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Using the examples of mice and rabbits from the lecture, describe the two different types of factors that can cause population changes.
Population Changes
Populations of living beings are constantly changing. The number of humans, animals, insects, or plants living in a given area can vary because of two kinds of factors: biotic and abiotic. Biotic factors are living factors that can influence the size of populations, such as predators or other species competing for food. Abiotic factors are nonliving things in the surrounding environment that can cause population changes, such as weather or sunlight. Biotic and abiotic factors cause continual changes in the number of individuals that make up a population of organisms.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-10 | Elena Cristina | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-18 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-05-10 | Elena Cristina | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1293.0 592.248995984 218% => OK
No of words: 323.0 155.574297189 208% => Need less no. of words.
Chars per words: 4.00309597523 3.80514564318 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23936324884 3.525876923 120% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.224961755 1.79077849142 124% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 93.7148594378 179% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520123839009 0.604071249207 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 432.9 185.844578313 233% => The syllable count is high.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0319766619866 0.0650381309087 49% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 24.0 4.35341365462 551% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 13.5416666667 68.503853103 20% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 9.65651406507 21.3332995233 45% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 4.50833333333 25.9943957902 17% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 2.89711734124 7.84667146824 37% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 44.0 42.0642570281 105% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.34090909091 4.02192344571 183% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.12830133358 3.1217529195 132% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.23772727273 1.45093177766 154% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.12820626668 0.99851816184 113% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 33.0 39.0421686747 85% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.63 7.12997991968 93% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.200909090909 0.185688545393 108% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.146149853282 0.155154303396 94% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 88.85 47.1480722892 188% => Less content wanted.
Average word duration: 0.275077399381 0.305395592593 90% => OK
STD word duration: 0.17851011423 0.189427763521 94% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 16.0 7.94979919679 201% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 11.93 6.2937751004 190% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 8.91 3.39508032129 262% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 108.2 59.7592369478 181% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.80333333333 0.995987282463 181% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.304990757856 0.656000678711 46% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.98521256932 2.60215298798 115% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.55268022181 1.56821927147 99% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.89082723692 1.99336655568 95% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.751296133127 0.317803793328 236% => Good job. You may have good pronunciations.
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The speech is either too short or too long. It should be in 60 seconds.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.