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Funding disparities in gifted education programs across states

It is difficult to find anything in the U.S. that has not been affected, one way or the other, by the current economic problems. Unfortunately, education is often the first to suffer from budget cuts. Even in the best of times, this is an area that receives the financial blows.

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Dialysis treatment and quality of life in elderly patients with end-stage renal disease

The issues that surround the health of a person at the end of their life have started to attract growing attention over the last several years (Menec, Lix, Nowicki, and Ekuma, 2007). Many questions have been looked at surrounding this topic.

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Physical fitness standards and women's integration in military training

Training Women for the Military\nEven as the lines between combat and non-combat assignments become increasingly blurred and women who are assigned combat roles find themselves in active war zones, there remain a number of questions about how women are to be integrated into the military.

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Aviation safety systems and the role of management in accident prevention

We've all heard the truism that traveling by air is safer than driving. This is true -- although not terribly helpful for anyone who has to do most of their traveling by car, as most of us do. Moreover, it also glosses over an extremely important fact.

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Disruptive physician behavior and hospital conflict resolution

The objective of this work is to examine disruptive physician behavior with the focus of this study on the relationship dynamics between doctors, nurses, and other groups in the hospital setting.

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Elder abuse and neglect in Canada: causes and policy responses

The older generation of people today is more visible, more active, and more independent than ever before. They are living longer and staying in better health. Unfortunately, as the population grows older, so does the hidden problem of elder abuse, exploitation, and neglect.

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How organizational culture enables family organic farms to succeed

When family-run businesses such as organic farms succeed they do so because the organizational culture of both family and business are similar.

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Teaching cultural understanding and tolerance in elementary classrooms

Advances in technology have brought about many changes in the society in which we live. One of these changes centers on our ability to meet persons from different cultures and to interact with them in a manner that increases our knowledge and acceptance of their society.

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Turkish designers and the universal versus cultural concept of beauty

It has been argued that the Turkish designers can be considered which conceives beauty as a universal coordinate. However, one should ask himself if there is any way that these designers can be identified as a group through the ethnic characteristics of their works.

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Shakespeare's Macbeth across literature, theater, and film

Shakespeare's rhetoric has always astounded his contemporary audiences through his almost supernatural ability to perceive and present the universality of human nature on stage, regardless of the time his characters lived in.

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