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Institutional repositories: history, purpose, programs, and benefits

Over the last several years, institutional repositories have increased in number substantially. In a study done in 2005, Lynch and Lippincott found nearly 40% of institutions deployed some form of institutional repository (2005).

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Gender and the fashion industry's homophobic scapegoating

One of the most recent controversies particular to the fashion industry that has spilled over into the larger media conversation about female beauty is the shrinking BMI (Body Mass Index) of fashion models.

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Treatment approaches for autism spectrum disorder in children

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and analyze the topic of autism. Specifically it will discuss the disease and treatment approaches to the disease. Autism is a disease that has no cure, even though research is working on understanding and thus curing the disease.

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Menopause and female midlife change: psychological and physical effects

The strict definition of menopause is the cessation of the menstrual cycle in women, usually occurring round age fifty. This must last for at least a year before the medical definition is met.

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Female Aboriginal survivors of Canadian residential schools

In 1993, many Native Indian women stood up before a Joint Commission to explain their hurt and despair resulted from their stays at Canadian Residential Schools. More recently the Canadian government asked the Law Commission of Canada (LLC) to investigate child abuse within the schools.

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Religion's historical and contemporary use as a tool of social control

Religion is a highly complex concept and the debates on religious matters are far from being exhaustive. To most of us, religion is a refuge, the hope for a better life or the payer for a second chance.

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Cockpit automation and pilot skills in modern aviation

This paper analyzes the pitfalls of automation within the cockpit. Today automation has become more widespread than ever before, especially within the aviation industry, and automation as such is more often than not being blamed for causing great harm, although inadvertently, by increasing the…

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Gender differences in coronary heart disease incidence and mortality

Heart disease continues to represent a national health issue, with more men experiencing heart attacks at earlier ages than their female counterparts (Thom, Kannel, Silbershatz and D'Agostino 3). Women, though, continue to be at higher risk for some types of heart disease-related illnesses.

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Arson as a violent crime: motives, investigation, and impact

Over thirty thousand structural fires are set annually at a cost of over three-quarters of a million dollars worth of damage and more than three hundred lives lost.

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Migration patterns of Native Americans and Korean-Americans to the United States

Native Americans and Korean-Americans are separated by tens of thousands of years when it comes to immigration to the Americas.

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