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Web crawling's impact on economics, environment, ethics, and medicine

The origins of web crawling began with the first search engines, and their need for indexing Web pages, assigning importance to the relative number of integration points. Search engines refer to this aspect of their architectures by different names.

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Mark Erickson's conception of science as fluid inquiry and process

According to author Mark Erickson, science is a "multi-faceted object that we can pick up, turn this way and that, peer inside and scrutinize; but science also has its own agency" (Erickson, 2005, 15). His meaning is clear -- science is not one thing all the time.

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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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Woolworth's sustainability strategy and green brand repositioning in Australia

Keeping pace with the rapidly changing needs of shoppers, retailers often must change their supply chains, sourcing, logistics and quality processes to ensure the right mix of products at a high quality level are available.

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Investment risks in politically and economically unstable developing economies

International investments hold the promise of mammoth profits for the investor. Developing economies in Asia, Latin and Central America are fertile fields for making money from the right kinds of investments.

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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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Positive and negative characteristics of effective teachers

The characteristics of a teacher that has had a positive impact includes all of the types discussed in the reading they are caring, practical and creative. The teacher that had the greatest impact on me is extremely organized.

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Group psychotherapy and W.R. Bion's theory of group dynamics

Group psychotherapy also referred to as "group therapy" is when one or more psychotherapists treat a small number of patients together as a group.

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Anatomy and functions of the female reproductive system

The female reproductive system is an integral part of the human body. This is since it contains features that are important for the continuity of the human race.The female reproductive system comprises of the Ovaries, the uterus, the fallopian tubes and the vagina.

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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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