Literature Review 2.1 Introduction In the concrete industry‚ there are large amounts of concrete being produced around world. The quantity demand will reach $105.2 billion by the year 2015 in the world market for readymix concrete (Global Industry Analysis‚ 2014). Hence concrete quality becomes more and more important‚ because it refers to the quality of building construction and the capital usage efficiency of company. Furthermore‚ product quality is
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Literature Review Google INTRODUCTION IT company Google‚ are ranked amongst the best workplaces in both Australia and the USA. In 2009‚ Google Australia finished top of the list in the 2009 Great Places to Work study. This follows the lead of its US parent company‚ which ranked first in Fortune’s 100 best Companies to Work For list in both 2007 and 2008. Attributing to this success is the fact that Google has managed to create an environment that encourages highly motivated employees. Google
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Literature Review Functionalist‚ Emile Durkheim‚ was one of the first sociologists to study the issue of suicide and this work has become known worldwide. Many have either refined his work or criticized it. Although Durkheim’s book Suicide: A Study in Sociology (1970) focused on suicide rates in some European societies‚ he was able to distinguish four types of suicide and he spoke about the type of person who would commit suicide. Two of the types of suicides Durkheim defined occurred in industrial
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CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 1. Introduction In this chapter various related literature and research pertaining to this research will be presented. It addresses the views and effect of using extensive reading method to improve comprehension and motivates reading. 2. Related Literature Up until now there is still no definite definition for ‘reading’ as Criscuolo (1973) says “There is no exact definition for reading’. Another view‚ Alderson and Urguhart (1984) in Fauziah Hassan HBET3203
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Literature review of Age related constructs on Consumer Decision Making HealthDay News (2013) has reported an interesting research questions about ‘Accumulated knowledge helped seniors outperform young adults when faced with economic choices’ by Randy Dotinga Health day reporter. In the report‚ Ye Li (2013) an assistant professor of management in the University of California‚ Riverside‚ and his new research suggested that: Seniors can be sharper than young adults at making financial decisions
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Review of Related Literature The review of related literatures of this study is made here in the Philippines and in abroad. It is acquired from the internet and unpublished theses. It is nearly related on the relationship of computer game addiction to interpersonal relationship to adolescents especially‚ K-12 students. To enrich the background on the subject of the researcher‚ the literatures that were found are here in presented. A. Foreign Studies Based from the study of Mark Griffiths (2007)
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This literature review addresses several issues related to the study of aging. Theoretical perspectives‚ research methods‚ and current controversies are reviewed. One issue that has beset the development of research on aging is a definition of old age (Scanzoni & Scanzoni‚ 1988‚ p. 549). Research in the United Kingdom and the United States has found that the older a person is in a chronological sense‚ the later is the chronological age at which that person tends to think old age begins. The concept
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REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE According to antiessays.com‚ Gender discrimination basically means how certain people are treated differently in their place of employment. If you have been rejected for employment‚ fired‚ or treated unfairly in employment because of your sex‚ then you have suffered from gender discrimination. Throughout most of history‚ women have been an underdog in many areas of the society regardless of the amount of education or experience they’ve had
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Literature Review From the the Encarta encyclopaedia 2010 Water pollution is any chemical‚ physical or biological change in the quality of water that has a harmful effect on any living thing that drinks or uses or lives in it. Dr. Shachin Cartlon (2009) states Water pollution occurs when a body of water is adversely affected due to the addition of large amounts of materials to the water. The sources of water pollution are categorized as being a point source or a non-source point of pollution
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2. Literature Review 2.1 Cost Estimation of Light Rail 2.1.1 Whole Life-cycle cost estimation of Light Rail As light rail is playing an increasingly important role in public transportation‚ more concern is put on light rail and the costs of the flexible and expandable transport. Most of our light rail transit decision-making considers the project forepart construction investment only. But in terms of the annual operation cost‚ scrap value and so on after project completion‚ there is less or even
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