acquaintances and also family. This study focuses on determining the effects of social networking on the academic performance of students if social network are really the reason why most of the students can’t concentrate on their academic activities. The importance of this study is very helpful to our young generation. In this study we can simply determined the bad and good effects of this social networking sites to the class or academic performance of the students. This study will let the people know how
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Young Consumers Credit card use: disposable income and employment status Joshua Fogel Mayer Schneider Article information: To cite this document: Joshua Fogel Mayer Schneider, (2011),"Credit card use: disposable income and employment status", Young Consumers, Vol. 12 Iss 1 pp. 5 - 14 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17473611111114740 Downloaded on: 26 November 2015, At: 00:30 (PT) References: this document contains references to 29 other documents. To copy this document:
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also increasing inquiry into the exact predictors that affect teacher efficiency vis-à-vis student level of achievement. Teaching competence and teacher impact on students may largely determine whether or not the student will fail or succeed in his studies. Through students’ individual differences need to be considered in the teaching-learning process, a very challenging role of improving mankind and enlightening the world to guide the young to the right path lies in the teacher’s hands. Likewise
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directions 2) getting the main idea 3) noting details 4) predicting outcomes and 5) making inferences. These five skills are relevant needs of the students today. According to Aristotle, we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit. Same goes for reading as long as there is practice, it is not
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UNDERSTANDING ADDICTION The word “addiction” may conjure up an image of a sluggish heroin junkie or an erratic crack head. It could also bring to mind a chain smoker or a staggering drunk. Once reserved to describe the state of clinical dependence on a substance as a result of extended abuse, the concept of addiction is widening and includes activities that seem less obviously harmful at the surface. Addiction may not always be as visible as track marks or as noticeably threatening as a drunk-driving
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Education is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research. On-the-job training, also known as OJT, is teaching the skills, knowledge, and competencies that are needed to perform a specific job within the workplace and work environment. On-the-job training uses the regular or existing workplace tools, machines, documents, equipment
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Executive Summary Recent studies shows that one of the main challenges which most countries are facing is the increasing proportion of chronic sick in their population. As one of the solutions, the application of personal wearable devices with corresponding system software are more and more popular in various aspects of healthcare. By utilizing modern techniques such as Body Sensor Network and General Packet Radio Service, the recent body sensor network systems continually collect user’s real-time
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a large number of students are tending to suffer from neck pain with the popularization of computers as well as the growing loads of study. Whereas, specific research on teenager neck pain seems to be vague, clear clues have not shown to the public. Over the last 5 months, the research conducted in this area has worked out the conclusion that improper living habits are threatening teenagers’ health of their neck. Detailed information about the prevalence and causing factors for the disease are displayed
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Behavior therapy and highly controlled learning environments became the primary treatments during the 1980s and 1990s. During the 1990s a concern arose that the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine contributed to the development of Autism, but a study published in 1998 that theorized there could be a link has been retracted because there is little evidence to support that theory (Mayo Clinic, 2010). Other common myths include autistic children cannot be affectionate; if a child makes eye contact
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Access to higher education Psychology assignment (karon Chewter 7nd March 2016) Psychology applied to health Health psychology is the study of health, illnessillness, and health care practice. Health psychology as a unique area of psychology came to the forefront in the 1970s and has since grown. (Gross.R 2005) Health psychology is an exciting and relatively new field devoted to understanding psychological influences on how
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