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Biological and social factors in partner selection and sexual dysfunction

Research has shown that men and women look for different characteristics when looking for long-term partners. Some research shows that men favor physical variables (attractiveness) more than women (lecture notes).

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Project management and team dynamics in business intelligence implementation

Like things information technology management, business intelligence typically implemented form a "project" --, a special kind organizational arrangement set specific things a specific period time, opposed a regular ongoing part organizational structure.

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Pricing strategies at GIM and Ginstar computers

The two stores whose pricing strategy has been looked at here are GIM Computers and Ginstar Computers, both located Downtown Atlanta, with the varying prices for their computer related products.

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Emotional intelligence in interpersonal communication effectiveness

The notion of emotional intelligence has been studied for long in the quest to understand human emotional behavior. Emotional Intelligence (EI) is said to be capacity, ability or skill to identify and asses and manage as well ones emotions, others' or that of a group.

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Assistive technology and teacher knowledge in special education communication

Disabled Bodies and Able Minds demonstrated more information to the reader about the DO-IT legislation to the reader, though it did not describe it in detail it demonstrated applications.

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Scheper-Hughes' study of maternal detachment and infant mortality in northeast Brazil

This article by Nancy Scheper-Hughes was first published in the October 1989 issue of Natural History. The relationship between the unremitting death of infant children, abject poverty, and a mother's ability to express maternal love is the central theme of this article.

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Freud's theory of female sexual development and secondary frigidity

The primary concept discussed in this particular scenario regarding Elizabeth and what has come to be her sexual frustration is an inability to orgasm. Within women, such an inability to do so is oftentimes referred to as frigidity.

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Sue Johnson's emotionally focused therapy interventions with couples

Sue Johnson describes a very revolutionary theory within couples counseling in her video. This theory rests on the idea that resentment, which grows between two couples is often based on a level of adult attachment.

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Hirschi's social bond theory and peer delinquency in criminology

Hirschi's social bonding theory argues that those persons who strong and abiding attachments to conventional society are less likely to deviate than persons who have shallow or weak bonds (Smangs, 2010). These bonds come in four interrelated forms, the first of which is attachment.

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Goal setting theory and social cognitive theory in workplace motivation

In the early 1960s, the study of motivation was not considered as a reputable pursuit since it was dominated by behaviorists. These behaviorists argued that motivation is brought by external factors that act as either re-inforcers or punishers.

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