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nursing home patients. Escarce, J. (1993). Medicare patients use of overpriced procedures before and after the Omnibus Budget Re...

to increase the quality of care given in long term care facilities in the country, in order to ultimate reduce health care costs t...

a centralized power grid and draw upon electricity as a commoditized "service", rather than an internally integrated aspect of doi...

& Kantor-Kaufmann, 2002). The meso level of the ecological model looks at the role of institutions and organizations in shaping ...

is commonly utilized in other discourse in relation to the management of energy resources not related to human physical function. ...

an innate need to specify some physical space as their territory and to exercise some degree of control over this territory. This ...

and communities in a number of ways. The main influences, especially with tools such as multimedia, the internet as well as mobil...

some meant to be detrimental to the public perception of these individuals, and others created by campaign managers or staff. Unl...

The objectives include the following: 1. To ensure that each educator has an understanding of the value of the change initiative ...

Citkovitz, Klimenko, Bolyai, Applewhite and Weiner (2009) conducted a quantitative analysis of the use of acupuncture during labo...

2. reality is subjective, and so our perceptions are inextricably linked to our reality, rather than an obscured external reality...

attributable to stress as well (Ball, 2004). In short, it is critical for organizations to adopt a careful approach to stress ma...

which were available, but insufficient. To examine how and why the initial attempts at developing the system met with problem an...

and scientific research, general regulations prohibiting the cloning of humans for reproductive purposes have been applied interna...

address their own boredom or fill their time; play is an essential and developmentally appropriate method through which children d...

to find that the market was quickly glutted and could not sustain itself; the infamous "dot com boom" around the turn of the mille...

conflicts. The identified purpose of the study is to determine "whether parents use of power-assertive or negotiating strategies t...

unspoken assumption that masturbation is somehow morally wrong, or even detrimental. In other words, the alternative theories are ...

El Nino patterns. Steamboat Springs, Colorado, a ski resort town, experienced a near record snowfall of 448 inches as early as Aug...

and effectively determine the true scope of the impact upon adult children of alcoholic parents, one must recognize that such data...

a major impact upon the configuration of modern China, often in unexpected ways. For instance, tourism is a major driver of the Ch...

effective in that role. Much of the existing research reflects an overwhelming degree of consensus as to the primary causes of n...

be considered, in at least some capacity, they are not the focus) (Prasad & Babbar, 2000). By way of contrast, more contemporary o...

self to ideal image in ads F. Offensive stereotyped images of gender in foreign publications G. Differences in male and female re...

made up of the houses of Congress, is undoubtedly one of the most influential branches of government as far as business is concern...

is rife with difficulties and setbacks, regardless of the economic status of the world economy at any given point. The dependence ...

such as the Puritan settlements of early America; any individual living in such a place would suffer an extreme negative impact to...

College, where she majored in classics and philosophy, having been inspired in both fields by an earlier family trip to Greece (Fu...

United States around the end of the 20th century, as something of a middle ground in the traditional dichotomy of public and priva...

a court is said to have jurisdiction in a matter, then it can legally act as a venue for a given case and deliver a legally bindin...