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Neuropsychological effects of stress on the brain and emotions

Neuropsychological research into human stress response is extensive, although progress in understanding the chemical changes in the brain due to stress has only happened in the last 30 years (Wallenstein, 2003).

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Web 2.0 technologies' impact on government human resource development

The continual impact of Web 2.0 technologies (O'Reilly, 2006) on collaborative software applications including social networks (Bernoff, Li, 2008) is redefining the most fundamental processes and systems that government organizations rely on for managing their human resources.

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BabiesRUs' integrated marketing communications strategy across online and print channels

Comparing and contrasting the online and print media strategies of BabiesRUs illustrates how critical it is for any retailer to have an integrated marketing communications (IMC) strategy that educates and sells through channels customers prefer to use (Hongcharu, Eiamkanchanalai, 2009).

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Camera technology and the development of American political photography

The objective of this work is to answer the question of how changing shutter speeds and lenses on cameras through the 19th and 20th centuries affect use of photography in American public media or political photography?

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Violence: theory and ethnography in Stewart and Strathern

Violence is an all-too-present phenomenon of our modern world. It exists in many forms, both fictional and very real, and is nearly impossible to avoid in both the media and in every day life in many parts of the world.

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Antisocial personality disorder from ancient philosophy to modern diagnosis

Antisocial Personality Disorder preoccupied scientists since the early nineteenth century.

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Racism against Aborigines and non-whites in Australia

According to the group Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation, residents of Townsville, Australia are so filled with racism that they claim they would even be unable to give racist defendants a fair trial.

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AJAX programming and Web 2.0 application development with Ruby on Rails

The integration of JavaScript and XML has led to the development of the object-oriented language AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) (Zucker, 2007) which is making rapid prototyping and application development for Web-based applications significantly more efficient than previous-generation Web…

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Women's status and oppression in Islamic societies: Muslim perspectives

The objective of this work is to examine the history of the oppression and discrimination against women in the Muslim world and the female tradition in Islamic cultures. This work will answer the questions of: (1) How do Muslim women view their status in society?

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Physical anthropology's role in justifying and challenging racism

Physical anthropology and racism: The interaction between supposedly objective science and cultural assumptions Because of the sad history of human society, few academic disciplines are immune to accusations of racism.

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