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The role of imagination in children's picture book development

American children walk into a library, and they immediately run to the children's department where they can normally find thousands of nonfiction, fiction and story books depending on their age.

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Religious symbolism and meaning in the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles

According to dictionary.com, the Feast of Tabernacles, is also known as Sukkot, which was a Jewish festival celebrating the fall harvest and also commemorating the desert wondering of the Israelites during the Exodus (Sukkot - Definition of Sukkot, 2006).

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Toyota Production System's supply chain planning and management

The Toyota Production System (TPS) is a globally-based supply chain planning, management and forecasting system that seeks to nurture and actively promote shared knowledge between suppliers and Toyota.

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Electronic health records and cystic fibrosis treatment advances

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system, with epithelial cells producing viscous mucus that inhibits essential system functioning and causes life-threatening infections.

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Estonia's foreign policy after Soviet independence

Brief Introduction/Overview. Estonia is a small Baltic state with an area of roughly 45,228 sq km and a population of 1.3 million people. It is bordered on the south by Latvia, and to the East by the Russian Federation.

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Media's transmission of African-American stereotypes in television sitcoms

The debate over representation in any medium dates back to the time of the ancient Greeks.

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Militant Islam and terrorism in the Middle East conflict

The text offers three sources of (or reasons for) violence in the Middle East. Which of the three sources do you think is most responsible, if any? Explain your answer. Also, given these sources, what do you think can and/or should be done to secure a lasting peace in the Middle East?

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Graves' disease in President George H.W. Bush and diagnosis challenges

President George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, suffered Graves' disease or autoimmune hyperthyroidism. He was treated for this disease and has taken thyroid hormone replacement therapy to treat resulting hypothyroidism.

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Proteomics and targeted drug discovery in disease treatment

Proteins are the essential building blocks of organic cells, and are involved at the most basic and simplified level of many processes and mechanisms that occur within the body.

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NBA Properties Inc. v. Gaunt: Toronto Raptors trademark dispute

Kris John Gaunt (Defendant) filed Trade Mark application (number 728289) with the Australian Registrar of Trade Marks on 20 February 1997. Defendant sought registration of "a cartoonlike representation of a dinosaur stepping past a circular device and holding a pizza in its left paw.

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