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Hospital staff training and policy communication implementation plan

Long-Range Goal: All staff is to be well educated on new policies and procedures that they are responsible to know. Short-Range Goal: Implement regular training sessions for staff.

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U.S. port security and the limitations of technology-based counterterrorism

Protecting U.S. seaports is a daunting challenge because the American coastline includes more than 1,000 harbor channels, spanning 25,000 miles of inland and coastal waterways that serve 361 ports comprising more than 3,700 passenger and cargo terminals (Maxwell & Blanda, 2005).

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William Blake's "A Poison Tree" and the nature of unchecked anger

William Blake's poem, "A Poison Tree," examines anger from the perspective of one controlled by anger. This poem is compelling because while it takes place within the speaker's mind, it divulges the levels of contempt of which we are all capable.

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Ancient civilizations and sophisticated societies in the Amazon Basin

Until as recently as the 1970s, the possibility of significantly sized ancient civilizations in the Amazon Basin has not been acknowledged. The reason for this is the fact that the area's ecology is unsuitable to support large civilizations, being low in land animal populations and fertile soil.

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Wisdom and foolishness in Bashevis Singer's Gimpel the Fool

Gimpel: Truly the Fool? Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "Gimpel the Fool" is one of his most famous and enduring. It manages to encompass the titular narrator's entire life in the town of Frumpol -- and eventually beyond -- which is a testament both to human endurance and to compassion.

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Generalization problems in psychological research and solutions

What are some of the subject population generalization problems that a researcher might confront?

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Measurement and existence in psychometric theory: reconciling Galton, Thorndike, and Ludlow

That expression of professor L.H. Ludlow is actually an idea suggested much earlier by Edward Thorndike (1874-1949) and to even earlier arguments, such as those of Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), for whom a strong case could be made that he was the first psychometrician (Ludlow, 1998).

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Binge drinking and cognitive development in middle adulthood

What is binge drinking? 'Everybody does it.' If all of your friends, or everyone at a party, is having a few beers, it's easy to miss the signs that your alcohol use is getting out of control. Binge drinking may be less than you think.

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Social Cognitive Theory in rehabilitative counseling practice

Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) was developed by Albert Bandura in an attempt to explain the cognitive process that influence how we present ourselves in our interpersonal interactions. It is a theory that is based on a combination of the self and of interpersonal relationships with others.

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Evaluating VandenBos's evidence for psychotherapy's effectiveness

Vanden Bos, Gary R. (1996, October) Outcome assessment of psychotherapy. American Psychologist. 51(10): 10005-1006. American Psychologist. 51(10): 1005-1006.

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