...The Call Triangle: student, teacher and institution Learning register variation. A web-based platform for developing diaphasic skills∗ Adriano Allora, Elisa Corino and Cristina Onesti Dipartimento di Scienze Letterarie e Filologiche - Università di Torino Via Sant’Ottavio 20, Torino 10124, Italy Abstract The present paper shows the first results of a linguistic project devoted to the construction of web learning tools for reinforcing sensitivity to diaphasic varieties and for learning style variation in L2/LS learning. Keywords: L2/LS learning; style variation; web based platform 1. Introduction This paper aims at presenting a project analysing formal varieties of European online languages, working on a suite of Net Mediated Communication (NMC) corpora and studying lexical, discourse and macro-syntactic phenomena. The practical implications of the studies aim at developing freely available resources devoted to L2/LS learning and the development of a web-based delivery platform. 2. The VALERE project The project (‘Varietà Alte di Lingue Europee in REte’: Formal Varieties in Newsgroups of European Languages: Structural Features, Interlinguistic Comparison and Teaching Applications) aims at investigating the wide range of formal language in some main European languages with particular attention to NMC. The research is based on the NUNC (i.e. Newsgroup UseNet Corpus1), a collection of corpora created from newsgroup messages implemented at the......
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...Date: Tue, 12 FEB 2008 07:01:02 +0000 From: "Karina Ramirez" Subject: Payroll Info Here is the information you requested on our payroll processing: 1. All hourly employees (clerical and warehouse personnel) are paid biweekly (every 10 workdays) based on hours recorded on time cards maintained by a time clock machine. The time cards are approved by the supervisors. The supervisors take the approved time cards to the payroll department. Salaried employees also are paid biweekly based on a salary schedule approved by the finance committee of the board of directors. 2. The personnel department must approve all new hires, terminations, and hourly rate changes. Forms for each of these actions also are approved by appropriate supervisors and are kept in the personnel office. The personnel clerks notify payroll of the changes by a “payroll change” document. 3. The payroll department maintains the individual employees’ payroll records and the forms signed by employees for all pay deductions. 4. Every two weeks, Martha, a clerk in the payroll department, prepares the payroll register (multicopy) from the time cards and the information of the individual payroll records. Martha uses a “write-it-once” system that also prepares a form indicating gross pay, each deduction, net pay, and year-to-date totals. Martha calls this form the “take-home sheet.” Willie, a second clerk, checks Martha’s work and recalculates the gross pay and all deductions. 5. Two copies of the payroll......
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...share your feedback on your experience with our services, please call our toll-free number, 1-800-227-2345 and tell the Cancer Information Specialist that you would like to share your thoughts. Please know that we are always here to help. We invite you to also contact us at 1-800-227-2345 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to access to cancer information, American Cancer Society programs and services, and other community resources that may be of assistance to you. You may also access our website at www.cancer.org. Our Cancer Survivors Network that can be reached through our website provides a way for patients, survivors, and caregivers to connect with others who have been touched by cancer and to gain support and knowledge through the sharing of similar experiences. Also through www.cancer.org, you can find our newest online support Circle of Sharing™, which helps cancer patients and their caregivers get personalized information about their diagnosis, and share that information with family and friends. In addition, the California Division offers monthly I Can Cope program, free educational/support classes for cancer patients/survivors and their caregivers via teleconference calls on topics such as fatigue, pain, nutrition, finances, etc. These calls can be taken from home, office, or any other place convenient for patients, survivors, and caregivers only. For more information or to register for these classes, call 1-800-227-2345. We look forward to hearing from......
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...INTRODUCTION The term image refer to two dimensional light intensity function f(x, y), where x and y denote spatial coordinates and the value of at any point (x, y) is proportional to the brightness (or gray level) of the image at that point. A digital image is an image f(x, y) that has been discretized both in spatial coordinate and brightness. A digital image can be considered a matrix whose row and column indices identify a point in the image and the corresponding matrix element value identifies the gray level at that point. The elements of such a digital array are called image elements, picture elements. The term digital image processing refers to processing of a two dimensional picture by a digital computer. An image given in the form of a transparency, slide, photograph or chart is first digitized and stored as matrix of binary digits in computer memory. This digitized image can be processed and/or displayed on a high resolution monitor. Segmentation subdivides an image into its constituent regions or objects .The level to which the segmentation is carried depends on the problem being solved. Segmentation is carried until we are able to distinguish the object from its backgrounds. Image segmentation is based on one of the two basic properties of intensity values: discontinuity and similarity. Thresholding is a similarity approach of segmenting an image. The simplest thresholding technique is to partition the......
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...Language processing 1.Explain what is lexical access. Lexical access (word recognition) The process by which the basic sound-meaning connections of language, i.e., lexical entries, areactivated. 2.How many techniques are used in studies of lexical access and explain them briefly? Experimental techniques used: lexical decision task (word vs. non-word, word frequency); semantic priming (doctor-nurse); naming task (regular-irregular-invented words). Listeners retrieve all meanings of a word, even in biased contexts. 3.Explain the syntactic processing. Syntactic processes (parsing)=the listener must figure out the syntactic and semantic relations among words and phrases in a sentence. 4.Explain briefly the techniques used in syntactic processing. Experimental techniques used: syntactic category ambiguity (The warehouse fires...1. were set by an arsonist., 2. employees over sixty; garden path sentences (The horse raced past the barn fell); shadowing task (i.e. quick repetitions, listeners correct speech and grammatical errors unconsciously). 5. What is a voiceprint? And how do we call it otherwise? Spectogram (voiceprints)= a pattern-like image produced of the sound signal in a computer program that decomposes the speech signal into its frequency components, a great deal can be learnt about the basic acoustic components that reflect the articulatory features of speech sounds. Spoken words rarely have boundaries, yet words are units of perception. 6.......
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...something that is right for once… I can’t do it by myself… I promise I’ll let go… So, please give me a chance… Just one more chance… Ryo opened his eyes. He was lying down, where he couldn’t tell. He wasn’t able to move. His left foot was stucked on something. He felt so much pain. He runs his hand through his head which covered with fresh blood. Before he could remembered what had happened, something caught his eyes. It was his cellphone, lying beside his head. His chance… He force himself to move and took the cellphone. He turned it on with all the strength that he had left, and pressed the button. He was half conscious while doing that. But something in his heart give him the power to do it. he was making a call. The one important call. “Hello..” the voice that Ryo loved the most. It warmed him and healed all of his pain that he felt before. “shi..ge…” Ryo wasn’t in a position to talk, but he had to. He need to. “Ryo? What’s wrong? You sounded weird” Shige began to worried. Despite the fact that they just had a fight, Shige still love Ryo. And Ryo’s voice right now make his heart beats faster. There’s something wrong about Ryo. He could tell. “I’m sorry..” Ryo’s voice was so weak, Shige could barely heard him. “what? Ryo? What happened?? Are you hurt? Where are you? I’ll be there right away!” that makes Ryo let go a small and weak chuckle. He’ll be missing him. “no need for you to come here..i..don’t..have much…time..” Ryo began......
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...of transactions taking place, and advancements in computer hardware and software, transaction-processing systems have evolved as well. Frist let’s examine what a transaction processing system does. “Transaction processing systems capture and process the detailed data necessary to update records about the fundamental business operations of the organization.” (Stair & Reynolds 2013, pg. 257). The system is responsible for processing various types of transactions including but not limited to sales orders, inventory updates, payroll, accounts payables and receivables. “The result of processing business transactions is that the organization’s records are update to reflect the status of the operation at the time the last processed transaction.” (Stair & Reynolds 2013, pg. 257) The results of the updated records for the organization are so that management is able to understand where the company stands at a specific point of time. Transaction processing systems works with a large amount of data and many times is integrated into an organizations other systems and share common databases. It is able to provide detailed sales reports, payroll reports and inventory status updates. So how far have transaction processing systems evolved? Well let’s first take a look at transactions in the early 90s and take a typical bank transaction as an example. A business we’ll call Company X sells its many products and received a bunch of checks in the mail for the payment......
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...Information Processing Theory Jennifer Hall November 12, 2013 AED/202 Jacobs 1 Information Processing Theory The information processing theory is a group of ideas put together describing how human beings transfer information, remember information, and modify information. The information processing theory also looks at how these processes change over the course of a persons life. This theory came out in the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties, and has continually changed and been modified over the years. The information processing theory is a combination of three components; sensory register (memory), working memory, and long-term memory. The combination of these three components enables us as human beings to receive, think about, and process information. There is also one more component that is essential in the learning and memory process, this is called the central executive component. The central executive component is what you could refer to as the cognitive “supervisor”. Without this component a person's decision making skills and planning skills could be interfered with. Sensory register and working memory help in the beginning stages of memory, while long-term memory is just that. Long-term memory is used when storing......
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...four statements have been run the table structure is exactly the same as it was before you ran them. 7.17 Write INSERT statements to add the data shown in Figure 2-32 to the ASSIGNMENT table. Run these statements to populate the ASSIGNMENT table. (Hint: Write and test an SQL script, and then run the script. Save the script as DBP-e12-WPC-Insert-ASSIGNMENTData. sql for future use.) 7.26 Write one DELETE statement that will delete all data for project ‘2011 Q3 Product Plan’ and all of its rows in ASSIGNMENT. Do not run this statement. 7.30 What is an SQL view? What purposes do views serve? Why is this useful? 7.39 Explain how views can be used to improve data security. Chapter 7 SQL for Database Construction and Application Processing 303 7.40 Explain how views can be used to provide additional trigger functionality. 7.48 What is a trigger? 7.53 Assume that the View Ridge Gallery will allow a row to be deleted from WORK if the work has never been sold. Explain, in general terms, how to use a trigger to accomplish such a deletion. 7.55 What is a stored procedure? How do they differ from triggers? 7.57 Summarize the key advantages of stored procedures. These Project Questions extend the Wedgewood Pacific Corporation database you created and used in the Review Questions with two new tables named COMPUTER and COMPUTER_ASSIGNMENT....
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...for Sykes are. Click this link to review our basic requirements; your specific job may have additional requirements needed https://jobs.alpineaccess.com/work-home/work-home-overview/home-office-requirements/ Question #2 In your own words please describe Project Blue Sky? (please use Google to find this answer) Question #3 Please describe a time when you had a call from an unhappy customer, what steps did you take to turn that call around? Step 3: 5-10 minutes PRIOR to your scheduled interview, please click on the link below using Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox: http://alpineaccess.adobeconnect.com/interview23 Step 4: You MUST choose “Login as a Guest” and enter your First and Last name that appears on your profile. If you do not follow these directions, you will not be admitted into the room to complete the interview. If you attempt to login with a user name and password, you will not be allowed access, and will receive several error messages. If you are unable to attend your interview, please ensure you cancel your interview 30 minutes prior to the start time, to ensure we do not mark you as a “No Call No Show”. Thank you for scheduling an interview for SYKES! If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to us via your support page by clicking on the help envelope located at the top of the page. We look forward to meeting you!...
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...Food Processing and Preservation Homework Institution Affiliation History of pulsed electric field Pulsed electric field is process that is non-thermal that uses short and high voltage pulses to process and preserve foods. The history of this process dates back to the culmination of the 19th century. It was during this time that the technique of treating and processing foods through the use of electrical current was first applied. Since that time of the century, in the 1960’s in specific, first cases of pulsed electric fields have been in use. German engineer Heinz Doevenspeck was behind the pioneering of the process. His pioneer ship was followed by Sale’s and Hamilton’s research work to determine what was required to create an effective process. Later, in 1980’s the first two processes were developed by Krupp Maschinentechnik. The processes were referred to as Elcrack and Elsteril and were based on the work on Doevenspeck. However, this processes did not work as expected and this led to their failure and the processes were dismantled at that time. As years progressed, the technique was researched on again by universities and research labs. The research was mainly based on the main requirements that were essential in creating process that would last. The research was promising and was seen to be effective in liquid foods microbial decontamination, pre-treatment of vegetables and fruit tissues before extraction and waste water processing treatment. Several trials to......
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...Lesson 4 Call Money After reading this lesson, you will be conversant with: Participants and Purpose of Call Market Developments in Indian Call Market Role of Reserve Bank of India Call Markets in Other Countries Treasury Management: Theory and Practice Introduction The call money market is a part of the money market and refers to the overweight funds lent and borrowed, mostly by banks for daily liquidity management. Call/Notice money is an amount borrowed or lent for a very short period. If the period is more than one day and up to 14 days it is called „Notice Money‟, otherwise the amount is called „Call Money‟. Under call money market, funds are transacted on overnight basis and under notice money market, funds are transacted for the period between 2 days and 14 days. The call money market is most liquid of all short-term money market segments and it is also the most sensitive barometer measuring the liquidity conditions prevailing in financial markets. The call money is the money repayable on demand. The maturity period of call loans varies between 1 to 14 days. The money that is lent for one day in call money market is also known as „overnight money‟. The number of days is specified and the call money has to be repaid on the due date. The intimation for repayment enables the borrower to arrange the money on the due date and the duration of notice money is similar to that of call money i.e., up to 14 days. Therefore, the notice money is not seen in the market.......
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...Plc + Optimal Payments Transaction closed 1 February 2011 NEOVIA renamed O ti d Optimal P l Payments Pl on 1 March 2011 t Plc M h Focused on providing payment solutions to online merchants and consumers through our “twin pillars” Straight Through Processing Stored Value Processing of transactions, either gateway or bureau (assumes some credit risk) for online merchants Products that allow the consumer to hold monetary value via an eWallet and/or card (e.g. prepaid card) which can be used to pay for transactions at merchants A truly international scale player in online payments - proven, trusted, innovative Listed on London’s AIM market (OPAY.L) – market cap US$120m (£75m) 5 © Optimal Payments Plc. www.optimalpayments.com 2010 achievements 6 6 © Optimal Payments Plc. www.optimalpayments.com www.optimalpayments.com © Optimal Payments Plc. Operational achievements Progress on simplification (Business Transformation programme) Headcount reduced to 309 from 447 Regulatory simplification of member b i R l t i lifi ti f b business - N t ll UK Ltd (FSA regulated) Neteller l t d) Asia restructuring completed Continued development of business li C ti dd l t fb i lines Stored Value Straight Through Processing i 460,000 new members and 200 new merchants signed for eWallet 2 significant new countries and 5 deposit options introduced Growing gateway volume (+165%) from landmark clients (SDG, MoreThan) Bureau service launched with AIBMS Traction for......
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...Unit 4 Corrections and Prisons August 12, 2012 Abstract Today we will be discussing how a defendant is processed through a federal case. This is exceptionally important because your actions or absence of actions as law enforcement during the detaining of these suspects can result in the difference between their prosecution or release under federal statue. This presentation will also act as a checklist as well as provide additional information that you may need while in the field or throughout the proceedings of this case. Understand that your participation in this case may not be limited to just arresting or the processing of evidence; you may be utilized as a witness, under oath, in front of a federal court of law. Federal Investigation Outline Format for Presentation Process 1.0 Investigation 1.1 Evidence: - It is evidence that leads the prosecutor to believe he has a "Strong case", meaning there is strong evidence that the person or persons have committed the crime. Direct evidence would include a witness who saw the crime happen, video/audio tape of the crime, and statements done by witnesses, of the crime. Circumstantial evidence may come from someone who did not see the crime first-hand; it includes someone's feelings on multiple indicators in the theory of the crime, even though that person did not see the crime take place. 1.2 Decision to Charge: Prosecutors study all information provided by the investigators, and......
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...Galore Industry Overview Global Processed Food Industry Indian Processed Food Industry Processed Food Industry - A Sunrise sector Where the opportunity lies- areas for investment Industry Analysis Driving Forces Major Challenges Indian Food Processing Industry by sectors Diary Fruits and Vegetable Grains Meat and Poultry Fish Packaged/Convenience Food Aerated Soft Drinks, Packaged drinking water Exports FDI in Food Processing Government Regulation and support Regulatory framework Outlook Initiating Coverage Lakshmi Energy & Foods Ruchi Soya Analyst - Nisha Harchekar nishaharchekar@way2wealth.com Sectors - FMCG, Pharma, Entertainment WAY2WEALTH Securities Pvt. Ltd., 15/A Chander Mukhi, Nariman Point, Mumbai - 400 021. Tel: +91 22 4019 2900 email: research@way2wealth.com website: www.way2wealth.com Indian Processed Food Industry Sector Coverage Opportunities Galore Executive Summary The size of global processed food industry is estimated to be valued around US $3.6 trillion and accounts for three-fourth of the global food sales. Despite its large size, only 6% of processed foods are traded across borders compared to 16% of major bulk agricultural commodities. Indian food-processing industry is miniscule in comparison and is estimated to be US $40 billion and is likely to grow at over 10%, on the basis of an expected GDP growth rate of 8-8.5% p.a. R uchi Soya FY09(E) CMP (Rs) Marketcap (Rs crores) PE......
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