... CLAUSEOF REASON
1. Hundreds of species of Hawaiian flowers have become extinct or rare ___ land development and the grazing of
wild goats.
A. now that B. due to C. because D. for
2. ... overtime for the next few days.
A. Because B. As C. Becauseof D. Since
11. I can
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t ride my bike ___ there isn
’
t any air in one of the tires.
A. because B. becauseof C. due to D. owing to
12. ... B. As C. Since D. Because
19. ___ his parents
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generosity, all of the children in his family have received the best of anything.
A. Due to the fact that B. Becauseof C. Because D. Since
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(normalized cDNA peak heights of targeted vs. non-targeted
allele of rs1800222) 72 hours post-transfection with three dif-
ferent concentrations of siRNA3. Colours of bars indicate the
SNP used ... severity of this disease. The principle of
allele specific silencing of Collagen type I genes has
been explored previously by Millington-Ward (14)
who reported allele-preferential silencing of COL1A1 ...
silencing of the Collagen 1 alpha genes, can be tested in
clinical trials. The efficiency and specificity of RNA
interference using siRNAs is heavily dependent on the
base composition of target...
... (PLEASE)
8. If we …………… …………… the water, a lot of fish will die.(POLLUTION)
IV. Make complete sentences using the cues . Then combine the two sentences with
because / as / since.
1 . Police must punish ... should you do to……………… the environment ? ( keep / protect / prevent
/ reduce)
4. ……………… is one of the cause of flood. ( Forest / Forestry / Deforestation /
Forests)
5. We …………… up our neighborhood ... ……………………………………
V/ Choose the best answer:
1.He is tired.……………….,. he has to work. (therefore / because / however / so)
2.Lan doesn’t like onions, ……………….? (do she / doesn’t she / does she / is...
... interesting
32. I have never seen __________ people in one place.
A. so much B. so many C. so much of D. this many of
33. We have heard __________about you.
A. so many news B. so much news C. a lot news ... money B. money enough for vacation
C. enough money for vacation D. enough money for vacation
CLAUSEOF RESULT
1. My mouth is burning! This is ___________ spicy food that I don’t think I can finish ... spent __________ money buying movie tickets that he didn’t have enough left to buy a soft drink.
A. such B. a lot of C. too much D. so much
4. It was _________that we went for a hike in the mountain.
A....
... don’t use this road very often.
A. This road is not used very often. B. Not very often this road is not used.
C. This road very often is not used. D. This road not very often is used.
47. How do ... though c. In spite of d. Despite of
9._______ they are brothers, they do not look like.
a. Although b. Even c. Despite d. In spite of
10. We are concerned with the problem of energy resources ... sometimes have a quarrel d. of having a quarrel sometimes
32. Despite _______, we arrived on time.
a. the traffic b. of the traffic c. there was heavy traffic d. of there was heavy traffic
33....
... case
35. He lighted the candle ______ he might read the note.
A. so that B. and C. because D. as a result
36. He turned off the lights before going out _____ waste electricity.
A. so that not B. as ... explained the lesson twice _____ the students could understand it clearly.
A. as long as B. so that C. because D. as if
38. He practises speaking English every day _________ he can speak it fluently.
A. ... not to C. in order that not D. in other to
44. Many bridges in London are covered with wooden roofs _________ it can be protected from rain and snow.
A. so that not B. so as to C. in order that...
... basis of
child care. Journal of Child Care, 4:47–57.
N. Cathcart, Jean Carletta, and Ewan Klein. 2003. A
shallow model of backchannel continuers in spoken
dialogue. In European Chapter of the ... Linguistics
Modeling Wisdom of Crowds Using
Latent Mixture of Discriminative Experts
Derya Ozkan and Louis-Philippe Morency
Institute for Creative Technologies
University of Southern California
{ozkan,morency}@ict.usc.edu
Abstract
In ... opinions of multiple an-
notators/experts, which is referred to as ”wis-
dom of crowds”. In this paper, we propose a
new approach for modeling wisdom of crowds
based on the Latent Mixture of Discrimina-
tive...
... Analysis
We investigated a number of errors and concluded
that there were mainly three types of errors.
One is the ambiguity of word senses. For exam-
ple, one of the glosses of “costly”is “entailing ... :
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4 Extraction of Semantic Orientation of
Words with Spin Model
We use the spin model to extract semantic orienta-
tions of words.
Each spin has a direction taking one of two values:
up or ... is the case of 2 seed words, in which
G performs better than GT. One possible reason of
this inversion is that the computation is trapped in a
local optimum, since a small number of seed words
leave...
...
specificity of domain-specific terms. The preci-
sion of 82.0% is good performance compared to
upper bound of 87.4%.
4.2. Error Analysis
One reasonof the errors is that the names of
some internal ... Library
of Medicine, USA. (http://www.nlm.nih.gov)
Contextual information is distribution of sur-
rounding words of target terms. For example, the
distribution of co-occurrence words of the ... analyzed
using Conexor parser, and various statistics are
extracted: 1) frequency, tf.idf of the disease
names, 2) distribution of modifiers of the disease
names, 3) frequency, tf.idf of unit...
... in our conception of
human mentality. Frank Lorimer's The Growth of Reason
bears the sub-title: "A Study of the Role of Verbal Activity
in the Growth and Structure of the Human Mind." ... as
denizens of a lower world: no, it is the power ofusing sym-
bols—the power of speech—that makes him lord of the earth.
So our interest in the mind has shifted more and more from
the acquisition of ... experience, the domain of sense, to the uses
of sense-data, the realm of conception and expression.
The importance of symbol -using, once admitted, soon be-
comes paramount in the study of intelligence....
... and suggestions were of inestimable value for our
study using GC-A knockout mice, to Professor Misono
of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, and to
the reviewers of the FEBS Journal, ... pathophysiological
roles of the natriuretic peptides ⁄ receptor signaling
pathways in the regulation of blood pressure ⁄ volume,
maintenance of the cardiovascular system, and devel-
opment of the longitudinal ... potential importance of the natriuretic peptide sys-
tem in humans.
Acknowledgements
Our heartfelt appreciation goes to the late Dr Garbers, a
former professor of the University of Texas, whose com-
ments...
... resolution, that of PKCi [18] (PDB code
1ZRZ) and that of PKCh [19] (PDB code 1XJD),
although this has been only partially determined
because the structure of 282 residues of a total of 344
have been ... FEBS 3279
consequence of the use of D
2
O buffer. This is the con-
sequence of the H–D exchange that takes place when
using D
2
O buffer, a range of that was quantified using
two different procedures. ... case
of the catalytic domain of PKB [42] (PDB code
1MRV), the homology with cat-f is 48%, It is notice-
able that for the catalytic domain of PKCi, the degree
of sequence homology with that of...
... of enzyme was added to release 15 nmol of MCA
in the 1 min enzyme reaction. For determination of the
inhibitory activity, a fixed amount of enzyme was first incu-
bated with different amounts of ... isoforms of this peptide
inhibited the enzyme with K
i
values of 1.2 · 10
-7
m
and 4 · 10
)8
m [24].
A backbone-cyclized, potent trypsin inhibitor, sun-
flower trypsin inhibitor-1 (SFTI-1), of ... peptide inhibitors of proteases are
attractive lead compounds for therapeutic development
because of their potency, specificity, low toxicity and
cost-effectiveness. SFTI-1, as one of the smallest...
... PL intensity of the porous alumina
film fabricated using oxalic acid and annealed above
400
◦
C is stronger than that of porous silicon. The PL
intensity of porous alumina fabricated using oxalic
acid ... alumina film. The resistance
of these nanowires increases by one to two orders of
magnitude when exposed to infrared radiation, possi-
bly becauseof real-space transfer of electrons from
the nanowires ... oxidation of aluminum by means of such
a self-organization method, yielding highly ordered arrays of nanoholes several hundreds down to several tens
of nanometers in size. This paper is an overview of...