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"Conflict Avoidance Behavior and Dominance/Submissiveness in Interpersonal Relationships
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The proposed research study will investigate the relationship between conflict avoidance behavior and manifestations of dominance or submissiveness in interpersonal relationships. The proposed study will test the following research hypothesis: Individuals with strong submissive personality characteristics will employ conflict avoidance strategies in interpersonal conflict situations more often than individuals with strong dominant personality characteristics.


Theoretical support and background information for the proposed study will be obtained from published literature related to interpersonal conflict. Subjects for the proposed..."

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Studies of reaction times have been of interest to a wide variety of people for several centuries. Among one of the industries that stands to benefit the most from a more comprehensive understanding of reaction times is the automobile insurance industry, which charges customers premiums based on the risk that they might get into an accident. There is reason to believe that this propensity is directly correlated to reaction time. This paper shows that, whereas, in simple reaction time experiments, there is only one stimulus and one response, in choice reaction time experiments, the user must give a response that corresponds to the stimulus. This system most closely resembles that of driving. The paper shows that insurers have found that reaction time is determined as the time required for a driver to perceive a hazard and apply the brakes or turn the steering wheel. As a result, reaction time tests used to measure driving competency would have to focus on this particular metric.

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"Other studies have shown that reaction times improve when there is a sense of anticipation in the subject, which bodes poorly for the method's use to the automobile insurance industry. Sanders (1998, p. 21) This has two implications to the industry: first, people with higher reaction times will tend to be better drivers and people who engage in reaction-time intensive activities such as video games will have higher reaction times. Secondly, testing will not reveal skills as well as might have been thought. Brebner and Welford (1980) report that reaction times are faster when the subject has been warned that a stimulus will arrive soon."

Tags:C.H.R.R., fatigue

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This paper explains that being embarrassed in front of others horrifies individuals suffering from "Avoidant Personality Disorders". As a result, they usually withdraw from social gatherings to avoid any sort of discomfort. The author reports that the research showed around 75 percent of the patients who acquire social phobia claim they were vulnerable to shyness during childhood. The paper pointed out that children who came from broken homes, foster homes, and experienced frequent moves, were greatly susceptible to "Avoidant Personality Disorder".

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"Hardly any thing is known about the etiology of Avoidant Personality Disorder. One cannot easily determine whether a child is suffering from this disorder or not. From this article, one can analyze that personality disorders are developed through temperamental characteristics present during childhood. "There is evidence that anxious traits are familial with inheritabilities of approximately 50%. Thus, one might expect that some of the core features of AVPD would be present in childhood, although not necessarily at severe enough levels to cause impairment and to constitute a disorder." "

Tags:embarrassment, withdraw, phobia, shyness, etiology

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This paper explains that, in their article "Avoiding Green Marketing Myopia", Ottman, Stafford and Hartmann present three concepts to avoid the green marketing myopia: consumer value positioning, calibration of consumer knowledge and the credibility of product claims. Next, the author points out that Ottman et. al. believe that many errors have been made marketing green products; however, they feel strongly that, in the future, the marketing of all products will include the concept of "green". The paper analyzes the success of the green marketing of the Apple IPod Commerce and the failure of the "pay-per-wash" service by Electrolux in Sweden.

Table of Contents:
Summary of Article
Authors' Opinion
What Will It Take to Make the Public Go Green
The Future of Green Marketing

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"An example is made of the company Electrolux in Sweden. In 1999, to encourage water and energy efficiency they pioneered a "pay-per-wash" service where consumers were given (free) new, efficient washing machines for a small home installation fee and were then charged 10 kroner (about $1.25 U.S.) per wash. The machines were connected via the internet to a central database to monitor use and Electrolux maintained ownership and free servicing of the washers.
"Pay per wash" failed. Why? Because it was not marketed per the guidelines presented in this article."

Tags:knowledge, tunnel vision, value credibility ipod

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In this article, the writer explains why providing the body with water is extremely important for health maintenance. When not enough water is consumed it causes the body to become dehydrated. The writer relates that dehydration is a reduction of body water and notes that dehydration is caused when too much body water is lost and not enough is consumed. The symptoms of dehydration and methods to avoid the occurrence of dehydration are described as well. The paper further discusses that water provides the body with many functions and is essential to include in an everyday diet. According to the paper, in order to avoid the consequences of dehydration it is exceedingly important to drink fluids and consume foods that contain water regularly.

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"Consuming high amounts of vegetables and fruits provide the body with the daily amount of potassium. If the body has a lack electrolytes it can lead to electrolyte imbalance. One may lose high amounts of electrolytes from illness. The body may lose high amount of sodium, chloride, and potassium from sweating, vomiting, or kidney disorders. There can be serious side effects from inadequate amounts is potassium, which consist of muscle cramps, confusion, and irregular heartbeat. Some medications that are used to treat hypertension affect potassium loss. It is necessary to replenish the body with electrolytes when they are lost so there are not extreme consequences. There may also be terrible side effects from consuming high amount of potassium. Supplements that contain high amounts of potassium may cause vomiting. If a large amount of potassium goes into the blood it causes the heart to stop. Providing the body with only the recommended amounts of electrolytes can be crucial to avoid harsh side effects."

Tags:potassium, water, drink, fluids

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This paper is a review of the book "13 Fatal Errors Managers Make and How You Can Avoid Them" by E. Steven Brown which lists 13 fatal errors and shows how to avoid them while also saying much about management and business in general.

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This paper reflects the author's decision-making process as he contemplates and ultimately decides to pursue corporate law. The paper includes facts and statistics about law careers, specifically focusing on how to avoid being outsourced. The author concludes with a plan of action to build a successful corporate law career while establishing oneself as "non-fungible" or non-tradable.

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"Corporate lawyers work in the center of law and trade and they serve as advisors or advocates for the business that hires them. Most corporate lawyers are categorized as either transactional attorneys or litigators. Transactional attorneys advise companies during large financial transactions such as public offerings of stock, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations and cross-border financing ("Corporate Law"). Litigators are often the lawyers that appear in court to represent plaintiffs or defendants. I would prefer to be more of an inside-man and therefore, a transactional attorney."

Tags:lawyer, fungibility

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This paper examines how, in the article, "Avoid the Four Perils of CRM" , authors Darrell K. Rigby, Frederick F. Reichheld and Phil Schefter provide insightful analysis and guidance from their collective experience advising companies on how to augment their marketing, selling and service strategies more effectively using customer relationship management (CRM) software. It looks at how the authors collectively concur that the need for companies to first define their strategies and the processes required to accomplish their goals is the first step to effectively layering in CRM as an IT investment.

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"The four perils the authors mention include implementing CRM before creating a customer strategy, rolling out CRM before changing your organization to match, assuming the more CRM technology the better, and stalking, not wooing your customers. These four perils all either directly or indirectly relate to change management, a key lesson the authors expand upon in their examples of how CRM implementations can typically fail. An excellent insight from the article is that the mere automating of customer-facing processes does not guarantee success of a strategy; in fact this is another point of failure. "

Tags:Customer, Relationship, Management, it, technology

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This paper explains that, in avoidant personality disorder, persons manifest an extreme fear of negative judgment on them by other people. The author points out that, while manifestations in children are considered isolated symptoms and not a full disorder, APD is a disorder identified for adults; however, there is some linkage in the literature between childhood actions and behaviors and the development of the full disorder in adulthood. The paper relates that psychotherapy is the treatment of choice, usually individual treatment but with some use of group therapy to help patients learn to relate to others.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Features
Childhood Indicators
Treatment
Conclusion

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"Treatment of the avoidant patient has been characterized as having certain pitfalls to be avoided. Appelibaum, Kernberg, Koenigsberg, Stone, and Yeomans (2000) cite other researchers to the effect that the therapist of the avoidant patient may sometimes adopt a compensatorily overzealous stance which is likened to that of the mother trying to engage the avoidant toddler: "The intense tracking attendant on such a stance heightens the risk of dyadic misregulation because it lessens the focus on internal states of self and other. The avoidant patient may consequently experience the therapist as 'intrusive, shadowing or suffocating' . . . even while also welcoming the therapist's persistence in making emotional contact.""

Tags:psychotherapy, children, therapist, judgment, fear

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This paper examines the political and economic conditions present during the period leading up to the American Civil War and considers whether the war could have been avoided given those conditions. After carefully reviewing the politicians, the economy and the politics of the time, the paper concludes that the Civil War was inevitable.

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"Perhaps one starting point, a red flag if you will, happened during the War of 1812. "One of the many anomalies in this war was the bitter opposition by the New England States, despite the fact that it built up their economy." (Morison, p. 396) We know, of course, about the eventual secession of the Confederate states, but in 1814, it was the New England States that went so far as to hold a regional convention to discuss it. Instead, the end of the war promoted what is called "The Era of Good Feeling". It was a time when Americans were tired of sectional and regional arguments. "Manufacturing was displacing shipping as the premier interest of New England and Pennsylvania....Virginia was declining as an agricultural state, but finding no other interest than slave breeding to take the place of tobacco. King Cotton's domain was advancing from South Carolina and Georgia into the new Gulf states...""

Tags:states, slavery, abolitionists, differences, economic, north, south, capitalism, plantation, system