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Human-caused mass extinction and threatened global biodiversity

Mass extinctions are definitely not common; however, if the earth's biodiversity is threatened at a similar rate to pass mass extinctions (such as the one that destroyed the dinosaurs -- except for the birds), there are a number of probable losers, according to McKinney and Lockwood (1999), and one…

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Liquidity, profitability, and debt ratio analysis in managerial accounting

The current ratio gradually grew throughout the analyzed 5-year period, reaching 0.78.

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Institutional racism in psychology and education: Camus and cultural oppression

Albert Camus, in an interview, once noted "If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life, eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life."

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Information hierarchy and clinical decision support systems in healthcare

One of the key changes in the contemporary world is the amount of information that is available through the Internet. There are three major components of this information world: data, information, and knowledge.

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The relationship between social roles and personal identity development

Who ami? who I am - is one that becomes increasingly difficult to answer the more one thinks about it. One begins to realize that one's identity changes in different circumstances and situations.

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Bacterial contamination of household fomites: an experimental analysis

The purpose of the fomite transmission experiment was to learn modes of pathogen transmission and to identify sites of potential fomite transmission in the environment.

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Federal government expansion and the post-Civil War amendments

Many things may have led to the federal government's increasing gain in power and influence in the years following the American Civil War. The purpose of the American Revolution was to break free of the monarchy of England so that each state could gain more autonomy.

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Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery and early film innovation

One cannot talk about the great milestones of film history without mentioning Edwin S. Porter's 1903 film The Great Train Robbery. In fact, the film is still considered to be the "mother of all American film narratives" (Auerbach 122).

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Frederick Douglass's transformation from slavery to abolitionist activism

In history there are few pieces of literature that can tell the true amount of horror and suffering that a certain group of people are forced to endure.

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Evaluating ESL instruction effectiveness at American universities

Program Evaluation -- Using a logic-based model we will look at the essential formative and summative processes in the ESL Research proposal regarding the implementation of certain types of secondary language instruction at the university level.

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