Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Background of the Study Noise‚ defined as ‘unwanted sound’‚ is perceived as an environmental stressor and nuisance. Noise is a prominent feature of the environment including noise from transport‚ industry and neighbors (Stanfeld et al 2009). First and second grade school children who are chronically exposed to aircraft noise pollution have significant deficits in reading as indexed by a standard reading test administered under quiet conditions. These findings
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Thinking Critically About Ethical Issues‚ Seventh Edition By: Ruggiero © The McGraw−Hill Companies‚ 2008 I THE CONTEXT CHAPTER ONE THE NEED FOR ETHICS Why do we need ethics? We have laws to protect people’s rights. If the laws are enforced‚ what need have we of further rules? Ethics is the study of the choices people make regarding right and wrong. Each of us makes dozens of moral choices daily. Will we go to work or call in sick? Follow the research protocol or violate it? Put quotes around
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Task one: Folsteins Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) was first described by Marshall F. Folstein‚ Suzan Folstein‚ & Paul R. McHugh (as cited in International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry‚ 2009). Marshall Folstein‚ a neuropsychiatrist‚ created the MMSE overnight because he was not happy with a patients’ cognitive report written by wife Suzan Folstein‚ a psychiatrist. He presented the MMSE to the clinical director Paul R. McHugh who acknowledged the significance of MMSE to clinicians and
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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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Azam Khorshidi Dissecting the role of ANRIL in modulating endothelial cells function and atherosclerosis Name: Azam (Anna) Khorshidi Department: Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology Program: PhD Supervisor: Dr. Burton Yang Topic of graduate study: Role of miR-17 in the breast cancer initiation and progression Key words: Atherosclerosis‚ Plaque formation‚ lncRNA‚ Endothelia dysfunction Email: anna.khorshidi@mail.utoronto.ca 1 Azam Khorshidi Impact: Endothelial dysfunction is
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CHAPTER ONE 1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY With the rate of globalization and industrialization witnessed all over the world‚ there seems to have been an observable increase in the number of different organizations that are springing up to meet different needs. Some of these organizations are in the financial sector‚ telecommunications‚ oil and gas and a host of others. One of the many factors that have enhanced the functionality of these organizations has been the individual(s) who work in such
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Fordham Law Review Volume 76 | Issue 5 Article 1 2008 Home Ownership Risk Beyond a Subprime Crisis: The Role of Delinquency Management Melissa B. Jacoby Recommended Citation Melissa B. Jacoby‚ Home Ownership Risk Beyond a Subprime Crisis: The Role of Delinquency Management‚ 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2261 (2008). Available at: http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol76/iss5/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by The Fordham Law School Institutional Repository. It has been
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Bibliography: Gooi Bee Sung. (2010) Ban on Plastic Bags Usage: Is it a right move? An Empirical study on Consumer Perception and Practice http://eprints.usm.my/23750/1/Thesis_-_Gooi_Bee_Sung.pdf Musni‚ J.M.S.‚ Rivera E.‚ Serrano‚ K.M.H
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Marketing Plan: The Tea Shop 1.0 Purpose and Mission 1.1 Purpose of the Marketing Plan This marketing plan for the Tea Shop in Spain is produced to review the future of the business. In this plan‚ strategies are identified for the growth of the business considering opening new lines of business such as distribution of tea in top-of-the-range restaurants and hotels and also opening new shops in other countries. 1.2 Mission Statement Tea is one
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO COST ACCOUNTING QUESTIONS 1. Management accounting stresses the informational needs of internal users over those of external users (the focus of financial accounting). Because of this perspective‚ management accounting provides information in a format that is flexible and relevant to a particular manager‟s usage. Financial accounting‚ on the other hand‚ must provide some uniformity in the manner in which information is presented for it to be comparable among companies and
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