... their ability to express themselves and their ability to listen to others, especially to native speakers Speakers with wrong pronunciation find it difficult to make themselves understood by the ... prominence, intonation and syllable structure) Dalton & Seidhofer in their book Pronunciation identify two approaches to pronunciation teaching including bottom-up and top-down In bottom-up approach, ... English has a stress-timed rhythm, in which stressed syllables recur at equal intervals of time but unstressed syllables are unequally spaced in time The amount of time it takes to say a sentence...
... Team (MET) call; btime of day of MET call N/A, not applicable Discussion We found our MET-based approach for preventable adverse event detection to be simple to implement, easy to maintain, and ... (interquartile range to 12.5 days) before the call Of the 65 calls received, 23 were considered to be adverse events (35%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 25% to 48%) and 16 were considered to be preventable ... responses to critical patients as the most common cause of preventable adverse events Our hospital is using this information to guide quality improvement strategies Our program cost very little to implement...
... interactive Speakers need to have something to say that interests the listener Also the speaker has to understand his or her interlocutor and respond appropriately to what the interlocutor says Discussion, ... problems testify to the challenges involved in teaching speaking but at the same time point to the urgent need to find ways to develop the students speaking skill effectively in response to learner ... students are introduced to a topic via a reading, a listening passage, or a videotape Then, they are asked to get into pairs or groups to discuss a related topic in order to come up with a solution,...
... stopbands represented by a total of five bands: the first passband has normalized frequencies between and 0.17 (0 and 680Hz) with corresponding magnitude of 1; the second band is the first stopband, ... between 0.175 and 0.18 (700 to 720Hz), with a corresponding magnitude of 0; the second stopband has normalized frequencies between 0.395 and 0.4 (1580 to 1600Hz) The stopbands and passbands of ... Design and Implementation to A Pentum compatible PC A digital oscilloscope, signal generator and earphones Shareware utilities are available that utilize the PC and sound card to create a virtual...
... stopbands represented by a total of five bands: the first passband has normalized frequencies between and 0.17 (0 and 680Hz) with corresponding magnitude of 1; the second band is the first stopband, ... between 0.175 and 0.18 (700 to 720Hz), with a corresponding magnitude of 0; the second stopband has normalized frequencies between 0.395 and 0.4 (1580 to 1600Hz) The stopbands and passbands of ... Design and Implementation to A Pentum compatible PC A digital oscilloscope, signal generator and earphones Shareware utilities are available that utilize the PC and sound card to create a virtual...
... of brewing That document, "How To Brew Your First Beer" is still available and free to download and/or reproduce for personal use It was written to help the first- time brewer produce a fool-proof ... Extract Welcome to How To Brew! In this first section of the book, we are going to lay the groundwork for the rest of your brewing education As with every new skill, it helps to learn to things the ... probably want to this right now while you have some time (It's going to take about hours, depending.) So, in this first chapter, I will walk you through the steps necessary to get your first batch...
... commas to join main clauses with different subjects It's fine to write: I went to town, bought a suit and came home but not: I went to town, you were on the same train too The comma is too weak ... So we visit Doctor Smith, but we don't go to see the Doctor, just the doctor We say Amelia Jones is Managing Director of Associated Perfumes, but that most company managing directors earn over ... called grammarians took language to bits to see how it worked, just as doctors dissected bodies The rules turned out to be very subtle and complicated, so much so that huge tomes are written on...
... Here is how to schedule your tracking for each of the given time constraints: 12 month timeline month timeline month timeline Part One: Data collection Firstto third months First month First two ... want to go? How can this book help? Simply put, it is not enough to know that you want to work in the nonprofit sector The first step you should take on your journey into the sector is to a self-assessment ... bus to self-knowledge? you may want to break them up into a few sittings take to jump-start or deepen this Big picture insights minutes each week to complete any These questions will take time to...
... delayed access to the MD/MO, would allow these sicker patients to move more quickly through the HAART pathway to treatment initiation Consequently, we expected a decrease in timeto start HAART ... more able to demonstrate improved efficiencies related to the intervention Future research should also endeavor to simultaneously improve training and ongoing supervi- Table 3: Timeto starting ... other treatment support staff) or scheduled to return to the CD4 nurse for periodic monitoring until deemed HAART-eligible based on clinical and/or laboratory parameters The theoretical model of...
... population size is too large, the model needs to spend more timeto calculate gene strings, and it affects the timeto the generation of new gene string The second step is to make our fitness function ... vector machines to anomaly detection,” Tech Rep CS681, Research in Computer Science-Support Vector Machine, 2002 [35] J Bilmes, “A gentle tutorial on the EM algorithm and its application to parameter ... seems to have rapidly converging values because of too low reproduction rate and too high crossover and mutation rate, respectively In Case no.3, the graph seems to be constant values because of too...
... resources ranging from platforms, to sensors and effectors, to processing units To best make use of these, they must be interconnected in such a way as to enable them to not only share the resource, ... application is decomposed into groups of logic which represent atomic operations These atomic operations then become states in a state machine Each time the machine transitions into a new state, the ... the applications to the arbiter which controls the access to memory 3.5.1 Memory network An on-chip network is used to connect the memory arbiter to the applications Six network topologies that...
... system is intended to work with speech sources, detecting intervals of high and low SNRs which occur due to the natural fluctuations in speech We define H0 to be 10 log(W) < dB and H1 to be 10 log(W) ... expected to perform well in strong reverberation Accordingly, we restrict the level of reverberation to β ≥ 1, corresponding to DRRs greater than dB Comparing the top row of Figure (anechoic) to the ... of the total power in the speech segment to the total power in the babble segment The “true” SNRs were compared to the system outputs to determine the detection and false alarm rates, which were...
... going to be able to recover from this fiasco.” For more than a fleeting moment, I considered telling the cabbie to just take me straight to the airport My grand plan to break into the tech sector, ... been two to three years in the making, was now looking dead on my nonarrival Then it came to me It was timeto heed my own advice If there was ever a timeto be Pitch Perfect, now was that time Just ... causes listeners to tune out When it comes to communicating well, you don’t want to blend into the crowd I want you to stand out PITCH-PERFECT POINTER To overcome any reluctance to leave your comfort...
... with real -time PCR for their ability todetect respiratory viruses in young children admitted to the PICU with LRTI The use of real -time PCR increased the diagnostic yield from 48% to 96%, and ... were identified using acid lability tests Some of the material was subjected to DIF assays todetect respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenzaviruses, PIV 1–3 and adenoviruses using Imagen kits ... manufacturer's recommended protocol The remaining material was used for real -time PCR testing Real -time PCR Nucleic acids were extracted using the total nucleic acid protocol with the MagNA pure...
... the time course of ONSD distention and reduction needs to be further delineated 10 11 Currently, non-invasive assessments of ICP not obviate the need for invasive ICP monitoring Invasive monitoring ... with invasive ICP monitoring, they illustrate the potential of yet another non-invasive method to screen for elevated ICP While this technique will not replace invasive ICP monitoring, it may be ... monitoring but are at high risk for elevated ICP Further research is required before we can use measurements of the ONSD to predict exact values of ICP, but it may be useful as a screening test to...
... linked together to form words, words are linked together to form phrases and phrases are linked together to form clauses and sentences or utterances; finally these utterances are linked together to ... study, the investigator intended to use bottom-up techniques to help first year students at TNUT overcome their listening difficulties, not taking the other kind of techniques, i.e top-down ones These ... The listeners have to try to follow the speaker and sometimes they have to guess the meaning of a word or phrase depending on the context The listeners have to pay attention to the new words;...
... connected together to construct words, words are connected together to construct phrases, phrases are connected together to construct utterances, and utterances are connected together to construct ... for using the portfolio to enhance students' autonomy in learning listening skill In order to implement the study, the following research questions were formulated: Were first- year students autonomous ... attention should be given to the following factors: - The amount of language work the teacher wish to in relation to the particular listening text; - The time which is allowed to post-listening work;...
... of MM to teach vocabulary to the first year non-English major students at BUAF, using the coursebook the university is currently using; then in order to get to know how effective MM is to teaching ... helped to practice pronouncing them correctly Moving to task 2, students were told to work in groups to put the types of transport in order from fast to slow Students found it very eager to this ... corresponding to its applications in teaching and learning vocabulary Firstly, MM can help students to brainstorm a new topic and activate the prior knowledge 37 Besides, it can be a tool to facilitate...
... access to information and communication facilities from any location at anytime using any mobile devices In order to support an Internet with ubiquitous seamless mobility and peer -to- peer real -time ... one party to the other, after a session has been successfully established Real -Time Transport Protocol (RTP) [7] is generally adopted as the end -to- end data transport protocol for real -time applications ... I2): UAA completes a session to UAB using two SIPPSs Proxy and Proxy 2, by first sending an INVITE message to Proxy that forks to Proxy UAB responds in a similar manner to the 3.5 Summary 31 direct...