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Kidney dialysis technology and patient outcomes

As of 2007, an estimated 11% of Americans over the age of 20 have kidney disease (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse, 2011). Kidney disease can lead to kidney failure if left untreated.

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Hitler's exploitation of the human need for order and the Holocaust

The quest for order is a part of human nature. Since the earliest civilizations, man has sought to attempt to create order from a seemingly chaotic world. The very beginnings of human civilization arose from this need to create order from chaos.

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Industrial Revolution and the emergence of global environmental change

The 20th century, in fact, has seen incredible dramatic changes in so many areas (economic, political, and cultural) that a once segmented and structured global environment is moving closer and closer to a one-world concept.

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Durkheim's theory of division of labor and social solidarity

This author has found the Durkheim text on the Division of Labor to be most interesting. Durkheim has introduced a Hegelian dichotomy that is contradictory, yet binary at the same time. The question is very much one of what is now the synthesis.

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Cultural diversity and international business in the modern marketplace

Assessing Current Models of Cultural Dimensions and Practical Implications for the Workplace Business used to be conducted at the local marketplace -- a specific centralized area or single street within a town or village where crops and crafts were traded or bought and sold in currency…

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Distinguishing between systems administrators and network administrators

Mankind has long been fascinated with people who are essentially the same and yet present themselves with different characteristics.

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Pornography and social meaning: a symbolic interactionist analysis

The issue of pornography -- usually phrased as the "problem of pornography" is a perennial one, at least in the United States with its conservative Christian heritage and current political and cultural climate.

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Moore's Law and the evolution of microprocessor technology

The pace of innovation across the series of technologies that comprise a personal computer continues to accelerate, often leading to product lifecycles that are eighteen months or less.

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Data quality problems in correlation analysis: Lincoln's education and business cases

Abraham Lincoln to a proposed survey questionnaire has indicated he had not received a grade school diploma. When a researcher correlated the information to the expected variables, he found the data did not highly correlate to the expectations derived from the data.

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The Eighth Amendment's evolution in cruel and unusual punishment law

The Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which is included in the U.S. Bill of Rights, forbids excessive bail or fines, as well as cruel and unusual punishment. The expressions used were taken from the English Bill of Rights.

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