BACKGROUND The Washington State Nutrition and Physical Activity Plan provides a framework in which policy makers can work together to build and support healthy environments for nutrition and physical activity. The city of Moses Lake, Wash, was chosen to serve as a pilot site to test the conceptual approaches and recommendations of the plan and to develop a model for healthy communities elsewher...

This paper evaluates the usefulness of Moses, an open source statistical machine translation (SMT) engine, for professional translators and post editors. It takes a look behind the scenes at the workings of Moses and reports on experiments to investigate how translators can contribute to advances in the use of SMT as a tool. In particular the difference in quality of output was compared as the ...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT This talk will present an ACT-R model that uni-es two phenomena in text comprehension: Moses illusion and metaphor understanding. Empirical data about Moses illusion shows that, in about 45% of cases, people are not able to detect distortions in sentences like How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the ark?, in spite of being instructed to look for distortions and in ...

6 Many a young man who has received his spiritual nurture within the evan-gelical tradition, and who seeks to test his fitness for the Christian ministry, finds the very fundamentals of his faith challenged, modified, and even rejected outright by the theological teachers under whom he places himself. Often the evangelical theological student is limited by his denominational interests in the ch...

the principles of political thought in the meccan verses of the quran being discussed in the previous issue, now a few practical examples from the holy quran are presented. the experiences of some prophets, from noah to moses, are studied in the light of quranic political thought. while studying the political interactions between people and prophets, we will realize that prophets such as noah, ...

in this study, individual moral virtues were surveyed in surah al-qasas. one can infer very important points in the individual moral dimension from the story of moses (as) and others discussed in the surah. from the moralities inferred from acts of moses one can point to such good virtues like sincerity, gratitude, courage, hope and pray. from the moral virtues of others involved in the story o...

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