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Discrimination in Imposing the Death Penalty

by death. The word draconian survives to describe unusually harsh legal penalties. In modern times the use of capital punishment...

Using Marijuana and Its Psychological Impact

concentrating; it is also known that pot makes learning new information difficult ("Growing," 1989). Marijuana, like some other dr...

Lawsuits Against the Tobacco Industry

This 7 page paper discusses the relationship between tobacco use and the legal system, particularly with regard to underage smokin...

An Overview of Hepatitis C

an epidemic. More and more people are becoming infected with HCV, and it could reach epidemic proportions soon. Now is the time to...

A Model Analysis of Rent Controlled Properties

This 6 page paper discusses real property management and the methods of traditional assessment, including easily available statist...

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 in Business Decisions

null hypothesis and if they has to be rejected we will accept the hypothesis with the use of statistical analysis (Curwin and Slat...

General Motors Expansion Forecast

in which General Motors engages, largely due to favorable market conditions and taxation structures that support such ventures in ...

World Statistics on Child Labor

came from the "1991 trade liberalization" experience in India which generated losses in tariff protection for employers and brough...

Demonstrating Pearson r Test

set of statements, with answers ranging from highly inaccurate to highly accurate, With seven potential answers the responses can ...

Problems in Probability and Statistics

middle value out of the set, which in this case is 2. Median = 2 Other useful statistical calculations that can be performed upo...

The Influence of Unemployment on the US Economy

in 2011, which continues into 2012, with the April 2012 having an unemployment rate of 8.1%, but this increased to 8.2%. The pat...

Alpha Values and Inferential Statistics

itself flawed, such that no matter how many tests are performed, the same inaccuracies will be repeated (Sommer, 2010). This can b...

Statistical Misrepresentation

For instance, while the median home prices in the Country Club neighborhood of Denver is more than $1,070,000, those individuals w...

China: Assessing Gender Inequality

some countries have managed to make decent headway towards addressing the fundamental social and cultural disparities that exist b...

Statistical Analysis and its Applications

typically found to occur. The findings suggested that the majority of individuals chose to leave their childhood faith before they...

Statistical Trend Analysis

of the school age population will primarily speak a language other than English (Flynn & Hill, 2005). Trends such as these can p...

Sex and Renewable Energy Statistics

determine that the government is able to invest resources into the development of those new energy technologies which will yield s...

Research and Statistics

At times, the use of a dual approach to research, including both quantitative and qualitative methods, can provide a basis for exp...

Descriptive Statistic Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the analysis of descriptive statistics. Analysis of histograms is also carried out....

Correlations, ANOVA, and T-Tests

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at various statistical tests of significance. T-tests, ANOVA, and correlational statis...

Analysis of the HR 29 Mobile Medical Homeless Health Improvement Act

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at the HR 29 Mobile Medical Homeless Health Improvement Act. Background details and stat...

A Summary of "Science Matters"

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Hazen and Trefil's "Science Matters". The reader's own impression of the work is give...

African American Contributions to Science, Politics, and Mathematics

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at important African American figures in the history of science, math, and politics. W.E...

Radical Relativism contra Realism in Philosophy of Science

In a paper of thirteen pages, the writer looks at radical relativism and realism in philosophy of science. Radical relativism is c...

Change at Monsanto

In the 1990's Monsanto changed from a general chemical company to a firm specializing in life sciences. Using a case study the ch...

Science-Fiction: Defining a Concept

the idea of life created not by God but by man and the repercussions produced by such an event. Science does play a key role in an...

Was Washoe Cognitive and What is Hard Science?

the requirement of awareness. When deaf children learn signing from a young age it may be argued that at first the process is beha...

Science and Serendipity

fungi mold began to grow in one of his petri dishes (Lightman, 2006). Fleming realized, of course, that the mold was successful in...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...