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Educational requirements and employers for nursing case managers in Birmingham, Alabama

As in all states, the state of Alabama's requirements for certified case managers is that they work with ill and injured clients serving government agencies, healthcare facilities, courts and other service providers.

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AutoTutor and affective computing in intelligent tutoring systems

There is much ado about artificial intelligence today and this is reflected in the article published in the Science Daily entitled "New Computers Respond to Students' Emotions, Boredom." The report states that the computer software is such that is senses the emotions of students and responds to the…

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Dewey, Parsons, and Merton: functionalist theory in sociology and education

A very basic and inadequate description of Functionalist Theory is that it is a social/anthropological theory that people within a society generally agree on what is worthwhile/good, and that this agreement or value forms the basis of cooperation, stability and order within that society.

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Howard Gardner's methodology for identifying multiple intelligences

The theory of multiple intelligences (MI) was first proposed by Howard Gardner as he obtained certain insights into his field of research (Gardner, 2006). Since its introduction the theory has received a great deal of attention and notoriety.

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Peter Berger's four motifs of sociological consciousness

According to Peter Berger, there are four motifs of sociological consciousness. These are: 1) the debunking motif, 2) the unrespectability motif, 3) the relativization motif, and 4) the cosmopolitan motif.

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Evolution of male masculinity in television advertising

The characters of males in advertising has changed over time. In the earlier days of print and television advertising, as well as on the radio, males were the alpha and usually domineering over the subdued and submissive housewife.

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Gender differences in explicit reading instruction and comprehension

All three articles are scholarly because they were written by professional educators, mostly professors at the university level, who carried out statistical studies of the reading abilities of students.

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Violence and Victims journal: peer-reviewed research on interpersonal violence

Violence and Victims is a social work journal that informs "clinical decisions, legal actions and public policy" (Springer Publishing, 2011).

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Capacity development in infancy through parental interaction

Individual capacities are generalized abilities or skills necessary to achieve desired outcomes.

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Jean Watson and John Paley's contrasting nursing care theories

Two of the major theories of nursing have been published by Jean Watson and by John Paley, who each have taken markedly distinct approaches to conceptualizing nursing care in a theoretical construct.

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