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Saudi Arabian architecture as cultural and aesthetic expression

By their songs and their poetry. By their food and their clothing. By their literature and by their buildings. Each one of these cultural forms is the creation of a particular moment in time and place, for everything changes and is transformed.

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Ethical failures in Kolcraft's Travel-Lite crib recall

The Kolcraft Travel-Lite crib had a design defect that resulted in five toddler deaths. The company issued a recall but poorly managed the recall process, such that two deaths occurred post-recall.

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Three arguments for adopting business intelligence in companies

Identify and describe three arguments you would use to persuade businesses of the general value that Business Intelligence offers to most companies.

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Emotion, control, and political anxiety in Orwell, Huxley, and Akerlof

On the edge between a crowd and a mob, the Tea Party protests have brought a range of strong human emotions to the fore: Anger, hate, fear, righteousness have moved across the faces that have moved across our televisions and computer screens.

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Bank of America's organizational structure, leadership, and human resource development

Bank of America is a bank and financial holding company and one of the largest financial institutions in the United States. The company's history dates to 1904 when it was founded as the Bank of Italy in San Francisco to lend to Italian immigrants who were unable to borrow at other banks.

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President Kennedy's leadership in American physical fitness reform

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physiological fitness.

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W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe and the American dream

Kinsella's Shoeless Joe -- for which he was awarded both the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship and the Books in Canada Award for First Novel -- reads like a long, languid trip through the slumber of an American mid-west long past; the American mid-west.

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Manipulative thrust techniques for treating lower back pain

Manipulative thrust techniques are used by osteopaths and chiropractors to make adjustments in the lower spinal region of the lower back and other joints in the body. Osteopaths call it adjustments and chiropractors refer to it as manipulation but the techniques are basically the same.

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AJAX application performance on TCP/IP and XML networks

Both TCP/IP and XML have emerged as market standards globally. AJAX-based applications show the potential of significantly increasing enterprise platform performance. The intent of this research effort is to quantify the performance of AJAX-based applications on both TCP/IP and XML networks.

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Effectiveness of influenza vaccines in children

How Effective is the Influenza Vaccine among Children? The purpose of this paper is to discover and discuss the effectiveness of the Influenza vaccine in children.

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