"Singapore has the highest execution rate in the world relative to its population, outstripping China, Saudi Arabia and Sierra Leone," (Amnesty International, 2004). ... The current HDB EIP Policy states that "only the first race component of a double-barreled race will be used. For example, for an individual with double-barreled race of "Indian-Chinese," only Indian will be used....

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Double-Consciousness Double-consciousness is a major theme that courses through many African American literature works. Double-consciousness was a term made up by W.E.B. ... " (Double-Consciousness). ... Double-consciousness has a direct negative affect on identity of African American people. ... This idea directly contradicts the idea of double-consciousness. ...

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The population of migrant women is increasing in Canada. ... Childrearing and Double Burden Research indicates that a major reason for the predominant wage gap between men and women is childrearing. ... The term "double burden" applies to the gender wage gap between men and women, and women with and without children. Women with children do "double duty" as they fulfill paid work expectations and predominantly fill unpaid work expectations of childrearing and other household duties. ...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION i DECLARATION ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iii ABSTRACT v INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE 4 MASS MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND DEVELOPMENT...

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A recent study has shown that police officers have a rate of suicide that is more than double the rate of the general population (Lewis, 2014). ... Police administration and leadership need to recognize these issues and find ways to prevent them from occurring, or at least from happening at a higher rate than the general population. ... However, the suicide rate in law enforcement does not remain consistent with the general population. A recent study has shown that the rate of suicide deaths for New York City Police (NYPD) officers is 29 per every 100,000 while the general population had a ra...

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It is the most populated country in the world with a population of 1,330,141,295 billion people and a literacy rate of 93 percent (CIA). ... China with the world's largest population is also the world's largest market. ... Because China has the world's largest population, diversity within the country is expected. ... By the latter part of 1990s and throughout the 2000s, China has averaged double-digit economic growth. ...

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The number of applicants to the University of California (UC) declining to position their race has nearly doubled since Proposition 209, the constitutional amendment banning race preferences, took effect. . ... This initiative would limit health care providers" ability to understand health conditions that affect populations differently and to design effective targeted. ... Approximately 44% of our patient population has a primary language other than English, and almost 70% are from communities of color. ... Annual population data compiled by the California Department of Finance is used to cal...

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Deforestation is in part the result of population expansion in the tropics and the use of land for agriculture and wood for energy. ... If present trends in the release of CO2 to the atmosphere continue, the preindustrial level of CO2 will increase another 30% in 50 years, and then double by the year 2100. ... Based on scientific experiments, if atmospheric CO2 were to double, the average global temperature would rise by between 3.5 and 4.5 C. ... This is smaller than the expected rise in mean global temperature for doubled CO2 by at least a factor of 4. ... NASA climatologists have shown ...

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The general population is becoming more interested in participating in their own health care decisions and therefore look at the possible choices there are, which include alternative treatments. The population is also looking for new ways to cope with the increasing stress in their lives from various stimuli. Also, as medicine develops and mainstream medical treatments are beginning to become ineffective, therefore frustrating the population with conventional medicine, individuals seek out other methods. ...

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We hear on the news how health care providers are incapable of providing medical care to an increasingly number of chronically ill and the aging population. ... There are simply not enough physicians to service the population's needs. ... Between 1960 and 1980, the enrollment at medical schools doubled. ... Others have suggested that the growth in the national income and population between 1980 and 2000 increased patients' demands for physicians services, while the increase of female physicians reduced the supply of physician services due to their reduced schedules. ...

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Population-based studies estimate that ten to forty percent of American adults have intermittent insomnia and ten to fifteen percent have long-term sleep difficulties.(1) It is also estimated that ten to fifteen percent of the adult population suffers from chronic insomnia; an additional twenty to thirty-five percent has transient or occasional insomnia. ... Therefore, the hypnotic activity of Zolpidem has also been explored in different patient populations and assessment included both objective and subjective measures of hypnotic efficacy for different treatment durations, with results confir...

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An event of such magnitude that it doubled the number who died in the great Chicago fire of 1871, and eclipsed the death toll of Hurricane Andrew by a figure twenty times as great. ... African-Americans were also at an increased risk, and when taking into account their relative populations, three blacks died for every two whites. ... Of those that were least affected by the heat wave, Chicago's Latino population stands out above all others. Although they made up almost a quarter of the city's total population in 1995, only nine were reported as having symptoms of high heat mortali...

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Research from the University of Chicago suggests that extending foster care to age 21 will roughly double the incidence of parenting youth in foster care. ... Children of parenting foster youth are five times more likely to have spent time in foster care than the children of same-aged mothers in the general population. ...

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For comparison, Blacks comprise thirteen percent of the U.S. population and Hispanics twelve percent. ... While women have gained seats in Congress, this thirteen/fourteen percent composition is lacking considering women make up about half the population. As society becomes more "minority-aware- a focus has turned on a sections of the population previously hidden or unheard. ... It also suspended all literacy tests in states in which less than 50% of the voting-age population had been registered or had voted in the 1964 election. ... Women in Congress The 1992 elections were marked as the...

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The Global immigration is no longer a divide between the North and the South or a one-way road, rather referring to an increasing number of countries and groups that are involved in mass population flows. ...

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However, those twenty blocks between the Upper East Side and the Puerto Rican population of East Harlem represent a social and an economic gap extending from mainstream to marginal. ... Through these themes Bourgois (2002:17) portrays that the people living in El Barrio are known to blame the victim for their misfortune of being the underclass of the United States population and "living in the inferno" due to their inability to compete with the classes above them who are more able of succeeding since they have greater opportunities to do so. ... Population of the so-called "Spanish Harlem" i...

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Labour force to population ratio in India is 56%, which is lower than the average of the world at 64 per cent (Institute for Human Development 2014). ... Poverty, accounted for 21.9% of total population (World Bank 2011), and attitude against female education cause widespread illiteracy, especially in many rural areas (Thomas 2012) and the gender gap in educational levels are problems. The female and male adult literacy rate stood at 60.6% and 81.3% of the population respectively (Central Intelligence Agency 2015). ... According to Euromonitor International report (2015), 6.1% of the Indian a...

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It is estimated that about 1.1 million Americans are legally blind; about 54,000 of these individuals are under the age of nineteen, and about 370,000 are eighty-five years of age or older ("Statistics about the Blind-). This leaves about 676,000 working-age people who cannot see well enough to drive a motor vehicle, read signs at varying distances, or even tell the difference between light and dark. Before one can fully grasp the concept of such staggering figures, one must first know the meaning of the word blind. Blindness is a physical condition in which vision is absent in one or both...

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The third standard failed because the article failed to give estimates about the total number of people effected by ISIS and instead referred to a large number of the population. ... He knew the government has the capabilities of keeping the general population misinformed and oblivious to the political situation. ...

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The population explosion related as it is with the gradual shrinking of the world's resources, is a global phenomena which affects rich as well as poor countries. ... Kiefther, Assistant Administration for Population and Humanitarian Assistant in the US Congress.4 It was maintained that for the period 1970-1980,1) the population of non-communist countries will increase by about 30% and 2) five countries : India,Pakistan,Bangladesh,Brazil and Indonesis, account for half of this increase. ... One of the ways by which to ensure this would be to pump foreign assistance into population planni...

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Birdsall points out that the rake- hero is a descendant of earlier comedic male characters who were rogues, "shrewd, double-dealing rascals dedicated to the cause of their own freedom and prosperity" (6). ...

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INTRODUCTION: To the Filipino, knowledge is acquired through education. Although they generally agree that education can be obtained inside and outside school, they believe that the primary sources of knowledge are the schools. Thus, the higher a person goes up the formal educational ladder, the more knowledge he or she acquires and expectedly, the more wealth he or she generates or produces. Being wealthy means having power, influence and social prestige. Thus, earning a college diploma means acquiring the key to economic and social opportunities. ...

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(Gornick 2000) In England, the infant mortality rate in the lowest socioeconomic class is double that of the highest class. ... Fuchs (1998) notes that in any one year, 5% of the population accounts for more than 50% of all health expenditures. ... The increasing age of the population provides several challenges to the health care system. ... The notion that denial of care or benefits can be justified for the common good underlies much of the current utilitarian calculus of managed care, population-based medicine. ...

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Furthermore, Income per person has doubled and Infant Mortality has been reduced by 50 percent. ... Together these countries are home to 3.3 billion people, comprising 69 percent of the total population of the developing countries. ... IDA's Impact on Poverty  IDA attacks poverty through a broad range of projects, including projects targeted on human resource development such as education, health, population and nutrition, and water supply and sanitation (33%), agriculture and rural development (23%), and the provision of infrastructure (23%). ...

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Alzheimer's Disease is relentlessly destroying the brains and lives of our nation's older adults, robbing them of memory, the ability to reason, and affecting their emotions and behavior. Alzheimer's Disease is a degenerative disorder of the brain. The longer we live the greater the risk; "nearly 10 percent of all people over age 65 and up to half of those over age 85 are thought to have Alzheimer's Disease or another form of dementia" (Anonymous, 2002). The devastation of Alzheimer's Disease affects millions of families in the United States. Alzheimer's Disease c...

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