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Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion (g2p) is a core component of any text-to-speech system. This book discusses how adding simple syllabification and stress assignment constraints, namely 'one nucleus per...

In the US alone, over four and a half million people have cognitive disabilities. Except for deficiencies of mnemonic and executive capabilities, many of them have the potential to live a more...

This work involves the research of lexical bundles, sequences of three or more words likely to co-occur in a register, or situational variety of English. Bundles vary by register. The research in...

In the era of rapidly developing information technologies, electronic communication between people has become a preferred method of communication. The e-signatures have become a widely used tool for...

In evolutionary theory, the existence of religion has been explained as an adaptive behavioral strategy. This theory can also be used to account for the differences between religious groups. Unique...

This book is an empirical study and illustrates the advantages of liberalisation of the postal service sector market in general and identifies the reasons for this. The conclusion provides...

This is not a pure study of histoire des mentalit?s or history of ideas. The purpose of this study is to explore the background of the two ideological movements, namely liberalism and islamism,...

This study analyzes liberalization and democratization in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen. The initiation and the reverse of these processes are ex-plained by focusing on the role of the ruling elites in...

Liberating the Disabled Identity combines a qualitative research project, which taps into disabled people's identity narratives, with a critical historical analysis of the creation of the disabled...

The Libor Market Model is a financial model used to price and hedge exotic interest rate derivatives. The model is accepted and used widely due to its consistence with the standard market formula,...

Life Cycle Project ManagementAuthor: Hemanta DoloiPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 04, 2008Number of Pages: 384 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Life Histories of Successful Black Males Reared in Absent Father FamiliesAuthor: Janice E. CarsonPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 14, 2008Number of Pages: 176 pagesBinding:...

Lifestyle Economics explores several links between health, lifestyle, and the labor market. Special emphasis is given to health equality, obesity, and alcohol problems. This is done in the context of...

Ingestion of arsenic in drinking water has been linked with the risk of bladder cancer, however, questions remain about the dose-response relationships, ranges in induction-latency intervals, and...

Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) play an important role in the treatment of numerous neurodegenerative, cognitive and psychiatric dis-orders. How can we identify exogenous ligands...

Women make up over half of the population in Canada, yet they comprise less than half of the participants in many executive graduate degree programs and only 34 percent of managers and administrators...

The purpose of my research, which was conducted in spring 2005, was to discover how far the U.S. Government can go in limiting the right to habeas corpus (the right to judicial review of detention)...

The book presents the findings of our work that investigated the effects of visual representations on learning and teaching of abstract concepts. Our work compared two first year linear algebra...

Natural disturbances such as treefalls are a major component of tropical forest dynamics. These omnipresent treefall gaps are crucial for forest regeneration and promote plant diversity. However the...

Leadership development facilitators and executive coaches address leaders' developmental needs to better perform at the executive level. In developmental programs for example, facilitators teach with...

The amount of information our sensory systems send to the brain far exceeds its processing capacity. To cope with this constant barrage of information, our brain has developed the remarkable ability...

Liquid Crystalline OligofluorenesAuthor: Anita TrajkovskaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 13, 2008Number of Pages: 184 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Financial crises of the last two decades raised doubts about the potential benefits from liberalization policies for emerging markets. As liberalized economies became exposed to the whims of...

From 1950 to 1999, the fiction genre of Ladlit presented British readers with a romantic, comic, popular male literature, which was regarded as a chance to examine male identity in contemporary...

Children's reading preferences have been a source of study for more than one century. However, until recently none of the studies related to multilingualism has attempted to investigate the...

The ability to selectively deposit thin films of lithium and remove them from surfaces is an emerging area of technology development in va-rious fields including EUV lithography, lithium ion battery...

For sustainable management of forest vegetation in the area, geology, soil and biota are important factors. Scientific investigation may be helpful in improving and regenerating degraded hills by...

People with chronic illnesses often live in the community for many years while the illness becomes progressively more debilitating. Little is known about how they continue to live personally...

This autobiographical narrative inquiry examines the lived experience of the devastating death of my son, Jeremiah, and the impact of that loss on my life as mother, woman, and nurse. Literature...

Living in two worlds is an insider perspective of how indigenous Pacific immigrant communities, in this specific case Fijians in New Zealand, face the challenges of living with two cultures in a...