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Adult ESL learners' preparedness and small group translation activities

There is a lack of information regarding the preparedness of adult English language learners. The population of adult immigrants, refugees, migrant workers, and naturalized citizens studying nonacademic English as a second language in North America is large and growing.

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Information literacy and leadership in the globalized world

One of the key changes of the late 20th century, certainly enhanced in the early 21st, is that of the economic, political, and cultural movements that broadly speaking, move the various countries of the world closer together.

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Daughter-mother conflict in Amy Tan's Two Kinds

In Amy Tan's "Two Kinds," the inability to communicate that many children and their parents succumb to is a main theme that resonates throughout the entire short story. Jing-Mei is unable to reconcile two contradictory sentiments throughout the story: 1).

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Personal jurisdiction, subject matter jurisdiction, and civil procedure rules

Chapter one deals with personal jurisdiction and related matters. The introductory pages of the chapter cover both a historical perspective on jurisdiction and how this has evolved since the 19th century and an overall presentation of the main types of personal jurisdiction.

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NFL's new playoff overtime rule and its fairness implications

The NFL has passed a new rule changing the overtime arrangement exclusively for the playoffs. The plan passed through the owners rather contentedly with a 28-4 vote.

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Solar still technology and sustainable engineering ethics

Sustainable development and Ethical Responsibilities. The issue of sustainable development is one that is particularly pertinent to the modern world and to the issue of global warming. As such, it is also intimately linked to the debate about contemporary scientific and engineering ethics.

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Childhood immunization outcomes in a Latino community intervention program

Findley et al. (2008) utilize an analytical observational study design to explore childhood immunization outcomes.

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Theoretical frameworks and conceptual underpinnings in social research

The scientific method, though not really codified and rendered explicit until the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was a feature the investigation of the natural world from the time of the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, and arguably even prior to the scientific advancements of these…

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Caring as the central concept in nursing philosophy

A personal nursing philosophy needs to incorporate all four aspects of the nursing metaparadigm: nurse, person, environment and health.

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EMV standard implementation risks and challenges in Iranian banks

In regard to the isolation of the various challenges that affect the migration process to the new EMV standards.

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