... motor cortex and pyramidal tract to the ventral brain stem The involuntary path is comprised of amygdala, thalamic, hypothalamic, and subthalamic areas, in addition to the dorsal brain stem Moreover, ... was considered to cause exercise associated bronchial asthma which is prevalent at a later age (18,19, 20) According to Gayrard P, 52.4% of 143 asthmatics stated their attacks of bronchial asthma ... Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s Medical College) • Dr Swati Mahajan (Associate Professor, Community Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s Medical College) • Dr Ashfaque Ansari (Lecturer, Ear Nose Throat,...
... multicultural approach - include a considerable element of comparison and may be characterized as a comparative approach The intercultural approach pays a considerable attention to the relations ... illustrations) are also employed for analysis when and if appropriate The study just makes an initial attempt to conduct a small-scale cross- cultural analysis of the textbook and is not aimed at evaluating ... language knowledge The teaching of Language Focus consists of two parts: Pronunciation and Grammar-Vocabulary Material used in teaching Pronunciation, Grammar -Vocabulary is based on passages...
... the American’s space The American, naturally, takes a step backward The Vietnamese wants to show his friendliness, so steps forward again, the American steps backward…again and again, create ... within families, and also across age and gender lines Sometimes, hugs are a romantic exchange Hugs may also be exchanged as a sign of support and comfort A hug demonstration emotional of can be affection ... body language acts and they are used by just about everyone For instance, someone who brushes their hand against another’s forearm may be seen as communicating an act of attraction Touch as an act...
... called “cultural traits” A trait may be a custom, such as burial of the dead; a gesture, such as a handshake or an idea, such as democracy Following this understanding, cultural trait may be an ... to address to a young woman who is about the same age as you, or a woman only a fraction older than you Anh is used to address to a young man who is about the same age as you, or a man only a ... males All Vietnamese informants are my acquaintances and my family’s acquaintances who live in both Ha Tinh and Nghe An provinces Some British and American informants are my friends’ acquaintances...
... paper with realistic data base will provide useful material for language learners Data collecting procedure As one important part of this thesis, collecting data procedure took the author a rather ... J.L Austin divided speech acts into three acts: Locutionary act, illocutionary act and perlocutionnary act * Locutionary act: Are sentences that conform to the phonological and grammatical convention ... teaching and learning to modern way However, here and there still exists the traditional method of learning and teaching language, which focuses on rote memorization of grammatical and lexical...
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... Argentina 12 Russia 13 Italy 14 France 15 Canada 16 Taiwan 17 United Kingdom 18 Colombia 19 Greece 20 Thailand 21 Australia 22 Venezuela 23 Saudi Arabia 24 Netherlands 25 Portugal The changing nature ... link with Romanians, who also show a weaker link with Body and Beauty compared Italian and Spanish participants The second phase of data analysis, using the One Way ANOVA test and the Games Howell ... de Rosa, A S (2005) A “Rede Associativa”: uma técnica para captar a estrutura, os conteùdos, e os ìndices de polaridade, neutralidade e estereotipia dos campos semànticos relacionados com a Representações...
... kindly made us aware of pitfalls in Datastream equity data.Very helpful research assistance by Sandrine Corvoisier, Peter Galos and Marco Lo Duca as well as editorial support by Sabine Wiedemann are ... the sample In contrast to fully non-parametric and parametric approaches, our semi-parametric approach allows to estimate reliably extremal behavior even beyond the sample boundaries A related ... preserve monetary and financial stability central banks and supervisory authorities have a special interest in assessing banking system stability This is a particularly complex task in very large economies...
... forecasts that appear are of a more qualitative and at least equally conjectural sort, as in Chapter 33’s and 35’s assessment of Japan’s long term prospects, and Chapter 26’s speculation about ... Lower correlation implies greater integration of capital markets Data are for Atlantic economies Figure 1.1—Integration of Global Capital Markets: One Indicator capital markets appear to have been ... reality Chapter FINANCIAL CRISES AND THE CHALLENGE OF “MORAL HAZARD” In the innumerable discussions and debates about Asia’s financial turmoil, typically dated from the collapse of the Thai baht on...
... JA, Lumeng CN, Kampfrath T, Mikolaj MB, Cai Y, Ostrowski MC, Lu B, Parthasarathy S, Brook RD, Moffatt-Bruce SD, Chen LC, Rajagopalan S: Ambient air pollution exaggerates adipose inflammation and ... all national, provincial and municipal authorities in the study area and were linked to a digital map of all roads in the Netherlands (NWB), using GIS Other land use data were obtained from a ... ArcInfo (ESRI, Redlands, CA) Statistical analyses Participants with missing values on exposure variables and the covariates age, gender and income were excluded from all analyses We used penalized...
... explain the apparent racial/ethnic disparity in asthma prevalence Abbreviations AIC: Akaike Information Criterion; AOR: Adjusted Odds Ratio; AQS: Air Quality System (USEPA database); BMI: Body mass ... quartile, and red Xs denote 4th quartile outcomes, still having asthma and asthma attack, among non-Hispanic black adults is most robust in the large central metro areas (still has asthma AOR ... are made as a function of the spatial autocorrelation of the data, and allow for an estimation of the prediction variance or error in interpolated exposures A key advantage of using spatial interpolation...
... Regional road network Data from the Swedish National Road Network No heavy road means that no registered road was available in the database, but local traffic could exist The traffic intensity categories ... background Descriptive data of regional air pollution at a monitoring station in a rural area Annual mean concentrations of traffic-related pollutants measured at Vavihill 1985–2006 Data source: IVL Swedish ... drafts AA: Wrote part of the manuscript and made major revisions of drafts All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements Overall, our results show that traffic-related air...
... be a valuable combination for attracting and retaining customers This approach requires CG manufacturers to look at the consumer landscape in a far different way than they have traditionally—and ... data separate from retail and consumer demand signals United Kingdom 20 United Arab Emirates We bring social media data into our demand signal repository (DSR) 13 Canada We don’t have a demand ... Strongly agree Somewhat agree Neutral Somewhat disagree Strongly disagree Don’t know Our ability to capture and analyse large data sets (eg, “big data”) has improved our efforts to attract and retain...
... reference language Italian Table 1: Italian and Japanese Data Sets coreference are annotated This dataset consists of articles from Italian Wikipedia, tokenized, POStagged and morphologically analyzed ... Computational Treatment of Anaphora, pages 23–30 R Iida, K Inui, and Y Matsumoto 200 7a Zeroanaphora resolution by learning rich syntactic pattern features ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information ... Taira et al., 2010; Sasano et al., 2009) In work such as Taira et al (2008) and Imamura et al (2009), zero-anaphora resolution is considered as a sub-task of predicate argument structure analysis,...
... a0 a1 a2 a3 a4 r D a5 a6 C L C D a7 log A A A A AA 15 (3) Acharya, Schnabl, and Suarez (2009) explain how off-balance sheet items of large bank ... calculations: Zew Zealand, Japan, Denmark, Canada, Czech Republic, Ireland, France, Finland, Korea, and Portugal Defined as the inverse of the equity-asset ratio Calculated as a residual from ... of bank capital and require that banks hold a larger amount of capital for a given amount of assets, and expand the coverage of bank assets.3 The purpose of this paper is to estimate to what extent...
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... Ripplinger Barbel, Sacaleanu Bogdan, Raileanu Diana, Prescher Detlef 2002 An Efficient and Flexible Format for Linguistic and Semantic Annotation Proceedings of LREC2002 , Las Palmas, Canary Islands ... dnickstabil, die Wundverhaltnis se reizlos motithizrert ails Terms and Semantic Relations Haemorrhagie (1) Tj Mesh denomination Drainage o associated with Drainage r • E2.306 a Drainage (1) IV o associated_with ... the semantic relations holding among the concepts Balint syndrom is a combination of symptoms including simultanagnosia, a disorder of spatial and object-based attention, disturbed spatial perception...
... forecasts that appear are of a more qualitative and at least equally conjectural sort, as in Chapter 33’s and 35’s assessment of Japan’s long term prospects, and Chapter 26’s speculation about ... Lower correlation implies greater integration of capital markets Data are for Atlantic economies Figure 1.1—Integration of Global Capital Markets: One Indicator capital markets appear to have been ... reality Chapter FINANCIAL CRISES AND THE CHALLENGE OF “MORAL HAZARD” In the innumerable discussions and debates about Asia’s financial turmoil, typically dated from the collapse of the Thai baht on...
... Conceptual Model Price Value Price Value Financial Value Financial Value Usability Value Usability Value Quality Value Quality Value Uniqueness Value Uniqueness Value Functional Value Functional Value ... Hassan, Salah S and Lea P Katsanis 1994 ―Global Market Segmentation Strategies and Trends.‖ In Globalization of Consumer Markets: Structures and Strategies Eds Erdener Kaynak and Salah S Hassan New ... major challenge to develop an appropriate luxury value perception scale that would function cross- culturally in a reliable and valid manner A scale that is applicable cross- culturally should lead...