Response to the Plan for an Additional Lighting System
I oppose the university’s plan to purchase an additional outdoor lighting system. The university says it would make our historic campus more attractive by illuminating our buildings at night. However, the university would spend an extra $1,000 per month for electricity. Instead, I recommend the money be used to complete the library renovation project as quickly as possible.
That’s not the only reason we shouldn't get the new system. These powerful lights would brighten the sky as well as the buildings and seriously interfere with the use of our astronomy equipment. Our academic mission must come first - and the practice of astronomy is done best when the sky is darkest.
—R. N. Heinrich, Professor of Astronomy
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| 2018-09-13 | Shuvra Biswas | 76.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-08-16 | mike10m1 | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-02 | bishoy | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-02 | bishoy | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 668.0 593.389002037 113% => OK
No of words: 177.0 154.784114053 114% => OK
Chars per words: 3.77401129944 3.82920900774 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64748333727 3.52088357496 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.04049463924 1.81998168104 112% => OK
Unique words: 100.0 93.7942973523 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.564971751412 0.608046397892 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 216.0 185.724439919 116% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0630093899319 0.0833886788687 76% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 5.0 3.90020366599 128% => OK
Average paragraph length: 35.4 71.3690273242 50% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 36.4065928095 24.1299301424 151% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 11.832 26.8388033085 44% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 12.1346617588 8.89323425527 136% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 35.0 40.266802444 87% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.05714285714 4.20756893501 120% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.12540609606 3.23972648638 96% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.60685714286 1.51236819293 106% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.766508862789 1.0352206224 74% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 35.0 37.9022403259 92% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.01 7.22384928717 83% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.171714285714 0.193825474362 89% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.138635920192 0.16431695912 84% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.62 46.6644602851 104% => OK
Average word duration: 0.274689265537 0.304040633073 90% => OK
STD word duration: 0.161707134133 0.193491353168 84% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 8.88594704684 90% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.63 6.97134419552 81% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.34 3.21433808554 73% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.16 59.1375356415 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.986 0.985625594026 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.591615956728 0.643888735843 92% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.99188640974 2.61565628039 114% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.69033130494 1.58604529434 107% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.05676676265 2.01333574461 102% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.514231225989 0.322651457988 159% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.