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Government online tax preparation systems: identifying and mitigating security risks

Information Technology holds great promise for improving the way a government serves its citizens in various services it conducts to the citizens. This rapid adoption of information technology has produced substantial benefits to the citizens, tax payers, and businesses alike.

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Henri Nouwen's spiritual formation and early influences

"…Compassion means going directly to those people and places where suffering is most acute and building a home there" In time, the name of Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen became synonymous with the title of one of the best known books he wrote, the Wounded Healer .

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The Charismatic movement in 1960s England: origins, spread, and faith dynamics

What is Pentecostalism? What is Evangelicalism? What was the Charismatic movement in England in the 1960s, how widespread was the movement and what faith-based dynamics were the forerunners to that charismatic movement?

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Funding disparities in gifted education programs across states

It is difficult to find anything in the U.S. that has not been affected, one way or the other, by the current economic problems. Unfortunately, education is often the first to suffer from budget cuts. Even in the best of times, this is an area that receives the financial blows.

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Dialysis treatment and quality of life in elderly patients with end-stage renal disease

The issues that surround the health of a person at the end of their life have started to attract growing attention over the last several years (Menec, Lix, Nowicki, and Ekuma, 2007). Many questions have been looked at surrounding this topic.

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Turkish designers and the universal versus cultural concept of beauty

It has been argued that the Turkish designers can be considered which conceives beauty as a universal coordinate. However, one should ask himself if there is any way that these designers can be identified as a group through the ethnic characteristics of their works.

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Comparing healthcare spending and financing in Canada and the United States

Many similarities exist between the Canadian and U.S. healthcare systems under both systems, citizens share the cost of healthcare with the government. In this respect, the Canadian system is much more liberal with it spending on healthcare.

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Human development through Erikson's stages of psychosocial development

The process of human development is assessed according to multiple phases, each of which carries its own distinct set of expectations in terms of emotional growth, psychological development, physical maturation and social awareness.

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Competitive positioning of MGSM certificate programs in Southern California

The Marshall Goldsmith School of Management (MGSM) competes with a wide variety of colleges and universities, the most predominant being throughout Southern California.

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Service recovery strategies for Disneyland Hong Kong's initial marketing challenges

Opened on September 12, 2005, Disneyland Hong Kong initially failed to meet the expectations of Walt Disney Company's executives and planners for visitor counts and profitability.

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