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Suicidal ideation and attempts in childhood: Family stress and depression associations

Suicidal Ideation and Attempts During Middle Childhood: Associations With Perceived Family Stress and Depression Among Child Psychiatric Inpatients (1992) by Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow. (UCLA School of Medicine)

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RosettaNet standards and high-tech supply chain integration

How will setting supply chain standards improve supply chain management? The integration points between supplier and buyers are so complex and numerous, accentuated in their complexity by the need for enabling transactions across supply chains, that many industries need supply chain standards to…

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Intranet implementation benefits for healthcare organizations

The intent of this proposal is to illustrate through example the benefits to a healthcare organization of choosing to implement an Intranet as both a collaboration and knowledge management platform.

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Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" and musical dignity

Were it not for the title of the song, it would not be difficult to envision what Aaron Copeland had in mind when he wrote "Fanfare for the Common Man." With medieval trumpet calls and grand gongs permeating the composition, it is certainly a "fanfare." However, most fanfares culminate in the…

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Julian Beever's three-dimensional sidewalk art illusions

For the better part of the last ten years, British artist Julian Beever has created an array of impressive artwork across the expanses of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium.

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Emerging computer technologies: nanotechnology, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence

When most technology companies seek upgrades to their software systems or increases in their bandwidth, the most promising events on the computer horizon include advanced innovation in nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing.

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The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in 1989 / 90 was one of the key events of the 20th century, marking the end of the Cold War and the start of a new era in international politics.

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Joan Scott's gender as a category of historical analysis

The American Historical Review, Vol. 91, No. 5. Dec., 1986. pp. 1053-1075. The word 'gender' is often used by feminist scholars to dissociate the physical characteristics of the female sexualized body from the social constructions attached to such female bodies.

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Language development in early childhood education settings

Thus, genetics or heredity must be one source for learning. Humans are born to speak and have an innate gift for deciphering the rules of the language used in their environment. However, the environment itself is also a significant factor.

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False confessions and wrongful convictions in the criminal justice system

The English jurist William Blackstone once declared that it would be "better for ten guilty persons to escape than for one innocent to suffer." The principle is still applicable today as wrongful convictions do so much damage and ruin so many lives.

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