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NEW CHALLENGES FOR OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
The 'New Economy' Creates New Challenges for Operations Management
The 'New Economy' Creates New Challenges for Operations Management
Summary
In the early 1980's BP Chemicals faces challenges that called for some fundamental changes in its business strategy. The rapid expansion through acquisition in the past five decades has created ...
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EDITORIAL
Editorial on Alcoholism
Editorial on Alcoholism
Editorial
Alcoholism
Among the U.S. working-age population, an estimated 24.5 million meet the criteria for alcohol dependence, and lifetime prevalence rates among adults are between 14 percent and 24 percent. Generally speaking, rates of alcoholism decline as age increases. With respect to sex, alcoholism is at ...
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INNOVATION IN ACTION
Innovation in Action
Innovation in Action
Introduction
Technology entails study of crafts. But phrase is generally appreciated in the much broader sense to encompass things (i.e., the mallet, car, or microscope), methods (i.e., composing, agriculture, or advertising) as well as methods leveraging aspects of human life (i.e., when technology is glimpsed ...
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IS HAPPINESS POSSIBLE ACCORDING TO FREUD
Is Happiness Possible According To Freud
Is Happiness Possible According To Freud?
Introduction
Freud from an early age, tried to explain the human mind to understand and trends. In so doing, he has successfully managed to make countless enemies and critics. Often this conflicts with the ...
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IMPORTANCE OF INTER-AGENCY COOPERATION
Importance of inter-agency cooperation
Introduction
An Inter-agency aviation concept of operations is designed to address the coordinated responses to inbound aircraft with sick passengerss who may have pandemic flu or other contagious diseases and has contributed to other activities including developing the draft aircraft disinfection guidance, draft sector- ...
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STRESS AND DEPRESSION
Stress and Depression
Stress and Depression
Introduction
There seems to be a convoluted connection amidst stressful positions, our brain and body's answer to stress, and the onset of clinical depression. It is clear that some persons evolve depression after a stressful happening in their lives. Events for example the death of ...
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COMPASSION FOR FIRST-TIME PHLEBOTOMY
Compassion for First-Time Phlebotomy
Compassion for First-Time Phlebotomy
For a phlebotomy at a blood bank standard blood bags with large needles are used. The reason for this is that these blood bags are also used for standard blood donations and with a small needle the red blood cells are ...
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The deconstruction of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.
Arcadia
Theoretical analysis
Although after The Real Thing Stoppard began devoting most of his time to screenplays and to adapting other writers' dramas, his 1993 play Arcadia, which was produced after a break of five years, was greeted with enthusiasm among theater critics, who saw the ...
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Support Systems and Natural Disasters
Natural disasters are the most renewed of disasters, differentiated by their origin by natural events. Flooding, gales, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, and avalanches are demonstrations of natural disaster happenings, and as recounted overhead, these happenings may or may not origin disturbance, disorganization, and death. Natural disasters ...
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THE MATTER OF NORMATIVE AND PRACTICAL ETHICS
The matter of normative ethics
The matter of normative and practical ethics
Aristotle's view is called "normative ethics", which states that there are certain normative (good and bad) acts. He said that one should trial and accomplish the "golden mean", and be a well circular individual, ...