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Police Culture

often are treating negatively. The infamous Serpico did blow the whistle and he paid dearly for it. First, what is police culture...

Hispanic Cultural Diffusion

dominant theme in the culture and in America today. In fact, government agencies publish bilingual literature and it is hard to pi...

Southwest Airlines Procurement Process

is the key to efficiency and the company "is committed to expanding the use of e-procurement technology" (Southwest Airlines, 2006...

What is an Arab American?

Again, the stereotypes never look beyond the color of the skin, or the accent, or the clothing. It is immediately assumed they hav...

Howard Fast's April Morning

alive to confirm conversations nor recording equipment to verify accuracy. However, an author writing historic fiction must do a g...

Leadership Skills for the Supervisor

concept, management is very important too. Mismanagement can lead to chaos. Much has been written about management and leadershi...

The Concept of Individualism

and what is the problem with it? Individualism is "the degree of individual or group orientation" (Bing, 2005). It "refers to the ...

Golden Mean, Irrational Numbers & Fibonacci Series

a infinite number of decimal places (Sabine). The Fibonacci series is useful in calculating Phi because Phi is "equal to the ratio...

Issues Pertaining to Health Care Economics

will wait out a problem and not seek preventative services. Also, ideology enters the picture. Some people simply avoid medical ca...

Overview of Cholesterol

includes the role cholesterol plays in overall human health - successfully manipulated both the mechanical and quantitative approa...

Overview of Databases

type. The database can be accessed with the use of standard query language (SQL), and tables may be combined or cross referenced w...

Contemporary World and the Realism Model

impractical and visionary. In many ways the term realism is used to define many aspects within a range of disciplines such as the...

'Praxial Music Education' According to David Elliott

other reason than the fact that the results of human action cannot be adequately understood apart from the motives, intentions, an...

Schizophrenia

been great strides made in the treatment of the disease, enabling many patients to live full lives (Mueser and McGurk 2036). What ...

TQM's Applications

different areas of the same company. TQM in manufacturing will be aligned with some of the same elements as it is in the service s...

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...