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    and social problems impacted the data generated. Thus, Rys demonstrated that exposure to unpleasant living conditions does negatively affect one’s life. Nina Mulia, Dr.P.H, Yu Ye, Sarah Zemore, and Thomas Greenfield (2008), conducted a study examining the adverse health effects of social disadvantage on minority populations. The researchers sought to find out if said adverse health effects led to alcohol problems. In their study, they focus on social disadvantage as a source of stress and analyze

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    The sampling technique in which I would utilize for this research design would be a stratified random sampling technique. In efforts to understand more of this particular research, the stratified random sampling technique will allow for sampling among a particular population, in this case female combat veterans who have endured combat operational stress. In order to create a stratified random sample, I would take the following steps: 1. Define the designated population as female combat veterans

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    Due in large part to the evidence that proves genetically modified crops to be much less safe than the crops that are bread without any modification, many U.S. citizens express anger or disgust toward these food products. The acceptance of these modified food products in the U.S. is a controversial subject, and it has attracted an extensive amount of research study due to the alarming difference between the opinions of the general public who say it is unsafe, and the opinions of the American Association

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    AUDITING PROCUREMENT CARDS (P-CARDS) BRAD TOMLINSON, ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR COMPUTER ASSISTED AUDIT GROUP OHIO DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION, AUDIT DIVISION Telephone 614-387-2068 Email: bradley_tomlinson@tax.state.oh.us WHAT ARE P-CARDS? An enhanced credit card used by business employees. It is similar to a MasterCard or Visa card, but contains more information that can be used to control purchases such as dollar limits and number of transactions within a given period or for an individual

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    Fear of Crime Seriousness of Crime Demographic as Control 6321 Quantitative Analysis in Criminal Justice Introduction The purpose of this paper is to explore the variables associated with the fear of crime and how serious can crime would be estimate. There are three factors that will be examined in this research. The first is that people have fear of crime by age, martial statues and education. This paper will attempt to explain these variances through literature review. The author of

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    Social media continues to grow in popularity as more websites and applications create various ways for people to share their lives through pictures and words. It has become increasingly popular among teenagers and college students, resulting in everyone having the opportunity to judge and compare others to themselves. This creates the problem of if social media can lower or raise the self-esteem of teenagers. As they spend more time looking at various profiles, people will feel positively or negatively

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    Marist Poll

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    Marist College polling an “A” grade for its accuracy (Nate Silver 538). Marist does not have a history of partisan or ideological bias. However, as with any polling entity, their results should be analyzed assiduously. Methodology of the Poll a. The sample size of this poll is 1,125 adults and was limited to those that reside in the United States. The margin of error is +/- 2.9 percentage points. Most political science research embraces the 95% level of confidence (Damore

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    average time for the sample was 6.5 minutes. Answer each of the following questions pertaining to the above paragraph. (40 points) a) Identify the population being targeted by this study. a. The

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    decision-making purposes. This information is processed from the collected raw data to come up with meaningful conclusions. c). Population refers to a set of unit with common characteristics from which statistical sample is drawn for purposes of obtaining the needed data. The information collected from a sample population can be used by statisticians to develop generalized observations which can be applied to the whole population. 2 a). The difference between continuous and discrete data is that variables in

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    The purpose of this report, is to determine whether or not I should hire Jill for the position of “floating” Administrative Assistant, to work any of the three shifts; day, night, or graveyard when the regular assistant is absent. Jill has been diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis, which is currently in remission. The director of operations is telling me not to hire Jill, because if she becomes ill in the future, her medical condition may impact the firm financially. Jill states, “She is currently

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