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Positively M.A.D. is a series of short stories about real people doing real things to have an impact. While the stories will leave you inspired, I was touched by the insights that follow each story. The insights provide you that author's view of the principles that guide people to making a difference.

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The purpose of this research is to identify and analyze what factors influence accounting students to have a career as qualified accountants. The short term goal of this research is that the identification results of this study can be used as a basis for the preparation of learning and non-learning programs and strategies that can increase the interest of accounting students to pursue a career as qualified accountants.

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How real are the women characters in Hindi films? This is something to debate about because values, ideals, principles; morals have dominated the frame-work in which these films are placed. Thus, women rather than being depicted as normal human beings are elevated to a higher position of being ideal who can commit no wrong. Their grievances, desires, ambitions, feelings, perspectives are completely missing from the scene. They are really portrayed as the „other‟ because they are shown as not belonging to this real and worldly life.

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The State’s management is responsible for establishing and maintaining effective internal control over compliance with requirements of laws, regulations, contracts, and grants applicable to federal programs.

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Agricultural intensification is placing tremendous pressure on the soil’s capacity to maintain its functions leading to large-scale ecosystem degradation and loss of productivity in the long term. Therefore, there is an urgent need to find early indicators of soil health degradation in response to agricultural management. Our purpose was to review the literature in which a wide perspective of soil quality and the complex task of its assessment, considering the inherent and dynamic factors, are introduced.

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The main purpose of this report is to present the diversity and wealth of experience that savings banks have developed throughout Europe in the field of socially respon- sible activities. It illustrates this joint commitment with concrete case studies from a range of European countries, offering an overview of the fields in which savings banks are active, and providing examples of what they concretely do, how they inno- vate to adhere to stakeholders’ needs and diversify their initiatives.

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The main purpose of this report is to provide an update to a previous Royal College of Psychiatrists document, Mental Health of Students in Higher Education, published in 2003. Over the past decade, the demographics of the student population have undergone many changes that are of relevance to the provision of mental healthcare. The numbers of young people in higher education have expanded and they have become more socially and culturally diverse.

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e-Learning has been widely used in educational settings especially in developing countries like Indonesia. The purpose of this study was to investigate e-learning readiness among Indonesian university students and to compare students’ perceptions of their workload (including mental demand, physical demand, temporal demand, performance, effort, frustration, and sleepiness) in e-learning and classical learning settings. A survey was conducted with students in an Indonesian university. The results show that students have a high level of e-learning readiness.

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Patients on antiretroviral therapy have higher risk of developing adverse drug reactions (ADRs). The impact of ADRs on treatment adherence, treatment outcomes and future treatment options is quiet considerable. Thus, the purpose of this study was to describe the common self-reported ADRs and their impact on antiretroviral treatment.

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The primary purpose of this book is to help scientists and engineers working intensively with computers to become more productive, have more fun, and increase the reliability of their investigations. Scripting in the Python programming language can be a key tool for reaching these goals [27,29]. The term scripting means different things to different people. By scripting I mean developing programs of an administering nature, mostly to organize your work, using languages where the abstraction level is higher and programming is more convenient than in Fortran, C, C++, or Java.

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The purpose of writing this book is to produce a text suitable for students in Further and/or Higher Education who are required to learn how to use the computer-aided design (CAD) software package AutoCAD® 2011. Students taking examinations based on CAD will find the contents of the book of great assistance. The book is also suitable for those in industry wishing to learn how to construct technical drawings with the aid of AutoCAD 2011 and those who, having used previous releases of AutoCAD, wish to update their skills to AutoCAD 2011....

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Since the advent of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, systems with amagnetic field intensity of 1.5 tesla (T) have been deemed the gold standard for different clinical applications in all body areas. Ongoing advances in hardware and software have made theseMRsystems increasingly compact, powerful and versatile, leading to the development of higher magnetic field strength MRsystems (3.0 T) for use in clinical practice and for research purposes. As usually occurs with a new technology, 3.0 T MR imaging units will probably follow the same development trends in the years to come....

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Silicon Carbide (SiC) and its polytypes have been a part of human civilization for a long time; the technical interest of this hard and stable compound has been realized in 1885 and 1892 by Cowless and Acheson for grinding and cutting purpose, leading to its manufacture on a large scale. The fundamental physical limitations of Si operation at higher temperature and power are the strongest motivations for switching to wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors such as SiC for these applications.

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Plant extracts continues the numerous searches for more effective drugs of plant origin which are less toxic and available for low socio-economic population in the treatment of diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria. The potential for developing antibacterial from higher plants appears rewarding as it will result to the development of a phytomedicine to act against microbes. Plant based antibacterials have enormous therapeutic potentials as they can serve the purpose with lesser side effects that are often associated with synthetic antibacterials.

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The evaluation of impact of ATMA involve measuring the relationship between farmers’ knowledge, extent of skill with the adoption of better practices or farm technologies, utilization of inputs and ultimately increase farm productivity and profitability and the related improvement in farm.

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Many farmers in the country have only vague ideas about organic farming and its advantages as against the conventional farming methods. The present study was carried out in Uttarakhand state. Two districts namely, Rudraprayag from Garhwal region and Nainital from Kumaon region were selected purposively as the locale for the proposed study. In Rudraprayag district one block i.e. Jakholi was selected through simple random sampling and in Nainital district Betalghat block was selected purposively as it is the only block in the district declared as organic.

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There is no denial of the fact that performance evaluation is a critical managerial attempt in any organization especially financial institutions such as banks. MCDM methods have been utilized as efficient and common tools in many fields such as finance and economy and attract significant attention from public and financial regulators. The numerous opinions and enormous criteria associated with bank performance evaluation confines the implication of any single objective model. Therefore, multi-criteria decision making approach has been applied for this purpose.

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The present study to access the assured income through different activities implimented under IWDP with especial reference to the beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries for the purpose two districts from the Nagaland state viz; Dimapur and Zunheboto were selected purposely due to the maximum number of area covered under watershed in the zone further two blocks from each district were randomly selected which was finally having 8 numbers of watersheds areas were selected.

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Lichen is a combination of two organisms one is alga and another one is fungus. There is symbiotic relationship between alga and fungus. The algal part provides nutrition to the whole organism and the fungus part provides structural support to the organism.

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The Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions play a signicant role in providing skilled workforce required for the development of all developing nations. In order to remain competitive in the world market, any organization should have highly skilled workforce that can keep them to be economically viable in a global economy. An effective School-Industry partnership in TVET can be a useful strategy in providing workforce training and maintaining knowledgeable employees.

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