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Empirical evidence for the link between bullying and child well-being

Bullying, a term that is generally broadly defined as ill-treatment through verbal insults, physical aggression, or psychological torments such as leaving an individual out of a group on purpose or spreading rumors about that person, is known to have adverse effects on short-term psychological and…

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Self-directed work teams at 3-M: implementation and organizational culture

Source (publication name or URL): Quality Digest, http://www.qualitydigest.com/nov95/html/self-dir.html Williams focuses on a real life application of self-managed teams at 3-M, where "employees join together to manage their daily work through self-directed work teams" (Williams, 1995).

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Transformational and charismatic leadership in organizational change

A charismatic leader is often understood as a person who can best interact with those around him and his most powerful trait is that of making the people around him feel good about themselves.

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Karl Polanyi's concept of utopianism in the Great Transformation

In the book the Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi explains the rise of the industrial revolution from the 19th century to the end of World War II.

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Supervised and unsupervised learning in machine learning

In computer science, supervised learning is a technique, usually machine language, that is used in the process of deducing a function from a data set. Typically, the data sets contain pairs of input objects (usually vectors) and desired outputs.

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Hiring certified public accountants for international market expansion

As the job posting at Joseph Michaels, Inc. -- a top recruiting firm for executive CPAs -- demonstrates, the need for certified public accountants in business of all sizes and in all industries is quite high.

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Meryl Streep's cultural influence through complex film roles and social issues

As an actress, Meryl Streep has chosen not only complex characters to portray, but she has also chosen films with very real and complex social issues at their centers.

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Short-run equilibrium in the aggregate supply-aggregate demand framework

The aggregate supply -- aggregate demand (as-AD) framework can be used to explain the impact of fiscal expansion on the economy. The as-AD framework shows that when government spending increases, the level of aggregate demand increases in the short run.

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Flaws and likability in Homer's Odysseus and Sophocles' Oedipus

In a great deal of literature, especially prior to the modern and postmodern periods, the central characters or protagonists are generally expected to be supported by the reader -- they are individuals that the authors expect the readers to receive favorably.

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Narrative framing in "The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey"

One-Thousand and One Arabian Nights, the centuries-old collection of short stories and fables that contains such well -- tales stories as those of Aladdin with his genie of the lamp, the journeys of Sinbad the Sailor, and Ali Baba and his Forty Thieves, has one feature that makes it of especial…

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