Wikipedia describes it as "a feeling or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive.
Wikipedia says, "gratitude, thankfulness, gratefulness, or appreciation is a feeling or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive".
Despite the literature acknowledgment of the benefits of education in general to small business (Douglass, 1976; Kiesner, 1984; Robinson & Sexton, 1994), a business degree may not necessarily be essential to successfully start and operate a business.
It is likely that in today's society with its concomitant trends of longevity and public acknowledgment of the benefits of physical activity, people link the idea of health with unrestricted physical functioning and role performance.
The emphasis on the future role of patients indicates intentions to develop patient involvement in a direction from reactive towards more proactive approaches in Norway as a response to more competent and well-informed patients and acknowledgment of the benefits from collaboration with patients and patients' groups in service planning and development.
In the first public acknowledgment of the new benefit, the minister of civil affairs, Li Xueju, said that the government had started the "subsidies" to veterans of nuclear tests last year, the official Xinhua news agency reported late Saturday.
None of this will change official policy — but it is good to hear the thinking behind such policies, as well as the acknowledgment of costs as well as benefits.
While we have tried to maintain the light and puckish tone of the issue, we have also included a fair number of entries about economics and finance, in acknowledgment of the global crisis, which would benefit from as much thinking as it can get.
However, we believe their conclusion that "adjunct ET cannot be recommended" should have been qualified with an acknowledgment that they have shown a "lack of evidence for benefit" rather than "evidence for lack of benefit".
But it's not job-like enough to warrant the ancillary benefits – career development, acknowledgment of skill or loyalty through pay rises, holiday pay, sick pay, pensions – that many of us take for granted.
This pragmatic acknowledgment of the inevitable could work to everyone's benefit, especially if the Chinese and the guarantors can work in harmony.
