The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of deductive instruction of grammar with input enhancement and without using input enhancement. It also explored the effectiveness of inductive instruction of grammar with input enhancement and without input enhancement among Iranian EFL learners. The participants were female intermediate-level students who were studying English a...

In this talk I will overview the FDB project at Oxford on succinct, lossless representations of relational data that I call factorized databases. I will first present a characterization of the succinctness of results to conjunctive queries and how factorizations can speed up query processing.I will then comment on how this succinctness characterization relates to seemingly disparate results on:...

This action research came to light with the primary focus improve, particularly, usage of past tense among grade X students Gelephu Middle Secondary School, Bhutan. The was on finding out usefulness JW (journal writing) understanding and learning PT (past tense) in English Language. both modes communication (verbal written) is crucial, its incompetency has always been a hindrance. In total, sam...

This paper is intended to be pedagogical rather than a presentation of original research. We describe a simple dynamic, stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model with capital utilization, capital adjustment costs, and a simple Cobb-Douglas technology to illustrate how DSGE models can be used to explain the past and to forecast the future. We identify one method to directly estimate latent var...

The purpose of this chapter is to exemplify construction of selected Coupling-from-the-Past algorithms, using simple examples and discussing code which can be run in the statistical scripting language R. The simple examples are: symmetric random walk with two reflecting boundaries, a very basic continuous state-space Markov chain, the Ising model with external field, and random walk with negati...

To explore the nature of past-life memories in hypnosis, 64 normal male adults aged 21 to 23 were selected using the Korean version of the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility (HGSHS:K) and a simple belief in past-life scale. They all received hypnotic past-life regression 3 times. The influence of HGSHS:K scores on the production rate of past-life memories was statistically significa...

The Verb Group Traditionally the verb group was studied following the Latin model of analysis, that is, it was classified according to the “tense”: Present Simple, Present Progressive, Past Simple, Past Progressive, Present Perfect, Past Perfect, Future and so on. This type of classification, although familiar to the Spanish learner, is confusing in the sense that it makes each tense an isolate...