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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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). ...

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...

Overview of Laparoscopic Surgery

the body and guide the instrument inserted through the other tubes. With these tiny tools, the surgeon can perform minor -- and in...

Employment Hazards Associated with Being an Electrician

been an electrician for well over thirty years, and has just barely lived to tell about it (Licher, 2000). Of the electricity tha...

Overview of Heart Disease

and strokes. Heart disease became commonplace. The rate of heart disease increased so sharply between the 1940 and 1967 that the W...

Radio Pranks That are Dangerous and/or Illegal

prank acceptable even if it harms others, or is morally wrong, or is illegal? What standards should the radio stations follow? A...

Robert Montoya Vineyards and an Investment Analysis Proposal

One particular article contends that cost of capital can be considered a type of commonsense reality check on the return prospects...

Trading Practices, the Barings Group, and Nick Leeson

As he has been pointed out in much of the financial media that has covered this issue, the derivative instruments that ended up ca...

Two Studies of Information Technology

gratification and for some purchases the inability to see and feel what they are. These different elements are seen as reassuring ...

General Information on Cochlear Implant

hearing loss and is successful in children as young as eighteen months. This is true despite some controversy not only due to cul...

Case Study on Personal Finance

Therefore, each needs sufficient life insurance initially to pay of their individuals and the joint liabilities. There is also the...

A Vitamin B12 Overview

Whitaker notes that dementia is due to a deficiency of B-12 (1994). Certain populations, other than the elderly, tend to be def...

Last Minute Death Sentence Commutation by Illinois Governor George Ryan

recent ex-Governor Ryan. This corruption manifested in a number of ways including various arms of corruption within the Chicago p...

Environmental Health and Asbestosis

Lung Disease Surveillance Report, 1996). This is true of the UK and the international environment, and is due to the delay between...

AMD and Intel Exchange Rate Exposure

but the risk types that may be hedged are both investments as well as debts, the tools used tend to be forward contracts for the c...

Infertility Causes and Treatments

the womb. In total, more than $1 billion (Greenberg, 2003, p. C3) is spent each year on such infertility treatments. With this ne...

Diabetes Mellitus, Type II

in the blood and is not properly transferred to the cells, the body begins to feel weak and fatigued from lack of energy (Type 2 D...

The Elderly and Anemia

elderly, the most common of which include chronic disease, inflammation and blood loss (Williamson et al, nd). Smith reports there...

Which Represents the Best Research Methodology?

between the subject of study and the researcher. Quantitative research studies, in contrast, stress measurement and statistical an...

Breast Cancer Chemoprevention

to raloxifene, which, as a "promising agent" (pp. 7-15), falls far behind tamoxifen in any use other than clinical trials. When d...

Description and Occupational Outlook of Computer Programming

In six pages the field of computer programming is examined in terms of its duties, salary, risks, and future occupational outlook....

Taiwan and the Potential of Asset Backed Securities

studying the models and then comparing the way that Taiwan is developing should then give two valuable results. Firstly an indicat...