Investigating Paragraph Writing Skills among Polytechnic Students: The Case of Kumasi Polytechnic

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

A data warehouse typically differs from an OLTP database in terms of both significantly larger sizes for data pages as well as in the volume of data inserted in bulk. The traditional B+ Tree and its variants, while still a popular candidate for supporting point and range queries, can become very memory intensive for insert and delete operations under these more stringent requirements. Since typ...

Polytechnic of Zagreb

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the effect of pushed output collaborative tasks on the writing skills of efl learners

there is less published research about how teachers in efl contexts respond to students who are relatively less mature and less competent l2 writers. while writing researchers have examined various issues concerning peer and teacher response in writing-oriented classes, little research has centered on the effect of collaborative tasks particularly dictogloss on writing skills. output collaborat...

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University at DUC2005

This paper discusses the query-based multidocument summarization techniques implemented by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University at DUC 2005. The summarization system is built under the framework of MEAD. In addition to borrow the features provided by MEAD for text summarization, including centroid and sentence length etc., we also introduce the entity-based, pattern-based, termbased and semanti...