ARTICLE IN PRESS Sleep Medicine Reviews (2006) 10‚ 323–337 www.elsevier.com/locate/smrv CLINICAL REVIEW Sleep loss‚ learning capacity and academic performance Giuseppe Curcioa‚Â Michele Ferraraa‚b‚ Luigi De Gennaroa a Department of Psychology‚ University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’‚ Rome‚ Italy Department of Internal Medicine and Public Health‚ University of L’Aquila‚ Rome‚ Italy b KEYWORDS Sleep deprivation; Learning; Memory; Academic performance; Neurocognitive functioning;
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Abstract Assessing the strategies of CEO David Jones to globalize Rayovac’s battery and flashlight business during 1999 to 2004 will determine if globalizing was strategically sound. An assessment on the attractiveness of each industry Spectrum diversified into will determine which business units have attractive degrees of competitive strength in their respective industries‚ and whether a strategy of related or unrelated diversification was pursued will determine which fits exists in both strategy
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y of ecgA (not so) brief history of electrocardiography. Find out how electrocuting chickens (1775)‚ getting laboratory assistants to put their hands in buckets of saline (1887)‚ taking the ECG of a horses and then observing their open heart surgey (1912)‚ induction of indiscriminate angina attacks (1931)‚ and hypothermic dogs (1953) have helped to improve our understanding of the ECG as a clinical tool. And why is the ECG labelled PQRST (1895)?  1600  1646 Sir Thomas Browne‚ Physician
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ECON 353 INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS I TERM PROJECT “The Trade Structure Between Turkey and Norway” TAHA SANTALU 1723436 23 January 2012 KINGDOM OF NORWAY •Official language: Norwegian (Bokmal and Nynorsk) •Demonym: Norwegians •Area: 385‚199 sq. km (water 7.0 %) •Population: 4‚885‚240 (2010)
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Research”. Academic Emergency Medicine Volume 11‚ Issue 11 pp 1177-1185‚ 2006; 4. McGuire F. “Using simulation to reduce length of stay in emergency departments.” Simulation Conference Proceedings‚ 1994. Winter Volume ‚ Issue ‚ 11-14 Dec. 1994‚ pp 861 – 867; 5. Nadel‚ M.V. (1993). Emergency departments: Unevenly affected by growth and change in patient use. (GAO/HRD-93-4). Washington‚ DC: U.S. General Accounting Office‚ Human Resources Division; 6. Padgett‚ D.K.‚ & Brodsky‚ B. (1992). Psychosocial
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ACCT 3102 EXTERNAL REPORTING ISSUES CASE STUDY: SPORTING CLUBS‚ COMPANIES AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Introduction In 2013‚ the Essendon Football Club was investigated for performance enhancing drugs in their elite sports science programs. News of the initial investigations was met with disbelief by supporters‚ players‚ club administrators and the governing body – the Australian Football League (AFL). What followed was a period of intense and rigorous independent investigation by Australian Sports Anti-Doping
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ABSTRACT: Skeletal muscle is able to repair itself through regeneration. However‚ an injured muscle often does not fully recover its strength because complete muscle regeneration is hindered by the development of fibrosis. Biological approaches to improve muscle healing by enhancing muscle regeneration and reducing the formation of fibrosis are being investigated. Previously‚ we have determined that insulin-like growth factor–1 (IGF-1) can improve muscle regeneration in injured muscle. We also
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14th MANCO Linear Programming Approach for Irrigation Scheduling – A case Study H. MD. AZAMATHULLA‚ Senior Lecturer‚ River Engineering and Urban Drainage Research Centre (REDAC)‚ Universiti Sains Malaysia‚ Engineering Campus‚ 14300 Nibong Tebal‚ Pulau Pinang‚ Malaysia; email: redacazamath@eng.usm.my‚ mdazmath@gmail.com (author for correspondence) AMINUDDIN AB GHANI‚ Professor‚ REDAC‚ Universiti Sains Malaysia‚ email: redac02@eng.usm.my NOR AZAZI ZAKARIA‚ Professor‚ REDAC‚ Universiti Sains
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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2007‚ 14 (2)‚ 237-242 Improving the writing skills of college students RONALD T. KELLOGG AND BASCOM A. RAULERSON III Saint Louis University‚ St. Louis‚ Missouri Advanced writing skills are an important aspect of academic performance as well as of subsequent workrelated performance. However‚ American students rarely attain advanced scores on assessments of writing skills (National Assessment of Educational Progress‚ 2002). In order to achieve higher levels of writing
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In light of the massive adverse publicity surrounding non-profit organizations and charities‚ the key objective of the Salvation Army (“the Army”) in the coming years is to increase public confidence. Increasing public confidence arguably leads to increase in public donations that will allow the Army to extend its reach to more needy people in Singapore. This calls for a major overhaul in the Army’s organisation strategy‚ as new strategies need to be formulated to rise to the
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