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Are Cesarean Section Rates Too High?

physicians to their patients for cesarean procedures, rather than risk incurring suit by allowing a woman to go through the vagina...

High Textbook Costs Stifle Students' Learning Potential

apply. Basically meaning that minorities and white students with little or no visible means of support are directed, because of th...

Technology Firms and Training of Employees

the form of a formal apprenticeship or just an informal tutelage arrangement, today a working individual all too often has to rely...

Second World War Tragic Battle of Kasserine Pass

several attacks that effectively took down three planes and it is thought that two others were destroyed as well (1998). The ene...

Nursing Research Statistics' Questions

The non-technical interpretation of the results of a study is presented and assessed in the Discussion section. The Introduction ...

Newspaper Media and Deviance Images of Deviance in the Media: A Comparison of Low and High Consensus Deviance Newspaper Articles

of the Articles Elaine Careys January 20, 2003 article entitled "Smoking risks obvious to young" accounts for an example of a low...

Blue Reserve Office Building Analysis

to take into account both land-based phones and portable phones as well. In addition, telephony systems today must support...

Measurement and Psychological Testing

of the ways in which others have defined intelligence and set out to measure or test it. He uses several examples, explaining that...

Employee Drug Testing in the Workplace

be a problem or that the individual they are considering hiring may be abusing prescription drugs, but most strive to ensure that ...

Connection Between Dropping Out of School and Grade Retention

reported that between 1975 and 1995, "overage students entering high school [rose by] almost 40 percent since 1975" (Owings and Ma...

Public School Education and Vouchers

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this paper examines public school vouchers and this program's social impact with standardized tes...

High School Athletics and Steroids

approaches. The growing field of sports psychology offers us this opportunity. Sports psychology can be used to more effectively...

Lack of Anti Satellite Weapons' Control by the Soviet Union and the United States

this position we need to look at the way it was reached including the historical context, as this is the way the current military ...

Sex Survey Statistical Analysis

analysis show to be untrue. Using linear regression and correlation, one can see that some of the numbers given in Ms. Smiths ar...

Convicted Criminals and DNA Mandatory Testing

expenditure of millions of dollars and countless hours of time trying to solve such crimes. Consequently, our legal and criminal ...

Language Testing from Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives

differ. Any form can be instrumental in returning lower-than-optimum scores on language tests. Teachers sensitive to the c...

Study Objectives and Testing Bias

and the purpose of these objectives related to the problem as a whole. This can be done in a single paragraph. The study objecti...

Metabolites and Methadone

Once indigested the methadone is metabolised by the liver. This is mostly by demethylation and followed by cyclization (cytochro...

Article Analysis: An Unconventional Use for Standardized Tests

Therefore, the researchers must demonstrate the purpose of their study through arguments that support the use of standardized test...

Proportionality and Australian Law

in alignment with Constitutional standards. It can be argued, then, that the High Courts acceptance of the relevance of proportio...

Government Roles for Women

based on criteria, but that criteria really should not include gender. Instead, it is thought that presidents choose based on all ...

Art of Stagecraft

Carra 104). The rationale behind these evaluations is based on the idea that the different positions enhance or weaken the emoti...

Sweetwater Chocolate Bars and Cookies Marketing Plan

is a quite conservative goal and may be one that we surpass merely by default after launching the most basic of marketing initiati...

Unemployment Rates and the Presidency

create new jobs, the Bush administration has "indelibly identified itself with the performance of the economy" (Beattie, 2003, p. ...

Industrialized Nations, Violent Crime, and High US Violent Crime Rates

that the determinants of violence are socio-economic and cultural factors rather than the availability of any particular deadly in...

Public Communication Issues

the degree of apprehension in an adult (Hale, 2002). Then there are the problems in that people with communication apprehe...

Education and Qualitative Content Analysis

In other words, the achievement of goals is clearly a focus of the assessment and testing process. But on an individual level, as...

Building a New High School in Neshaminy, PA

their replacements say theyll try to stop the loan with a lawsuit if necessary. The three challengers who were guaranteed board se...

Ethical Inquiry into Bias in Testing

test within the educational environment and the way in which the test will shape change in the educational environment. Recognizi...

Ethics, Assessments, and Testing

factors that are not within an educators or students control. For example, critics have argued that standardized testing is socio...