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Corning's five-stage gate process for product development

According to market research analyst Sidharth Thakur's article on "Analyzing Corning's five-stage stage-gate process" the first stage of the Corning method begins with a preliminary phase of "discovering opportunities and using these opportunities to generate ideas for new products" through…

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Small banks and non-banks diversifying after the financial crisis

The January 11, 2011 AFR article "Little battlers regroup to fight the big banks" by Jane Searle analyzes smaller bank and non-bank's use of diversification and target marketing to generate new revenue in the wake of the recent financial crisis.

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Drug screening protocols for sexual assault investigations and offender behavior

When laboratories conduct drug screening tests in order to identify drugs that might have been used in sexual assaults, which types of drugs should they screen for?

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Little Crow and the Sioux resistance to Indian removal policies

The historical narrative of the United States presents the Native Americans in a tremendously unfair light that is as morally offensive as it is historically inaccurate.

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Reasons for limited urbanization in China between 1949 and 1980

What are the three main reasons urbanization was limited between 1949 and 1980 in China? First, according to professor Kenneth a.

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Mobile van healthcare delivery in rural communities

The current use of the 11-passenger van is a difficult to improve upon because it already seems to be maximizing its useful potential.

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Jury nullification and its dangerous impact on American justice

When one first hears the term jury nullification it may evoke feelings about the subject or one may be neutral or lack understanding of what the term means, but regardless of the average American's knowledge of the term and his or her stance jury nullification is a significant part of American…

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How social computing and netcentric computing are reshaping society

There is no doubt that computers and the ways that computers are being incorporated into our lives are radically changing certain aspects of social behavior.

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External factors influencing education in today's teaching environment

Listening to Professor Robinson's words concerning three of the factors that elicit a strong influence on today's teaching environment, I find myself contemplating the variety of external and internal factors affecting my particular program.

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John Barlow's "Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace" and its limitations

In his Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace (1996), John Barlow expresses his frustration with the attempts of government bureaucracies to control the content of the Internet with the formal laws of societies.

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