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    Introduction: During the year 2012, the CDC changed their scale value for childhood lead poisoning from 10 μg/dL to ≥5 μg/dL. This meant that lead poisoning was almost completely expelled across the nation and the CDC labeled this as one of the “Great Public Health Achievements”.3 Childhood lead poisoning however, remains a public health concern as there are some alarming risk factors that attribute to lead exposure in children. With the enactment of lead reduction laws and elimination of lead based

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    Corporate Greed

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    greed led to bankruptcy, largely because of undermining the importance of public image. A good place to find how corporate greed can motivate corporations to act unethically is in the pharmaceutical industry. For example, Lately Health Minister Rona Ambrose announced that the Canadian government would outlaw the prescription painkiller OxyContin and implement a new prescription drug strategy. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2011), the problems of prescription painkiller

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    1. INTRODUCTION According to Edmund (1949, 47), traditionally risk has been defined as the likelihood of an event occurring coupled with the negative consequences of an event occurring. In other words risk is a potential problem. However, according to Valsamakis (2010, 29) risk is defined as the variation of the actual outcome from the expected outcome. If this definition is accepted, then the standard deviation is an appropriate measure of risk. Risk therefore implies the presence of uncertainty

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    to generate an immunotherapy that targeted the modified ATXN1 oligomers. After injecting the infected mice with the immunotherapy the research group observed a hindrance of local propagation of the oligomer and therefore modified the phenotype of the prion positive mice. However this method is not curative, as the neurons that express the poly-Q ATXIN1 oligomer will continue to do so, generating more toxic prion like proteins. This provided cause for the theory that though the immunotherapy may

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    Lowe's Home Improvement Strategic and Operational Plan MGT/521 date Teacher Lowe's Home Improvement Strategic and Operational Plan This paper highlights the creation of Lowe’s Home Improvement strategic plans utilizing the SWOT analysis that are in alignment with the Lowe’s mission and vision statements. The strategic plan which is define as “plans cover a large span of time that is several years or decades” (Gabrielle Brown, 2014), that covers plans that are in general manner that pertains to nonspecific

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    including the Chairman of the Board and CEO, Indra Nooyi. The other members include: Robert C. Pohlad, Richard W. Fisher, Dina Dublon, Lloyd G. Trotter, Alberto Weisser, George W. Buckley, Shona L. Brown, Alberto Ibargüen, David C. Page, M.D., Ian M. Cook, Rona A. Fairhead, Daniel Vasella, M.D., William R. Johnson, Ray L. Hunt, and Sharon Percy Rockefeller. The members of the Board are selected for directorship by the

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    party and the so called “Climate Fund” pocket a good chunk of the monetary funds before they even reach the over exaggerated or even non-existing issue. Other examples include excessive and unnecessary spending on “infrastructure” and “job creation”. Rona Ambrose, interim leader of Conservative Party Canada brings up a few good points on unnecessary spending, what she referred to as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s

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    Post-traumatic stress disorder was officially acknowledged as a psychiatric disorder in 1980, mainly in reaction to America’s efforts in order to gain some sense of the toll the Vietnam war had taken on those who participated in combat (Goodwin & Rona, 2013). Military personnel who have participated in war often have an increased chance of experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. Understanding such disorders in military and service members is vitally important. Post-traumatic stress

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    Abstract All over the nation we are seeing economic growth due to the legalization of marijuana. In 2014 expected tax revenue from the marijuana industry is an expected $67 million just in Colorado alone. Now in Washington their government is allocating a 25% excise tax on marijuana. While in Colorado they assigned a proposition to enable a 15% excise tax, and a 10% sales tax on recreational marijuana. Marijuana is stimulating businesses all over, whether it be real estate, construction, or candy

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    performance, and SLA management. Large enterprises, across all industry sectors, are concerned with the support, security, and stability they need to rely on as they look to scale applications in a private, public, or hybrid cloud-like environment” — Rona Shuchat, Director of Application Outsourcing Services, IDC. • “IT infrastructure and services delivered over the cloud will be ubiquitous within five years, and vendors that ignore the shift from on-premises software to Internet-delivered technology

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