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Chartres Cathedral Notre Dame
1,779 wordsThe medieval Gothic cathedral was in many ways a civic building as well as a religious one. This particularly was the case with the famous cathedral Notre-Dame de Chartres (Our Lady of Chartres) in the town of the same name, 80 km south-east of Paris, built in the 13 th century. Chartres cathedral was planned not only as a place of worship, but also developed as the centre of the town's economy and way of life, as the place that housed the relic of the cloak of the Virgin Mary. The local citizen...
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Boston Houghton Mifflin Decision Making Process
1,140 wordsIn 1972, Irving L. Janis presented a set of hypothesis that he extracted from observing small groups performing problem-solving tasks; he collectively referred to these hypotheses as groupthink (Janis, 1972). He defined groupthink as a quick and easy way to refer to a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action (Janis, 1982, p...
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Impact Of On Nurses Working Conditions
1,600 wordsThe world health care sector, as the industrialized organizations, has undergone dramatic restructuring and downsizing during the past decades, which incurred serious changes of conditions in which nurses deliver healthcare. As human resources management strategies seemed to have had a positive effect on the similar problems beard by other industries, it appears that the public healthcare sector as failed to endeavor in the same way and is still struggling to design and implement effective schem...
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Human Resources Management Organizational Culture
1,560 words... nd more respected. Furthermore, they can greatly contribute to improving quality and reduction of costs. As Spence Laschinger et al. (2001) mention in their study, working in an environment favoring empowerment has many positive impacts. Firstly, nurses feel more satisfied with their work and secondly they are more committed to the organization. Meyer and Allen (1991) distinguished three types of organizational commitment, affective, continuance and normative commitment. The one we are refer...
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Marketing Research Starbucks Vs Coffee Beans
1,359 wordsMarket segmentation is defined as the process of dividing a market into distinct subsets of consumers with common needs or characteristics and selecting one or more segments to target with a distinct marketing mix (Schiffman, Bednall, Cowley, O'Cass, Watson and Kanuk, 2001). Different companies have different abilities that enable them to serve their target market better, which is why some companies choose to focus much of their attention to specific segments. Starbucks primarily chooses to focu...
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Embryonic Stem Cells Blood Sugar Levels
1,188 wordsIntroduction Type 1 Diabetes mellitus, formerly known as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is a disease that is defied as a metabolism disorder. It affects about 5 - 10 % of the diabetic population estimating to about 4. 9 people worldwide. In this type of diabetes, the onset of elevated blood sugar levels usually begin abruptly in a fairly dramatic way before the age of 30 and about half of all the cases appear during childhood. The cause of diabetes type 1 is an autoimmune destruction in whi...
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Embryonic Stem Cells Petri Dishes
1,229 words... 2 day as compared with uh ES. No significant difference in insulin concentration was observed when incubation's were carried out at 5. 5 -mmol / l medium glucose concentration (15816 gU/ml, gU/ml, n = 6) or at a 25 -mmol / l ambient medium glucose concentration (146. 2 bn 22. 1 gU/ml, n = 6). (Assay et. al. , 2001) Method 2: As a result of their ability to differentiate into many different cell types, one can dissect the complex network of transcription factor genes regulating tissue-specifi...
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Optic Nerve African Americans
1,364 words... 1992). By comparison to the Beaver Dam Eye study with a predominantly Caucasian population, the Baltimore Eye Survey was a cross-sectional study with a multiracial population. In the Baltimore Eye Survey (Rahman et al, 1996) 5, 308 participants received an ophthalmological screening examination. Of this sample, 2, 395 were African American and 2, 913 were Caucasian Americans. OAG was defined on the basis of glaucoma tous optic nerve damage, abnormal visual fields or both. IOP was not a crite...
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Medical Professionals Body Image
1,783 wordsDepression strikes a large number of people around the world. It can be brought on by many things, such as childhood trauma, social issues, and drug use. The one thing that sets depression apart from many other mental afflictions is that everyone who has it may have it for different reasons and are taking different steps to remedy it. Some seek psychoanalysis while some rely on a pill to make them feel better. Others turn to self-medication, in the case of depression known as self-loathing, self...
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Running Head Creatine Supplementation Does Not Improve Performance
1,287 wordsRunning head: CREATINE SUPPLEMENTATION DOES NOT IMPROVE PERFORMANCE Creatine supplementation does not improve performance August 21, 2008 Creatine Supplementation Does Not Improve Performance During the past few decades, creatine monohydrate has become quite popular. The nutritional component was introduced to the general public in 1990 s and has quickly become one of the most popular ergo genic aids or nutritional supplements among athletes. The recommended loading doses were as high as 20 - 30...
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Physically Abused Child Abuse
1,925 wordsDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTRODUCTION Author J. Bremmer, together with his co-authors, whose essay appeared in the VCCA Journal in the summer of 1996, recounts that a fellow professor was shot in the head by an angry student the year before. The statistics for workplace violence are quite alarming. Between 1992 and 1993, 2. 2 million people in the United States were attacked while on the job, and another 6. 3 million were threatened with violence while also on the job. Another 16. 1 million workers wer...
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