16 6. Works Cited 20 Enterprise Systems in the Healthcare Industry The healthcare industry has become one the fastest growing industries throughout the world‚ with annual expenditure consisting of 7.9% of the combined global GDP (Poullier‚ Kawabata‚ Hernandez‚ Savedoff‚ 2011). The rising cost of drugs and treatment‚ as well as the need for faster and more effective treatment has lead to the demand for Enterprise Systems in the Healthcare industry. Enterprise Systems are large scale‚ integrated
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EALL272 Kondo 11/15/2011 Starting date: 10/25/2011 Ending date: 11/15/2011 Osamu Dazai (INTRODUCTION) Osamu Dazai was one of Japanese novelist and considered one of the most important storytellers of postwar Japan. While known primarily as a novelist‚ Dazai also earned recognition for his numerous short stories‚ including “Omoide” (“Memories”)‚ “Sarugashima” (“Monkey Island”)‚ and “Ha” (“Leaves”)‚ which were published in Bannen‚ his first collection of short stories. Like most of his
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Carola‚ and Philippe Pelletier Hobfoll‚ Stevan E. Stress‚ Culture‚ and Community: the Psychology and Philosophy of Stress. New York: Plenum‚ 1998. Print. Iga‚ Mamoru Iga‚ Mamoru. "Tradition and Modernity in Japanese Suicide: The Case of Yasunari Kawabata." African and Asian Studies 10.3 (1975): 176-87. Print. Itoh‚ Hiroshi "Japanese Managers ’ Stress Levels Higher than U.S. Managers ’" University of Michigan News Service. 8 July 1996. Web. 22 Mar. 2011. . Kitaoji‚ Hironobu Kreiner‚ Josef‚ Ulrich
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DO VOLCANOES HAVE A DESTRUCTIVE POWER AS WELL AS POTENTIAL BENEFIT Volcanoes are usually depicted as towering mountains missing a chunk out of the top from which steam‚ ash and lava spew forth. In reality‚ a volcano is any spot on the surface of the Earth where lava flows. Magma finds its way upwards along fissures or cracks in the planet ’s crust and bursts out onto the surface‚ resulting in a volcano. Magma that flows out of a volcano is called lava. If it comes out of the volcano in an explosive
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Mar. Drugs 2010‚ 8‚ 1988-2012; doi:10.3390/md8071988 OPEN ACCESS Marine Drugs ISSN 1660-3397 www.mdpi.com/journal/marinedrugs Review Chitin Research Revisited Feisal Khoushab and Montarop Yamabhai * School of Biotechnology‚ Suranaree University of Technology‚ Nakhon Ratchasima‚ 30000‚ Thailand; E-Mail: fl.khoushab@gmail.com * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: montarop@g.sut.ac.th; Tel.: +66-44-224152-4; Fax: +66-44-224150. Received: 2 May 2010; in revised
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর‚ Robindronath Ţhakur) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)‚ sobriquet Gurudev‚ was a Bengali poet‚ novelist‚ musician‚ painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. As author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive‚ fresh and beautiful verse"‚ he was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. His poetry in translation was viewed as spiritual‚ and this together with his mesmerizing persona
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How do Adolescents Develop Meaning in Their Lives? Steger‚ M. F.‚ Bundick‚ M.‚ & Yeager‚ D. (in press). Understanding and promoting meaning in life during adolescence. In R. J. R. Levesque (Ed.)‚ Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Washington‚ DC: APA. Michael F. Steger Colorado State University Matthew J. Bundick Pennsylvania State University David Yeager Stanford University Contact Information: The corresponding author for this chapter is Michael F. Steger‚ Department of Psychology‚ Mail
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History Edited by John Parker and Richard Reid Oxford University Press 536pp £95 Colonialism was predicated on the negation of African history or‚ as one of the two editors of this volume‚ John Parker‚ wrote in his African History: A Very Short Introduction (2007): a ‘general European perception [...] that Africa‚ especially Sub-Saharan Africa‚ had no history to speak of’. The emergence of sub-Saharan African history in both western and African universities
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Moving towards Universal Health Coverage: Initiatives and Challenges Submitted by Mohammad Abdul Mannan Abstract Since the 2005 resolution of World Health Assembly‚ universal health coverage has been increasingly seen as a central plank in the articulation of new health-sector strategies in countries. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as it is conceptualized today‚ ensures promotive‚ preventive‚ diagnostic and rehabilitative health services without financial hardship. UHC is one of the
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REGIONAL REVITALIZATION IN AKIHABARA Kazuhito YAMADA Doctorate Course‚ Hosei Graduate School of Regional Policy Design ABSTRACT: This paper is a policy thesis aimed at the revitalization of Akihabara (Tokyo‚ Japan)‚ an area that has declined economically in recent years. Akihabara is known around the world for its concentration of electro-domestic retailing‚ but the reality is that there are a number of industries concentrated there. An important issue addressed in this paper is the mechanism
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