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High School Graduation Rates and Implications for Cultural Concerns in the United States, China, and South Africa

Abstract: High school dropout rates remain a vital concern in many parts of the world. This is by no means a problem confined to...

STATISTICS AND QUESTIONS

how much money is being dedicated to these expenses over a period of time, then decide, based on those figures, where to cut back....

Statistical Testing

The t-test gives as a score of 1.5691772 and the p-value (which is a probability value) is 0.074085. From this result there is a s...

Epidemiology; Intravenous Drug Users in New York

users were admitted, which made up 0.2% of all the relevant admissions and cocaine users, (no smoked) had 12,876 admissions, makin...

A Probation Officer's View Of Effectiveness

OF EFFECTIVENESS The new evaluation format proposes the following theories: 1) use recidivism statistics as a guide to improvemen...

Urban Black Male Adolescents

families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...

Criminal Justice Issues

effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...

MEXICO, ECONOMIC STATISTICS & GROWTH DIAGNOSTICS

The authors note that the main problem with this is the impression that any reform is better than no reform at all -- and the deep...

Regression Analysis Using Health Statistics

proportion of the population in a country which are living to between the ages of 17 years and 80 years. The data, and the data ta...

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...

Fort Bend County, Texas/Health Care Spending

This paper offers a summary of "Health care spending, quality and outcomes: More isn't always better" by Fisher, et al (2009). The...

US/Childhood Neglect

This research paper pertains to the problem of childhood abuse and neglect within the US. Statistics and discussion of relevant re...

High Blood Pressure Categlories Interventions

This essay explains and reports many issues related to this condition. The four categories related to diagnostic criteria are repo...

Women's Participation in Domestic Violence

This essay, first of all, considers the impact of recent media exposure in regards to domestic violence incidents and celebrities....

Using a T-Test to Assess Data

The paper uses descriptive statistics and shows the use of hypothesis testing utilizing a two tailed t-test. The data provided ar...

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 ...

Implications of X26 Tasers in Excited Delirium Deaths

this case reveals how X26 Tasers are being implicated in deaths attributed to excited delirium. Is this implication justified? F...

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...

Childhood Obesity Statistics, Public Health Assessment

This paper pertains to low-income community assessment, and then presents statistics on childhood obesity prevalence. Three pages...

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...

Physical Activity a Global Health Issue

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the severity of physical inactivity worldwide. This paper includes the statistics for the p...

Plastic Surgery

plastic surgery as a cultural phenomenon, that is, why people choose to have elective surgery. Types of plastic surgery It is a ...

Bipolar Disorder

the brain has long been thought to be the cause, but researchers at Washington University have discovered possible structural abno...

No Child Left behind; Data Analysis, Discussion and Recommendations

attainment figures. It is also notable that after a period of improvements the last few years, 2003 - 2005 appear to have...

Fair Trade In The United Kingdom

items (Oxfam, 2007). In 2005, "Oxfam sold ?3.4 million worth of Fairtrade food" (Oxfam, 2007). These included a vast assortment of...

Diabetes in America

the pancreas do not produce enough insulin in order to meet the bodys needs, and this is in part attributable to the acquired decr...

High School Dropouts/North Toledo, OH

average dropout rate for Ohio high schools during the 2000-01 school year was 3.9 percent (Balistreri). On average, however, highe...

AIDS: What is Means to Ohio

all susceptible to being infected with this devastating disease. Unfortunately, in fact, HIV infections are increasing among all ...

Statistics in Surgical ICU

within institutions where manual charting of ventilators settings is performed well, "automatic data collection can eliminate dela...