... systems contain high investment cost and creates challenges to realize scale-up commercialization. In the heterotrophic production, microalgae are grown in the dark and energized by organic carbon substrates in mixing fermenters or bioreactors. With no necessity for light energy, the system can have smaller surface-to-volume ratio of the reactor. The design can be minimal and easier to control its physical conditions due to no ... , short cell cycle and fast production (Hannon et al 2010). No specific microalgal strain currently meets all of these standards, but the search continues. Dif...

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... well. A look at virgin train shows that managers positively encourage and motivate employees to get involved in running the company by asking questions, challenging ideas and being prepared to disagree and make suggestion, by engaging employees to be part of a team encouraged collaboration within teams as vision and values are aligned (Virgin train, Grant 2005). Individualized consideration ... led to an increase in team collaboration and performance (Grant 2005). Managers positively encourage employees to get involved in running the company by asking questions, challenging ideas and bei...

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... on grants, donations, and fund raisers, in addition to keeping accurate financial records. It stands to reason that the tools and skills utilized by the leaders of for profit business to achieve cost effective productivity, are the same ones that are needed by nonprofit leaders. Having said this, it follows that computers and their applications should, and often do, play a ... nonprofit sector, it is becoming clear that currently the fastest growing area of both the for profit and nonprofit sectors is in the realm of client services. There is a growing amount of competition for funds in ...

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... her navel." (Suskind 18). The blunt language here makes the description all the more explicit, especially with the use of "breast," (Suskind 16) an offensive part of the body to certain people. This makes the narrative perspective felt real and emotional and aggressive towards the reader them self, a romantic gesture that is emphasized by the honesty of the word itself: the stop consonant 'b' at the beginning of the word gives it a hard tone ... /touch, making the word sound beautiful yet ... ...

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... rife to him, given that '64% of executives of the l00 largest British companies bore that significant hallmark of the upper classes, namely that they attended public schools' (Miliband p35). This, he claimed, proved the existence of the 'dominant class' as a social phenomenon and the inaccessibility of those of a working class background to the higher echelons of society. Seeing as fee paying schools are, by their very nature, accessible to only a small ... portion of the population through their fees and the family connections required to attend, they are merely another socia...

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... as a constitutional monarchy with king Norodom Sihamoni serving as the country's head of state. Moreover, the executive branch, made up of king Sihamoni as well as the Prime Minister Hun Sen, makes political decisions within the nation, with the prime minister holding significantly more influence. The prime minister of Cambodia is appointed by the king on behalf of the recommendation of the President and Vice-president of the National Assembly. Thus, in order to become prime minister ... , one must obtain a vote of confidence from the National Assembly. On the contrary, a Senate of 61 se...

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... statements, and personally liable if they are found to be falsified (Maleske). Although so much positive change has occurred since the fall of Enron and the implementation of SOX, I can't disregard those who feel the costs of the act outweigh the benefits (Cernusca). For a company to comply with all the regulations imposed by the Sarbanes Oxley Act, it costs about $500 thousand to $1 million each year (Cernusca). Some people feel between ... a private company) tripled from 2002 to 2003 (Cernusca). However, this small sum of negative effects which are really just a high cost of complianc...

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... (simply because they underestimated the ongoing insurgency to French imperialism), were mostly now part of metropolitan France. Conveniently, the President of the Union was elected by the French Parliament only and there was no representatives or associates from the states or protectorates. The French control was assured through the President of France being the President of the Union, and a significant French representation in the Supreme Council and the Assembly of the Union. Perhaps the end of the War in 1945 and ... a new feeling of distaste for empires meant the French Empire felt ...

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... are also important, as they help in preventing acts of internal violence in the office, and also raise the awareness among the members of the organizations about the dangers they might be exposed to and how to prevent health related accidents. Acts of violence and the display of such behaviors by the workers and other individuals within a working environment are a serious threat to the organisation's overall well being. It is important for organistions ... Health and Safety Legislation Since workplace health and safety regulations have been imposed by the national authorities, the failu...

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... standards by which the members of the associations should abide to throughout their term of service as counsellors. For example, the counselor should offer professional services to clients with respect to individuality of each client, establish helpful relationship with the client so as to uphold dignity and integrity and at the same time empower the client without using advise, ensure confidentiality and inform the client the extent of the duty of care, inform the clients of the process of ... without written permission given by the client. Confidentiality is essential in promoting a p...

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... alternatives and remain in the realm of critique, which does nothing to actually change the current status quo of development. Moreover, by focusing on the local and community level and putting this ideal on a pedestal, post-development can result in the unintended consequence of reification of the local community, presenting a narrow view of globalization. In this chapter of Exploring Post-development, Ziai narrows down the criticisms shared by most critics of post-development into an ... "to imagine and practice development differently by generating new and experimental discourses and...

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... objectively present in the sphere of human social relations, refracted through the prism of individual characterizations. The realist principle of typification involves the tracing of the causality that exists in the world of social phenomena. Since it is human life and the life of society that form the subject matter of a work, the hero's inner world, and the sum of his individual traits which we call character are examined and described by the realist writer as the product of numerous, but typical ... circumstances, which are in a casual relationship with the personal destiny of the h...

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... detail the metabolism of the glucose in the brain. Although this diagnostic tool in its present form is well accepted, the development of positron imaging covered many decades and included contributions by numerous individuals. The first application of the positron annihilation radiation for medical imaging is well documented. In 1950, William Sweet, the chief of Neurosurgical Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital made several suggestions to improve the quality of nuclear images for the detection of brain ... more important tools in the hands of neuroscientists of the future. Wi...

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... therefore lower costs of labor). An example of this situation was the very public move made by the Hoover vacuum company in moving its labor plants from Dijon to Scotland; this action spoke very loudly to the people of the European community, showing that there was much inequality in the standards of living even in Europe. To enact the ambitious goals of repairing the social and economic progress of the European region, the European Union has ... ; for example, its decision regarding the Iran hostage crisis of 1979 was that the Iranian government should aid the United States in achieving...

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... ) maintains that "The consequences of this radical change (were) the acquisition of more lands by the rich, the growing poverty of the masses, and loss of political rights resulting from impoverishment". He also states that "the law of Epitadeus was not an isolated and solitary phenomenon; it marked the beginning of the downfall of a whole system" (David, 1986, 73). Kagan (1975, 223) though argues that "Even before the Law of Epitadeus, the infrastructure was flawed. The regime of property and inheritance ... , like the political system was a compromise" to the pressures of ... ...

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... a pantomime villain', recognising the evil of his own actions but performing them anyway simply because of his evil inclinations. Although this is far from the psychologically warped image Shakespeare wished to present, it serves as an effective fazade for the guiding of the audience toward a desired set of conclusions. Coleridge's view of Iago as a motiveless malignity' is supported by the lack of acceptable justifications for his actions ... motives, instead attempting to conceal his deeper anxieties. Although Iago is used primarily by Shakespeare as the force of evil and malignity, so ...

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... football diehards-- Heinz Field, in the midst of a gameplay moment of wringing suspense: to the team's rabid fans, a moment of epic proportions. The Steelers are on offense against the Dallas Cowboys (bitter rivals since the Superbowl upset of 1996), down by three, with time enough to 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 ... -2003 season of Steelers football, when the Steelers were driving for the Superbowl, the mayor of Pittsb...

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... that have been used in Dr. Perez' class to represent foundationalism and cohenrentism. Foundationalism is represented by the image of a pyramid where the base of the pyramid represents the basic or foundational beliefs and the upper parts represent the direction towards hidden assumptions and other beliefs. On the other hand, coherentism is represented by the image of a raft or a mesh wherein beliefs are interlinked with each other to form an overall coherent system ... of beliefs. My conjecture is that the limitations and the infrastructural constraints of the elements of language and ...

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... to recall material. Such findings would seem to support the role of sleep in the processing and consolidation of information. However, much like the restoration and evolutionary theories of sleep, this theory has also been challenged by a number of findings. Vertes & Eastman (2000) challenged the assumption that REM sleep directly influences the processing of information and memory by examining studies which measured the effects of monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) and selective ... provide us with plausible explanations regarding the functions of sl...

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... . However, the period following the Treaty enshrining the partition of the island was a very turbulent period marked by great violence and terrorist acts. This violence took place in particular between the opponents of the Treaty who could not accept the partition of the island, and the submission of the north to the British crown, and the partisans of the Treaty of 1922 who resigned themselves, along with the leader Collins, to the partial independence of their homeland. This violence had led the leaders of the Irish ... the only possibility offered by the Constitution of the fifth repu...

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... gives legislatures the ability to overturn misinterpretation of an issue by the courts. The probability of the courts making a decision by which the majority of the population disagreed and the probability of legislature to respond by means of enacting the notwithstanding clause is very low. For example, in the few cases where the supreme court ruled in favour of protecting guaranteed rights over the benefit of general society, the notwithstanding clause was not enacted. In the case of the Tobacco Products Control Act of 1995, the court ... held that a total ban of tobacco ... ...

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... that "nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent."# In terms of citizenship, Gellner believes that citizenship rights were launched by the French Revolution, and that the unpleasant and degrading conditions of the proletariat brought about by the Industrial Revolution provided both opportunity and a motive for a growth of political consciousness, exemplified by the formation of organizations such as trade unions. Gellner emphasises education as an ... certain events and heroes elevated into national icons by n...

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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 ... ...

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... Special Educational Needs & Disability (SEND) learners. G&T learners are identified as those who have one or more abilities developed to a level within the top 10% of their school year (UK Govt.). Furthermore G&T is enforced by the UK Govt. (1997) to develop an education system in which excellence and outstanding achievement are identified, developed and celebrated. In terms ... record findings and implement them, 5) review assessment and update as necessary. Risk management can be sustained by teachers ensuring visual daily checks, no misuse of the equipment, adequate supervision and us...

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... psychotherapy and other forms of healing. All forms of psychotherapy are influenced by the culture that developed it and the time period in which the methods were developed. Factors that significantly effect the nature and the progression of the therapy are the ethnicity and cultural background of the patient, the social context, the environment in which the therapy is conducted and the attitude that the patient may have toward psychotherapy. Associated with the clinical experiences of working with patients in ... , 1988). Psychotherapy depends heavily on the cultural concepts of the pat...

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