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Singapore's low fertility rate and psychological reactance to government incentives

The total fertility rate in Singapore has declined to a record low of 1.22 in 2009 and 1.16 in 2010 from 1.28 in 2008. The problem of the low fertility rate is common across the three major ethnic groups in the country.

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Compliance, obedience, and conformity: mechanisms of social influence

Social influence is believed to occur when an individual's emotions, behaviors, or opinions are influenced by others'. Compliance, identification, internalization are the three broad varieties of social influence that have since been identified.

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Six Sigma adoption in services and healthcare industries

The value of Six Sigma has been readily and thoroughly proven throughout all manufacturing industries and continues to be the foundation of supply chain, sourcing, production and post-sales support performance improvements.

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Biological weapons development and proliferation in United States history

The 'art' and methods of war have indeed gone a long way; from subsisting to crude metals and guns, human society has learned to manipulate Nature by using as one of its weapons of mass destruction organisms that create balance within the planet's ecosystem.

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Balanced scorecard implementation at Cattaraugus County Rehabilitation Center

It is especially associated with for-profit businesses in terms of what they will focus on, what they will not focus on, what resources/people will be allocated to the initiatives that are chosen and so forth.

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Technical writing, advertising appeals, and privacy in modern communication

Technical writing is used by communicators in the technical setting to convince their audience of the effectiveness of their solutions to problems.

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Hemoglobin A1C for early diabetes diagnosis in Asia Pacific

With India and China being the most densely inhabited countries in the world, it is thought that over one hundred and fifty million diabetes cases reside in the area with more than a staggering 95% being of T2DM or type 2 diabetes mellitus.

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Book Review: The Crusades: A History by Riley-Smith

A review of Jonathan Riley-Smith's The Crusades: A History, examining its accessibility, arguments, and value as an introduction to crusade scholarship.

History

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Linux distributions and enterprise server adoption

Linux continues to redefine the operating system landscape and is having a very significant effect on enterprise computing globally today.

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Bonilla-Silva's argument on systemic racism and white privilege in America

Strange Enigma of Race in Contemporary America by Eduardo Bonilla Silva is a compelling and revelatory essay about the nature of modern America.

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