the need for a guideline

... Change laboratory (Engestrom et al., 1996) Trang 29A final word! Item writing: crucial but under-research CHAT: a analytical framework CHAT: an interventionist tool Trang 30THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION ... • A “successful” listening item writer (?) - C2 + MA in Applied Linguistics (Australia) (a course on language testing) Trang 193.3 Research Questions • What are the factors that mediate the ... Master’s course at the University of X It was during the Language Testing and Assessment course taught by Dr Y One of our major assessment tasks was to design an achievement test based on a

Ngày tải lên: 02/08/2022, 16:24

... within the last decade, U.S leadership has started to reconceptualize the terrorist threats that the nation faces as the nature of threat has evolved.7 For instance, in June 2019, the FBI issued a ... conspiracy to violate a criminal law of the United States or any state, where the person does not act pursuant to a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), an act takes place in within the jurisdiction ... damages afforded to victims of international terrorism under 18 U.S.C § 2333, and the procedural problems that arise and the aggravation of societal tensions when prosecutors cannot call an act

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2022, 15:19

... on the card has been activated, it will emit a radio signal back to the reader This signal contains the card’s identification data e Data decoding phase: The reader will receive radio signals ... successful, the order is saved to the database and the shopping cart on the application is deleted When checking out at the magnetic gate, if a product is detected that has not been paid for, the magnetic ... will scan the barcode or RFID to create an order To conduct payment, customers need to choose a valid voucher and payment account in the app The app will compare and update data in the Order table

Ngày tải lên: 09/10/2024, 16:26

... parties, eitheradministratively or judicially.6 2 The private parties may then pursue contribution claims against DOD A state agency may perform the same investigation and cleanup actions as ... 1775, a year before the Declaration of Independence was signed and the United States as a country was born. See AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY VOLUME I, THE UNITED STATES ARMY AND THE FORGING OF A NATION ... hazardous substances to a disposal or treatment facility selected by them The United States, a State, or in certain circumstances, a private party may bring an actionagainst a responsible party

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2022, 03:16

... development which, the author argues, has been weak The measures adopted to combat climate change are largely of a technical and managerial nature and do not address the underlying causes of the wider ... our planet I want sustainability to be central to New Zealand’s unique national identity.20 across a range of areas, and may lead to a mitigation of GHG emissions, there are good grounds for arguing ... that New Zealand’s climate change efforts are not squarely placed on a sustainable development agenda, or that, if they are, the government’s interpretation of sustainable development is rather

Ngày tải lên: 11/04/2024, 21:50

... Credit Is So Easy” 13 The Information Gap Looms Large 14 Too Many Americans Fail “Finance 101” 15 America’s Youth Lacks Financial Smarts 16 Navigating Without a Road Map Can Lead to Disappointment ... large do these individuals realize theyhave a problem.91 The Information Gap Looms Large Nothing is simple anymore The days of standard pensions andstraightforward savings accounts are over Americans ... need to save to make their retirement dreams a reality.2 Individuals Must Make Financial Decisions Planning for future financial needs—especially for retirement—hasalso changed In the past, the

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... maintain a stablevalue of nominal spending An analogy may help clarify the example Imagine that youare listening to one of Bach's fugues for organ 'on the radio 23 Trang 25The signal is clear, ... production are themselveschanging, so that adjustments in product prices tend to takeplace, even as factor prices and the total outlay for factors staythe same, to preseIVe a constant mark-up Empirical ... leastone zero-inflationist (Arthur Okun again) has admitted, thatwhere 'implicit contracts are especially important, theremay be a case for a horizontal wage trend (and acorresponding negative trend

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 12:20

... Nymmik,Clara Riba, Benoît Rihoux, David Samuels, Matthew Shugart, Allan Sikk,Werner Stahel, Mare Taagepera, Margit Tavits, Liina-Mai Tooding, Sakura Yamasaki, and the monthly Akadeemia (Estonia) Elizabeth ... 1999a; Misiunas and Taagepera 1993) and two others that do (Taagepera and Shugart 1989; Taagepera 2007c) There are many ways to do good social scholarship, and they differ in more than one basic ... Louise Sprake, Natasha Forrest, Gunabala Saladi, Ravikumar Abhirami, andMaggie Shade at Oxford University Press have edited the book into techni-cally superb form My greatest thanks go to Duncan Luce

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 23:22

... scientists and engineers at the Kurchatov Institute in Russia, at the Argonne and Oak Ridge National Labora-tories and the General Atomics Company in the USA, and at the Japan Atomic Energy Research ... the chairman of the IFRC was Rathbone Sebastian (Bas) Pease, an accomplished scientist and a talented galvanizer of committee action, then head of the U.K fusion program Taking advantage of the ... who was managing the construction of the largest U.S tokamak, the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, and previously had managed the Isabelle accelerator

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 23:38

... unimpaired performance. Figure 4 dis- plays a graphic representation synthesized from the Levin, Kleim and Wolf approach. Kwakkel takes a related approach and notes that reha- bilitation therapies ... nents and the user interacts with the movement of the abstract animated components. The image that is ani- mated may be familiar, but the user only sees the image at the b eginning of the action ... aggregate, provided after multiple actions are completed Aggregate data visualizations, such as summaries of patient performance across ten reaches, can facilitate overall assessment and comparison

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... feedback Based on observation and the computational assessment, the clinician may adapt the system. Trang 4The table also allows various target objects to bemounted and adjusted in location Visual ... position and at the final reaching position trajec-at the target Calibrtrajec-ations are performed with assistancefrom the clinician to ensure that optimal initial and finalreaching postures are recorded, ... breaks apart into several minute segments of theimage, referred to as particles As the participant moveshis hand towards a target location, the hand’s forwardmovement pushes the particles back

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... the transradial approach compared to the femoral approach (Hetherington et al., 2009; Larrazet et al., 2003; Pancholy et al., 2010; Weaver et al., 2010) These data suggest that the transradial ... approach: Catheter Cardiovasc Interv, v 75, no 7, p 991-995 Saito, S., S Tanaka, Y Hiroe, Y Miyashita, S Takahashi, K Tanaka, and S Satake, 2003, Comparative study on transradial approach vs transfemoral ... provides an attractive alternative As attractive as the radial approach may seem, there are important points to highlight There is a significant learning curve associated with radial access In

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 05:20

... involvement, although characteristically symmetrical, can range from a monoarticular pattern to a highly polyarticular pattern, and joint damage can span from mild cartilage degradation to progressive ... however, RA is still regarded as a single disorder Biomarkers and clinical markers Disease activity, joint damage and functional impairment form the anchor points of the natural history of RA, and are ... in the absence of any laboratory variable such as is the case with the Clinical Disease Activity Index [63], may serve the purpose of predicting joint damage at least as well as any biological

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... 7Start with a planDesign the tables for a new database Save time and effort by making a plan As part of that, you make sure each table contains unique data For example, a table of asset data ... to the Text data type If you want to store dates and times, you set Trang 25Plan data typesDesign the tables for a new database Each field receives a data type Data types are a standard for all ... duplicating data It also helps ensure your data is complete, and most importantly, that it’s accurate Trang 13List the data you want to storeDesign the tables for a new database All the data that’s

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2014, 15:09

... hardy band of current advocates of the gold standard, who call for a virtual restoration of the status quo ante 1933 Although that was a far better monetary system than what we have today, it was ... or for each other The trouble is that they would never reach this exalted state because they would never gain acceptance in exchange as moneys at all, and therefore the problem of exchange rates ... asked of the libertarian who favors a gold standard; but the very framing of the questions betrays a fundamental misconception of the nature of money and of the gold standard For the crucial, implicit

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2014, 02:33

... denationalize a nation's money And that is to denationalize the dollar (or the mark or franc) itself Only privatization of the dollar can end the government's inflationary dominance of the nation's ... mystery about the unusual chronic inflation plaguing the world since the 1930s The dollar is the American currency unit (and the pound sterling, the franc, the mark, and the like, are equivalent national ... Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1997, pp 364-383 Trang 3The Case for a Genuine Gold Dollar Murray N Rothbard Inflationary Fiat Paper For nearly a half-century the United States and the rest of the

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2014, 02:33

... enough to allow comparative advantages to last for extended periods The advent of technology as a major tradeable asset has radically changed the dynamics of trade among nations What the centuries’ ... plan for and thereby make the transition to the next major technology, the smart phone, where not just basic design and manufacturing are important Operating and other software, for example, are ... largely determined by endowed assets (arable land, navigable water ways, minerals deposits, etc.) The fact that these assets were available in at most slowly changing quantities facilitated the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20

... Wind Damage Investigation, and the U.S.-Japan Natural Disaster Task Committee on WindHazards He has served on the board of the American Association for Wind Engineering and is a member of the American ... Federal Emergency Management Agency INEEL Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology ... Emeritus California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California Bonnie Johnson Director Aerodynamic Laboratories National Institute for Aviation Research Wichita State University Wichita, Kansas Atul...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 19:20

... and SDC All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgments This research was supported by The French National Agency for Aids Research (ANRS, France), the charity organization ECS-SIDACTION ... visit thereafter was defined as the injection of any drug in the months before that visit Clinical and laboratory data on viral load, CD4 T-cell counts and data on HIV clinical stage, with stage ... than 20 cigarettes per day [18] Second step: Univariate and multivariate analyses The results of the univariate analysis are presented in Table No statistically significant difference was found...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... protects against heat and cold Many glove manufacturers use aramid fiber to make gloves that are cut- and abrasive-resistant and wear well • Other synthetic materials Several manufacturers make gloves ... insulating protection against heat Aluminized gloves require an insert made of synthetic materials that protect against heat and cold • Aramid fiber gloves Aramid is a synthetic material that protects ... sufficient For example, install a barrier that makes it impossible for employees to put their hands at the point where a table saw blade makes contact with the wood it cuts For other hazardous operations,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 12:20