scholarly journals The relative contribution of computer assisted prosody training vs. instructor based prosody teaching in developing speaking skills by interpreter trainees: An experimental study

2019 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 48-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmood Yenkimaleki ◽  
Vincent J. van Heuven
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
LuisErnesto Arriola-Guillén ◽  
Nicole Báez-Marrero ◽  
JoséLuis Rafel ◽  
YalilAugusto Rodríguez-Cárdenas ◽  
AronAliaga-Del Castillo ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Baier

Self-report delinquency studies among adolescents are frequently conducted as paper-and-pencil studies. With the introduction of computers in schools, a new infrastructure for interviewing students is available. Until now only a few criminological studies deal with the question of whether paper-and-pencil and computer-assisted surveys lead to the same results. This question is analysed using a paper-and-pencil sample of 2033 adolescents and a netbook sample of 610 adolescents. In contrast to other experiments, not only are prevalence rates of delinquent behaviour compared but also prevalence rates of factors influencing delinquent behaviour, correlations between these factors and the behaviour, missing values and evaluations of the survey by the adolescents. Among others, the analyses differentiate between gender and educational groups. All in all, largely no differences were found between the two methods regarding all these topics. The netbook survey obtained the same results as the paper-and-pencil survey.


2001 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Loth ◽  
Steven A. Jones ◽  
Christopher K. Zarins ◽  
Don P. Giddens ◽  
Raja F. Nassar ◽  
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Background : Intimal hyperplastic thickening (IHT) is a frequent cause of prosthetic bypass graft failure. Induction and progression of IHT is thought to involve a number of mechanisms related to variation in the flow field, injury and the prosthetic nature of the conduit. This study was designed to examine the relative contribution of wall shear stress and injury to the induction of IHT at defined regions of experimental end-to-side prosthetic anastomoses. Methods and Results: The distribution of IHT was determined at the distal end-to-side anastomosis of seven canine Iliofemoral PTFE grafts after 12 weeks of implantation. An upscaled transparent model was constructed using the in vivo anastomotic geometry, and wall shear stress was determined at 24 axial locations from laser Doppler anemometry measurements of the near wall velocity under conditions of pulsatile flow similar to that present in vivo. The distribution of IHT at the end-to-side PTFE graft was determined using computer assisted morphometry. IHT involving the native artery ranged from 0.0±0.1 mm to 0.05±0.03 mm. A greater amount of IHT was found on the graft hood (PTFE) and ranged from 0.09±0.06 to 0.24±0.06 mm. Nonlinear multivariable logistic analysis was used to model IHT as a function of the reciprocal of wall shear stress, distance from the suture line, and vascular conduit type (i.e. PTFE versus host artery). Vascular conduit type and distance from the suture line independently contributed to IHT. An inverse correlation between wall shear stress and IHT was found only for those regions located on the juxta-anastomotic PTFE graft. Conclusions: The data are consistent with a model of intimal thickening in which the intimal hyperplastic pannus migrating from the suture line was enhanced by reduced levels of wall shear stress at the PTFE graft/host artery interface. Such hemodynamic modulation of injury induced IHT was absent at the neighboring artery wall.


Author(s):  
Nurhaliza Nurhaliza ◽  
Muh. Anwar

The purpose of this study was to obtain data related the effectiveness of the communicative approach in increasing students' German speaking skills. This research is a quasi-experimental study. The data obtained were analyzed using the t-test formula. The results of data analysis showed t-count 7.45> t-table 2.002 at the level of α 0.05. The results showed that the communicative approach was effective in increasing students' speaking skills.


2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
L. Ter-Sargsyan

The paper deals with the problem ofteaching English speaking skills to the students majoring in Economics at the University of Economics. It is effective to use authentic media texts while teaching speaking. It can increase the efficiency of educational process, help the students to overcome not only grammatical, lexical, but also socio-cultural, intercultural and pragmatic interference


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