Cultural acceptance of the practice

The research "Embracing mindfulness: Enriching slow fashion for human and environmental wellbeing" explores the slow fashion movement and its relationship to an emerging social trend for mindfulness. Slow fashion seems to embrace a concept at the heart of mindfulness practice: awareness. Mindfulness is a state of awareness that involves accepting a clear focus on present realities. The phenomenon of mindfulness is developing as a potential force for cultural change.

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Sacrifice of animals and birds for socio-cultural and religious events have long been an indispensable part of human civilization. The present exploratory investigation was directed in this direction to study poultry sacrifices among the tribal people of Koraput district-a tribal dominated area of Southern Odisha. Six tribal people who facilitate religious practices for the tribal people were taken as cases for this study. They were selected on the basis of having long duration of practising the rituals for benefit of the community.

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Marine aquaculture is the fastest growing food producing sector with major contribution from carps in terms of volume and shrimp by value. Continuous development of aquaculture demands new alternative technologies to achieve sustainable production with low economic cost. The microbial based systems like biofloc technology (zero water exchange systems) and artificial substrate integrated (periphyton based) in normal culture systems represents the best methods of practice to get healthy shrimp production.

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Every literary movement has a potential to influence the future generation. In this context, the Beat Generation, a literary movement was started shortly after the World War II by some ángry young men' or rebellious personalities who were seeking another world for the adjustment away from the confinements of the established norms and conventions. The post war period was a time when many people from every nook and corner were in pursuit of liberation in works, life style and other alternate forms of livelihood.

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Unless Bangladesh will find credible means to change the political culture within which it function, the viability of democracy will remain doubtful. Though it is about four decades of independence, the history of democracy isn’t worth to value its principles in its actual practice. Bangladesh’s democracy is distorted by the malpractices of political power by her politicians. The quality of democracy in the country has been jeopardized by the immature practices and attitudes by its political party, in or out of power.

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Knowledge Management (KM) can be used as an alternative strategy by schools to help teachers equipped with relevant skills to face the challenges to improve performance as its uses in commercial sectors. However, little research has been undertaken on how KM can be applied to school environment. To put KM into action, it is crucial to understand teachers’ perception of KM at the outset. The study was carried out in a typical Hong Kong secondary school. Interviews, based on relevant KM models, were conducted to understand teachers’ perception of KM.

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This research compares the impacts of devastating natural disasters on levels of human trafficking in developed countries to the impacts experienced in third world countries. The two disasters selected for this study were Hurricane Isaac in Louisiana and the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia. Factors selected to measure the impacts of the natural disaster include income level, homelessness, and unemployment rates.

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Risk management is recognized as an essential contributor to business and project success, since it focuses on addressing uncertainties in a proactive manner in order to minimize threats, maximize opportunities and optimize achievement of objectives. There is wide convergence and international consensus on the necessary elements for a risk management process, and this is supported by a growing range of capable tools and techniques, an accepted body of knowledge, an academic and research base, and wide experience of practical implementation across many industries....

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In the following pages I have attempted to trace certain developments in the theory of translation as it has been formulated by English writers. I have confined myself, of necessity, to such opinions as have been put into words, and avoided making use of deductions from practice other than a few obvious and generally accepted conclusions.

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The idea of collaborative science, and of appropriate attribution to previous work, vary greatly from culture to culture. In some cultures, the reference to another researcher’s concepts must be cited even when not quoting a previously published work directly. In other cultures, copying entire sections of another’s work and incorporating them into one’s own is an acceptable way of demonstrating the influence of that prior work. While globally publishers have established their own best practices as to what constitutes plagiarism, not all emerging regions share the same understanding.

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But the patterns of Indian child socialisation are bound to change as processes of modernisation and lately globalisation, proceed apace. As Murphy (1953) points out, Indian children are friendly, responsible, artistic, cheerful and spontaneous –a result she believes of the acceptance of children in the everyday pattern of family living, the easy participation of people of any age in the activities of the rest.

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Even if this approach provides insights about potential target country markets, no information is provided on the within-country consumers‘ heterogeneity and their response to marketing efforts. In this context it has to be stated that the globalization of consumer markets and the global acceptance of products and brands lead to a globalization of consumers‘ behaviors and attitudes.

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Issues related with powerlessness are usually present in their everyday life, especially as of the moment when people escape from patterns considered acceptable by society, being marginalized and deprived of possibilities. This fact occurs, for instance, with the elderly population, which is sometimes acknowledged as incapable of making its own decisions or even assuming its role within society. The health of the individuals and its alleged promotion seem to be closely related with power, which implies freedom of choice about several issues.

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..Praise for George Eckes and Six Sigma for Everyone “Long noted for his ability to simplify complex subjects and effectively move leaders and teams to action, George connects the dots in this new book. It is the ‘help desk reference manual’ to answer questions and light the path with advice on what needs to be done for effective Six Sigma implementation and what should be avoided. Without exception, this book should be within arms reach of anyone working in a Six Sigma environment.

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Table 116-4 Standards for Immunization Practice Child and Adolescent Immunization Practice 1. Immunization services are readily available. 2. Vaccinations are coordinated with other health care services and provided in a "medical home" when possible. 3. Barriers to vaccination are identified and minimized. 4. Patient's costs are minimized. 5. Health care professionals review the vaccination and health status of patients at every encounter to determine which vaccines are indicated. 6. Health care professionals assess for and follow only medically accepted contraindications. 7.

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