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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-07 | bishoy | 86.50 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-11-16 | fahim135 | 55.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-08 | toeflbeginner | 52.50 | Check this speaking |
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- Some people believe that primary schools should no longer teach children how to write by hand, and instead should spend time teaching them how to type on a computer. Other people believe that it is still important for schools to teach children to have goo 70
- TPO 32 - Question 2Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Children should receive money for doing household tasks such as cleaning. Use specific examples and details to support your opinion. 83
- TPO 34 - Question 1Your university plans to open a cafe inside the campus library. Do you think this is a good idea? Explain why or why not. 60
- TPO 29 - Question 1Which of the following jobs or careers do you think would be most rewarding?University professorEnvironmental scientistNewspaper journalistChoose one career and explain why you think it would be most rewarding. Use details and examples 65
- Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation. 50
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 499.0 592.248995984 84% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 136.0 155.574297189 87% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.66911764706 3.80514564318 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.41495297035 3.525876923 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.43001001158 1.79077849142 80% => Word Length is similar.
Unique words: 85.0 93.7148594378 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.625 0.604071249207 103% => OK
Syllable count: 150.3 185.844578313 81% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19417670683 92% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0635998393798 0.0650381309087 98% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 9.0 4.35341365462 207% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 15.1111111111 68.503853103 22% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 17.8602254835 21.3332995233 84% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.24555555556 25.9943957902 24% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 6.68492019584 7.84667146824 85% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 49.0 42.0642570281 116% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.77551020408 4.02192344571 69% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.99248901999 3.1217529195 64% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.03448979592 1.45093177766 71% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.651024502578 0.99851816184 65% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 49.0 39.0421686747 126% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.25 7.12997991968 102% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.147959183673 0.185688545393 80% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.113298947017 0.155154303396 73% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 43.3 47.1480722892 92% => OK
Average word duration: 0.318382352941 0.305395592593 104% => OK
STD word duration: 0.178256344612 0.189427763521 94% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 7.94979919679 113% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.61 6.2937751004 105% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.68 3.39508032129 108% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.21 59.7592369478 94% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.936833333333 0.995987282463 94% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.871731008717 0.656000678711 133% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.41949830991 2.60215298798 93% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.51218644369 1.56821927147 96% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.96304849885 1.99336655568 98% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.377012360294 0.317803793328 119% => OK
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.