I met my clients when they came to me seeking my services as a massage therapist and then would subsequently invite me to be an attendant at the birth of their child. ... They would call me as soon as contractions began and would keep me apprised of their progression until they were ready to go to the hospital. ... Another policy is that for the first hour after arrival the woman must be hooked up to the fetal heart rate monitor. ... Through sensors that look like sponge pads they are able to locate the babies heart rate. With this machine they are also able to monitor the rate and strength of...

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A sedentary lifestyle has been linked to higher rates of obesity, heart disease and diabetes, which are some of the leading causes of death in the United States. ... That is, during moderate intensity activities you should experience a noticeable increase in your breathing rate but you should still be able to carry on a conversation while engaged in the activity. In contrast, vigorous intensity activities will cause a rapid increase in breathing rate and you will find it difficult to carry on a conversation. ... Exercise intensity may be the most important factor determining the rate and magni...

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Factors that lead to overpopulation that causes social problems are the increase in the number of single mothers in poor neighborhoods opposed to the decline in birth rates in the more efficient parts of the country, how the death rate is at a steady decline because of medical advances in rich and poor countries, the effects immigrants have on an environment and the population growth that occurs, the influence parents leave on children, and what is being done to help prevent the spread of AIDS because this is a deadly disease which is lowering our population but causing many social problems. ....

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Morselli identified four groups on the basis of suicidal rates, put them in descending order and concluded that the Germans had the highest rate of suicides, then came the Celto-Romans, third stood the Slavs and the last group was too small to assess. ... Despite common assumptions of suicide rates being higher during the dark and gloomy winters, statistical data point towards suicide rates being higher during the warmer months, without exception in any country. ... Same applies when a distinction in suicide rates is made between villages and cities. ... Durkheim says that if imitation or cont...

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The company has recorded success and extensive growth and development rates. ... They all have capabilities of achieving and maintaining sustainable success rates in a firm. ... More often than not, company employees have a vital influence on the organization's performance and success rate under different and diverse capacities (Sullivan, 2013). ... , "Would this activity embarrass Google or me if it showed up on the front page of a newspaper or blog?","Would this activity create an incentive for me, or be perceived by others to create and incentive for me, to benefit mysel...

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These factors include cost, attractions, language, history, climate, family, geographical location, culture, political unrest and the exchange rate. ... Places like Vanuatu will have cheaper rates in the winter then it would in the summer as a place such as Vanuatu is in demand for tourist in the summer. ... The currency and exchange rate of a particular destination is also a factor when choosing a destination as it will cost much more to travel to places like England, America and Japan as the exchange rate from Australian dollars is so high. ... It did not contain one picture and did not a...

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However controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. ... Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. ... But it is necessary for there to be certain limits on the way that firearms are handled in this country because of the homicide rate involving guns and because of the violence created by criminals using guns. ... Denmark and Finland also have high rates of gun ownership and low crime rates. The experience of these countries shows that widespread gun possession is compatible with low crime ra...

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Although the bank loaner's scams played a big part, other things such as the economy and the rate of people losing their jobs caused things to downfall. ... I learned that the banks are now trying to give loan modifications by lowering rates, which will further help the customers. ... They were offering struggling homeowners a chance to re-modify their home loans, by reducing their mortgage rates by two or three percent. ... The banks are only lowering rates by 2-3 percent, At the Cerritos Library, some statistics about home foreclosures from the Library Database were available. ... It&...

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That movie is rated R, but little kids were in there with their parents. ... Despite a 20-year low in the teen pregnancy rate and an impressive decline in the teen birth rate, the United States still has the highest teen pregnancy rate of any industrialized country (Casey Foundation, 1996). ... The rates keep dropping and are showing no signs of increase, yet. ... That 14 percent drop brought the rate to its lowest level since 1975 (Casey Foundation, 1996). ... As a result of all these teenagers looking for jobs, the unemployment rates have gone down, and the employment rates have risen. ...

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Abortion has been an issue that has bothered me, ever since I moved to Texas. ... Although my stance on abortion makes me dislike the method, many women around the world don't have resources to raise a baby. ... In this source, an image of a bar graph shows the rate for women who obtained a legal abortion. Teenagers marked the highest amount of feticide, even more shocking was ages 15 and lower marked the highest abortion rate. While ages 15-19 also had a higher rate. ...

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Hiking is one of the most rapidly growing recreational activities in America. More than 155 million people walk for pure enjoyment, and the USDA Forest Service has predicted a 93% increase in day hiking over the next 50 years (American Hiking Society). The reasons behind these statistics are many an...

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From the study conducted by Sproule and Kennett the rate of violent crimes was five times greater in the U.S than Canada, and "almost double the rate of firearm use in American than Canadian homicides" (32-33). ... Marvin Harris indicates that "the high rate of homicide in the United States undoubtedly reflects, to some extent, the estimated 50 million handguns and rifles legally and illegally owned by the American people" (122). ... They also noted that the "American murder rates for handguns are higher than the total Canadian homicide rate"(249). ...

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The opposite was happening in Latin and South America because the death rate of slaves was so high. ... Large plantations could produce cotton more efficiently and earned high rates of profit. ... The average rate of return of a male or female slave was about the same, around ten percent. ... This was a blow to all the theories that slavery was unprofitable and that slaves had low rates of return. It also showed that the rates of return were higher and not below that of alternative investments. ...

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My mom got me a yellow sitting donut, thinking this would cease the pain. ... The doctor asked me what was wrong, and I told her about my pain. She asked me to physically show her where I was experiencing the pain. ... This procedure is not used anymore, because the recurrence rate is also high (Underwood, Corinna, Page 4). ... It was better putting me to sleep after all. ...

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Obesity is increasing at an epidemic rate in the United States - 1.3% a year for women over 20. ... They gave me a Weight Watchers cookbook and a scale. It was devastating to me. "Years later, when I was in college, my mother acknowledged how terrible it had made me feel. She explained to me that, at the time, she was very depressed about my weight. ...

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However, China's GDP growth rate dropped to 8.7 percent during 2012 with a slow down in export growth from 26% to 7%. ... Without a stable power supply the factories cannot produce consistently; this, in turn, decreases the productivity rate of those factories. ... "Would make it very difficult for me to explain to the board that we want to stay here and want to develop the company here (Vietnam).... Duty-free privilege, concessionary tax rates, breaks and exemption and also wage schemes was quickly offered to the foreign investors. ... However, these rising labor issues might become...

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The children, including me, came last all looking like we had been hit by a herd of stampeding elephants. ... I found the slope much steeper and icier, it was also rated red. ... When I finally got to the bottom, my friends zoomed past me as they had already been up again. ... The other guys wanted to go to the top with me after lunch, I wasn't much for it but was easily persuaded. ... They then told me the slopes were rated black. ...

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Of course, she wants me to do all the work. ... Since he went out of business ten years ago, he could not help me very much. ... Amy asked me though why I needed this information. ... There was no way for me to take the whole population of 90 houses out of John's list and examine all of those. ... Soon after, a discussion between the two of us started: Amy asked me gain, "What do you need this long list for?...

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One of the greatest indicators that the death penalty is a deterrent can be seen in Houston Texas (Harris County, with the highest murder rate in Houston) in 1996. ... The states that are implementing the death penalty are witnessing the fruit of a punishment that is actually decreasing the occurrence rate. ... This power is given by God and is even spoken by Jesus in John 19:10-11 when Jesus addressed the governing authority stating, "You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin." ...

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To stop any solution evaporating a foil lid can be placed on top of the test tube. 4: Accurate amount of sugar solution: More Bathing solution may affect the rate of solution. ... Most importantly I will repeat the experiment twice, which will give me the chance to give a more accurate result, and when drawing my graph I will use the average. By repeating the investigation twice it gives me the opportunity to find anomalous results which could be due to the amount of concentration used or from the time being stopped at the wrong time. ...

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Because Griffey is such a first-rate talent, a trade would presumably bring Seattle several very good players in return. ... Let me explain. ... As such, they don't yet rate a full bio on the ESPN Web site. ... "Mariners fans throughout the Pacific Northwest have been very loyal and devoted to me. ... Griffey's statement This has been an extremely difficult decision for me. ...

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Because Griffey is such a first-rate talent, a trade would presumably bring Seattle several very good players in return. ... Let me explain. ... As such, they don't yet rate a full bio on the ESPN Web site. ... "Mariners fans throughout the Pacific Northwest have been very loyal and devoted to me. ... Griffey's statement This has been an extremely difficult decision for me. ...

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Because Griffey is such a first-rate talent, a trade would presumably bring Seattle several very good players in return. ... Let me explain. ... As such, they don't yet rate a full bio on the ESPN Web site. ... "Mariners fans throughout the Pacific Northwest have been very loyal and devoted to me. ... Griffey's statement This has been an extremely difficult decision for me. ...

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Because Griffey is such a first-rate talent, a trade would presumably bring Seattle several very good players in return. ... Let me explain. ... As such, they don't yet rate a full bio on the ESPN Web site. ... "Mariners fans throughout the Pacific Northwest have been very loyal and devoted to me. ... Griffey's statement This has been an extremely difficult decision for me. ...

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Because Griffey is such a first-rate talent, a trade would presumably bring Seattle several very good players in return. ... Let me explain. ... As such, they don't yet rate a full bio on the ESPN Web site. ... "Mariners fans throughout the Pacific Northwest have been very loyal and devoted to me. ... Griffey's statement This has been an extremely difficult decision for me. ...

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