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Tennessee's judicial waiver process for trying juveniles as adults

Tennessee Code Annotated or TCA 37-1-134 provides for the transfer of the jurisdiction of a child offender from the juvenile court to a criminal court for trial as an adult, depending on the offender's age, gravity of offense, prior delinquency records, past treatment and the offender's response.

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Marital conflict and child aggression: family processes and intervention effects

Aggressive behavior in children is not only disruptive of home, classroom, and social environments, it is the primary cause of peer rejection in children (Hinshaw pp). Early aggression predicts substance abuse, delinquency, and adult antisocial behavior with high sensitivity (Hinshaw pp).

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Game theory as an interdisciplinary approach to human behavior

Game theory is a separate and interdisciplinary approach to the study of human behavior. The areas of study most involved in game theory are mathematics, social and behavioral sciences such as economics. It can be used specifically for conflict resolution.

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Bill Hillier's theory of spatial configuration in architecture

Hillier, Bill. "What Architecture adds to Building?" From Space Is The Machine: A Configurational History of Architecture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Pulte Homes: corporate strategy and consumer-focused business model

Pulte Homes is one of the strongest contemporary examples of corporate America. As a corporation, Pulte Homes has some impressive statistics to boast about. In 2003, the average price of a home that it sold was $241,000.

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Albert Ellis' rational emotive behavior therapy approach and applications

Albert Ellis' REBT is a Relative Emotional Behavior Therapy where it provides help with people cope with their difficulties in life and thus improve their individual growth. Basically, REBT follows building blocks of therapy, based on the online source, http://www.counselingceusonline.com/rebt.htm:

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Theory and practice differences between art history and studio art

One of the areas in which this difference is most apparent is in the visual arts. For example, an art history class is vastly different from an art studio class.

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Abortion access and women's rights to choose

While legal aspect of abortion has been the subject of extensive debate during the last 35 years, abortion itself has been around for thousands of years. The religious and social moral codes have played a major role in both preventing and encouraging abortion.

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Social networking quality, rumination, and depressive symptoms in young adults

Frequency and quality of social networking among young adults: Associations with depressive symptoms, rumination, and corumination, (Davila et al., 2012), two studies were done in order to examine the associations between social networking and depressive symptoms among youth.

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The five-factor model of personality traits and behavior

There are several theories that surround the human personality, the way that humans react, learn, and interact with the world.

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