... illustrations) are also employed for analysis when and if appropriate The study just makes an initial attempt to conduct a small-scale cross- cultural analysis of the textbook and is not aimed at evaluating ... multicultural approach - include a considerable element of comparison and may be characterized as a comparative approach The intercultural approach pays a considerable attention to the relations ... language knowledge The teaching of Language Focus consists of two parts: Pronunciation and Grammar-Vocabulary Material used in teaching Pronunciation, Grammar -Vocabulary is based on passages...
... link with Romanians, who also show a weaker link with Body and Beauty compared Italian and Spanish participants The second phase of data analysis, using the One Way ANOVA test and the Games Howell ... the Italian sample, we notice the absence of a significant association to plastic surgery and also between I and make-up and old age, anda weak negative connection to sadness and ugliness Also, ... Argentina 12 Russia 13 Italy 14 France 15 Canada 16 Taiwan 17 United Kingdom 18 Colombia 19 Greece 20 Thailand 21 Australia 22 Venezuela 23 Saudi Arabia 24 Netherlands 25 Portugal The changing nature...
... physician-to-population ratio and other variable-to-population ratios For population and daytime population, variable-to-area ratios were used instead of variable-to-population ratios because these ... multiple-regression analysis in which the extracted variables were treated as explanatory variables and the physician-to-population ratio as the outcome variable This analysis was conducted to reveal the ... municipal, prefectural and national Municipalities (cities, towns and villages) are the basic geographical units of administration Prefectures and municipalities in Japan are roughly comparable...
... as either living with married parents or living with one parent who was divorced or separated Academic performance was assessed by overall grade point average and last grade earned in both mathematics ... Class (as appears on last report card): Female Type of work (if any): A+ A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D+ D D- F Overall average grade (as appears on last report card): How often you exercise in an average ... 31 males and 41 females in the ninth and tenth grade Average age was 15.3 ± 0.7 years Subject demographics are shown in Table Almost 32% of students worked and 89% had parents who were married...
... overseas nursesa Country 98/99 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03 Philippines South Africa India Australia New Zealand Canada USA West Indies Pakistan Malaysia Singapore Nigeria Zimbabwe Ghana Kenya Zambia Mauritius ... NMC and [5] bIncludes 23 each from Poland and Sri Lanka; 22 each from the Czech Republic and Saudi Arabia; 21 from Nepal and 20 from Japan in 2002/03 nurses commute to and work in the SHA in addition ... from Asia; another 7000 from Africa and 2400 from major English-speaking countries (Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the United States) Only a handful of recruits are from Europe (1500) and fewer...
... steals food Castration of domesticated animals, as in (1 0a- b), such as pigs, dogs, cocks, and cats is popular in Vietnam And such removal of the testicles hurts a great deal As the literal translations ... conceptualizations of SADNESS in English and Vietnamese This paper is called forth to bridge this gap by exploring affinities and contrasts in ways English and Vietnamese think and speak about SADNESS ... metaphor universal? Crosslanguage evidence from German and Japanese, Metaphor and Symbol, 16(2001), 123 [15] Kövecses, Z., Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling, Cambridge...
... emotional well-being, is defined as the balance between pleasant affect and unpleasant affect (30) Life satisfaction included satisfaction of occupation, marriage and life in general, and emotional ... regardless of a “yes”, the survey was discarded assuming the participant did not fully understand the question Statistical analysis The data was analyzed using both parametric and non parametric ... Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s Medical College) • Dr Swati Mahajan (Associate Professor, Community Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s Medical College) • Dr Ashfaque Ansari (Lecturer, Ear Nose Throat,...
... study and performed the statistical analysis All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements This research was supported by grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and ... the manuscript KWW was involved in conceptualizing the study design and acquisition of data WMT and ANB participated in acquisition and interpretation of data FDW conceptualized the rationale and ... physicians Angel and Guarnaccia found dramatic discrepancies between physicians' and patients' assessment of patients' health, with patients' affective state, somatization, and language of interview...
... J Pak Med Assoc 2003, 53(2) 17 Khan MS, Mahmood S, Badshah A, Ali SU, Jamal Y: Prevalence of depression, anxiety and their associated factors among medical students in Karachi, Pakistan J Pak ... Health Sciences, Aga Khan University Author details Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan 2Medical College, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan ... There are approximately equal numbers of government and private medical colleges and universities in Pakistan, all of which meet a strict criteria set by a central statutory and regulatory authority...
... companies’ database as of May 2002 The database has information on a firm’s country of incorporation and global market capitalization in U.S dollars The intraday transactions data are from the Trade ... country, and across all sample firms Panel A: Descriptive Statistics, by countryCountry Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Canada Chile China Colombia Denmark Dominican Republic Finland France ... Greece Korea Chile Hungary Taiwan France HongKong Italy Spain United States Portugal Japan Belgium Germany Australia Austria Canada Norway Singapore United Kingdom Denmark New Zealand Ireland Sweden...
... GUATEMALA GUINEA BISSAU HAITI HONDURAS HUNGARY INDIA INDONESIA IRAN JAMAICA JORDAN KENYA KOREA MADAGASCAR MALAWI MALAYSIA MEXICO MOROCCO MOZAMBIQUE NICARAGUA NIGER NIGERIA PAKISTAN PANAMA PARAGUAY ... World Bank’s classification 47 Developed Countries AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA BELGIUM CANADA DENMARK FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY GREECE ICELAND IRELAND ISRAEL ITALY JAPAN NETHERLANDS NEW ZEALAND NORWAY PORTUGAL ... ALGERIA ARGENTINA BANGLADESH BOLIVIA BOTSWANA BRAZIL BULGARIA BURKINA FASO CAMEROON CHILE CHINA COLOMBIA CONGO COSTA RICA COTE DIVOIRE ECUADOR EGYPT EL SALVADOR ETHIOPIA GABON GAMBIA GHANA GUATEMALA...
... Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South ... investment Data is compiled from Afiica Development Indicators, Easterly's Macro Time Series, Afiica Research Program at Harvard, and World Bank Afiica Database (2004) 18 Land area in square kilometers ... Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe 17 Real per capita GDP growth (rgdppcgr):- to capture economic growth which is net of inflation and takes account...
... Efficiency ,and Growth Ejaz Ghani Carl Jayarajah March 1995 WPS1439 Nontarif BarriersAfrica Faces:What Azita Amiadi Did the UruguayRoundAccomplish, Alexander Yeats and What Remainsto Be Done? March1995 ... Policy-BasedFinance, Financial Regulation ,and FinancialSector Developmentin Japan Dimitri Vittas Akihiko Kawaura April 1995 P Infante 37642 WPS1444 Roads, Lands, Markets, and Deforestation :A Spatial ... Overall policy and performance, along with separate scores for Air, Water, Land and Living Resources; (2) a "Green" index (interaction of Agriculture with Water, Land and Living Resources) and...
... the American’s space The American, naturally, takes a step backward The Vietnamese wants to show his friendliness, so steps forward again, the American steps backward…again and again, create ... within families, and also across age andgender lines Sometimes, hugs are a romantic exchange Hugs may also be exchanged as a sign of support and comfort A hug demonstration emotional of can be affection ... information and full understanding of the classification of body language and how to use gestures in Vietnam and America to behave in proper ways without making too many mistakes, and to make an...
... called “cultural traits” A trait may be a custom, such as burial of the dead; a gesture, such as a handshake or an idea, such as democracy Following this understanding, cultural trait may be an ... males All Vietnamese informants are my acquaintances and my family’s acquaintances who live in both Ha Tinh and Nghe An provinces Some British and American informants are my friends’ acquaintances ... “mợ” In addition, in English the parents could be addressed as: mother and father, mom and dad, mama and papa by a child + Title : Title alone Title + last name + Name: Last name First name Eg:...
... teaching and learning to modern way However, here and there still exists the traditional method of learning and teaching language, which focuses on rote memorization of grammatical and lexical ... materials and advice Last but not least, I give a very special thanks to my family and classmates, who always stand by me, provide their emotional support through out the process I this paper ii ABSTRACT ... stand for four groups “highly advisable, advisable, yes or no and inadvisable” And the last is conducted with the aim to study in specific situations There are two main situations set and ask...
... bee As cunning as a fox As fat as a big As fierce as a lion As fierce as a tiger As slippery as an eel As slow as a tortoise As slow as a snail As stink as a polecat As thick as ants As wet as a ... words: A dark horse Smell to a rat Leading a dog’s life To work like a dog A bull in a China shop A book worm Piggy bank Chicken Raining cats and dogs As blind as a bat An early bird A quiet as a ... Piggy bank Raining cats and dogs A bull in a China shop A dark horse To work like a dog An early bird A quiet as a mouse A copy cat 10 Eats like a horse 11 Smell to a rat 12 Talk turkey 13 A book...
... communities, in particular the nation state and the psycho-drama within and across nations, and our real dependencies, which are globalised National economies can have local character and limited ... means that there are many more places and events that can transmit failure, and major structural stresses can build at a global scale There is less local resilience to failure, in that we cannot ... de-localisation through packaging, additives and transport It also enabled the more than doubling of the human population, each individual on average consuming more year-on-year, and habituating to that...
... all national, provincial and municipal authorities in the study area and were linked to a digital map of all roads in the Netherlands (NWB), using GIS Other land use data were obtained from a ... ArcInfo (ESRI, Redlands, CA) Statistical analyses Participants with missing values on exposure variables and the covariates age, genderand income were excluded from all analyses We used penalized ... compared to men documented with low NO -concentrations, and small exposure contrasts Doing studies in areas with low exposures and small contrasts has advantages and disadvantages One important aspect...