The development of an industry is seen as the outcome of a differential game in which market shares flow in response to price differences. It is hypothesized that while all consumers eventually react to price differences, some are slower than others. If scale advantages have some influence on marginal costs around average market share, then, under reasonable conditions, only st'ewed size distri...

background and purpose: this study intends to identify the numbers and some characteristics of the teachers of various english courses offered at medical universities affiliated to the ministry of health during the second semester of the academic year 2005-6. methods: the methods used in this research were “gathering existing data”, and “descriptive study”. the research was conducted by sending...

[1] Time-series of Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) reconstructed from tree-rings in Western North America is found to have a statistically significant periodicity of 18.6year period lunar nodal tidal cycle; negative (positive) PDO tends to occur in the period of strong (weak) diurnal tide. In the 3rd and 5th (10th, 11th and 13rd) year after the maximum diurnal tide, mean-PDO takes significant...

Anaphora resolution is a central topic in dialogue and discourse processing that deals with finding the referents of pronouns. There are no studies, to the best of our knowledge, that focus on anaphora resolution in the context of tutorial dialogues. In this paper, we present the first version of DARE (Deep Anaphora Resolution Engine), an anaphora resolution engine for dialogue-based Intelligen...

English /r/-/l/ perceptual training for Japanese speakers can improve production. However, it is unclear whether Japanese speakers actually improve their production of the primary acoustic cue for English /r/ and /l/, the third formant frequency (F3). The present study tested whether an English /r/-/l/ identification training program improves Japanese speakers’ production of these phonemes in t...

this study aimed to develop and validate an instrument to evaluate english language teachers’ lesson plan- ning self-concept. to this end, 30 english teachers were asked to prepare a sample lesson plan and 15 of them were invited to participate in a semi-structured interview. a tentative questionnaire including six fac- tors namely: classroom management, lesson planning conformity, planning eff...

Key Performance Indicators (KPI) measure the performance of an organization relative to its objectives. To monitor organizational performance relative to KPIs, such KPIs need to be manually implemented in the form of data warehouse queries, to be used in dashboards or scorecards. Moreover, dashboards include little if any information about business strategy and offer a scattered view of KPIs an...