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Schizophrenia: symptoms, causes, and treatment approaches

Schizophrenia. Perhaps one of the most often-associated images with this word is Russell Crowe's character in A Beautiful Mind; perhaps it is not necessarily the image that is associated with the word, but the feeling, the feeling of realizing that Crowe's character's friends were not real.

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Prototype theory and typicality in human mental categorization

Prototype theory is a concept of learning that suggests certain types of objects are more central to forming mental categories than other types of objects.

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Social biases in America: history, persistence, and reduction strategies

In most societies, discrimination is frowned but continues to be practiced, whether intentionally or unintentionally, directly or indirectly. Stereotyping and prejudice, as well, remain a societal concern; though these have diminished to a significant degree according to social scientists.

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Employee turnover and motivation at Tesco: a comprehensive analysis

The proposed study is both relevant and timely to the needs of major multinational corporations such as Tesco because the inordinately high costs associated with unplanned employee turnover have been documented time and again.

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Global software development teams: ethics and knowledge management

The stresses of knowledge transfer and knowledge management are especially prevalent in the software industry. The time and cost pressures of global software development amplify and make more challenging the issues of globalization affecting every high technology business today.

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Virtual teams in the U.S. Army Logistics Network

The concept of virtual teams has grown exponentially with the pervasive adoption of the Internet and the corresponding growth of technologies that enable greater levels of collaboration, coordination of complex tasks, and greater shared ownership of tasks as well.

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Treatment effectiveness for child sex offenders: rehabilitation versus incarceration

Sex crimes are a very complicated and challenging issue in society, particularly so where children are involved.

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Bastards of the Party: anomie and strain theory in gang formation

The Anomie concept of human social behavior dates back to the turn of the 20th century and sociologist Emile Durkheim.

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Three-day training and orientation program for department store sales clerks

Because this Department Store chain has seven stores in the city, it seems expedient that new sales clerks receive quality training before beginning work, during a 3-day Training and Orientation Program.

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My Christian worldview on technology, environment, and media

Specifically it will discuss technology, the environment, and the media as it relates to my personal Christian worldview. As noted in this course, understanding a worldview can help a person understand other people and all their roles in today's society.

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