teaching hospital. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: All expenditures for the institution during 1993 and for each service were categorized as either variable or fixed. Fixed costs included capital expenditures‚ employee salaries and benefits‚ building maintenance‚ and utilities. Variable costs included health care worker supplies‚ patient care supplies‚ diagnostic and therapeutic supplies‚ and medications. RESULTS: In 1993‚ the hospital had nearly 114000 emergency department visits‚ 40000 hospital admissions
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The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in Decision Making Introduction When making decisions humans commonly fall victim to errors in logic and reasoning. Since the inception of the study of the mind‚ psychologists have endeavored to isolate the characteristics and causes of errors in human thinking. Researchers and theorists have developed categories of such errors: representativeness heuristics‚ availability heuristics‚ memory and hindsight biases‚ etc. . . . In other words‚ to err is human. In
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Services Characteristics Report: United Airlines and Continental Airlines December 1993 and April 1994 (Airport management records and Official Airline Guides‚ Inc.) 7. Origin-Destination Survey of Airline Passenger Traffic‚ Domestic U.S. Department of Transportation/Air Transport Association of America‚ 1993 8. Department of Aviation Management Records (Enplaned Passengers report for Stapleton International Airport) 1993 Audience Who will you be addressing? Review the list of attendees to understand
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R e s e a r c h July 30‚ 2002 Asset Valuation & Allocation Models Dr. Edward Yardeni (212) 778-2646 ed_yardeni@prusec.com Amalia F. Quintana (212) 778-3201 mali_quintana@prusec.com - Introduction I. Fed’s Stock Valuation Model How can we judge whether stock prices are too high‚ too low‚ or just right? The purpose of this weekly report is to track a stock valuation model that attempts to answer this question. While the model is very simple‚ it has been quite accurate and can also be used
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a combination of incident prevention and psychological health prevention. By using incident prevention‚ preventionists can use the formula of factors‚ stress‚ and exploitation over coping skills‚ self esteem‚ and support groups (Albee & Ryan-Finn‚ 1993). By incorporating psychological health prevention‚ preventionists can increase the strengths and decrease the limitations of the homeless‚ while creating an increased social network‚ decrease social stress‚ and enhance the environmental resources
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providers (“Socio-cultural impacts”‚ n.d.). It is very difficult to measure the way in which the presence of large number of tourists affects the society and culture of host areas. In many cases‚ the effects are gradual‚ invisible and complex. (Davidson‚ 1993‚ p.165). The impacts can be positive‚ such as the case where tourism enhances the cultural exchange between two distinct populations. The impacts can also be negative‚ such as the commercialisation of arts and crafts and ceremonies/rituals of the host
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of silence and myth” (1987:8). Conjecture and fantasy spark paranoia and a fear of rebellion which becomes “obsessional” (1993:224). In the case of the rubber stations colonial myth fuelled the beliefs about the ‘wild’ and ‘savage’ forest. Scheper-Hughes outlines how the shanty town‚ Bom Jesus‚ sparks “perceptions of the community as a ruthless‚ unstable‚ amoral place” (1993:216). Regimes of terror must normalise extreme violence in order to work. Taussig refers to the “banality of the cruelty” and
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(2002a‚ May). Bullying among school-age youths (Part I). Children‚ Families & Schools‚ 2(4)‚ 1-5. National Association of Social Workers. (2002b‚ July). Bullying among school-age youths (Part II). Children‚ Families‚ & Schools‚ 2 (5)‚ 1-6. Olweus‚ D. (1993). Bullying at school. Cambridge‚ A: Blackwell Publishers‚ Inc. Roberts‚ W.B.‚ Jr. (2000). The bully as the victim: Understanding bully behaviors to increase the effectiveness of…Professional School Counseling‚ 4 148-155 Salmivalli‚ C Shen‚ J. (1997)
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SMOKING AND THE EFFECTS IT HAS ON TEENAGERS As a society‚ we have a long way to go to win the fight against tobacco smoking. If the parents are informed about the hazards of smoking‚ and recognize when their teen is being pressured or is actually smoking‚ then they will enact a plan of successful preventive measures that will enhance the life and health of their teenager and family. Just being aware of the circumstances and pressures that lure teens to start smoking will help parents recognize
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Cited: Doyle‚ William. Origins of the French Revolution‚ 3rd ed. (1999). Johnson‚ D.‚ Jacques-Louis David: Art in Metamorphosis (1993). Nast‚ Thomas. "King Andy". Harper ’s Weekly‚ 3 Nov. 1866. p.696 Slevin‚ Carl "French Revolution" The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics. Ed. Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan. Oxford University Press‚ 2003. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University
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