{"title":"Chapter II","authors":"J. Rao, Kamala","doi":"10.7551/mitpress/11696.003.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11696.003.0030","url":null,"abstract":"The review of literature guides the researchers for getting better understanding of methodology used, limitation of various available estimation procedures and database, and lucid interpretation and reconciliation of the conflicting results. Besides this, the review of empirical studies explores the avenues for future and present research efforts related to the subject matter. In case of conflicting and unexpected results, the research can take the advantage of knowledge of their researchers simply through the medium of their published works. A number of research studies have been carried out on different aspects of performance appraisal by the researchers, economists and academicians in India and abroad. Different authors have analysed performance in different perspectives. A review of these analyses is important in order to develop an approach that can be employed in the context of the study of Indian automobile industry. Therefore, the present chapter reviews the empirical studies related with different aspects of performance appraisal. The chapter has been divided into four sections.","PeriodicalId":216671,"journal":{"name":"The Science of Breaking Bad","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132443264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biology","authors":"Brian Cumming","doi":"10.7551/mitpress/11696.003.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11696.003.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Queen's Biology students have the opportunity to explore the full breadth of biology: the inner workings of cells; the integrative biology of organisms; the interactions between organisms in ecological communities; and the central roles of genetics and evolution in shaping the diversity of life. Hands-on laboratory exercises, field courses offered locally at our renowned Queen’s University Biological Station (https:// qubs.ca/home/) and around the world, and independent research opportunities in professors’ laboratories on selected topics are hallmarks of a Degree Plan in Biology. The mission of Queen’s Biology is to prepare graduating students to be engaged, independent, and critically thinking citizens, well-prepared for further study and with a variety of career options.","PeriodicalId":216671,"journal":{"name":"The Science of Breaking Bad","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117282334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Explosives: Fulminated Mercury and the Wheelchair Bomb","authors":"","doi":"10.7551/mitpress/11696.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11696.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":216671,"journal":{"name":"The Science of Breaking Bad","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130340784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"It’s a (Phosphine) Gas","authors":"","doi":"10.7551/mitpress/11696.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11696.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":216671,"journal":{"name":"The Science of Breaking Bad","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123088466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter X","authors":"Francisco Yus","doi":"10.7551/mitpress/11696.003.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11696.003.0038","url":null,"abstract":"Weblogs do not seem to differ substantially from other web pages, but the availability of user-friendly weblog templates has generated a tendency towards the stabilisation of an independent “weblog genre”. The aim of this chapter is to analyse the characteristics of this genre and check to what extent they have already stabilised within the blogging community. This stabilisation is essential since the reader’s’ fast identification of the weblog genre would save mental effort by alerting them of the type of information that they expect to find in the weblog. It will be argued that readers and bloggers have stored in their minds the basic features of the weblog genre (what we will label internalised weblog schema) which they invariably check when they aim at labelling the web page as a weblog. These schemas, which are subject to a constant process of updating, determine what expectations readers are likely to build up concerning the information that they are about to process in the weblog, thus saving mental effort. The analysis of 100 weblog samples will help us determine which verbal-visual features of weblogs are candidates to be stored in these schemas and invariably expected both by authors and readers of weblogs.","PeriodicalId":216671,"journal":{"name":"The Science of Breaking Bad","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131996298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}