... Learning and adaptation in economic systems – different and broader than traditional machine learning • Certain nontraditional topics in economic thought – behavioral and agent-based approaches ... futures may also play role in WRM (guaranteed transmission) Cleared for public release, distribution unlimited Learning, Adaptation and Robustness • Adaptation at all levels will be necessary and ... The Premise • Modern technological networks are ona collision course with human organizations, both civilian and military: – conflicts arise in all stages: design, configuration, and operations...
... to release, and perhaps not all of the materials that were available to class participants are generally available The Open Courseware Initiative at MIT is following this approach All of these ... institutions and their faculty and the students participating in classes; institutional records management policies; the documentation of scholarship; authentication and identity management; and the ... that are made clear to any and all potential students rather establishing them transactionally ona course-by-course basis Note that interesting policy parallels are raised by the introduction...
... patients with a case diagnosed within months may already have had active tuberculosis at the time of immigration These patients should be considered prevalent rather than incident cases The Figure ... Stata (Stata Corp; College Station, TX) For each imputed dataset, all risk factors were significant in the multivariate regression The Table provides the combined multivariate results A clear ... Incidence in Immigrants, the Netherlands immigration We recognize the arbitrariness of this assumption Therefore, we carried out a sensitivity analysis with contrasting assumptions—asylum seekers...
... described at the former paragraph about the Wall Street And the sub-title part is at the upper one to re-inform that the financial companies have on average $13.4 billion in daily borrowing For the above ... 2006, an obscure militant preacher named Abu Yahya al-Libi escaped from an U.S prison in Afghanistan and rocketed to fame in the world of jihadists The breakout from the Bagram Air Base by Libi and ... educational level and rarely read newspaper could remember immediately words; and 16, at maximum, to high-educational level readers Another study shows that average educational level readers have...
... staffs” Therefore MacDonald can be said to have a larger degree of dispersion of data around the mean than Max hamburger in those attributes Max hamburger had a larger standard deviation than ... 1996) conceptualization i.e brand awareness, brand loyalty, perceived quality and brand association Brand association here is referred to as brand image i.e the set of associations that are connected ... that MacDonald had a larger standard deviation than Max hamburger in these attributes the food quality of the restaurant is good, the drive sound system was clear and well dressed neat and trained...
... upon, open standards JAVA itself is not an agent-application Yet, the Java Agent Template is available which "provides basic agent functionality packaged as a Java application This agent can ... Information access and management is an area of great activity, given the rise in popularity of the Internet and the explosion of data available to users It is the application area that this thesis ... implementations), a lot of agents are active onthe Internet these days Comparing them is not an easy task as their possibilities and degree of elaboration vary strongly Add to this the fact that there...
... word - Translation by cultural substitution - Translation using a loan word or a loan word plus an explanation - Translation by paraphrase using a related word - Translation by paraphrase using ... strategies and translation procedures, technical translation, and translation of Neologisms will be presented one after another 1.1.1 What is translation? Translation, a phenomenon traditionally considered ... translation of authentic material by professional translator So the theory of translation including translation strategies and procedures, translation of neologisms, technical translation and...
... method that the language laboratory became so popular 5 • The Functional-Notional Approach In the 1970s teachers of the Functional-Notional Approach stopped teaching grammar and started teaching ... language material An approach is a set of correlative assumptions dealing with the nature of language teaching and learning 1.2.2 A Brief History of Language Teaching • The Grammar -Translation ... • Mistakes are not “bad” • They are natural and unavoidable part of learning a language • They are useful They show the teacher what their students have and have not learnt 33 • There are times...
... VIET NAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES POST GRADUATE STUDIES DEPARTMENT TRẦN QUỐC VIỆT A STUDY ONTHE TECHNIQUES FOR THE IMPROVEMENT TO THE TEACHING OF ORAL SKILLS ... COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS IN QUẢNG NGÃI PROVINCE (NGHIÊN CỨU CÁC THỦ THUẬT NÂNG CAO VIỆC DẠY KỸ NĂNG NGHE NÓI TIẾNG ANH THEO ĐƯỜNG HƯỚNG GIAO TIẾP ... TIẾNG ANH THEO ĐƯỜNG HƯỚNG GIAO TIẾP CHO GIÁO VIÊN TRUNG HỌC CƠ SỞ TẠI TỈNH QUẢNG NGÃI) M .A. THESIS HA NOI-2007 ...
... deep gratitude to all my teachers at College of Foreign Languages, Vietnam National University-Hanoi for their valuable lectures And their knowledge, their thoughtfulness as well as their sympathy ... Tấn Bảo and my colleagues of Foreign Languages Department, Quang Ngai Teachers Training College for their attention and encouragement I am appreciative of all those who have kindly advised and helped ... Việt v ABBREVIATIONS • BA : Bachelor of Arts • : Communicative Language Teaching CLT • DES : District Education Service • ELT : English language teaching • JHS : Junior High School • TJC : Teachers...
... developments as they have done these days It is language that makes human beings distinctive from animals Many language learners consider speaking ability the measurement of knowing a language In other ... Variables In the traditional teaching method, a teacher plays the role of the controller or manager of the class The teacher can teach anything they find necessary and students are only the listeners ... things as treating all the learners the same … and acting upon their hopes and aspirations Most of it depends on paying more attention to the learner than to the teacher” According to Nunan (1991:...
... p-value and discrimination value Then come the items in vocabulary section The items in grammar, and especially in functional language section are undesirable since they are too easy and non-discriminating ... inter-rater reliability n: the number of rater who combines estimates from the final mark for the examiner rA,B: the correlation between the raters, or the average correlation among all rater if there ... both teacher and students to identify areas of difficulty As far as computer-based MCQs tests are concerned, according to McNamara (2000) many important national and international language tests,...
... characteristics of a granular activated carbon In a granular activated carbon contact basin, virgin carbon is domestic activated carbon made from palm shell, reactivated carbon means activated carbon produced ... changing the time and method of seasonal backwash from October, 2001 to September, 2002 Specifications and operation conditions of Granular activated carbon 24 granular activated carbon contact ... has measured head loss values, and regarded as the minimum fluidization velocity the time when their measurements are constant Table Backwash methods in a granular activated carbon contact basin...
... solving the steady-state Navier-Stokes equations, i.e the continuity equation, the mass conservation equation for each phase yields the volume fraction (r ) and along with the momentum equations the ... membrane hydration and avoidance of water flooding in the cathode catalyst layer and/or gas diffusion layer [2] Water management is related with air supply to the cathode and is one of the crucial ... near the cathode side area The maximum stress appears in the cathode side surface of the membrane, implying that major heat generation takes place near this region It can be seen also that the...
... water ascends to the top of the tank It is originated from the fact that, after gaining heat from the solar radiation, the tank wall heats a thin vertical layer of water along the tank wall Part ... time variation of solar radiation and average temperature of the present experimental study and the theoretical results of [1] in January Figure 12 The time variation of solar radiation and stored ... function of the density, specific heat capacity and the initial and massweighted average temperatures of water; with all the values, apart from the mass-weighted average temperature, are the same...
... temperature The year round global solar radiation and ambient temperature data for Chennai is taken from [34] Figure shows the variation of global solar radiation and the ambient temperature for the ... A. , Abd El-Kawi Non-conventional solar stills Part 1: Non-conventional solar stills with charcoal particles as absorber medium Desalination 2003, 153(1-3), 55–64 [3] Al-Abbasi M .A. , Al-Karaghouli ... multi-stage desalination system, due to low temperature difference between the adjacent stages and also because of the absence of non-condensable gases heat transfer by radiation and natural convection...
... experimental class was 10 and the lowest was Actually, in the experimental class, the difference among each individual in vocabulary acquirement was greater than that among the members of the control ... vocabulary practice and revision are as follows: a Feel the object: The teacher collected various objects from the students and from around the class such as a cassette, a crayon, a marker…Put the ... vocabulary teaching/learning has undergone too many changes Let’s take a look at the grammar translation method first In this method, vocabulary is taught by means of translation when students are...
... technical translation, so it plays an important role in the development of Mechanical Engineering The thesis studies the English – Vietnamese translation of terms in the materials for Mechanical ... appropriate Vietnamese equivalents for the English terms The thesis aims to draw out common translation strategies which can be applied in the English-Vietnamese translation of terms in materials ... ii ABSTRACT Mechanical Engineering is one of the most basic engineering sciences and technical translation makes much contribution to its development Technical term translation is part of...