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Are We Speaking The Same Language? The Use Of The Mother Tongue By Native English Speaking Teachers In English As A Foreign Language Classrooms
(Linguistics, 2009-09-16)
The question of whether or not to use students' first language in second language acquisition is not a new one (Harbord, 1992; Duff and Polio, 1990). However, the way this question is addressed by the students themselves ...
The Bordes-binford Debate: Transatlantic Interpretive Traditions In Paleolithic Archaeology
(History, 2009-09-16)
In the 1960s, Lewis Binford, a young American archaeologist, challenged François Bordes, a venerable French prehistorian, over the interpretation of a taxonomy Bordes had developed to describe stone tools of the European ...
(im)politeness In Casual Conversations Among Female Mandarin Speakers: A Practice-based Perspective
(Linguistics, 2009-09-16)
The fact that people have the choice to use different words and attitudes to convey messages of various significance has been attributed to politeness concerns. However, what constitutes politeness varies from culture to ...
The Contributions Of NGOs To Health In The Developing World
(Social Work, 2009-09-16)
This study investigated the contributions of NGOs to health in the developing world and well investigated the influence of organizational factors on an NGOs contribution to health. The researcher examined the health ...
How Does A Weak Versus Strong Sense Of Self Affect People's Social And Nonsocial Involvements?
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)
Does possessing either a strong or weak sense of self predict the number and percentage of one's self-selected social and/or nonsocial involvements? The current study is a retrospective survey study that sought to answer ...
Synthesis And Characterisation Of Raman Nanotags For Molecular Detection
(Biomedical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
The realization that most diseases are preceded or accompanied by changes in the genetic and cellular level of an organism has increased with the need for imaging modalities, with the sensitivity and specificity, to ...
Adsorption Curve Fits For Landfill VOCs On Bituminous Coal Based And Coconut Shell Based Activated Carbon
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2009-09-16)
This study explores adsorption as a method of controlling hazardous gas emissions from Municipal Solid Waste Landfills (MSWL). In particular, the hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) para, meta, and ortho-xylene, ethylbenzene ...
A Family Of Robust Second Order Training Algorithms
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-08)
Starting with the concept of equivalent networks, a framework for analyzing the effect of linear dependence on training of a multi-layer perceptron is established. Detailed mathematical analyses are carried out to show ...
Going Green - Impact On Residential Property Values
(Finance & Real Estate, 2009-09-16)
Hedonic pricing model is generally used to empirically understand the relationship between various housing characteristics and the housing values. In the past hedonic studies have looked at the relationship between the ...
Studies of the Performance, Stability and Reliability of Various Configurations of the Activated Sludge Process at Full-Scale Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants
(Engineering, Environmental, 2009-05-15)
This research presents a performance, stability and reliability analysis of five configurations of activated sludge process, viz., conventional, contact stabilization, complete mix, extended aeration and sequencing batch ...