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Personal experience with simulated unilateral hearing loss

While I was wearing one earplug I did a number of different things. I put the earplug in during the afternoon and immediately took my two dogs to the dog park. Driving with the earplug in was a completely different experience.

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Positive psychology interventions and daily events across cultures

Positive psychology has grown tremendously over the last five years. In the article Positive Psychology Progress (2005), the researchers reviewed new advances in the area, including manuscripts, conferences, classes, and meetings.

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Leadership and cost control in hospital management reform

To some degree, leadership's thinking in health care has been in torpor. Rather than rigorously rethinking, health care management has been asleep at the wheel. In the midst of a battlefield, too many leaders have been settling for survival over winning. One sees it in some hospital mergers.

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Dugald Stewart's assessment of Adam Smith's economic theory

Even if the work done by Smith and his Scottish contemporaries finds parallels and precedents, it nevertheless appears to have been remarkable for the weight of emphasis that was placed on economic factors. There were really two applications of the general thesis.

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Behavioral change models and treatment of adolescent depression in foster care

Behavioral change theories and designs mainly allow an individual to adapt and change a negative or damaging habit into a positive and healthier one.

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Deontology and consequentialism approaches to euthanasia

Euthanasia is one of those philosophical issues that have been widely debated, without any solution in sight. One of the main reasons behind this is the many sets of principles behind each side of the debate.

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Standards-based education implementation and technology in schools

Standards-based education is based upon the principles and belief that children can and should be presented with a challenging curriculum in order to improve their performance at school and ultimately also in their professional lives.

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Nancy Hornberger on indigenous language policy and revitalization

Mounting a spirited defense of the rights of individuals to be able to use their native language, Nancy Hornberger in "Language Policy, Language Education, Language Rights: Indigenous, Immigrant, and International Perspectives" provides unique insight into the disappearance of indigenous languages.

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African nationalism as a response to colonial psychological domination

African nationalism or nationalist movement developed as a reaction to years of oppression by the whites in the name of white supremacy.

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Symbolism and sacrifice in Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"

One of Tim O'Brien's more popular books is a collection of short stories entitled The Things They Carried. The first short story in the book shares the same name as the books title.

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