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Consumer awareness of fast fashion's environmental impact

The issue of fast or quick fashion and the impact that this phenomenon has on the environment, as well as consumer reaction, has gradually attracted attention from environmentalists, fashion commentators and the general public in recent years.

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Social learning theory and violence against women: a case study

The question of gender violence in relationships, particularly violent crimes perpetrated against females, has been the focus of media as well as criminological and psychological investigation in recent years.

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European enlargement and the development of EU security policy

The Cold War period represented an important time in the history of the European continent and in the development of the concept of security and the way in which it was dealt with at the level of the national security strategies.

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Genetic and environmental factors in criminal behavior development

Very simply, the law treats man's conduct as autonomous and willed, not because it is, but because it is desirable to proceed as if it were."

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John Grierson and the development of documentary film

The documentary film developed alongside the narrative film, though largely during the sound era. It was shaped most profoundly during the 1930s as filmmakers began to record sociological an anthropological studies of different populations.

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Politics of difference and diversity in nursing practice

The issue of diversity and the 'politics of difference' have assumed an important and compelling part of modern discourse in many fields and disciplines.

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Emotional literacy in education as a mechanism for social control

CONTROLLING OUR EMOTIONS? MECHANISM FOR SOCIAL CONTROL? Is identifying the regimes of truth that govern us the ideas that govern how we think, act and feel as educators because it is within regimes of truth that inequity is produced and reproduced. (MacNaughton 2005, 20)

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Organizational culture and leadership in higher education institutions

This study examines a spectrum of organizational culture and leadership, organizational change, and system-wide organizational development theories with a focus on the underlying methods of achieving performance excellence in a university entity.

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International enforcement mechanisms and the gap between human rights norms and implementation

There are some practices that are so abhorrent and degrading that they simply cannot be justified -- ever. Genocide will never be successfully defended with a human rights argument.

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Security system planning for Agip Kazakhstan North Caspian operations

Agip Kazakhstan North Caspian Operating Company N.V. (Agip KCO) is the single operator of the North Caspian Sea Production Sharing Agreement (PSA), which controls the development of 11 blocks in the Kazakhstan sector of the Caspian Sea.

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