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Communication challenges and visitor compliance at Yellowstone National Park

The National Park Service (NPS) is assigned the responsibility of managing national parks, historical property, national monuments and such other conservancies by the U.S. federal government.

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Characteristics and processes of high-performance teams

This chapter is about teamwork and team performance. The first section is about high performance teams.

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Resistance as a constructive force in organizational change

Change is the movement away from its present state toward a desired future state. Organizations are constantly changing, but organizational change typically refers to the large-scale changes that are sometimes needed to reset the organization. Inevitably, change processes will meet with resistance.

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Thomas Aquinas and Machiavelli on human nature and politics

Aquinas and Machiavelli both had an important position in the study of historical development of Western political theory. They were Italian giants of medieval philosophy and politics.

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Personality differences and their effects on team dynamics

Personality is defined as individual stable and unique pattern of thinking, acting, reacting and feeling towards social environment. Some people prioritize harmony in social relationships while some people are interested in dominance and power.

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Fast food marketing strategies targeting children and obesity

The concerns of public health against fast-food marketing are with proposed relationships between obesity and fast-food consumption among children and adults. The issues cut across the nutritional profiles of the fast-food menus.

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Same-sex parenting in the United States: trends and social attitudes

For a period extending back to the last twenty years, the number of households headed by same-sex parents in the United States has subtly increased. According to a unanimous agreement in the U.S.

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Niebuhr and Arendt on concepts and practice of political action

POLITICAL ACTION & HOW DO ARENDT AND NIBUHR RECOMMEND GOING ABOUT POLITICAL ACTION? The objective of this work is to answer the question of what is political action and how do Arendt and Nibuhr recommend going about political action.

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Street dust and water quality degradation in urban runoff systems

While some may treat this subject as relatively or completely unimportant, this could not be further from the truth.

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Moral psychology and public opinion on capital punishment

It is often suggested that morality comes from a venerated source - from reason, or from God (Wheatley & Haidt, 2005). Judgments on the basis of morals are important, complex, and intuitive.

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