Methods A random sample of 800 Michigan State University (MSU) undergraduate students was retrieved from the MSU registrar’s office. All 800 students were sent an email invitation from one of the authors‚ with a short description of the study‚ information about confidentiality and incentives‚ and a link to the survey. Two reminder emails were sent to those who had not responded. Participants were compensated with a $5 credit to their on-campus spending accounts. The survey was hosted on Zoomerang
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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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involves a power imbalance. This definition remains the subject of some debate‚ particularly in regard to whether these characteristics require assessment by an objective outsider or can instead rely on the perception of the victim. In line with current literature‚ measures of bullying need to encompass the three broad domains of behaviors that constitute bullying: direct physical bullying‚ direct verbal bullying‚ and indirect bullying in which the person or group of persons doing the bullying is not necessarily
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1. Rao‚ V. (1993). The rising price of husbands: A hedonic analysis of dowry increases in rural India. Journal of Political Economy‚ 666-677. Motivation and objective : Attempts to investigate the reasons behind the increase in dowry . Methods : It adapts Rosen’s implicit market model to the Indian marriage market and tests predictions from the model with data from six villages in South Central India and from the Indian census Theories : Using utility function‚ U is assumed to be maximized‚ given
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likely say the computer. Over the past twenty years or so‚ computers have gone from being monstrous curiosities taking up the entire space in large rooms‚ to relatively small boxes on almost every desk. Along with smaller size and lower prices has come an explosion in the number of computers . The speed and efficiency of the computers has made most businesses and institutions dependent on the technology. As a result‚ many people spend a large part of their time working with computers. The relatively
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SYLLABUS Cambridge International AS and A Level Computing 9691 For examination in June and November 2014 University of Cambridge International Examinations retains the copyright on all its publications. Registered Centres are permitted to copy material from this booklet for their own internal use. However‚ we cannot give permission to Centres to photocopy any material that is acknowledged to a third party even for internal use within a Centre. © University of Cambridge International Examinations
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Data Envelopment Analysis and related literature As already stated‚ a rich history of literature and research which is demonstrating the importance of processes in analyzing the performance of an organization exists (Chase‚ 1981; Chase et al.‚ 1983; Levitt‚ 1972; Roth et al.‚ 1995). Especially‚ Roth et al. (1995; here and in the following) showed that the key drivers are process capability and execution in an empirical way. It was described in their study that an inappropriate design of certain
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Existing literatures trying to explain how Filipinos absorb information they get from online sources seem to be crude. More specifically‚ there have been no studies done to explore how information provided by different internet sources prompts Filipinos to exchange knowledge among peers and eventually result into social mobilization. The advancement of technology has brought us not only the easiness of communication and being connected‚ but also made us closer and to anything happening around us
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The Literature Review of Servicescapes Introduction: Shopping cannot simply be considered as an act of buying in an exchange for goods (C. Gardner and J. Sheppard‚ 1989). Because of the increasingly cut-throat competition‚ marketers and practitioners have to go great length to attract and retain customers. That is where the experiential marketing finds its inspiration. According to the vanguard of Morris B. Holbrook and Elizabeth C. Hirschman (1982)‚ experiential consumption is a view that focuses
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carbon dioxide. Methane generation and emission from landfills are topics of major interest due to methane ’s role in the greenhouse effect‚ migration of hazard potential‚ health and safety issues and energy applications. The objective of this literature review is to provide a concise relationship between MSW and landfill gasses (LFG)‚ details of potential methods used for capturing methane as appose to emitting the gas as well as the benefits of doing. Rendering to information written
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