is widely used by veterinarians and veterinary specialists in most domestic as well as wild animal species Reasons for use of AI instead of natural matings are diverse and ... Heifers, culled cows Implant Feed additive Implant Implant Implant Implant Calves Swine Steers Steers Bulls, steers, calves, sheep Heifers, calves Implant Steers Table Hormonally-active substance ... extenders Milanov, another Russian scientist and successor of Ivanov, started large scale breeding programs for cattle and sheep, and designed and made artificial vaginas Horse breeding programs and...
... for service, maintenance, and replacement Also this system has a great impact for leasing and rental systems Systems such as BICaT collect data via a microprocessor, a current measuring shunt, and ... Rectifiers, shape and designation of charge characteristics Rectifiers, chargers with constant current/constant voltage characteristics Examples of characteristics Rectifiers, chargers with taper characteristics ... standardizing has disadvantages, because standards follow the state of the art of techniques with delay Therefore a check is needed when purchasing new systems regarding how far a standard is necessary...
... colonoscopy services Stakeholders are gastroenterologists, surgeons, family physicians, nurses, decision-informants, patients, healthcare services managers, and healthcare system administrators, ... outcomes Screening and data abstraction All titles and abstracts will be screened independently by a team consisting of one of the two principal investigators and a research associate to assess fitness ... (gastroenterologists, surgeons, family physicians, nurses, decision-informants, patients, healthcare services managers, healthcare systems administrators); (2) categorise, synthesise, and compare the...
... clinical areas of cancer, cardiovascular, or critical care; were 50 pages or less; and represented a range of quality [14] AGREE II performance The AGREE II consists of survey items and aUsers Manual ... a series of post-test Learner s Scales and a demographics survey Participants were blinded to the study conditions, our research questions, and hypothesis measure, a 7-point response scale was ... reporting, and evaluation) and the Users Manual using a 7-point scale Outcomes and analyses Primary measures Two performance measures served as the primary outcomes First, the Performance - Distance...
... principal designs for focused tasks: comprehension tasks, consciousness-raising tasks, and structure-based production tasks Elsewhere (Ellis, 200 3a) presents a sequence of tasks for helping learners ... implementation, and assessment/evaluation: • Needs analysis to identify target tasks • Classify into target task types • Derive pedagogic tasks • Sequence to form a task-based syllabus • Implement ... sequence as part ofa unit of work or study Sequencing is a major issue in a task-based syllabus For Swales (1990), tasks are "…sequenceable goal-directed activities…relatable to the acquisition of...
... Givaudan, Switzerland; (3) Rajamäki, Finland Table Mean ratings (SD) of pleasantness and intensity of the aroma solutions in the free odor naming at the baseline (Task 1) Aroma/ingredient Pleasantness ... topic and practical exercises The contents of the lessons are described in Appendix In both education waves, the practical exercises and activation of senses played a major role 2.6 Data analysis ... 18 years of age) The parents signed an informed consent before the study began The subjects themselves gave a verbal assent to participate 2.4 Laboratory sessions The measurements (lasting approximately...
... Analytical Contaminant Transport Analysis System (ACTS) software This particular model is based on the USEPA model LandGEM [7, 18] In this model, the landfill gas is assumed to be roughly half methane ... one emission source to another across a landfill and within a given emission source Emission sources include passive vents, soil surfaces, and gas collection systems The expected variability ... estimates of the parameters of the model With this, there now exist two results of the mass emission rate of NMOC Figure Graph of frequency against range of emission values of NMOC Discussion As can...
... marketing mechanisms and strategies to attract less educated masses through staff trainings and holding open sessions in these localities and persuading them in their respective languages towards ... qualitative analysis of the gathered data, which reveal the behaviors and decision making patterns in lower income populations towards regulated microfinance institutions ANALYSIS The analysis ... Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province Major reason of migration to Karachi was in search of job and business opportunities A sample size of 150 respondents (30 from each town) was selected on the basis of...
... important aspect of SLA, because language is one of the most observable expressions of culture and because in second (as opposed to foreign) language settings the acquisition ofa new language is seen ... the rules are 18 - The learners possesses a capacity for language use which consists of primary and secondary discourse and cognitive processes - L2 performance is variable as a result of whether ... Vietnam, hardly any classes use corporal punishment as a means of classroom discipline, especially with language classes where students are all expected to behave themselves However, discipline is...
... requiring systematic studies to understand its governing principles and for acquisition of skills for good design and performance Commercial scale biological processing of biomass materials is an activity ... (now St Petersburg of Russia) was under siege for two years by the advancing German army during World War II, hydrolysis of lignocellulosics was used as a source of some digestible carbohydrates ... petroleum At the time, George Tsao was on assignment at the U .S National Science Foundation, on leave from Iowa State University, managing several funding programs as a part of the RANN (Research Applied...
... The Status of Design in Natural Science Albany, NY: State University of New York Press Rea, M 2000 Naturalism and material objects In Naturalism: A Critical Analysis, ed W L Craig and J P Moreland ... its web site,8 ISCID is a cross-disciplinary professional society that investigates complex systems apart from external programmatic constraints like materialism, naturalism, or reductionism ... makes the designer responsible for natural evils such as parasitism This suggests that either the designer lacks some of the traditional attributes of God or does not exist at all Rather than...
... itself taken as a historical practice, is also necessary, not just an accident of history; and, third, show that its necessity is itself rational in the sense that it has emerged as what was really ... vassal has the authority to confer that authority on him, since the only authority the vassal possesses is conferred on the vassal by the master himself as author of the law? The master remains ... (represented by Klaus Hartmann), the historical parts of the book are seen as only illustrations of the more systematic, logical arguments at work – see Klaus Hartmann, “Hegel: A Non-Metaphysical View, ”...
... a result of unplanned action, spoken language consists ofa lot of hesitations (‘er’, ‘uhm’), false starts, pauses and corrections They make the listeners confused 16 Colloquial language is another ... spoken language has a great number of redundancies They are the result of rephrasing, repetitions, elaborations and some insertions such as ‘As I have said ‘and so on At first, learners may get ... the authors of classic study of successful learning that “the most successful learners are not necessarily those to whom a language comes very easily”, but they are those who “display certain...