With the growth of Internet technologies, online-based foreign language curricula are being introduced at large numbers of institutions internationally. This peer-reviewed volume, geared towards a broad audience, presents innovative research on online language teaching, with chapters by highly engaged scholars and practitioners from the U.S. and Europe, with a strong...
In this study I explore the relationship between firm value and conforming tax avoidance (tax avoidance that does not create a book-tax difference). Tax avoidance provides firms more cash, creating value for the firm. However, conforming tax avoidance has costs, such as lower book income, and these costs potentially lower...
Background: Academic medical centers are examining relationships with the pharmaceutical industry
and making changes to limit interactions. Most doctors, however, practice outside of academic institutions
and see pharmaceutical detailers and accept drug samples and gifts. Little guidance for practicing
physicians exists about transforming practices to become pharma-free. Consideration must be...
Purpose: Primary care practices are an ideal setting for reducing national smoking rates because >70% of smokers visit their physician annually, yet smoking cessation counseling is inconsistently delivered to patients. We designed and created a novel software program for handheld computers and hypothesized that it would improve clinicians' ability to...
Lauren Fath, in her non-fiction collection Half-Life: Essays, examines the underpinnings of her upbringing in suburban Fort Wayne, Indiana, focusing primarily on familial relationships and the importance of hindsight in understanding how our families make an imprint on our lives. By looking at our relationships through the lens offered by...
The purposes of this study were to explore the relationship of
cognitive complexity to norms and sanctions for the traditional family
roles; to investigate intergenerational relationships involving
roles and cognitive structures and to estimate the reliability of
the questions from the Washington Role Inventory regarding norms
and sanctions for the...
Researchers have noted several characteristics possessed by strong and healthy families. They include the following:
• In response to changes in individual members and changes in society, the family also changes and grows.
• Members show respect and trust for
one another.
• They have a common spiritual ground,
a...
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The six stories within, "Still and Silent," "Cold Comfort," "The King of Porn," "Miscuts," "In Between," and "Renovations," are part of a work in progress. They attempt to show how the characters, although they may seem to struggle for independence from the family unit, are in fact strengthening the bonds...