... that specifically addresses these issues for working older adults. Such a program should be based on empirically validated evidence that has demonstrated success with older workers. Hughes et al. (2011) examined the effectiveness of two worksite health interventions in a randomized controlled trial with workers over the age of 40. The COACH program used a combination of internet-based assessments and ... increased fruit and vegetable consumption and increased participation in physical activities. The researchers concluded that the COACH program, which can be implemented at a person's pl...

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... affairs. It is based on the concept that all sovereign states are equal and independent in the world system. Thus two characteristics are established: (i) non-intervention in the internal affairs of another state, and (ii) the right to protect and promote national interest (Grant & Hughes, 2003; p13). The United Nations Charter, Article 2 (1 & 7), recognises the principle of sovereign state and non- ... intervention. Only sovereign states are eligible to become full members of the United Nations. There are currently 191 member states of the UN and all member states claim their sovereignt...

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... humble approximation of the snack sold for pennies on Calcutta sidewalksthroughout India.' This conveys the limited development of her identity in relation to the place she resides. Whether her 'home' is in America or in Calcutta, she continues to follow traditional Bengali ways in her preparation of food. The word 'approximation' within the quotation expresses her detachment from the Bengali culture, ... a new culture so easily is a testament to his character and portrays his identity that is developed after changing homes. It is this changing of homes from Calcutta in India ...

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... arrival of African slaves, and the cultural and demographical impact would be enormous. While some European immigrant groups lacked adequate numbers to avoid English assimilation (the Huguenots), others came to America in sufficient numbers to retain a unique ethnic identity that would impact American culture as a whole. During the period of 1680-1770, tens of thousands of Scots, Scots-Irish and ... wealth (sometimes at the expense of morality) that endures to the present day. He reveals that the American colonies as a whole were surprisingly self-sufficient and major players in the inter...

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... sweeping modern societies toward a more egalitarian future"1. There aren't any actual definitions coined by Tocqueville for the 'key' terms he uses, so in "Democracy in America", we get more of a complex, yet focused, personified picture of America as a democratic system, or, as Ryan puts it, "a film rather than a photograph () a narrative of the movement that generated democracy". ... ;democracy' and 'liberty' and attention to how they are connected is necessary for the sake of an accurate use of the concepts in this particular context. The concept of 'democracy' as used...

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... . Crucially abstention by Parliament to check voting rights only heightened colonial assumptions that, "domestic legislation was reserved exclusively to their own assemblies." In a radical context, this gave the opportunity for the foundations of a politically independent America to rise by importantly establishing the rights to impose taxes and initiate legislation. Systematically the deficient Board of Trade under Newcastle's control afforded ... precarious position by 1756. The limited war effort displayed by the colonies during the physical confrontation of the Seven Years 1756-1763, ...

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... first review and evaluate the history and success of the policy at the present moment. According to the Design-Build Institute of America, the gradual adoption of similar policies can be observed nationwide. By the year 2010, every state in the U.S. has adopted procurement laws authorizing the use, to varying extents, of alternative delivery methods and indicate the intent to ... expand authority in subsequent legislation cycles (Design-Build Institute of America, 2011). While popularity for alternative delivery methods has augmented over the past decade, accounting ... for 40% of all n...

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... the necessary pressure the create change. Regarding the consumer aspect there is a lack of information and understanding of how clothing items are created and how cheap prices result in high costs in terms of social and environmental capital. Furthermore, the wastefulness of the industry is not limited to isolated aspects of it but rather ongoing process from global production that is ... again with entirely new products. According to the UK's Waste Online Organization, about 1 million tons of textiles are thrown away every year. Most of this waste produced ends in landfill. In the land...

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... under class,' and this is a reading which can be applied both to the events of London and Ferguson and to the discourse which shaped them. In the case of London and Ferguson, class, social exclusion and the idea of the discontent suburb all came to the fore. The geography of intersectional ... racial tension, Asian-Americans have tended to be left out of the conversation between white and black America, reflecting the prevailing sense during more peaceful times that they don't quite belong in either camp' (Mak, 2014). In the political discourse on both sets of riots, it was young, black m...

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... by Hunter (2008) as following: The group of advanced technology countries (e.g. rural regions in Japan, Spain, Scandinavia, the United States) aims to supply for the limited luxury markets to create employment and retain traditional technology while in developing countries (like Africa, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, and the Middle East), traditional handicrafts is major export products ... to cater consumers in either other developing countries or higher value markets. Tourism works as a complementary element for promotion. If ... we take into account Japan as an exhibition ...

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... to society as less money would be spent on interdiction, enforcement, court, and prison costs. Medical use could benefit form the legalization of cannabis in Australia, as it could assist pain relief, nausea, vomiting, appetite stimulation, and neurological conditions (Smith, 2013). Marijuana is found to help relieve ... of the illicit drug may increase the amount of teens purchasing or using the drug. Fergusson and Horwood (2000) discussed that cannabis use in adolescents would lead to other use of more harmful drugs such as cocaine, also known as the "Gateway theory". They conducted ...

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... the workplace by the form of worker self-management known as syndicalism. Similarly, American Anarcho-communist author Eddie Conlon stresses the potential of decentralized universal healthcare as shown in revolutionary Spain based upon mutual concern without the hand of privatization and organized based through a system of communal federations from the bottom up. Extending upon anarchical structures into ... and avoidance of suffering being aloud open expression. The value of liberty must be reflected throughout all social, economic and political structures of successful anarchist civil...

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... distributing agreements (Fig 3). The allied firms seek to conduct business activities collaboratively with the view of achieving mutual benefits that are unattainable separately (Kale & Singh 2009). In the current business environment, common strategic alliances include franchising, mergers, and joint ventures. Fig 1 below gives an overview of various conceivable inter-firm collaborative relationships that ... this paper focuses on the current collaboration between alliance partners that is extendable towards different aspects of collaborative relationships. Current literature suggests ...

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... with a terse syntactical style, igniting imagination with suggestive language, and frustrating the reader with a limited perspective. By presenting the reader with the anxious experience of extended mental uncertainty in a mode akin to realism, he calls into question the reader's ability to perceive their world with clarity and confidence, undermining certainty with the suggestion that experience itself is unreliable. ... of this knowledge at this most critical time renders us powerless to understand the situation-we have all the facts, but are given no direction on how to interpret them...

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... as trade promotions, consumer promotions, branding , PR and advertising. The allocation of communication budgets away from mass media and traditional advertising has obviously promoted IMC in recognition and importance for effective marketing. The emergence of IT has fundamentally affected the media practices, contributed to an extensive deregulation of markets and individualized patterns of ... function. Effective marketing departments and advertising agencies are developing pipelines of new, talented innovations, media buyers, promotions managers, database web masters, and others in o...

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... corruption that paralyzes the decision chain. The economic decisions of local governments partially logical hoarding of wealth depend on the part of local elites. The room for maneuver is limited in the region, as a whole, traditional sectors such as agriculture, oil and minerals, exploiting carried throughout the twentieth century. During the Soviet regime this was more a political than ... small or development (each republic economic sectors should have acquired a meaning only within an overall Soviet structure) . Survivors industries of the Soviet Union have little chance of recovery...

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... 4), Meursault's unconventionality is immediately shown through his laconism and refusal to act the part of the grieving son as expected by those around him. The simple sentence structure conveys brevity in matters of great emotional depth, further reflecting how Meursault's dispassionate nature extends towards his disregard for human relationships. While grief is a heavy and debilitating emotion, the convention remains that ... impose the social tags of "fiance'"" and "son"" on Meursault, he himself would not seek to initiate or sustain those ties, explaining why he continuously acts as ...

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... places emphasis on the fact that although the Native Americans and English colonists viewed and interacted with the environment differently, neither one of the groups supersedes or outplays the other. In fact, each group possesses a similar goal of placing their own personal influence on an allegedly "natural " system. This common goal that each group shared would become simple to ... strategies, methods, and utilizations of resources are directly related and accredited toward cultural differences. Being that the Native Americans placed great emphasis on being one with nature and cultural...

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... unity is essential for general education and specialized education services to support and complement each other, there are arguments against the integration of special education students in general education classes. Hence, recent inclusion initiatives have generated much controversial debates along with closer scrutiny of the dramatic policy shift. Advocates claim that the inclusion ... deter student improvement but instead, it is a better way to assist special students succeed. Indeed, teachers proposing inclusion assert that appropriate inclusion of special education students in gene...

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... , 1998). Past and present reasons associated with this lack of attention from researchers is evident despite recent documentation that 95% of the United States population profess a belief in God (Potts, 1998). The limited number of professional training programs available for psychologist and social scientist that address religion and spirituality contribute to the research deficit (Hill, ... and accepting with sensitivity a patient's religious beliefs has been reported to enhance therapeutic interventions and please patients" (Potts, 1998). Religious imagery and material has also been s...

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... of the President while reducing the influence of Parliament, much like the writers of the constitution for the fifth French Republic's constitution. The responsibilities of the Duma are outlined in the Russian constitution, with basic functions being responsible for adopting federal laws, constitutional amendments and federal constitutional laws. If these laws are introduced they need to be approved by ... the Federation council, federal laws are adopted by a simple majority of 226 votes, however in order to alter federal constitutional laws and constitutional amendments a 2/3 majority ...

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... semiotics"#, based his theory on a linguistic model that has been employed by most structuralists. The basic linguistic model, composed of "signifiers" and "signifieds", is an effective tool in approaching performance analytically. Saussure placed specific emphasis on the role of language as the most effective form of signification. Text, and the communication of it, is intrinsic to many ... route into decoding performance. For example, the lighting of a particular scene enhances the sense of theatricality by engaging the audience on a deeper sensory level, whilst introducing further con...

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... Harvey, 1989)). Furthermore technological improvements over the course of the 20th Century have enabled the construction of more or less authentic period materials at minimal costs allowing for the surge in eclectic designs borrowing' as it were elements from classical architecture for instance, and combining them with modern preferences and functional needs (Harvey, 1989). Examples of such designs are extremely ... imitates of the regional style while using classical forms of architecture made unique by a more modern design. Thus the Public Piazza d'Italia' is a perfect example of postmo...

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... states that a psychologist refrains from entering into a multiple relationship if the multiple relationship could reasonably be expected to impair the psychologist's objectivity, competence, or effectiveness in performing his or her functions as a psychologist, or otherwise risks exploitation or harm to the person with whom the professional relationship exists. Multiple relationships that would ... author, consultant, lender, debtor, etc.); providing psychological services to children of friends, colleagues, employees, or frequent social contacts. The term double professions applies to si...

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... a distorted manifestation of Elizabethan court and the Queen herself, one angle presenting a warped realm, the other a cautionary tale to his dismissive monarch. The body politic is a concept born in a platonic world of ideals, eternal and a paradigm of political leadership, magnanimity, entirely separate from the body natural, this division enabled Elizabeth to disassociate her role as Queen from her ... unruly mob. Alfred Bill states that despite the "background of forest shepherd and shepherdesses, flocks and herds" political undercurrents make Arcadia "no true pastoral" , this is hi...

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