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... central concern of applied linguistic As a matter of fact, C .A has had much to offer not only to practical language but also to translation theory, the description of particular language, language ... semantic and syntactic functions of English adjectives Chapter III is a study toanewapproachto semantic and syntactic functions of English adjectives Chapter IV is to make a contrastive analysis ... up to now C .A plays an important role in learning a foreign language as a main subject at most language universals According to C James (1980;19), C .A is a form of inter-language study anda central...
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... Tuula, Susanna, Katri, and Juha as an integral part of my intellectual welfare I have had the privilege to be able to attend several international conferences, to meet new colleagues, andto see some ... regard to paper manufacturing and the end-uses of paper products as well as in paper recycling Almost as long as man has made paper, first by hand and then industrially, different additives have ... phenomena in paper, andto the properties of paper as a material In this thesis of basic research, an approach derived primarily from adsorption, adhesion, and polymer sciences was applied to study...
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... fraction of original area after wounding The original wounded area at day is defined as 100 percent original area, the areas at day 3, and are calculated as the percentage of the original area ... BX51) at 400X magnification - 42 - Chapter Materials and Methods Statistical analysis Data are presented as mean ± SE Statistical significance was analyzed by variance (ANOVA), a Tukey test was applied ... implicated in the pathogenesis of diseases as diverse as hypertension, asthma, septic shock and dementia; and as a potential marker of clinical diseases, that may prove amenable to therapeutic manipulation...
... perruthenate (TPAP)–NMO21 gave the aldehyde 21 Addition of lithium tert-butyl acetate22 (generated from tert-butyl acetate and LDA in THF at À78 °C) to 21 afforded an adduct that was desilylated ... Danishefsky4b,d and Mehta14 have shown that methylation of similar a, b-unsaturated ketones introduces the methyl group in a trans-orientation with respect to the angular methyl group The allyl and oxo ... conformational flexibility of this compound. 2a, 3a No spectrum of the natural compound was available for a direct comparison To complete the formal synthesis of guanacastepene A (1), diol 24 was dissolved...
... a special mode to carry out their altered role mechanically, at the moment of adopting anew law (World Bank, 12 approachto law and economics, and it has sullied a lot of our analysis and hurt ... Bhattacharya and Mishra (1989), Basu, Basu and Cordella (2015) For some recent analysis of this problem of bribery and the motivation of the law enforcer, see Abbink, Dasgupta, Gangadharan and Jain ... similar toa monarch announcing anew law 46 12 Concluding Remarks The focus of this paper was law and economics, but it has a larger ambition Much of the paper argued that the traditional approach...
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... of Language Resources and Evaluation We are grateful to Michael Elhadad and Galina Volk from Ben-Gurion University for providing the ROUGE toolkit adapted to the Hebrew alphabet, andto Slava ... using a GA to find an optimal set of values for the outcomes of 14 indicators and apply the optimal combination of values from data on one text toa different text With such approach, training may ... often, because then GA will in fact change to random search Our mutation operator includes a probability (3%) that an arbitrary weight in a vector will be changed by a uniformly randomized factor in...
... anda semantic role ofa head word All definition sentences in RSK were analyzed by JUMAN, a Japanese morphological analyzer, and KNP, a Japanese syntactic and case analyzer (Kurohashi and Nagao, ... aspects of meaning construction in natural language The MIT Press Charles J Fillmore 1968 The case for case Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York Satoru Ikehara, Masahiro Miyazaki, Satoshi Shirai, Akio ... Meeting of ACL, pages 123-130, Stanford, California Eiichiro Sumita, Hitoshi Iida, and Hideo Kohyama 1990 Translating with examples: Anewapproachto machine translation In Proceedings of the...
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