... can be achieved with open ponds, although inconsistencies exist in the production results from different reports. Weissman and Tillett (1992) generated annual dry weight microalgae cultivation rate of 37 tonnes per hectare with the mix of 4 different microalgae cultures, with the greatest outcomes in the 7 warmest months of the year. Jimenez et al (2003) anticipated the average annual dry weight production rate of 30 tonnes per hectare ... using the raceway pond of 450 m2 and 0.30 m depth that produces the approximate dry weight of 8.2 g/ m2 per day. With similar measures ... ...

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... tacit and explicit knowledge in order to create new knowledge (Van den Hooff & De Ridder, 2004). Several studies thus far have linked organizational structure (i.e. the hierarchical structure), culture and transformational leadership as having a huge effect on knowledge sharing, however, despite the linkage the effectiveness of sharing can also be difficult to measure (Epple et al 1996), it ... too vague or detailed with neither providing a clear picture and guideline to employees. Numerous studies exist on the benefits and pitfalls of diverse organisation structures, some studies argue...

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... for. Most critics give the dates 1850's to 1880's as the dates for the strongest examples of Realism in Western literature. Whereas the age of the Romantics valued the exceptional, the genius, and the uncommon individual, the age of Realism values members of the middle class. While the age of the Romantics valued the contribution of the genius and imagination of the writer/poet, the Realists wanted to de-emphasize the contribution of the writer and thought writers should ... "objectively" see contemporary life as the material for their writing. They attempted to ... ...

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... colonial past, and to aid countries that were once colonized by the member states of the EU. These states are known as African-Caribbean-Pacific Group (ACP) and have grown to include many developing nations. The EU aids these nations financially through Article 132 of the Treaty of Rome, which provides "de facto recognition of most favored nation status for trading access, ... and to non-discrimination in the right of the establishment for citizens and commercial ventures."" It also gives loans and financial investment ... through the European Development Fund in these nations, thus sti...

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... sexual for some audiences and it may be too much for them to handle, enhancing Grenouille's extreme lack of love and immoral integrity towards the victim. The reader then experiences how Grenouille shuts his eyes sealed tight as he is strangling her throat "not attempt[ing] to cry out, did ... her red lips, her large sparkling green eyes, keeping his eyes closed tight as he strangled her, for he had only one concern-not to lose the least trace of her scent". (Suskind 18). By illustrating a visual imagery of a very clean smooth innocent teen that Grenouille couldn't see because his ... Su...

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... by which theorizing and philosophizing are carried out. Now I also imagine Bonjour alone in his office, thinking first about foundationalist theories of epistemic justification and recognizing and elaborating on the weaknesses of foundationalism. Afterwards, he then attempts to characterize an alternative theory of epistemic justification, which is his coherence theory, and in doing so he makes use of language ... power is highly unlikely to be feasibly captured in any reasonable form of academic writing, and so it is for this reason that theorists would have to continue to describe the...

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... 1.5-3 million deaths and was aimed at erasing all Cambodian history, prior to their rise to power. This meant that under the Khmer Rouge movement, the first year of the revolution equally meant the first year of Cambodia's new historic time. Moreover, under the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia's economy experienced a shift towards a fully agricultural society, which meant that private property was banned and ... Assembly-Senate Relations and Inspection created in 1999 and mandated to investigate against corruption. Neither of these already existing institutions has ever successfully conducted an in...

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... law basically set and enforced all new reporting, auditing, disclosure, and ethics requirements for companies! SOX impacted managerial structure and government regulation of public companies by raising the accountability for corporate executives, board of directors, independent auditors, and corporate attorneys (Cernusca). It led to greater internal control of financial reporting, an increase in overall expertise ... companies (Jickling). Each audit firm that audits publicly traded companies is required to file and register with the PCOAB and is subject to yearly or quarterly inspections...

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... 's military power to increase, along with it the population's support, enabling it to operate as an effective guerrilla force. The ignorance of the majority on the Right of the cabinet saw great optimism in the Dutch military and the elimination of the Republicans the events actually became opposite. A major supporter on the decolonisation from the European Empires was from the United States. Being that the US was certainly becoming, if not already, a superpower ... in the world after the Second World War, it certainly had an ... ...

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... deviates towards general health education and promotional activities and issues. According to a study and research by Carol Wilkinson, Principal Lecturer and Faculty of Social and Life Science in the Department of Psychology and Health of University of Lincoln and Humberside, after interviewing health and safety, and management specialists, it was identified that most managers considered health promotion ... hazards they are exposed to every day, in some cases without even knowing them. An effective health and safety program provides an education to the workers regarding the benefits of...

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... problems, be sensitive on matters concerning people's welfare by exercising aspects like care, trust, respect and value for others, be responsive on matters regarding culture by having the understanding that there is diversity in culture and different clients will portray different cultures and hence have respect to all and consider differences in social classes, race etc and ... for example in case of child abuse like in cases of rape, incest etc. In determining whether to reveal the clients information or not, a counselor should consider the legal requirements, the requirements of the...

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... into an uncritical stance towards local communities and cultural tradition, rejection of modernity and its positive advances, concealment or ignorance of oppression legitimized as cultural tradition, having the same authoritarian notions as development, and lack of legitimate alternatives. Ziai follows these criticisms and offers a response according to various post-development theorists to how these ... independence and they have migrated to their "rich" neighbor, South Africa, as a response to declining agricultural production. However, Ferguson provides evidence that most of the peopl...

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... ; in this scenario computers are programmed to maintain a specific mission, and therefore they cannot help but be useful. The mere fact that the system is programmed to maintain the organizations mission statement will tend to orientate the computer system to deal with the challenges unique to that agencies mission statement. Moving on to another issue facing today's nonprofit sector, it is becoming ... an end. In addition, there is a growing intolerance for those board members who cannot understand financial statements, business principles, or who for whatever reason are not able to mak...

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... in response to majority benefit or in response to political trifle. Professor John Whyte suggests that the primary reason for wanting to abandon the notwithstanding clause is: the anxiety that produced the political demand for the entrenched rights cannot rationally be calmed in the face of the legislative power granted by section 33. That anxiety is simply this: political authority will, at some ... , by allowing parliament to be supreme, the notwithstanding clause limits the vital guarantees of the Constitution. The inclusion of the notwithstanding clause in the Canadian Constitution r...

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... a doctor's or researcher's only tool was a saw, he now has an option, a chance to look where no one has ever seen before (Alfano and Brunetti) For the specialty of radiology the development of the x-ray was just the beginning, for years later another inventor makes a new breakthrough in modern medicine. This development is made by British electrical engineer Godfrey Hounsfield in 1967 (DeJauregui, 100 ... signs or symptoms appear (Sumich et al.). However yet effective, this relatively old technology may be proving itself to be for diagnosing these diseases which have plagued society sinc...

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... it would be influential enough to make people die for it. It would thus seem that Anderson's approach, whilst interesting and perhaps holding some truth, needs to be supplemented with the emotional and effective dimension of nationalism and an account of factors other than shared language. It is also possible to argue that peripheral nations with high illiteracy and an inability ... to understand the common language of the state are more likely to keep alive their indigenous culture and language, and could, as a result form a stronger sense of national consciousness and identity through...

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... squeeze in one more miracle play before the buzzer sounds the end of the fourth quarter. Twenty yards separate the offense from the winning touchdown. The crowd's incessant chanting grows continually, attempting to squealch the deafening tick of each passing second as the clock approaches "00:00." The precious seconds pass as the players stoop into their positions. The snap is good, and quarterback Tommy Maddox ... example, are many, and are not limited to motivational speaking; Presents for Patients, a program that provides nursing home patients in the Pittsbugh area with gifts for the h...

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... a devenit foarte important, mai ales dupa ce s-a demonstrat, prin numeroase studii, ca exista o corelaÞie ntre dimensiunile culturii organizaÞionale ∘i performanÞele obÞinute de companiile de renume. Conceptul de cultura a fost introdus n cmpul organizarii de Herbert Simon, unul dintre cei mai citati autori n stiinta manageriala, cu nsemnate contributii n teoria elaborarii deciziilor. Herbert Simon a ncercat sa exploreze lumea ... manageriala arata ca organizatiile se mpotrivesc schimbarii prin forta normelor, a obisnuintelor si prin rigiditatea structurilor, ceea ce conduce l...

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EL NORTE El Norte (The North) nos relata la historia de Enrique (David Villalpando) y Rosa (Zaide Silvia Gutierrez), hermanos sanguineos, que huyen de la miseria y del peligro que los hasechan, con el unico proposito de buscar bienestar y seguridad que encontraran en los Estados Unidos, despues que su padre (Ernesto Gomez Cruz) es asesinado y su madre (Alicia Del Lago) desaparece despues de haber sido capturada junto con ... Enrique recibe mas dinero que el, asi que decide llamar a Inmigracion para que vaya al restaurante para deportar a Enrique y a los demas inmigrantes que estan ilegalmente...

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... Court of Assizes made up of a professional jury was implemented with immediate effect. This decision was considered in a judgement of the Criminal Chamber of the Cour de Cassation on 7 May 1987 which approved the decision, following the logic of that established by the Constitutional court on 3 September 1986 which demanded that no unjustified discrimination should be made and that legal guarantees, in particular in relation to ... measures." These powers granted to the French President, the corollary of which is the necessity to inform the nation by a message, and a full meeting of the...

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... revolution in which art is situated as a central protagonist. In both cases, Futurist and Anarchist art became symptomatic of the movements' wider desire for political and social liberation, as Varias puts it, "Paris' fin-de-siècle character was also evident in the struggle for stylistic freedom and aesthetic expression that its avant-garde poets, painters, and sculptors led against ... the conformist demands and... the rigid, oppressive forces of traditional standards"4. In his essay Avant Garde Theatre Sound, Adrian Curtin ... declared 'il vaut mieux crever derriere un tas de pavés...

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... clear quite quickly: vote democratically and receive millions of dollars for the reconstruction of Italy, or vote communist and essentially end the continuous "gravy-train- ride to economic advancement for Italy from the vast wealth of the American government. Making matters even more dismal for the communists was the fact that Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi was wrought with stress over how desperate Italy was in ... need of financial aid in the wake of the devastation brought on by the effects of the second world war. The United States used this angle as their " ... trump card- to pr...

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... of glyphosate contained in standard Roundup brand weed killers causes clearly demonstrable damage and death to human cells (Chaufan, Coalova, Rios de Molina, 2014). Monsanto took another publicity blow when the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded : "the agent [glyphosate] is probably carcinogenic to humans. This category is used when there is limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans ... manifold and many." (White, 2010) If egregious threats to sustainability and biodiversity are understood as de facto crimes in certain cases, such as il...

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... States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. At the threshold of the XXI century we are witnessing a similar phenomenon. Although mercenaries have not completely disappeared "private military and security ... Private military and security companies often provide security and protection to humanitarian non governmental organizations in conflict or post-conflict areas where it has become difficult for...

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... Napoleon's level of control on different countries differed based upon their location. Lands that had been annexed to France were directly ruled from Paris which included Belgium and the left bank of the Rhine. This shows that countries geographically close to France were directly ruled because they would act as a protective zone to France from attacks from enemies and troops could ... used as a military source for Napoleon only which links to the factor regarding Napoleon's impact on Italy through conscription. In 1820, 1830 and 1848, Italian revolutions occurred to gain independence whi...

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