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Aviation security management strategies after September 11th

Since the September 11th terrorist attacks, there has been an emphasis on identifying various strategies for preventing aviation security from facing similar kinds of disasters.

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Ownership claims and corporate control: Jorgy versus Garfield

Why did Jorgy continue to operate the Wire and Cable Division? He, more than anyone else, was aware that the division was losing money and would probably continue to lose money.

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First-year student persistence and retention using electronic portfolios

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Performance budgeting adoption by state and local governments

In the aftermath of the "Great Recession" state and local governments along with the federal government are facing the prospects of surging budget deficits and the concomitant budget cuts or tax and fee increases requisite to restore a semblance of budgetary balance.

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The irony of solitude in One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Nobel Prize-winning novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is not arbitrarily titled. The theme of solitude permeates Garcia's novel, shaping the characters and their living, breathing town, Macondo.

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Forecasting the future of customer relationship management software

Of the many types of software used for managing the many interactions between companies and their customers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications are the most dominant (Shang, Lin, 2010).

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Native American stereotypes and discrimination in the 21st century

The contemporary general public is still having problems abandoning stereotypes regarding Native Americans, even with the fact that society has allegedly experienced great progress from the time when American Indians were widely discriminated.

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Psychodynamic theory and self-assessment in organizational leadership

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The three-tier model in e-commerce application architecture

The three-tier model of data, business logic and presentation layer have been represented in a wide variety of formats and structural variations, yet all rely on databases being the foundation with servers managing the interpretation and analysis of data.

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The interconnection of race and class in American inequality

Race and class are inextricably entwined, making the two issues inseparable. Especially in the United States, and throughout Western Europe as well, poverty and race and linked. Therefore, neither one plays a more important role in the evident societal inequalities and discrimination.

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