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Effective strategies for combating adolescent obesity

The writer explores the issues of obesity as it relates to adolescence and discusses strategies that have the potential to impact the issue. The writer also reports the effectiveness of some of the strategies. The final section identifies the most effect strategy to combat obesity in adolescents.

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Dolphin echolocation and cross-modal shape recognition abilities

Herman, Pack and Hoffman-Kuhnt performed relatively rigorous experiments to determine the source of dolphin recognition of objects; they wanted to discover, among other things, whether "dolphins attained the shape discriminations (of objects) through associative learning or direct perception"…

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Sampling methods in biostatistical research design and application

Research activities, whether clinical trial based, experimentally designed, or product oriented, must exhibit and command interest, enthusiasm, and passionate commitment. To this end the researcher must catch the essential quality of the excitement of discovery that comes from research well done.

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Nursing professionalism and cross-cultural medicine in practice

With the healthcare industry in its current state of disruption, it has become very important to re-evaluate the relationship of patient care and patient satisfaction. "Sometimes patient satisfaction needs to be measured one patient at a time.

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Open and closed system models in criminal justice organizations

Specifically it will define open and closed system models of organizations and explain why it is important that the criminal justice professional should know the differences between these models.

~6 min read

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Theresa's Cosmetics Unlimited: permanent makeup business plan

As long ago as 1992, "nearly 80,000 women had plastic surgery on their breasts: 30,000 women had them enlarged, 8,000 had them lifted, and another 40,000 had them reduced....

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Torture warrants and the ticking time bomb scenario

Torture is banned by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Further, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) was adopted by the U.N.

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Computer-based color instruction module for kindergarten students

This paper will also address some learning gaps that are associated with this learning module in general, and what some of the performance and knowledge gaps of a color-teaching program in particular.

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Bad news transmission as a function of consequence definitiveness and relationship

This so-called MUM effect could be caused by self-concern, care for the other person, or worry about social norms (Rosen & Tesser, 1970). However, research on rumors indicates that people do not always seem to have such constraints and transmit bad news readily.

~9 min read

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Ms. Aloe Cathin and the Open Lotus Charter School's constructivist model

This case study examines the case of Ms. Aloe Cathin, the principle of the Open Lotus Charter School. This school includes grades seven through twelve.

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