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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...

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...

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...

Opposition To Drunk Driving

or being victim to - an automobile accident, particularly when such a catastrophe is caused by a drunk driver. Not only does it i...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Antismoking Campaign Strategies

goal of decreasing the prevalence of adult cigarette use to less than 12 percent, the CDC analyzed the data gathered by the 2008 N...

Durkheim's Theory of Suicide

figures. Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Middle East tend to withhold accurate information about the incidence of suicide ...

Karl Pearson and His Contributions to Statistics

of information to the field of statistics. Pearson was the one who came up with the concept chi-square and standard deviation for ...

Pregnant Teens

discusses three aspects of teen pregnancy: statistics indicating how often it occurs; the effect of such pregnancy on the teenager...

BREAST CANCER -- MICHIGAN

Wisdom, 2004). Between 1990 and 2000, breast cancers diagnosed earlier (thus leading to a higher survival rate), increase...

Research and Statistics in Psychology

psychological research" (Greene and Oliveira, 2006, p.3). And the aim of psychological research is to "test psychological theories...

Psychology As A Career

of a few areas of practice. Because the elderly population is growing so fast, those trained in geropsychology may have less chall...

Life-long Learning in Adult Education

second comprising twenty-one percent. Part-time college and university degree programs, in turn, comprised only five percent of a...

A Look at Burglary Statistics in New York City and Cincinnati

crime. No force is used. Rather, the burglar enters a premises, or even merely trespasses on property, and takes what he likes. S...

Black and Decker and the Use of Leading Indicators

This 3 page paper looks at what economic indicators may be useful for Black and Decker and discusses what they might mean for the ...

Conducting Drug-Use Research/Texas Prisoners

first institution listed in regards to male offenders, which is the James V. Allred prison unit, located just outside of Wichita F...

Social Security Versus The American Dream

public transportation or carpooling with friends. To fill up the tank of this older model, low mileage car costs $75. Moreover, ...

Accountants and Auditors

of Labor Statistics, 2007). The education needed for such a career can be relatively simple, such as taking courses to get a cer...

Medical Coders

Building on the work of William Farr, Jacques Bertillon, the chief statistician for the city of Paris, devised a revised classific...