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The motif of doom in Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and fiction

Were all the literary works of Nathaniel Hawthorne compiled into a single manuscript, then appropriately filtered to include only works of prose and fiction, and if an attempt were then made to uncover a single motif spanning through the vast majority of the remaining text, it would read something…

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Bacterial meningitis in children: diagnosis, treatment, and prevention

Bacterial meningitis represents a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in children worldwide. Meningitis is defined as inflammation of the protective membranes, known as meninges, that surround the brain and spinal cord (Chavez-Bueno et al., 2005).

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Safety and effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy in psychiatry

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), also known as shock treatment, is an extremely safe and effective medical treatment for certain psychiatric disorders. With this treatment, a small quantity of electricity is applied to the scalp, producing a seizure in the brain.

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An interdisciplinary approach to managing Tay-Sachs disease

This will consist of a physician, a geneticist, an ethicist, a lawyer or legal practitioner, and a health care provider.

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NFPA standards and their legal implications for fire departments

Consensus standards are developed by specific industries in order to set forth broadly accepted standards of care and operations for certain practices.

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Swedish Medical Center's process improvement and balanced scorecard strategy

Background- Swedish Medical Center is a large medical center located in the Seattle and surrounding suburbs in Washington State. It was founded in 1910 and has merged and acquired other properties, most recently Stevens Hospital in Edmonds, Washington, in 2010.

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Visual grammar and cultural identity in contemporary Korean advertisements

This latter is usually much less obvious even to the "natives" of a culture. One reason for this lack of transparency of visual grammar is that it is not explicitly taught in the same way that linguistic grammar is.

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Information and communication technology integration in the hospitality industry

How is ICT Applied to the Tourism and Hospitality Industries? Nearly every industry in today's economy uses ICT to some extent.

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Sweden's health care system: history, structure, and comparison with the United States

All over the world, governments approach their social responsibilities from a wide range of perspectives. For instance, for many industrialized nations, health care is taken to be an example of a social program tailored to benefit the general public.

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Spirituality as a nursing concept: definitions and clinical significance

According to the holistic model of care, a lot of nurses should contemplate their patients' spiritual necessities so that they can give them the total patient care that they deserve (Govier, 2000).

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