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California's 2003 Gubernatorial Recall Election

hit with a severe energy crisis, driving costs up while the residents of the state suffered rolling black-outs (6). Davis was cri...

Business and IT

information is good. However information is only useful if it can be acted upon. Where there is information overload there may b...

Universal Health Care Economic Impact

States would need to assure education and training were available for qualified individuals. One thing all states could do that ...

Relationship Between School Attendance/Academic Successes

a 2002 paper on improving school attendance in the elementary grades, J.L. Epstein of Johns Hopkins University observed, "Dropping...

Sexual Harassment in the Army

holding back information critical to mission success. In both of these scenarios, the NCO is deliberately trying to make the subor...

Abnormal Psychology: Amnesia

take place, which is within two distinct systems. One system is referred to as "declarative memory" and this system records "names...

MEDICARE DONUT HOLE - BACKGROUND AND SOME SOLUTIONS

In 2003 the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (also known as MMA) passed amid a lot of hoopla and cel...

Fixed and Floating Exchange Rates

leaves government with policy dilemmas regarding which of the three factors are more important and will be followed (De Grauwe, 20...

Access To Health Care

strange since the data reported for 1998 was 83 percent of pregnant women who had received care in their first trimester. That fig...

Globalization's Challenges and the Arab World

There is a sort of contradiction between the forces of globalization and the material and moral realities in the Arab World, with ...

Alcoholics and ADHD

Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association outlines the criteria for making a diagnosis of ADHD (Wilens, 1998). Ac...

Case Studies on Small Business

show for it. His idea to have the place looking like an art gallery had not had the intended effect as well. In short, Steve made ...

Decision Making Bias

propelling an idea into a reality. However, business literature refers over and over again to instances where optimistic forecasts...

Canada's Homeless Immigrants

them to attempt to deal with the problem of language barriers and cultural differences. If the immigrant is not able to learn the...

Great Basin, Subarctic, and Arctic Indigenous Peoples

a significant problem for this group. In any event, it also appears that to some extent the hand made clothing associated with the...

Global Economy, Trade, and Caribbean Nations That Speak English

qualify it as developmentally deficient. Never-the-less, many countries in the English speaking Caribbean are experiencing severe...

Forest Fires of California and Their Impact

and a lack of education on both sides of the fire line. HISTORY Historically, it has been stated that most of the old growth fore...

Professional Consultant's Report on Employee Discord

in separate rooms, neither knew what the other was doing. The result, perhaps predictably, had been costly delays on getting produ...

Market Research Designing

project such as this is a success there needs to be more in depth research which cannot be accommodated by quantitative methods. T...

Schools That Are Failing and How to Fix Them

better. In a study, voucher students had been compared with public school pupils and it was found that those who had the vouchers ...

Pharmacological Health Care Approach of Canada and Economics

Holism, after all, embodies the concept of healing. Holism embodies another concept as well, however, that is the concept of cari...

Software Development and Ethics

desire to increase revenue to allow further development and facilitate increased benefits to the users. The errors may not be as s...

Patient Care and Issues of Culture and Language

student--in respect to hospitalization. One question that also arises is whether the culture of the non-English speaking patient p...

Technology and Visionary Design Systems

planning in the manufacturing sector. Product Data Management (PDM) was created in the 1980s as a means of storing CAD document...

Effects of Pregnant Woman Using Heroin

the world suffering. A recent law was signed by President Bush that rendered the fetus an independent human being and was someth...

Communication Breakdown

employees would find more efficient ways to manage the flow of customer communications, which would ultimately lead to better effi...

1924's National Origins Act and 1965's Immigration Act

to immediately become accustomed to the American way of life; the National Origins Act of 1924 served as the culmination of such u...

A Comparison of the Reuters Group PLC and Bloomberg L.P.

in London by Paul Julius Reuter (Reuters, About, 2004). Reuter used the new invention, the Calais-Dover cable, to transmit stock q...

Nursing Practice and Medication Errors

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

Biodiversity and Climate Change Offer Hope

climactic shifts that are taking place. In short, according to Grossman, mankinds arrogance and refusal to believe that he was a ...