... Aims ofthe Study The main aim ofthe thesis is to find the problems and offer solutions to improvingthe English language proficiency at COT - VNU In order to achieve this aim, the thesis sets the ... recognition ofthe importance ofthe language in their life and career Furthermore, 97% ofthe students claim to the self-study besides classroom hours with the help of modern means of communication ... and the feedbacks obtained from the students who attended the pilot course Design ofthe Study The thesis consists of three parts Part I is the introduction, which represents the rationales, the...
... people may also need different types of care, depending on whether they are still in school or whether they are married Indeed, the extent of sexual activity outside of marriage varies greatly In one ... will not provide them with services, either because they believe the centers cater exclusively to the needs of pregnant women, infants, and small children or because they think that the staff will ... Institute 1998) ■ Young people between the ages of 15 and 24 have the highest rates of STIs worldwide, with over two-thirds of all reported cases (Morell 1995) The proportion is even higher in developing...
... taxed by the production of extended texts Representations ofthe author's intended ideas, the meaning ofthe text as it is written, and even the possible meanings ofthe text as construed by the imagined ... Despite the importance of writing skills, the 2002 National Assessment of Educational Progress painted a dismal picture ofthe writing preparedness of American students Less than a third of students ... (1988) examined the biographies of 66 poets listed in the Norton Anthology of Poetry, locating their approximate starting date for reading and writing poetry For 83% ofthe sample, the earliest...
... entity For 98.0% ofthe named entities in the training data ofthe shared task in the 2004 JNLPBA, the label ofthe preceding entity was “O” Reduction of Training/Inference Cost The straightforward ... where L is the upper bound length of entities, N is the length of sentence and K is the size of label set And that of training in first order semi-CRFs is O(K LN ) The increase ofthe cost is ... Z(x) is the normalization factor over all the state sequences for the sequence x The model parameters are a set of real-valued weights λ = {λj }, each of which represents the weight of a feature...
... patients: positioning them, their newborns and their families at Toward Improvingthe Outcome of Pregnancy III the center of their care and making them an integral part of their health care decisionmaking ... together with the father or other identified partner, and others, family ofthe patient-baby In this aspect of perinatal care, the parents ofthe baby define the family and how they wish to be ... with the allocation of resources and the regionalization of subspecialty care Toward Improvingthe Outcome of Pregnancy, Recommendations for the Regional 10 marchofdimes.com Development of Maternal...
... the Google model only requires n-gram counts to implement The Backoff Erk model is the best, using the Baseline for the majority of decisions and backing off to the Erk smoothing model when the ... is the set of seen head words filling the slot vd during training, and C(vd , n) is the number of times the noun n was seen filling the slot vd The similarity score sim(n, w) can thus be one of ... include the syntactic relations) Corpus counts covered years ofthe AP section, and we used the development set ofthe NYT section to extract the seen and unseen pairs Figure shows the percentage of...
... Heads of State to hold their peers, their partners, and themselves accountable Led by Suprotik Basu, Managing Director ofthe office ofthe UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Malaria, the ... Transmission of HIV from mother-to-child: Virtually eliminate the transmission of HIV from mother-to-child by the end of 2015 In collaboration with UNAIDS, PEPFAR, the countries suffering the greatest ... a serious reversal ofthe gains achieved MDG Health Alliance Priorities The first priority ofthe Malaria Pillar ofthe Health Alliance will be to support efforts to secure the necessary funding...
... coping with the environmental degradation occurring in many of their countries The realization of personal goals for these young women and men, and the economic and social development of their countries, ... shows the percentage of women who were ages 20 to 24 at the time ofthe survey and who had sex or were married before age 18 •• In five ofthe nine countries profiled, at least 60 percent of all ... women, whether married or unmarried, to reach their full potential If they can avoid unplanned pregnancies and choose the timing and spacing of their births, they and their societies will reap the...
... skin into the centre ofthe node or at the point of maximum fluctuance, and pull back on the syringe piston If no aspirate is obtained, move the needle in and out ofthe centre ofthe node while ... Association and the Damien Foundation have also provided their comments on the earlier version The document was reviewed by members ofthe Core Group ofthe global TB/ HIV Working Group ofthe Stop TB ... facilities) based on the epidemiology ofthe HIV epidemic and the magnitude of HIV-associated tuberculosis, and develop appropriate guidance for the implementation of these recommendations The recommendations...
... homeowners free of charge or at a large discount These firms earned a profit based on the margin between the market price ofthe NGACs and the cost ofthe appliances The business model of purchasing ... advances in the efficiency of windows and doors, improvingthe exchange of heat, and increasing the tightness ofthe building envelope Improvements to the thermal envelope of a building can reduce ... case ofthe promised Australian national program and the proposed recast ofthe EPBD, even still under consideration Thus, systematic analysis ofthe effects ofthe policies is not yet possible There...
... important issues for both federal and state policymakers. Among these are: the collection and reporting of data on the health status of urban Indians and their access to health care services; the adequacy ofthe Title V program for serving the health needs of urban Indians; and the changes needed in the Medicaid ... preschool and 310 elementary school children. Because all children participated in the survey, Indian Health Service did not provide margins of errors for their estimates. Nonetheless, there is likely to be some margin of error in the estimates due to the sampling ofthe schools and other random factors. ... Tribal governments must be intricately involved in such efforts to assure the use ofthe data is culturally appropriate, acceptable, and meaningful in improvingthe health of their people. By reinstituting efforts that began in 1997 between the commission and the Washington State Department of Health through an American Indian Data ...
... , is defined as the ratio between the number of occurrences of a relation r in the presence of feature pair fij over the number of occurrences of feature pair fij in the corpus The most probable ... verbal, from which the preposition of has a coverage of 82.20% The many-to-many mappings ofthe prepositions (especially of/ de) to the semantic classes adds to the complexity ofthe interpretation ... Spanish, and Portuguese are most ofthe time consistent in the choice of preposition (e.g most ofthe time, if the preposition ’de’ ( of ) is used in French, then the Learning models Baseline (En.)...
... cm I then initialize the number of clusters k to the number of cm I finally update the acquired SCFs using the obtained clusters and the confidence values of SCFs in this order I call the following ... next address the way to determine the number of clusters and initial centroids In this study, I assume that the most ofthe possible set of SCFs for words are included in the lexicon ofthe target ... Fang, 2004) The number of acquired SCFs was 14,783 for 3,864 word stems, while the number of SCF types in the data was 97 I then translated the 163 SCF types into the SCF types ofthe XTAG English...
... space: Research theory and practice on the use of corporate capital The scientific and practical meaning ofthe thesis • The system ofthe basic theory ofimproving capital efficiency ofthe company ... of capital at Bac Trung Nam company" Purpose and tasks ofthe research • From the analysis and evaluation ofthe actual situation ofthe use of capital Bac Trung Nam company, find the cause of ... with the assistance of officials and employees especially the staff of finance department, organization department and the company directors, I have decided for choosing the thesis "Improving the...
... appropriateness of selected theoretical applications The Client The nature ofthe case, the setting in which the client resides or works, the resources ofthe environment, and the people in it, and the consultee's ... purpose of fulfilling the preventive mission of their home agency, insofar as this may be compatible with the programs ofthe consultee institution The terms ofthe job descriptions of school ... modifications in the operations ofthe House of Bishops ofthe Episcopal Church We moved along a similar path in the Peace Corps, the Job Corps, and in the armed services ofthe United States...
... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health ofthe public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the ... by the Governing Board ofthe National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils ofthe National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of ... and the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) ofthe Department of Veterans Affairs for their support for the application ofthe Quality Chasm framework as a tool for improvingthe quality of health...
... history ofthe TACP force, the experience ofthe ANG, surveys of current and past ALOs, and the recent experience ofthe USMC support a conclusion that nonstrike aviators and nonaviators can the ALO ... force at the end of FY 2006.2 Figure 1.1 Makeup ofthe Current Active-Duty ALO Force RAND MG755-1.1 A “U” suffix designates the billet as an ALO billet The remainder ofthe AFSC designates the actual ... that the lack of career ALOs has impeded the development of ALO doctrine The changing approach within the USMC is not necessarily conclusive, because there are a variety of differences between the...
... by the entity, the auditor would disclose the name ofthe individual who performed the audit procedures and not the name ofthe entity The disclosure ofthe names of other participants in the ... Disclosure of Other Participants in the Audit Page C-10 RELEASE The report should disclose the name ofthe other auditor, the country of headquarters' office location ofthe other auditor, and the magnitude ... requiring the disclosure ofthe name ofthe engagement partner or the name and extent of participation in the audit of other accounting firms or persons in the standards ofthe PCAOB, standards of Auditing...
... students… The teachers will trouble you up to the extent that if you not accept them, you will fail their subjects and at the end ofthe day you will want to leave the school.” The poor quality of education ... constrained by the reproductive roles they play As a result, the majority of women occupy low level posts that offer them the flexibility they need to manage their households while working in the formal ... only 20% of enterprises in the formal sector (World Bank, 2009: 92) 23% of these enterprises are in the retail sector Women make up 37% ofthe total work force in the garment industry They are...