I ultimately finds that positions on the Iraq war to be the most powerful predictor of voter preference with religion and other issues playing a strong role. Literature Review Before going in depth on the various predictors that influenced a person's decision to vote for either John Kerry or George W Bush in the 2004 election for the office of President of the United States, it is important to provide some context for the election. ...

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Russon (61) found a similarity between predictive formulas for general college achievement and those for college achievement in business education. ... He found that a combination of certain measures of arithmetic achievement, IQ, and ninth-grade marks were predictive of achievement in bookkeeping courses. ... The evidence appears to be rather conclusive that high school bookkeeping is the best predictor of success in college accounting. From the data of 128 college men and women enrolled in the first quarter of principles of accounting, Larsen (40) developed four multiple-regression equati...

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Only CC1953 is part of a predicted operon. ... None of the stalk proteins have a predicted function, nor do they have orthologs in a wide range of bacterial species. ... Despite the lack of predicted structure or function of these proteins, the fact that xylose-inducible mCherry fusions of these proteins localize to the stalk makes these proteins useful tools as markers for probing mechanisms of localization. ...

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Depressive episodes beginning in adolescence can predict the incidence of severe depression in adulthood (Hankin, 2006). ... One of the most common predictors of adolescent depression is a family history of depression. ...

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The trepidation of revolution spreading i.e. revolution diffusion is likely to lead the forces to support the revolution dreading to be overthrown, an example of which could be the "domino effect " or the so called "civilization effect " in Egypt that forced world powers to adjust the shortsightedness of their ideological lenses after failure to predict or cope with the turmoil in the Arab World and other regions (Radwan, 2011). Given an indicative of the factors mentioned above, the article presupposes it to be fairly candid to predict the military's response during a revolution when t...

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However, both organizations reported that animal tests have 92% failure rate in predicting the safety and effectiveness of medicines ("Soundearth.com," 2010). ... Issues that have been observed with animal testing include: absence of validation (indistinct scientific basis), inability to predict human risks, high costs, high rate of experimental abandonment, and biological differences (e.g., differing metabolism). ...

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They also thought that a measure of innate ability would predict college success better than traditional achievement tests did. ... No predictive validity (or long-term temporal stability) data are available. ... Prediction bias can arise whenever a school uses a test to predict student's academic performance or an employer uses a rise whenever a school uses a test to predict job performance. Psychologists say that a test suffers from predictions bias when blacks and whites with the same score on the test- the SAT, for example perform difficulty on the outcome that they are trying to pr...

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We have been over-sold on academics as a predictor of how well one is going to do in life. However latest studies indicate that, at best, IQ predicts perhaps 20 percent of life success, and a harder look suggests maybe it's closer to 10. ... Emotional intelligence is not the sole predictor of workplace success, career satisfaction, or leadership effectiveness. ... In fact, many psychologists still believe that IQ is the single best predictor of workplace success. ...

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Quantum mechanics is a theory which tries to describe, and predict the behavior of physical systems. ... But as an algorithm for predicting the outcome of an enormous body of spectroscopic and scattering experiments, QM is astoundingly successful. ...

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Global Warming - Its Implications on the Human Population Though there is some scepticism that climate change is a result of human actions, it is unlikely to be a natural event. Some dismiss the phenomenon known as "global warming" as a hoax, and claim that yuppies driving SUVs could not possibly change the overall temperature of the earth. In a sense, this misguided notion is true- but climate change is much more than "yuppies driving SUVs." It is industry freely burning fossil fuels to make a profit, and about the fact that every person on the earth requires energy, a clean source for w...

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A stable family and psychological health are not protective in people with genetic risk and there is no way to predict who will become an alcoholic. ... Cahalan and Room (1994) identified youth, lower socioeconomic status, minority status (black or Hispanic), and other ethnic categories (Irish versus Jewish and Italian) as predicting drinking problems. ... The most powerful predictor of drinking problems from Cahalan and Room (1994) was not social background, however, but current social environment. ...

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Identifying these predictors of divorce can help better understand marital relationships and can help prevent divorce. ... These theories have been developed in part as response to the relatively declining rate of divorce over the past two decades but also to identify the predictors of divorce. ... As suspected, the results proved the theories that decline in marital quality is directly related likeliness of divorce especially in women, and finally that role strain and stress caused by unfair amount of housework is as much of a divorce predictor in women as the generated decrease in marital qu...

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The city contains one-tenth of the world's oil reserves, which predicts to be enough to keep producing at an equivalent rate well into the subsequent century. ... According to Diamond Developers, originally the initial group of 100 villas and townhouses in Masdar City was predicted to be delivered by the end of 2014, and the final phase was expected to be complete by 2016. ...

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Although a number of studies document police officers' and community members' concern that women are not strong enough or aggressive enough for police work, physical strength has not been shown to predict general police effectiveness or ability to handle dangerous situations successfully. ... Yet, physical strength has not been shown to predict either general police effectiveness (Sherman, 1973) or the ability to successfully cope with dangerous situations (Bell, 1982). ... As an illustration of this, an early study of the California Highway Patrol indicated that neither general fit...

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The fourth finding was especially intriguing: the probability matrices based on growth after just one reading encounter proved to predict the growth effects of subsequent encounters surprisingly well for both R and W. ...

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If we can't predict the motions of electrons, it is because we lack sufficient knowledge of the causal laws that govern their motion. ... But though we may never be able to predict with absolute certainty the exact site the Frisbee will land on a given launch, we certainly would not say that the flight path of the Frisbee was not governed by some sort of causal laws. ... Therefor, if one could in theory be aware of all causes and understand the laws governing them, one could in theory predict all future events. ...

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The current shortage of physicians is predicted to get worse as the number of persons over the age of 65 increases. ... In 1959, the Surgeon General's Consultant group on Medical Education published a study predicting there would be a shortage of approximately 40,000 physicians by 1975 (Blumenthal, 2004). ... In the early 1990s, they issued a number of reports that predicted a shortage of generalists, a surplus of specialists, and an overall surplus of approximately 80,000 physicians by 2000. ...

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This scale can be used to explain a complex set of adhere behaviors including predicting coping with daily hassles as well as adaptation after experiencing various kinds of stressful life events. ... The research sited that of women with at least one adolescent child self-efficacy, work and parental roles proved to be significant predictor of work –family conflict. ... In more recent meta-analysis of the research on this concept, Kossek and Ozeki (1992) reported that conflict between work and family roles was a stronger predictor of life satisfaction for women over men. ...

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Employee Theft at the Personal Level When considering the question of why employees steal, researchers focusing on the personal level have attempted to develop demographic or personality predictors of theft. ... Research has also explored behavioral predictors of employee theft indicating that individuals involved in employee theft are likely to be involved in other deviant behaviors such as alcohol, and/or drug abuse, and/or gambling (Hollinger & Clark;, 1983). ...

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Abstract This paper looks at the constructivist approach to the study of international relations. The constructivist approach is defined in terms of the philosophical underpinnings of the approach and the scientific/social scientific premises that highlight this social theory of international relat...

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The use of alternative medicines is rising not just in the United States, but worldwide. Due to the popularity of such treatments, the efficiency of these alternative medicines is often questioned. While the effectiveness of certain alternative medical practices can be determined through the use of randomized control trials (RTCs), it can not only be difficult, but lack efficiency with most alternative medical practices. Acupuncture is an ancient art of healing that dates back to at least 2,500 years. It has been widely practiced in China and many other Asian countries. ...

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Models are commonly used as they highlight which variables ought to be measured for research and how the variables combine and interact with each other to predict health behaviours (Conner & Norman 1993). ...

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Epithelial ovarian cancer is the most common gynaecological cancer in the UK, with 6959 cases diagnosed in 2002. It accounts for 6% of all cancer deaths and has a five year survival rate of about 28% (Cancer research UK, 2005). This paper will focus on the diagnosis, and treatment of one 38 year old patient. Mrs A has been chosen as the course of her disease and the treatment she received has shown itself typical, however because of her comparatively young age, its personal effects are quite specific. Following an exploration into the physiology and risk factors of ovarian cancer, this paper...

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Family factors are comparable to or with the characteristic of inept parenting skills, which is one of the strongest predictors of juvenile connection to crime. ... Finally, factors connected with family disturbance are the weakest predictors (Loeber, and Stouthamer-Loeber, 1986). ... Poor school achievements are known to be a good predictor of involvement in crime. ...

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This social psychological theory describes the patterns of adoption, explains the mechanisms by which they occur, and assists in predicting whether a new invention will be successful. ... If the question is tenable, then organizational size can be a predictor of IT innovation adoption. ... Correspondingly, organizational size can serve as a predictor of other IT adoptions in other settings, such as in firms or financial institutions. ...

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