This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to investigate the relation of focus and prosody in Shanghai Chinese. The experiment examined durational adjustment and f0 modification of the target syllables at different levels of prosodic structure under different types of focus. The results confirm that post-focus pitch register lowering in Shanghai Chinese is a phrasal marker and sh...

To achieve overall business goals, GQM+Strategies® is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies and assesses the achievement of goals. Strategies derived from business goals are based on rationales (context factors and assumptions). Because extracting all rationales is an important process in the GQM+Strategies approach, we propose Context-Assumpt...

Conservation tillage (CT) systems have a number of potential benefits including lower crop production costs and the ability to reduce soil erosion that have made them common in several regions of the world. Although CT systems have been researched and successfully implemented on some farms in California's San Joaquin Valley (SJV), overall adoption is low and the reasons for the region's compara...

In this research, overreaction and underreaction have been studied by assessing profitability and excess returns of investment strategies and evaluating price adjustment speed in short and long terms. The results showed that the momentum investment strategies had higher annual returns in comparison to contrarian strategies in all short and long periods which led to confirmation of underreaction...

  The present study aimed at determining the effectiveness of Stress management training using cognitive - behavioral strategies on social adjustment of depressed women . 40 Samples were selected from among patients withdepression disordersreferring to counselingcentersandpsychiatricclinicsofIsfahan.Samples were randomly placed in two intervention andcontrolgroups20 each. The intervention group...