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Technical document creation and collaborative team writing skills

Construction and editing of technical documents in collaboration with team members. Over the course of this class, I learned how to analyze, create, and edit a variety of technical documents both individually and also as part of a team.

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Evidence-based management of Do Not Resuscitate order implementation in hospitals

"Culture eats strategy." Management literature across all disciplines points to the critical importance of quality decision-making.

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Factors influencing tuberculosis treatment compliance in Assam, India

The title of the quantitative study by Zaman et al. (2015) was a bit long, but the wording eliminated any ambiguity about the focus of the study.

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Rogers's theory of diffusion of innovations in healthcare

One of the challenges of making change take hold in a healthcare environment is staff resistance: it is not enough to merely know that a certain practice is helpful; it is also vitally important to ensure that staff members are motivated to put the change into action.

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Tagore's poetry as nationalist leadership and cultural influence

When we consider the career of Rabindranath Tagore as a "nationalist leader," it is slightly hard to find comparable figures elsewhere in world-history. Outside of India, Tagore is most famous as a poet: he won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature for his Bengali poetry collection Gitanjali.

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Sophistry in ancient Greece and modern rhetoric: Aristotle and Burke compared

Athenians in ancient Greek loved public speech. Sophists, people with skills in oratory, were awarded trophies and accorded great respect. They were associated with wisdom and sophistry was taken to mean the ability to use language or rhetoric to persuade people to accept one's point-of-view.

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The adversarial principle and sentencing in English criminal law

England and Wales work on an adversarial principle when it comes to law enforcement.

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Frederick Douglass and the fight for African-American civil rights

Frederick Douglass, one among the leading personalities in civil rights history, escaped a life of slavery and went on to become a social justice advocate; he is counted among prominent personalities like President Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Susan Brownell Anthony and William Lloyd Garrison.

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HIV prevention intervention for at-risk youth in Brooklyn

Although the risk of HIV / AIDS has been curtailed somewhat with advances in medication and treatment, ultimately prevention of this disease is the best strategy. Youth, particularly minority youths, are most likely to be infected.

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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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