Ofsted's redefinition of satisfactory performance as unsatisfactory had been "both a distortion of the English language and a profoundly depressing judgement for many heads, " he added.

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The performance also included elements of Portuguese culture, such as language, poetry, and certain musical instruments.

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They do know, however, that the language and the reality of "performance gaps" in economic performance, in the health service, in education and elsewhere has hardened into more than unfathomable statistics and stark headlines.

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Reading, going to work and navigating a busy life may be enough to maintain brain health, but lifting performance takes massive amounts of practice--learning a new language, taking regular music lessons, doing complex jigsaw puzzles--to produce enough chemicals to make synapses stronger.

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Samoan Language Week kicks off at Wellington East Girls College on Tuesday 31 May with students from around the Wellington region celebrating the language of Samoa in song, oratory and performance.

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"The benefit of a natural-language approach is that you get performance superior to regular keyword searches, " says Jackie Fenn, a vice president at Stamford, Conn.

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By an accident of language we use the same term for these products and performance enhancing materials as we do for illicit drugs like crack cocaine and heroin.

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Speaking at the 2011 High Performance Computing for Wall Street, Edward Epstein of IBM Research, explained that Watson was designed to work with natural language content and deep analysis drawing on all the available content.

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The advent of modern optimizing compilers and many fold enhancements in computing hardware performance have now eliminated the need to use an assembly language in most applications and most applications are now written in higher level languages.

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