Landscape Modeling Xi, Weimin; Coulson, Robert N.; Waldron, John D.; Tchakerian, Maria D.; Lafon, Charles W.; Cairns, David M.; Birt, Andrew G.; Klepzig, Kier D. (2009). Landscape modeling for forest restoration planning and assessment: lessons fro Continue Reading...
). Within the context of healthcare diffusion, the authors posit that the drivers for healthcare technological diffusion really flow more from a relative advantage. For example, x-rays were discovered in 1895 and within a year or two, the negative ef Continue Reading...
Judicial Appointments Communication Read-Only Participants: A Case for Student Communication in Online Classes This article by Nagel, Blignaut, and Cronje' (2007) uses a mixed methods approach to investigate how online activity and discussion post Continue Reading...
Smart Goal for CES Training and Sarwar Article Feedback Smart Goal For CES Training And SMART goals are clear and concise and therefore more likely to be understood. (Moskowitz, 2008, p. 44). SMART Goal for CES Training The training proposal for Continue Reading...
Information Systems in Healthcare What does the author mean by informatization? The concept of informatization is predicated on using information technologies (IT) to attain higher levels of process efficiency, performance, collaboration, communica Continue Reading...
Arrington on Advertising Robert Arrington's "Advertising and Behavior Control" attempts to defend the advertising industry, and the practice of a company's exaggerated verbal claims, from the charge of "manipulation, exploitation or downright contro Continue Reading...
S.A., are the various versions of signing based on a strict adherence to English grammar, i.e., Signing Exact English, Seeing Essential English, and others. LSM vocabulary, however, seems to have been developed with a very strong Spanish influence an Continue Reading...
Viuda-Martos, M., Ruiz-Navajas, Y., Fernandez-Lopez, J., and Perez-Alvarez, J.. 2008. Antibacterial activity of lemon (Citrus lemon L.), mandarin (Citrus reticulata L.), grapefruit (Citrus paradisi L.), and orange (Citrus sinensis L.) essential oils. Continue Reading...
Possible Explanations in Structural Issues within the Educational Experience The similarity in aptitude early on and the increasing academic achievement gap between black and white students thereafter would seem to suggest that the causes are most Continue Reading...
Today we do not have the reassurance that injustice as a result of jury nullifications are behind us. Racism is still a prevalent issue in our society and it is concentrated at times within communities, making it possible to have a majority within Continue Reading...
Also like Levine, Neuman indicates that other nations have taken such great strides in advancing ECE efforts, in some cases while struggling with other serious issues facing developing countries; as a result, the United States should look to these n Continue Reading...
Milton Friedman, "Social Responsibility" Milton Friedman is absolutely blunt and direct in his 1970 critique of the notion that businesses have "social responsiblities" which require them to look beyond their balance-sheets at the real-world effects Continue Reading...
This is not just an opinion of the authors. They actually did a study called the Defining Issues Test (DIT) which measures ethical judgment. The (DIT) was given to over five hundred (500) college students upon entrance into an occupational therapy p Continue Reading...
Another concern is the lengthiness of the survey -- 35 items -- that may have fatigued some of the respondents and may have resulted in rushed and insufficient care in answering the questions. Furthermore, attributions may have been incorrectly pl Continue Reading...
Ice Cream and Oligopoly The concept of an oligopoly market in economics means that there are few top sellers of a certain product, as opposed to many competitive companies. These sellers are generally in high competition with each other, but have tr Continue Reading...
Oversight & Regulation of Financial Institutions In the article entitled "How Financial Oversight Failed & What it May Portend for the Future of Regulation," economist Richard J. Herring identifies the government policies he believes contrib Continue Reading...
This study was a "randomized population-based open trial." The group in this study (287 women) received cholecalciferol 800 IU plus calcium 1,000 mg for 3 years. The women were all between the ages of 66 to 71 years. The "control group" (306 women) Continue Reading...
"The bill to taxpayers for the bailout has swelled to 84 billion euros, 56% of gross domestic product, the result of a government decision to backstop the banks' losses… [despite] the fact that the International Monetary Fund ordered another Continue Reading...
It is hoped that less politically incendiary issues that are of equal significance to the Palestinians will be conceded, quietly by the Israelis. For example: "a new Palestinian city waiting to be built needs Israeli agreement for a key access road Continue Reading...
Body Scanners: Are They Safe? Articles discussed: Tanner, Lindsay, (November 18, 2010). "Gov't says full body scanners are safe." USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/health/medical/cancer/2010-11-18-scanner-radiation_N.htm. (Accessed 30 No Continue Reading...
Then, the demise of the real estate industry brings about the demise of the linked industries, such as the automobile industry, the furniture industry, the home electronics industry and so on. The demise of these industries would translate into the Continue Reading...
Progressing from metaphor to analogy further galvanizes the connections between explicit and tacit knowledge in a new project, service and product effort (Nonaka, 167). The effects of duplication or redundancy serve to further integrate these two t Continue Reading...
Inductive reasoning occurs when one makes inferences from particular situations or scenarios to predict future situations. In this study, the authors seek to use information from particular youth's experiences of the transition to adulthood and appl Continue Reading...
Magnum's closed-loop recycling technology eliminates the greenhouse gases produced by old-fashioned recycling processes, removing the steel mesh and fiber from the scrap tires and converting them into purified high-grade tire crumb. The company has Continue Reading...
When analyzing why certain communities view same-sex marriage as a more of a threat to their own particular community than others, McVeigh and Diaz examined voting records from 2000 to 2008, at the county-level wherein same-sex initiatives were on Continue Reading...
Since the ultimate goal of EPC cigars is twofold: increase U.S. market share among cigar aficionados and establish a means by which non-smokers are willing to try cigars, there is no gray area in the type of person (male, single or upwardly mobile) Continue Reading...
427). The limitations of the steppe people -- for example, the Mongols -- was running into geographical conditions that they were not used to. India was sheltered from invasion by the Tibetan barrier (until a way to go around it was found). These ex Continue Reading...
. 4. What is the advantage of a "patch"? Evidently, the drug rivastigmine causes gastrointestinal side effects, but the patch allows only a small amount to be steadily absorbed into the bloodstream and thus creates fewer negative reactions to the d Continue Reading...
Evidence, Truth, and Order Tagg, John. "Evidence, Truth and Order: A Means of Surveillance" From Visual Culture: The Reader. Edited by Jessica Evans and Stuart Hall. New York: Sage, 1999, pp. 244-273. Originally published as Tagg, John. "A Means of Continue Reading...
manufacturing models that appear to be incompatible at first glance. The conclusion is that integration is possible, and that this can be done to the benefit of both the manufacturer and the company as user. The integrated software package, enterpri Continue Reading...
Internet Addiction It is thought that nearly five million people today are addicted to the Internet. With that many people experiencing addiction symptoms, it is important for the mental health community to develop methods of treatment. In an articl Continue Reading...
In Why We Hate HR, Hammonds () human resources departments and their leaders are not realizing their full potential. Human resources theoretically have one of the most important jobs in a company but fail to add value to organizations because they ar Continue Reading...
Summary In “Risk factors for binge eating and purging eating disorders: Differences Based on Age of Onset,” Allen, Byrne, Oddy, et al (2014) use a logical regression method to determine relationships between various psychological and envi Continue Reading...
Perrett, R. W., & Patterson, J. (1991). Virtue ethics and Maori ethics. Philosophy East and West, 41(2), 185-202. First Steps • The argument of the author is that the Maori Ethics is a representation of the virtue ethics as it is a represe Continue Reading...
Therapist differences in a randomised trial of the outcome of cognitive behaviour therapy for health anxiety in medical patients." It was authored by Tyrer et al. and appeared in the International Journal of Nursing Studies in 2015. Did the trial a Continue Reading...
Saldaria, M. A. & Herrero, S. G. (2012, Annual). The impact of occupational hazard information on employee health and safety: An analysis by professional sectors in Spain. International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 15, 83-87. Major T Continue Reading...
Competing organizations will seek to limit the extent of the other's influence. A strong organizational culture heightens the difficulty of compromise. As Drezner writes, "compromise implies the acceptance of other beliefs and values, which can prov Continue Reading...
globalization and the effects that it is having on our world. This paper will look at four different thinkers -- Robert Gilpin, Pankaj Ghemawat, Jeffrey Frankel and Moises Naim -- and discuss their thoughts on this subject, adding the author's own a Continue Reading...
Hospitals with more elderly, poor patients likely to face readmission penalties" by Katie Sullivan (January 8, 2014) Are some hospitals discharging patients before they are ready, causing them to be subsequently readmitted? This would seem to be th Continue Reading...
