Pressure ulcers, also known as bedsores or decubitus ulcers, are an increasing concern within the healthcare setting (Shannon, Brown & Chakravarty, 2012). ... Patients that have been identified as high risk for developing pressure ulcers, include the elderly, those with acute illness, those in an orthopaedic setting and patients who are bed bound (Shannon, Brown & Chakravarty, 2012). ... The impact of pressure ulcers physically and emotionally can consequently lower patients' quality of life (Shannon, Brown & Chakravarty, 2012). ... These results are important as a decrease in blood flow ...

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Current research is closely linking the social environment with expression of disease, risk of developments of mental disorder, and resiliency factors (Alegria et al., 2010). ... Therefore, today evidenced-based practice requires careful consideration of socio-cultural differences in the classification and treatment of people with mental disorders (Regier et al., 2013). ... Information regarding differences between cultures symptom expression, has also been expanded upon – only for some of the disorders – and this is acknowledging that there are different syndromes that are releva...

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(Steinberg: 208) Another possible reason is offered by Flege (Theo Bongaerts et al, 1997) that "one of the main cause of foreign accents is the increasing tendency of L2 learners, once they have established the phonetic categories for their L1, to perceive L2 sound in terms of those categories. ... (Brown: 54) To put it in another way, "while you are young, at an age at which the pattern and rules of your native language are still comparatively new to you, the interference that comes form the rules of the native language is likely to be small. ... (Brown: 116) While the motivation of classroom...

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This pattern of heavy, intermittent drinking is also prevalent among college students (White et al, 2002a) and young military personnel (Bray, 1996). ... A rough estimate of the age range for adolescence in rats is between 30-50 days of age (Little et al., 1996). ... Indeed, there appears to be an increased reliance on the frontal lobes in the control of behavior, a process commonly referred to as frontalization (Rubia et al., 2000). At the same time that gray matter volumes and metabolism decrease, neural activity during the performance of certain tasks becomes more focused and eff...

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For many student-athletes the time they put into a sport is comparable to having a 30-40 hour a week job (Brown, Glastetter-Fender &ump; Shelton, 2000; Schroeder, 2000; Simons, Van Rheenen &ump; Covington, 1999). ... For instance, topics related to identity development, career development and maturity, identity foreclosure, team development and socialization, and retirement of student-athletes (Brown, Glastetter-Fender & Shelton, 2000; Murphy, Petitpas, &; Brewer,1996; Parham, 1993). ... According to Brewer et al. (1993) as college students mature and experience other college activities their ...

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For examples if I was to do a test of intelligence based on eye color blue eyed people are more intelligent than brown eyed people would certainly be reliable, because eye color doesn't change, but it would not be very valid, because IQ and eye color have little to do with each other. ... (American Educational Research Association et al., 1999, p.111) There are three reflections discussed in the article to director the selection of a nonverbal IQ measure. ...

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Other times the term at-risk refers to internal factors within the student like low self-esteem, an external locus of control, or low educational aspirations (D"Imperio & Dubow, 2000; Hampson, Rahman, Brown, Taylor, Donaldson, 1998; Henderson, 1998; Smith & Carlson, 1997). ... External factors, characteristics outside the individual, are divided into two categories in the literature: family and school (Benard, 1993, 1995; Brooks, 1994; Christiansen & Christiansen, 1997; Fox, 1994; Howard & Dryden, 1999; Howard & Johnson, 2000; Jew, et. al. 1999; McMillan & Reed, 1994; Miller & MacIntosh, ...

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According to Leyton-Brown in World Politics economic sanctions, seeing that this is the form it usually takes on, are "deliberate government actions to inflict economic deprivation on a target state or society, through the limitation or cessation of customary economic relations". ... According to Hufbauer et al there have been 120 episodes of foreign policy sanctions since World War I, 104 of which were enacted since World War II. ...

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(Marchand, et. al.1998) For example, while reporters agree that the disparity between health status among Whites and African-Americans would remain after adjusting for infant mortality; race, ethnicity and income were also associated with morbidity and functional limitations and fewer preventive services. ... Black males have a higher mortality rate than white males at each income category, (La Viest et al 2000) and the Medicare black/white mortality rate was 1.6 times higher in 1995 than in 1950. ... (Whitehead 1999, Ross and Mirowsky 2000, Gunning-Schepers, and Stronks 1999, Brown 1999, Fuch...

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We have now considered in some detail the way in which infants develop strong attachment bonds towards the end of the first year of life. Bowlby believes that it is essential for infants and young children to experience a warm, intimate and continuous relationship with their mother or permanent mother substitute. What outcomes, then, can we expect if the child suffers some interruption in this relationship? This may be temporarily, for example as a result of hospitalisation or being placed in the care of the Local Authority on either a short of long term basis, or even a permanent interruption...

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A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BRAND MANAGEMENT OF THE TAJ GROUP OF HOTELS Brands never die. They are meant to live forever. However, their luster fades by the imprudent decisions of brand managers who fail to see the future unraveling. The concept of branding is not new; many famous brands have been with us for some time. Many developed as the result of the energy and enthusiasm of the entrepreneurs behind them. ...

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The relevance of this topic to management is that the banking sector in Nigeria today is at the threshold of change of such a magnitude as to alter completely the fabric of business and indeed, lives (Archibugi, Howells et al. 1999). ...

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