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" Introduction
This paper will discuss risk status assessment and its role in midwifery. Included in the discussion will be how risk assessment fits into a birth center setting, and how explaining the concept of risk assessment to a client would take place.
Risk Status Assessment & Midwifery
Risk status assessment is an important part of the primary prevention of disease or negative outcome. Negative outcomes are avoided by reducing or altering susceptibility of risks. Secondary prevention of outcomes includes early detection and treatment, also through risk assessment. Tertiary prevention includes the alleviation of problems with the promotion of health, as much as possible within the disease state. Thus risk..."

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"This research paper summarizes the rulings of the Supreme Court regarding abortion since the early 1970s and examines the factors which have influenced the stance of the Court, including its composition. Through its decision in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), the Court established a limited constitutional right of pregnant women to choose to have an abortion. Subsequently, that right has been substantially abridged, especially during the latter phases of the Warren Burger-led Court (1969-1986) and, even more so by the Rehnquist Court. The more conservative orientation of the late Burger and Rehnquist Courts is reflected in the Court's rulings; however, pro-choice and pro-life beliefs and orientations have produced in the 1990s an unstable compromise or standstill concerning the circumstances under..."

Abstract
Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION
Controversy over the Intelligence Quotient and Emotional Quotient in assessing individual abilities
II. BODY
A. Emotional Intelligence
B. Research Studies
C. The Role of IQ
III. SUMMARY
IV. REFERENCES

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"Gang violence is a serious problem for America's cities and towns. As urban poverty worsened in the 1980s, the gang option became an increasingly common choice among urban youth. For some young men, gang membership provided a badly-needed sense of identity and solidarity. With the rapid growth of crack cocaine sales, many gangs also held out the promise of access to a great deal of money. The crack business proved so successful that numerous big-city gangs began expanding their operations to smaller towns. At the same time, the so-called "gangster" lifestyle was glamorized by the entertainment media, and, even without the influence of outside gangs, many small-town youths began forming gangs of their own. By the middle of the 1990s, entrepreneurial drug gangs had developed sophisticated organizations that could accurately be described as branches of..."

Tags: CRIMINAL, JUSTICE, JUVENILE, DELINQUENCY

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"Ongoing research into eating disorders is a significant and important need; this because over 35 percent of American women engage in binge eating, eight percent attempt to control their weight through self-induced vomiting, and nearly six percent abuse laxatives (Kendler, MacLean, Neale, Kessler, Heath & Eaves, 1991). In other words, almost half (49%) of American females have some type of eating disorder.

Clearly, there is a need to fully understand factors that produce eating disorders if therapeutic efforts to remediate the condition are to be successful. The study proposed here is designed to provide new insight into the connection between eating disorders and childhood sexual abuse as part of the effort to attain a more complete phenomena of the etiology of eating..."

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"Introduction
Is clozapine-related agranulocytosis the result of the medication itself or due to an as yet unconfirmed report of a contaminant in the medication which has now been removed by the drug's manufacturers? To determine the answer to this question, the proposed research will compare incidence of precipitant agranulocytosis in a sample of 50 patients beginning clozapine treatment (all with a past history of clozapine-related agranulocytosis which is now cured).

Literature Review
To place the proposed research in the context of the existing work in the field, this section of the proposal presents a comprehensive review of the literature. The first section of the review presents a general discussion of clozapine-induced.."

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"Research Question

Immigration, both legal and illegal, has risen near the top of the national public agenda in the 1990s. Immigration was, for example, a major issue in the 1996 presidential campaign, and is now the subject of major reform bills in Congress. But, the emergence of this issue was not a spontaneous event. Immigration control, and the treatment of immigrants once they arrive in the United States, reached this level on the public agenda through a combination of efforts by politicians and policy entrepreneurs.

Immigration control has always been a significant public issue, but, in recent decades, it has not been a particularly high-priority item. The current concerns over limiting immigration contrast strongly, for example, with the 1990 Immigration Act, which increased annual immigration levels ..."

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"REGIONAL AND URBAN PLANNING: A LITERATURE REVIEW OF QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES
Introduction
This research presents the findings of a review of the literature relevant to the application of quantitative economic analysis techniques in regional and urban planning. This following section reviews background information on the need in regional and urban planning for the application of quantitative economic analysis techniques. Following the presentation of this background information, the concepts and techniques associated with economic base analysis are reviewed. One element of economic base analysis, export-base analysis, is covered separately, following the broader discussion of economic base analysis. Export-base analysis includes such quantitative analysis.."

Abstract
A research proposal to determine the effect of music therapy as a treatment method.

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"ABSTRACT

Behaviors exhibited by Alzheimer's patients include anxiety, depression, agitation, and violence. These behaviors both individually and as a complex group create difficulties for caregivers. Where possible, therapies and management procedures other than pharmacological medications and physical restraint are desirable for use in moderating such behaviors in Alzheimer's patients. Music therapy, which has been used with some success in other patients, has been suggested as an intervention for Alzheimer's patients experiencing anxiety, depression, agitation, and violence. Assessing the feasibility of music therapy as an intervention for Alzheimer's patients is proposed as a research focus.
A total of 20 subjects diagnosed as suffering from Alzheimer's disease will be ..."

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"DESIGN PROPOSAL FOR AN ADULT MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON FOR MALES

Introduction
This research develops a design proposal for an adult maximum security prison for males. This proposal is presented within the contexts of (1) mission statement, (2) philosophy of punishment, (3) physical design, (4) staffing, (5) prison programs, (6) recreation & visitation, (7) lifers & other long-term prisoners, (8) executions, (9) race, ethnicity, & gender, (10) work assignments & prison industries, (11) discipline, (12) evaluation of institutional effectiveness, (13) location, and prison violence & victimization.

Mission Statement
The mission of the proposed prison will be to protect the public by maintaining the incarceration of individuals ..."

Abstract
Computer-assisted instruction" is a much-debated topic in educational circles, and there is a reasonable amount of confusion concerning just how efficacious the term is. Part of the difficulty lies in the expansiveness of the subject itself, since CAI can range from simple "click here" programs designed to teach color and word identification to pre-schoolers to complex interactive anatomy software designed for medical students.

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"The Effects of Computer-Assisted Instructions
Versus Verbal Oral Instructions
Abstract
"Computer-assisted instruction" is a much-debated topic in educational circles, and there is a reasonable amount of confusion concerning just how efficacious the term is. Part of the difficulty lies in the expansiveness of the subject itself, since CAI can range from simple "click here" programs designed to teach color and word identification to pre-schoolers to complex interactive anatomy software designed for medical students.


At issue, also, in this term is whether the CAI is as effective as the normal verbal/oral/human teaching paradigm, or is, in fact, more efficient. This proposal details..."

Tags: RESEARCH: DESIGNS & PROPOSALS, COMPUTER SCIENCE, EDUCATION: TEACHING METHODS

Abstract
In the last two decades, there has been a good deal of research that has focused on "resilient students." This research has defined these students as those who academically succeed despite their experiencing various strong stressors (e.g., poverty, parental divorce, etc.) that place them at risk of school failure (Christiansen, Christiansen & Howard, 1997)

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"Chapter I
Introduction
Background of the Study
In the last two decades, there has been a good deal of research that has focused on "resilient students." This research has defined these students as those who academically succeed despite their experiencing various strong stressors (e.g., poverty, parental divorce, etc.) that place them at risk of school failure (Christiansen, Christiansen & Howard, 1997). In each of these studies, researchers have found some characteristics which they identify as contributive to the success of these disadvantaged students.


For example, Dutrow and Houston (1981) observed that resilient students are: self-accepting, responsible, tolerant,..."

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"Congestive Heart Failure Among Men: A Proposal for a Phenomenological Study
Abstract
The determination of the perceptions of congestive heart failure (CHF) patients of their life experiences is essential if effective therapy compliance procedures are to be developed for this population. A research study is proposed, the purpose of which will be to define the experiences of males living with CHF. The research questions that will be investigated in the proposed study are as follows:
1. What are the perceptions of male CHF patients of their lived experience with the disease?
2. Will the perceptions of male CHF patients of their lived experience with the disease facilitate the development of..."

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"Impact of Human Resource Diversity on Organizational Performance: A Research Proposal
Introduction
Diversity in an organization's human resources is a critical issue for contemporary management. Such diversity involves consideration of gender, ethnicity, race, and disability (both physical and mental). Human resource diversity within organizations has been a contentious issue in diverse societies such as the United States for decades. Attempts to legislate human resource diversity in organizations through affirmative action, equal opportunity, and other programs and initiatives met with both some success and substantial opposition (from both organizations and individuals). In the late-1990s in the United States, court rulings from the Supreme Court..."

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"Relationship Between the Frequency of Police Use of Force and The Racial/Ethnic Background of the Recipient of Such Force: A Research Proposal
Introduction
Charges and countercharges related to police brutality and to the use of force generally by police are not new either in the United States generally or in the City of New York particularly. Such charges and countercharges almost always are associated in some way with the race or ethnic background of the victim of police brutality or the recipient of the police use of force. While such charges and countercharges are not new, however, they have been raised to new heights by two relatively recent incidents in the City of New York involving the brutalization of Abner Louima, an immigrant of Sub-Saharan..."