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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"frequency of usage"”.
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The Reading Strategies Used by Selected Adult Spanish and Arabic Readers in Their Native Language and in English
The purpose of this study was to study the reading strategies of selected adult Spanish and Arabic speakers in their first language and in English. The frequency of usage of these strategies, their success level, the amount of transfer from L1 to L2, and sensitivity to cohesion in prose were some …
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Diphthongization of Non-High Vowel Sequences in Latin American Spanish
The findings of this study confirm that the articulation of Spanish adjacent vowels is internally driven by phonetic/phonological factors such as proximity to stress and initiality (with posttonic position being the most favorable for diphthongization to occur), but also provide evidence that the …
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Learning style, modal preference & the spacing effect in an online project management training programme.
Constant and continued up-grade of skills and qualifications is imperative in a knowledge society (David & Foray 2003, OECD 2007) and central to Continued Professional Development (CPD) programmes in most organisations. However identifying and using effective (maximise retention / recall) and …
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Utilizing automatically collected smart card data to enhance travel demand surveys
… have also begun to use automated sources of data from fare collection, vehicle location, and passenger counting systems to improve the understanding of their customers' detailed geographic and temporal travel behavior as well as frequency of usage, and travel pattern variation at a much …
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Sexual Violence Victimization, Mental Health, and University-Based Health Service Use Among College Females
<p>Females between the ages of 18 and 24 consistently experience higher rates of sexual violence compared to females in any other age group (Sinozich & Langton, 2014). Approximately one in five college women experience sexual violence victimization (SVV; Krebs, Lindquist, Berzofsky, Shook-Sa & …
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Twitter: An opportunity or a curse for South African female journalists?
The spread of cyberviolence around the globe and cyberbullying towards female journalists is growing (Mijatović, 2016); in fact, thanks to improved technology and the proliferation of bots and botnets (Barojan, 2018), it is becoming even more ubiquitous. The cruelty and frequency of the attacks …
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"Hey, y'guys!": A diachronic usage-based approach to changes in American English address
<p>This dissertation adopts a functional, usage-based perspective on language to highlight key changes in American English address over the past century, especially the development of 'you guys' and its expansion across second-person plural contexts. Based on data from the Corpus of Historical …
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Essays on the Economic Analysis of Transportation Systems
<p>This dissertation consists of four essays on the economic analysis of transportation systems. In the first chapter, the conventional disaggregate travel demand model, a probability model for the modeling of multiple modes, generally called random utility maximization (RUM), is expanded to a …