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The proliferation of internet use has produced greater access to information for young media users. It has also heightened the risk that such use will lead to the exposure to harmful materials.

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Learning contracts and learning styles in adult education

Learning in recent years is understood to be an active, not a passive, process. Thus, many teachers have implemented learning contracts so as to provide a learning process as opposed to a directed learning content.

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Incidence and causative factors for gastrointestinal stromal tumors in Chinese populations

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Gas field development planning and recovery optimization methods

In gas field development, it is vital to clearly discover the structure and properties of the underground gas buildup and house them in surface facilities. The gas reservoir field data is the foundation for development of exploration and production planning.

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Sarah Emma Edmonds: a female Union soldier in the Civil War

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Walt Whitman's metaphorical elegy for President Lincoln's assassination

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Lenin's "Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism" and monopoly control

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Green business strategy and sustainable building practices

Harvard Business Review, (2007). Green Business Strategy. Harvard Business School Press.

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Age discrimination in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

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Evaluating USA Motors' absentee control plan effectiveness

I do not believe that the absentee plan will work. It appears that the plan will not provide sufficient economic incentive for employees to show up to work. Vacation/holiday/sick pay being reduced by 10% or 15% should be less than the loss associated with missing work in the first place.

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