... to gather relevant information: one forthe maintenance manager and one forthe procurement (purchasing) manager Page 12 2.3 PHASE 2: QUANTITATIVE DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS The goals of this ... performance is examined from a quarter before the formal announcement ofthe glitch to a quarter after the formal announcement ofthe glitch During this period, glitches are associated with an average ... IT for MRO Management - Maintenance Performance Each ofthe nine factors assesses a different lever that impacts the MRO supply chain performance For example, the "Maintenance Activities" targeted...
... T) The issue of authenti cit y of t ext and int eractions is fast becomi ng a m ajor focus in language pedagogy The aim of this t hesis is to exami ne why and how language t eachi ng m ateri als ... 新加坡《小学华文》真实性研究 ASTUDYOFTHE AUTHENTICITY IN CHINESE TEXTBOOK FOR PRIMARY STUDENTS OF SINGAPORE 王颖 WANG YING (B .A, TJNU) 新加坡国立大学中文系 硕士学位论文 A THESIS SUBMITTED FORTHE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS DEPARTMENT OF ... would al so lik e to thank the other t eachers from the NUS Department of Chi nese Studi es; the y have offered me inval uabl e advi ce and help I must also acknowl edge the great support of the...
... pitch and yaw data Section 4.4 Data Gathered The data gathered from this part ofthe experiments are again raw data The numbers are in millimeters forthe position data and in degrees forthe orientation ... Data The position data gathered from the Polaris is in millimeters The units are already acceptable but similar to that ofthe original orientation data, the gathered data is the position ofthe ... motion are done at all on that axis It is also noticeable that the forces along the x and y axis are relatively small compared to that ofthe z axis Taking into consideration the inaccuracy of the...
... layers leads to eventual recrystallisation and introduction of grain boundaries The temperature of crystallisation (Tc) ofthe amorphous layer is, therefore, a critical parameter towards the amorphous ... isothermal and isochronal, the work was performed under N2 ambient forthe former and vacuum forthe latter Investigation into the ternary phase diagrams at 700°C of Si-Ta-C show that there indeed ... surface or the chemisorption of hydroxyl group is essential for nucleation of metastable β-Ta Cantania et al [37] examined the effect of bias sputtering ofthe Si substrate on Ta phase formation...
... secondary data compiled by the Securities and Exchange EDGAR database and publicly available annual reports The sample for this study consisted of 15 years of CEO compensation and firm performance ... Debt-to-Asset Ratio The ratio of total debt to total assets This is an indicator ofthe leverage ofthe firm and the potential risks the company faces relative to its debt load Managerial Discretion ... to the forefront ofthe media as well as academia Enron, Tyco and WorldCom are just a few ofthe more infamous cases involving corporate scandal that has brought about an evolution of research...
... 22 Table 4.46 A Summary ofthe Meaning Nuances of SUGGEST Table 4.48 A Summary ofthe Comparison ofthe Meaning and Their Vietnamese Equivalents Verb English Meaning Nuances Vietnamese Equivalents ... of any status can have good ideas to suggest - More relate to the moral or emotional aspects Table 4.49 The Semantic Specification ofthe Groups of SVs Table 4.47 A Summary ofthe Meaning Nuances ... find out the similarities and differences between the syntactic features of ESVs and VSVs - Analyzing data of ESVs and VSVs in terms ofthe semantic features and making a contrastive analysis to...
... Vietnamese linguists, especially by Cao Xuan Hao and Hoang Van Van Cao Xuan Hao [31] offerred an overview of functional approaches and solved the issues of applying Functional Grammar to analysis ... formula, that learners often impose the use of their mother tongue on that ofthe sayer is often realized by a noun phrase denoting human, verbal the target language is very popular So they often ... shows their relationship to one another of Functional Grammar) The author pointed out the similarities and The semantic structure of vocabulary ofa language can be differences in semantic features...
... verb: textual material in one language (Source language) by equivalent an infinitive, a present participle or a past participle and gerund material in another language (Target Language)” According ... clauses 1.3 THE SCOPE OFTHESTUDY and the meaning of non – finite clauses are very abundant and diverse Because ofthe limitation of time and the ability of our own, in Obviously, it is really ... follow a qualitative The research work is carried out with many phases as follows: approach The data is collected, the description ofthe translation of Phase 1: After identifying the research...
... purpose of translation is that the audience in the TL feel and reacts in the same ways as the audience in SL does However, to translate a language into another language effectively and transfer the ... songs as the data 9 10 - Describing and analyzing the collected data to find out the semantic features of lexicon and syntactic features of phrases and sentences on the basis of translation theory ... between language pairs They, therefore, suggest that these formal equivalents should be used wherever possible if the translation aims at achieving formal rather than dynamic equivalence 2.1.4 What...
... idiomatic sense is one distinguishing mark ofa native command ofthe language and a reliable measure ofthe proficiency of foreign learners" These strong properties of idioms have posed a serious ... terms of syntactic and semantic features The similarities and dissimilarities in syntactic and semantic features withdrawn from thestudy could be explained on the basis ofthe cultural features of ... Containing TsFPs of Noun Phrase Patterns categorize them into two main aspects: syntactic and semantic one Syntactically, the classification ofthe data is mainly based on the different structural...
... died and Lovelace was killed in a fight The life of Clarissa was a chain of misery and agony Firstly, she was the victim of an arranged marriage that was completely for economical aim Solmes was ... lands and discriminated from the uncanny race of local inhabitants about appearance, Swift wanted to indirectly blame an aspect ofthe discrimination That was the discriminating attitude ofthe ... Pamela got marriage to Mr B, a good man, a good husband, and actually became a noblewoman In the first sentences ofthe novel, Pamela appeared as an extraordinary girl of skill and spirit although...
... instruments and data collection procedure as well as data analysis Besides, it presents the characteristics ofthe participants and the instruments for gathering data 3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN Both quantitative ... are unfamiliar with the content ofthe listening text and lack of language proficiency, they are able to make sense of information based on their linguistic knowledge especially the lexical and ... a description ofthe rules ofthe second language in the first language That means when the second language is used, the emphasis of any listening is on translation of lexical items or grammar...
... bank credit may take even the form of an overdraft The Bank Acceptance as Bank Credit The bank acceptance, which is a draft or bill drawn upon and accepted by a bank, differs from a loan in the ... several times the amount of their cash holdings, has been essayed again and again, but the traditional treatment appears to be marked by lack of insight into the heart ofthe problem, and the ... fact that the accepting bank makes no actual advance of funds; it meets its obligation at the maturity l BANK CREDIT ofthe draft out of funds provided by the drawer The accepting bank has faith...
... give a tip? Is the one as well qualified to vote as the other? What is a gentleman? What is a lady? Can a waiter be a gentleman? Can a maid be a lady? Would a gentleman or a lady accept a gratuity? ... of democracy and to beat back the efforts of base human qualities to override these concepts The relation ofa man giving a tip and a man accepting it is as undemocratic as the relation of master ... service The maid who cares for his room exacts her toll The head waiter demands payment for showing him to a seat The individual waiters at each meal (and they are changed each meal by the head-waiter...
... sooner or later reaches the limit of its term of probation, and then passes down toward another incarnation on earth—another step on the Path of Attainment The teaching was, further, that the conditions, ... Christian fathers taught that Plato was really one ofthe many forerunners of Christ, who had prepared the pagan world forthe coming ofthe Master In "Phaedo," Plato describes the soul, and explains ... is ofa semi-material nature— Kapila and Patanjali even going so far as to hold that it is a manifestation of Prakriti or the Universal Energy, rather than a distinct principle They hold that the...
... (13) The reason is that the most important information and the heaviest elements come at the end ofthe sentence Noun phrases have such a capability to pack the most important and heavy information, ... differences A tag fora word form consists ofthe tag forthe main word category followed by tags forthe subcategories A search for wordforms belonging to a particular category is accomplished ... general aim of corpus linguistics is to check a language hypothesis against the actual use of language Since there are limitations in the use of corpora we cannot draw conclusions directly from a corpus...
... San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Jose.43 Today, Manhattan is by far the most expensive urban area in the country, with a cost of living that’s more than twice the national average and far ahead ... academically strong and reasonably affordable alternative with a welcome focus on discipline and moral values This was particularly the case forthe children of disadvantaged immigrants At their ... director at Child Care Inc, a Manhattan-based non-profit “Regulated arrangements can only accommodate about half ofthe families that need care And that affects everybody regardless of income.”...
... human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing We can safely assert, even, that human civilization has added no essential feature to the general idea of play Animals ... mentioned earlier that the Arabic la'iba bears this sense in common with a number of European languages, namely the Germanic (and some ofthe Slavonic) which, as far back as their mediaeval phase, ... incorporate the sexual act itself, as love-play, in the play category The biological process of pairing does not answer to the formal characteristics of play as we postulated them Language also normally...
... Nurses and midwives represent around 50% of Australia’s health workforce, though the availability of clinicians varies greatly in urban and remote areas New Zealand has a total nursing workforce of ... improvement of global health and quality of care See http://www.ganes.info GANES Members American Association of Colleges of Nursing Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing Council of Deans and Heads ... demonstrate that enrollments in graduate programs need to continue to increase to offset anticipated faculty shortages Australia & New Zealand In Australia and New Zealand, there are three levels of...