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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...

History of Turkey and Kuwait's Rates of Exchange

East. Kuwait has nearly ninety-four billion barrels of crude oil in reserve which is ten percent of the World Reserves. Petrole...

Hoshin Planning Specific to Mortality Rates for Medical Conditions

screenings, and could be admitted to hospitals for rather routine reasons. Today, many individuals are quite ill when they finall...

Causes/Effects of the High Divorce Rate

states that the "fragility of modern marriage" is related to the same factors that have elevated societys regard for this relation...

THE RISING RATES OF FORECLOSURES - AND THE REASONS

months after the housing meltdown began, the U.S. is still seeing a huge spike in foreclosure rates. The problems, it seems, haven...

Divorce Rate

a substantial number of divorces that would not have occurred otherwise" (Why Divorce Rates Increased, 2008). This is something th...

Internal Rate of Return

as term and nominal interest rate. This is an approach which allows for a direct comparison to be made. When an investment...

The Problem of High Staff Turnover Rates of Nurses in Primary Healthcare in Saudi Arabia

great importance placed on issues such as maternity services, which are seen as lower priorities in most developing countries (WHO...

Workforce Participation Rates

riveter). But with the war, the demand for workers grew, and "everyone" agreed that women would work; they also agreed that the jo...

Digital Equality and the E-Rate

Consider, for example, the Universal Service Fund (the program more commonly called the E-rate program). The E-rate program was d...

Why Ocean Exploration Should be Funded at the Same Rate as Space Exploration

food; they provide resources (such as oil and natural gas); and they are a "highway" for commerce among countries (Exploration of ...

Drop in Homicide Rate in New York City 1992-2006

that happened during the 1990s that could explain the drop, including the decrease in cocaine usage, the general aging of the popu...

Hedging and Exchange Rates Risks

ability of Australian companies to pay their debts and interest payments as a weak dollar would escalate the level, of debt. This ...

Improving High School Graduation Rates for Texas Minorities in the Presence of Exit-Level Testing

U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...

Overview of a Hospital's Reduced Rate Prescription Drug Plan

to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its investment in...

Purpose of the Second Edition Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale

particularly useful in determining the prevalence of at-risk students in academic populations. Uhing et al (2005) note how the BE...

Fixed or Pegged Exchange Rates and How They Are Used

over years in terms of international trade has been the exchange rate fluctuations. There have also been many attempts to use a ra...

December 2005 Rates Will Not Be Raised by the Federal Reserve

year in order to ward off inflation. All bets may be off now though, given the disruptive effect that Katrina may have on the econ...

Executive Summary on Englewood, Chicago, Illinois' Rates of Infant Mortality

in the state of Illinois. In assessing the statistical data provided by organizations like the World Health Organization, the Na...

NJ and Turnover Rates of Teachers

educator performance (NJBE, 2005). The plan called for educators to implement strategies supporting exemplary educational practic...

Whites v. Blacks and Dropout Rate Disproportionment

2005). Despite the changes in college attendance levels noted above, black males are much less likely to graduate from co...

The Bank of England Base Rate Increase of November 2006

to control inflation the final decision as to whether or not interest rates would increase was seen as residing with the governmen...

Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

more sensitive. To assess both these measures, which are both discounted cash flow measures we need to look at each and assess how...

Burglary Rates and the Issue of Gun Ownership

In 2005, 3,984 burglaries were committed in the municipality. This translates to a rate of 0.011 burglaries per citizen (Nemerov,...

Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

one tool, there are also others, such as international rate of return, this is an alternative measure, and for some this is a bett...

The Use of Antidepressants and Increased Suicide Rates in Adolescents

adolescents there were no real treatment alternatives for these children (Brent, 2004). The common belief, in fact, was that thos...

Avian Flu 2

include HPAI in a local bird population and contact with another patient with an unexplained repository disease and a positive res...

A New FDI Case Study

the US. However holiday patterns where changing, and while a decade ago the focus was on the US and Europe, this market was now ma...

Societal Causes of Divorce.

caught in the middle, though the authors point out that there are many tensions in Western marriages as well (Kung, Hung and Chan)...

Capital Budgeting Tools

tool, but unlikely to be used alone, the company will also want to look at the potential for profit. Companies will look at the ...