Acquisition Article Reviews Samples For Students

Children who hear two distinct languages in their environment are able to acquire the knowledge of both languages. This is a process known as Bilingual First Language Acquisition, and it occurs from a child’s birth. This is a concept that has been analyzed by various authors in their works.
According to De Houwer (2009), instead of acquiring a single language, such children are exposed to two first languages in their first six years. This is especially due to the fact that early years language acquisition occurs naturally; it has no influence from formal instruction thus focuses solely on the child’s ...

Introduction

Quantitative research is a systematic empirical study of a phenomenon using mathematical, statistical or computational techniques. Quantitative research seeks to investigate the relationship between a dependent variable and an independent variable or variables. This paper seeks to critique a quantitative study that employs an experimental approach. For this purpose, this paper chooses an article by Min Wang, Charles Perfetti and Ying Liu titled “Chinese-English Biliteracy Acquisition: Cross-Language and Writing System Transfer”

Summary of the Study

The study sought to investigate the relationship between cross-language and writing system in Biliteracy acquisition by students who were learning to read in two diverse writing systems- English and Chinese. To this ...

The basic premise of Perani et al.’s paper is to use brain imaging PET scans to investigate what areas of the brain are activated in a person speaking his native language (L1) versus the areas of the brain activated by a person speaking a second language (L2). Additionally, the researchers seek to investigate whether the age of L2 acquisition affect “patterns of acquision” within the brain, or whether language proficiency has more affect over the activated areas within the brain (Perani et al. 1998, p. 1841).

The introduction also offers other areas for which this research is useful, for example, “language ...

Summary

In the article M&A Needn’t be a Loser’s Game, which was published in the June, 2003 issue of the Harvard Business Review, the authors Larry Selden and Geoffrey Colvin (2003) described the results of their study where they identified some of the reasons behind the failure of most mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Based on their findings, they also provided recommendations on how to ensure the success of these endeavors.
Selden and Colvin (2003) cited that 70 to 80 percent of acquisitions failed, which meant that these acquisitions failed to create wealth for the acquiring company’s shareholders. ...

Critical Review

Thesis
This is a critical review on research paper Case Studies on Successful M&A Practices in Acer & Lenovo: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective. The first section of this paper will discuss the purpose, rationale and related literature of this research paper. The second section will discuss the research methodology and design used in this paper. The final section will discuss the main findings and the implication related to this study.

Introduction

Historical information shows that about 70% of the M&A (merger & acquisitions) have led to value destruction and only 30% of the M&A lead to value creation. This case of empirical ...

The study aims to address and evaluate the influence of age on second-language acquisition. It revealed the critical period hypothesis for the second language (L2) acquisition. According to Flege, Munro and Mackay, in examining the immigrant populations, participants’ age of arrival (AOA) in the host country forms a very vital and important part. AOA is an important factor or determinant to gauge the degree of foreign accent as well as degree of accuracy in the pronunciation of L2 and the study intents to confirm this widely accepted belief.

The observation of age effect on the L2 performance of individuals forms ...

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Chapter 4 - Acquisition and Measurement
Many Happy Returns
It is essential for organizations to assess the financial impact of the investment in a new form of technology. This can be best achieved through evaluation of the total cost of ownership (TCO) and the returns on investment (ROI). This can be achieved through simple calculations, payback data and economic value analysis. The lack of a proper quantification method can lead to tremendous losses.

Concepts to Clusters: The Real Technology Chasm

Investment in appropriate forms of technology can yield tremendous success for any company. Since constant evolution of technology enhances its quality and overall service delivery, it ...

The article under review is titled “The critical period for language acquisition: Evidence from second language learning” by Catherine Snow and Marian Hoefnagal-Hohle.

The article was developed to deal with the common debate that common formulation of the critical period hypothesis that younger is always better in L2A. The article claims that according to critical period hypothesis, first language acquisition needs to take place prior to the completion of cerebral lateralization, around puberty age.
The authors make one anticipation of the aforesaid hypothesis, stating that second language acquisition is likely to be more rapid, successful, and qualitatively same ...

Reflections to journal articles

Language, language acquisition and language teaching are areas of interest that have engaged the attention of linguists, psychologists and educationists for centuries. Zest in research in these areas continues with new issues being raised as a consequence of development in technology and means of communication. While experts continue to discuss first and second language acquisition, the truth is that it is difficult to find an individual who uses one pure language. Increasing contacts between language communities in a global scenario have resulted in bilingualism and multilingualism. According to Kumar and Yunus, “No society speaks just ‘a language’ that is ‘pure’ in its ...

Article 1

Business strategies can be of many natures including mergers and acquisition. Acquisitions assist in attaining total control of the market and cost of production which is the main objective of Delta Air Lines. The management decided to acquire the Trainer refinery located in Philadelphia. This would cost the company about $ 150 million as initial cost and $ 100 million to make an overhaul of the refinery thus increasing the fuel extracted. This cost would be incomparable to the benefit acquired, which would be reduced cost of the fuel prices spent by the company. The escalating cost of fuel has driven ...

The privately held parent company of Nicolet National Bank, Nicolet Bankshares Inc., has announced that it will acquire the publicly traded Mid-Wisconsin Financial Services, the parent company of Mid-Wisconsin Bank. This merger will extend Nicolet’s control over Northern Wisconsin with a more diversified loan portfolio and will create the sixth-largest holding company headquartered in Wisconsin.
Mike Daniels, the president of Nicolet National Bank, revealed that Nicolet needed to grow to overcome the approaching regulatory burdens from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The acquisition of smaller community banks is one of several ways they can ...

Article Review: Apple buys mobile security firm AuthenTec for $356 million

This article regards the acquisition of a fingerprint sensor by the Apple Company from the technology developer Authen Tec. The article reveals that the technology can be used in individual computers and mobile appliances. This essay provides a review of the plans to acquire the fingerprint sensor from its manufacturer at the price of 356 million dollars.
In the introduction, the article provides a preview of the price of the shares that Apple agreed to purchase the fingerprint sensor. The article reveals that the fingerprint sensor manufacturer agreed at $8 per share. At this price, the article says that Apple gets ...

Animal cognition is the mental capacity of animals as well as the study of animals’ mental capacity. The study of mental capacities of animals has stemmed from comparative psychology, which includes studying the conditioning of animals and their learning. Working memory is a major executive function that makes up the cognitive system and deals with information by providing transient holding, processing as well as manipulation. The study of working memory in animals has mainly focused on spatial memory with most of the studies trying to provide a clarification for spatial memory psychological basis together with the hippocampus role.
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Article Summary

Abstract
Humor is considered as the effective means of enhancing the wellbeing of the individuals by means of developing the positive inclinations in the individuals and become socially active. Humor is categorized in two categories, adaptive and maladaptive humor, hence, their effects are considered to alter the wellbeing of the individuals. The humor exercises are found to be effective in enhancing the mental health of the individuals. The current study was aimed to determine the effectiveness of humor, gratitude and savoring exercises on the wellbeing of the individuals. The participants of the study in a control group incorporated the ...

Klein, D. V. (1990). Foiling the cracker: A survey of, and improvements to, password security. In Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Security Workshop (pp. 5-14).

The article ‘‘Foiling the Cracker’’: A Survey of, and Improvements to, Password

Security by Daniel V. Klein was published in 1990. Klein looks into system security and discusses how people can hack passwords. He claims that the issue of security has always been a challenge to most individual accounts as there are people who know how to manipulate such accounts such that they hack them and get vital information about another party. He discusses the various ways in which technology has motivated the interference of system ...

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Introduction
The article, ‘The Mountain of Motor Development: A Metaphor,’ by Clark and Metcalfe, is about understanding the human motor development all throughout his lifespan. According to the authors, just like many scientific phenomena, a man’s motor development may be difficult to conceptualize (Clark & Metcalfe 2). For the same reason, several ways have been devised in order to facilitate its understanding. Two methods have been described as the most common methods employed by those who wish to teach or instruct a certain phenomenon and that is through the creation of a model or a metaphor. A ...

Chapter 1 – Perspectives

The 5 × 7 Business Technology Strategy
The 5 × 7 Business Technology Strategy is a consulting practice which aims to help the organizations to optimize their technology investments. Going through the strategy I found that some of the steps can be particularly effective. Segmenting the operational and strategic layers of business will surely help in effective management of resources. Decentralization and private hosting of the website will also help in the daily and easy upgrade to the website. One of the steps which I feel the most important is assessing the present as well as future security threats and being ...

Part 1. Differences between quantitative and qualitative research

Research is the parlance used to refer to the search of knowledge. It is described by Kothari (2004) as both a scientific and systematic search for information and an art of scientific investigation. There are two approaches used in research, namely quantitative and qualitative research and they vary greatly on how the research is done. Quantitative research only uses measurable data to analyze while the qualitative research approach mainly uses data that are narrative and subjective. The goal or research objective of quantitative data is to use statistical models using a systematic procedure. This approach uses various steps to progress logically ...

Article Summary

Mental accounting is a group of cognitive operations that households and individuals use individuals to organise, evaluate, and keep track of business operations. The article summarises the current state of our components of mental knowledge about how people engage in mental accounting. The article is a depth analysis of mental accounting in relation to personal decision-making. The author starts by introducing mental accounting. According to the author, the difference between mental accounting and financial and managerial accounting is the fact that mental accounting involves households and individuals and not organisations.
The other also highlights the process of mental decision-making. The ...

It is important to study about language and verbal behavior because it helps understand other people in a better way. Language or verbal behavior is defined as an operant behavior, which is strengthened by other people’s mediation (Skinner, 1957). This can be well explained as a practical relationship existing between the behavior of a person speaking, as well as the conditions in their environment. However, in this relationship, an important question, on how reinforcement between the speaker and the other people occurs arises.
According to research, it is clear that children acquire a number of language skills mainly without any instructions. ...

Psychology

Anxiety disorders are occurrences in our human life today. They can affect everyone in the society, and its effects are extensive in the society as well. There are several factors that play a significant role in the existent and development of anxiety disorders among human beings (WITTCHEN, STEIN, & KESSLER, 2009, p. 13). One of the elemental factors that relate to anxiety disorders is biological preparedness. The anxiety disorder presented includes fears and phobias towards different aspects in the environment.
Graham explains the uneven distribution of the fears through various evolutionary and mechanistic explanations. Psychological or behavioral mechanisms explain the ...

Purpose of the study and research questions

The primary purpose of the current research was to assess if listening strategies that have been utilized for a long time in different studies are correctly collated to measure the use of language be the English learners. The research questions comprised of the following;
- Whether the listening strategies utilized by the university students at the department at the department if English Language Teaching, Mersin University exhibit any differences with regards to proficiency levels.
- Which are the primary listening strategies utilized by Turkish EFL students.
- Whether listening strategies utilized by the university students at the ...

The article by Lihoreau et al. describes a comprehensive study about the important but not fully understood ability of some insects to define optimized foraging routes for feeding purposes. Even though some aspects of the routing strategies have been studied, a major knowledge gap are the underlying mechanisms of insects for tracing routes at large scales (Lihoreau et al., 2013). The authors propose that building the routes requires a gradual acquisition of information about the spatial location of the sites of interest as well as the travelling linkages between them. Important challenges of large scale studies are to efficiently capture all insect ...

A second language can be any language that is acquired by an individual after the acquisition of the mother’s language which is believed to be the first language regardless of where one is born. This type of language can be regarded as an auxiliary language to a person. In most cases, such language can be used after a thorough practice resulting from learning on acquiring it. It can be as a result of movement from one place to another or through a continuous interaction with the people who use that same language adapted by another individual. In most cases, if a person can ...

The first article titled Home Economics: Will Rising Food Prices Ruin the Recovery written by Michael Schuman in the Time discloses the problem of food prices and its importance to the global economy. The rise of prices is usually caused by droughts and other unsuitable weather conditions. However, the food is one of the basic conditions of life on the Earth. Therefore, the rising of food prices causes two very important changes. First, it is consumption effect. Families, who are to allocate larger share of their weekly income on food basics, are forced to save money on something else: ...

Treating apraxia of speech (AOS) with EMA-supplied visual augmented

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In 1999, Katz et al. explored EMA as a means of remediating fricative articulation deficits. They conducted this experiment on a 63-year-old woman with Broca’s aphasia and moderate-to-severe AOS. For 1-month she was provided with: EMA visual feedback for tongue tip position during fricative production and foil treatment in which a computer program delivered voicing-contrast stimuli for simple repetition. There was improvement from the visually guided feedback. The phonetic contrast treated in the foil condition showed only slight improvement, with a return to baseline 10 weeks later. A number of studies have shown that facilitatory effects ...

In the software industry software as a service (SaaS), is an emerging business model that has attracted interests of a number of consumers in the global market. SaaS model works on the same principles like the application service provider model and it has been found that SaaS can provide software to user’s laptops and computers for application processes. Further studies have revealed that the emergence of SaaS has been brought about by the development of the internet know-hows, since these technologies acts as the founding stone for the SaaS business model as well as the main driver and propelling factor ...

Monkeys from HIV-Like Infection

Microbiology: Journal Review

“Experimental Vaccine Partially Protects Monkeys from HIV-Like Infection”
www.ScienceDaily.com

Many websites are available for serious researchers to access and share information. Unfortunately the mass media for the most part does not offer journalists with expertise in science. People are interested in the health of their families and need to know about medical research. The www.ScienceDaily.com is a website that offers the most recent research and scientific news in non-scientific language. This paper reviews an article from the ScienceDaily.com website. Three scientific research websites are evaluated.

Too many people are being infected by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus ( ...