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Product Design Product design is cross-functional, knowledge-intensive work that has become increasingly important in today Sons, 2004....
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Haemophilus Influenzae Type B Bacteria that can cause several serious illnesses in unvaccinated individuals. Haemophilus influenzae type B (HiB) is a bacteria that can cause serious infections, including meningitis and epiglottitis. Althoug...
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The German idealist philosopher Rudolf Hermann Lotze (1817-1881) founded his metaphysics upon science and attempted to reconcile the mechanistic laws of nature with divine purpose. Rudolf Hermann Lotze the son of a doctor, was born on May ...
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Sociologist and educator Helen Merrell Lynd (1896-1982) was a coauthor of the classic sociological study Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture. With her husband, Robert S. Lynd, she studied the beliefs and practices of the r...
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Caffeine What Kind of Drug Is It? Caffeine is a natural stimulant. A stimulant is a substance that increases the activity of a living organism or one of its parts. Caffeine was named after the shrubby coffee plant, which is native to the ea...
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Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (Kabc) Intelligence and achievement test. The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (KABC) is an intelligence and achievement test for children ages 2-1/2 to 12-1/2. It consists of 16 subtests, not ...
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German philosopher, classicist, and interpretation theorist Hans-Georg Gadamer (born 1900) was the leading exponent of a comprehensive view of human beings as dialogue-partners with each other. Gadamer was born in Marburg, Germany, son of ...
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L Arlington National Cemetery. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/l-enfa nt.htm (accessed on August 14, 2005)....
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Poka-Yoke Poka-yoke is a technique for avoiding simple human error in the workplace. Also known as mistake-proofing, goof-proofing, and fail-safe work methods, poka-yoke is simply a system designed to prevent inadvertent errors made by work...
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The Heritage of Kant and Mill The development of logic, at least of formal logic, in the nineteenth century was largely independent of the general development of philosophy during the same period. Of the logicians considered in the precedin...
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Longitudinal Scenarios Strategic planning and forecasting tend to use projections of past events to develop future plans. Such approaches rely on historical data and assume a continuation of past business practices and environmental stabili...
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Nathan Drake keened in 1805 that Joseph Addison for all his literary achievement and "moral dominion" frustrated biographers, who stood helpless before his reticence and distrust of self-revelation. Time and scholarship have not made the p...
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Affirmative Action Affirmative action is a descriptive phrase for policies and programs designed to correct the effects of past discrimination and increase the representation of historically disadvantaged groups, including women and African...
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Service Factory The term service factory, coined by Richard B. Chase and Warren J. Erikson, represents the idea that the factory can be a source of customer service in addition to a place where products are manufactured. Since those who mak...
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Science can never define reality because reality can only be defined through God. Science cannot define what life is. Science can describe how things work but not what makes life "alive" or even what makes life exist. America's founders cen...
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor(1772 New York: Oxford University Press, 1989....
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Taylor, Alfred Edward(1869–1945) Alfred Edward Taylor, the British philosopher, was born at Oundle, Northamptonshire, and educated at New College, Oxford. His teaching experience was unusually varied: He was a fellow of Merton Colleg...
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Well Baby Examination Examinations held regularly during the first two years of life during which the pediatrician can monitor and advise on the baby Parenting 10, March 1996, p. 134....
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John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), the most powerful American banker of his time, helped build a credit bridge between Europe and America and financially rescued the United States government twice. On April 17, 1837, J. P. Morgan was born i...
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Any corporation registered and operating in more than one country at a time, usually with its headquarters in a single country. A firm's advantages in establishing itself multinationally include both vertical and horizontal economies of sc...
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Service Operations Services lie at the hub of economic activity in the United States. Service jobs account for almost 80 percent of total U.S. employment. As such, we say that the U.S. has a service economy. Within this service economy, the...
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Product Life Cycle and Industry Life Cycle Recognizing that all living things go through a cycle of birth, growth, maturity, and death, the inspiration for the concepts of product life cycle and industry life cycle comes from biology. The l...
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John Davison Rockefeller (1839-1937), American industrialist and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company, the University of Chicago, and the Rockefeller Foundation. John D. Rockefeller was born on July 8, 1839, in Richford, N.Y. H...
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The English philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley (1846-1924) based his thought on the principles of absolute idealism. He rigorously criticized all philosophies based on the "school of experience." Born in Clapham on Jan. 30, 1846, F. H. Br...
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Indigenous Peoples . Thornberry, Patrick. Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights. Manchester, UK Manchester University Press, 2002....
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Instant Messaging Instant messaging (IM) is a general term encompassing a variety of software applications that enable users to have real-time text conversations, play turn-based games, and share pictures, music, and data files over the Int...
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Kaufmann, Walter Arnold(1921–1980) Walter Kaufmann was born in Freiburg, Germany, on July 1, 1921. He emigrated to the United States in 1939, as conditions in Germany became ominous for those of Jewish descent (Kaufmann's fath...
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The French philosopher, sociologist, and anthropologist Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857-1939) concerned himself primarily with the nonrational belief systems of primitive man. Lucien Lévy-Bruhl was born in Paris on April 10, 1857. He...
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in political philosophy, an actual or hypothetical compact, or agreement, between the ruled and their rulers, defining the rights and duties of each. In primeval times, according to the theory, individuals were born into an anarchic state ...
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Leveraged Buyouts A leveraged buyout (LBO) is a restructuring of the capitalization and ownership of a company. The term leveraged refers to the use of debt as the primary method of financing the restructuring. The buyout portion refers to ...
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Personal dependency is the tendency to seek support, security, reassurance, and guidance from outside the self. The object of dependency may be another person, a social unit (e.g., family, a religious group), or a symbolic belief system fr...
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The American anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) wrote one of the first ethnographies, invented the study of kinship terminology, and made an early attempt to grapple with the idea of universal principles of cultural evolution. L...
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Eyelid Problems Conditions or diseases that affect the eyelid. There are a few common conditions that can affect a child s Guide. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1995. Savage, Stephen. Eyes. New York: Thomson Learning, 1995. Showers, P...
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corporate combination of two or more independent business corporations into a single enterprise, usually the absorption of one or more firms by a dominant one. A merger may be accomplished by one firm purchasing the other's assets with cas...
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Alternative School Public or private school that employs a non-traditional structure or curriculum. An alternative school is one that offers an approach to education that varies from the traditional structure of a group of students in a sel...
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Confederations A confederation (or confederacy) is a voluntary alliance of sovereign, independent states established to manage matters of common concern to the member states, such as defense. The verb confederate has traditionally meant to ...
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Bahaʾi is a relatively new world religion that was founded and initially developed in Iran in the 1860s. It emerged from Iranian Shiʾa Islam and drew most of its initial adherents from the earlier Babism movement in Iran. Adh...
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Shoemaker, Sydney(1931 83. Locke, John. An Essay concerning Human Understanding, edited by Peter H. Nidditch. Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press, 1985....
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Night Terrors Also referred to as pavor nocturnus, a childhood sleep disorder featuring behavior that appears to be intense fear. Night terrors, known medically as pavor nocturnus, are episodes that apparently occur during the non-dreaming ...
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Macrocosm and Microcosm 205. For further discussion and bibliography, see the Cosmology and Rationalism entries....
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any of several major representative groups of classical Protestantism that arose in the 16th-century Reformation. Originally, all of the Reformation churches used this name (or the name Evangelical) to distinguish themselves from the &ldqu...
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How the Other Half Lives Excerpt from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York By Jacob A. Riis Originally published in 1890 Reprinted in 1957 by Hill and Wang Newspaper reporter and photojournalist Jacob Riis (184...
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Vauvenargues, Luc De Clapiers, Marquis De(1715 136....
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The English astronomer Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) greatly advanced theoretical astrophysics as a consequence of his original contributions to the theory of relativity and his studies on the internal constitution of stars. Art...
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Morgan, Thomas(D. 1743) Thomas Morgan, the Welsh deist, dissenting minister, doctor of medicine, freethinker, and religious controversialist, was born of a poor family but received a free education from the Reverend John Moore, a dissenter....
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Augustinianism , E. A Guide to the Thought of St. Augustine. Chicago: Regnery, 1960. Rist, John M. Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Rondet, H. Saint Augustine parmi nous. Paris, 1954. R...
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Literature, Philosophy Of The concepts of fiction and of literature are distinct. On the one hand, there are nonfictional literary works 308. Walton, K. Mimesis as Make-Believe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. Wellek, R., and...
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The Swiss historian Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (1818-1897) was a philosophical historian whose books dealt with cultural and artistic history and whose lectures examined the forces that had shaped European history. Through the use of eyewi...
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Running Away Being absent from home at least overnight without permission from a parent or caretaker. Every year an estimated one to two million teenagers in the United States run away from home. Most return voluntarily within a few days. S...
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Logical Paradoxes A paradox is an argument that derives or appears to derive an absurd conclusion by rigorous deduction from obviously true premises. Perhaps the most famous is Zeno 215....
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