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Distinguishing between good stress and chronic stress effects

By sheer economic necessity, organizations and individuals must be ready at all times to glean as much productivity per worker per day as possible. The complexity of the modern workplace combined with the realities of life have consequences -- stress (U.S. Department of Labor, 2010).

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Geolocation technology privacy concerns and consumer protection

Innovations in technology have fundamentally altered the manner in which consumers, businesses and governments alike transact business in recent years, and the efficiencies these technologies provide have been responsible for increased international commerce and improvements in quality of life…

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Culturally safe nursing care for Yolngu adolescents in Western medical settings

Indigenous Australian Patients: Evidence-Based Discussion of Patient Care and Reflective Practices Providing health care to indigenous Australian people, specifically Yvonne, a 14-year-old Yolngu girl from Yirrkala poses several significant challenges.

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Everett Rogers' diffusion of innovations theory and twentieth-century technological adoption

In 1962, sociologist Everett Rogers, popularized the theory of diffusion of innovations which seeks to explain the how's and why's and rates that new ideas and technology spreads through culture.

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Social media and consumer empowerment in modern marketing

Consumers Power Transformational Marketing (Hamelin, et.al.) the author provides insights into how the many platforms that support social media, driven by the powerful catalyst of mobile commerce, is providing consumers with more control over brands than ever before.

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Daily life during the Great Depression in America

The Great Depression was one of the strongest influences on the American mindset in the 20th century. Hardly a single citizen was able to avoid its consequences.

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Desdemona's subservience and agency in Othello

In William Shakespeare's play Othello, the titular character's wife, Desdemona, has very little agency of her own, and her actions throughout the play are almost entirely controlled by others. According to W.H.

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Information systems and computer technology's impact on nursing practice

Innovations in telecommunications and information systems have revolutionized the delivery of health care services in many ways in recent years in general and on the practice of nursing in particular given the nurses' role on the front-lines of patient care.

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Sherwin Nuland's "How We Die": examining mortality and the dying process

Although the ultimate outcome for all living things is death, the aging and dying process and the terminal consequences of mortality are understood in very different ways by different people.

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Kimberly-Clark's virtual product demonstration technology and retail innovation

Kimberly-Clark is one of the world's largest manufacturers of personal health and consumer goods, and is also engaged in large-scale timber harvesting for the creation of its many paper-based products (Kimberly-Clark 2011).

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