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Ethical dilemmas in end-of-life nursing care and decision-making

In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, medical technology has advanced enough to provide certain measures to keep the body "alive," but not necessarily the brain or the cognitive functions that make up quality of life (O'Keefe-McCarthy, 2009).

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Organizational design, motivation, and leadership in Hax and Majluf's framework

Hax and Majluf's (1981) in their article titled "Organizational Design: A Survey and an Approach" provide eight of the most common symptoms of an inadequate organizational structure.

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Parental influence on personality development in Asian cultures

A popular scientific debate asks whether we are more likely shaped by 'nature' or 'nurture.' In other words, how much of our individuality and personality comes from our genetic makeup and how much of it comes from the influences around us?

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Cognitive behavior therapy for treating sexual dysfunction and trauma

Depending on the therapist, and their prescribed philosophies, a number of counseling related therapies tend to alleviate symptoms.

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Converging similarities in psychoanalytic, sociocultural, and trait personality theories

For example, the psychoanalytic theory of personality -- which was largely popularized by Sigmund Freud's work in this field -- tends to focus on mental processes as being those most pertinent to the development of personality.

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Identifying and addressing childhood trauma and abuse in school settings

Within the school district there are many students who have gone through and others are still going through traumatic events. Some of these traumatic events are sexual, physical, mental abuse and issues of abandonment.

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Mansour Javidan's three capital model for expatriate success

Companies compete in a global environment; the increasing participation in the global environment has seen a rise in the need for international managers who can work in overseas operations in an effective manner.

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Community-based sanctions and alternatives to incarceration for offender rehabilitation

Which one of these do you think is the best method of implementing a community sanction program? Any concerns for public safety in any of these programs? Then there is the boot camp quagmire!

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Profiling terrorist motivations: rational choice and strategic choice theories

Terrorism is an issue that has existed throughout the history of mankind, but experienced significant changes in the nature and degree of threats in the past few decades due to globalization and technological advancements.

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The neuroscience of smell and emotional response

Human beings are bombarded in their daily lives with a variety of sensory data coming from a number of sensory systems in the human body. Many times the input of sensory data can cause a sensorimotor response, or an automatic action on the part of the human body in response to sensory input.

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