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Big data analytics and strategic decision-making in marketing

How does Big Data affect your everyday decision making process? Big data is a common term used for describing large data-whether structured and unstructured-that overwhelms a business routinely. The amount of data, however, is not the most important thing.

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Nature and nurture interact through genes, environment, and epigenetics

Nature vs. Nurture? The nature versus nurture debate should not be viewed as an 'either/or debate.' Clearly, genes have an effect upon human behavior, shaping everything from our physical appearance to our gender to our tendency to inherit specific diseases and characteristics.

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Women's workforce participation, glass ceiling, and the Myers-Briggs indicator

There are a few changes that are likely to occur in the workforce, given a 60% participation rate for women. First, that number is likely to climb. The financial demands of modern life are such that fewer families are able to survive on a single breadwinner, even if they wanted to.

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Common method bias and research paradigms in organizational studies

Bitektine, A., & Miller, D. (2015). Methods, Theories, Data, and the Social Dynamics of Organizational Research. Journal Of Management Inquiry, 24(2), 115-130.

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The Affordable Care Act's payment and delivery system reforms

Five years from now, the ACA will improve American health care delivery as well as reduce costs of health care services.

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Senegalese female power and subversion in Karmen Gei

Adopted from novel; influenced by Carmen. What happens, at the level of plot or narration, in this sequence?

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Music and the 2011 Tahrir Square Egyptian revolution

Songs of Tahrir" video supports all four of Danaher's main claims in "Music and Social Movements." The video depicts several musicians who were at the forefront of the Tahrir Square social protests in Egypt, integral to the Arab Spring.

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Evidence-based practice in nursing and genes in antisocial behavior

Drisko and Zayas provide significant details on the evidence-based practice (EBP) and how it can defined and applied in the daily practice of the nursing profession.

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Long-term psychological effects of parental suicide on bereaved children

While the decision to commit suicide is often a personal 'choice', friends and family are often the ones left behind to mourn, to try and find out the reasons that one might have had to take their own life, and also to try and move on with their lives.

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Comparing the Rorschach and MMPI-2 personality assessments

There are various approaches that have been used over the years to assess personality by different institutions and two of the most widely used methods are the Rorschach and the MMPI-2.

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