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Traffic Control Control Measures
1,602 words... orient and services so as to shorten journeys, public transport availability effectiveness and fares, and road pricing. In urbanized areas with substantial amount of congestion caused by motorization, road pricing offers the best solution since it promotes both the purposes; it encourages that the socially efficient number of trips be undertaken and raises revenue to finance road ways and transport expansion to the efficient level. More ever, road pricing can contribute to viable loan financ...
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Coral Reef Native Hawaiian
5,058 words... and related marine resources and species of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in their natural character; (b) The Reserve shall be managed using available science and applying a precautionary approach with resource protection favored when there is a lack of information regarding any given activity, to the extent not contrary to law; (c) Culturally significant, noncommercial subsistence, cultural, and religious uses by Native Hawaiians should be allowed within the Reserve, consistent with app...
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Three Points One Line
1,555 wordsCollinear points are points all in one line. Coplanar points are points all in one plane. The intersection of two figures is the set of points that are in both figures. Statements that are accepted without proof are called postulates or axioms. 1. Any two desired points can have coordinates 0 and 1. 2. The distance between any tow points equals the absolute value of the difference of their coordinates. Congruent segments are segments that have equal lengths. The midpoint of a segment is the poin...
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End Of The Cold War Collective Security
1,817 wordsThe transformation in world politics since the end of the Cold War and the removal of the bipolar East-West schism has led to a state of unpredictable change and, disorder. An increased perception of instability has resulted from the collapse of the Cold War deterrence regime, based on the promise of mutually assured destruction, which provided balance in the international system. The new international order has brought the North-South divide into the forefront, the most clearly defined example ...
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Individual Differences Stimulus Response
3,758 words... STRACTS UPDATED 4 /may/ 99 (Contact David Washburn for reprints and related publications) Supported by grants from NASA, NICHD, ARI, ARO, ONR, USAF Washburn, D. A. , & Putney, R. T. (1999, June). Attention Profiles of Working Memory. Paper at the meeting of the American Psychological Society. Although each construct has its own literature, phenomena, and theories, it is widely recognized that attention and working memory are integrally related. Individual differences in serial probe recognit...
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Sentences Correctly Rejected Oades Blank Eggers Processing
4,804 wordsLanguage processing and production seem to involve many areas of the brain (Garrett, 1995). Using positron emission tomography (PET), Howard, et al (1992) were able to identify a number of physically separate brain structures that become active during various language processing tasks. They found that physically discrete areas are responsible for auditory and visual word recognition and that these areas are separate from those involved in either word comprehension or production. Similarly, measu...
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Porter Five Forces Balanced Scorecard
1,088 words... ob rotation as strategic programs of the potential perspective. Moreover, a wider range of participants that greatly outnumber the Balanced Scorecard team members were involved in order to determine individual actions, as they have a significant influence on company's daily life and on operational processes. In reality, the Balanced Scorecard is a useful tool help the management to better communicate the strategy, to prioritize and to motivate the teams to common and longer-term goals. Its l...
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Gun Control Legislation Gun Rights Groups
2,436 wordsGun Control Columbine tragedy and countless others have added momentum to proposed gun control measures pending before Congress. Policy makers and legislators have made this issue a top priority, and are currently debating over controversial gun control policies and initiatives. The controversy over gun control revolves around two interrelated questions of government authority: does the government have the right to impose regulations; and, assuming the existence of such a right, should the gover...
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Gross Motor York Cambridge
1,719 words... normally developing peers. This is sometimes attributed to the lethargy caused by being obese; children with DS just do not have the energy to pursue motor tasks as rigorously. The main conclusion Block comes to is that "while a child with DS may exhibit a somewhat normal but delayed course of motor development, there is evidence that such a child has many unique motor problems" (p. 206). Most measures used to assess children with DS are the same ones used to assess normally developing child...
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Stress At Work Workplace Stress
2,258 wordsJob related stress is a widespread problem in the workplace today. Actually, the most common form of stress is that related to work (Jane Cranwell-Ward 1987). Each person has equilibrium and it is often interrupted by an event or situation that may result in poor performance. Though some people see the pressure as a motivator, more and more are recognizing it as an inescapable drain on their energy. Basically, stress not only affects a persons performance on the job, but it can also affect his /...
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Of Gulf War Veterans
2,240 wordsPost 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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International Court Of Justice Regarding The Legality Extradition
2,738 wordsInternational Court of Justice regarding the legality of extradition Overview The issue of international terrorism is one that has engulfed the global community. With terrorism on the increase, we have seen that its importance has increased. Whether domestic or international in nature, terrorism is having an ever-increasing impact upon the international community. The United States has fallen victim to acts of terrorism recently, most notably the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murray Federal Buil...
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Persons With Disabilities American States
1,575 wordsINTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ARTICLE I For the purposes of this Convention, the following terms are defined: 1. Disability The term disability means a physical, mental, or sensory impairment, whether permanent or temporary, that limits the capacity to perform one or more essential activities of daily life, and which can be caused or aggravated by the economic and social environment. 2. Discrimination against persons...
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Bretton Woods System American Free Trade
4,012 wordsOne of the greatest international economic debates of all time has been the issue of free trade versus protectionism. Proponents of free trade believe in opening the global market, with as few restrictions on trade as possible. Proponents of protectionism believe in concentrating on the welfare of the domestic economy by limiting the open-market policy of the United States. However, what effects does this policy have for the international market and the other respective countries in this market?...
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Gun Control Advocates Gun Rights Groups
2,408 wordsBusiness Gun Control Danny Moskowitz Business Ethics 9 May 2000 The Debate Over Gun Control I chose to do my final research paper for Business Ethics on the debate over gun control. I will look at both sides of the issue, but concentrating on the side for gun control and how it might affect business ethics. In addition, I will concentrate on the policy making process and how for one to get an initiative passed for gun control how they would go about to bring about gun control. It is hard to beli...
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Cognitive Functioning Football Players
2,954 wordsDespite the high prevalence and potentially serious outcomes associated with concussion in athletes, there is little systematic research examining risk factors and short- and long-term outcomes. Objectives To assess the relationship between concussion history and learning disability (LD) and the association of these variables with neuropsychological performance and to evaluate post concussion recovery in a sample of college football players. Design, Setting, and Participants A total of 393 athle...
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Habeas Corpus Napoleonic Wars
3,868 wordsHow convincing is the argument that the year 1822 marked a turning point in the way Lord Liverpool? s government approached its domestic policy? On the face of it, the year 1822 did mark a significant turning point in the way Lord Liverpool? s administration dealt with its domestic policy. The importance of the cabinet reshuffle after the imminent death of Lord Castlereagh in 1822, and the perceived move toward? Liberal Toryism? following this date has been well documented by a number of early h...
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White Collar Crime Organised Crime
4,785 wordsMONEY AND TROUBLE- An analysis of motive within Europe Wolfgang Stoltzenberg s business Castor Holdings displayed the illusion of being a very successful company and the large banks of the world continued to lend to Stoltzenberg despite the fact that in reality the business had not made a profit in years. Castor Holdings was a parent company to York-Hannover that was run by Kersten Von Wersebe. Eventually when the banks began to foreclose and call back their loans Stoltzenberg had to file for ba...
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Job Satisfaction Intrinsic Motivation
2,575 wordsMotivation And Productivity Related To Job Satisfaction Motivation And Productivity Related To Job Satisfaction Abstract The relationship between job satisfaction, motivation, and efficiency or productivity is very important in the business industry as well as in personal life. Long term research has found that the single greatest predictor of longevity is work satisfaction. Work is one third to one half of a persons lifetime, and if frustrated the mental and physical effects are very costly. Jo...
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Parent Child Relationship Marijuana Usage
2,401 wordsIntroduction The purpose of this study is to ascertain the affects of drug-abusing fathers on the drug usage of their young adolescent children. A special targeted population were chosen for this study; they are the children of drug-abusing fathers who are HIV-positive or at risk for becoming HIV-positive. The major factors used to determine the dependent measure of adolescent marijuana use include certain drug abusing father attributes (i. e. , illegal drug use, HIV status, and methods of copin...
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