Dynamic Hong Kong: from a post-colonial city to a post-metropolis Part 1. Introduction Hong Kong‚ once a British colony after the wars‚ has been well-known as a vibrant metropolitan. After 99 years of British rule‚ Hong Kong was handed over to China in 1 July 1997. After a long period of western culture instillation‚ Hongkongers remain confused about their identity in the recent 16 years of post-colonial period. This struggle in identity can be reflected from the city’s cultural‚ economic and
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PPA 220A: APPLIED ECONOMIC ANALYSIS MASTER’S PROGRAM IN PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION MASTER’S PROGRAM IN URBAN LAND DEVELOPMENT CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY‚ SACRAMENTO FALL 2009 Professor: Rob Wassmer‚ Ph.D. E-Mail: rwassme@csus.edu Home Page: http://www.csus.edu/indiv/w/wassmerr Office: Room 3037‚ Tahoe Hall Class Location: Wednesday‚ 6 - 8:50 p.m.‚ 1011 Academic Resource Center (ARC) The classroom presentation is also available as a re-broadcast on SacCT two days
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The Huffington Post Abstract This paper discusses the growing success of The Huffington Post. The online publisher has become a prominent online news source over the years and this paper examines the success‚ while relating The Huffington Post’s strategy to common marketing analysis tools such as the Porter Five Force Analysis‚ as well as discussing four different revenue models for online publishers.
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Rights of Medication Administration Health care providers are responsible for ensuring patient safety and quality of care at all times. Nurses play a vital role in provision of patient care. Many of the tasks of nursing carry some degree of risk‚ with medication administration having one of the greatest risk factors. Serious errors may occur in approximately 2 per 1‚000 prescriptions (Lesar et al‚ 1990). The rate of adverse drug events are estimated at approximately 1%‚ with 12% to 30% of them
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The Federal Agency I am choosing is Food and Drug Administration or FDA for short. The FDA is a Federal Agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. This Federal Agency is part of the Executive Departments. This Administration was founded on June 30‚ 1906 and the founders were Theodore Roosevelt and Harvey Washington Wiley. Some of the Subsidiaries are Center for Drug Evaluation and Research‚Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition‚ and National Center for Toxicological
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ESSAY 1: ADMINISTRATION OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE It has widely been established by both modern and ancient historians that the administrative basis of the Persian Empire was introduced by Cyrus the Great‚ where it was later revised and stabilised by Darius I around 519BC. According to Herodotus‚ Xerxes had inherited his father Darius’ perfected system of satrapies‚ satraps and economic and communications improvements which enabled Xerxes to continue the running of the Achaemenid empire. Modern historian
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Whatever power relations manifested in different aspects of the development paradigm are perceived by post-developments. Basically‚ the Post-development also has two distinct and entwined concepts: knowledge and power (Jakimow‚ 2008). Post-developmentists argue that the power of this world is in the hands of developed countries. Because power is crucially dominant factor‚ the aim of the post-development is successfully to transfer power from the hands of outside ‘expertized’ paradigm that has been
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Public Administration Research; Vol. 2‚ No. 1; 2013 ISSN 1927-517x E-ISSN 1927-5188 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education Preparing Public Administration Scholars for Qualitative Inquiry: A Status Report Margaret Stout1 1 Department of Public Administration‚ West Virginia University‚ Morgantown‚ WV‚ USA Correspondence: Margaret Stout‚ Department of Public Administration‚ West Virginia University‚ Morgantown‚ WV‚ USA. Tel: 304-293-7978. E-mail: margaret.stout@mail.wvu
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Post-angioplasty with or without stent placement involves continuous careful patient assessment and monitoring for recurring chest pain‚ which may indicate reclosing of the artery or thrombosis. Heart attack‚ stroke‚ and arrhythmias are possible post-procedure complications; thus‚ should a recovering telemetry patient complain of chest pain certain additional steps should be taken immediately‚ including performing a focused assessment‚ checking client’s level of consciousness‚ getting vital signs
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Solubility‚ Crystallization and Melting Point Determination Post-Lab Discussion Guidelines: Part 2A and 2C: Draw tables (as in textbook) showing which combinations were soluble/miscible and which were insoluble/immiscible. Explain why this is so. Why are certain chemicals soluble/miscible when others are not? Part 3A: Calculate % recovery (this is not the same as % yield – see handout from the first day of lab if you’re confused)‚ and determine melting point of your product. Discuss % recovery
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