... least five years (3 years at upper- secondary school and years at university) These students are confident, dynamic, and lively They have high motivation for their study I.4 Methods of study Questionnaires ... learner deploys a strategy to overcome some particular learning problem Learners are generally aware of the strategies they use and can identify what they consist of if they are asked to pay attention ... self-motivated and lively They had high motivation for their study in general and studying English in particular These students had to study English intensively in the first year of university with 20 hours...
... complex timing or synchronization can be trained effectively through musical rhythm [52,63,64] A study conducted by Thaut et al demonstrated the ability of auditory rhythm to effectively entrain motor ... behavioral recovery and compensation, adapted from [24] Three types of action leading to goal accomplishment include activity compensation, activity recovery, and activity recovery with body function/structure ... Activity recovery describes goal accomplishment by the pre-morbid dominant end effector with reasonable speed and accuracy, without body function compensation constraints Finally, activity recovery...
... pay attention to this model Hwang showed that the system has no periodic solutions when the positive equilibrium is locally asymptotical stability by using the divergency criterion Recently, ... nonautonomous case of system 1.1 , that is, they considered the following system: x t x1 t b t − a11 t x t − α t a12 t y t β t x t γ t y t , 1.2 y t y t α t a21 t x t −d t β t x t γ t y t For the general ... predator-prey model with time delay and feedback controls: x n y n 1 x n exp b n − a11 n x n − y n exp 1 a12 n y n β n x n γ ny n c1 n u1 n , a21 n x n − τ − d n − a22 n y n − c2 n u2 n β n x n−τ γ n y...
... the fund had been heavily invested in Internet stocks "Why did I lose my money?" she asked me "Why was my pension money invested in such speculative stocks? Who got the money I lost?" I l@ve RuBoard ... at a young CEO with a company that as yet had virtually no sales, not to mention any profits, spending this way, but he needn't have worried The analysts had no problem with his actions Mary Meeker, ... they have two functions: They must not only help embody promising technologies in products and services, they must also embody the products and services in financially successful firms Not every...
... the fund had been heavily invested in Internet stocks "Why did I lose my money?" she asked me "Why was my pension money invested in such speculative stocks? Who got the money I lost?" I l@ve RuBoard ... at a young CEO with a company that as yet had virtually no sales, not to mention any profits, spending this way, but he needn't have worried The analysts had no problem with his actions Mary Meeker, ... they have two functions: They must not only help embody promising technologies in products and services, they must also embody the products and services in financially successful firms Not every...
... sequence analysis from various types of experiment are already built in and ready to run Marc Fiume (University of Toronto, Canada) presented the Sequence Annotation Visualization and ANalysis Tool ... As sequence availability has increased, data access, representation, analysis and visualizations pose signifi cant challenges in the community Enis Afgan (Emory University, Atlanta, USA) has developed ... Ning and Montgomery Genome Biology 2010, 11:308 http://genomebiology.com/2010/11/10/308 short-read assembler, ALLPATHS, with the reference assembly that used the capillary long-read assembler,...
... predominantly provided by lay counselors The shift required a reconfiguration of roles for nurses and lay counselors, with nurses taking on some of the tasks previously performed by lay counselors ... = Routine Monthly Report (RMR); 5, 7, 8, 9, and 11 = Voluntary Counseling and Testing quarterly reports; 10 = Quarterly lay counsellor statistics report, 2005; 12 = TB quarterly reports Leon ... of an opting-out strategy for HIV testing: evaluation of years of standard HIV testing in a STI clinic Sexually Transmitted Infections 2009, 85:226-230 27 Weaver MR, Myaya M, Disasi K, Regoeng...
... predominantly provided by lay counselors The shift required a reconfiguration of roles for nurses and lay counselors, with nurses taking on some of the tasks previously performed by lay counselors ... = Routine Monthly Report (RMR); 5, 7, 8, 9, and 11 = Voluntary Counseling and Testing quarterly reports; 10 = Quarterly lay counsellor statistics report, 2005; 12 = TB quarterly reports Leon ... of an opting-out strategy for HIV testing: evaluation of years of standard HIV testing in a STI clinic Sexually Transmitted Infections 2009, 85:226-230 27 Weaver MR, Myaya M, Disasi K, Regoeng...
... individually with placebo, only in the the group receiving 160 µg/kg was the difference significant Secondary outcomes (90-day mortality: 29% placebo versus 18% combined rVIIa; and 90-day severe ... followed by myocardial infarction, most of which were followed by good recovery Fass and coworkers [5] investigated the use of potassium dichromate, a drug that is used in homeopathy for its mucolytic ... antibiotic cycling was not proven to be beneficial in the study, and that stricter prescribing of antibiotics and infection control may be the way forward in this field Steroid therapy has been widely...
... (monitoring of gross motor activity) overestimated total sleep time and sleep efficiency compared with polysomnography [5] Researcher observation without polysomnography may therefore underestimate the ... arousals may coincidentally occur after a noise peak but not be causally related If other factors potentially contributing to sleep fragmentation are not systematically examined, investigators may overestimate ... disruption in the ICU A third factor that may account for the discrepancy in reported results is the breadth and depth of the study question Investigators typically attribute arousals from sleep to noise...
... visceral, maybe even surreal You begin to feel the difference in everything you do, in almost every step you take In a very real sense, the lack of electricity drains the lifeblood out of you You certainly ... delivery value chain as a “supply line.” Unlike in the past, your electricity doesn’t really come from a nearby utility It can come from hundreds, or even thousands, of miles away These supply lines ... Electricity is to modern society like blood that runs through the body It touches everything It powers everything in some way If you viewed our infrastructure as a pyramid, electricity would be...
... had been heavily invested in Internet stocks “Why did I lose my money?” she asked me “Why was my pension money invested in such speculative stocks? Who got the money I lost?” Buy, Lie, and Sell ... new player—the day trader With the ability to trade online, quickly and continuously, the day trader created a whole new category of demand, to which the market quickly responded Analysts estimated ... than a year later A young entrepreneur who had been in February 2000 a very wealthy man was, a year later, so far in debt to Uncle Sam that never again could he reasonably hope to have any financial...
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... motivated by military and government needs, DSP was suddenly driven by the commercial marketplace Anyone who thought they could make money in the rapidly expanding field was suddenly a DSP vendor ... your hands and eyes, you use your mouth and ears This is very convenient when your hands and eyes should be doing something else, such as: driving a car, performing surgery, or (unfortunately) ... Unfortunately, present day computers perform very poorly when faced with raw sensory data Teaching a computer to send you a monthly electric bill is easy Teaching the same computer to understand your...
... to any industry standard, or are suitable for any application The author, publisher, and distributors disclaim all liability and responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss ... technical world is changing very rapidly In only 15 years, the power of personal computers has increased by a factor of nearly one-thousand By all accounts, it will increase by another factor of one-thousand ... damage caused, or alleged to be caused, directly or indirectly, by the information contained in this book If you not wish to be bound by the above, you may return this book to the publisher for a...
... Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Montreal Fearing Others The Nature and Treatment of Social Phobia Ariel Stravynski University of Montreal CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ... majority of studies approach the reality of social phobia unquestioningly Such a bold assumption, however, requires justification After all, the history of medical psychology and psychiatry is ... precisely by specific activities as actually performed or only when imagined in the presence of others or by interpersonal transactions in which the goals pursued, namely getting one’s way and...