... ready-made tasks B: Using the recordings only and designing the tasks themselves C: Assigning the recordings tothe students and asking them to design the tasks themselves to share with the classmates ... great efforts surfing the Internet to find interesting and appropriate listening texts that may be of some help to their lessons They download them, then use them to design listening tasks for their ... likenesses and differences in sounds • Listeningfor specific information • Listeningfor organizing ideas • Listeningfor main points • Listeningfor varied points of view • Critical listening •...
... opening the lid, andthe pleasantness and flavor intensity after tasting 3– spoonfuls of the sample The scales used were the same asinthe tasting sessions Subjects were also asked to evaluate the ... of food increased intake of the elderly However, the evidence forthe increase in intake of foods with enhanced flavor in these studies is not particularly compelling since the increase was not ... variation inthe within-groups degrees of freedom associated with F-values is due to some missing values inthe data of the elderly Inthe case of intake, there was also missing data from the young The...
... of these cells for clinical therapies are starting to emerge The main objection tothe potential clinical use of hiPSC-derived cells is the use of viral vectors required for initial reprogramming, ... carrying the human mutant variant of the b-globin gene (bS) that is responsible forthe disease Fibroblasts from a diseased animal were reprogrammed into iPSCs, andthe sickle cell anemia was corrected ... hematopoietic progenitors [32,33] These subsequently enter the circulation and colonize the fetal liver (and other hematopoiesis-supporting organs), where they mature before migrating to the...
... Section, and whether or not the understanding of speaker intention will contribute to choosing the correct answers inthe TOEFL Listening Section The results indicate thatthe feasibility of the training ... addition to other abilities such as processing the linguistic forms like speech speed and fillers, coping with listeningin an interaction, understanding the whole message contained inthe discourse, ... difficulty and disappointment with the test were asked to identify the factors that made the TOEFL Listening Part A so difficult for them andto choose three items from the choices presented in the...
... auto-specificities) can respond to these signals, migrate tothe joint, breach endothelial barriers, infiltrate the inflamed foci and sustain inflammatory processes by secreting cytokines in ... cause the induction of chemokine and cytokine production in several tissue-associated cells inthe joint, including fibroblasts, macrophages and dendritic cells Activated T cells and T effector ... of inflammatory cytokines Explanation forthe involvement of Toll-like receptor (TLR)-2 on pre-activated T cells in pathogen-induced chronic inflammatory joint diseases Any diseases inflammation...
... logical synthesis [4] servesasthe authoritative source forthe names and symbols associated with mouse genes, alleles and strains The advantage of applying such nomenclatures has been increasingly ... data has remained in text form Over the past two years, the Mammalian Phenotype (MP) Ontology has emerged to more precisely describe phenotypes, andto allow easier access to phenotypesequence interactions ... 'lethality-embryonic/perinatal' The plus sign, appearing for many of the terms on this page, indicates that these terms have additional subterms that can be viewed by clicking on the term to expand the view of that...
... mainly including eating and drinking They are parts of the word meal and resemble words inthat they combine together To illustrate in an easy way, we would like to list field of word meal in ... is the word? It is said thatto give out the definition of every basic notion is not easy task as each person has their own point of view about the thing they want to definite In fact, the definition ... teaspoonful forthe pot Boiling water is poured into the pot andthe tea is left for about five minutes before the host servesthe guest Even there are the adages from the side of the Victorian about...
... illness in Colorado in 1992 found that their total consumption – the combination of their cash expenses andthe non-cash income of goods and services with which they were provided – was considerable, ... available In Britain, the number of incarcerated mentally ill prisoners has been increasing dramatically in recent years – from 2–3% of male inmates inthe decades leading up to 1980, to 6% of male inmates ... awarded to social firms Other enterprises include shopping forthe homebound, landscaping and 168 R Warner bookbinding The businesses employ a workforce of disabled or disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged...
... demonstrate their compliance with the standards in this act is to verify certification of their network and information security staff Financial industry and web-based attacks: The financial industry and ... security basics of “what to do” and “what not to do” become the front-line defense for most businesses That being said, data and network professionals have in- depth training to recognize threats and ... summed up in a single word: training If businesses are to truly reap the benefits of the new technology, their employees, and I mean all employees, have to be educated and trained astothe appropriate...
... pointing tothe excretion of phosphoric acid as an indicator of renal action needed to maintain an acid–base balance: “There seems to be nothing in evolutionary theory to explain it andforthe ... succinctly: The emphasis in his work was always on the need to examine whole systems andto avoid the error of assuming thatthe whole was merely the sum of its parts” (1971, p 63) But if that is the ... discovered the presumed flaw inthe nature of the light elements that prevented the heavier elements from forming Inthe first minute of the Big Bang, energetic photons transformed into protons, and through...
... of the pain • the severity/intensity of the pain • the duration of the pain • any aggravating factors • any relieving factors • the effect of pain on function and activities of daily living • the ... radio-iodine, and this therefore provides a potential therapeutic isotope for these metastases at any site inthe body Radioiodine is given orally in this setting in doses of 3,000 to 5,000 MegaBequerels ... reported as increasing pain and suffering in people with cancer (Anderson, 2003; Portenoy, 1994) A comprehensive pain assessment should include the personal and social influences that determine how...
... model design is thatthe words inserted into the reparandum are very closely related to those inthe repair Indeed, in our training data we find that 62% of the words inthe reparandum are exact ... contains many of the same words that appear inthe reparandum In fact, in our Switchboard training corpus we found that 62reparandum also appeared inthe associated repair, to Boston uh, I mean, to ... consistently performs worse We follow Charniak and Johnson (2001) and split than the loss function minimising expected errors The best performing model (Base + Ext Feat the corpus into main training data,...
... trained, which can then translate sentences from one languagetothe other and vice versa Finally, the mined bilingual term/sentence pairs, together with their parsed information, are stored and ... maintained and updated after each round of the mining process The second layer consists of the extractor, the filter, the classifiers andthe readability evaluator, which are applied sequentially The ... translation and so on 3.2 Main Components Now we present the basic components of Engkoo, namely: 1) the crawler, 2) the extractor, 3) the filter, 4) the classifiers, 5) the SMT systems, and 6) the indexer...
... Although on the one hand, the government views its land policy as responding tothe need to promote domestic and foreign investments in transforming land assets into capital On the other hand, it ... Regulation defined land and forest as “land and forest land inthe entirety of the territory of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic are the property of the masses , no one has the right to infringe or ... hai and paddy farming again People still followed their own customs and traditions in using the forest and land as they had done since the time of their ancestors The National Forest Meeting in...
... when the transfer is paid tothe father rather than tothe mother Since the WFTC2 reform gives the payment tothe main earner (and inthe 40 combination of hours it will be the father), and WFTC1 ... Giving the WFTC tothe main earner (in our simulation always the father) results in an increase of the bargaining power of men in 1741 couples In 205 cases the man’s bar gaining power is lower as ... reforms, including the WFTC reform, fall into the last category For households who would be potentially eligible forthe WFTC, the reform changes the shape of the Pareto frontier, as well as the...
... 30 mNặm)1 The barriers were maintained in this position, and peptide was then injected into the subphase to achieve the desired optimum peptide concentration of 20 lm which was determined by analysis ... successive amino acids in a sequence, as vectors and then sums these vectors in two dimensions, assuming an amino-acid side chain periodicity of 100 The resultant of this summation, the hydrophobic ... and this position maintained A 10-lL aliquot of AP1 in chloroform (1 mm) was spread on to a buffer subphase and allowed to equilibrate for h The resulting peptide monolayer was compressed using...
... dehydrogenase Phosphoserine transaminase Phosphoserine phosphatase Glutamate dehydrogenase NADH-quinone oxidoreductase Cytochrome oxidase Ubiquinone oxidoreductase ATPase NDP Kinase Transhydrogenase ... mechanism-based kinetic modelling to better understand the architecture and regulation of metabolic networks These approaches have in common that they work without enzyme-kinetic information Only the stoichiometry ... With accumulating concentrations of the reaction products (appearing inthe nominator) and/ or vanishing concentrations of the reaction substrates (appearing inthe denominator), the concentration-dependent...
... anesthetic action Results Binding of the volatile anesthetic halothane tothe hydrophobic core of porcine odorant binding protein The binding of halothane tothe porcine odorant binding protein ... anesthetic binding to a b-barrel protein binding protein (Kd ¼ 100 ± 10 lm) is therefore comparable tothe findings inthe latter two studies For both anesthetics, the free energy of binding (DG°) ... exceeded the heat of binding (DH°) by more than a factor of two (Table 1), indicating that binding to porcine odorant binding protein is entropy driven, in contrast tothe results obtained with the...