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The Korean language: classification, dialects, and linguistic features

The Korean language, a member of the Altaic family of languages, is spoken as a native language by peoples of Korean ethnic derivation living in the Korean peninsula, southern and eastern Manchuria, the Russian Far East (eastern Siberia), Kazakhstan, Japan, North America, and in other communities…

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Technology platforms enabling virtual team productivity and knowledge transfer

The pervasive adoption and use of virtual teams in enterprises is redefining the pace, direction of innovation in communication, collaboration, shared project workflows, project management, and knowledge transfer.

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Middle East real estate market performance during the financial crisis

Over the last several years, the real estate market in the Middle East has been through a tremendous amount of challenges. Part of the reason for this, is because the different oil exporting countries experienced a boom in prices until 2008.

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Due process rights in school suspensions and the Goss v. Lopez decision

In the constitutional realm of the individual and their inalienable rights, perhaps no concept is more critical to the protection of liberty than the fifth and fourteenth amendments, and the safeguard provided that "no person be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"…

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Michael Porter's five forces model and its critiques in industry analysis

A popular tool for managers to analyze their external environments is the five forces analysis that was developed by Michael Porter. The five forces analysis rests on the assumption that a firm's ability to succeed is based largely on its pricing power.

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The telephone's impact on employment, communication, and society

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone, a device designed, in part, to facilitate communication for the hearing impaired.

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Paul Heck's analysis of Sufism's role within Islam

Sufism: What is it exactly? Paul Heck argues that Sufism is inextricably interwoven with the fabric of Islam on social, psychological, spiritual, and political levels. It is impossible to speak of Sufism without referring to Islam.

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Why the United States lacks universal health care coverage

The United States is the richest, most powerful nation in the world with the most expensive health care yet, the World Health Organization (WHO) ranked the U.S. 37th in the world for quality and fairness of health care (Reid, 2008).

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Evolution of the juvenile justice system in nineteenth-century America

The conception that children have unique needs and different levels of developmental maturity than adults do is relatively new. For centuries, children were treated in many ways as if they were nothing but "miniature adults," particularly when it came to issues of labor and criminal justice.

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Model analysis and cost-benefit analysis in urban transportation planning

In this way, model analysis is similar to scenario planning, by which stakeholders develop alternative concepts of a community's future and the implementation plans to realize those visions (Weiner, 2008).

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