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Heart Disease and the Role of Cholesterol

cholesterol has been believed to be a correlate in heart disease for several decades. In a February 1990 "American Family Physici...

Examination of Breast Cancer

& Estrin, 2003). However, a core biopsy or incisional biopsy is when just a small part of the tissue is used ( Pfeuffer & Estrin, ...

Student Posed Questions on Statistical Analysis

an hypothesis. If the sales are the same in all locations they should all have the same average. If we take the average daily sale...

Diversity in Occupations in Health Care

hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...

Senior Citizens and Housing

heart attacks and strokes (Bartelmes, 2002). These conditions may also lead to slow but progressive disability (Bartelmes, 2002). ...

Statistical Tools and Their Appropriate Uses

data, researchers determine an alpha level, which is basically "how willing they are to be wrong when they state that there is a r...

Type I and Type II Errors and Statistical Testing Uses

to third world countries where there are problems such as hunger and famine. The development of foods that need lesser levels of w...

Breast Cancer Research Article and Critique of Qualitative Research

prevent women from participating. The purpose of this study is to determine whether African American womens perceptions of BSE, P...

Fear of Hand Sanitizer, a Statistical Sampling

time; there is now a class of staphylococcus bacteria that is resistant to all known antibiotics and has been blamed for the death...

Texas Crime and Minorities

in Texas is immense and far-reaching. Bratschi (1995) contends the ultimate factor in the overwhelming racial bias within mass me...

Prevention Programs for Juvenile Delinquency

all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...

Intervention and Teenage Pregnancy

needs to be done in this area. Table 1 illustrates the distribution of teen pregnancies by ethnic group. Table 1. Teen Pregnanci...

The City of Shelby and Adolescent Gang Prevention Planning 4

between 100,000 and 249,999 population (St. Gerard, 2004). Gang activity was also reported in more than 2,300 cities where the pop...

Student Supplied Psychoeducational Report

* Attention, Organization and Processing: Juliettes abilities in pair cancellation, auditory attention, planning, and processing s...

Minorities in the Legal Field

chances than those in the privileged classes. Thus, it is more likely than not that those who have greater power and means in soci...

4 ANOVA Statistics Questions Week II

In a hypothesis test, level of significance is . The null hypothesis H0 is that there is no difference between employment...

Information on Statistics Selection

the center. These time records should include originating time; elapsed time between stages of the process of treating the patien...

Study Sample and an Application of Statistical Analysis

30 of the respondents or 32.6% had no history of abuse. 24 respondents equating to 26.08% of the sample had a history of abuse as ...

Minorities in Prison and Problems Experienced After Their Release

is in prison or jail" (The Human Rights Watch, 2000). Other minorities comprise a significant...

Five Questions on Public Health Nursing

the term public health nurses" (JWA - Lillian Wald, n.d.). The public health nurses at the turn of the 20th century visited...

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Anesthesiologistsm and Drug Abuse

to are not likely to be illicit drugs but rather the same prescribed drugs with which they treat their patients (Texas Medical Ass...

Criminal Justice Planning Office Establishment

and technical assistance to increase the knowledge and skills of all personnel in the criminal justice system (WV Div. of Criminal...

Reading Levels and Education Research

of whole language instruction, however, is that many children have difficulty moving from totally free self-expression to masterin...

Statistics Questions and a Dissertation Plan

However, even in a growth industry there is the need for any company to compete. Michael Porter has identified two sources of comp...

Probability and Statistics Questions VII

2-20. Age, Gender and Personnel What is the probability that the manager chosen will be either a woman over 50 or both...

Africa and the Impact of AIDS

leaving behind (The Lancet, 2005). A tremendous percentage of these deaths are reported as deaths from pneumonia or tuberculosis,...

WWW and Money Making

same business practices and principles of traditional businesses (Goldsborough, 2002). 2. Minimize your expenses. This was another...

Aging and Mitochondria

Medical Association, 2004). Chronic conditions often lead to medical crises, such as fractured hips, stokes, heart attacks and st...

21st Century United States and Hunger

are expensive. Born to the wrong parents, some children end up with little to eat because their struggling mothers and fathers do ...

Human Hands and Germs

& Larson, 2002, p.247) of these illnesses emanated from the home, 90% (Kagan, Aiello & Larson, 2002) of salmonella infections are ...