Day: November 15, 2009
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Childhood Obesity
Whilst many factors impact on childhood obesity, parents ultimately have the main responsibility. Parents decide what’s in the cupboards, they plan meals and pack children’s lunchbox’s, clearly they are to blame for their child’s unhealthy lifestyle.
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Asthma
Asthma is a lung disease that affects approximately ten million people in the United States. (Cramer 2) In people with asthma, the airways of the lungs are hypersensitive to irritants such as cigarette smoke or allergens. When these irritants are inhaled, the airways react by constricting, or narrowing. Some people with asthma have only mild,…
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Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism is a practice that vegetarians follow, which includes a diet of vegetables, fruits and sometimes selected animal products such as cheese or milk. This is a belief that vegetarians follow with respect to different origins. There are vegetarians all around the world, they don’t share the same religion but their belief stays the same.…
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Statistics and management sciences
Statistics is “The mathematics of the collection, organization, and interpretation of numerical data, especially the analysis of population characteristics by inference from sampling.” (The American Heritage® Dictionary)
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Validity of interview and personality assessment
The management of human resources has become one of the major challenges of companies. The choice of appropriate selection methods is crucial, mainly as errors in the recruitment process are costly to the companies. The only way to be effective in managing human resources is to use selection methods whose reliability has been proven scientifically.…
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Pluralist perspective of employment relations
Question: Carefully define the pluralist perspective of employment relations and show how it differs from other frames of reference. What are the limits of the pluralist acceptance of different stakeholder interests at work. When, within the pluralist perspective is conflict acceptable?