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1.	History and psychology of baby abandonment and infanticide	The author recounts incidents of child abandonment and infanticide in history, offering information on the reasons for it, methods, psychological damage, and alternatives.	Abandoned children; Infanticide; Infanticide--History;

2.	The Effect of Guided Math Groups on the Performance of Third-Grade Elementary Students in Mathematics	The purpose of this study was to compare the mathematics achievement of third-grade students who were taught mathematics using guided math groups with students who were taught with whole-group direct instruction....	Ability grouping in education; Education, Elementary; Mathematics--Study and teaching; Dissertations, Academic;

3.	Accounting in the World of Business	The author, an academic advisor for accounting students, asks some difficult questions about the accounting profession in this thesis in light of the Enron and World Com scandals. In these cases, the accounting...	Accounting--Moral and ethical aspects; Corporations--Accounting; Enron Corp.--Accounting--Corrupt practices; WorldCom (Firm)--Accounting;

4.	Advertising Effectively Has Changed, Have You?	This thesis explores the various techniques of advertising and how it has changed, and describes the most effective means for different situations in today's market.	Advertising;

5.	Affirmative action: the psychological effect	This paper focuses on the need to amend the affirmative actions policy and focus on alternatives to solve racial discrimination in the United States. It examines the history and laws that created the program...	Affirmative action programs;

6.	Will the Major Air Carriers Survive: An Analysis of the Industry	The author looks at the airline industry after September 11, 2001, and how that event, as well as bad business decisions, have brought about the bankrupty or mergers of several major carriers. Those that...	Airlines;

7.	Alzheimer's Disease	The purpose of this thesis is to provide a better understanding of what Alzheimer's Disease is, what the symptoms are, what the implications are for care givers and for medical professionals, and possible...	Alzheimer's disease--Age factors; Alzheimer's disease; Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Care;

8.	The Demise of the French Culture by Americanization	The author makes the claim that French culture is undergoing a rapid decline due to three primary American influences--McDonald's restaurants, the increased use in French society of American English, and...	Americanization; France; National characteristics, French; National characteristics, American;

9.	Steroids and Athletes	The author looks at the effects, and unhealthy side effects, of anabolic steroids on the bodies of athletes.	Anabolic steroids--Health aspects; Doping in sports; Athletes--drug use;

10.	How the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Became a Fallen Flag	The answers are never simple when a railroad becomes a fallen flag. In 1996, The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad was finished weathering the storm, following other railroads into the oblivion of...	Anschutz, Philip; Aydelott, Gale B.; Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company; Palmer, William Jackson, 1836-1909; Railroads--Mergers--United States;

11.	The Whirlwind Effect: Getting Through College with ADHD and the Integrated Studies Program	The author recounts his experiences as a college student with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and how it made it difficult for him to select and concentrate on a major course of study. He explans...	Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults; College students with disabilities; Dissertations, Academic;

12.	Attention Deficit Disorder: The Effect of Physical Activity and Recreation in place of Medication	The purpose of this thesis is to provide evidentiary support for the theory that physical activity and recreation can be used as a treatment modality for children in place of medication.	Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder--Alternative treatment;

13.	Why Automakers and Brazil are Going to Pieces: Modular Assembly in the Auto Industry	Modular automobile assembly in Brazil serves as a model for the auto industry in the United States and elsewhere. It cuts costs because it requires fewer workers, but this causes problems with auto worker...	Automobile industry and trade--Brazil; Automobile factories--United States; Automobile factories--Brazil;

14.	Marketing in the Media and Air Pollution	After a career in the auto industry, the author has a growing concern regarding the air pollution caused by the internal combustion engine, from automobiles in particular, and worries that the media markets...	Automobiles--Motors--Exhaust gas--Environmental aspects; Automobiles--Marketing;

15.	Stellar evolution and the advent of black holes	Developments in telescopes and other technology have allowed us to see what we never could before--the deaths of stars, known as black holes. This thesis traces the stellar evolution that sometimes results...	Black holes (Astronomy); Kerr black holes; Astronomy;

16.	Media's influence on eating disorders	This thesis explores the role that the media plays in perpetuating eating disorders among young women. The portrayal of thin models and actresses reinforces an unrealistic ideal body image. The author...	Body image in women; Eating disorders in women; Women in mass media;

17.	Objects of Desire: How evolved, instinctual motivational/reinforced mechanisms and sexual difference in the human brain accounts for psychopathologies.	This paper examines the variable of sexual development and sexual influences on the brain, and how the sex variable affects instinctual behaviors in males and females. An evolutionary framework is employed...	Brain--Sex differences; Sex differences (Psychology);

18.	Breast Cancer: What Every Woman Needs to Know	Breast cancer is a very risky and serious disease. This thesis outlines strategies and procedures women can use to detect cancer and to treat it. It also tells the personal stories of several women who...	Breast--Cancer

19.	Ethical Behavior: Indispensible for Organizational Success	The author argues that ethical behavior is indispensible to the function of an organization, and using the military, hospitals, and corporations as examples, describes the consequences of having misguided...	Business ethics; Professional ethics;

20.	Sandcastle Tours	This project is a business plan for a business called Sandcastle Tours. It outlines all the steps that a person who is starting a small business should follow, including the mission statement, market analysis,...	Business planning;

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