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Is the United States still the world's dominant media economy?

Is the U.S. still the world's most dominant media economy? One could probably make an argument either way on this question. Scholars, authors, and media pundits all have worthy theories and learned perspectives.

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Health promotion theories and nursing practice applications

At the interface between nursing practice and public health is the concept of health promotion. Health promotion is defined in the literature as "the process of enabling people to exert control over the determinants of health and thereby improve their health," (Health Promotion Agency 2009).

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Organizational culture and success factors at Walmart

If we work together, we'll lower the cost of living for everyone…we'll give the world an opportunity to see what it's like to save and have a better life. -- Sam Walton, Founder of Walmart

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Latino college student persistence and academic success

It is widely understood that that Latino community is the fastest growing ethnic / cultural group in the United States. According to the U.S. Census data, California is among the states with fast rising numbers of Hispanics (most often alluded to in this paper as Latinos).

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Informed consent procedures among perioperative nurses in the United Kingdom

Although specific requirements vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, it has become well established that certain procedures must be followed in any healthcare setting in order to ensure that patients fully understand the need for a proposed treatment, as well as its implications and possible…

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Reconsidering Christian doctrine: virgin birth, salvation, and biblical authority

I find that view to be very arrogant, because it presumes knowledge of God's intentions that no human can ever really have. This view of Christianity has led me to seriously consider three different issues, within the context of Christianity.

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Crowdsourcing techniques for value co-creation in call centers

Crowdsourcing is an online, distributed problem-solving and production model already in use by for-profit organizations such as Threadless, iStockphoto, and InnoCentive. Speculation in Weblogs and wisdom of crowds theory assumes a diverse crowd engaged in crowdsourcing labor.

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Meaning over aesthetics in Brueghel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

In conceptual art, the aesthetic value of the artistic work is subordinate to the meaning of the work. "Exponents of Conceptual Art said that artistic production should serve artistic knowledge and that the art object is not an end in itself" (Delahunt 2010).

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Virgin Mobile's e-business strategy and service-oriented architecture

The rapid ascent and continued success of Virgin Mobile as a pay-as-you-go telephone services provider is attributable to the high level of synchronization between the Virgin Group and Sprint.

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The relationship between marketing, poverty, and childhood obesity

The relationship between obesity and a number of serious health problems has been well established as has the relationship between obesity and poverty.

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