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Health Savings Accounts A health savings account (HSA) is an investment vehicle from which individuals can withdraw funds to pay qualified medical expenses as defined by the Internal Revenue Code. Accumulated funds can be used to pay curren...
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In this competitive world every organization is striving hard to be at the top in its own field. The competition in the business environment has become intense. The winds of change are blowing in purchasing and supply. And it is one of the ...
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Risk Management Risk management is a systematic process of identifying and assessing company risks and taking actions to protect a company against them. Some risk managers define risk as the possibility that a future occurrence may cause ha...
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Philosophical view that what is right or wrong and good or bad is not absolute but variable and relative, depending on the person, circumstances, or social situation. Rather than claiming that an action's rightness or wrongness can depend ...
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The Italian theologian and Jesuit St. Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) was a cardinal, an adviser to popes, and a strong defender of the Roman Catholic position in the controversies stemming from the Protestant Reformation. Robert Bellarmine ...
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Postcolonialism Not unlike the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and postmodernism, postcolonialism refers not only to a temporal marker that signals a shift in mentalities and metaphilosophical questioning but also to a decolonizing movement...
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Verifiability Principle The most distinctive doctrine of the logical positivists was that for any sentence to be cognitively meaningful it must express a statement that is either analytic or empirically verifiable. It was allowed that sente...
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Japanese Management The Japanese have had phenomenal impact on world markets. Many industries, such as electronics, cameras, watches, motorcycles, machine tools, automotive products, shipbuilding, and even some aspects of aerospace are eith...
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Any of various kinds of reflective thought engaged in by those identified as being Jews. In the Middle Ages, this meant any methodical and disciplined thought pursued by Jews, whether on specifically Judaic themes or not; in modern times, ...
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the thought of Chinese culture, from earliest times to the present. The keynote in Chinese philosophy is humanism: man and his society have occupied, if not monopolized, the attention of Chinese philosophers throughout the ages. Ethical an...
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Parliamentary Systems Democracies usually incorporate a structure that divides governmental power. Some states e, Christian. Annual Editions: Comparative Politics. Guilford, CT: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2003. The World Book Multimedia Encyclope...
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Diversification Strategy Diversification strategies are used to expand firms 145....
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Perinatal Period The period from 28 weeks after conception through one week after birth. The perinatal period spans the last stage of pregnancy and the first days following birth. Approximately coinciding with the last trimester of pregnanc...
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The German mathematician and philosopher Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is considered the founder of modern mathematical logic. His work was almost wholly ignored during his lifetime but now exerts a great influence on the philosophy of logic a...
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Peter Alekseevich Kropotkin (1842-1921), Russian prince, was both a scientist and an anarchist. He combined biological and historical fact to derive a theory of "mutual aid" to support his belief in the superiority of an anarchist society....
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The Italian philosopher and humanist Conte Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) was a brilliant exemplar of the Renaissance ideal of man. The youngest son of a princely Lombard house, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola received a Church be...
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Trisomy Chromosomal abnormalities that cause birth defects including Down syndrome. Chromosomes in the human body generally come in pairs. Most people have 23 pairs of chromosomes, for a total of 46. When an extra chromosome is present in o...
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the study, from a philosophical perspective, of the nature of religion and religious belief, including such specific questions as the existence and nature of God and the presence of evil and suffering in the world. In addition to treating ...
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Antisocial personality disorder (ASP) is particularly germane to alcohol and drug abuse because it co-occurs in a large proportion of those who abuse alcohol or drugs, and it confounds the diagnosis of, influences the course of, and is an ...
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Revival of Kantianism in German universities that began &circa; 1860. At first primarily an epistemological movement, Neo-Kantianism slowly extended over the whole domain of philosophy. The first decisive impetus toward reviving Immanuel K...
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Inventory Management Inventory management, or inventory control, is an attempt to balance inventory needs and requirements with the need to minimize costs resulting from obtaining and holding inventory. There are several schools of thought ...
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Ombudsmen An ombudsman is an official, independent investigator of citizens 41. South African Law Commission. Report on Constitutional Models, Vol. 3. Pretoria: South African Law Commission, 1991. Wyner, Alan J., ed. Executive Ombudsmen in ...
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Ellen Gates Starr Born March 19, 1859 (Laona, Illinois) Died February 10, 1940 (Suffern, New York) Labor activist Teacher Ellen Gates Starr did not achieve the same kind of fame enjoyed by her close colleague, Jane Addams (1860 University o...
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dialect of American English spoken by a large proportion of African Americans. Many scholars hold that Ebonics, like several English creoles, developed from contacts between nonstandard varieties of colonial English and African languages. ...
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The Jewish scholar Saadia ben Joseph al-Fayumi (882-942) ranks as the most important medieval Jewish scholar of literature and history. Little is known of the early life of Saadia ben Joseph except that he was born in Egypt, lived for some...
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War Crimes Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca (c. 3 B.C.E. ....
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The English theologian and moral philosopher William Paley (1743-1805) wrote works in defense of theism and Christianity that achieved great popularity in the 19th century. He is acknowledged as one of the founders of the utilitarian tradi...
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Civil Law Civil law is one of the two major legal systems of the world, common law being the other. The civil-law system is principally associated with Europe s Legal Systems. Washington, DC: Washington Law Book Company, 1936....
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Adjustment Disorders Category of mental disorder featuring significant emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable event that precipitated significant psychological or social stress. Adjustment disorders are maladpative ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. As Malcolm Cowley once put it, he lived in a room full of clocks and calendars. The years ticked away while he noted the songs, the shows, the books, the quarterbacks. His own car...
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Metropolitan Achievement Tests Achievement tests that assess general language skills, arithmetic skills, and reading comprehension. The Metropolitan Achievement Tests feature a battery of group-administered achievement tests that assess gen...
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Conceptual expression of Japanese culture since early 6th century &AD;. Japanese philosophy is not generally indigenous; Japanese thinkers have always skillfully assimilated alien philosophical categories in developing their own systems. O...
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Vaclav Havel has played a major role in the cultural and political life of Czechoslovakia—and, after the breakup of that country in 1993, of the Czech Republic—throughout the second half of the twentieth century. During the Sta...
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Metropolitan Readiness Tests Battery of tests for prekindergarten to first grade that assesses the development of language and mathematical skills necessary for early school learning. The Metropolitan Readiness Tests are a widely used batte...
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The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale is a standardized test that assesses intelligence and cognitive abilities. Intelligence is "a concept intended to explain why some people perform better than others on cognitive tasks. Intelligence is ...
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Value-Added Tax A value-added tax (VAT) is a fee assessed against businesses at each step of the production and distribution process, usually whenever a product is resold or value is added to it. A VAT is levied on the difference between th...
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division of an institution of higher learning that conducts educational activities for persons (usually adults) who are generally not full-time students. These activities are sometimes called extramural studies, continuing education, highe...
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Ghb What Kind of Drug Is It? GHB is an acronym for gamma hydroxybutyrate, also known as gamma hydroxybutyric acid. The Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Control Policy. http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/pub licati...
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Protagoras of Abdera Protagoras of Abdera in Thrace, most famous of the Sophists, was born not later than 490 BCE and probably died soon after 421 BCE. According to Plato, he was the first to declare himself a professional Sophist. He went ...
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(from Latin nihil, “nothing”), a philosophy of skepticism that originated in 19th-century Russia during the early years of the reign of Alexander II. The term is an old one, applied to certain heretics in the Middle Ages. In Ru...
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Sleep Disorders Problems involving disruption in sleep pattern or inability to sleep. Sleep is a period of decreased activity and muscle relaxation, characterized by patterns of deep sleep (where brain waves are slower, called non-rapid eye...
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The Proliferation of Motion - Picture Companies and an Assessment of the Novel Year The number of motion-picture companies increased rapidly during the 1896-1897 theatrical season. These enterprises no longer tried to develop their own sel...
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Paraconsistent Logics The driving thought of paraconsistency is that there are situations in which information, or legal, scientific, or philosophical principles (and so on) are inconsistent, but in which people want to draw conclusions in ...
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Bulimia Nervosa An eating disorder marked by episodes of binge eating followed by one or more behaviors to control weight, most commonly self-induced vomiting, laxative abuse, fasting, or excessive exercise. Bulimia tends to appear in late ...
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Railroads: the First Big Business An increase in railroad construction between 1860 and 1900 changed the United States, helping make it the industrial nation it is today. As the chief system of transportation of goods and people, railroads ...
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Hervaeus Natalis(C. 1250–1323) Hervaeus Natalis, or Harvey Nedellec (c. 1250–1323) was one of the first followers of Thomas Aquinas, but also an original thinker, especially in the areas of intentionality and the mental word. ...
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Civil Liberties in Emergencies One of the most controversial topics in political theory and analysis is the relationship between the individual and the state. There are a number of rival theories offering different accounts for the justific...
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Watsuji TetsurŌ(1889–1960) Watsuji Tetsurō, the best philosopher of ethics of modern Japan, was known also for his studies of cultural history. He was born in Himeji and died in Tokyo. Watsuji's work can be divid...
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Leadership Theories and Studies Leadership can be defined as a process by which one individual influences others toward the attainment of group or organizational goals. Three points about the definition of leadership should be emphasized. F...
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Tic Disorder Sudden, repetitive, involuntary muscular movement or vocal pattern. Tic disorders feature involuntary repetitive (but non-rhythmic) patterns, and may be either motor tics (muscle movements) or vocal tics. Although tics are invo...
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