... were designed based on learning and teaching materials “Powerbase” and applied as an experimental research aiming at developing cross- cultural awareness for the first-year students at NEU. The ... understanding, helped to develop their language knowledge (grammar and vocabulary), language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and working skills (individually, pair -work, group -work, ... the language being used ina situation and then go on to gain an understanding of the cultural factors at work, this is for them one of the most absorbing and exciting parts of any language...
... Fatema Hasan Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s Medical College, Aurangabad, Maharastra, India, 431003 Correspondence to: Hunaid Hasan or Tasneem Fatema Hasan, “Ezzi Manzil”, CTS No. 3910, Near Bombay Mercantile ... 3910, Near Bombay Mercantile Bank, Beside Amodi Complex, City Chowk, Juna Bazaar, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India 431001. Email: hunaidhasan@hotmail.com or zainabhasan52@hotmail.com. Phone: +91-240-234-8673/ ... “laughter history” in to clinical practice. Tasneem Fatema Hasan, is currently pursing her final year of medicine at Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s Medical College-Maharashtra University of Health...
... look at adding a maintainer. This is wherewe get into really wrapping the PPaacckkaaggeeFFiilleeMMaannaaggeerrclass into our GTK application. A maintainer is someone who contributes to a PEARpackage. ... ddooccdirectory that contains rather detailed infor-mation about the package. Thankfully, the package canbe used ina straightforward manner. Again, it’s just a matter of taking the right steps in the ... this by adding a methodcalled __ccrreeaatteeAAddddMMaaiinnttaaiinneerrPPaaggee(()). This method willcreate our information-gathering widgets, plus add a way for us to get the information to...
... same code over and over again. I came across the same problem when trying to create PEAR package files—thePPEEAARR__PPaacckkaaggeeFFiilleeMMaannaaggeerrclass makes creating PEARppaacckkaaggee ... look at adding a maintainer. This is wherewe get into really wrapping the PPaacckkaaggeeFFiilleeMMaannaaggeerrclass into our GTK application. A maintainer is someone who contributes to a PEARpackage. ... methods of the class give a good indication as towhat your application should be doing. ThePPEEAARR__PPaacckkaaggeeFFiilleeMMaannaaggeerrclass, for example, has anaaddddMMaaiinnttaaiinneerr(())method....
... is in the making, as the internationalization of the 'appearances are everything' industry with its glamour and style stereotypes invades and pervades cyberspace, roadside hoardings, ... game of beautification, attract stigma and discrimination, society's revenge on Nature's 'aesthetically challenged'. What might be called a global 'beauty caste' ... especially for Spanish participants, whereas there is a negative link with Romanians, who also show a weaker link with Body and Beauty compared Italian and Spanish participants. The second phase...
... data were provided by allnational, provincial and municipal authorities in thestudy area and were linked to a digital map of all road s in the Netherlands (NWB), using GIS. Other land usedata ... concentration, distance to the nearest mainroad, traffic flow at the nearest main road and traffic ina 250 m circular buffer. Crude and age-, gender- andneighborhood income adjusted associations ... NO2exposureand type 2 diabetes prevale nce among female patients,but not among male patients, of two respiratory healthclinics in Canada. In addition, a recent American studyfound an association...
... such data are not available for Saudi Arabia. b) From 1-Jan-10 to 29-Jul-10. c) Based on banks contained in respective countries' Datastream bank indices. d) Based on banks in Datastream ... 2009, OECD, Paris, available at www.oecd.org/dataoecd/55/47/43091457.pdf. RISKS AHEAD FOR THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY INA CHANGING INTEREST RATE ENVIRONMENT OECD JOURNAL: FINANCIAL MARKET TRENDS ... increasing as public and corporate financing needs are high, while central banks have started to withdraw from the extraordinary policy measures they had taken in response to the financial and...
... Attitudinal Information Processing Perspective.‖ In Moving Ahead in Attitude Research. Eds. Yoram Wind and Marshall Greenberg. Chicago, IL: American Marketing Association. Jamal, Ahmad and Mark ... the financial, functional and individual utilities of the certain luxury brand. Pointing to the fact that luxury value lies in social and individual as well as in functional and financial aspects, ... scale that would function cross- culturally ina reliable and valid manner. A scale that is applicable cross- culturally should lead to similar patterns of reliability, factor loadings, and factor...
... culture. 1.3 American’s opinion. For Americans, romantic love is a basic belief for marriage, happiness, and success but American individualism creates a conflict because “Americans believe in theself” ... demographics of marriage, with the age of first marriage increasing, fewer people marrying, and many couples choosing to cohabit rather than marry. C) CROSS – CULTURAL CONCEPTION STRATEGIES. In order ... Vietnamese’s opinion. For instant, in Vietnam, love is going along with marriage. A true love is a love 4 A CROSS- CULTURAL STUDY OF CONCEPTION ABOUT LOVE, MARRIAGE BETWEEN THE VIETNAMESE AND AMERICANSOUTLINEIntroduction A. ...
... Cleaning your mouth (e.g. rinsing your mouth, brushing your teeth)Relaxing (including sleeping) SleepingMaintaining your usual emotional state without being irritable Maintaining your emotional ... clini-cal measures, such as functional, psychological and sociallimitations. The index has applications in public healthfor the assessment of oral health needs and can be a valu-able indicator ... frequency scale: a cross- sectional study of adolescents in Uganda. BMC OralHealth 2003, 3:5.5. Gherunpong S, Tsakos G, Sheiham A: Developing and evaluatingan oral health-related quality of life index...
... trigram languagemodel described in Section 3.3 and clustered DTadapted acoustic models that are automatically graduallyadapted to each individual speaker. This unsupervisediterative speaker adaptation ... [23]).Using the lattices for searching is an important stepaway from the oversimplifying approach to speechretrieval on the same archive that was adopted by allteams participating in the CLEF campaign ... cascade, from the data preparationworks through the ASR engine to the actual search algo-rithms. That way we were well aware of inherent weak-nesses of individual components and able to fine...
... increase for allocating less orequal crosstalk cancellation taps than rsis set to zero,(ii) the average capacity increase for allocating morecrosstalk cancellation taps than rsis recalculated ... each iteration of the algorithm a minimum of 1 and a maximum of N− 1 crosstalk cancel-lation taps are allocated. Because of this varying granularity,the crosstalk cancellation tap constraint ... average capacity increasesper allocated crosstalk cancellation tap. For each of K tonesthe capacity increase has to be calculated for all N− 1crosstalk cancellation configurations. To be able...
... presence there. Each avatar can be ina state of ‘BeingAvailable’ or not being so. When two avatars pass each other while walking, they willcarry out an involuntary glance towards each other. There ... argues that the avatar behaviour should be encapsulated intolayers, and that at the bottom layer there are what might be described as fundamentalor autonomic behaviours that are always happening. ... space as a resourcefor activity and interaction in VEs. In fact much of what they say actually is to do withthe activity of avatars in space, rather than just with space in itself. They argue...
... if anything the data show an increase in task performance between Parts 1 and 2.14 The lack of free riding is, in some ways, quite astonishing in view of the fact that the private financial ... workplace teams include mutual monitoring and peer pressure (Kandel and Lazear 1992). In essence, our approach (correctly, in our view) treats the moral hazard problem in workplace teams as solved, ... competition, we argue that studying gender and selection into cooperative work environments is at least as fundamental to understanding gender gaps in the labor market: While relative rewards are in most...