Communicative functions and reasons for code switching : A Malaysian perspective. PARAMASIVAM MUTHUSAMY PhD Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400 UPM Serdang‚ MALAYSIA. param@fbmk.upm.edu.my Abstract: Though codeswitching research may vary from context to context and situation to situation‚ the common factors for code switching will be threefold. That is‚ code switching deals with languages in contact. In interactive social situations code switching will be the use of more than
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The speaker of the poem is by the author Langston Hughes himself. This is a lyric poem because it expresses Langston’s emotions towards the river. By identifying the speaker‚ it allows the reader to understand that the speaker is using the river as a metaphor for representing life. In this poem‚ the speaker and the author are the same. The subject of the poem is the slavery‚ and the emotions the speaker expressed is happiness and love because of civilization. In the poem‚ the poet used imagery
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MATLAB BASED AUTOMATED CONTROL SIMULATIONS IN BIO-REACTORS ABSTRACT Designing of bioreactors is a very complex process and requires the clear understanding of the biological phenomena occurring during the process and the development of best suitable reactor for bringing out the product in an economically viable‚ large scale form. The conventional techniques currently in uses are very time consuming and some of their steps may even be based on trial and error format. Therefore there
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MASTER ’S THESIS Face Recognition in Mobile Devices Mattias Junered Luleå University of Technology MSc Programmes in Engineering M edia Technology D epartment of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Division of Signal Processing 2010:040 CIV - ISSN: 1402-1617 - ISRN: LTU-EX--10/040--SE Face Recognition in Mobile Devices Mattias Junered Luleå University of Technology March 2‚ 2010 Abstract Recent technological advancements have made face recognition a very viable identification
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AI in optical character recognition Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success. There are different fields under optical character recognition. Intelligent character recognition Handwriting recognition Automatic number plate recognition In computer science‚ intelligent
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Chapter 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE This chapter states the different literature and studies that were conducted for the research to gain familiarity that are relevant and similar to the present study. Related Literature Ralph M. Stair (1999) emphasized that the development of technology through the years have enabled us to do more with less effort. From the orientation of the light bulb to the industrial revolution and beyond‚ we have continuously tried to in a more efficient means of doing
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Revenue Recognition: Apple Inc. THE COMPANY Our analysis of Apple Inc. will incorporate the general overview of the company and how it records it revenues. We will observe how they make an honest effort to be within compliance of all accounting standards according to the Financial Accounting Standards Board for recording and disclosure of its income. Apple’s leading competitor‚ Google Inc.‚ will also be examined to see whether they are comparable to Apple and still within compliance of the Securities
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Mehdi Tazi : 260471916 Section 5 Guest speaker: Caroline Dagenais Caroline Dagenais was invited as a guest speaker‚ on November 8th in order to discuss the importance of Information Technology in her field. She went through different subjects from how technology enabled the hospital to operate like a business company to her own career stream. What I found particularly interesting and surprising is the way she was hired to be manager of a department she didn’t know anything about‚ and
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Code Meshing and Code Switching Code Meshing is a strategy for blending many varieties with privileged standard language‚ it combines the ordinary language with non-formal conversations. Code Switching is the practice of alternating between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation. When people switch codes they do not have to make the same cognitive effort as when they try to integrate communitive devices for code meshing. Many people use both code switching and code meshing
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The N.F.L. is the King Kong‚ the N.B.A. pounds its chest and Major League Baseball enjoys an inheritance‚ but the W.N.B.A. the most successful women’s teams sports league in American history continues to fly under the radar. The WNBA’s financial viability has been a continuous topic since the league formed in 1997 as an offshoot of the NBA. In many ways the W.N.B.A. would not exist without Title IX‚ the federal mandate that‚ among other things‚ created equal opportunity for women in college sports
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