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Personal ranking of adult learning principles and preferences

With regard to what we know about adult learners, these are the most relevant reasons to me: (1) Adults need to be able to integrate new ideas with what they already know if they are going to keep - and use - the new information (from curriculum design).

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Animal testing in scientific research and medical discovery

Animal testing is a much discussed matter at the moment and its controversy is mainly owed to the fact that a certain part of the general public supports the concept, while another is against tit Even though itmight be regarded by some as being cruel animal testing is beneficial for humanity as a…

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Measuring growth and strategy for Anthrotronix under Corinna Lathan

If you were Corinna Lathan, how would you measure growth in your business? Why would these measures be important? The measures of growth that I would use are: cost of goods sold, sales, and capital funding. The costs of goods sold will measure changes in the design and production process.

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Adolescent and pre-adolescent exposure to pornography on the internet

The proliferation of internet use has produced greater access to information for young media users. It has also heightened the risk that such use will lead to the exposure to harmful materials.

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Learning contracts and learning styles in adult education

Learning in recent years is understood to be an active, not a passive, process. Thus, many teachers have implemented learning contracts so as to provide a learning process as opposed to a directed learning content.

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Incidence and causative factors for gastrointestinal stromal tumors in Chinese populations

Incidence and Possible Causative Factors for Gastro-Intestinal Stromal Tumor (GI Stromal Tumor) in Chinese Population The objective of this work in writing is to examine the incidence and possible causative factors for Gastro-Intestinal Stromal Tumor (GI stromal tumor in the Chinese population.

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Gas field development planning and recovery optimization methods

In gas field development, it is vital to clearly discover the structure and properties of the underground gas buildup and house them in surface facilities. The gas reservoir field data is the foundation for development of exploration and production planning.

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Sarah Emma Edmonds: a female Union soldier in the Civil War

The Civil War was a bloody battle and it was certainly no place for a lady, at least most ladies of the time. Traditional gender roles proclaimed that the Civil War was a man's place and a man's fight.

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Walt Whitman's metaphorical elegy for President Lincoln's assassination

Whitman's "O'Captain! My Captain!" is a poem written in response to the assassination of President Lincoln in 1865. The poem takes a metaphorical approach to the United States. As Whitman refers to the U.S.

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Lenin's "Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism" and monopoly control

Vladimir Lenin's "Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism." Written in 1916, the book was an explanation of why capitalism and imperialism were wrong vs. The socialist views of Marx and the Soviet revolutionaries.

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