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... Mil-Specs and Mil-Stds by directing the services and rele-
vant defense agencies to “use performance and commercial specifications
and standards instead of military specifications and standards, ... Development
and Acquisition; Ms. Paula Howard, U.S. Navy Standardization Office; Mr.
Jeff Allan and Mr. Tom O’Mara, Naval Air Systems Command; Mr. David
White, Naval Sea Systems Command; Mr. Stephen ... its
military specifications and standards reform (MSSR) efforts appeared to be
underfunded. The study had four objectives: first, to define the status of
Navy military specification and standards...
... 2000; Tenenhaus
et al., 1995) and recent investigations on computa-
tional models for language acquisitionand ground-
ing (Siskind, 1995; Roy and Pentland, 2002; Yu
and Ballard, 2004), we are particularly ... perceptually grounded
objects in the environment (Siskind, 1995; Roy and
Pentland, 2002; Yu and Ballard, 2004). Especially in
(Yu and Ballard, 2004), an unsupervised approach
based on a generative ... gaze and spoken utter-
ances during human machine conversation to auto-
matically acquire and interpret vocabularies.
Motivated by psycholinguistic studies (Just and
Carpenter, 1976; Griffin and...
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The RAND Corporation ... other
competitive acquisitions and prior surveys of competitive acquisition
of weapon systems and components. That body of information
provided a basis for estimating the balance of costs and benefits ... supply and demand for shipyard
labor under each of several options for distributing the work among
the two shipyards and for scheduling the work across calendar time.
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and DNA entities was too small to train with.
As part of the overall project we are creating
an expert-tagged corpus of MEDLINE abstracts
and full papers for training and testing ... extract named entity properties,
events and other domain-specific concepts from
MEDLINE abstracts and full texts. One part of
this work is the construction and maintenance of
an ontology for the ... structure). Eventu-
ally we hope to be able to identify and extract do-
main specific facts such as protein-protein binding
information from full texts and to aid biochemists
in the formation of cell...
... Electric, Pratt and Whitney, and
Rolls-Royce (North America).
This report should be of interest to the cost-analysis community, the
military aircraft acquisition community, andacquisition policy ... into military engine technology, the military aircraft acquisi-
tion process, and parametric cost-estimating methodologies.
This study draws from databases from various Air Force, Navy, and
military ... One
INTRODUCTION
STUDY BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Realistic cost estimates for military aircraft play an important role in
developing sound budgets and in contributing to an effective
acquisition policy. RAND has a long...
... both
Vietnamese teachers and students considered that it was safe to learn and memorize
rules. Vietnamese learners are also famous for scrutinizing words and phrases and
paid little attention ... learning strategies on the learning and teaching of foreign and second language.
Good choice and use of learning strategies would help learners become more
independent and autonomous as well as improve ... related to female’s social skills, stronger verbal skills, and greater conformity to
academic and linguistic norms.
In their study, Bacon and Finnemann (1992) also find that women use more
“private/...
... discussion
and its impacts on speaking
and its impacts on speaking
ability of the non-major
ability of the non-major
students at the post-
students at the post-
elementary level in Military ... participants in PTP group performed better and
more accurately than those in NP group in terms of EFVF
and EFNF (in terms of tense, subject verb agreement and
pronouncing morpheme-s in plurality ... complexity and accuracy.
-
Find out other factors affect students’ speaking competence
-
experiment in higher or mixed proficiency level students
-
Include the subjects of both male and female...
... Department of
Education and Arts (1994), the review of
research into language and literacy by
Freebody and Gilbert (1999), and the
review of recent developments in
language and literacy development ... Education
Commission of Victoria.
Anderson, M. (1992) Intelligence and
Development: A Cognitive Theory.
Oxford, UK, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
Andrews, S. (1989). Psycholinguistics and
reading acquisition: The ... real words,
both regular and irregular (effect sizes of
.55, .46 and .60), and on the measures of
reading comprehension and listening
comprehension (effect sizes of .69
and .40).
A further follow-up...
... unified commands,
and the defense agencies under Contract DASW01-01-C-0004.
RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and
decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND
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is ... Diseases
USAMRMC U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel
Command
VAE Vaccine Acquisition Executive
2 The Acquisition of Drugs and Biologics for CBW Defense
cals (drugs), and the protection of personnel by ... Secretary
of Defense for Chemical and Biological Defense and was carried out
jointly by RAND’s Center for Military Health Policy Research and the
Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the National...
... understanding of the production of military
activities would be valuable. Interest in experience, training,
personnel quality and flexibility, and teamwork is long-standing.
However, the military ... define and measure experience and
individual effectiveness.
Work by Dahlman, Kerchner, and Thaler (DKT) (2002) demonstrates the
importance of identifying and maintaining the proper experience and ...
Table 3.1. Career Training and F-14 Landing Performance 18
Table 3.2. Training in Previous Month and F-14 Landing Performance 18
Table 3.3. Career Training Hours and Bombing Error 19
Table...
... ASLIB’99 Translating
and the Computer 21.
N. Kando. 2001. Overview of the SecondNTCIR Work-
shop. In Proc. Second NTCIR Workshop on Research
in Chinese and Japanese Text Retrieval and Text Sum-
marization.
P. ... terminology acquisitionand lexical
resources enrichment (Dejean et al., 2002; Fung,
2000; Koehn and Knight, 2002; Rapp, 1999).
This paper presents a novel approach to bilin-
gual terminology acquisition ... vectors
of source and target languages.
First experiments were conducted on the several
combinations of weighting parameters and schemes
of SMARTretrieval system for documents terms and
query terms....