grant and lee a study in contrasts thesis statement

... rate such as restaurant, are required to always maintain good quality product and high service level Many companies consider investment in complaint handling as a way to increase their overall ... source of information, data collection and data analysis method as well as the plan for data analysis Chapter (Research results) analyzed the collected data and inteprete the research result Chapter ... questionnaire inquired respondants to evaluate their dinning experieces and statement about themselves by using point Linkert Scale Each scale item was attached at numerical having verbal statement...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2015, 13:28

... totals for each of the seven study days (see Table 8. Bloor Street and Spadina Road average  hourly on‐street parking usage).  Table Bloor Street and Spadina Road average hourly on-street parking usage Total Spaces ... Evening 105% Weekday Average 74% Saturday 64% Weekday Evening Average 55% Saturday Evening 38% Weekday Average 60% Saturday 49% Weekday Evening Average 62% Saturday Evening 72% Total Weekday Average ... Weekday Average 152 57% Weekday Evening Average 176 66% Saturday 128 48% Saturday Evening Total 70 Saturday Spadina % Used Weekday Evening Average Palmerston Peak Usage Weekday Average Lippincott...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20

... bulwarks of the law safeguarding the taxpayer from the abuse of the state and its taxing organs A new commercial and industrial age Most aspects of the three fundamental legal safeguards of Parliament, ... cotton manufacturing industries all grew rapidly, and the development of the railways was astonishing, all stimulated by an expansion in markets and available labour resulting from a trebling of ... serve a new dynamic economy and society These demands on the existing law and legal process were all novel and required a significant degree of adaptation and, in some cases, fundamental changes in...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... which appear to be painted, not incised I argued, on the contrary, that things of similar appearance, at Mas d'Azil: in Central Australia: and in Caithness, need not have had the same meaning and ... the "manufacturers" did know, apparently, that perforated and inscribed, or uninscribed tablets and plaques of shale and schist and slate and gas coal were found in America, France, Russia, and ... wits coincided fairly well, in Portugal and in Scotland, as earlier, at Volosova and Breonio In Portugalia, a Portuguese archaeological magazine, edited by Don Ricardo Severe, appeared an article...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 14:20

... The exhausted Christian mind rested its case, and philosophy be came a reiteration and ever-weakening justification of faith Again "pure thought" appeared as a jejune and academic business History ... suffering and impulse and awareness arise It is really no harder to imagine that a chemically active body wills, knows, thinks, and feels, than that an invisible, intangible something does so, "animates" ... relationships are known to us by inductive reasoning from many observed instances Physicists may think of certain facts in place of constants and variables, but the same constants and variables...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:25

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 00:53

... detected between VEGF -A levels in serum and plasma, arguing against a major role of platelets as a source of VEGF -A [8] In our study, VEGF -A and sFlt-1 serum levels were approximately and 10-fold lower ... diagnostic research, setting the stage for a future and planned validating study [31], as well as to gain insights about the time-course of sFlt-1 and VEGFA release during the very initial phase ... designed the study, analyzed data and contributed to manuscript production All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... S100B has been proposed as a marker of astroglial activation in brain disorders, and changes in its cerebrospinal fluid and/ or serum content have been associated with various neurological and psychiatric ... assay was carried out in 100 μL of CSF, serum or extracellular medium, using a rat TNFa ELISA from eBioscience (San Diego, USA) Statistical analysis Parametric data are reported as mean ± standard ... min) and a later increase in CSF (p = 0.006) (at 24 h) (Table 2) In addition, we observed an increase in LPS-induced TNFa release from astrocyte cultures at Guerra et al Journal of Neuroinflammation...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... examination 5.02 Pathologist Pathology and anatomy laboratories Disposal of specimen and used solutions 0.95 Technicians and Assistants Pathology and anatomy laboratories Jar filling 2.51 Assistants ... 2.51 Assistants Pathology and anatomy laboratories Specimen wash 2.28 Technicians Pathology and anatomy laboratories Biopsy 1.91 Technicians Viegas et al Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology ... Portugal and REQUIMTE/CQFB, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and SINTOR-UNINOVA, Monte de Caparica, Portugal 6Environmental and Occupational Health Department and CIESP...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... the inkjet-printing technology that could function as a technology for much simpler and faster fabrication on /in paper Most available commercial RFID tags are passive, and the antenna translates ... packaging layers were machined with a CO2 laser to form square holes in some layers for the chip cavity while leaving other layers solid to create a sealed cavity after lamination All the layers ... package and without the package layer are nearly the same FIGURE 3.6: Pictorial side view of the package stackup aluminum contacts However, for a reliable and long-term operation, a substantial...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... bandpass filter The feeding lines and the open-circuit resonators have been inserted into the different metallization layers (feeding lines: 2nd and, 4th resonators M2; 1st, 3rd, and 5th resonator: ... verifying the advantageous feature of the 3D modules that they can easily integrate additional or reconfigurable capabilities FIGURE 4.13: The comparison between measured and simulated S-parameters ... symmetrical three-pole and five-pole filters for intersatellite wideband applications that consist of, respectively, three and five capacitively gap-coupled single-mode resonators, as shown Fig 4.7 (a) and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... the field leakage and to enhance the Q In addition, the size and spacing of via posts are properly chosen to prevent electromagnetic field leakage and to achieve stop-band characteristic at the desired ... filters, and the remaining layers are reserved CAVITY-TYPE INTEGRATED PASSIVES L metal substrate W metal H substrate metal substrate metal substrate metal substrate metal substrates 6-10 (a) microstrip ... compared to a simulated value >18.37 dB over the pass band, as shown in Fig 5.5 (a) and (b), respectively In Fig 5.5 (a) , the measurement shows a slightly increased dB fractional bandwidth of about...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... the intercoupling structure in this study In the past, mode matching methods [70] and scattering matrix approaches [76] have been used to analyze the modal characterization of intercoupling discontinuities ... 5.20: Measured and simulated S-parameters of the dual-mode cavity filter for an Rx channel First, a Rx filter was designed and validated with experimental data, as shown in Fig 5.20 A line-reflect-reflect-match ... feedline internal slots external slot 1st cavity internal slot 2nd cavity 3rd cavity external slot via walls metal substrate metal substrate metal substrate internal slot metal substrate metal...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... waves into space waves The radiation patterns simulated in E and H planes of patch antennas with the soft surface only and with the soft surface/stacked cavity are shown and compared in Fig 6.8 (a) ... the fringing field along the inner edge of the soft surface ring This fringing field along with the fringing field at the radiating edges of the patch antenna forms an antenna array in the E-plane ... cross-polarization In addition, the maximum gain measured for the patch with the soft surface is near dBi, about dB higher than the maximum gain and dB higher than the gain at broadside for the antenna...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... IEEE Transaction on Advanced Packaging, vol 27, no 2, pp 332–340, May 2004 K Lim, A Obatoyinbo, A Sutuno, S Chakraborty, C Lee, E Gebara, A Raghavan, and J Laskar, A highly integrated transceiver ... Applications using ceramic and organic flexible materials, paper-based RFID’s and sensors, Microwave MEM’s, SOP-integrated (UWB, mutliband, conformal) antennas and Adaptive Numerical Electromagnetics ... DeJean, N Papageorgiou, D Thompson, R Bairavasubramanian, S Sarkar, and J -H Lee, “3-Dintegrated RF and millimeter-wave functions and modules using liquid crystal polymer (LCP) system-on-package...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... educated people is larger in DodaLab than in FilaBavi The main occupations are office staff and business in DodaLab and farmer in FilaBavi About three quarters of all persons in DodaLab have health ... 4-fold compared to lowland areas and higher income families [46] Utilization of ANC and delivery care is also lower in these disadvantaged areas and groups Reducing the inequality in maternal and child ... for carrying on family lines and names; performing ancestor worship; and taking care of parents in their old age Having a son also improves a woman’s status in the family and confirms a man’s...

Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2014, 03:33

... site as well as pulmonary artery occlusion pressure, mean arterial pressure, and cardiac index Table shows individual SO2 and [Lac] measured at each sampling site, and Figure shows graphs of mean ... right arm at intervals using an automated inflatable blood pressure measuring device Supplemental oxygen by mask was given to maintain arterial SO2, measured by pulse oximetry, above 98% at all ... conceived and designed the study, analyzed, interpreted the data and wrote and reviewed the manuscript AV acquired data and reviewed the manuscript EI designed the study, acquired data, and reviewed...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... parents' occupation and educational background, age and ethnicity, and judicial measures, past detention and past residential placements, history of foster care and outpatient care was obtained ... diseases (STDs) (lifetime) was gathered from the medical file as an indication of sexual risk behavior Social and Health Assessment (SAHA) The Social and Health Assessment (SAHA) [26,27] was used ... pregnancy Sexual activity increases with age, and some aspects of risky sexual interaction (e.g not using contraception at intercourse) are a primary cause of pregnancy Our finding on early maturity...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21