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Definitions and characteristics of organizational culture in the workplace

Whenever people from different backgrounds with different beliefs, values, and norms converge as a group, a new culture is created that gives the group a distinct characteristic and dynamic.

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Consumer welfare in sports betting exchanges versus traditional bookmakers

Proponents of the sports betting industry argue that the industry is good for sport and good for consumers.

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Negative advertising strategies in the 1992 presidential campaign

Bush apparently opened the floodgates for negative campaigning in his first presidential campaign in 1988 -- the Bush I team was so good at being bad that he became sort of a "poster child of effective attack politics" (Lau, Sigelman and Rovener, 2007, p. 1176) for negative campaign ads.

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The relevance of gerontology nursing in modern healthcare practice

The many different fields that exist in nursing create a host of challenges to those that would become more effective and capable in this profession.

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The Bible's central concepts: creation, monotheism, and the Ten Commandments

Old and New Testaments comprise what Christian people refer to as the Bible. However, if you were to look up the word "bible" in the dictionary, you would find that it actually just means book. Different people use the term differently, too.

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Collateralized debt obligations and the 2008 financial crisis

The recent recession had a multitude of different contributing factors. Among those factors was the allegedly aggressive marketing of collateralized debt obligations that had a high percentage of defaults on the underlying assets.

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The history and pharmacological development of Adderall

These compounds were first synthesized in 1887 by Lazar Edeleanu at the University of Berlin (Harrison 2007). He initially called them "phenylisopropylamine." These were among the first series of compounds purified two years earlier by Nagayoshi Nagai.

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Recommended desktop computer configuration with Intel Core i3-550 processor

The minimal configuration that is needed for creating presentations, preparing documents, playing multimedia games, listening to music and viewing movies, storing movies online and chatting with friends is described in this module.

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Teaching as a vocation: fulfilling personal and social obligations

Teaching today has become a challenging profession. Not only are teachers required to maintain a good relationship with their students and the learning material they are to master, they are also required to function within a certain educational and political context.

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Sergeant Stubby: the unlikely World War I hero

What are the personal qualities that transcend an ordinary individual into someone who does something that other people find particularly brave or extraordinary?

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