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The Bullwhip Effect: Recognizing the Phenomenon and Mitigating It Using the Theory of Constraints Illustrated by a Case Study from British Petroleum
(2013-05-24)
Many companies experience reoccurring problems that seem to grow increasingly worse throughout time. Attempts to fix these problems may prove temporary. These efforts are usually directed towards the symptom of the problem ...
Employee-Employer Relations in Japan: An Analysis of Honor-Shame and Authority-Power Relations within the Modern Japanese Workplace
(2013-12-13)
An analysis of interpersonal (employee-employer) relations within the contemporary Japanese business world. With emphasis placed upon the cultural and ideological facets of workplace interactions, comparisons between ...
An Overview of Research in Manual Therapy
(2013-05-24)
Manual therapy techniques are often used to augment the healing process by professionals such as massage therapists, athletic trainers, and physical therapists. The term manual therapy includes a wide variety of techniques ...
The Acquisition of the Possessive /-s/ Morpheme
(2013-05-24)
In this study, we investigated children’s understanding and production of the English complex possessive phrases. Children are able to learn language without any instruction other than what they hear from the adults around ...
Christianity and Creatureliness: Becker, Percy, and John Paul II on a Right Understanding of Death and Sufferring
(2013-05-24)
The denial of death and the desire to abolish suffering both empty a person of humanity; Christianity reconciles these issues while keeping creatureliness intact. For Ernest Becker, the denial of death results from the ...
Analysis of Resting-State fMRI using Pearson-VII Mixture Modeling
(2013-05-24)
In the past two decades, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been widely used to research and characterize neural activity in the brain based on measuring the hemodynamic response correlated to neuronal firing. ...
Adverse Life Events on Disordered Eating Behaviors, Negative Self-Regard, and Body Image Disturbance
(2013-05-24)
Individuals with eating disorders typically report greater levels of body dissatisfaction, lower self esteem, and increased body image disturbance. Previous studies have demonstrated the association between eating disorders ...
The Relationship Between Self-Monitoring, Self-Regulation, and Obesity in College Students
(2013-12-09)
Growing obesity rates have become a topic of great interest. Previous studies have examined self-regulation as a method to reduce weight gain. Young adults are especially at risk for weight gain and the negative health ...
The Role of the mTOR Pathway in Learning and Memory
(2013-05-24)
Research implicates the mTOR pathway, now known to be a regulator of protein synthesis, as a major player in both neuronal development and cognition. This study demonstrates, both through experimentation and a review of ...
Crisis Management in Nonprofit Organizations
(2013-05-23)
A mishandled crisis has the power to devastate a nonprofit organization. This paper explores the importance of a well-orchestrated response to a crisis for the purpose of minimizing this devastation. In their books ...