Learner modeling Authentic Text ICALL First Language Acquisition Stages of First Language Acquisition Typical stages of first language acquisition: I Babies play with making sounds and around six months, typical babies begin to babble I use sequences of consonants and vowels, e.g., bababa I Quickly start learning words by first birthday I Form simple 2-word utterances by the time they turn 2 I ...

the system proposed in the Strategic Defense Initiative), it is natural that organizations will try to adapt by unbounding the rationality of the organization process. In an earlier era, this adaptation involved developing and using scientific management techniques, where the one best way to objectively do the job would be sought out and implemented (Taylor 1911). Latter-day attempts to unbound...

BACKGROUND Continuous land cover modification is an important part of spatial epidemiology because it can help identify environmental factors and Culex mosquitoes associated with arbovirus transmission and thus guide control intervention. The aim of this study was to determine whether remotely sensed data could be used to identify rice-related Culex quinquefasciatus breeding habitats in three r...

The demand in the Saudi markets for qualified environmental and landscape planners with Geographic Information System (GIS) & Remote Sensing knowledge, has led the Landscape Architecture Department, Faculty of Environmental Design, at King Abdulaziz University (KAAU) Jeddah to start a pilot project applying GIS and Remote Sensing techniques in a fourth year (third year department) landscape pla...

One of the first essential steps in response to a crisis event is to provide current, precise, and rapid information about the extent of the event, the affected population and infrastructure (e.g., information for relief teams). Experiences in crisis mapping show, that remote sensing data are an important information source to get an overview of the situation. For an efficient use of geo-inform...

The ability to estimate surface energy fluxes using remote sensing methods has enabled the determination of evapotranspiration over a large area with less cost. Several models that employ the energy balance method have been developed. The model discussed in this paper is the Mapping Evapotranspiration at high Resolution with Internalized Calibration (METRIC). It estimates net radiation (Rn), so...