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Human resources roles in nursing recruitment, retention, and legal compliance

Nursing is fundamentally a 'human' discipline, requiring effective interpersonal interactions between nurses and patients. However, it is also imperative that nurses themselves have their human needs taken care of, given the stresses inherent to the profession.

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Ethical and methodological challenges in criminology research

Perhaps the foremost challenge relating to the study of criminal behavior is the question of compliance: unlike many other research subjects, criminal subjects in prison are not able to fully, freely consent to being studied.

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Controlling for carry-over effects and sampling bias in experimental design

B; no interaction). B. A x B. interaction; C. Main effect B. only. First, counterbalancing the design of the experiment would control for practice effects. In this case the carry-over effect is in one direction.

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The ethics of government housing support for teenage mothers in the United Kingdom

UK leads Europe in teenage pregnancies in Western Europe with 35,966 conceptions in the under 18s in 2009. Majority of these unplanned pregnancies are the cause and consequence of social exclusion in UK.

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Post-structuralism, film ideology, and resistance to dominant cinematic practice

The objective of this study is to answer how the post-structuralist synthesis asks structuralism to account for its own structurality and begin to propose a theory of resistance to dominant cultural values and expectations and to dominant modes of filmmaking.

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Psychological conflict and adolescence in Black Swan

The Black Swan is a movie full of psychosis, adolescence and ballet. It has the aspects of a girls struggle to become an adult and her confusion between choosing between the right and the wrong.

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Reflecting on interpersonal communication through McCornack's Reflect and Relate

In the preface to Reflect and Relate, McCornack (2010) claims to offer a "fresh perspective on interpersonal communication," (viii). Admittedly when I read this, I balked.

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Biological, psychological, and sociological theories of violent criminal behavior

Violent offenders can best be defined as those who commit criminal acts such as homicide, rape, sexual assault, aggravated battery, robbery, and torture.

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Gender differences in autonomic nervous system responses to antisocial personality disorder features

Thus, the authors are not actually examining autonomic functioning in persons who have been diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder. The sample size is a small one -- one hundred undergraduates, the majority of which are white.

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Isolation and psychopathology in Hitchcock's Psycho: Norman Bates

Proposition: Norman Bates, the protagonist of Hitchcock's film Psycho, suffered from an extreme case of self-imposed isolation.

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