Barriers Impeding Postgraduate Training Completion and Dissertation Submission and Defense

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

2012-07-03 Dissertation Submission

Later-life Effects of Mitochondrial DNA Damage During Development in the Whole Organism Model Caenorhabditis elegans by Maxwell C. K. Leung Environment Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Joel N. Meyer, Supervisor ___________________________ Shawn Ahmed ___________________________ Jonathan H. Freedman ___________________________ David E. Hinton An ...

Dissertation Defense Announcement

Stochastic weather generators (SWGs) are statistically-based point-scale models of meteorological data that are driven by random number generators. Commonly taking observational data or lowresolution global climate model data as input, they are useful tools for generating many realizations of possible climate scenarios for use in impacts studies. This dissertation presents the stochastic harmon...

Naval Postgraduate School Monterey , California Dissertation

Naval Postgraduate School Monterey , California Dissertation

In many remote sensing applications, the area of a scene sensed by a single pixel can often be measured in square meters. This means that many objects of interest in a scene are smaller than a single pixel in the resulting image. Current tracking methods rely on robust object detection using multi-pixel features. A subpixel object does not provide enough information for these methods to work. T...