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Cockpit automation and pilot skills in modern aviation

This paper analyzes the pitfalls of automation within the cockpit. Today automation has become more widespread than ever before, especially within the aviation industry, and automation as such is more often than not being blamed for causing great harm, although inadvertently, by increasing the…

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Gender differences in coronary heart disease incidence and mortality

Heart disease continues to represent a national health issue, with more men experiencing heart attacks at earlier ages than their female counterparts (Thom, Kannel, Silbershatz and D'Agostino 3). Women, though, continue to be at higher risk for some types of heart disease-related illnesses.

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Arson as a violent crime: motives, investigation, and impact

Over thirty thousand structural fires are set annually at a cost of over three-quarters of a million dollars worth of damage and more than three hundred lives lost.

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Migration patterns of Native Americans and Korean-Americans to the United States

Native Americans and Korean-Americans are separated by tens of thousands of years when it comes to immigration to the Americas.

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Shirley Jackson's reflection of madness in "The Lottery"

Shirley Jackson is the kind of writer that demonstrates a reflection of what she saw around her in her fiction.

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Behavioral intervention for teenagers' online privacy and information security awareness

Teenager's Awareness and Their Lack of Implementing Information Security and Online Privacy Concepts This work contains a research proposal for a behavioral medication intervention for teens ages 12 to 17, as well as for their parents and peer-groups in an initiative to facilitate a change in…

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Serial killing as addiction: pathology and psychopathic behavior

It is difficult to understand the nature of a serial killer. The repetitive character of their murderous acts for no "justifiable" reason is a conundrum to most of us. Just what is justifiable?

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Matt Hills' analysis of "good" and "bad" fandom communities

Fandom was born when the first two people started talking about their favourite program and it rolled like an avalanche into our times when fandom took unimaginable proportions for those first people who used to bring it up as a means of interacting.

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Childhood sexual abuse and compulsive hoarding: cognitive behavioral treatment approaches

The objective of this work is to research and examine childhood sexual abuse and compulsive hoarding.

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Five major motivation theories and their workplace applications

The motivation of employees in the workplace was the focus of many researchers following the publication of the Hawthorne study result. Several theories appeared as a result of the increased interest in employee motivation.

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