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What are the strengths and weaknesses of seeing organizations as purely rational configurations
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From an economic perspective, the last couple of decades have in a way transformed our way of thinking in terms of management and economic approaches, and is the.... ... ... So what is the rationalization?... A valuable definition is by Ritzer, which he refers Rationalization as the organizational stress on efficiency, calculability, human workforce replacement by technology, predictability In simple terms, a rational society system entails specificity of objective and formalization....
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Tourism and Poverty Alleviation
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This coursework "Tourism and Poverty Alleviation" focuses on sustainable tourism that requires the active involvement of all the stakeholders.... The current growth in the tourism sector in developing countries can be attributed to the cooperation between all the stakeholders involved.... .... ... ...
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Global Warming: Its Effects and What Needs to Be Done
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The "Global Warming: Its Effects and What Needs to Be Done" paper tries to understand the effects of global warming and how it has negatively affected the environment.... It will further assess the solutions that should be devised to overcome this problem.... ... ... ... The National Academies' National Research Council(NRC) has presented several reports with regard to this and in a report in 2010, the NRC suggested that emission budgeting should be done and a target should be set for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from170 to 200 gigatons from the year 2012 to 2050 in the United States....
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Racism in South Africa in the Cold War Era
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The main focus of the paper "Racism in South Africa in the Cold War Era" is on racial discrimination against black people in South Africa, also discusses racism in South Africa during the Cold War period, racism in the Flesh and its historical background.... ... ... ... The Free South Africa Movement influenced by African American mobilized protests at the South African Embassy and other embassies all over the U....
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Is Leadership an Effective Way of Monitoring Employees at Leicester University
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The main questions of the paper are: What is the relationship between features of transactional leadership with job satisfaction among the employees at University?... What is the relationship between transformational leadership such as inspirational motivation with job satisfaction among employees at University?...
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Intelligent Buildings
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At the present, a wide variety of tools and technologies are being used in order to carry out different tasks.... Like every other domain, IT has significant impact.... ... ... In this scenario, artificial intelligence that is a significant field of computing is being used to develop intelligent buildings....
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The Analysis of the Fundamental Theories Associated to the Relationship Amidst Cultural Diversity
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The author states that culture refers to the overriding factors that steer the conduct of a given people.... It is a wide spectrum with various techniques of dealing with issues that vary from one person to the next.... Culture is crucial in determining the needs of a given people in a given society....
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Competitive Intelligence and Sales Management
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This paper "Competitive Intelligence and Sales Management" focuses on the fact that in the contemporary business environment customer relationship has become an important aspect of a business.... Competition in both domestic and international markets has become a big threat to entrepreneurs.... ....
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Domestication of Cattle in Asia
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This coursework "Domestication of Cattle in Asia" focuses on the cultural shift in the lifestyle of mankind that resulted in the domestication of animals, especially cattle.... Besides being vegetarians, the man was also a hunter.... The taming and development of cattle has affected human societies....
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The Design of a Multi Propeller Turbine Unit
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The paper "The Design of a Multi Propeller Turbine Unit " highlights that with the availability of a source of water, an axial flow turbine can be used as a low head generator to generate electricity for use in the farms and houses.... The design of the turbine is very important.... ... ... ... In order to improve the flow of water, it is recommended that the roughness that occurs on blades resulting in friction be reduced....
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Persuasion and Public Opinion in Society
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Public communicators often utilize the tool of rhetoric or persuasive communication to convince their audiences to accept and support particular views or standpoints regarding crucial issues in public discourses or debates.... The art of persuasion is thus a central aspect of.... ... ... communications since it not only enables the communicators to get their messages across to their target audiences, but also to win public support concerning the issues under consideration1....
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The Concept of Knowledge Management
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This research examines the concept of knowledge management, with a specific emphasis on the manner in which a firm can create a sustainable competitive advantage with knowledge management.... ... ... ... The study leads to the conclusion that knowledge management is indeed an effective way of not only capturing, but also developing, sharing, as well as the effectively utilizing the employees' knowledge capital, thereby continuously enhancing operations while introducing more effective and efficient strategies that help reduce redundancy....
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The Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism
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This report "The Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism " discusses life in the intertestamental period of Israel that reflects a struggle between the Greco-Roman powers and their quest for expansion into Israel and the Jewish people's quest for homogeneity and observance of Torah principles.... ... ...
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Inclusion Model for Special Education Students
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This paper ''Inclusion Model for Special Education Students'' discusses that education plays a rudimentary role in the society, and plays an indispensable role through which a person gets enlightened, promoting both social and personal growth and development.... ... ... ... The value of education cannot be understated, and this has been evidenced by the many efforts that the government has channeled towards ensuring that every person receives education....
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Empirical Evidence of the Impact of the Internet on Interpersonal Social Relations
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"Empirical Evidence of the Impact of the Internet on Interpersonal Social Relations" paper focuses on the use of the Internet by a sample of young Americans between the ages of 18 and 21 and will seek to determine how the internet impacts their interpersonal social relations.... ... ... ... The sample population will be a nonrandom purposive sample....
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Political and Economic System of Kenya
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The paper "Political and Economic System of Kenya" looks into a political and economic activity arrangement of the Republic of Kenya.... This study provides an analysis of public policy concerns and prospects for the future, possible actions to be taken to improve the situation.... ... ... ... Akama explains that the population of Kenya is approximate to be 43 million....
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Carole King Overview
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The author of this paper "Carole King Overview" focuses on Carole King as a songwriter and personality with the purpose to analyze the impact of her career on the music industry in the USA.... The study concerns the reason why this songwriter is considered an icon in the music business.... ... ... ...
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Information Governance and Social media
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The author of this coursework "Information Governance and Social media" describes the concept of information governance.... This paper outlines the conditions that have led to the emergence of information governance, the problem of information governance, and the role of social media.... ... ... ...
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Aspects of European and Portuguese Exploration and Colonization
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This paper ''Aspects of European and Portuguese Exploration and Colonization'' tells that The history of colonization is one of the richest histories in the world.... It is of crucial significance to note that more than forty per cent of the current world sovereign states were occupied by some superior powers of sovereign nations....
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Customized Learning Theory
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This paper ''Customized Learning Theory'' discusses the bibliography that gives a summary of each of the entries.... A common saying is that a horse can be led to the source of water but he has to drink the water himself.... This can be said to be the crux of the Piaget's theory of constructivism....
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Gangs and Associated Violence
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This paper ''Gangs and Associated Violence '' tells that Gangs and associated violence are the most sociological phenomena of power after the peace Accords of 1992, which ended the civil war.... Homicides and other violent crimes like intra-familiar violence, robbery, extortion, and kidnappings are crimes associated with gang violence....
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Psychological Aspects of Cybersecurity
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The author of the following term paper "Psychological Aspects of Cybersecurity" states that present-day technologies and innovations based on the use of computer systems, mobile phones, and the internet have become extensively prone to cyber attacks.... ... ... ... Reportedly, the forms of social networking threats are different, and depending on the level of seriousness of the threat safety measures are required for the protection of one's personal and important information....
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Moynihan, Rector, and Jennings' Views on Persistent Misery
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The aim of the study is to find new explanations of poverty.... Existing theories base on individual and family deficiencies, cultural belief systems, political-economic issues, geographical discrepancies.... This paper is a review of Moynihan, Rector, and Jennings' opinions on persistent misery....
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The White Patriot Party
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This report "The White Patriot Party" sheds some light on the White Patriotic Party and develops a sociological understanding of their hate and terror, in the context of racism.... The WPP is based in the United States, formed in 1980 by Glenn Miller.... ... ... ... Glen Miller formed the WPP in North Carolina, in 1980....
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Why Cross-Border Crime Has Increased With Globalization
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This paper discusses the various crimes that have a cross-border scope and the role globalization has played in developing improving or occasioning them.... With globalization, the concept of free markets and minimal regulation trade has led to an increase in the mobility of resources and capital....
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The Impacts of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and its Amendments
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The paper "The Impacts of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and its Amendments" highlights that PACE clearly defined the police powers to stop and search suspected persons or vehicles should they have reasonable doubts of such being possession of stolen and/or prohibited articles.... .... ... ...
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Prader-Willi Syndrome and its Linkage to Genetics
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This work "Prader-Willi Syndrome and its Linkage to Genetics" describes a genetically linked disorder that afflicts various parts of human anatomy.... From this work, it is clear about phenotypic features associated with the disease, the nature of the defect, diagnosis, and treatment of Prader-Willis syndrome....
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Workplace Conflict Resolution and Effective Collaboration
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The paper "Workplace Conflict Resolution and Effective Collaboration" tells that when there are significant differences of opinion between co–workers, there is a chance that there will be a conflict among these individuals.... Conflicts in the workplace tend to create a negative atmosphere....
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Blind Spot on the Eye
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From the paper "Blind Spot on the Eye" it is clear that the filling in the phenomenon, responsible for completing missing information across the artificial and natural scotomata as well as the physiological blind spot, occurs generally under a selection of conditions.... ... ... ... Studies conducted many years after the Darwinian era has shown that natural black spots take care of themselves in the sense that they are not noticeable when a person uses both eyes....
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The Social Phenomenon of Violence in El Salvador
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The paper "The Social Phenomenon of Violence in El Salvador" shows us that gangs and associated violence are the most sociological phenomena of violence after the peace accords.... Homicides and other violent crimes like robbery, and kidnappings are some of the crimes associated with gang violence....
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Accidents and Catastrophes: King CrossFire 1987
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As this paper "Accidents and Catastrophes: King CrossFire 1987" tells, man-made accidents can be defined as events that must at all costs be prevented from occurring because if these events are prevented from taking place then their consequences too can be prevented.... ... ... ... The nature of accidents and catastrophes can be classified as manmade and natural events which are of human and ecological significance....
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Post Cold War Change and the Security Threats of the 21st Century
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This essay "Post Cold War Change and the Security Threats of the 21st Century" discusses the end of the Cold War that brought new challenges to the Intelligence community.... The Western Intelligence Service was forced to improve its intelligence capabilities.... ... ... ... As the state's first line of defense, the Western governments are giving full support and large funding for the intelligence community....
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Evaluating the Limitations and Strengths of Alternative Tourism
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"Evaluating the Limitations and Strengths of Alternative Tourism" paper discusses in detail the concepts of mass tourism and sustainable tourism by looking at the available literature.... The paper further evaluates the limitations and strengths of alternative tourism.... ... ... ... Traditional tourism involves the movement of people from one region, country, or state to the other in order to view and even a better experience in venturing the rest of the world....
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Engineering Design Practice
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The author of the paper 'Engineering Design Practice' states that elements of structures can resist fire mainly through three ways: the ability to resist collapse due to the load-bearing elements, the ability to resist fire penetration, and the elements of structure can act as an insulator.... ... ...
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The Terms State and Nation
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This paper ''The Terms State and Nation'' tells that they are often used interchangeably.... However, the two have different meanings.... Different scholars have varying meanings for the two.... However, they all agree on the basics that a state is a political society that is governed by a common authority....
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A Meta-Analysis of Adolescent Obesity Among Immigrant Latino Population
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This essay "A Meta-Analysis of Adolescent Obesity Among Immigrant Latino Population" is focused on the most dramatic problem of modern society- obesity.... Especially, this problem has captured America.... This country has a great potential to provide their nation with a worthy life level.... .... ...
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The Legacy of a British Century
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From the paper "The Legacy of a British Century" it is clear that Britain is, on the public stage, regaining some of its earlier statuses, justified not by a historical legacy, but by the current policy and realistic international relations advantage.... ... ... ... The argument Miliband begins with the point that Britain is absolutely part of the increasingly international nature of world politics....
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Impact of Currency Fluctuations on the Flow of Students to Foreign Countries
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This research proposal "Impact of Currency Fluctuations on the Flow of Students to the UK" talks about the impact of the flow of immigrants into the UK which impacts several sectors thereby adversely impacting the UK economy.... Fewer immigrants also translate into fewer international students seeking education in the UK....
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Cornwall UK - Place on the Margin
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The intention of this research "Cornwall UK - Place on the Margin" is to discuss the issue of Cornish revival and Tourism Industry in the United Kingdom.... Specifically, the paper describes the Cornwall's industrial past and potential future as a tourist site.... ... ... ... Cornwall, England has one of the most beautiful coastline scenario and beaches that have made it an attractive tourist destination, since 1950....
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System Engineering Design: Robotic Excavation for Water Extraction
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This report "System Engineering Design: Robotic Excavation for Water Extraction" will design a system that will assist man in extracting water from Mars.... This system has six subsystems, which include extraction station structure, station stability, water extraction, water processing, water storage....
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European Union's State Development
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This case study "European Union's State Development" presents a brief overview of the current developments in the European Union and its member states.... Also in this document will discuss how significantly the EU regime of state aid affects the prospect of Croatian membership in 2009.... ... ... ...
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Post-Secondary Faculty-Designers Developing Online Courses
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The author of the paper "Post-Secondary Faculty-Designers Developing Online Courses " is of the view that 0nline learning has grown at an unprecedented growth over the last decades.... More institutions of higher learning have begun the process of incorporating their courses into online platforms....
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Japanese Religious Culture
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This paper ''Japanese Religious Culture'' tells that In Japan, there are various Buddhist temples and Shinto Shrines, and various artistic treasures that are linked with them.... Tourists to these places deduce that Buddhism and Shinto are the determinative elements in the shaping of Japanese religious culture....
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Children Born as Amputees from Amniotic Band Syndrome
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From the paper "Children Born as Amputees from Amniotic Band Syndrome", children who suffer congenital limb deficiencies, born as amputees from amniotic band syndrome feel quite different from their peers.... Such children are likely to grieve for not having normal limbs.... ... ... ... Children born as amputees from amniotic band syndrome need to make a lot of body and feelings adjustments to their body change....
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The Effective Performance of the Microbiological Laboratories Worldwide
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The paper "The Effective Performance of the Microbiological Laboratories Worldwide" discusses that standards for Quality assurance are an efficient way of maintaining the effective performance of diagnostic laboratories worldwide.... And as in any discipline, it is necessary to upgrade these standards....
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Critical Analysis of Historical Science, DNA
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The paper "Critical Analysis of Historical Science, DNA" concludes that the study of DNA demonstrates the rudiments of all living things and its study is appreciated and acknowledged in a variety of fields as it interconnects the living things with their nature and history.... ... ... ... A good number of scientists and academic professionals are in agreement that the blueprint for human life and existence lies in the deoxyribonucleic acid, which is termed basically DNA....
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Special Interest in Marine Tourism
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The paper "Special Interest in Marine Tourism" discusses marine tourism, its relationship to conventional mass tourism, tourist motivators, risks associated with it, and recommendation thereof.... There has been enormous growth in the tourism sector in the last three decades and for many nations....
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Fires in Buildings
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The author of the paper "Fires in Buildings" states that fire resistance or protection depends on the confinement of fire into a single room or set of rooms designed accordingly.... Nevertheless, fire will not stay in single rooms and can spread among the surrounding buildings.... (Pyne, 2001).... ...
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Akira Kurosawa - Background, Childhood, Major Works and Themes
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"Akira Kurosawa - Background, Childhood, Major Works and Themes" paper focuses on Akira Kurosawa, a great and respected international filmmaker from Japan.... In addition to this Akira was considered to be quite different from other Japanese not only for his work but also his body physique.... ... ...
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Factors that Influence Tissue Response to Radiation
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The paper "Factors that Influence Tissue Response to Radiation" affirms that as the photons travel through the tissue masses of the patient during radiation treatment the energy is evenly distributed all along the travel path of the photons.... ... ... ... Radiobiology is a branch of science that is concerned with the action of ionizing radiation on biological tissues and living organisms....
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