Communication‚ June 2008 The Importance of Soft Skills: Education beyond academic knowledge Bernd Schulz Polytechnic of Namibia Abstract This paper makes a survey of the importance of soft skills in students’ lives both at college and after college. It discusses how soft skills complement hard skills‚ which are the technical requirements of a job the student is trained to do. The paper exhorts educators to take special responsibility regarding soft skills‚ because during students’ university time
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what are carbohydrates and what is the function of carbohydrates in the body? And secondly‚ what is meant by a low carb diabetic diet? The function of carbohydrates is to provide your body with it’s main source of energy. Your body will either use that energy straight away or store it for later. Carbohydrates are recognised as one of the most important influences on blood sugar levels. Many people with diabetes have found that eating a low carb diabetic diet helps them to control
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Should Athletes Drink Sports Drinks? When? Why? The response should be formatted in a two-page type written essay that addresses each of the following question The main points of the assignment will address: * mammalian temperature regulation * osmosis * cellular respiration * mammalian regulation of water and salt balance * mammalian circulation 1. What are the ingredients in sports drinks? Hint: The three main ingredients 2. How is each ingredient useful for
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People’s ability to handle the soft skills side of business - influencing - Communication - Team management - delegating - appraising - presenting - motivating is now recognized as key to making businesses more profitable and better places to work. A person’s soft skill is an important part of their individual contribution to the success of an organization. Particularly those organizations dealing with customers face-to-face are generally more successful‚ if they train their staff to use
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What is softskills? Soft skill is the ability required and expected from persons for finding a suitable job‚ its maintenance and promotion. Softskills is an important facet of life. It is essential in all spheres of life. Be it an interview or dealing with the project leader or working out a solution with a team or writing a report‚ getting across the point effectively is what matters. The success of an endeavour hinges on the ability to communicate effectively in today’s fast paced life‚ everyone
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Identifying Carbohydrates Abstract The point of this lab is to determine if a substance contains carbohydrates such as a reducing sugar and/or polysaccharides. This will be done by using Benedict’s reagent and Iodine stain tests. Benedict’s reagent will react to reducing substances in the solution by oxidizing it and changing the structure of the reducing sugar to form a colored precipitate. The color of this precipitate can be used to determine the concentration of reducing sugars in the substance
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The Sugar Revolution In the seventeenth century both in the English and to a lesser extent in the French islands‚ a change occurred in the basic cash crop. This change was so rapid and far-reaching that ‘revolutionary’ is a fitting word to describe it. It ranks in importance with emancipation‚ for the sugar revolution changed the Lesser Antilles completely. It was not just that sugar replaced tobacco as the chief crop: the population changed from white to black; the size of landholdings changed;
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Sugar was not only a stimulant to consumers but also for anyone else in the production of it‚ more and more sugar was being demanded‚ perhaps because of it accessibility or the money that came out of it. If it weren’t for producers‚ consumers‚ and entrepreneurs sugar production would not have been one of the biggest productions of a crop in the world. The organization of sugar met the needs of producers‚ because sugar production was profitable and did not consist of many owners; it met the needs
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Practical 1 : Carbohydrates Introduction : Carbohydrates are important to human life ‚ this practical is to investigate physical ‚ functional and sensual properties of different carbohydrates ‚ including monosaccharides and disaccharides . Experiment 1 Title : Relative Solubility of Carbohydrates ‚ Glucose ‚ Galactose and Lactose . Objective : To determine the relative solubility of glucose ‚ galactose and lactose by measuring their saturation point at the same constant temperature.
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The major reason anyone drinks fluid before‚ during and after physical activity is to replace the water that is lost through sweat. If the water isn’t replaced dehydration will occur and performance will be hampered. The purpose of sports drinks is to help rehydrate your body quickly and help improve performance and productivity. This is accomplished through a well-balanced mix of water‚ sugar (carbohydrates) and salts (electrolytes)‚ the major ingredients in most sports drinks. These ingredients‚ combined
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