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Violent crime trends and geographic shifts in U.S. law enforcement response

While statistics show a general decline in serious violent crimes such as homicide in the United States since 1991, the homicide rate in the country is remains one the highest in the developed world.

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Ethics of cloned livestock in the European food market

Online clip: FSA admits more clone-linked beef in UK food chain (04th August 2010) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10873202

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The marketing mix of digital versus physical retail channels

The marketing mix for using digital vs. physical channels varies significantly by the type of products being sold, the intended audiences and customer segments, and whether the industry is B2B versus B2C-focused.

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Teaching and Learning Together program's impact on classroom engagement

Cook-Sather, a. (2009). "I'm not afraid to listen: Prospective teachers learning from students." Theory Into Practice, 48(3), 176-183.

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Pricing strategies and branding approaches in healthcare delivery

The approach to pricing healthcare can vary from the margin-based approaches that attempts to quantify the time and materials of professional care, the cost-plus approach which is often used in government-subsidized care, to value-based pricing which is often what private practices rely on.

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Paolo Coelho's "The Alchemist" and the dream quest tradition in literature

Alchemist" by Paolo Coelho is the author's most famous book, the one that eventually brought about his fame and recognition as an important author of the 20th century.

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Allison Parker's second-grade teaching practices and classroom observation

Allison Parker teaches second grade at Lincoln Street Elementary School (LSES), Peterborough, New Hampshire. She has taught for five years, all of them at LSES. Ms. Parker earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees in elementary education at the University of New Hampshire.

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Public choice theory and internet regulation in open source software

In the article Regulation and the Internet: Public choice insights for business organizations (Jarvenpaa, Tiller, Simons, 2003) the authors define the concept of public choice as it relates to open source software.

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Comparing juvenile justice systems in China and the United States

China in general, strives to base itself upon a restorative system of justice. It also seems to be moving as a work-in-progress toward becoming more formalized as a "rule of law" system, and problematically, youth crime has been, over the recent decades, rapidly rising.

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The paradox of teacher attitudes toward standardized content-based testing

Teachers nationwide have expressed concern about the amount of time they must spend preparing students for content-based assessments, some of which have implications for high school graduation (Journell, 2010, p. 111).

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