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Substance abuse and mental health comorbidity in adolescents

The author of this report has been charged with writing a brief scholarly report with a few key components. The author of this report has been asked to select a topic of interest. That selected topic shall be substance and drug abuse in adolescents.

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Ethics and responsibility in public sector management

The author of this report has been asked to do an article review regarding ethics and responsibility. To that end, the author of this report found an article by Agheorghiesei as written earlier this year. The article is about ethics and responsibility in the public sector and in public management.

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Ethical challenges in psychological testing and genetic testing integration

One social and legal issue that arisen in the recent literature is the use of psychological testing in conjuncture with genetic testing. Indeed, the article notes that there are ethical challenges and training implications for current and future psychologists in the field.

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Development policymaking and the role of state and markets

Todaro text. The subject of the chapter is development policymaking and the roles of market, state and civil society. THe chapter first discusses the proper balance between public policy and the associated private markets.

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Childhood and coming of age in Hana's Suitcase

Coming of age is challenging in the best of times; under unfathomably oppressive circumstances like the Holocaust, coming of age has the potential to erase a childhood entirely. Hana's Suitcase: A True Story pieces together the life of a girl who never was able to realize her hopes and dreams.

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Cognitive behavioral therapy effectiveness for children with autism spectrum disorders

The journal article that I reviewed for this assignment is entitled, "Cognitive-behavioral therapy for children with autism spectrum disorders"; it was authored by Rotheram-Fuller and MacMullen.

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Edwin Sutherland's definition of white-collar crime and FBI enforcement

The ideology behind the white-collar crime scene is an introductory remark by Edwin H. Sutherland in the course of his presidential opening speech in 1939 at the American Sociological Society Rendezvous (Barnett, 2002).

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Structural limitations of cross-sector partnerships in development

Partnerships have been the model that has been applied to many of the world's woes in hopes that this platform can lead to collaborative benefits and meaningful social change.

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Lone wolf terrorists as the most dangerous terrorism threat

Many terrorism experts consider so-called lone wolf terrorists to be the most dangerous terrorist threat of all because of their unpredictability.

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HIV transmission and cultural gender dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa

It is estimated today that roughly 15 million heterosexual women have HIV (Avert, 2014). By far and away, the majority of these women are found in sub-Saharan Africa, where it is believed that "close to 60% of adults living with HIV are women -- or 13.3 million" (UNAIDS/WHO, 2004).

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