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Losing the Plot - Middle Managers and Identity by Thomas, Robyn, and Linstead Alison
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?Qualitative research practice: A guide for social science students and researchers.... The research question when answered would also help them in understanding the tensions that are inevitable, while middle managers try to ensure their social and economic legitimacy after restructuring of the organisations.... Constructionism defined as “the view of that all knowledge and therefore all meaningful reality as such is contingent upon human practices, being constructed in and out of interaction between human beings and their world and developed and transmitted within an essentially social context” (Ahmed, 2008, p....
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Marx in Studying Society and Nature
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The list indicates that the Marxist perspective is a useful framework in sociology, social sciences, political science, and philosophy.... Marx pointed out that that the Democritus and Epicururus teach exactly the same science but they are diametrically opposed in all that concern truth (Marx 1841, 16).... Research Method and Marxism on Nature McLellan (1979) identified that the social thinkers who have adopted the Marxist method include Friedrich Engels1, Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Karl Korsch, George Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Mao Zedong, and Regis Debray....
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Trainings Woeful Countenance by David M. Kopp
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The only way to prevent this is to ensure that training is not viewed through the single lens of improving a business's profitability, but is seen in a broader context which includes ethics, social justice and 'political, cultural and economic aspects' (Kopp and Desiderio, 2009, p....
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The Neanderthals
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Forum Paper: Neanderthals Introduction: Two articles, two perspectives.... This article "The Neanderthals" reviews and compares two very different interpretations of the evidence that modern science has gathered in relation to the Neanderthals: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's account in his book The World: A History, Vol 1 and Richard Klein's chapter entitled 'Neanderthals out on a limb.... The fact that two learned scholars disagree so totally raises a whole new raft of questions about science, and how we deduce facts from surviving evidence....
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Chose one of them
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The American Association for the Advancement of science.... The cognitive aspect, for one, involves social learning and the idea that “the distributions of particular types of stone tools in space and time define the boundaries of identity-conscious social units” (Clark 1999)....
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Hot and Cool Dynamics of Self-Control
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Understanding the science of self-regulation can be useful in strengthening self-control and reducing attachment to temptation.... Current Directions in Psychological science, vol.... On the other hand, people who live lives of spontaneous self-indulgence and passion may have trouble with socially-alienating moods, social cooperation challenges, exercising intrapersonal intelligence, and participating in consensual reality.... Exercising the self-regulation necessary to make good decisions is not due to intelligence, education, experience and wisdom, only, but is heavily influenced by stress management, discretionary income, mood, goal planning and rewards, religious and social support, frequency of self-control demands, glucose levels, self and event construal, mental fortitude, dramatic responses to relapse, process documentation, and terror management....
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Screen Time Finds Education Drop-Off
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he author of the article appears to be a science reporter of the NY Times instead of any scientific researcher (Rich 1).... This article "Screen Time Finds Education Drop-Off" discusses if increased screen time was contributing to education in children (Rich 1).... The results were based on the data derived by interviewing a large sample i....
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Facebook Friendships Based on Assumptions by Tom Jacobs
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The paper under the headline "Facebook Friendships Based on Assumptions by Tom Jacobs" is aimed to analyse the issue that people in social networks, such as Facebook, have the tendency to assume their friends' views regarding subjects such as political perspective.... The paper is aimed to analyse the issue that people in social networks, such as Facebook, have the tendency to assume their friends' views regarding subjects such as political perspective.... The main objective of the paper is to specifically analyse and article by Jacobs and the study which became the basis of his views which was undertaken by Sharad Goel, Winter Mason and Duncan Watts on the “Real and Perceived Attitude Agreement in social Networks....
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Nuclear Waste by Richard Muller
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It is loaded with confounding detail and science language that loses all sense of direction in a clutter to the common individual.... Muller utilizes no voice; no style however rather utilizes his learning of the universe of physical science and science to present a dull and tedious verbal confrontation.... He depicts the issue by giving numerous samples of the hurtful impacts and the social obligation that accompanies utilizing this interchange wellspring of force....
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What is Sociology
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lso, I noticed that one of the articles from the text you sent referenced Michael Parenti.... Without the study of sociology, none of these ideas would exist – or if they did, they would not have the backing that a bona fide field of science gives to their credibility. ... The sociological perspective is the specific way that sociologists study human behavior, as opposed to theorists of other social sciences.... These include the assumptions that humans are drawn to social interaction, that social behavior is learned, that group behavior is created by the behaviors of the individuals that make up the group, and that the study of a person's relationships are vital to understanding the behaviors of any one person (Common Ideas, 2007)....
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Introduction To History Of Technology
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Ideally, the prosthetic science commenced with the man's desire to acquire wholeness.... Ideally, the prosthetic science commenced with the man's desire to acquire wholeness.... http://science.... "The social Medicine of Old Age....  The social Medicine of Old Age....
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Norman Fosters City Hall
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Originating in the 1970s, structural expressionism incorporates components of the “high-tech industry” as well as technology and science in the design.... 0 Structural expressionism focuses on high-tech forms and as such is a part of the ecological reform movement which looks to science and technology as remedies to the ecological risks while ensuring that the “consumerist lifestyles or worldviews” continue unabated.... For contemporary architectural phenomenological theorists, architect is not purely a science....
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Olympic Cities - Lessons Learned from Mega Event Politics by Greg Andranovich et al
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om/science/article/pii/S0160738305000770.... om/science/article/pii/S0160738399000845.... The three cities differ in terms of size, political history, social consumption and economic base.... The theories of social exchange along with destination life cycle model were particularly used to examine the impacts it had on tourism development.... In reference to the framework of social exchange, it was found out that individuals exchange and evaluate in relation to personal benefits and also associated to cost....
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Management Theory and Practice
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"Management Theory and Practice" paper states that a manager is required to be well rounded and ready to combine the scientific aspect and the social science one in his managerial practices.... Management was initially meant to be a social science as it involves working directly with people be it employees, shareholders, investors or government officials.... anagement is a social science and hence aspects of sociology and psychology should be incorporated in managerial practices....
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Self Handicapping in School Physical Education: Influence of Motivational Climate
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The article has been quite expansive on the research of various academicians and scientists which had carried research in the various aspects of the socio-psychological aspect of human behavioural science.... This paper "Self Handicapping in School Physical Education: Influence of Motivational Climate" sheds some light on children's psychological behaviour under different situational paradigm has been conducted by various psychologists and social scientists.... Introduction Educational psychology, especially study of children's psychological behaviour under different situational paradigm has been conducted by various psychologists and social scientists....
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A Shift from Unitary Government to Democracy in India
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From a political science perspective, legitimacy is often defined as a public recognition and acceptance of a governing authority which exercises political power according to acceptable standards of laws, regulations, and political agenda.... Power and choice: An introduction to political science.... The paper "A Shift from Unitary Government to Democracy in India" states that economic, social and political issues have largely pushed the state to a democracy....
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Hungry to Be Noticed - Young Women, Anorexia, and Schooling by Rich
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Rich (2006) identifies the research problem to revolve around the lack of adequate research that addresses how young women manage discourses and social constructions of eating disorders such as aneroxia.... Many researchers have predominantly focused on providing discourses on medicalised' constructions and social influences of this condition.... This researcher has illustrated that this study will provide additional knowledge on the construction of aneroxia as a social identity and how various aneroxia constructions are managed by young women....
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Personal Responsibility for Health as a Rationing Criterion by Byux
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?? social science & Medicine.... Even after adjustment for weight and body mass index (BMI), the patients had lower scores for general health, social functioning and mental health” (“Gynecomastic has Psychological” 1).... While the treatment of gynecomastia may be extremely important for the psychological and social well-being of a male, an outsider who has never experienced gynecomastia and does not take it very seriously may think of this surgery as a waste of money....
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Congressional Methodology Prices
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The following paper 'Congressional Methodology Prices' focuses on the means by which financial aid is determined are unfair.... The author wants to fix this issue by suggesting that Congress change the Congressional Methodology for determining financial aid.... ... ... ... The author of the paper states that the system for determining financial aid is unfair....
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Leadership and Management: Solution of Conflict Resolution
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Ten Tips for Negotiating Workplace Conflicts” that negotiating is a combination of art and science and gives tips for negotiating conflict resolution. ... Deal (2008: 176) authors of the book Reframing Organizations suggest that an individual should be trained in emotional intelligence and superiors in social intelligence.... ?? For managers to have social intelligence, they would be capable of managing both genders and prepare them to act wisely in human relations....
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Celebrity Endorsement in Attracting Men Consumers in the Fashion Sector in the UK
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For this purpose, celebrity endorsement is exploits the channel of mass media, and the most recent trend is the use of social networks as a channel for celebrity endorsement (Edward and Ferle, 2009).... he way celebrity endorsement affects decision of the consumers regarding has been under extensive study by the academic researchers and a vital topic of marketing as well as social psychology researches....
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Climatic Change Adaptation Strategy
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ustralian Academy of science.... The science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers.... Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf science, 72(4):690–702. ... Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf science, 67(1-2):321-332. ... Structure and function of south-east Australian estuaries, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf science, 53(3),351-384.... The built environment include areas like residential houses, the retail industry, the entertainment industry, the commercial and business sector, the government institutions and organizations as well as the social settings for different groups of people....
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Does Race Continue to Circulate as a Scientific Fact
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This essay will explore the role of science in using race to explain differences between humans throughout history.... This essay will maintain that science has nothing to do with race.... A reputable scientist, James Watson claimed: «All our social policies are based on the fact Africans' intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really....
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Where Is Our Humanism Headed
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Once all fields of science and technology have been developed, the image of our society where we are living in today has become totally different from the past in terms of urbanization.... Once all fields of science and technology have been developed, the image of our society where we are living in today has become totally different from the past in terms of urbanization.... We are losing the notion of humanism, and it is because well-developed science and technology have weakened it. ...
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The Load-Bearing Duct: Biomimicry in Structural Design
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thics refers to moral science and the study of social and personal morality.... Understanding and solving environmental problems in the 21st century: toward a new, integrated hard problem science, Volume 2000.... This goes hand in hang with the solution of value crises that emerge in response to decisions and form the pertinent resolutions and formulations for guidance in social life (Guha 11).... In the past, engineers had aimed to achieve engineering solutions to issues faced by other people while giving little consideration to the ethical issues and social effects that such solutions entailed....
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Tales of Trash
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Cultural sociology and its influences on psychology were reestablished around the mid-20th century to involve structuralism and current-day concepts of social science.... As such, culture has turned out to be an imperative value across many fields of sociology encompassing precisely science and the assessment of the social network.... Advanced Social Psychology: The State of the science.... social psychology appears to enclose a broad range of social subjects....
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Self-Care in Patients with Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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Hudson is affiliated with the School of Applied social Sciences from De Montfort University, Leicester while Singh is also associated with the Applied Research Centre Health & Lifestyle Interventions of Coventry University, Coventry.... The paper "Self-Care in Patients with Obstructive Pulmonary Disease" cites the article 'How do informal self-care strategies evolve among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease managed in primary care?...
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Self-efficacy as an Important Criterion of Success
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In addition, the research demonstrated that the barriers came from social stereotypes about women's inferiority in math and technical domains.... The research demonstrated that the barriers came from social stereotypes about women's inferiority in math and technical domains.... For instance, women's avoidance of math related careers is usually associated with a low level of self-efficacy, low expectations in math efficacy being conditioned by the social belief that women are not strong in math....
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Patient- Centered Framework
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This paper elaborates some of the research findings on patient autonomy and analyses the results of a few research articles.... Positive freedom required social relationships for practicing autonomy.... PATIENT-CENTERED FRAMEWORK Abstract Patient autonomy is the focus of patient-centered care....
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Dispositional Resistance to Change
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The study aimed at evaluating the links between the Resistance to Change (RTC) scale that measures individual resistance to change and its sub-scales (routine seeking (RS), emotional reaction (ER), and short-term thinking (ST) and the personality factors as seen in the Five.... ... ... The main idea for this research was to evaluate if the RTC scale also measures the same tendencies as seen by the personality traits scale....
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Why France Says No
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Retrieved 23 Jan 2005 from The social science Research Council website: http://riotsfrance.... ami Nair, deputy of the European Parliament and a University Lecturer in Political science, insists that "The foundations of the Republic are not negotiable.... The majority of French voters of course are more worried about the liberalization of services across the EU, which could cause immigrants from the new member states and, in the future Turkey to steal their jobs, and their cherished social rights....
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Theorization & Generalization of Findings
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The purpose of this paper 'Theorization & Generalization of Findings' is to critique a given article on the basis of standards, conventions, and ethics of the social Work Research presented by authoritative academics and researchers in the field.... As the title suggests, the article focuses on the social welfare of a class of people in society who need the help of social service providers and other social workers to gain a normal life – children of incarcerated women....
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Rapid versus Standard Intravenous Rehydration in Paediatric Gastroenteritis by Freedman, Stephen B
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?Doing a literature review in health and social care: A practical guide.... ?social research methods.... ?Writing literature reviews: A guide for students of the social and behavioural sciences.... ?Practical social investigation: Qualitative and quantitative methods in social research....
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Internationalization Process Among Small and Medium-Sized Firms
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Department of Business Studies, and was published in the International Journal of Business science.... he article entitled “A study of the enablers of non-sequential internationalization process among small and medium-sized firms” was written by Aihie Osarenkhoe of the University of Gavle (Sweden) Department of Business Studies, and was published in the International Journal of Business science and Applied Management in February, 2008.... International Journal of Business science and Applied Management, 3(2): 1-20....
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Political Participation by Latino Non-Citizens in the US
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This report discusses David L.... Leal's article, the 'Political Participation by Latino Non-Citizens in the United States,' which presented a re-examination of the Latino non-citizens' level of political participation and its inherent implications through the data-set.... ... ... ... According to the paper, Political Participation by Latino Non-Citizens in the US, the study's significance was anchored on two crucial variables: the extensive population of the Latino non-citizens; and the duration of time spent in the country, covering only the pre-naturalization years....
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Microeconomics: Patent, Antitrust Laws
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Relation to Microeconomics Microeconomics is a branch of social science that describes behaviors and actions of individual intermediate and final consumers, firms, and industries.... An author of the following writing "Microeconomics: Patent, Antitrust Laws" seeks to discuss the role of both antitrust and patent laws role in economies....
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How Can Self-Awareness Support the Work of Managers
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social science Review, 73(4), pp.... Secondary literature used includes scholarly articles, peer-reviewed articles as well as books and Thesis abstracts.... Much of these articles pertain to the recent years, reflecting up-to-date research.... Secondary literature used includes scholarly articles, peer-reviewed articles as well as books and Thesis abstracts.... Much of these articles pertain to the recent years, reflecting up-to-date research. ...
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Agreements on Trade Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
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From the paper "Agreements on Trade Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights" it is clear that the time periods provided for transition in the TRIPS agreement have proven not to be adequate enough for developing countries and appear now not necessary in the long run.... ... ... ... The agreements on trade aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS) have been in play since 1st January 1995....
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Chinese Higher Education in Moks Works
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oncentration on the effective as well as efficient fostering of China's human capital enough for meeting the demands of global capitalism has been essential in every key policy for education reform during the post-Mao period; this according to Crabb can be evidenced by the famous declaration by Deng Xiaoping in the 80s that learning has to face modernization, the future, as well as the world and also in favourite slogan of Jiang Semin revitalizing China through education and science....
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UFO Existence
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om/channel/chasing-ufos/articles/five-good-reasons-to-believe-in-ufos/ ... The opposing group has also given theories ,based on science, that try to prove that UFOs only exist in science fiction and that the possibility of such bodies existing is near zero if not zero.... Some people who watch or read a lot of science fiction might end up believing all that is contained therein.... k/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/apr/14/2" http://www....
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Is Debt Relief Possible to Poor Countries
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funded by the National science Foundation and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Henry and Stanford graduate student Serkan Arslanalp analyze data that may finally settle the question. ... irect aid would be most advantageous to governments in building social infrastructure.... “The payment of debts is necessary for social order.... The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order.... I agree with the result of Henry's research that the basic social infrastructure of poorest countries be developed first, and then capital inflows will follow next....
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Various Classifications of Nursing Theories
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rg/site/Nursing/nursingmedialibrary/articles/transltheory.... Jean Watson in her theory of human caring identifies caring as a science.... She explains how caring is a science encompassing a humanitarian, the processes and experiences of human caring, and human science orientation (Watson, 2009).... Nursing science: Major paradigms, theories, and critiques.... Assessing and measuring caring in nursing and health science....
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Construction Safety Performance in the United Arab Emirates
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he article has been developed by two prominent authors under the support of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic science, The Ohio State Univerisity, thereby proving the validity of the study.... The study also establishes the need for development of some organizations under the Ministry of Labor and social Affairs (Al-Kaabi & Hadipriono, 2003, p....
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Using Creative Methods with Children
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social science Med.... EVELOPING CREATIVE METHODS WITH CHILDREN Summary For bringing in new and ground-breaking methods in social research, researchers are trying to makeuse of creative methodologies.... She is herself a Bangladeshi and has focused in this research paper as to how in a research, social and spatial dimensions should be given importance.... The research themes, and the biographies and social background of the research partners, call for very intensive contact (Bergold and Thomas, 2012)....
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Legal and Moral Implications of the Principle of Equity
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The paper "Legal and Moral Implications of the Principle of Equity" highlights that in cases of conflict between development and the environment, international law favours development.... This automatically suppresses the principles of sustainable development.... ... ... ... Sustainable development had been described as meeting the present requirements without undermining the ability of future generations to meet their needs....
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10 environmental science articles
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articles Used: 1.... This information could greatly impact science, medicine, and the lifestyles of older people.... This knowledge is not only important to science and medicine, but to the people who risk developing Alzheimer's or other diseases that mar the brain as the person gets older.... The concept of finding a correlation between chemicals in the air and the amount of children developing leukemia could have greatly benefited the science and medicine communities....
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The Problem of Obesity Among the Children of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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These researchers found that the participants who had perused articles claiming genetics to be the cause of obesity consumed a much larger amount of comestibles (McFerran & Mukhopadhyay, 2013, p.... Despite the fact that such opinions are frequently rejected by science, they do tend to have a deep and lasting effect on conduct and judgement (McFerran & Mukhopadhyay, 2013, p.... Life science Journal, 8(4), 45 – 60. ... New York, USA: Springer science + Business Media. ...
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Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing
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There are articles in the journal that discusses the availability of randomized scientific trials to the study.... There are articles in the journal that discusses the availability of randomized scientific trials to the study.... This article "Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing" discusses ways of managing chronic heart failure, civilizing the continued existence rate, civilizing on the value of life, and reducing the health care utilization of patients suffering from chronic heart failures....
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The Concept of Market Segmentation
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The paper "The Concept of Market Segmentation" states that market segmentation is a group of individuals that impart one or more aspects.... Each business fragment is extraordinary and promoting directors choose different criteria to make their target markets.... ... ... ... Concerning locale, in blustery areas dealers can offer things like overcoats, umbrellas and gumboots....
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CocaCola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity away from Bad Diets
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The paper "Coca¬Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity away from Bad Diets" is an outstanding example of a family and consumer science article.... The paper "Coca¬Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity away from Bad Diets" is an outstanding example of a family and consumer science article.... 2005, Organizational Identity Orientation: Forging a Link between Organizational Identity and Organizations' Relations with Stakeholders, Administrative science Quarterly, 50(4), pp: 576-609....
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