Starting with a novel definition of divided differences, this essay derives and discusses the basic properties of, and facts about, (univariate) divided differences. “It belongs to the most beautiful I have been able to do.”[Newton 1676]

The advantages of portfolios come from observing the student learning process and recording feedback. Students utilized their own learning portfolios to do learning assessment and self-correction. The research that has been done in Taiwan has shown that using a portfolio is effective in improving English speaking performances (ESP). The purpose of this study is to apply the portfolios to assess...

English as a language of analytical system has great creative power for the development conversion, which is highly productive way word formation. In framework transposition theory, we regard interpretation conversion morphological with word-forming character. The topic our study are new conversives in scientific and technological sphere. For study, 572 examples neologisms were selected from di...

30 Computer The Evitability of Software Patents A n Australian patent examiner more than 40 years ago, I’ve maintained a sporadic interest in the law of intellectual property and been disturbed by the developing saga of software patents. Although the intellectual property laws of any two countries—such as Australia and the US, for example—exhibit significant differences, my disquiet goes far be...

This paper presents phase one of the study. It is aimed at investigating how and why secondary school students use computer tools, such as spelling and grammar checkers, to aid them in their English writing. The community in this context is a multicultural secondary school where students come from diverse socio-economic background and family structures. The study was prompted through close obse...

This paper, based on a phonetic experiment, depicts a contrastive study on the rhythmic pattern of Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (CL2) as compared with that of the native speakers of both standard British and American English (EL1) in their respective pitch accent distribution patterns, prosodic structures and duration patterns.

Statistical error Correction technique is the most accurate and widely used approach today, but for a language like Sindhi which is a low resourced language the trained corpora’s are not available, so the statistical techniques are not possible at all. Instead a useful alternative would be to exploit various spelling error trends in Sindhi by using a Rule based approach. For designing such tech...

This research applies dialectometric methods to purely syntactic dialect data. It will be shown that there is geographic cohesion in syntactic variation when viewed in the aggregate. The amount of syntactic variation which can be accounted for by geography will be determined. Dialectometric techniques will be used to develop an additive measure of syntactic differences. Multidimensional scaling...