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Directly observed treatment, short-course. Directly observed treatment, short-course ( DOTS, also known as TB-DOTS) is the name given to the tuberculosis (TB) control strategy recommended by the World Health Organization. [1] According to WHO, "The most cost-effective way to stop the spread of TB in communities with a high incidence is by ...
Left: Halftone dots. Right: Example of how the human eye would see the dots from a sufficient distance. Halftone is the reprographic technique that simulates continuous-tone imagery through the use of dots, varying either in size or in spacing, thus generating a gradient-like effect. [ 1] ". Halftone" can also be used to refer specifically to ...
Like most other Niger–Congo languages, Sesotho is a tonal language, spoken with two basic tones, high (H) and low (L). The Sesotho grammatical tone system (unlike the lexical tone system used in Mandarin, for example) is rather complex and uses a large number of "sandhi" rules. However, the Sesotho system is by no means the most complicated ...
Botts' dots ( turtles in Washington and Oregon or buttons in Texas and other southern states) are round non-reflective ceramic [ 1] raised pavement markers. In many parts of the US, Botts' dots are used, along with reflective raised pavement markers, to mark lanes on highways and arterial roads. They provide tactile and auditory feedback to ...
Paperback. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, A linguistically-oriented, but easy-to-use phrasebook and grammar, with an 8,000 word Vietnamese-English, English-Vietnamese dictionary. De-scribes differences in Vietnamese dialects, outlines pronunciation and tonal system as well as basic sentence patterns.
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. [1] All oral languages use pitch to express emotional and other para-linguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously ...
skillshabits of manipulating tonal images and habits of employing. the motor skills. required in correlating the singing voice with tonal images. Most important. to the. solution of all singing problems is a positive attitude on the part of. both teacher and. pupil. (This manual. a product of the research reported in TE 499 967. contains
Mezzotint. Saint Agnes, mezzotint by John Smith after Godfrey Kneller, usually thought to be a portrait of Kneller's daughter, Catherine Voss, by his mistress [ 1] Mezzotint is a monochrome printmaking process of the intaglio family. It was the first printing process that yielded half-tones without using line- or dot-based techniques like ...