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Major trends in terrorism and the rise of micro-actor threats

According to Raphael Perl, three major trends can be distinguished in terrorism: an increase in micro-actors, an increase in sophistication of terrorist activities, and an overlap of terrorism with international crime.

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Jemaah Islamiyah: Southeast Asia's most dangerous terrorist organization

Jemaah Islamiyah is Arabic for "Islamic Community" and the translation alone of the name of this Southeast Asian terrorist group shows the beliefs of this organization.

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Self-directed work teams: implementation and organizational impact

Self-directed work teams are becoming increasingly popular in both manufacturing and service organizations, because of their positive characteristics of focusing on team contributions and solutions, collaboration, continuous improvement, competency and positive results to productivity.

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Elite control of food resources in Moche society

Most of the artifacts traditionally recognized as part of the Moche culture revolve around a restricted and exclusive social domain (Bawden 1996). Huge pyramids, elaborate art, and exquisite crafts, all are indicative of this New World people.

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Girl Scouts of America: Juliette Gordon Low's legacy and impact

This paper uses the normative-descriptive method of research in recording, describing, interpreting, analyzing, and comparing information gathered from recent and authoritative sources.

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Knowledge management benefits and implementation in modern business

A manager is compared to the captain of a ship who must make effective decisions, directed at accomplishing organizational goals. In order to be effective, the decisions must be actionable.

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International intervention and conflict in modern Afghanistan

The foundational modern conflict associated with Afghanistan is a fascinating culmination of failed international relations, international out-fighting and national infighting.

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Organized crime detection and prosecution strategies worldwide

Counterfeiting is stated in one work to involve: "...extensive logistics and a complex, structured, flexible and reactive organization from the manufacturing phase to sales..." In a method that misuses "...the advances, methods and channels of lawful economy..." (Union des Fabricants, 2004) This…

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Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward and rural collectivization in China

Totalitarianism has oftenly been described as being the most awful movement of the 20th century: it has affected the entire world, it has led to many innocent deaths and it has been against the natural economic development.

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Chronic underfunding and resource inequality in U.S. day care centers

Day Cares Centers within the United States are facing a myriad of problems, not only do they face uncertain funding, low staffing, lack of security and a myriad of other problems, but they have to confront the problem of under enrollment and competition against privately held day care.

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