CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION Tourism is, according to the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (2002a), the world’s largest economical sector. In 2002, tourism in South African had a growth rate of 11.1 % in foreign arrivals from the previous year. That accounted for 6,4 million foreign tourists (South African Tourism, 2003). In 2003 it grew with another 1.2 % to 6,5 million tourists (South African Tourism, 2004), and in 2004, the number had increased to more than 6,8 million
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Risk and Protective Factors for Depression: Implications for Prevention Depression in Children and Adolescents Linking Risk Research and Prevention Judy Garber, PhD Abstract: The National Institute of Mental Health has called for translational research linking basic knowledge about vulnerabilities that underlie mood disorders to the development of effective preventive interventions. This paper highlights research about risk factors for depression in children and adolescents and links it to current
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ork2012 - 2013 Catalog A Message from the President “Sullivan University is truly a unique and student success focused institution.” I have shared that statement with numerous groups and it simply summarizes my basic philosophy of what Sullivan is all about. When I say that Sullivan is “student success focused,” I feel as President that I owe a definition of this statement to all who are considering Sullivan University. First, Sullivan is unique among institutions of higher education with
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THE EFFECTIVENESS BANANA (MUSA X PARADISIACA) PEELS USED AS FERTILIZER APPLIED IN DIFFERENT KINDS OF PLANTS SAMPLES RESEARCHER: BERLENE GAIL H. LAMA CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the study A banana peel, known as a banana skin in British English, is the outer covering of the banana fruit. As bananas, whether eaten raw or cooked, are a popular fruit consumed worldwide, with yearly production over 145 million tonnes in 2011, there is a significant amount of banana peel waste being
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interest. In 2003, the Court, in Gratz v. Bollinger,1 ruled that while student diversity in educational institutions may be a compelling interest, an affirmative action program that assigned points to applicants of minority races was unconstitutional.2 In 2007, in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1,3 it held that two public school district plans that used race-based enrollment targets for student assignments failed strict scrutiny because the districts neither proved
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Journal of Operations Management 17 Ž1998. 59–75 The TQM Paradox: Relations among TQM practices, plant performance, and customer satisfaction Thomas Y. Choi ) , Karen Eboch Department of Management, College of Business Administration, Bowling Green State UniÕersity, Bowling Green, OH 43403-0270, USA Received 14 January 1997; accepted 17 November 1997 Abstract We empirically examine a mediational model of TQM, in which TQM practices have a direct impact on customer satisfaction and an indirect
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University of Chicago The University of Chicago Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market Author(s): Morris M. Kleiner and Alan B. Krueger Source: Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 31, No. 2, The Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (Part 2, April 2013), pp. S173-S202 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Society of Labor Economists and the NORC at the University of Chicago Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/669060 . Accessed:
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Williams & Wilkins ISBN: 0-7817-4802-X Authors Dedication Quote Preface to Third Edition Preface to First Edition Acknowledgments Table of Contents Section I - Basic Science Review Basic Science Review Chapter 1 - Circulatory Blood Flow Chapter 2 - Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Transport Section II - Preventive Practices in the Critically Ill Preventive Practices in the Critically Ill Chapter 3 - Infection Control in the ICU Chapter 4 - Alimentary Prophylaxis Chapter 5 - Venous Thromboembolism Section
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1 Rationale and aims of the research 6 1.2 Who are asylum seekers? 6 1.3 Asylum seekers: their right to health and health care 8 1.4 Asylum seekers in Ireland 9 1.5 Asylum seekers in the North Western region 2 Background 12 15 2.1 Food choice is a complex phenomenon 15 2.2 Nutritional status, diet and food poverty 18 2.3 The social determinants of food poverty for asylum
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i n t e r n a t i o n a l j o u r n a l o f h y d r o g e n e n e r g y 4 0 ( 2 0 1 5 ) 1 6 2 5 e1 6 3 8 Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/he Changing the fate of Fuel Cell Vehicles: Can lessons be learnt from Tesla Motors? Scott Hardman a,*, Eric Shiu b, Robert Steinberger-Wilckens a Centre for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK b Birmingham
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