Wednesday‚ March 4‚ 2009 Which variety of English do you speak/teach? I teach in Japan‚ where a standard American dialect (which one I don’t really know) is strongly encouraged‚ unless you teach in places like the British council (which many of my friends have). I have been living in this pseudo English environment (American dialect‚ international friends and teacher talk) so long that it has started to affect my own use and pronunciation of English. Every time I go back to Australia‚ my friends
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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA Principle of economic – assignment 2 Prepared by Donald Mak The price of fruit and vegetables keep rising recently. According to Todd (2011)‚ popular salad and fresh juice have removed from the menus due to the rise of fruit and vegetable price after the Queensland flood. The research showed that price of pumpkin has tripled from $1.5 to $6 and price of pineapple have increased from $28 a box to $56 a box. (Todd 2011) Regarding to this issue‚ the Australian
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During fluidized bed combustion potassium and calcium from biomass ash can react with quartz (SiO2) from the bed sand already at the normal operation temperatures of 700−900 °C‚ forming a layer of Ca‚K-silicate onto the bed particle. The layer becomes thicker in time‚ and the particle size increases. The layer is sticky‚ and the bed particles can agglomerate together increasing the bed particle size further. During unsteady operation of the boiler‚ or on an occasional excursion to high temperature
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Henri Fayol Theory Principles of Management" have been a significant influence on modern management theory. His practical list of principles helped early 20th century managers learn how to organize and interact with their employees in a productive way. Although the 14 Principles aren’t widely used today‚ they can still offer guidance for today’s managers. Many of the principles are now considered to be common sense‚ but at the time they were revolutionary concepts for organizational management.
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History of knowledge management practices in the McKinsey & company This case tell us about how McKinsey and Company applied Knowledge Management practices in their company. McKinsey started to applied the knowledge management to face four things 1. the effect of economic turmoil of the oil crisis‚ 2. the slowing of the divisionalization process that had fueled the European Expansion‚ 3. the growing ot sophistication of client management‚ and 4. the appearance of the new focused
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How do deaf people use telephones? What about doorbells and alarm clocks? There are many everyday devises that we hearing people take for granted‚ among these are telephones‚ smoke alarms‚ doorbells‚ and alarm clocks. When we look at how members of the deaf community use these everyday items we must consider that members within the community have very different communication needs‚ abilities‚ and preferences. Hard-of-hearing people for example can use a standard telephone with the addition of
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Solar Energy‚ usually refers to the sun radiation Energy‚ in the modern society‚ generally used for power generation. Since the earth created creatures‚ those creatures depended on the heat and light of the sun‚ band also human beings knew to dry the objects in the sunlight‚ by which they kept food‚ such as salt-making and drying of salted fish‚ etc. But with the reduction of fossil fuel resources‚ then people are disposed to develop solar energy further. The methods of solar energy using include
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Erik Erikson believed that individual development takes place in a social context. He believed that development is a lifelong process. His theory contains eight stages of development that occur at different points in an individual’s life. At each stage‚ the individual has‚ what he believed as‚ a developmental crisis. Developmental crises are issues in the stage that must be dealt with in order to move on to the next stage. Each stage offers an outcome as to what will happen if the crisis is not resolved
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Individual report How creativity has been applied to a business idea or problem To make a business grow and achieve productive and efficient results you need to invoke creativity which has always been an essential business skill. Since long time creativity has been applied to a business world as companies seek to use it in all parts of the organization to make it gain more profits and to be exceptional from others. A business person has to find unique solutions every day and he has to know
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2. Discuss how Skinner’s principles of operant conditioning can be applied to personality development. Operant conditioning (the shaping of behavior through reward and punishment)is a form of learning in which voluntary responses come to be controlled by their consequences. It probably governments a larger share of human behaviour than classical conditioning. Since most human responses are voluntary rather than reflexive. The study of operant conditioning was led by B.F.Skinner. Skinner demonstrated
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