Chapter I Introduction In this chapter‚ the researchers presented the background of the study‚ rationale of the study‚ objectives of the study‚ significance of the study and definition of terms. Background of the Study Sand is a loose granular substance‚ typically pale yellowish brown‚ resulting from the erosion of siliceous and other rocks is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles. The composition of sand is highly variable‚ depending on
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Literature Review Air Pollution’s Relationship to Asthma and Related Public Health Interventions in the US-Mexico Border Region Introduction: In recent years residents along both sides of the United States-Mexico border have lived amidst the rapid growth associated with free trade and globalization. While beneficial to corporations‚ economic growth has negatively impacted the environment‚ health‚ and quality of life of these residents (Dahl‚ 2004). This review focuses on one environmental threat
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Strauch‚ Carl F. "Kings in the Back Row: Meaning through Structure-A Reading of Salinger’s ‘The Catcher in the Rye’." Wisconsin Studies in contemporary Literature . 12. (1980): 30-5. Print. In the essay “Kings in the Back Row: Meaning through Structure-A Reading of Salinger’s ‘The Catcher in the Rye’” by Carl F. Strauch‚ the purpose was to explain Holden’s use of language and symbolism through out the novel‚ to understand The Catcher in the Rye. Strauch point out Salinger’s use of “slob speech”
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A study done by Cropley‚ Michalianou‚ Pravettoni and Millward (2012) found that work related rumination has been associated with a number of negative health consequences like hypertension‚ depression‚ distress in women. Three different types of ruminative thinking that people experience during work was affective rumination‚ problem-solving‚ pondering and detachment. The affective rumination can be conceptualised as a cognitive state characterized by the appearance of intrusive‚ pervasive‚ recurrent
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associated with ROS. Methods We present ROS- and diabetes-related targets (genes/proteins) collected from the biomedical literature through a text mining technology. A web-based literature mining tool‚ SciMiner‚ was applied to 1‚154 biomedical papers indexed with diabetes and ROS by PubMed to identify relevant targets. Over-represented targets in the ROS-diabetes literature were obtained through comparisons against randomly selected literature. The expression levels of nine genes‚ selected from the
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Applicability of SERVQUAL in restaurants: an exploratory study in a Portuguese resort Vera Patrício (vera.l.patricio@seg-social.pt) Rogério Puga Leal (rpl@fct.unl.pt) Faculty of Science and Technology‚ Universidade Nova de Lisboa‚ Portugal Zulema Lopes Pereira (zlp@fct.unl.pt) Faculty of Science and Technology‚ Universidade Nova de Lisboa‚ Portugal SERVQUAL is the most popular instrument to ascertain service quality. However‚ some debate exists about its ability to characterize different service
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CHAPTER 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES This chapter presents a number of reviews of selected foreign and local literature and studies which have significant bearing with the present study. It provides insights and evidences that account on the topic and its related factors. Topics are subdivided into categories so as to provide a more comprehensive and detailed review. Local Literature Student-Teacher Relationships Improving students’ relationships with teachers has important
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Chapter II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE This chapter presents both foreign and local related literatures relevant to the study. This relevance is shown by the proponents in order to give more reason and understanding of the proposition. Related Literature and Studies Downsides in Caffeine New research from John Hopkins Medical School shows that performance increases due to caffeine intake are the result of caffeine drinkers experiencing a short-term reversal of caffeine withdrawal. In essence
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REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE There are similar cases of projects similar to the implementation of the Automated fare Collection System (AFCS). Such systems are currently being used in developed countries. EZ-Link (Singapore) The EZ-Link is a contactless smart card in Singapore used for paying transportation fees for the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT)‚ Light Rail Transit (LRT) and public bus services. Aside from its primary use of transportation payment‚ the card has been developed as a viable
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE The chapter states the different literature and studies that were conducted for the research to gain familiarity that are relevant and similar to the present study. Related Literature According to Flores (2010)‚ the automation is described simply as the substitution of machine control of human. Dioso (2011) stated that computer assist careful intelligent planning‚ organizing‚ actuating and controlling .This maybe observed from the past that they monitor
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