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Combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan mental health problems barriers

L. Koffman. (2004). Combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, mental health problems and barriers to care. Originally published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 351:13-22.

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Benchmarking in legal service firms and the U.S. Air Force

Benchmarking is a modern business practice used to improve the profitability and efficiency of professional business organizations. More generally, benchmarking concepts can also be applied to any entity or venture for the purpose of identifying, understanding, and implementing best practices.

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Direct labor, materials, and quality cost analysis in production

Cost variance refers to the real cost of a particular project, as expressed by the difference between the earned value and the actual cost. A favorable cost variance will be more than zero while an unfavorable variance will be less than zero (CV, 2010, PM).

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Corporate tuition reimbursement policy and workforce development strategy

The root causes of the problem are unfortunately too deep for one organization to address alone: the current recession, the loss of many educational endowments, budget cuts across all industries (including education), and higher interest rates have caused tuition costs to go up while the money in…

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Market segmentation strategy for Maria's luxury diamond jewelry store

In terms of age-related market segmentation, the prospective luxury jewelry store owner Maria Lopez would be well-advised to target a Generation X market, rather than a Generation Y market segment.

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Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death": poetic devices and themes

Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" is a lyrical tribute to life's most powerful transition. Written in iambic tetrameter, Dickinson uses a regular meter but not a rhyme scheme.

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Direct carving technique and reclining figure sculpture compared

Direct carving is carving without a maquette or other model, a sort of freestyle approach to sculpture that may leave signs of the carving instruments and purposeful roughness.

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Rhetorical strategies in the Gatorade Tiger Woods advertisement

The text and visual components of this Gatorade advertisement featuring Tiger Woods employs a combination of argument strategies without relying too heavily on any one specific line of argument.

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History of major schools of thought in psychology

Psychology is technically classified as a social science. However, the scope of the discipline of psychology encompasses the work of Freud, whose emphasis on myth and the unconscious has lead him to be more often studied in literature classes -- and neuroscience, which encompasses the knowledge…

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The case for legalizing voluntary organ sales from living donors

The concept of cheating relates to virtually any situation where an individual or entity (i.e. A business or professional enterprise) deliberately violates established rules or limitations meant to apply to behavior.

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