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What's for dinner?" It is a household question of old, often asked with full of longing and bugging with anticipation of a satisfying dish. "What's for dinner?" you asked and the chef speaks out the menu.

Operation and Performance of Virginia's Social Services System

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?