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... không…?Interestingly, in Vietnamese, to emphasis a confirmation, we can reverse the position ofthe tag to the beginning ofthe question (Thiêm, 2004). The tags can be put at the beginning or ... paper mainly focuses on the semantics of questions that function as a request for information. The semantics refers to the close and intense relationship between the form and the meaning of a ... to show the students the approach to analyze the semantic meanings ofthe sentence basing on its situations, presuppositions, and implicature. In terms of translation, translators often have...
... Size and Growth Rate of Apparel Sales Source: Daishin Securities Co, Hana institute of finance It is indicated that the portion of infants and children‘s wear has been on the increase in ... distribution are the increasing market shares of discount stores, and the rise of Internet shopping. These two channels have stolen the market share of previously dominant Journal of Business Case ... adopting the Internet channel and franchise shops as another channel for Oliver to exploit. Internet shopping is undergoing rapid growth in Korea, and franchises have constituted a principal channel...
... TheImportanceof Eye Contact inthe ClassroomTeachers often complain about discipline, about lack of attention, about the use of L2 inthe classroom and many other problems, many of which ... largely inthecontextof providing clues to the nature ofthe learner rather than in terms of a teaching tool. We have recently had the pleasure of observing English language classes at the Izmir ... both the teacher and the learner, yet much classroom time is spent with eyes firmly fixed on the book, the board, the floor, the window, or roaming randomly around the teaching and learning...
... mới chứ không chỉ qua giảng dạy. Quan hệ giữa các tác nhân là quan hệ đường tròn chứ không phải đường thẳng. Chuyển giao kĩ thuật dựa trên các cơ quan nghiên cứu thường không được nông ... thống canh tác. Kĩ thuật đáng lẽ được áp dụng từng phần, thay đổi tuỳ theo nhu cầu của nông dân và kĩ năng quản lý và hưởng lợi từ kĩ thuật đó. Một ví dụ tốt là kĩ thuật nông – lâm trong canh ... dãy cây bụi để tạo ra phân xanh cho cây trồng. Ví dụ ở Rwanda, nông dân không cắt tỉa cây vào những thời điểm mà các nhà nghiên cứu đã đưa ra, mà cắt lá cây theo lịch riêng của họ và cho...
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... Education in Schools – TheImportance of Establishing Healthy Behaviors in our Nation’s Youth A Statement from the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association, and the American Heart ... Reducing the health consequences of smoking: 25 years of progress; a report ofthe Surgeon General. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, Office of Smoking and Health; ... prevention measures: not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, and exercising regularly.11 An investment in prevention is like putting money inthe bank. Americans place a $10 trillion dollar...
... our main instrument. This variable is constructed using the number of all branches of each savings bank and the number of inhabitants ofthe particular region the bank is operating in. The underlying ... credit assessment of each loan applicant and a recommendation for the loan decision, but the final decision remains with the bank and its loan officers. The final loan granting decision is thus ... banks. The higher the HHI in a given savings bank region, i.e. the fewer competitors operate in that region, the lower is the acceptance of consumer loans within these savings banks. 23 The...
... WordNet-basedmeasures of semantic distance. Computational Linguistics,32(1).Finkelstein, L., E. Gabrilovich, Y. Matias, E. Rivlin, Z. Solan,G. Wolfman & E. Ruppin (2002). Placing search in context: The ... the bulk of querying ency-clopedia entries to the MediaWiki software (which in turn queries the database) and efficiently parsing the text responses into structured objects.5 Using the API The ... download, and canbe accessed using robust Open Source applications,e.g. the MediaWiki software5, integrated within aLinux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) softwarebundle. The architecture of the...
... a hope of identifying their linguistic origin as well as eradicating their cultural divers. When giving names to the Red River in their own languages, the inhabitants ofthe region definitely ... Thai Binh before emptying into the Gulf of Tonkin. Each section ofthe main channel possesses distinct names. Interestingly, a variety of terms can refer to the same section in different historical ... transformation rule. Concerning rhyme, the language. There, meanwhile, still remains another point of view, though in a preliminary fashion, that the term of Hồng/Hồng Hà is produced by the...
... important determinant of onset of spring reproduc-tion. On the other hand, since some ofthe voles hadalready started to reproduce inthe increase area whenthey were sampled inthe field, it may ... (2001) als. In years with increasing population densities, over-wintering animals generally start to breed earlier in the spring and more animals mature in their year of birththan in other years ... 83–105.Bernshtein, A. D., Zhigalsky, O. A. and Panina, T. V. 1989.Multi-annual fluctuations inthe size of a population of the bank vole in European part ofthe USSR. – Acta Theriol.34: 409–438.Bjørnstad,...
... France and Spain) and/or if there are children present inthe household. Given the positive impact ofthe dummy variable associated with living in a couple and the number of children in many ofthe ... condition. Having restrictions in activities of daily living, on the other hand, has a signi…cant and economically important impact in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden, with ... reduced form analysis ofthe de-terminants of labour force participation ofthe elderly in Europe. Nevertheless, knowing2 In the future, there will be a link e stablished between SHA RE and the social...
... levels for the public firm indicator in some ofthe analyses but without changing the tenor of the results. TheImportanceof Reporting Incentives:Earnings Management in European Private and Public ... rule of law, and corruption index). SIZE is the book value of total assets at the end ofthe fiscal year (in EUR thousands). We use the natural log ofthe size variable inthe analysis. Financial ... Since access to capital and other corporate financing decisionsdepend on the extent of agency costs and asymmetric information (e.g., Titman andWessels, 1988; Rajan and Zingales, 1995) and these...