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Macro environmental and competitive conditions in the oil and gas industry

Oil and gas industry is one of the most important industries in the world today because of the huge impact it has on people, their governments, economy and the growth and development of the entire world at large.

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Elder abuse prevalence and underreporting in twenty-first century America

First question: Is elder abuse more prevalent today than in pre-industrial America? That is an impossible question to answer with absolute certainty due to the lack of data that was kept in the 19th Century. However, that having been said, in the book Elder Abuse: Conflict in the Family (p.

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Sonic characteristics and cultural contexts of world music traditions

"Slow Hora/Freylekhs" is a traditional Klezmer song performed by the Klezmer Conservatory Band. The song represents the style and instrumentation of Eastern European Jewish music, and includes the strong representation of woodwinds.

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Foucault and feminist rhetoric: discourse, knowledge, and patriarchal power

According to Foucault, discourse creates knowledge ("Michel Foucault on Rhetoric"). In fact, discourse also has the power to create reality. Therefore, the rules that govern discourse play a major role in the content of knowledge, how it is created, and how that knowledge is disseminated.

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Christine Boyer's concept of cybercities and digital life

Subsuming the heterogeneity of the Internet to a homogenous whole is a reductive move. Furthermore, it risks making the unsupportable conflation of the Internet user with their textual output." (Bassett, et al., 2002, p. 234)

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Treatment and nursing implications of osteoarthritis in middle-aged women

The issue of osteoarthritis is one that presents many challenges to the nurse and to the healthcare professionals at all levels. The general demographic of this condition is largely female and tends to occur particularly in women over the age of forty.

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Economic inequality between African-Americans and whites since Obama's election

Since Barack Obama's election, many people have suggested that the U.S. is a post-racial society.

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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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Internet's impact on business communication practices and efficiency

The area of business communications has necessarily received increased attention in the years following the advent of the Internet, which has revolutionized communication in all aspects of life.

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