Travel experiences of eighth grade students

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Perceived Justice Initiatives and Customers’ Post-Complaint Satisfaction in the Fastfood Industry

The primary aim of every business organisation is to create satisfied customers. Not only because it leads to a secured customer base, but also because it leads to greater financial performance in the long term. This study investigated the connection between perceived justice initiatives and customers’ post-complaint satisfaction in the fast food industry in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. One hundred and eighty-five respondents who are patrons of forty fastfood firms participated in the study. The study collected data from the respondent through the use of questionnaire, while the hypotheses were tested using the spearman’s rank order correlation coefficient, relying on the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16.0. The study found positive and significant relationship between the three dimensions of perceived justice initiatives considered in the study and customers’ post-complaint satisfaction, with interactional justice showing the strongest relationship with customers’ post-complaint satisfaction. The study concluded that effective and efficient service recovery programmes anchored on sound grasp of customers’ expectation will enhance customers’ post complaint satisfaction; and recommends that fastfood firms which seek to improve their performance through customers’ post complaint satisfaction should institute perceived justice initiatives through interactional justice, distributive justice and procedural justice. Keywords: Perceived justice initiatives, Distributive justice, Procedural justice, Interactional justice, Post-complaint satisfaction

Is composting worm availability the main barrier to large-scale adoption of worm-based organic waste processing technologies?

Organic waste is the largest typology of waste generated globally, which if untreated, can causes environmental pollution and be a public health risk. The worm-based processing of organic waste is known as vermicomposting and is recognized as a sustainable approach for the management of organic waste streams. Although this technology has been around since the 1970s and many different organic wastes have been successfully processed via vermicomposting, this technology has not been widely adopted at national or international levels. This paper explores the hypothesis that the availability of composting worms is the reason for low uptake of this technology. A market analysis of composting worm farm (vermiculture) businesses in two countries (South Africa and India) was undertaken to explore the hypothesis. It was found that the Indian market had the capacity to supply over 70,000 kg of worms per month, whilst for the South Africa market this was 3000 kg. Both markets have the capability to increase production by two-fold or more. Overall, the study concludes that worm supply is not a barrier to the scaling-up of worm-based technologies in either country. Additionally, these countries show the potential to assist development of worm-based systems in neighboring countries through export of composting worms

An Ecological Study of the Spiders of a River-Terrace Forest in Western Tennessee

Author Institution: Le Moyne, College, Memphis, Tenn

Using Numerical Simulation to Test the Validity of Neo-Darwinian Theory

Evolutionary genetic theory has a series of apparent “fatal flaws” which are well known to population geneticists, but which have not been effectively communicated to other scientists or the public. These fatal flaws have been recognized by leaders in the field for many decades—based upon logic and mathematical formulations. However population geneticists have generally been very reluctant to openly acknowledge these theoretical problems, and a cloud of confusion has come to surround each issue. Numerical simulation provides a definitive tool for empirically testing the reality of these fatal flaws and can resolve the confusion. The program Mendel’s Accountant (Mendel) was developed for this purpose, and it is the first biologically-realistic forward-time population genetics numerical simulation program. This new program is a powerful research and teaching tool. When any reasonable set of biological parameters are used, Mendel provides overwhelming empirical evidence that all of the “fatal flaws” inherent in evolutionary genetic theory are real. This leaves evolutionary genetic theory effectively falsified—with a degree of certainty which should satisfy any reasonable and open-minded person

Mendel\u27s Accountant: A New Population Genetics Simulation Tool for Studying Mutation and Natural Selection

Mendel’s Accountant (hereafter referred to as “Mendel”) is a state-of-the-art forward-time population genetics model that tracks millions of individual mutations with their unique effects on fitness and unique location within the genome through large numbers of generations. It treats the process of natural selection in a precise way. It allows a user to choose values for a large number of parameters such as those specifying the mutation effect distribution, reproduction rate, population size, and variations in environmental conditions. Mendel is thus a versatile and capable research tool that can be applied to problems in human genetics, plant and animal breeding, and management of endangered species. With its user-friendly graphical user interface and its ability to run on laptop computers it can also be fruitfully employed in teaching genetics and genetic principles, even at a high school level. Mendel is freely available to users and can be downloaded from the web. When biologically realistic parameters are selected, Mendel shows consistently that genetic deterioration is an inevitable outcome of the processes of mutation and natural selection. The primary reason is that most deleterious mutations are too subtle to be detected and eliminated by natural selection and therefore accumulate steadily generation after generation and inexorably degrade fitness

Doentes e Imundos: A representação da miséria a partir de doenças na Inglaterra da Revolução industrial em Oliver Twist, de Charles Dickens

O trabalho atual tem como objetivo principal analisar a obra de Oliver Twist Escrita por Charles Dickens. A partir de uma investigação histórica embasada na pespectiva do movimento literário Romântico do século XIX se buscarão os principais assuntos que a obra aborda e como refletem a sociedade Inglesa durante a Revolução industrial. A evidenciação do recurso literáriro utilizado por Dickens também trará à tona os entendimentos e expressões do autor sobre o mundo, e, portanto aproximação com as questões materiais do período

Assessment of the influence of intrinsic environmental and geographical factors on the bacterial ecology of pit latrines

Funding Information: This research received financial support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (grant number OPP52641). AWW and JP were supported by the Wellcome Trust [grant number 098051]. AWW and the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, receive core funding support from the Scottish Government Rural and Environmental Science and Analysis Service (RESAS). UZ is funded by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Independent Research Fellowship (NE/L011956/1). CQ is funded through an Medical Research Council fellowship (MR/M50161X/1) as part of the MRC Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics consortium (MR/L015080/1).Peer reviewedPublisher PD