Suppose you are compiling a battery of psychological assessment measures for selection of students at a South African tertiary institution. ... The results from these various measures, contribute to a further understanding of the meaning of intelligence. ... This test was adapted for cross-cultural use in many countries because it was a practical measure of intelligence. ... This is currently the most widely used measure of intelligence (Walsh & Betz, 1995). ... Essential elements of measuring intelligence are the education of relations and correlates. ...

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On measures of cognitive anger, mean scores increased significantly after the story was heard. ... Students also used puppets to act out stories about making friends, and later discussed the stories and the emotions of their characters. ... This lends further support to the idea that children respond more empathetically to characters in stories than in other media. ... Where previous research used stories as an integral part of empathy measures, in the current study storytelling was not directly involved in the empathy measure. ... was used to measure each child's affective perspective. ...

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Therefore, as a matter of urgency, individual security measures should be implemented with speed to avert any possible future occurrences. ... The main problems are that not enough measures were put forward to persuade the country holding Snowden. ... Another possible problem is that proper measures were not put in place to review who got access to the highly sensitive data possessed by the NSA. ... The government should come up with counter measures to curb the rise of other countries giving out safe heaven to criminals. ... In the case the government wants to collect very critical informatio...

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However throughout his reign Akbar adopted a number of measures in the religious sphere that have been termed as liberal. ... It was these measures and especially the new state policy that became a major controversial factor with Akbar's critics accusing him of being a heretic. However, one needs to have a better understanding of these measures and the motivating factors behind their adoption before drawing conclusions about their nature. ... Before we go on to study this process and the various measures adopted by Akbar it would be important to understand the context and environment u...

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It is necessary, on this path to discovery, to pick apart and study each aspect of their character so that we can better understand the similarities between their beings. ... The argument over the possibilities of twins" personalities being genetically predetermined is a complex one and I refuse to fully side with either extreme but I do see the truth in twins being born with portions of foreordained character. ... It is said that intelligence is not only a measure of brain activity and thought but the physical actions stimulated by our senses as well (Cohen 125). ... In a study with similar...

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Burnett of Alabama, the Democratic chairman of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, that sought to reintroduce the measure of literacy test as measure against uncontrolled Immigration coming to America. ... The protest was attended by over three thousand people at the Cooper Union, protesting against the un-American and inhumane character, and the detrimental to the country economically. ...

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These factors are known as universal compensable factors because they can be used to measure differences among a wide variety of jobs. ... These degrees or levels measure the specific amount of that factor which is required in the performance of the job. WEIGHTING AND RATING OF COMPENSABLE FACTORS Lott's point method: Lott recognized that the 15 compensable factors he identified for measuring job differences were not of equal importance. ... The customized portion of the guide chart relates to the number of rows and columns of each guide chart; depending on the character and size of a...

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A descriptive survey was conducted through means of a questionnaire to measure the sources of brand equity of the Samsung Mobile brand. ... "Brand equity" is complex in nature and cannot be quantified by a single measure over a small number of analogous respondents. ... Firstly, the simple act of measuring something somehow adds further proof of the existence of what is being measured. Secondly, measurement provides a greater insight into the brand's strength, character and uniqueness, information that can be used to ascertain current brand and market position and future strategic planni...

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Recently newspaper reports indicate that gender violence in Bangladesh is on the increase.1 a phenomena which has brought forth preventive legislative measures from the government, as well as growing concern from the general public. ... Thus family planning becomes equated with women's issues and women the prime receptors of birth control measure. ... Marketing techniques aim to get the product sold, and hence there is a tendency to keep any 'negative' information to a minimum, in advertising to the general public, as in the case of the high-oestrogen oral contraceptive pill, Ma...

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In a society where exchange is common, products come to have a dual character as use values and as values. ... In the aggregate, for the total system of production (which of course exists only as an asymptotic abstract notion), these balance sheets and income statements exactly measure value in the sense of the labor theory of value. ...

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The early Greeks considered "air" to be one of four elementary substances; along with earth, fire, and water, air was viewed as a fundamental component of the universe. By the early 1800s, however, scientists such as John Dalton recognized that the atmosphere was in fact composed of several chemically distinct gases, which he was able to separate and determine the relative amounts of within the lower atmosphere. He was easily able to discern the major components of the atmosphere: nitrogen, oxygen, and a small amount of something incombustible, later shown to be argon. The development of the ...

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Lastly, there also remain complex issues unresolved relating to the participation of the private sector in financial crisis management; measures for improvements in the working of financial markets and the governance of the international financial institutions. ... The 10-year loans in support of structural adjustment measures, namely the Extended Fund Facility was the main target of criticism. ...

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The use of alternative medicines is rising not just in the United States, but worldwide. Due to the popularity of such treatments, the efficiency of these alternative medicines is often questioned. While the effectiveness of certain alternative medical practices can be determined through the use of randomized control trials (RTCs), it can not only be difficult, but lack efficiency with most alternative medical practices. Acupuncture is an ancient art of healing that dates back to at least 2,500 years. It has been widely practiced in China and many other Asian countries. ...

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He suggests that the quality of democracy is determined by how well a given political system performs against democratic measures such as women's representation, political equality, electoral participation, satisfaction with democracy, government-voter proximity, accountability and corruption and popular cabinet support. ... Becuase there is no objective way of measuring the quality of a democracy, a variety of different indicators have been suggested, such as by David and Morlino (2005), who argue that both procedural indicators, such as the rule of law, participation, competition and...

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For movement, the program just sends two-character commands; the PIC program interprets them and does the appropriate thing with the movement motors (i.e. left motor forward, right motor back, etc.) ... (A small resistor would also have let me measure the current if the charger didn't have a current meter. Use a multimeter to measure the voltage across the resistor, and you can calculate the current through it.) ...

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The term 'totalitarianism' was first coined in Italy in May 1923 as a term of abuse against Mussolini's Fascist government. In England in 1929 the term was used to describe both Fascist (Italy and later Germany) and Communist (Soviet Union) states. Indeed, these countries were ruled by a single mas...

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The concept that physical characteristics are related to social behaviour have been traced back to the Greek physician Hippocrates, who designed a group of typologies and physiques and tried to correlate them with character traits. ... As Eysenck and Gudjonsson (1989) stated: "What is inherited are certain peculiarities of the brain and nervous system that interact with certain environmental factors and thereby increase the likelihood that a person will act in a particular antisocial manner in a given situation" Eysenck believed that he could measure the three character traits using a p...

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Research Purpose This research project is the assessment of shadow economy (SE) in an urban public passenger vehicle transport (UPPVT) of Yerevan and development of measures on its reduction. For realization of this task, the following hypotheses are carried out: • Economic basis of SE emergence in UPPVT; • Formation sources of a shadow circulation in UPPVT; • Economic assessment of a shadow circulation in UPPVT; • Methodology of SE research in UPPVT; • Development of organizational, normative and legislative measures on reduction and further liquidation of shad...

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The irrational vision of an "affluent society", an earthly material paradise, had dominated the mind of peoples for twenty years, to the point of blindness: all countries had thrown themselves into a competition of ruthless development and were concerned solely to measure their gross national income, on whose basis they compared themselves with one another, while being indifferent to the natural cost of this economic "progress". ... A start has been made in the adoption of measures in the areas of greatest priority, in other words the relief of hunger, the restriction of overconsumption and th...

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The labyrinth depicted in the novel has affected the various characters in the novel. ... When Navidson measures his new home in attempts to explain this occurrence, he discovers that the house is larger by one-fourth of an inch on the inside than on the outside. ... Navidson calls for help from his brother Tom and an old friend by the name of Billy Reston to help Navidson measure his house. ... Zampano's notes are found by a character named Johnny Truant. ... In each level, Danielewski's characters are navigating the labyrinth of self. ...

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Sex offenders are a highly diverse group of people, but all are individuals who have at least one of the following crimes in common: have committed violent sexual assault on a stranger, have had inappropriate sexual contact with a family member, have molested a child or any other inappropriate and c...

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The Social and Educational Reformation in New Lanark New Lanark, the former cotton spinning village in the valley of the River Clyde near the old town of Lanark, is famous internationally because of its pioneering management, and social and educational experiments led by the publicist, Robert Owen. New Lanark is also an important industrial monument, because of its role as an early center of mass production using state-of-the-art technology at the time in 1785. It was built by David Dale, Owen's father-in-law, a resourceful textile entrepreneur and banker. One reason for the success...

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With vivid and realistic illustration of various characters by different professions, the work possesses a deep consideration upon the subtle scheme of human nature. ... A delicate female gaze from him, seemingly, is held to explore the inner conflict battling inside his female characters. ... However idealized is the lady, the courtly tradition therefore surfaces the existence of females, whether by physical or male-defined virtue, disguises the inner characters, and in a way impersonalises women from the ordinary humane nature. ... Behaving similarly to the Duke in Measure for Measure, an...

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Parallels between Eastern and Western Philosophy Historically, philosophical ideas have been essentially divided between the east and west. Despite the geographic separation, eastern and western thought pertaining to the human condition and the nature of the cosmos share a common thread. Certain as...

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Reza Shah was a man of simple origins. He was sincerely and deeply moved by the sorry condition of his country, conscious of his own strengths, and supremely self-confident. He was in some respects a great man and, in the sum of his qualities and achievements, an extraordinary phenomeno...

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