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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 ...

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...

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...

AN EXPLANATION ABOUT INTEREST RATES

But what causes interest rates to move over time, between institutions and across borders? A great deal depends on what is set by ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Monetary Policies their Impact on the GDP Unemployment, Inflation and Interest Rates

This 10 page paper considers how monetary policies and the tools that implement them can impact on an economy. The paper looks fir...

Divorce Rate

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

Easton Bell Inc., Dealing With Forgiven Currency Exchange Rate Risks

are able to manage the supply chain to obtain lower prices on the goods that they sell. A master of this has been Nike with the ou...

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...

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...

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...

Reducing Recidivism Rates

are supposed to teach him but that is not what happens. The offender often has no idea what the goal is of each activity and certa...

Fixed and Floating Exchange Rates

leaves government with policy dilemmas regarding which of the three factors are more important and will be followed (De Grauwe, 20...

Improving Adult Immunization Rates

considered important for their health, we can consider the statistics on influenza vaccinations specifically. National guidelines...

Mealtime Television Watching and Rates of Divorce

In five pages this paper hypothetically examines whether or not there is a connection between watching television during dinner ti...

The Influence of Interest Rates on Big Drive Auto

price will increase demand and revenue there may be some benefit to cutting prices fr Big Drive Auto. 2. Identify how interest ra...

Air Conditioner SEER Rating And Geothermal Heat Pump Efficiency

Geothermal heat pumps, by comparison, do not use outside air to create heat but rather that which is produced by the earth itself....

MONEY AND INTEREST RATES

might include leading inflation indicators, such as unemployment reports (low unemployment can lead to higher inflation); employme...

Microfinance Funds and the Mitigation of Exchange Rate Risk

the funds to risk in addition to those expected within investments, such as business risks, there are also political risks that te...

Crime Rates HIgher Among Ethnic Groups

arrest histories. Background In an effort to prove that the literature is biased when reporting...