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Screening criteria for building a diverse arts-focused group

What is your age? What is your race or ethnicity origin? What is your level of education? What is your marital status? What is your gender?

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Advertising to children: health risks and ethical concerns

In the modern world, there are complex commercial activities where children have taken a recognizable position in terms of consumer behavior from other independent consumer groups. The children category has discretionary incomes to spend leading to higher influence on the family purchasing habits.

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Controlling costs and scheduling in construction project management

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Judge Mark Ciavarella and the Pennsylvania Kids for Cash scandal

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Comprehensive literacy instruction and the reading workshop approach

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The Amber Alert system and voter participation in elections

In 1996, 9-year-old Amber Hagerman was abducted while riding her bicycle in Arlington Texas. She was never seen alive again. One local women Diana Simone, thought that since there were alerts for things like storms, it would be possible to have a system of public alerts for missing children.

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Drone killings, libertarianism, and utilitarianism: the question of justice

Libertarians and Utilitarians would likely judge the death of Abdurahman in the same: Libertarians believe in the rights protected by the Constitution and therefore in Abdurahman's rights as a U.S. citizen.

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Healthcare inequality in the United States and single-payer reform proposals

The health system of the United States is deemed to be the most advanced and progressed in the world. In particular, the system encompasses medical centers all over the nation.

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Goldberg's quasi-experimental study of television advertising effects on children

This study carries out the evaluation of a research titled "A quasi-experiment assessing the effectiveness of TV advertising directed to children" (Goldberg, 1990 p 445). The paper examines the extent the research hypotheses have been able to address the study.

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Return on investment justification in IT projects

According to Hopkins (2007), in the case of most IT projects and the case of most business projects in general, justifying an investment requires the demonstration of a mixture of immediate "savings, efficiency gains or the reuse of existing resources" and "simple forecasting methodology can then…

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