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    faculty and the students. It is hence staffs’ and students’ definitions of quality that need to be analysed to develop a programme that aligns with their perceptions and meets their expectations. Therefore, this research will focus on seeking answers to the following questions: 1. What is the student perception of quality? 2. What is the staff perception of quality? 3. How does MBM programme compare with best practices around the world? University of Waikato with the Triple Crown accreditation was

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    Sixth Sense Technology provides us a near resemblance of a natural sixth sense, a higher order sense than the five senses we have. Sixth Sense Technology device have a mini-projector and a camera which are connected to a smartphone. Smartphone is used as a computer and have internet connectivity. Camera recognizes any object or person in the view with help of the internet connectivity and important information about that object can be projected on any desired surface including the object itself or

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    In Uys’ (1980) film, The God’s Must Be Crazy, a tribal community of South African Bushmen who live independently away from any contact with the outside world. When a Coke bottle is dropped from a plane, this “beautiful” and “useful” thing becomes a tool that is adopted into a variety of uses by the family (Uys, 1980). When the family begins to fight over the bottle, Xi, decides that although the bottle has been given to them by the gods, this now “evil thing” must be thrown off the edge of the world

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    Harris as the narrator, Beau Lotto, Bas Rokers, John Crawford, Jonah Lehrer, Robin Harlan, Sarah Monat-Jacobs, Josh McDermott, Dr. Lera Bordoditsky, Daniel Kish, and Cathy Moss, and two unnamed actors. This film is all about unlocking the senses and perceptions, helping the curious understand how the brain works, and making sense of the world around us. To create mind-bending sensory illusions, Hollywood filmmakers use color, light, motion, depth and sound to hack human brain. Just as movies use image

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    The importance of individuality is something not just emphasized by human beings, but is deemed a part of human nature. But what really makes a person who they are? Is it the color of one 's hair or the contour of his or her face? Along with these genetic traits, comes numerous similarities with parents such as interests and even a person 's accent. This idea of individuality, or also known as the self, is the personality and ideas that are in each individual and seem to be embedded genetically inside

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    stimuli. Human cognition system also has a number of highly sensitive perception mechanisms that identify and characterize stimuli from its environment. However, humans use the concept of concentration and attention to perceive only significant stimuli from their environment. In this context, it is of great importance to define attention. Attention refers to the process of focusing or concentrating one or more human perception or cognitive systems on a specific stimuli (Livesey, Harris, & Harris

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    friend I always welcome them with a big firm hug rather than a handshake or the kisses on the cheek. I feel by hugging it gets a more deepening connection that no other greeting cues can give. It shows affection and care for the person but everyone’s perception is different about hugs because it can be an expression language of more than friends feeling and some will take it too seriously if not too personal. Only a handful of people in my life have mutual hugging greets but the newly friends soon discover

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    Synesthesia and the Bower: An Analysis of “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats Filled with sensorial imagery, John Keats’s use of the senses in “Ode to a Nightingale” leads to synesthetic description in order to convey what he is feeling and what he is imagining. This poem is based in a desire for escape and this is achieved through an imaginative bower in the speaker’s mind. The speaker is taken to this bower “on the viewless wings of Poesy” (Ode 928) whose song has put him into such a sublime

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    Kelly Featherston Article Summary – Psych 302 Introduction Ullsperger, Bylsma, and Botvinick (2005) investigated whether the findings of Mayr, Awh, and Laurey (2003) can be replicated and how much they can be shown across different task performances. Their specific study was motivated by a prior experiment where Gratton, Coles, and Donchin (1992) found that after an incompatible type trial reaction times were reduced and target processing occurred more frequently than flanker processing on the

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    Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”: An Interpretation The very first line of one of the most famous novellas of the 20th century, Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, is puzzling. It tells us that the main character awakes one day and finds himself turned into “ungeheueren Ungeziefer” (Gooderham par. 4). It has proven difficult to translate the line into English, as there is no precise translation. Meaning some “enormous or monstrous kind of unclean vermin” (Gooderham par. 7), it denotes “something nasty, but

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