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Evaluating the effectiveness of combined pharmacological and behavioral smoking cessation interventions

Smoking is a national health epidemic that claims the lives of many individuals annually. This is particularly alarming due to the preventable nature of smoking related illnesses. Smoking is associated with many pulmonary diseases, cardiovascular issues, as well as cancers.

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Inner healing and divine restoration in Old Testament theology

Individuals being weak often prefer to place their trust in the wisdom of doctors, nurses, psychologists and surgeons. They often consider themselves too ignorant to deal with such mysteries. Doctors often hold absolute power over the patient.

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The automobile's transformation of American leisure and culture

One of the defining paradigms of American culture since at least the 1920s has been the automobile.

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John Maynard Keynes's views on government spending and taxation

Keynes was one of the first and most prominent economists who militated for increased governmental spending, even if this spending would be completed from borrowed sources. And aside the borrowed sources, John Maynard Keynes also stimulated the reduction of taxation.

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Louis XIV's Versailles as a symbol of royal absolutism

Louis XIV's Versailles a symbol of royal absolutism and an expression of the classical baroque style? Louis XIV used the physical setting of his royal court at Versailles to exert his political control over France.

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Parental and peer predictors of adolescent self-esteem

Predictive factors fell into two large categories: parents and peers. Adolescents with Indulgent parents have equal or higher levels of self-esteem than adolescents with Authoritative parents, while adolescents with Authoritarian or Neglectful parents have the lowest self-esteem scores.

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Facilitative leadership and transformational leadership in organizations

Providing leadership without taking control is the essence of effective facilitative leadership, and this often requires leaders to change how they think as much as how they manage (Brome, 2006).

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Religion and spirituality's influence on patient health outcomes

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the influence that religion and spirituality may have upon the individual's health. If health is to be considered from a scientific point-of-view, it is easy to understand how the connection stated above may be seen as controversial.

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Lucid dreaming: controlling dreams while asleep

Mankind was always obsessed with dreams, as the experiences presented people with the possibility to escape their daily routines and enter a world made up by their subconscious. Under certain circumstances, people can realize when they are dreaming and can thus control their dreams.

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Psychoanalysis and the Law of Jante in Sandemose's novel

Aksel Sandemose is one of the foremost exponents of modernism in Norwegian literature and one of the first writers to use psychoanalysis as a major thematic component.

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