public health concern because of its effect on the future of a child. The goal of the current study is to assess the primary psychosocial factors that predict problem drinking among college students. Variables examined included demographic variables, personality, drinking history, alcohol expectancies, drinking motives, stress and coping, activity involvement, and peer and family influence. Evidence from studies of college drinking indicated that the variables associated with
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The Decline and Fall of Literature November 4, 1999 ANDREW DELBANCO E-mail Print [pic]Share [pic] [pic]In Plato’s Cave[pic] by Alvin Kernan A couple of years ago, in an article explaining how funds for faculty positions are allocated in American universities, the provost of the University of California at Berkeley offered some frank advice to department chairs, whose job partly consists of lobbying for a share of the budget. “On every campus,” she wrote, “there is one department whose
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approaches is essential, since it influences the organization's approach to business and the way in which they compete. It is also important in international business since it drives the Multinational Company’s ability to reduce cost or respond to local market demands (Bartlett and Ghoshal, 1998). According to Walters (1986) standardization is the implementation of a similar or uniform marketing programme or process across national borders. The standardization strategy indicates the use of a unique
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FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF HOTEL MANAGEMENT MASTER’S THESIS STUDY PROGRAM: THESIS IS WRITTEN IN THE FOLLOWING SPECIALIZATION/SUBJECT: Festival and Event Management IS THE ASSIGNMENT CONFIDENTIAL? MSc in International Hotel and Tourism Leadership No TITLE: Benefits of multi-stakeholder groups for participating in Gladmat festival AUTHOR ADVISOR: Prof. Reidar Johan Mykletun Student number: 215519 ………………… 214504 ………………… Name: Ambassador Rezene Meretse ……………………………………
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explorations, use of texts, films, short stories and other multi-media resources, contrastive case studies of cultures, group encounters and role plays. Introduction Sir Francis Bacon said that if a man was gracious and courteous to strangers, it showed that he was a citizen of the world, and that his heart was no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joined them. The present work force even in local contexts demands global skills such as excellent communication skills. Regardless of the
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Hypnosis Therapy to Promote Positive Weight Loss Hypnosis for Weight Loss: Abstract: OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to observe the effects of the use of hypnotherapy (or hypnosis) for advancement of a weight-loss program. Hypnotherapy has been seen to be a valuable tool so far in the modifications of problem behaviors, such as overeating for a person who is overweight or obese. The hypothesis of the research proposal is that those
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Research Methodology Name Institutional Affiliations Chapter III: Research Methodology 3.1 Introduction The methodology chapter will identify and discuss the methods of research applied in the current study and justify their ability to achieve the predetermined objectives and aims. The principal concepts for discussion in the chapter will include the type of research, time and location of research, sampling and data collection, measures of variables, data analysis, and the ethical consideration
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Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction/Background of the Study Reading is an interactive, problem-solving process of making meaning from texts. It is a complex interaction between the text, the reader and the purposes for reading, which are shaped by the reader’s prior knowledge and experiences, the reader’s knowledge about reading and writing language and the reader’s language community which is culturally and socially situated. (Hughes, 2007) The reading process
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their unconditional help. Table of content No of the topic | Name of the topic | 1 | Introduction | 2 | Usage of Internet | 3 | Modern Uses | 4 | Internet in Bangladesh | 5 | Current Trend | 6 | Research Purpose | 7 | Review of Literature | 8 | Hypothesis | 9 | Contradictory research | 10 | Method | 11 | Result | 12 | Discussion | 13 | Limitations | 14 | Source | Introduction: The Internet is a global network connecting millions of computers. More than 100 countries
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Review of Research School Leadership Study Developing Successful Principals Stephen Davis Linda Darling-Hammond Michelle LaPointe Debra Meyerson Stanford Educational Leadership Institute Commissioned by The Wallace Foundation SELI Stanford University School of Education 520 Galvez Mall Stanford, CA 94305-3084 Phone: 650.724.7384 Fax: 650.723.9931 Email: principalstudy@stanford.edu http://seli.stanford.edu This report was commissioned by The Wallace Foundation and produced
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