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manufacturing was equal to 32.3% of GDP, compared to 12.1% fortheUnitedStatesand 18.9%
for Japan.
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In its 2013 ...
and reportedly forced the government to shut down some factories and reduce the
level of official cars on the road.
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The Chinese government has sharply criticized foreign governments for ... stock markets and those in other
countries (including theUnited States) , although theChinese government is usually the largest shareholder. It is not
clear to what extent theChinese government...
... design of the tagset. In that
case the final lexicon would be theoretically valid
on the one hand, andthe tagged corpus would be
of practical use for NLP tasks (e.g. parsing) on
the other. In ... code forthe general classification (i.e.
noun, verb, etc.) of the word, and another for the
sub-classification according to the particular con-
text. For example, when a verb is used as the
subject ... upsets the compactness andthe organisa-
tion of the lexicon.
4.2 The Tagset
Hence even if the ambiguities are still in the tran-
sitional stage and should not be kept in the lexi-
con, it is still...
... without a strong
power- base (economic, military, politic). As
he puts it “language exits only in the brains
and mouths and ears and hands and eyes of
its users. When they succeed, on the
international ... “global language” with
the military, politic power to achieve the
status and economic super power to maintain
and expand it. To illustrate the roles of
English, I present theimplications of English ...
Thirdly, theimplicationsfor students are
presented. In this part, the advantages and
difficulties are provided. The final part
presents the summary of the study.
2. The term “global language” and...
... its prosodic aspect and consider tone
to be absolutely as essential a part of the word as
its consonant andits vowel.
In the instance that follows, the words
differ lexically solely in the ... is really hot today.) On the other hand, if
a question ends in a word with thanh huyền (the
low-falling tone), the voice should be lowered at
the end of the question; for example, “Hôm nay
trời ... as the
most important in the tone unit.
Third, intonation can help the listener
recognize the grammar and syntactic structure
of what is being said by using the information
contained in the...
... its prosodic aspect and consider tone
to be absolutely as essential a part of the word as
its consonant andits vowel.
In the instance that follows, the words
differ lexically solely in the ... broken and low-
falling broken. Except forthe mid-level tone,
all the other tones are denoted by diacritics
over or under one of the vowels in the syllable
in Vietnamese speech. Each tone has its ... is really hot today.) On the other hand, if
a question ends in a word with thanh huyền (the
low-falling tone), the voice should be lowered at
the end of the question; for example, “Hôm nay
trời...
... disturbance
history of the forest stands investigated: the logging
chronologies of the forests where the study areas were
situated, the releases in radial growth that occurred in the
silver fir stands, andthe ... disturbances and to verify which of the logging
that took place in the Buscaié and Prel forests were directly related to
the plots chosen for study.
3. RESULTS
3.1. Past land and forest use
The forestry ... in plot 2. The current structures and composition of the
forest are therefore the result of anthropogenic activity, indeed, the presence of pure silver fir stands in the past were the result...
... THEUNITEDSTATES THROUGH THE PRISM OF PISA
26 â OECD 2011 STRONG PERFORMERS AND SUCCESSFUL REFORMERS IN EDUCATION: LESSONS FROM PISA FORTHEUNITEDSTATES
This chapter examines theUnitedStates ... questions for PISA. PISA
then scored every country on its own most preferred questions and compared the resulting performance with the
performance on the entire set of PISA tasks. FortheUnited States, ... 2
VIEWING EDUCATION IN THEUNITEDSTATES THROUGH THE PRISM OF PISA
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The learning environment...
... Uninsured infants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2009 and Dubay and others, 2007.
All other data from the U.S. Census Bureau 2009a.
Health Insurance Coverage for Children
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March ... Thresholds for Pregnant Women andfor Children
Under Medicaid, by State, 2009 94
Income Eligibility Thresholds for Pregnant Women andfor Children
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Presumptive and ... was
13.6 per 1,000 live births, compared with 5.8 for whites,
8.3 for Native Americans, and 4.8 for Asian/Pacific
Islanders.
n For Hispanics, the 2005 infant mortality rate was
5.6 per 1,000...
... children. For more information, visit
www.derechosinfancia.org.mx.
The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about population, health, andthe environment, and
empowers them ... expenditure in Canada andtheUnited States, there are fewer physicians per capita than in
most other OECD countries—2.1 per 1,000 population in Canada and 2.4 in theUnited States.
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Availability ... León in
the north. In theUnited States, the infant mortality rate for African Americans is more than twice
the rate for non-Hispanic whites.
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In Canada, the infant mortality rate among the First...
... data for counties, states, andtheUnitedStatesand can
choose various output formats, including graphs, maps, tables, and slides
which they can use in reports or presentations.
Together, ... presentations.
Together, PeriStats andthe Data Book are powerful tools for helping inform
policy to improve maternal, infant, and child health in theUnited States.
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Preterm and
Low Birthweight
Births ... before and during pregnancy
can reduce the risk of birth defects of the brain and spinal cord
known as neural tube defects. These are among the most serious
birth defects in theUnited States. ...