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Standardization and professional acceptance of midwifery in the United States

Midwifery is a centuries old practice wherein individuals -- almost exclusively women -- trained in healing practices and knowledge of a woman's body and its various phases and iterations assist women before, during, and after pregnancy.

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Female orgasmic dysfunction: definitions, prevalence, and counseling implications

Female orgasmic disorder (FOD) has been a controversial and often confusing issue in the annals of medicine and especially with regard to counseling treatment. Over the years the condition has been associated with a highly medicalized ideology and has also been discounted by some in its entirety.

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Foreign aid failure and the 2010 Haiti earthquake response

The natural disaster that struck Haiti at the beginning of 2010 can be considered as an important international crisis from several points-of-view. Natural disasters are phenomena which can hardly be controlled, regardless of the nation it hits or the technology invented in the last decades.

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Small intestinal morphology and peptidase activity in weaning piglets

In M.S. Hedemann, S. Hojsgaard, and B.B. Jensen's article, "Small Intestinal Morphology and Activity of Intestinal Peptidases in Piglets around Weaning," the hypothesis was that small intestines' shortening of the villous as the reduction in mature enterocytes occurs by the quick renewal of cells,…

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Macbeth's mental decline through ambition and murder

Shakespeare knows how to shine the light on human imperfection. While we would like to believe we are strong and will do the right thing at the right time, Shakespeare reveals how we can become sidetracked with our own desire and blinded to our sense of right and wrong.

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Love and duty in Chikamatsu's Tokugawa plays

Azuma, the courtesan, comes to deliver a letter. A razor blade hides in the paper. Her love, Yojibei, a married man, sits in house arrest for a violent crime he did not commit. His wife, Okiku, consoles him. She knows that "without money, his life is doomed" (Chikamatsu, 152).

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Douglass North's lecture on economic development and market dynamics

North's lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel touches on many different and equally important concepts in the study of economics. Many of them are concepts which are just being identified, and as a process, represent the next step in the evolution of economics as a field.

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Ensuring validity, ethics, and integrity in post-tenure review research

Ensuring validity, ethics, and integrity in the previously proposed research study into the effects of post-tenure review on teaching research, and overall service as well as to school culture is a somewhat complex process, but one that is well mapped-out in previous literature.

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Effectiveness of school-based bullying prevention programs

The problem regarding how schools may best make their environments physically and emotionally safe leads to the question: Does a school-based program decrease victimization?

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Corporate financial planning models and strategic decision-making

Financial planning for corporations is the process of planning the firm's revenues and expenses for the next year. Such planning provides managers with the insight needed to aid decision-making.

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