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    Fathers’ Perspectives on the Emotional Impact of Managing the Care of Their Children with Cystic Fibrosis

    Fathers’ Perspectives on the Emotional Impact of Managing the Care of Their Children With Cystic Fibrosis Claire C. Hayes, MSc, BSc, RCN, RM, RGN Eileen Savage, PhD, MEd, BNS, RCN, RGN In this article, fathers' perspectives on the emotional impact of managing the care of their children with cystic fibrosis (CF) are examined. The constant worry of living with the unpredictability of CF was highlighted in this study, drawing on interviews with eight Irish fathers, who experienced difficulties communicating

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    Mascots in Advertising

    AMITY SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION AMITY UNIVERSITY, NOIDA. TERM PAPER ON: Use of Mascots in Advertising. SUBMITTED TO: PROF. Amit Kumar Dutta AMITY UNIVERSITY, NOIDA SUBMITTED BY: ABHIMANYU KARNATAK BJ&MC- II A (2011-2014) AMITY SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION, AMITY UNIVERSITY Title USE OF MASSCOTS IN ADVERTISING Acknowledgement I put forth my heartiest thanks to AMIT SIR for giving me this opportunity to work on such an interesting topic- use of mascots in advertisement

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    Life of Pi Themes

    Life of Pi Theme of Religion At times, Life of Pi reads like a defense of religion. Has science proved religion wrong? Here's a protagonist who believes passionately in both zoology and religion. What about the fact of multiple faiths? Don't these faiths contradict each other, cause wars, and other problems? Here's a protagonist who is Muslim, Christian, and Hindu – all at the same time. The book defends not only the common spirit behind these three religions, but the rituals and ceremonies of each

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    Blue Ocean Strategy

    twenty-five years, competition has been at the heart of corporate strategy. Today, one can hardly speak of strategy without involving the language of competition: competitive strategy, competitive benchmarking, building competitive advantages, and beating the competition. Such focus on the competition traces back to corporate strategy’s roots in military strategy. The very language of corporate strategy is deeply imbued with military references—chief executive “officers” in “headquarters,” “troops”

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    Stock Track Report

    Finance 363 Stocktrak Final Report Group 10 Cody Norton, Nick Turner, Shane Siel The stocktrak simulation was very informative. It was interesting to watch the markets with something on the line. My group was in the top 3 much of the semester. Right around the end of the simulation we fell out of the top 3 and finished in the 10th position. We could have tried to change our investment strategy in order to chase the top spot, but in the end we stayed true to our objective. Objective and

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    Psychopathy and Richard Kuklinski

    Richard Kuklinski Iceman “If I think about what I’ve done, it would hurt me, so I don’t think about it… If I had a choice, well, you have said we all have choices, that’s true, but at the time, I didn’t seem to have one. If I could, I would have liked to be different than what I am. I would have liked to have had a better outlook on life.. but I can’t change yesterday” (Carlo, 2007). According to Robert Hare, Psychopathy is a personality disorder which consists of behaviors and personality

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    High Frequency Trading

    High-Frequency Trading Remi Charpin MBA student BADM 580 June 28, 2010 Prepared for Professor Charles Alvis Financial Markets Seminar Table of Contents List of Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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    Marketwatch 101

    January 20, 2013 Fortnightly Market Wrap -Up This week’s content: Macro Strategy – page 3 World Markets – page 9 Cautious optimism for 2013 By Swasti Gupta, Analyst, BSc Economics Eurozone – page 5 Currency wars: Is it me or is it getting hot in here? By Eliott Anderson, Co-Editor, BSc Management China – page 13 The EU: In or Out? By Christopher Viggor, Analyst, MSc Economics Eurozone – page 7 Take-off instead of hard landing? By Wodzik Kicinski, Analyst, BSc Economics

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    Business

    The ultimate smartphone smackdown of 2008 Smart phones get smarter, more personal By Keith Shaw , Network World , 11/03/2008 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/110308-guide-mobility-smartphone-showdown.html?page=7 The skinny: Enterprises shouldn't automatically dismiss the iPhone for mobile workers just because it's made by Apple. The company has made an effort with the second-generation iPhone to get into the enterprise, with features such as Exchange support, remote wipe and VPN access

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    Bullying

    innocence. Even though no one watching or videotaping the vicious female hazing was formally charged, public outrage reverberated throughout the country. The senior girls barraged junior girls with mud, garbage, human feces, and paint thinner while beating many of them with fists, kicks, and buckets. After the videotape surfaced,

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