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In rural America, it is not uncommon to find young grade school and high school students whose medical insurance is through their state Medicaid program. Rural America is farm country, and wages, farm employment, and…

Letter to a young nursing student: Palliative care and nursing theory

Once again, executive compensation is making headlines. This time, it is the executives at banks that received TARP funds. Bonus pools at the nation's banks totaled $18.4 billion dollars, even as these same banks…

Every learning organization has the long-range strategic objectives that seek to balance limited resources with the overarching objective of delivering exceptional educational experiences for students.

The definition of stress is ever elusive with various definitions being put forth. Stressfocus website (2009) referrers to stress as "normal physiological response of the body to situations or stimulus which are…

This study looked at several factors relating to cardiovascular disease including weight and low and high density lipoproteins to determine whether low-fat or low-carb diets were healthier.

¶ … robots can have consciousness and whether or not that robot can report on its environmental surroundings and how those environmental surroundings affect the robot. Autonomous robots do currently exist and are robots…

This paper is about how healthcare costs are rising and the ethics of treating people with expensive therapies that only prolong life for a short period of time. The economic answer is to follow the money, but that is not the compassionate answer. By combining the economics of the decision with compassionate response, is it possible to determine a better answer for all concerned?

The threat of terrorism has increased in recent years and, as a result, the U.S.Government has been forced to reorganize its various departments. One of the departments that has been changed is the State Department. The State Department recently opened a bureau on counter-terrorism in an effort to better coordinate its efforts with other government agencies. This article reviews these changes.

This paper discusses the mobile operating system industry. The industry composition and structure (oligopoly, monopolistic competition etc) is evaluated. The measures that are commonly used to measure success in the industry are identified and recommendations are made to improve upon these measures by delivering measures that are more useful to managers.