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INTRODUCTION
Cancer is one the most feared medical diagnoses that any patient can receive. Granted we know a great deal more about cancer than in the past and many can be treated to a positive end, however, others are more risky. Breast cancer is a serious consideration for women. Today there are tests and measures that can be taken to identify, treat, and address the needs of breast cancer patients. Unfortunately, survival is still very much a matter of case by case basis. However, recent research has shown that there may be certain genes and hereditary markers that can Continue reading...

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What parts of the research process do you like the least? Why?

Waiting for the requested data that are very critical for my analysis is one of my least like part of the research process. Data are vital part of building a sound research and collecting and eliciting information from various people is quite challenging. There are cases where some offices, institution or even individuals tend to become strict about releasing information through going through several steps that appears to be unnecessary. There are also cases that bureaucracy within an institution affects publishing of information even under non-disclosure agreement. Such delay in the circulation Continue reading...

The ROI (Return On Investment) is an especially important efficiency metric utilized to assess the performance of an investment or to relate the performance among a handful of investments. In order to compute ROI, the profit (return) of such an investment for our purposes the formula used is ROI= (Gain from Investment - Cost of the Investment) while in the original formula the upper result is divided by the price of the investment and then the outcome is written as a percentage. Return on investment is a highly widespread numerical method due to its flexibility and ease in use. Continue reading...

The price elasticity of demand measures the percentage change (increase or decrease) in the consumption of a product resulting from price changes (increase or decrease) . Therefore, the price elasticity of demand for nicotine products differ in the group of nicotine addicted users versus the group of social smokers. It could be deduced that for nicotine addicted users, the demand is inelastic; meaning, despite increases in prices of cigarettes, due to their addiction to the product, these users would persist in purchasing the product . The rationale for the inelastic demand was emphasized by an economist, Ramon Benedicto N. Marcelino, who Continue reading...

Response Paper #3

(10 pts) In your own words, describe the policy shift that was happening towards the end of the 1800s.

What were the main policies that evidenced this shift?
(The policy shift was from physical genocide to cultural genocide. This was to happen through assimilation of Native people. The motivations were that physical genocide had become unpopular among Americans, and that cultural genocide was perceived to be cheaper than physical genocide. The policies evidenced in this shift were the boarding school system and allotment (Weekly address4, 2015).)
(10 pts) Describe the way that Indian boarding schools were operated. What were Continue reading...

Historical trauma refers to accumulative injuries to the mind and emotions, passed down from one generation to the next as a result of shocking (traumatic) events that have been encountered many times. Historical trauma response refers to the observable characteristic/behavior (internalized/externalized) resulting from displeasure with historical trauma (Weekly address5, 2014).
An example of historical trauma is the massacre of Natives at Wounded Knee. Hundreds of men, women, and children of the Lakota tribe were killed. This is a relevant example since the massacre caused great grief and emotional trauma for the Natives. It was also traumatic by symbolizing an Continue reading...

What were the two most famous/powerful of the Greek city-states?

List two things the Romans were famous for building.
What type of government did Augustus establish in Rome?
List two factors that contributed to the end of Roman power?
Define feudalism.
What type of architecture was evident in medieval cathedrals?
As a result of the Crusades, Europeans became interested in trade with what new areas?
The Renaissance was principally centered in what country?
This Renaissance artist/inventor painted The Last Supper.
The Reformation resulted in the European Christian church splitting into these two factions.
The 30 Years War took place primarily in what area of Europe?
Who was the last Continue reading...

Assignment 1: First Regression

(a) Describe the economic issue.
In order to explain an individual's consumption patterns based on their stage in life and the resources available to them over their lifetime, Modigliani proposed the Life-Cycle Hypothesis (Modigliani 160-217; Japelli and Modigliani 7), which states that the savings ratio of an individual could be explained by per-capita disposable income (dpi), the percentage rate of change in per-capita disposable income, the percentage of population less than 15 years old and the percentage of the population over 75 years old.
(b) Describe the data
The LifeCycleSavings data included in R contains data on the savings Continue reading...

Introduction

Historical towns influence the development, economic activity and even the history of a certain region or place. Julfar, which is a historical city in Ras Al Khaimah, flourished during the Islamic reign. Because it was one of the centre points of the Arab Emirates, the city was also prone to attacks. The ancient explorers and the sailor, when navigating the region around the Persian Gulf, came across the Strait of Hormuz in which they were attracted by the Hajar Mountains in a place known as Ras Al Khaimah. Because of the way in which it was positioned at the Continue reading...

As a result of a long-term struggle to be called an independent, not contiguous to any other disciplines, sociology was elevated to the level of science. Being a multiple paradigm science, sociology offers a wide field of research whereby it is possible to be always in search of new patterns of social development, relationships between societal systems and their structural study. A broad field of enquiry starts from the studying of the social structure, complex relationships between the members of the society and social institutions which are as glue binds people into a unit that is called society. While Continue reading...