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Behavioral and emotional problems in autism spectrum disorder diagnosis

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a pool of persistent neurodevelopmental disorders usually diagnosed in early childhood.

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Single payer healthcare implementation in Vermont and the United States

The Affordable Care Act was argued to be significant step towards a single payer system, and although the system is technically far short of what could be considered a single payer healthcare system, even the mere expansion of healthcare access in the U.S.

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Judge Mark Ciavarella and the Pennsylvania Kids for Cash scandal

This is what happened to 14-year-old Hillary Transue in January of 2007 (Pilkington 2009). Transue had made a hoax MySpace page for her high school's assistant principal, only to find herself brought into court in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on a criminal charge of harassment (Pilkington 2009).

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Comprehensive literacy instruction and the reading workshop approach

Teachers and educators are constantly faced with the need to make instructional decisions depending on their knowledge of every learner.

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The Amber Alert system and voter participation in elections

In 1996, 9-year-old Amber Hagerman was abducted while riding her bicycle in Arlington Texas. She was never seen alive again. One local women Diana Simone, thought that since there were alerts for things like storms, it would be possible to have a system of public alerts for missing children.

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Drone killings, libertarianism, and utilitarianism: the question of justice

Libertarians and Utilitarians would likely judge the death of Abdurahman in the same: Libertarians believe in the rights protected by the Constitution and therefore in Abdurahman's rights as a U.S. citizen.

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Healthcare inequality in the United States and single-payer reform proposals

The health system of the United States is deemed to be the most advanced and progressed in the world. In particular, the system encompasses medical centers all over the nation.

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Type 2 diabetes prevention and management policy for African-Americans

In the United States and other part of the world, the type 2 diabetes have become a major health concern for policy makers and health planners.

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Multicultural competence in psychotherapy for treating alcoholism

Treating Alcoholism presents therapists with multi-dimensional issues -- multicultural understanding and contextual setting of the client (profession, family, history, work conditions and exposure to extraordinary conditions, in the case of those serving in the military), dominates these settings…

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Goldberg's quasi-experimental study of television advertising effects on children

This study carries out the evaluation of a research titled "A quasi-experiment assessing the effectiveness of TV advertising directed to children" (Goldberg, 1990 p 445). The paper examines the extent the research hypotheses have been able to address the study.

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