UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDY OF LANGUAGE What makes listening difficult? Factors affecting second language listening comprehension Amber Bloomfield‚ PhD Sarah C. Wayland‚ PhD Purpose—To establish what is currently known about factors that affect foreign language listening comprehension‚ with a focus on characteristics of the listener‚ passage‚ and testing conditions. Elizabeth Rhoades‚ MA Allison Blodgett‚ PhD Conclusions—Research on second language (L2) listening
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No More Pesky Learning Rates Tom Schaul Sixin Zhang Yann LeCun Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University 715 Broadway‚ New York‚ NY 10003‚ USA schaul@cims.nyu.edu zsx@cims.nyu.edu yann@cims.nyu.edu arXiv:1206.1106v2 [stat.ML] 18 Feb 2013 Abstract The performance of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) depends critically on how learning rates are tuned and decreased over time. We propose a method to automatically adjust multiple learning rates so as to minimize the expected
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through a childs mind who is being adopted by a family that lives in a different country. This is an international adoption‚ and it can be controversial in the U.S along with other countries for different reasons. International adoption has gone throughout history adjusting as it has to‚ but it’s not the only thing that has changed both what the parents go through and the children adapting have evolved as time goes on too. No matter how much is done to make this process easier there are always challenges
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The product The first market mix element is Product. A product is anything that can be offered to a market for attention‚ acquisition‚ use or consumption that might satisfy a need or want. Product decision normally base on brand name‚ functionality‚ styling‚ quality‚ safety‚ packaging‚ repairs and support‚ warranty‚ accessories and services. These product attributes can be manipulated depending on what the target market wants. Also‚ customers always look for new and improved things‚ which is
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Wrong Impressions The short story‚ “Where Are You going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates explains how a young girl was struggling to find herself. Oates writes about a girl named Connie who was 16 years old and was lost in a world of fantasy. Connie had a split personality/image while at home and when she was out with her friends. Living in a world of fantasy‚ Connie would ignore her family by tuning them out and being distant. Connie would constantly be in front of the mirror admiring
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competitive advantage can be defined as the strategic advantage that one business entity has over its rivals within the same competitive industry. Achieving a competitive advantage puts the business in a stronger position within its business environment. For this we need to develop our products and services day by day according to our customers’ needs and wants. There are several ways in which a business might think about developing a product in order to sustain or build a competitive advantage: •
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Absolute ethic issues has only two sides either good or bad or black or white. Relative ethics is complicated and have multitudes of sides with varying shades of gray. Absolute is just being one or the other. Unethical behavior like bribery‚ extortion‚ excessive force and perjury are all unacceptable behavior police. In Relative Ethics the community can start to accept wrong behavior like looking away while police officers deal in drug trafficking.This is an example officer improper and illegal
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Is an adoption beneficial to a child? Statement of the problem Many teenagers are getting pregnant and not able to keep their children. There are many reasons why teenagers decide to give up their child‚ they are in school‚ they don’t have the money or they can’t support the baby or themselves. Adoption is the answer for many of these teenagers. There are two kinds of adoptions open and closed. An open adoption is when the original parents are allowed to visit and communicate with their child
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Adoption Single parent adoption is a great choice. To be loved in the world should have no argument in whatever case it is. Single parent adoption has just as much love as any other lonely foster child for a two parents. Adoption has had a huge effect on the world as it is today. Many types of adoptions have become existent over generations. Single parent has many people fighting for or against. Love should be no fight. "Single Parent Adoptions: Why Not?." 12 Oct. 2001. http://library.adoption
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Running head: PRODUCT & PRODUCT MARKETING Rochelle Russell Unit 2 Individual Product Products & Product Marketing MGMT422-1103A-09 Triangle Solutions Product There are several people that love to take pictures of their families or special events and put them in scrapbooks. The new product that I am proposing is a photo paper that already has a background scene on it and individuals can still print their picture on top of it to make it look even more special. Mostly everyone
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