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An Analysis of Crime Statistics (1968 through 2008)

an interesting tale, but the data must be reviewed in concert with economic and social trends that affect the nation overall. Some...

An Overview of Hepatitis C

an epidemic. More and more people are becoming infected with HCV, and it could reach epidemic proportions soon. Now is the time to...

Domestic Abuse and Violence

was of paramount importance. Thankfully, after many beatings, lacerations, and threats she packed up and left before the headlines...

21st Century Significance of COBOL

(2002). In 1985, ANSI went on to create another revised version that contained new features, but that was not the end of it as t...

Steel and Automotive Industries of the United States and Their Impact Upon America's Trade Deficit

plants in other countries Levin, 2000). The U.S. automotive deficit with Japan, for example, represents about 60 percent of the en...

Primary Crime Data Sources: Compare/Contrast

rural, urban, gender, culture and age (Bureau of Justice, 2001). NCVS modified its methodology in the late 1980s to improve upon ...

The Problem of Poverty: A Look at Santa Rosa, Florida

11.9%(2004) ("Santa Rosa County," 2008). * There is less poverty in Santa Rosa County than in Florida overall. * Yet, clos...

California Drug Statistics

groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...

Procrastination and GPA

health when deadlines are far off" (Chu and Choi, 2005, p. 245). On the other hand, the Tice and Baumeister study also reported th...

Paranoia and Schizophrenia

p. 5). Nevertheless, the fact that a diagnostic criteria is listed in the book, detailed and complex, tends to encourage the perce...

The Research Process

. . . 19 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)

are required under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act and the Pollution Prevention Act to report annually to E...

Poverty in Arkansas

Poverty is widespread in Arkansas, but there are pockets of poverty that are worth exploring. There are also areas where poverty i...

The Role of Gender in Domestic Violence

abuse anyway? Does it mean beating another human being exclusively or can other physically violent acts qualify? In studying this ...

British Virgin Islands Tourism 2004 - 2005

the use of quantitative data taken the British Virgin Islands Governments web site where different economic statistics are present...

JP Morgan Chase IT Strategic Plan

In this case, an anecdote about JP Morgan is relayed which serves as an introduction for how this firm might approach the subject ...

U.S. and Japan Health Care

(Wise, 2005). One of the major health issues in the U.S. and other Western countries is obesity (Wise, 2005). It is estimated tha...

A Treatment Research Study on Adolescent Depression

and those who have been diagnosed as having a major depressive episode (Editors, 2006). As the data verify, girls are far more lik...

A Letter to Senator Hillary Clinton

categorized into four classifications: * "Type I. Excision of the prepuce, with or without excision of part or all of the clitoris...

4 Questions on Social Research Statistics Answered

in Alaska with puppy growth in New York (Correlation does not equal Causation, n.d.). If tracking both over the course of several...

Trend Analysis of Wal-Mart

are presented in Table 2. Table 2. Wal-Mart Statistics Item Derivation Wal-Mart 2005 2004 2003 EPS 12 months earnings ? Number...

Question with Regard to Travelling Auditors

approaches seen when using linear programming, the first is to maximise the benefits of resources, the second is to minimise the c...

High Risk Behavior in Adolescents

applied here validate all 181 cases. The third is a "date-charge" set of statistics, indicating when the arrests occurred. Perha...

Life in Mount Sinai, New York

Sinai, New York. It seems that members of the community treat us well. Do they treat people who are different less well? In gener...

Drug Abuse Among Adolescents and Behavior Therapy

reported that behavior therapy follows "a format of therapist modeling, behavior rehearsal, specific therapy assignments, self-rec...

United Arab Emirates and Traffic Accidents

traffic accidents, but in Dubai, a similar statistic is one person is injured every four hoursii. This is more pronounced for yout...

Management Information Systems in Schools Research

is narrower and more concentrated by looking to information to be gained in-depth from a smaller quantity of subjects. Often this...

Data on U.S. Poverty

1970, 20.5 percent of poor Americans lived in the suburbs, in 2000, that had expanded to 35.9 percent and in 2004, the ratio incre...

Arson in New Jersey: A County Analysis

Arson is not handled typically in any jurisdiction. Sometimes, firefighters will be involved where in some jurisdictions, police s...

The Street Youth of Canada

younger end of the spectrum, of this population, sees more girls than boys ("Homeless Youth in Canada," 2006). In all, approximate...