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Leadership effectiveness in higher education institutions today

The impact of an organization's leadership on its performance is well documented, but when it comes to higher education, a number of things have changed in recent years that have challenged even the most effective leader's ability.

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Year-round versus traditional school calendars and student achievement

Continued interest in improving educational achievement has prompted school districts across the nation to consider alternatives to the traditional nine-month school calendar.

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How stereotype threat undermines academic performance in college

The objective of this work is to examine stereotypes and to answer the question of "What impact does stereotyping have on our daily relations with others?"

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Environmental and familial influences on adolescent identity construction

Adolescence is the period in the human life growth process when we experience more physical and psychological changes than any other period in the life cycle.

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Phonological memory deficits in language-disordered children: causal connection

Working memory plays an important role in the ability to learn new tasks and may be connected to the ability to read and learn language in children (Gathercole & Baddeley, 1990).

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Equity theory and workplace motivation: The Michael Bishop case

The equity theory was developed by John Stacey Adams in 1963 and sees that the individual will be motivated on the job as long as he has a sense of equality. In other words, the employees want to be subjected to the same fair and uniform treatment as their fellow colleagues.

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Depiction of obsessive compulsive disorder in As Good as it Gets

While many movies achieve their popularity because of an ability to take viewers away to far-off words where reality can be forgotten, other movies are excellent because they depict and deal with the characteristics of reality, both dismal and encouraging.

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The importance of communication in successful marriage

In that regard, it is important to remember that the process of repetition occurs unconsciously: nobody whose parents provided insufficient communication (or any type of abuse, for that matter) consciously decides to seek out potential life partners who will repeat the same behavior.

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Generational boundary dissolution in adoptive families

Generational boundary dissolution presents as a crisis in many families. Generational boundaries are important for the development of the individual, within the framework of the family system. The area of generational boundaries is a relatively new concept in the field of family therapy.

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Magic realism in Latin American literature and Borges

Some literary critics and scholars would recommend to start reading Kafka in order to be able to be introduced in the world of magic realism in literature. but, is the guide into this world whose father is actually Borges.

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