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Car Stereo Stereo System
1,082 words
I had modified my car stereo system the first day
I got my new car. What's the reason made me want
to modified my car stereo system so badly? I
always love to enjoy music especially when there's
nothing to do in the car. Music seems more
important to me. Excellent quality of car stereo
system satisfied my enjoyment of music. I've
conducted a survey to 20 Purdue University
students. The survey included open question and
short answer questions. The survey is easy to
answer and really come out with...
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Mad Cow Disease Role In Human
1,184 words
... of cells from one region of the nervous
system. The study used data from patients with
Huntington's disease and Parkinsons disease. It
showed that cumulative theory was false. The
mutant steady model, which explains nerve cell
death inherited neurodegenerative diseases, shows
that mutant genes are conferring a slight but
definite increase in risk that the cell could
suddenly undergo programmed cell death. This new
theory means researchers will now try to aim at
the factors that trigger the i...
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World War Ii Moral Judgement
1,628 words
Obeying authority in certain situations can place
another individual's health or life at stake.
World War II is an example of this. A member of
the German officer's corps, when ordered to
slaughter victims, had no remorse feelings about
killing them due to the fact that within his mind
he was acting rightly. This shows how people are
not always going to feel guilt or remorse feelings
for their actions. There are times when people are
ordered to do something even when they don't want
to. One mad ...
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Research And Development Human Behavior
1,203 words
When many Americans think about Germany, they
automatically think of the Nazis and the
experiments they did with the Jews. But what they
dont know is that the U. S. gov. did the same
thing. It all started in the 50 s during the
Korean War. Concerned about the rumors of
Communist brainwashing of POWs, the CIA director
Allen Dulled authorized the MKULTRA program in
April 1953. It would later become notoriously
known for the many unusual and sometimes inhumane
experiments that the CIA financed. Tho...
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Pituitary Gland Growth Hormone
1,320 words
... and when GH levels are normal, acromegaly may
still be present by means of adenoma ta. The Role
of Plasma Measurements of Growth Hormone and IGF-I
in the Assessing Growth Hormone Secretion in
Humans: This article summarizes how the peptide
hormone GH controls the expression of the IGF-I
complex then goes on to discuss ways in which the
IGF levels are measured. The majority of the
circulating Igf's exist in the liver where they
bind to the IGF-I complex with a negative feedback
response to th...
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Critical Analysis Of King And Research
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Critical Analysis of King and Koehler's Research
The research was conducted by Roy N. King and
Derek J. Koehler of the University of Waterloo in
2000. The authors wanted to present their theory
that graphology, using a persons handwritten
specimen to predict and probably reveal his
personality profile, has no direct relationship
whatsoever with a persons real and actual personal
qualities. The study also tries to explore the
illusionary correlation phenomenon as a possible
contributing factor to...
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Of Gulf War Veterans
2,240 words
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder of Gulf War
Veterans Military personnel involved in service in
the Gulf War have a greater prevalence of
self-reported and medically detected medical and
psychiatric conditions than those serving
elsewhere in the military during the same time.
Deviations from normal psychiatric conditions
varied significantly from cognitive dysfunction
and symptoms of alcohol abuse to post-traumatic
stress disorder. Public awareness of
post-traumatic stress disorder has increased f...
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Divorced Children Vs Married Parents Part 1
1,903 words
Divorced parents' children vs. Married parents
children Each year, more than 1 million children
experience the divorce of their parents. In 1995,
less than 60 % of US children were living with
both biologic parents, almost 25 % were living
with their mother only, approximately 4 % were
living with their father only, and the rest were
living with step - families, adoptive families, or
foster families (including other relatives). It is
estimated that there are 500 000 new divorced
fathers each yea...
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Physical Violence Workplace Violence
2,223 words
Literature Review OVERALL SUMMARY Overall, this
was a good research study that was conducted by
professional team of researchers in order to
examine the issue of workplace violence, which is
related to the most serious problems in health
care establishments. As far as the research
studies examine various aspects of physical and
non-physical violence in health care settings,
they present both theoretical and practical
backgrounds. The second research conducted by
Julie Pryor follows several pract...
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Cultural Traditions Verbal Communication
1,308 words
No Title. The main purpose of the paper is to
study two different views on a behavioral non
verbal interaction of people of various
ethnicities, races, origins and other factors
influencing such interpersonal communication. Ed
McDaniel and Peter A. Andersen in their article
discuss the influence of cultural traditions on
the tactile interpersonal communication and other
factors like geographic location etc. The data for
current research was collected at the
international airports by the observat...
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Skilled Workers Immigration Laws
3,163 words
Brain Drain and High Taxes: Is there a
correlation? Introduction: Campaigners against
high taxes use the problem of brain drain as the
perfect scapegoat to portray themselves as
defenders of national interest. Brain drain is a
pejorative description of the tendency for skilled
workers to seek employment away from their own
country. Canada can relate to the brain drain
problem and its worst enemy is the United States.
The drain of knowledge started off as only a
little trickle. But it became an i...
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Percent Per Year Brain Cancer
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Cancer From Cell Phones By: Violent J. Young
E-mail: Do cellular phones cause cancer? As I walk
through the doors at Circuit City I look around at
all the customers shopping throughout the store
and wonder which one will ask the question first.
I sell cellular phones, and many customers are
concerned with getting cancer from the phones. In
recent years, many scientists have conducted
tests, which show that cell phones can cause
cancer over a period of time. Many shows on
television have talked a...
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Death Penalty States Committing A Crime
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Deterrence of the Death Penalty Independent Study
The death penalty has been used for centuries as a
form of retributive justice for felonies committed
by criminals. The code of Hammurabi, written
approximately 3, 700 years ago, stated that if a
man destroys another man s eye, the offender s eye
should be taken out; if a son strikes his father,
the son shall have his hand cut off. (246) Early
legal codes tried to provide justice by matching
the punishment with the offense. This approach was
also...
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Child Sexual Abuse Child Abuse And Neglect
1,205 words
The effects, both long and short, of child sexual
abuse have been studied and researched numerous
times in order to answer the many questions that
relate child sexual abuse to psychopathology. This
review is on seven different literature reviews
that focus on the effects of child sexual abuse,
and they all differ in one way or another. Some
are simply focused on the effects, others with the
sex of the victim, prevalence of abuse, the
severity of disturbance, and other meta-analysis
which consist...
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Open Ended Questions Peer Pressure
2,359 words
Effects Of Parent Smoking Habits On Thier Effects
Of Parent Smoking Habits On Thier Childs Smoking
Habits Effects of Parent Smoking Habits on their
Child? s smoking habits Abstract Parents have an
influence on whether or not their children will
develop smoking habits. The findings of this study
show this to be true. Further research should be
conducted to find out whether or not how many
children the parents have also has an impact on
smoking behaviors. The participants of this study
were random...
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Childhood Sexual Abuse Child Sexual Abuse
2,497 words
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention The purpose of this
literature review is to evaluate the information
that has been collected in the area of child
sexual abuse prevention. From the research studies
critically examined, a decision will be made as to
what areas improvements need to be made in, in
order to adequately outfit children, teachers and
child care workers with the skills and knowledge
to help prevent child sexual abuse. An exploratory
study entitled Child Sexual Abuse Prevention was
conducte...
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Internet Addiction Chat Rooms
2,080 words
Research Paper Theme: Social Impact of the
Internet 8 October 1997 ABSTRACT The Internet is
the largest source of information in the world
today. With its web sites and chat rooms, it is a
means of communicating with people in places all
over the face of the earth. Since its conception
in 1973, the Internet has grown at a whirlwind
rate. 51 million adults, were on-line as of the
second quarter 1997 in the United States alone.
Some say that the Internet is so enjoyable that it
is almost addictive...
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Psychological Factors Significant Impact
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ABSTRACT Whether it be at a collegiate or
professional level, organizations have been faced
with public pressure to be successful. The
selection of appropriate personnel is one means
for doing this. Although coaches are experts in
identifying the physical characteristics needed
for success in their field; they lack the skills
necessary to asses the psychological factors that
have been proven to have a significant impact on
athletic performance. The identification,
quantification and implementati...
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African American Families National Institute Of Mental Health
1,466 words
Psychology experiments are usually long,
painstaking surveys and tests that sometimes take
years to complete. They do, however, give us some
insight into how the human mind works and develops
from the day we are born to the day we die.
Deciphering the information these experiments
generate is sometimes just as hard as performing
them, and to a person with no background in
psychology it is almost impossible. The following
three experiments were found on the APA website
and are good examples of mo...
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Social Interaction Childs Behavior
2,553 words
A Discussion of the Two Basic Styles of Social
Interaction and the ways they can affect the
Development and Confirm ative Behavior in Children
From a wide variety of possible styles of social
interaction that might inevitably play a role in
the development of independence and confirm ative
behavior in children, Subbotsky (1976) choose two
styles, which he considered to be particularly
relevant to the development of independent and
confirm ative behavior. The first being an
authoritarian style th...
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