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Summer of 1999 New York Outbreak of West Nile Encephalitis

epidemic of brain inflammation in and around New York City during the summer of 1999 was in fact West Nile virus (Enserink, 1999b)...

Strengths and Weaknesses of Using Systems Thinking in a Bank Customer Contact Center

being placed ion the staff canteen when eventually the staff do get a break, which may cause further delays as well as impact on t...

Diversity Management; Problems and Benefits

management as far more than just ensuring that there is a diverse workforce, it may be argued that it is aimed at defeating work p...

Smoking and its Impacts to Human Health

hazard and choosing to smoke is the risk factor. Being exposed to secondhand smoke is a risk factor as well. Just because tobac...

White Collar Crime

Associated Press Article "Ala. ex-governor, fired CEO in prison". Comparing this article to accounts on the World Wide We...

Obesity/Hispanic Women in Tillman County, OK

$1,109,950 in additional medical costs for the county (OSDoH, 2007). Additionally the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDoH)...

Respect

ground and ruining a lawn. They may not think this means anything but to the individual who has planted that grass, planted those ...

A Program to Reduce Infidelity

Vaughan also argues that it is unlikely that with this level of occurrence the reasons behind infidelity are unlikely to be simply...

Air Pollution/Cause and Effect

concerning controlling natural sources of pollutants and it is also a definition that recognizes the serious impact that human act...

Teen Drinking

Journal, 2001). This phenomena is of serious concern in that it is not only life threatening but is increasing on a world wide ba...

Collaborative Learning Communities

2007, p. 166). Livesay, et al (2007) point out that participation in professional collaborative learning communities helps teach...

Outsourcing and HBOS

change banks, the cost in terms of time and effort on the part of the customer and the general homogenous service offerings result...

Motivations for Teaching Adolescents in High-Needs Schools

describe the other elements that were at play in the educational process. These invisible elements, the so-called "hidden curricu...

Hedge Funds

leverage the fund, while this may occur, it is severely limited. These restrictions are not in place with a hedge fund, the only r...

Challenges of Investigating Workplace Accidents Involving Hispanics

"culturally integrated approaches to workplace safety" (ASSE, 2004). The increased accident rate has of course brought interest ...

Differing Ecological Viewpoints

"same freedom for imagination and desk-top investigation" that is utilized by empirical ecologists in the field (Wu, 1994). Both o...

Learning Teams

team groups to undertake team marking for some assignments, lessening the workload of the teachers and increasing the consideratio...

Risk Management at Southwest

this will also incur costs. These risks can be assessed and are planed for in the way a firm buys and uses it physical assets. How...

Assessing Three Fast Food Companies; McDonalds, Yum Brands and Burger King Holdings

8.2 Yum Brands 76 8.2.1 Dividend Policy 76 8.2.2 Firm Characteristics 76 8.3 Burger King Holdings 77 8.3.1 Dividend Policy 77 8.3....

Crane/Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Naturalism

in his review of Maggie, vented his "frustration at realism," as he complained that realism "seemed written from the outside" (Gol...

Bight Home Builders Case Study

ahead, he may be held personally accountable for any inaccuracies. In addition to this there is talk of the Chinese government ado...

Healthcare Problems in America and the Proposed Solution of 2008 Presidential Candidates Barack Obama and John McCain

very different plans to prospective voters. Obamas healthcare plan focuses on expanding coverage to Americans that are presently ...

An Argument Against Capitalism

However, when looking at the way that the model manifests, while having benefits many it may also be argued as causing harm and di...

Fixed and Floating Exchange Rates

leaves government with policy dilemmas regarding which of the three factors are more important and will be followed (De Grauwe, 20...

Culturally Responsive Instruction

country illegally. Regardless of whether or not that is accurate, our school has been charged with attending to Jennys educationa...

Desertification and the African Sahel

empire that once existed in the Sahara (Brough & Kimenyi, 2004). Although there was the occasional drought-induced famine, the ea...

Problems with Regulation/Legislation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act

Health Act also established the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which under the auspices of the U.S. Departm...

Universal Health Care Economic Impact

States would need to assure education and training were available for qualified individuals. One thing all states could do that ...

Minimizing Exposure to Exchange Rate and Interest Rate Risks

the home currency, but this may also have a cost, as it may limit customers, as it does not mitigate the total risk, it is shiftin...

Article Summary/Critique

realized their overall hypothesis by finding "women in marriages characterized by high levels of satisfaction showed a health adva...