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TPO 48 - Question 4
Optimal Foraging
Food provides animals with the energy they need to survive. However, animals also lose energy in the process of obtaining, or foraging, for food. Therefore, in order to conserve energy, many animals behave in ways that minimize the energy they expend in the foraging process while at the same time maximizing their nutritional benefits. This energy-efficient approach to obtaining food is known as optimal foraging. The practice of optimal foraging allows animals to expend the least possible amount of energy while at the same time obtaining prey with high food value that will provide them with necessary nutrients.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-27 | Pratice | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-18 | Aftab1 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-12 | mgrajapt | Check this speaking | |
| 2017-01-13 | -vv- | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-08 | toeflbeginner | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 704.0 592.248995984 119% => OK
No of words: 199.0 155.574297189 128% => OK
Chars per words: 3.53768844221 3.80514564318 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.75589349951 3.525876923 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.49952645236 1.79077849142 84% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 93.7148594378 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.587939698492 0.604071249207 97% => OK
Syllable count: 225.0 185.844578313 121% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19417670683 92% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.105317265526 0.0650381309087 162% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.35341365462 69% => OK
Average paragraph length: 66.3333333333 68.503853103 97% => OK
STD paragraph length: 28.0515398666 21.3332995233 131% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 20.1066666667 25.9943957902 77% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 8.56442383092 7.84667146824 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 38.0 42.0642570281 90% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.23684210526 4.02192344571 130% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.65343229595 3.1217529195 149% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.54605263158 1.45093177766 107% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.18886177204 0.99851816184 119% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 39.0 39.0421686747 100% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.23 7.12997991968 73% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.134102564103 0.185688545393 72% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.0995043601343 0.155154303396 64% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 51.44 47.1480722892 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.258492462312 0.305395592593 85% => OK
STD word duration: 0.13704248211 0.189427763521 72% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 7.94979919679 50% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.75 6.2937751004 44% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.24 3.39508032129 37% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.32 59.7592369478 101% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.00533333333 0.995987282463 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.646551724138 0.656000678711 99% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.29907161804 2.60215298798 127% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.93965517241 1.56821927147 124% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.27449455677 1.99336655568 114% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.343931673367 0.317803793328 108% => 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.