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Showing 1 to 20 of 236 for “"paragraph"”.
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Improving second-year university student teachers paragraph writing skills
This study was undertaken to improve the paragraph-writing skills of second-year university student-teachers. The main research question that guided the study was: How can second-year university student-teachers improve their paragraph writing skills? Specifically, paragraph errors commonly made by …
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The Effect of Sentence Combining Instruction of Language Experience Stories Upon Paragraph Comprehension
… instruction of language experience stories upon paragraph comprehension of forty-three fourth grade students. The students were divided into an experimental group and control group and administered the Nelson Reading Test prior to the five week intervention period. The treatment involved writing …
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An analysis of paragraph (c) of the 'gross income' definition and the term 'services rendered'
The South African tax system operates as a dual system of direct and indirect taxation. Direct taxation is imposed directly on taxpayers be they natural or legal by nature, by imposing tax on the income of those taxpayers. This is known as income tax. Another form of direct taxation is estate duty. …
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The Effect of a Guided Discovery Approach on The Descriptive Paragraph Writing Skills of Third Grade Pupils
… a guided discovery approach on the descriptive paragraph writing skills of third grade children.
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A critical analysis of how paragraph 5 of the tenth schedule interacts with section 20 of the income tax act
… by oil and gas companies, focusing on how paragraph 5 of the Tenth Schedule interacts with section 20 of the Income Tax Act. In examining the relationship between the assessed loss rules in the Tenth Schedule and the broader body of the Act, the minor dissertation details the taxation of …
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Evaluation of Word and Paragraph Embeddings and Analogical Reasoning as an Alternative to Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency-based Classification in Support of Biocuration
… vectors are also used as representations for paragraphs, which, when used for classification, achieve an F1-score of 0.92. The results of classification and analogical reasoning tasks are promising but a formal model of semantic vectors, subject to the constraints of known linguistic …
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A Study of the Variables Self-Concept, Vocabulary, Intelligence, and Sex as Predictors of Reading Comprehension
… indicated a significant relationship between paragraph comprehension and vocabulary. Also, a significant relationship existed between paragraph comprehension and intelligence, and between vocabulary and intelligence. Although not significant, paragraph comprehension and sex were related. Girls …
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Accent Marks in L2 French: Keyboarding, Presentation Format, Working Memory, and Pronunciation Ability
… 2006b), who found that students who typed a paragraph recalled accents better than those who wrote the paragraph by hand. In response to this finding, the present study seeks to explore possible sources of variance in Sturm and Golato's (in press) and Sturm's (2006) results and the difference …
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Le paragraphe oral en français L1, en suédois L1 et en français L2 : étude syntaxique, prosodique et discursive
… examines the structure and the use of the speech paragraph (le paragraphe oral), as defined by Morel and Danon-Boileau 1998, in L1 French, in L1 Swedish and in the L2 French production of two advanced Swedish learners. The corpus examined consists of seven informal spontaneous endolingual and …
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The Interplay of Linguistic and Cognitive Factors in Predicting Reading Comprehension: A Case of Primary School Children from the United Kingdom and China
… linguistic (vocabulary, syntactic awareness, and paragraph comprehension) and cognitive (executive functions and metamemory) skills in predicting English reading comprehension in 269 children in the United Kingdom, aged between 9.51 and 11.50. Structural equation modelling and path analyses were …
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How Does The Audit Report's Structure Affect Nonprofessional Investors' Attention To Its Content?
… I examine the impact of descriptive paragraph headings and the relative location of the opinion paragraph on judgments of financial statement reliability and investment decisions. Results indicate that when the audit report includes descriptive paragraph headings, less sophisticated …
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The use of mediation to resolve environmental disputes in South Africa and Switzerland
… dispute resolution, the focus shifts in paragraph C to the use of mediation to resolve environmental disputes in Switzerland. On the basis 4 of several cases in which mediation or mediation-type activities were used to resolve the environmental conflict I want to show why, in the end, …
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Traces de terre, traces d'encre... La rappresentazione dello spazio nella letteratura caraibica. (Francofona e Anglofona)
… until the départementalisation. The first paragraph “The colonized space: historical-political excursus” the explores the history of the European colonization that marked forever the theatre of the relationship between Europe, Africa and the New World. This social situation take a long and …
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Εργοδικά θεωρήματα σε von Neumann άλγεβρες και εργοδικά θεωρήματα για τυχαία σύνολα σε χώρους Banach
… weight and a semigroup of kernels on it. In paragraph 2 maximal ergodic theorems are given for additive and strongly superadditive processes, one dimensional or multidimensional. In paragraph 3 we deal with continuous parameter multidimensional strongly superadditive processes. There also …
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Kedudukan anak di luar perkawinan pasca putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi no.46/PUU-VIII/2010 ditinjau dari kitab undang-undang hukum perdata
… review request Machica Mochtar to Article 2 paragraph (2) and Article 43 paragraph (1) of Law no. 1/1974. In the applicant's request, the two articles are considered contrary to Article 28B paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) and Article 28D paragraph (1) of the 1945 Constitution. Based on the …
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An investigation of discourse prosody in naturally occuring read text
… between onset pitch height and topic/paragraph initiality. A review of the literature shows that initiality is usually signalled by high onset pitch. This study uses naturally occurring spoken data taken from the Spoken English Corpus, which is a collection of mostly read or prepared …
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Uncertainty and Inference in Deterministic and Noisy Chaos
… small steps towards the goal stated in the first paragraph. In the concluding chapter we discuss future directions for the development and application of these ideas.
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Gender and the Aggressive or Compassionate President: An Analysis of Electability for Presidential Candidates
… sentence. These sentences were used to construct paragraph descriptions used in the second study. These paragraph descriptions manipulated candidate gender, and aggressive, compassionate, or neutral descriptions to test the effects of these variables on the decision to vote for the candidate, as …
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