BRIEF REPORTS Greater Risk of Dementia When Spouse Has Dementia? The Cache County Study [See editorial comments by Dr. Peter P. Vitaliano, pp 976–978] Maria C. Norton, PhD,abc Ken R. Smith, PhD,de Truls Østbye, MD, PhD,fgh JoAnn T. Tschanz, PhD,bc Chris Corcoran, ScD,ci Sarah Schwartz, MS,ci Kathleen W. Piercy, PhD,ac Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH,j David C. Steffens, MD,k Ingmar Skoog, MD, PhD,l John C. S. Breitner, MD, MPH,mn Kathleen A. Welsh-Bohmer, PhD,g for the Cache County Investigators
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Group members: AberAhmed Alice Chen YuXin Bong Kern Yih DongHyunKim Edward Setyadarma Salman Kamani Executive Summary Nestlé is currently the biggest food and beverages (F&B) company in the world. The company has a long-standing history of 140 years and a business portfolio comprising of more than 140 brands under the umbrella of Nestlé. One of Nestlé’s cash cow product lines is the ice cream. Popular household ice cream brands under Nestlé include Häagen-Dazs, Movenpick and Dreyer’s
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MACRO FACTORS AFFECTING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT SUBMITTED BY: AAYUSH VERMA INTRODUCTION A business firm is an open system. It gets resources from the environment and supplies its goods and services to the environment. There are different levels of environmental forces. Some are close and internal forces whereas others are external forces. External forces may be related to national level, regional level or international level. These environmental forces provide opportunities or threats to the
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Primary Care Physician Initial Evaluation: Patient Name: Mrs. Wright (53 years old) Description: Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis HISTORY: Mrs. Wright is a 53-year old female who visited Dr. Curtis on 9/21/2013 for devastating pain dealing with her rheumatoid arthritis. She was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis on 4/2/2010 by Dr. Ruppert. She was later diagnosed with osteoporosis on 8/5/2010. Along with her arthritis pain, she has other conditions such as: Raynaud syndrome, irritable
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Abstract Management control systems are tools to aid management for steering an organization toward its strategic objectives and competitive advantage. Management controls are only one of the tools which managers use in implementing desired strategies. However strategies get implemented through management controls, organizational structure, human resources management and culture. In this paper we will discuss how management control system is implemented in various sectors of an pharmaceutical
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Head Office 30 Grosvenor Street, Neutral Bay, NSW 2089 Ph: 02 9904 5600 Fax: 02 9904 5611 Coming to grips with family systems theory in a collaborative, learning environment. info@thefsi.com.au http://www.thefsi.com.au Bowen Family Systems Theory and Practice: Illustration and Critique By Jenny Brown This paper will give an overview of Murray Bowen’s theory of family systems. It will describe the model’s development and outline its core clinical components. The practice of therapy will be described
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Employee Socialisation Introduction Organisations are facing a major challenge when they consider the increasing difficulty of finding skilled people. The South African labour market has undergone a transformation since 1994, with an emphasis being placed on strategies that eliminate the labour inequalities of the past and improve general working conditions for all South Africans. HR executives state the single greatest challenge they have in managing the workforce is their organisation's
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ExxonMobil MGT/521 Management Profesor Clance Doelling, MBA, BSME May 28, 2012 Introduction ExxonMobil is recognized as one of the world’s prominent oil and gas companies. They control market products and facilities nationwide. ExxonMobil is involved in marketing, gas, and oil exploration, transportation and production in approximately 200 countries. They manufacture aromatics, petrochemicals, polyethylene, olefins, and polypropylene plastics (ExxonMobil, 2012). ExxonMobil provides
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Institute for Health Technology Transformation Population Health Management A Roadmap for Provider-Based Automation in a New Era of Healthcare Acknowledgements Alide Chase, MS Senior Vice President for Quality and Service Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. & Kaiser Foundation Hospitals Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI School of Nursing Professor & Dean Academic Health Center Director, Biomedical Health Informatics (BMHI) Acting Director of the Institute for Health Informatics (IHI)
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Functional Analysis of Anticipatory ''It'' Lexical Bundles in Political Speeches Abstract This paper investigates a particular structural group of frequent word combinations referred to as ‘anticipatory it lexical bundles’. Lexical bundles are words formed that often co- occur in longer sequences. They are not idiomatic or structurally complete, but the sequences are building blocks in discourse and are so common and recurrent that the readers and listeners should pay much attention to
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