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Collaborative design principles for build-to-order supply chain management

In an effort to meet customer, stakeholder and shareholder expectations, many organizations have had to adopt unique supply chain management methodologies as well as to incorporate them into their corporate objectives and strategies.

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Jerry Fodor's integration of modularity and causal reference theory

Since the beginning of his career in the early 1960's Jerry Fodor has been able to produce a number of discrete arguments regarding cognitive science and philosophy of the mind; and just as these two fields of thought are distinct yet similar, so too are Fodor's major theses.

~32 min read

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The eighteenth amendment and American prohibition's origins

One of the most conflicted points of United States history is associated with the temperance movement, which culminated into a federal constitutional amendment prohibiting the production, transportation, and sale of all alcoholic beverages.

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Internet content filtering in educational institutions and schools

Internet has grown exponentially since its first introduction to the public. The precursor to the Internet was the ARPANET.

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Copyright protection and public interest in archives across the United States, UK, and China

What, exactly, is a Copyright? Why is it important? A Copyright in general terms means the set of laws and rules that are set up be a government with the primary purpose of affording protection to the authors or the writers of 'original works' of their own, that they have created.

~75 min read

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Alfred Schutz's contributions to social theory and phenomenology

Who was Alfred Schutz, and why was his work on social theory and phenomenology so important? This is an important question that must be answered here, and will be answered, but there are other issues that must be examined as well.

~44 min read

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Canada's economic constraints during colonial rule and French-Canadian emigration

The economic progress in any country depends on the land, the people, politics and the society that they live in.

~30 min read

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Defining terrorism: Bush administration policy and alternative approaches

There are a number of ways to interpret terrorist attacks in the modern world. The Bush administration has chosen a particular perspective that is intended to justify the employment of the United States military as a tool for rooting out terrorism in general.

~48 min read

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Pitch perception and psychoacoustics in music

Pitch is commonly mistaken for being a term which is analogous to frequency; however, pitch is actually based on perception. Pitch is the human perception of the frequency of a musical note.

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Life after death in Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism

The core differentiation between the Theravada and Mahayana school of thought in Buddhism lies in the stress on the individual attainment of salvation and enlightenment in Theravada, as opposed to the sense of common or universal salivation that is the goal of Mahayana.

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