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Employee motivation and workplace management at Flagler

Personalizing Productivity is a fairly straightforward morality play about the role that treating employees well has on motivation. This article oversimplifies the issue of motivation, but does tap into one important aspect of motivation.

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Supervised and unsupervised learning in machine learning

In computer science, supervised learning is a technique, usually machine language, that is used in the process of deducing a function from a data set. Typically, the data sets contain pairs of input objects (usually vectors) and desired outputs.

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David Burns's Feeling Good: neurology, mood, and depression

The author, David Burns, is a medical doctor and the former Acting Chief of Psychiatry at the Presbyterian Medical Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Jungian psychotherapy as a path toward wholeness and self-transformation

Jungian approach to psychotherapy represents a total transformation of the Self, the Soul, the Psyche. As such, the Jungian approach remains one of the most powerful methods by which a clinician can help guide a client towards the healing process.

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Depressive symptoms among Latino farm workers across agricultural seasons

Grzywacz, Joseph G., Sara a. Quandt, Haiying Chen, Scott Isom, Lisa Kiang, Quirina Vallejos, & Thomas a. Arcury. (2010). Depressive symptoms among Latino farm workers across the agricultural season: Structural and situational influences.

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Eyes and mouth processing in 9-month-old infant face perception

Key A., Stone W., and Williams S. "What Do Infants See in Faces? ERP Evidence of Different Roles of Eyes and Mouth for Face Perception in 9-Month-old Infants." Infant and Child Development; Vol 18 (2009): 149-162.

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Resistance to leadership across individual, departmental, and organizational levels

Resistance is one of the challenges encountered by leaders at every level of organizational authority. At the individual level, resistance to leadership may typically be primarily a manifestation of interpersonal psychological factors and social relationships and skills.

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Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences theory in education

Silver, H.; Strong, R. & Perini, M. (2000). So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles & Multiple Intelligences. Alexandria, VA: ASCD

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The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory's role in psychological assessment

How might a Millon (MCMI) be useful as part of a full battery assessment? What types of pathology would be illuminated by using this tool? What are the limits of this assessment?

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How perception and habit undermine creative thinking

Perception is often defined as the use of sensory data in order to experience the world (Socyberty). Sensory data are selected, organized and interpreted by means of the thought process. In this, perception and thought are closely integrated in their functioning.

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