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Hiring and retention strategies in the hospitality industry

There are very few duties and responsibilities that a human relations manager is accountable for that are more critical to the success of his or her venue than selecting high quality people for employment. How to accomplish that delicate, pivotal task is the point of this research paper.

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Spanking as appropriate child discipline despite aggression concerns

Imagine a child doing anything he wants as he grows up and parents only mildly warning him against the ill consequences of certain acts or situations.

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NASA budget cuts and their impact on safety culture

When one does tend to think of the NASA space program, perhaps the thought of the proud 1969 Apollo Moon landing are conjured along with the success that NASA subsequently had with the Voyager spacecraft mission that has so far been on track with regard to the predicted trajectory of its mission…

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Fire department disaster response lessons from 9-11 and Hurricane Katrina

The abstract provides a general overview of what the paper will be discussing. The section will introduce the topic of the paper and dealing initially with the history of fire and the fire service.

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The natural history of HIV disease progression and clinical manifestations

The natural history of disease refers to the progress of the disease process in an individual over time and in the absence of intervention (Figure 1.1).

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Social work counselor interview with Amal about school adjustment

Social Work Counsellor: Good morning, Amal. How are you today? Social Work Counsellor: Oh? Now why do you say that? Amal: (Walks to the window & looks out); 'Because they're all against me. I don't fit in. I don't belong.

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Irish-American Catholic identity and family cultural transmission

Having been a part of American culture for several generations, they look beyond themselves as being purely American and being unaffected by the foreign cultures from which their ancestors emigrated (Hayden, 2003).

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Understanding problematic mobile phone use through integrated theoretical framework

Studies on problematic usage of mobile phones are less bountiful, but research trends appear that one of the major issues of the 21st century will be the perspective of drawbacks from information technology (Young 1996, 2004; LaRose and Eastin 2002; LaRose et al. 2003; Young 2004).

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Analytical models for understanding causes of international conflict

Nations have gone to war against each other for millennia for a wide array of reasons, but most causes of conflict appear to be related to many of the same things, including scarcity of resources, powerful notions of nationalism and the vain quest for power over others.

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Gender role socialization and cultural variation in adolescent identity formation

Anthropological inquiry into male-female relations has somewhat evolved around debates concerning sexual inequality. Gender roles are complex and clearly vary by culture and time-period, and are often misunderstood based on individual societal bias.

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