The Melody of Spoken English: Intonation Patterns Do you ever hear people say that English has a melody? It’s true. Many people think that spoken English has a musical quality. That’s probably because we use many intonation patterns when we speak. What do I mean by intonation patterns? Well‚ intonation refers to the pitch patterns we Americans use when we talk. There are many intonation patterns in American English. These patterns are important because they convey meaning. While some tonal
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cardiovascular activity in primary insomnia MASSIMILIANO DE ZAMBOTTI‚ NAIMA COVASSIN‚ GIULIANO DE MIN T O N A ‚ M I C H E L A S A R L O and L U C I A N O S T E G A G N O Department of General Psychology‚ University of Padova‚ Italy Accepted in revised form 14 June 2010; received 3 December 2009 SUMMARY The transition from wakefulness to sleep is characterized typically by a shift from sympathetic to parasympathetic regulation. Physiological functions‚ depending on the neurovegetative system‚ decrease
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these complex processes of determining events of the past‚ it gives a considerable amount of aid in piecing together a logical design of how things may have happened. For example‚ today‚ historians continue to search for the answers to migratory patterns of early peoples of different regions. By using a variety of different methods and procedures‚ they can collect plenty of information and use it form a general idea of the events that occurred so long ago. Some of the methods and procedures used
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Design Patterns Design Patterns Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software Pag 1 de 358 Gamma – Helm - Johnson – Vlissides Preface This book isn’t an introduction to object-oriented technology or design. Many books already do a good job of that. This book assumes you are reasonably proficient in at least one object-oriented programming language‚ and you should have some experience in object-oriented design as well. You definitely shouldn’t have to rush to the nearest dictionary
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The Causes and Effects of Migration Migration has always been a part of the history of humankind. Thousands of years ago‚ the first group of people in Africa started to migrate around the world. Later on‚ Chinese families also happened to move to other countries such as the United States of America to pursue the “American Dream”. However‚ what are the reasons that make people want to leave their homelands and move somewhere new? Are there any effects from migration to both the sending and the
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During the 1920’s there were many significant changes for women but majority of the people didn’t support them. Some changes were labour saving devices going on sale and women got the right to vote. Younger women welcomed and supported the changes and acted out with wild ambitious behaviour and dramatic fashion alterations whereas rural women and immigrants stayed traditional. Many women demanded to stay in the workforce after the war ended. Women stood their ground and entered the workforce
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1. INTRODUCTION Migrant flows are always from the poorest countries with a low probability of employment towards less poor and more dynamic countries where there is an opportunity to find some sort of job. Over the last few years international migration has intensified‚ with the media referring to the “regionalisation and globalisation” of migration. The major centers of attraction are the same: United States and the European Union‚ with countries in southern Europe gradually becoming immigrant
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Essay What does Elite Theory reveal about the Enterprise Migration Agreements for large mining companies? What are the strengths and limitations of this theory in relation to this particular case study? It is questionable and difficult to prove whether a group of elites in a society exists. All that can really be done is to study the actions of powerful figures and assess their consequences on society. However‚ with the first Enterprise Migration Agreement (EMA) granted for Hancock Prospecting’s Roy
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design-focused and up-to-date. Small companies alsooffered similar clothes as M&S stores but at lower prices. Even though M&S was a very wellknown company‚ they no longer understood or reacted to its customers’ changing wants andneeds. Therefore‚ they did not understand their target market‚ who might want different varietiesof products. They expanded their business but continued with its traditional design and ignoredthe changes in the market place.To overcome their problems they focused on the day-to-day
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pattern recognition In machine learning‚ pattern recognition is the assignment of a label to a given input value. An example of pattern recognition is classification‚ which attempts to assign each input value to one of a given set of classes (for example‚ determine whether a given email is "spam" or "non-spam"). However‚ pattern recognition is a more general problem that encompasses other types of output as well. Other examples are regression‚ which assigns a real-valued output to each input; sequence
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