describing the retail travel environment in Travel and Tourism. This must include the roles of the different types of retail agents; the products and services that they are selling; the links that exist within the retail travel environment; and the different types of relationship that exist within the retail industry. ROLES OF TRAVEL AGENTS The main function of travel agents is to make the life of holidaymakers easier‚ relaxing and convenient. They can do this by providing outstanding customer
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4/6/08 Agents of Sociology Socialization is an important factor in everyone’s life. No matter one’s color‚ race‚ gender‚ etc‚ socialization occurs and brings about a social identity for every individual. How the individual chooses to adapt to their environment and develop their own sense of self is the important sociological question here. Teenagers today face pressure from various socialization agents such as the media‚ schools‚ the peer group and the family. These socialization
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Morally Ambiguous Characters What does it mean to be morally ambiguous? The characters created by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Francis Bret Harte are divided between being purely good or purely evil. The environments that the characters live in are judgmental and hypocritical. While being isolated from society‚ they also deal with struggling to disassociate themselves from their pasts. The Scarlet Letter and “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” characters Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and John Oakhurst illustrate
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Agents of Socialization and YOU! Parents are always concerned that their child is domineering‚ a loser‚ or is timid. It has been proven that children’s behavior traits‚ feelings and public skills‚ along with their occurrences’ and the management parents give them‚ all have a force on how they perform with others. The four agents of socialization are family‚ media‚ school and peer groups. Socialization is the process in which people learn to take on the behavior patterns of the society in which
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Distributed Intelligent Agents Katia Sycara Keith Decker Anandeep Pannu Mike Williamson Dajun Zeng The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh‚ PA 15213‚ U.S.A. Voice: (412) 268-8825 Fax: (412) 268-5569 URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/ softagents/ Abstract We are investigating techniques for developing distributed and adaptive collections of agents that coordinate to retrieve‚ lter and fuse information relevant to the user‚ task and situation‚ as well as anticipate
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Overview of Antifungal Agents George R.Thompson III‚ MD‚ FACPa‚b‚*‚ Jose Cadena‚ MDa‚b‚ Thomas F. Patterson‚ MDa‚b KEYWORDS Fungal infection Invasive mycoses Triazoles Echinocandins Amphotericin Flucytosine The number of agents available to treat fungal infections has increased by 30% since the year 2000‚ yet still only 15 agents are currently approved for clinical use. The greater number of medications now available allows for therapeutic choices; however‚ differences in antifungal
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until a child begins primary school. This time period is when parents play the most significant role and is the reason why family is seen as the most important agent of primary socialisation. As more mothers go back to work after maternity leave and place their children with childminders or in nurseries‚ they can also be seen as primary agents of socialisation. It could be argued that the media has an influence also as there are television programmes designed for small children‚ such as CITV and CBeebies
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individual’s athletic career: sport agents. In order to understand what a sport agent is‚ we must first understand the concept of an agent. An agent is defined as “a person authorized by another to act for him‚ one entrusted with another’s business” (Staudohar‚ 2006); thus‚ a sport agent represents most individuals involved in the sport industry‚ including athletes in sports such as football‚ baseball‚ or figure skating‚ and also coaches and sport broadcasters. A sport agent has many responsibilities and
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organization are managed‚ facilitate and implement by change agents. There will be a discussion on why organizations enlist the help of change agents and the skills and competencies that they need to possess. There are various advantages and disadvantages for an organization in using internal and external change agents in the change processes. Lastly‚ few recommendations are people who bring or introduce planned change. The change agent can be manager or non-manager‚ employees of an organization or
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DELA CRUZ‚ CYNTHIA GRACE C. 2008-13749 FS 125 March 10‚ 2012 ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS 1. Introduction Food preservation has long been practiced since the olden times with processes such as heating ‚ drying‚ fermentation and refrigeration. In spite of this‚ physical methods are not enough to eliminate all microorganisms found in foods. Therefore‚ antimicrobial agents are needed to destroy these foodborne pathogens‚ so that the food will have a longer shelf-life. As technology progresses‚ improvements
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