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Family Therapy Problem and Solution Focuses

behaviorists and placed their emphasis on the present (Bertolino, 2003). Various problem-focused approaches were consequently deve...

Debate on Gun Control

statistics which show how many people have avoided or saved their own lives aided by the owning of a gun (Polsby 1994). In other w...

CSX Corporation's Capital Structure

more favorable business results. Though Conrail was not as profitable as its competitors, neither was it in particularly ba...

Inner City Adult Asthma Patients and Risk Factors

and a very important factor is a lack of medical attention. All of these things culminate in a situation where people are more vul...

End User Computing Risks and Benefits

track a users every move. Some do not like to use such tactics as it seems to be underhanded and trust can then become an issue. A...

3 Sources of Innovation at Sony

Sonys introduction of the first consumer camcorder in 1983 also could be assured of being popular. These and other innovations ce...

Nursing Practice and Medication Errors

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

Best Practices in Risk Management and eBusiness Law

screen out the addresses of re-shippers, but cyber thieves have responded by recruiting" (Voyles, 2003; p. PG) others to use their...

Investment Portfolio Development

the market operates. The market place works on a system of expectation and well as logical influences. If it is believed by a brok...

Organizations and Terrorism Threats

many perspectives, it has also served to heighten political and ideological disputes across borders as well. We no longer live ou...

3 Terms of Project Management

completed to date (Wideman, 2002). Earned values "uses original estimates and progress-to-date to show whether the actual costs in...

Comparing Alcohol Abuse in Heterosexuals and Lesbians

alcohol and drugs (McDaniel, 2001, 86). Abuse is a part of the lesbian experience as it is for all areas of society, but...

Investment Portfolio Determination

for the majority of the portfolio will be ten years or more. To undertake this assessment we will first look at some basic requi...

Risk and a Work Project's Breakdown Schedule

4 weeks * Team prepares RFP for technology and installation * Team determines a select list of vendors to query. This requires res...

History and Financial Performance of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.

2004). Operations also take place with the core brand name of A & P, in Canada operations take place under the name Dominion In Mi...

Teens and Premarital Sex

1997). Societal factors as a whole, however, bear examination in regard to their impact on this phenomena. Not only must parents...

Twenty Three Questions on International Finance Answered

The equation is Ks = Krf + B ( Km - Krf). Here Ks is the rate of return required, Krf is the risk free rate, usually measured...

Outline for Proposals for 10 Dissertations

easy to obtain. However, with organisations such as the Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance in London there is a good sourc...

Process of 'Big Bet' Business Risks

The author of this article went on to point out companies in Canada that had made and succeeded on big bets (such as Nortel on opt...

Risk Management and Financial Services

has a poor reputation with customers, a common problem in the financial services industry. * The Chairmans goal is to (1) implemen...

Concepts of Emergency Management

appropriate policies and procedures (Bechtel et al, 2000). The belief here is that creating a plan to encompass events that are li...

Liability in Nursing

Colorado/Utah and 3.7 percent of the hospitalizations occurring in New York resulted incurred adverse events (Dunn 45). Death occu...

Emergency Management

specifically designed for such an occurrence. What is the single most important aspect of emergency management falls into category...

Capital Risk Management

it will save more than it will cost, adding value to the company and be cost efficient. The main risks that are felt ion interna...

Airline Risk Assessment

have been taken to reduce the likelihood of the risk occurring. Measures such as restricting what could be taken onto aircraft, th...

Arguing Against Breast Augmentation

problems associated with breast implants include capsular contraction, a hardening of the breast (Nissen, Newman, and McRee). Pat...

Argentina Location for Briggs and Stratton

It alternately makes headway toward that end then loses ground, and it lost much of its trade potential as a result of its economi...

Entrepreneur Personality Characteristics

The origins of the word come fro the French "entreprendre" meaning to undertake (Drucker, 1993). By applying this to a commercial ...

At Risk Students and Curricular Reform and Innovations

conditions of life in distressed communities(Principles for Education 2002). To meet the challenge of radically transforming dist...

Security and Wireless Technologies

issues of concern include: authentication, authorization, encryption, misuse and abuse in addition to hackers (Posluns, 2002). One...