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Essays 1651 - 1680

Progress and Ideals of the Enlightenment

and the second seeks to "alter the self-understanding of groups which have been defined in negative ways by a dominant culture" (L...

Definitions and Theories of Political Culture

a result of this complexity, political culture "remains a suggestive rather than a scientific concept" (Chilton, 2005). ...

Replenishment, Forecasting, Collaborative Planning, and Factory Gate Prices

will be required or even of error rates of any other items that can be measured statistically. To replenish can be defined as "...

A Case Study of the Use of Collaborative Processes for a Woman with Multiple Comorbidities

points out that patients with comorbidities have additional needs that serve to increase the complexity of care. Various models of...

Overview of YTM

If the interest rates decrease, then 5% would be a good investment, and as such the original purchaser may choose to sell the bond...

America's Waste Management Services

Figure 1 shows the position in 2001. Figure 1 US Waste Management Industry in 2001 (Repa, 2001) Sector Number of Organizations A...

Nursing and Kangaroo Care

article, "Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact (Kangaroo Care)," kangaroo care offers the parents the only opportunity to engage in ...

Religion and Scientology

but as partial descriptions of what is included in religion and what is not included in religion and as such definitions or descri...

Definition and Types of PTSD

Hurricane Katrina is one of the most recent examples of an event that resulted in PTSD among some victims. Szegedy-Maszak (2005) ...

National Debt and Excessive Social Spending

This is analogous to the situation of the national debt. Social Programs and the Debt The single largest component of the debt is...

Cultural Competency For Social Workers

or similarity (Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice, 2001). As this author said, "Cultural competency emphasizes the i...

How a Code of Ethics Might be Implemented in a Business Environment

philosophy there is much attention to ethics and ides about right and wrong. For example, there is something called the categorica...

Quantitative v. Qualitative Data

they are classified, counted and used to construct statistical models. Many quantitative researchers generally view the qualitat...

Legal Issues & Nursing

will--in all likelihood--result in a professional negligence suit, rather than criminal charges. Suits against nurses result from ...

AMIA / IMIA

navigate as it refers users to various links and press releases rather than stating plainly what it does; the IMIA is much more us...

The Relationship Between Culture and Gender with Regard to Familial Duties and Societal Expectation

made him a little sad because he found that even in the 21st century, many men are still straitjacketed in stereotypes" (Dowd). He...

The Word “Love”

means English, which is defined as "believe." That in turn comes from the Latin ("L") "lubet" or "libet," meaning "it pleases" whi...

Considerations When Carrying Out Market Research

purchase from the firm in the last twelve months, alternatively the definition may be the last six months1. The way that t...

ACCOUNTING TERMS

Accrual Basis vs. Cash Basis Accounting The difference between these two methods of accounting is the way in which income ...

Product Life Cycle Analysis of Starbucks Coffee

competing in fast-changing, unpredictable markets by scheduling change at predictable time intervals" (Eisenhardt & Brown, 1998, p...

Overview of Intercultural Communications

another (De Mente, 2005). Rushing in with the typical American "lets get down to business" attitude is considered rude, and may ev...

Definition of Logical Fallacies and Their Types

to assume that this demographic is the cause. A similar category are fallacies of insufficient evidence. Lau and Chan refer to th...

IS and KM

to an organisation, in effect become wisdom. Wenig looks at how knowledge is gained and then used (KMF, 1996). Knowledge it is arg...

Ethnic Discrepancies Regarding Cases of Asthma

in the prevalence of asthma. Akinbami, Rhodes & Lara (2005) suggest that "many studies have demonstrated that these large disparit...

Art and Public Funding Controversy

("Art on Trial," 2006). The Court would also issue the injunction as it believed that, after the case would be fully litigated, it...

Family Therapy and Dysfunctional Families

both parents exploit the children and treat them as possessions whose primary purpose is to respond to the physical and/or emotion...

Q and A on Telecommunications

("Public Switched Telephone Network," 2006). The purpose of PSTN is to route calls. It is a very simple function, but with millio...

Vector, Mass, Shape, and Line in a Praying Mantis Drawing

to the professional utilizes line, shape, color, mass, and vector. To illustrate the importance of each of the above elem...

Overview of Currency Contracts

The contracts are standardised with set terms of the way the contract are to be conducted (Demetrakakes , 1999). The only variable...

Internet Portals and Business Value

starting site. This may be the page that a browser is set up to load automatically when it is opened or it may be a webpage that i...