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Augustus's institutional reforms and transformation of Roman society

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus initiated a new type of leadership within Rome through an espousal of Republican virtues that helped re-establish the government's role in maintaining equity and social reform for the general populace (Everitt 2007; Suetonius, Graves, and Grant 2002).

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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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Personality disorders, eating disorders, and substance abuse classifications

Personality disorders have elicited different meanings over the years. The concept was used to describe a person who exhibited 'antisocial or socially damaging behavior' (as cited in Blackburn, 2007, 8).

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Business ethics and corporate responsibility in healthcare organizations

Defining ethics must by nature be multifaceted in approach, as ethics serve as the foundation of philosophy, the basis for decision making, and the definition of strategies and tactics.

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Ethical issues impacting the pharmaceutical industry community

The foundation of business ethics is the definition of morality and the development of a series of cognitive frameworks which can be used in the navigating of business decisions over time.

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Nonverbal communication and cultural differences in eye contact and posture

Nonverbal communication involves those nonverbal things that are in a communication setting that are generated by both the source- the speaker and his or her use of the environment and that have potential message value for the source or receiver -the listener.

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Retail innovations using RFID technology to improve customer loyalty

Each of these concepts also seeks to enhance the retail experience by offering greater value than their traditional store counterparts.

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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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