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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Accident rates- country and Bangalore/karntaka- comparison Motivational video -1 min Death by accidents Role model- construct/find data No. of cases booked in a year Policy – divide into3 month periods – top 3 scorers in max periods will be promoted during promotion. And the tope three scorers each month get a bonus and flag – pride‚ growth Topper’s club – national level meetings Annual conference on showcasing the best achievement Who are we? The Bangalore Traffic Police What do we do
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DIVORCE RATES Today’s society had increased the number of divorce‚ it is more than ever before. People choose divorce as an easy way to get rid of their simplest problems that may occur in a marriage. First‚ couples get married too young. Sometimes people get married just because they are expecting a baby. Couples get married thinking that their relationship will be like a fairy tale‚ like movies‚ but they do not realize that marriage leads with normal problems that appear in the journey
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Target and Walmart are competitors in the discount retail industry. These two company dominate the retail industry. Together these two businesses generate more than $550 billion in annual sales. However‚ as it appears Target is the more stable company than Walmart. Walmart is going through a rough turnaround in 2017. Walmart brand image with consumers suffered because of the condition of its stores and low paying wages. Walmart total sales declined 0.75 year over year. Walmart net income hit $17
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In the United States‚ the crime rate is increasing each day. Although many may believe that only adults are executing this criminal activity‚ and that is entirely not true. Juvenile crime has been a problem in the United States for many years and is still a main factor to the growing crime rates in cities across the United States. Many factors of these adolescences lives contribute to their actions. Such as‚ drug use‚ their communities‚ their peers and also their families. Juvenile crime does
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Internal Rate of Return In investment decision analysis you may need to calculate internal rate of return. “Internal rate of return (IRR) is the discount rate that gives the project a zero NPV” (McLaney‚ 2006). It is a good choice to use for investment projects. There is a formula for the internal rate of return: (A is the lower discount rate and B is the higher rate‚ a is the NPV at the lower rate and b is the NPV at the higher rate.) For example the Net Present Value (NPV) is 88 when the
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trading volumes. a) False All other things being equal‚ a given change in the interest rates will have a greater impact on the price of a low-coupon bond than a higher-coupon bond with the same maturity. a) True If investors believe inflation will be increasing in the future‚ the prevailing yield will be downward sloping. a) false The real rate of interest varies with the business cycle‚ with the highest rates seen at the end of a period of business expansion and the lowest at the bottom of a recession
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world’s five largest producers of over 80% of agricultural produce items‚ including many cash crops such as coffeeand cotton‚ in 2010. India is also one of the world’s five largest producers of livestock and poultry meat‚ with one of the fastest growth rates‚ as of 2011. India exported about 2 billion kilograms each of wheat and rice in 2011 to Africa‚ Nepal‚ Bangladesh and other regions of the world. Aquaculture and catch fishery is amongst the fastest growing industries in India. Between 1990 and
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Table-1. Profession of the respondents profession | number | percentage | Student | 2 | 8 | Service holder | 8 | 32 | Business | 9 | 36 | other | 6 | 24 | I interviewed a total of 25 account holders of the Bank and checked their profession. From the above table ( tabe-1) ‚ it shows that majority of the respondents belong to business group and this is 36%. The next group close to business group is service holder and their percentage is 32% which also seems significant. Only 8% of the
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Explain the theoretical rationale for the NPV approach to investment appraisal and compare the strengths and weaknesses of the NPV approach to two other commonly used approaches. One of the key areas of long-term decision-making that firms must tackle is that of investment - the need to commit funds by purchasing land‚ buildings‚ machinery‚ etc.‚ in anticipation of being able to earn an income greater than the funds committed. In order to handle these decisions‚ firms have to make an assessment
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