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Appearance and character judgment: Testing physiognomy theory through street observation

I usually wear clean Nike sneakers (I have a white and a black pair) or cowboys boots (shined), well-pressed jeans and either a pullover shirt (a polo, or turtleneck under a sweater if it is cold out) or a long-sleeve dress shirt.

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Decision-making dimensions in adolescent risk behavior

Adolescents have a lot of social and personal temptations to either resist or to experiment with, including the following: smoking, using drugs, using alcohol, unsafe driving stunts, getting involved in crime, unsafe sexual practices, and other risky behaviors.

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IT security failures in the 2014 O'Hare and Midway airports incident

On September 26th, 2014, both O'Hare and Midway airports experienced a day-long disruption of operations that led to over 2,000 flights being cancelled and the entire nation affected by the disruption of operations.

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Mind-body medicine and mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques

Most of mainstream medical Western medicine overlooks the mind and body connection and treats these two separate systems independently.

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Informal caregivers' experiences seeking hospice care for dementia patients

United States, an estimated 5.2 million people suffer from Alzheimer's disease and the number is expected to increase dramatically over the next 30 years (reviewed by Lewis, 2014). Dementia care has therefore become a significant burden on the healthcare system and will only worsen over time.

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Breastfeeding's benefits for infant health and development

Breastfeeding has become a political lightening rod, igniting debates across a wide spectrum of social issues. Sadly the critics of mothers' breast feeding their children have forgotten about the most important person involved: the baby.

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Differential diagnosis and treatment of generalized anxiety disorder

Education -- the patient should be made aware that her distresses, particularly her recurring and intense headaches, can be her body's response to her emotional state as a newly divorced and single mother. She should be helped to self-affirmation strategies and to develop a sense of personal worth.

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Hypnosis in life coaching: effectiveness and therapeutic applications

The article 'Hypnosis: An Altered State of Consciousness', by the Mayo Clinic explains hypnosis as an artificially induced change in an individual's consciousness which helps in dealing with different medical conditions (Mayo Clinic staff, 2014).

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Menopause as biosocial and biocultural experience across populations

Margaret Lock and Patricia Kaufert have written an article examining menopause, biologies, and cultures of aging. The authors begin their discussion with acknowledging that menopause is a symbol of the end of menstruation, which was once regarded as the culmination of a woman's reproductive life.

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Childhood trauma, neural development, and spiritual healing pathways

How can childhood trauma affect neural development? According to Professor Allan Schore, writing in the peer-reviewed Infant Mental Health Journal, there are "negative impacts" vis-a-vis the child's brain development and infant mental health when the child is subjected to "infant trauma" (Schore,…

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