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Stress management, sleep deprivation, and police officer liability

Maintaining life balance requires happiness. Even during stress, an individual should not allow all the stressors to take a toll on him/her. Avoiding stressors is the most appropriate way of managing stress.

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Privatization of U.S. intelligence: accountability and ethical implications

The nature of foreign policy and the many global conflicts that fuel its nature in the 21st century has outstripped the United States' ability to effectively anticipate and thwart threats arising in nations that are relatively unknown.

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Sexual harassment in the workplace: trends and legal definitions

Sexual harassment is one of the most common business law topics in the workplace and one of the most publicized. Today, nearly everyone who enters the workforce to work for a larger organization will receive some kind of sexual harassment and sensitivity training.

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Mobile phone bandwidth data and urban dynamics in Rome

Reades et al. (2007) presented some interesting ideas about the use of data collection and its practical application in an urban setting. The authors discussed spatiotemporal data as a new object of desire for those wishing to control and understand human behavior in large city.

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Discrimination against transgender people in workplace and school settings

In many wester societies and cultures, the gender and sexual spectrums are narrow. One can be male or female, not neither, not both, and not something in between. One can be masculine or feminine, not neither, not both, and not something in between.

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Marx's concept of labor and its material transformation

Heilbroner's honesty at the onset of his writing on Karl Marx reveals the flaws and distortion contained within the often complex, if not mystical tone of Marx's philosophy. The admitted sheer immensity of work produced by Marx and his partner Engels cannot be completely understood.

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Keohane's foundational concepts in leadership theory and practice

Nannel Keohane's book, Thinking about Leadership, is an excellent treatise regarding some of the most fundamental concepts of leadership. To the author's credit she is able to corroborate many of her viewpoints with a plethora of sources.

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Law enforcement strategies for prosecuting Los Zetas and international organized crime

Organized crime, and more specifically, international organized crime (IOC) present very serious and long lasting problems for law enforcement units in many ways.

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Organizational barriers to innovation at International Foods Company

Josh and his team experience too much bureaucracy in their work (McKeen & Smith). These lengthy processes of approval slow down the rate of their work. In addition, some of these procedures are unnecessary.

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Confucianism and Daoism: core beliefs, rituals, and practices

Confucianism is a term used to describe a philosophical system of beliefs based on the teachings of Confucius, whose birth name is Kong Qiu but went by the title Master Kong, Kongzi (Jensen, 2007). Confucius was a Chinese thinker who between 551-479 BCE.

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