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Whirlwinds and Break-Ins: Evidence Linking a New Orleans
Tornado to Residential Burglary
Kelly Frailinga, Thomas Zawiszab and Dee Wood Harpera
aDepartment of Criminology and Justice, Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA; bDepartment of
Justice Studies, Lasell University, Newton, MA, USA
ABSTRACT
This study examines the number and location of residential burglaries before
and after a tornado that struck New Orleans, Louisiana in February 2017.
Using calls for service to the New Orleans Police Department, Weather Service
data and geospatial referencing, we found that the number of residential
burglaries increased in the short-term aftermath of the tornado and that the
increase in suitable targets caused by the tornado appears to be an important
predictor of post-tornado burglary in that timeframe. We conclude with
implications for policy and practice that stem from our !ndings.
ARTICLE HISTORY
Received 21 April 2020
Accepted 9 June 2020
KEYWORDS
Burglary; tornado; New
Orleans; concentrated
disadvantage; routine
activities
Introduction
The study of disasters has long had its home in sociology (Dynes Dynes 1970; Dynes, De Marchi, and
Pelanda 1987; Dynes and Tierney 1994; Fischer 2008; Mileti 1987; Quarantelli 1978, 1987; Rodriguez,
Quarantelli, and Dynes 2007; Wenger 1987). Systematic disaster research beginning in the middle of
the 20th century ...
1. IntroversionScore 11 pts.4 - 22 pts.Feedback Some peopMartineMccracken314
1. Introversion
Score : 11 pts.
4 - 22 pts.
Feedback: Some people thrive in teleworking arrangements, whereas others discover that it is neither a satisfying nor productive work environment for them. This scale assesses three personal dispositions that are identified in the literature as characteristics of effective teleworkers: (a) high company alignment, (b) low social needs at work and (c) independent initiative.
Company alignment
Company alignment estimates the extent to which you follow company procedures and have values congruent with company values. The greater the alignment, the more likely that you can abide by company practices while working alone and with direct supervision. While some deviation from company practices may be appropriate, teleworkers need to agree with company values and provide work that is consistent with company expectations most of the time. Scores on this scale range from 4 to 20.
Extroversion
Score: 17 pts.
4 - 22 pts.
Feedback: Low individualism
Individualism refers to the extent that you value independence and personal uniqueness. Highly individualist people value personal freedom, self-sufficiency, control over their own lives, and appreciation of their unique qualities that distinguish them from others.
However, keep in mind that the average level of individualism is higher in some cultures (such as Australia) than in others.
2. Total score: 8 pts.
RANGE BASED FEEDBACK:
6-12 pts.
Feedback: Low work centrality
People with high work centrality define themselves mainly by their work roles and view non-work roles as much less significant. Consequently, people with a high work centrality score likely have lower complexity in their self-concept. This can be a concern because if something goes wrong with their work role, their non-work roles are not of sufficient value to maintain a positive self-evaluation. At the same time, work dominates our work lives, so those with very low scores would be more of the exception than the rule in most societies. Scores range from 6 to 36 with higher scores indicating higher work centrality. The norms in the following table are based on a large sample of Canadian employees (average score was 20.7). However, work centrality norms vary from one group to the next. For example, the average score in a sample of Canadian nurses was around 17 (translated to the scale range used here).
3. Total score: 32 pts.
RANGE BASED FEEDBACK:
28-32 pts.
Feedback: High need for social approval
The need for social approval scale estimates the extent to which you are motivated to seek favourable evaluation from others. Founded on the drive to bond, the need for social approval is a secondary need, because people vary in this need based on their self-concept, values, personality and possibly social norms. This scale ranges from 0 to 32. How high or low is your need for social approval? The ideal would be to compare your score with the collective results of other students in your class. Otherwi ...
1. International financial investors are moving funds from Talona MartineMccracken314
1. International financial investors are moving funds from Talona to other countries. This depreciation is causing even more disenchantment with this Talona's currency. Describe the affects will this have on the supply and demand curves for this currency on the foreign exchange markets?
2. Using a supply and demand diagram, demonstrate how a negative externality leads to market inefficiency. How might the government help to eliminate this inefficiency?
3. Briefly discuss the shortcomings of environmental command-and-control regulations.
4. Some data that at first might seem puzzling: The share of GDP devoted to investment was similar for the United States and South Korea from 1960-1991. However, during these same years South Korea had a 6 percent growth rate of average annual income per person, while the United States had only a 2 percent growth rate. If the saving rates were the same, why were the growth rates so different?
5. “Block Imports—Save Jobs for Some Americans, Lose a Roughly Equal Number of Jobs for Other Americans, and Also Pay High Prices.” Discuss this statement within the context of protectionism.
6. Steve and Craig have been shipwrecked on a deserted island in the South Pacific. Their economic activity consists of either gathering pineapples or fishing. We know Steve can catch four fish in one hour or harvest two baskets of pineapples. In the same time Craig can reel in two fish or harvest two baskets of pineapples.
Assume Craig and Steve both operate on straight-line production possibilities curves. What is Steve's opportunity cost of producing a basket of pineapples? Of a producing a fish? What is Craig's opportunity cost of producing a basket of pineapples? Of a producing a fish?
7. Provide examples of market-oriented environmental policies.
Running head: SC PLAN 1
SC PLAN 4
SC PLAN
Student’s Name
Institution Affiliation
SC PLAN
1. Describe the actions you will take to increase your net cash flows in the near future.
The first step is to reduce living expenditures. It is critical to lessen the amount spent on living expenses and other variables and save for future use. I will have to prevent luxuries such as vacation costs or keep them in check to avoid spending a hefty amount on them. I should check the option to cook for myself and avoid buying food. Also, I will choose a destination I can drive myself to save on rental car expenditures and airfare. I will have a detailed budget indicating the amount required for savings, debt repayment, and investment that will assist only to spend the money on essential expenditures. Further, the savings can help to start a business and become self-employed in the distant future.
I would have to look for a job that pays well or engage in a robust salary negotiation. The right time to negotiate for salary is during a performance review, compensation meeting, or job promotion (Bellon, Cookson, Gilje, & Heimer, 2020). I will ensure that I expand my education and technic ...
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1. Interventions/treatment
· The viral pinkeye does not need any medication
· The bacterial pinkeye is treated with ointment or eye droplets
2. Possible nursing diagnosis
· Checking the specific infection affecting the eye
· Identifying burning eyes
· Increased anxiety with red eyes
3. Sign and symptoms
· Eye irritation
· Eye tearing
· Eye redness
· Eye discomfort
4. Nursing Interventions
· Putting some droplets in the kid’s eye
· Using a antibiotic ointment
· Administering ibuprofen to the kid
5. Risk factors
· Allergies
· A women having an STD during pregnancy
· Exposing the child to areas with lots of bacteria
6. Pathophysiology
The infected eye shows through an inflammation that is swollen and red. The conjunctiva shows and this is the clear membrane seen in the part where the eye is white. It remains this way if not treated for a while before it ends with medication administered or just ends naturally.
7. Complications
· A scaring in the child’s eye if the conjunctivitis is caused by allergic reactions
· It can aggravate to cause different conditions such as meningitis
8. Diagnostic Procedure
· Administering the medicine using eye droplets
· Rubbing the eye area with the ointment
...
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1. Introduction and background information about solvatochromism using Reichardt’s dye? (400-500 words)
2. Discuss the properties of Reichardt’s dye that cause it to change its wavelength of maximum absorbance in the presence of solvents of differing polarities.
3. Discuss solvatochromism. Are there other dyes which exhibit this effect?
4. Would it be possible to use the wavelength of maximum absorbance in the presence of Reichardt’s dye to determine the water content of acetone solutions?
...
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Integrity of any organization regardless whether it is in healthcare or business or government is paramount. Because of integrity comes trust. Having trust in a healthcare organization is nonnegotiable. It is the foundation of a world-class organization. Executives who ignore ethics run the risk of personal and corporate liability in today’s increasingly tough legal environment (Lynn S. Paine, 1994, Managing for Organizational Integrity, pp. 2-21)
First, the healthcare organization. The healthcare organization is the head or the governing body. It is charged of day-to-day functions, establish policies, guidance, business process, safety, security and all the administrative duties. Integrity is and must be the cornerstone of any healthcare organization. Without it, no clinicians or workers that would knowingly work for an organization that they cannot trust or feel safe. And most importantly, if the patients do not have trust in the organization, they will avoid that facility at all cost.
Second, the clinicians. The clinicians are what makes the organization or facility function. Whether they are the providers, nurses or staff it is important that they have the integrity to always do what is right not only for the healthcare team or the organization, but most specially for the patient. It starts with the clinical leaders building trust to their subordinate staff by having the integrity and values of what a leader should be. Once that is established, then it permeates throughout the entire team. Thereby improving the healthcare delivery.
Lastly, and the most important is the patient. At the center of the entire system needs to be the patient. Once the patient recognizes the integrity or values of the healthcare organization and the clinicians delivering healthcare, patient trust is established. The patient satisfaction also increases. According to Cowing, Davino-Ramaya, Ramaya, Szmerekovsky, 2009, pp.72, “if patients are satisfied with clinician-patient interactions, they are likely to be more compliant with their treatment plan, to understand their role in the recovery process, and to follow through with the recommended treatment”. Having integrity or values in the healthcare delivery is the basic principle of healthcare leadership.
Cowing, M., Davino-Ramaya, C. M., Ramaya, K., & Szmerekovsky, J. (2009). Health care delivery performance: service, outcomes, and resource stewardship. The Permanente Journal, 13(4), 72–78. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2911834/
Lynn S. Paine, 1994, Managing for Organizational Integrity. Harvard business review, 2-21. Retrieved from Managing for Organizational Integrity (hbr.org)
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The influence within the medical community is so important and ...
1. Information organized and placed in a logical sequence (10 poMartineMccracken314
1.
Information organized and placed in a logical sequence (10 points)
Points Awarded
2.
Demonstrated knowledge of ethical dilemma presented by:
2a. Summarized the situation (10)
2b. Explained the ethical dilemma (5)
2c. Solved the problem as a professional RN (15)
3.
Responses supported with specific ANA Codes
(20)
4.
Visual aids professional, visually interesting
& aided in understanding material; proper grammar/spelling/punctuation-no more than 2 errors in presentation(10)
5.
Maintained eye contact of audience (10)
6.
Voice clear & audible (10)
7.
Encouraged class participation (5)
8.
Reference slide that includes references in APA
format (5)
Total points possible = 100
NSG 100
Case Study in-class Presentations Assignment
1): Moral Courage with a Dying Patient
Mr. T. is an 82-year-old widower who has been a patient on your unit several times over the past 5 years. His CHF, COPD, and diabetes have taken a toll on his body. He now needs oxygen 24 hours a day and still has dyspnea and tachycardia at rest. On admission, his ejection fraction is less than 20%, EKG shows a QRS interval of greater than 0.13 seconds, and his functional class is IV on NYHA assessment.
He has remained symptomatic despite maximum medical management with a vasodilator and diuretics. He tells you, "This is my last trip; I am glad I have made peace with my family and God. Nurse, I am ready to die." You ask about an advance directive and he tells you his son knows that he wants no heroics, but they just have never gotten around to filling out the form. When the son arrives, you suggest that he speak with the social worker to complete the advance directive and he agrees reluctantly. You page the physician to discuss DNR status with the son. Unfortunately, Mr. T. experiences cardiac arrest before the discussion occurs and you watch helplessly as members of the Code Blue Team perform resuscitation. Mr. T. is now on a ventilator and the son has dissolved into tears with cries of, "Do not let him die!"
2): Moral Courage to Confront Bullying
Melissa started on the unit as a new graduate 5 weeks ago. She is still in orientation and has a good relationship with her preceptor. The preceptor has been assigned consistently to Melissa for most of the last 4 weeks, but due to family emergency has not been available in the last week. Melissa has been told that she will be precepted by a different nurse for the remainder of her orientation. The new preceptor has not been welcoming, supportive, or focused on the educational goals of the orientation. In fact, this new preceptor has voiced to all who will listen her feelings about the incompetence of new BSN graduates. The crisis occurs when Melissa fails to recognize a patient's confusion as a result of an adverse medication effect. The preceptor berates Melissa in the nurses' station, makes sarcastic comments in shift report abou ...
1. In our grant application, we included the following interventioMartineMccracken314
1. In our grant application, we included the following interventions as our evidence-based programs: Family Therapy (to promote family acceptance and support, a key factor for overall health outcomes for this population), Motivational Interviewing (to address higher co-occurrence of substance use concerns), Trauma-Focused Treatment (including EMDR Therapy and TF-CBT, to address higher rates of complex trauma including from systemic oppression), and CBT (a gold standard treatment modality, but adapted to meet the needs of our client population by incorporating elements of
Solution
s-Focused or Narrative approaches to make it more strengths-based).
For questions 2-4, you would need to do some of your own research in the literature on these treatment modalities and determine for yourself if there were best practices that should be incorporated into the plan used at the agency.
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1. IntroversionScore 11 pts.4 - 22 pts.Feedback Some peopMartineMccracken314
1. Introversion
Score : 11 pts.
4 - 22 pts.
Feedback: Some people thrive in teleworking arrangements, whereas others discover that it is neither a satisfying nor productive work environment for them. This scale assesses three personal dispositions that are identified in the literature as characteristics of effective teleworkers: (a) high company alignment, (b) low social needs at work and (c) independent initiative.
Company alignment
Company alignment estimates the extent to which you follow company procedures and have values congruent with company values. The greater the alignment, the more likely that you can abide by company practices while working alone and with direct supervision. While some deviation from company practices may be appropriate, teleworkers need to agree with company values and provide work that is consistent with company expectations most of the time. Scores on this scale range from 4 to 20.
Extroversion
Score: 17 pts.
4 - 22 pts.
Feedback: Low individualism
Individualism refers to the extent that you value independence and personal uniqueness. Highly individualist people value personal freedom, self-sufficiency, control over their own lives, and appreciation of their unique qualities that distinguish them from others.
However, keep in mind that the average level of individualism is higher in some cultures (such as Australia) than in others.
2. Total score: 8 pts.
RANGE BASED FEEDBACK:
6-12 pts.
Feedback: Low work centrality
People with high work centrality define themselves mainly by their work roles and view non-work roles as much less significant. Consequently, people with a high work centrality score likely have lower complexity in their self-concept. This can be a concern because if something goes wrong with their work role, their non-work roles are not of sufficient value to maintain a positive self-evaluation. At the same time, work dominates our work lives, so those with very low scores would be more of the exception than the rule in most societies. Scores range from 6 to 36 with higher scores indicating higher work centrality. The norms in the following table are based on a large sample of Canadian employees (average score was 20.7). However, work centrality norms vary from one group to the next. For example, the average score in a sample of Canadian nurses was around 17 (translated to the scale range used here).
3. Total score: 32 pts.
RANGE BASED FEEDBACK:
28-32 pts.
Feedback: High need for social approval
The need for social approval scale estimates the extent to which you are motivated to seek favourable evaluation from others. Founded on the drive to bond, the need for social approval is a secondary need, because people vary in this need based on their self-concept, values, personality and possibly social norms. This scale ranges from 0 to 32. How high or low is your need for social approval? The ideal would be to compare your score with the collective results of other students in your class. Otherwi ...
1. International financial investors are moving funds from Talona MartineMccracken314
1. International financial investors are moving funds from Talona to other countries. This depreciation is causing even more disenchantment with this Talona's currency. Describe the affects will this have on the supply and demand curves for this currency on the foreign exchange markets?
2. Using a supply and demand diagram, demonstrate how a negative externality leads to market inefficiency. How might the government help to eliminate this inefficiency?
3. Briefly discuss the shortcomings of environmental command-and-control regulations.
4. Some data that at first might seem puzzling: The share of GDP devoted to investment was similar for the United States and South Korea from 1960-1991. However, during these same years South Korea had a 6 percent growth rate of average annual income per person, while the United States had only a 2 percent growth rate. If the saving rates were the same, why were the growth rates so different?
5. “Block Imports—Save Jobs for Some Americans, Lose a Roughly Equal Number of Jobs for Other Americans, and Also Pay High Prices.” Discuss this statement within the context of protectionism.
6. Steve and Craig have been shipwrecked on a deserted island in the South Pacific. Their economic activity consists of either gathering pineapples or fishing. We know Steve can catch four fish in one hour or harvest two baskets of pineapples. In the same time Craig can reel in two fish or harvest two baskets of pineapples.
Assume Craig and Steve both operate on straight-line production possibilities curves. What is Steve's opportunity cost of producing a basket of pineapples? Of a producing a fish? What is Craig's opportunity cost of producing a basket of pineapples? Of a producing a fish?
7. Provide examples of market-oriented environmental policies.
Running head: SC PLAN 1
SC PLAN 4
SC PLAN
Student’s Name
Institution Affiliation
SC PLAN
1. Describe the actions you will take to increase your net cash flows in the near future.
The first step is to reduce living expenditures. It is critical to lessen the amount spent on living expenses and other variables and save for future use. I will have to prevent luxuries such as vacation costs or keep them in check to avoid spending a hefty amount on them. I should check the option to cook for myself and avoid buying food. Also, I will choose a destination I can drive myself to save on rental car expenditures and airfare. I will have a detailed budget indicating the amount required for savings, debt repayment, and investment that will assist only to spend the money on essential expenditures. Further, the savings can help to start a business and become self-employed in the distant future.
I would have to look for a job that pays well or engage in a robust salary negotiation. The right time to negotiate for salary is during a performance review, compensation meeting, or job promotion (Bellon, Cookson, Gilje, & Heimer, 2020). I will ensure that I expand my education and technic ...
1. Interventionstreatment· The viral pinkeye does not need any MartineMccracken314
1. Interventions/treatment
· The viral pinkeye does not need any medication
· The bacterial pinkeye is treated with ointment or eye droplets
2. Possible nursing diagnosis
· Checking the specific infection affecting the eye
· Identifying burning eyes
· Increased anxiety with red eyes
3. Sign and symptoms
· Eye irritation
· Eye tearing
· Eye redness
· Eye discomfort
4. Nursing Interventions
· Putting some droplets in the kid’s eye
· Using a antibiotic ointment
· Administering ibuprofen to the kid
5. Risk factors
· Allergies
· A women having an STD during pregnancy
· Exposing the child to areas with lots of bacteria
6. Pathophysiology
The infected eye shows through an inflammation that is swollen and red. The conjunctiva shows and this is the clear membrane seen in the part where the eye is white. It remains this way if not treated for a while before it ends with medication administered or just ends naturally.
7. Complications
· A scaring in the child’s eye if the conjunctivitis is caused by allergic reactions
· It can aggravate to cause different conditions such as meningitis
8. Diagnostic Procedure
· Administering the medicine using eye droplets
· Rubbing the eye area with the ointment
...
1. Introduction and background information about solvatochromism uMartineMccracken314
1. Introduction and background information about solvatochromism using Reichardt’s dye? (400-500 words)
2. Discuss the properties of Reichardt’s dye that cause it to change its wavelength of maximum absorbance in the presence of solvents of differing polarities.
3. Discuss solvatochromism. Are there other dyes which exhibit this effect?
4. Would it be possible to use the wavelength of maximum absorbance in the presence of Reichardt’s dye to determine the water content of acetone solutions?
...
1. Integrity, the basic principle of healthcare leadership.ContaMartineMccracken314
1. Integrity, the basic principle of healthcare leadership.
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Mateo Alba posted May 12, 2021 10:04 PM
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Integrity of any organization regardless whether it is in healthcare or business or government is paramount. Because of integrity comes trust. Having trust in a healthcare organization is nonnegotiable. It is the foundation of a world-class organization. Executives who ignore ethics run the risk of personal and corporate liability in today’s increasingly tough legal environment (Lynn S. Paine, 1994, Managing for Organizational Integrity, pp. 2-21)
First, the healthcare organization. The healthcare organization is the head or the governing body. It is charged of day-to-day functions, establish policies, guidance, business process, safety, security and all the administrative duties. Integrity is and must be the cornerstone of any healthcare organization. Without it, no clinicians or workers that would knowingly work for an organization that they cannot trust or feel safe. And most importantly, if the patients do not have trust in the organization, they will avoid that facility at all cost.
Second, the clinicians. The clinicians are what makes the organization or facility function. Whether they are the providers, nurses or staff it is important that they have the integrity to always do what is right not only for the healthcare team or the organization, but most specially for the patient. It starts with the clinical leaders building trust to their subordinate staff by having the integrity and values of what a leader should be. Once that is established, then it permeates throughout the entire team. Thereby improving the healthcare delivery.
Lastly, and the most important is the patient. At the center of the entire system needs to be the patient. Once the patient recognizes the integrity or values of the healthcare organization and the clinicians delivering healthcare, patient trust is established. The patient satisfaction also increases. According to Cowing, Davino-Ramaya, Ramaya, Szmerekovsky, 2009, pp.72, “if patients are satisfied with clinician-patient interactions, they are likely to be more compliant with their treatment plan, to understand their role in the recovery process, and to follow through with the recommended treatment”. Having integrity or values in the healthcare delivery is the basic principle of healthcare leadership.
Cowing, M., Davino-Ramaya, C. M., Ramaya, K., & Szmerekovsky, J. (2009). Health care delivery performance: service, outcomes, and resource stewardship. The Permanente Journal, 13(4), 72–78. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2911834/
Lynn S. Paine, 1994, Managing for Organizational Integrity. Harvard business review, 2-21. Retrieved from Managing for Organizational Integrity (hbr.org)
2. Medical Delivery Influences
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The influence within the medical community is so important and ...
1. Information organized and placed in a logical sequence (10 poMartineMccracken314
1.
Information organized and placed in a logical sequence (10 points)
Points Awarded
2.
Demonstrated knowledge of ethical dilemma presented by:
2a. Summarized the situation (10)
2b. Explained the ethical dilemma (5)
2c. Solved the problem as a professional RN (15)
3.
Responses supported with specific ANA Codes
(20)
4.
Visual aids professional, visually interesting
& aided in understanding material; proper grammar/spelling/punctuation-no more than 2 errors in presentation(10)
5.
Maintained eye contact of audience (10)
6.
Voice clear & audible (10)
7.
Encouraged class participation (5)
8.
Reference slide that includes references in APA
format (5)
Total points possible = 100
NSG 100
Case Study in-class Presentations Assignment
1): Moral Courage with a Dying Patient
Mr. T. is an 82-year-old widower who has been a patient on your unit several times over the past 5 years. His CHF, COPD, and diabetes have taken a toll on his body. He now needs oxygen 24 hours a day and still has dyspnea and tachycardia at rest. On admission, his ejection fraction is less than 20%, EKG shows a QRS interval of greater than 0.13 seconds, and his functional class is IV on NYHA assessment.
He has remained symptomatic despite maximum medical management with a vasodilator and diuretics. He tells you, "This is my last trip; I am glad I have made peace with my family and God. Nurse, I am ready to die." You ask about an advance directive and he tells you his son knows that he wants no heroics, but they just have never gotten around to filling out the form. When the son arrives, you suggest that he speak with the social worker to complete the advance directive and he agrees reluctantly. You page the physician to discuss DNR status with the son. Unfortunately, Mr. T. experiences cardiac arrest before the discussion occurs and you watch helplessly as members of the Code Blue Team perform resuscitation. Mr. T. is now on a ventilator and the son has dissolved into tears with cries of, "Do not let him die!"
2): Moral Courage to Confront Bullying
Melissa started on the unit as a new graduate 5 weeks ago. She is still in orientation and has a good relationship with her preceptor. The preceptor has been assigned consistently to Melissa for most of the last 4 weeks, but due to family emergency has not been available in the last week. Melissa has been told that she will be precepted by a different nurse for the remainder of her orientation. The new preceptor has not been welcoming, supportive, or focused on the educational goals of the orientation. In fact, this new preceptor has voiced to all who will listen her feelings about the incompetence of new BSN graduates. The crisis occurs when Melissa fails to recognize a patient's confusion as a result of an adverse medication effect. The preceptor berates Melissa in the nurses' station, makes sarcastic comments in shift report abou ...
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1. In our grant application, we included the following interventions as our evidence-based programs: Family Therapy (to promote family acceptance and support, a key factor for overall health outcomes for this population), Motivational Interviewing (to address higher co-occurrence of substance use concerns), Trauma-Focused Treatment (including EMDR Therapy and TF-CBT, to address higher rates of complex trauma including from systemic oppression), and CBT (a gold standard treatment modality, but adapted to meet the needs of our client population by incorporating elements of
Solution
s-Focused or Narrative approaches to make it more strengths-based).
For questions 2-4, you would need to do some of your own research in the literature on these treatment modalities and determine for yourself if there were best practices that should be incorporated into the plan used at the agency.
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1. I believe that the protagonist is Nel because she is the one thMartineMccracken314
1. I believe that the protagonist is Nel because she is the one that goes through different changes throughout the book. I also think she is the protagonist because most people can relate to her more. Nel was done wrong by Sula and her husband Jude Green. Sula did the one thing that a best friend should never do and, that is sleep with your best friend's husband. Even though Sula did a terrible thing Nel still cares about her best friend because she goes and visits her when she is sick even after all the pain she caused her. Nel is also deeply saddened when she visits Sulas grave. That is not the only thing that happened to Nel. Nel not only had to deal with the affair but also accepted her guilt in Chicken Little's drowning. But in the end, Nel realized she enjoyed watching him drown.
Everything changed when Sula came back to Nels life. Nel was happy before. She was happy with her family and her husband, but when Sula came back that all changed. After the affair and Sulas death, Nel was alone. Nel became a single mother and, she no longer has a good relationship with another man.
2. I believe that although the title of the story is Sula, the main protaginist of the story is Nel. Nel is kept until the end of the story and Sulay passes away and exit's the story. I think in this pivitol moment is when the author wanted to make Nel the main character. Nel contained her emotion until towards the end of the story when she has a conversation with Eva, Nel nervously comments "Who told you all these lies? Miss Peace? Who told you? Why are you telling lies on me?" I believe the author wanted us to feel the anxiousness and wonder that Nel found out that somebody finally knew about the little boy being thrown. I believe this admission of guilt to Eva brings closure to Nel. Nel was trying to hide her emotions the entire time and it wasn't after being confronted that she broke down about it and visited Sulay's grave. Nel even stated "I don't know. No." when asked whether somebody saw the boy being thrown into the river. This shows that Nel was not sure at all in the moment it happened whether somebody knew. Nel wanted to not think about what happen forever and try to mute the situation but Eva bringing it up, made Nel feel terrible about what happened which is why she ended up visting Sulay's grave. I think muting herself from knowing the little boy was thrown was still not a 'good' way to look at it, from her end. She wanted to believe a lie by just pretending it never happened. It wasn't after someone brought up the situation to her that her feelings change.
3. Although the novel is titled Sula, the real protagonist is Nel because she is the one who is transformed by the end. Sula and Nel were very great friends and were very dedicated to each other. But they were also very different. Nel was known as the more mature and "good person" while Sula is more impulsive. "Nel is the product of a family that believes deeply in social conventions, hers is a st ...
1. If the profit from the sale of x units of a product is P = MartineMccracken314
1. If the profit from the sale of x units of a product is P = 105x − 300 − x2, what
level(s) of production will yield a profit of $1050? (Enter your answers as a
comma-separated list.)
x = _________ units
2. The total costs for a company are given by
C(x) = 5400 + 80x + x2
and the total revenues are given by
R(x) = 230x.
Find the break-even points. (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list.)
x= __________ units
3. If total costs are C(x) = 900 + 800x and total revenues are R(x) = 900x − x2, find the
break-even points. (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list.)
x= _____________
4. For the years since 2001, the percent p of high school seniors who have tried marijuana
can be considered as a function of time t according to
p = f(t) = 0.17t2 − 2.61t + 52.64
where t is the number of years past 2000.† In what year after 2000 is the percent
predicted to reach 75%, if this function remains valid?
_______________
5. Using data from 2002 and with projections to 2024, total annual expenditures for
national health care (in billions of dollars) can be described by
E = 4.61x2 + 43.4x + 1620
where x is the number of years past 2000.† If the pattern indicated by the model
remains valid, in what year does the model predict these expenditures will reach
$15,315 billion?
__________________
6. The monthly profit from the sale of a product is given by P = 32x − 0.2x2 − 150 dollars.
(a) What level of production maximizes profit?
___________ units
(b) What is the maximum possible profit?
$_____________
7. Consider the following equation.
y = 9 + 6x − x2
(a) Find the vertex of the graph of the equation.
(x, y) = (__________)
(b) Determine what value of x gives the optimal value of the function.
x=_____________
(c) Determine the optimal (maximum or minimum) value of the function.
y=______________
8. Consider the following equation.
f(x) = 6x − x2
(a) Find the vertex of the graph of the equation.
(x, y) = (__________)
(b) Determine what value of x gives the optimal value of the function.
x=_____________
(c) Determine the optimal (maximum or minimum) value of the function.
f(x)= _____________
9. Find the maximum revenue for the revenue function R(x) = 358x − 0.7x2. (Round your
answer to the nearest cent.)
R = $______________
10. The profit function for a certain commodity is P(x) = 150x − x2 − 1000. Find the level of
production that yields maximum profit, and find the maximum profit.
x= _________ units
P=$ _________
11. If, in a monopoly market, the demand for a product is p = 2000 − x and the revenue is
R = px, where x is the number of units sold, what price will maximize revenue?
$________________
12. If the supply function for a commodity is p = q2 + 6q + 16 and the demand function is p
= −3q2 + 4q + 436, find the equilibrium quantity and equilibrium price.
equilibrium quantity_______________
equilibrium price $_______________
13. If the supply and demand functions for a commodity are given by p ...
1. How does CO2 and other greenhouse gases promote global warminMartineMccracken314
1. How does CO2 and other greenhouse gases promote global warming? Discuss your opinion on the use of geoengineering measures to mitigate the effects of global warming.
Your response should be at least 250 words in length.
2. How does CO2 and other greenhouse gases promote global warming? Discuss your opinion on the use of geoengineering measures to mitigate the effects of global warming.
Your response should be at least 250 words in length.
Raw DataNamePayResponsibilitiesSupervisionGenderDepartmentRudolph211MaleAccountingOlga211FemaleAccountingInstructionsErnest211MaleAccountingEmily211FemaleAccountingThe sheet labeled "Raw Data" lists 366 employees and their rating (1-5) of their satisfaction with their Pay, Responsibilities, and Supervision. A rating of 5 is the highest satisfaction.Bobby211MaleAccountingRaw Data also includes the Gender and Department for each employee.Benjamin211MaleAccountingBeatrice211FemaleAccountingInsert a new column in EKeith211MaleAccountingLabel this new column "Overall Satisfaction Rating"Hilda211FemaleAccountingFor each employee, compute the Overall Satisfaction Rating as the Average of Pay, Responsibilities, and Supervision.Leslie311MaleAccountingFormat Overall Satisfaction Rating to one decimal place.Curtis311MaleAccountingAlice311FemaleAccountingOn a New sheet titled Results, create a Pivot Chart & Pivot TableSophie311FemaleAccountingAssign Gender to Columns, Department to rows, and Pay to Values. Change the value field setting from Sum to Average if necessary.Sally311FemaleAccountingSort the departments in descending order of satisfaction.Melvin311MaleAccountingCreate a title for the chart, which includes your last namePearl411FemaleAccountingBe sure your chart includes a legend for male & female employees, change male color to blue and female to orangeJohnny411MaleAccountingBe sure to include axis titlesEunice411FemaleAccountingFormat the vertical axis for a max of 5 and major tick marks at 1 and one decimal place.Opal212FemaleAccountingJulia212FemaleAccountingCreate a new sheet titled "Graphs".Jimmie212MaleAccountingCopy & Paste as Picture your graph of Pay SatisfactionEsther212FemaleAccountingAlbert212MaleAccountingAlter your Pivot chart/table to display Responsibilities Satisfaction. Change titles as needed.Mike212MaleAccountingPaste this chart on the Graphs sheetMarion212MaleAccountingJosephine212FemaleAccountingAlter your Pivot chart/table to display Supervision Satisfaction. Change titles as needed.Ida212FemaleAccountingPaste this chart on the Graphs sheetGerald212MaleAccountingCaroline212FemaleAccountingAlter your Pivot chart/table to display Overall Satisfaction. Change titles as needed.Alberta212FemaleAccountingPaste this chart on the Graphs sheetLeroy312MaleAccountingLeave Results sheet with the Pivot Table & Chart displaying the Overall Satisfaction.Anita312FemaleAccountingMildred412FemaleAccountingBeulah412FemaleAccountingAda412FemaleAccountingClayton212MaleAccountingWayne312MaleA ...
1. How do you think communication and the role of training addressMartineMccracken314
1. How do you think communication and the role of training address performance gaps or training needs as it relates to how Adults learn?
2. There are many ways – or methods – available to gather data during a need’s assessment. Each one has advantages and disadvantages. What is important is to select the appropriate method based on your business problem. The most common methods for data gathering are:
· Document reviews or Extant Data Analysis – reviewing existing material like process maps, procedure guides, previous training material, etc.,
· Needs Assessment
· Interviews
· Focus groups
· Surveys
· Questionnaires
· Direct Observations
· Testing
· Subject Matter Expert Analysis
Select one of these data gathering methods to discuss and share what you see as the advantages and disadvantages associated with using the selected method.
1. Team teaching
In team teaching, both teachers are in the room at the same time but take turns teaching the whole class. Team teaching is sometimes called “tag team teaching.” You and your co-teacher teacher are a bit like co-presenters at a conference or the Oscars. You don’t necessarily plan who takes which part of the lesson, and when one of you makes a point, the other can jump in and elaborate if needed.
Team teaching can make you feel vulnerable. It asks you to step outside of your comfort zone and allow another teacher to see how you approach a classroom full of students. However, it also gives you the opportunity to learn about and improve your teaching skills by having a partner who can provide feedback and — in some cases — mentorship.
In team teaching, as well as the five other co-teaching models below, a teacher team may be made up of two general education teachers, two special education teachers, or one of each. Or, in some cases, it may be a teacher and a paraprofessional working together. Some IEPs specify that a student’s teaching team needs to include a general education teacher and a special education teacher.
Here’s what you need to know about the team teaching method:
What it looks like in the classroom
Both teachers teach at the front of the room and move about to check in with students (as needed).
Benefits
· Provides both teachers with an active instructional role
· Introduces students to complementary teaching styles and personalities
· Allows for lessons to be presented by two different people with different teaching styles
· Models multiple ways of presenting and engaging with information
· Models for students what a successful collaborative working relationship can look like
· Provides more opportunities to pursue teachable moments that may arise
Challenges
· Takes time and trust for teachers to build a working relationship that values each teacher equally in the classroom
· Necessitates a lot of planning time and coordination of schedules
· Requires teachers to have equal involvement not just in planning, but also in grading, which means assignments need to be evaluated ...
1. How brain meets its requirement for its energy in terms of wellMartineMccracken314
1. How brain meets its requirement for its energy in terms of well-fed and during starvation or fasting?
2. Explain the utilization of different sources of energy in muscle during anaerobic and aerobic conditions of high physical activity and resting?
3. Why and how adipose tissue and kidney are significant for fuel metabolism?
4. Explain in detail why liver is significant for metabolism of mammals and how does it coordinate the different metabolic pathways essential for organism?
5. Explain the Cori cycle and glucose-alanine cycle for interorgan fuel metabolism?
...
1. Give an introduction to contemporary Chinese art (Talk a littleMartineMccracken314
1. Give an introduction to contemporary Chinese art (Talk a little bit about some of the major changes in Chinese art)
2. Read the article that is provided. Do some research on the artist, Xu Bing. According to the article, give some background information about Xu Bing, and investigate the body of work.
3. Select one piece of his artwork to write about. It could be a traditional work of art, such as drawing, painting, or sculpture, or something more experimental like performance art, body art, or installation art.
4. Write a 3-page analysis of the artwork you select. The paper should have a short introduction and conclusion, but the body should focus on your analysis of the artwork. Some of the questions that you might want to work through in the paper include: Why is the work important? In what ways does it challenge the viewer? Is there an allegorical meaning to the work? How is it in dialogue with Western art traditions or earlier Chinese art traditions? Does it engage with Chinese history? Etc.
5. Be sure to include an image of the work you select into the paper, and the paper must be grammatically correct.
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1. For this reaction essay is a brief written reaction to the readMartineMccracken314
1. For this reaction essay is a brief written reaction to the readings. It may be somewhat informal (and I would encourage you to be personal), but it must be well-written and well-organized. It must not be more than 2 pages, use 12-point font, single-spaced, at least 1" margins. You will react to the results of this systematic review article on Telemedicine " Effectiveness of Telemedicine A Systematic Review of Reviews.pdf
Focus on the results of the synthesis only, react to the authors' conclusions- do you agree or disagree with their synthesis? Discuss your opinion, are there faults in their conclusions?
Telemedicine is increasingly being suggested as an alternative for an in-person visit, especially with emergent diseases that call for person-to-person distancing. What are the potential concerns with this suggestion? What are in the authors' synthesis and conclusions underscore the limitations of this suggestion?
2. The next day a representative from Bristol Myers Squibb visits your office and tells you that Plavix® (clopidogrel) decreases cardiovascular events by 8.7% compared to aspirin. That sure sounds good to you, as you have many elderly patients at risk of heart attacks and strokes and many are already on aspirin. The brochure quotes the CAPRIE study, and you decide to investigate this further. A review of the 1996 article reveals that study patients on Plavix® experienced cardiovascular events 9.78% of the time compared to 10.64% of the time with aspirin. Plavix® was approved by the FDA based on this one study. Cost of Plavix/day=$6.50. Cost of aspirin/day = $1.33
• What was the NNT?
• How much does Plavix® cost monthly?
• What meaning do these values have for this problem?
• Be sure to include your actual calculations/math
i n t e r n a t i o n a l j o u r n a l o f m e d i c a l i n f o r m a t i c s 7 9 ( 2 0 1 0 ) 736–771
j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w . i n t l . e l s e v i e r h e a l t h . c o m / j o u r n a l s / i j m i
Effectiveness of telemedicine: A systematic review of
reviews
Anne G. Ekeland a,∗, Alison Bowes b, Signe Flottorp c,d
a Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway, P.O. Box 6060, N-9038 Tromsø, Norway
b Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
c Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway
d Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Norway
a r t i c l e i n f o
Article history:
Received 23 April 2010
Received in revised form
11 July 2010
Accepted 29 August 2010
Keywords:
Telemedicine
Telecare
Systematic review
Effectiveness
Outcome
a b s t r a c t
Objectives: To conduct a review of reviews on the impacts and costs of telemedicine services.
Methods: A review of systematic reviews of telemedicine interventions was conducted. Inter-
ventions included all e-health interventions, information and communication technologies
for communication ...
1. Find something to negotiate in your personal or professional liMartineMccracken314
1. Find something to negotiate in your personal or professional life. Examples include: redistribution of household chores, a personal or professional purchase, a contract at work, asking for a raise, booking a vacation, hiring a contractor, etc. The deal does not have to be implemented for the purposes of this class (e.g. you can finalize the price for something you’re thinking of buying without following through on the purchase right now). The scenario you choose should be significant enough to allow you to do substantial research and detail for your paper. Submit a five page paper (minimum), double spaces, utilizing proper grammar and spelling, which summarizes the following:
1. Your Preparation – Describe the process you used and results of your preparation. You should also discuss your strategies, targets, and negotiating plan. Make sure you do your research, working on both your BATNA and the other party’s. (Consider newspapers, bookstores, libraries, the internet, and personal calls and visits as possible sources of information). This is the most important step, so being thorough is critical.
1. The Negotiating Process – Describe what happened in the negotiation itself. List he sequence of events and how you reacted/adjusted to the other party’s position. What was the negotiation style of the other party? What “tricks” did they try? How did you react? Were there any other influencing factors (e.g. cultural differences, misperceptions, emotion, etc.)?
1. The Outcome – What was the outcome and how did you feel about it? What worked well? What would you have done differently? Do you feel the result you arrived at was better than it would have been if you hadn’t taken the class? Why/Why not?
Your understanding of the appropriate preparation and process steps to take in negotiating this deal is more important than the final outcome.
Be sure to cite your sources, and include copies of necessary quotes/documentation.
1.
Find something to negotiate in your personal or professional life. Examples include:
redistributi
on of household chores, a personal or professional purchase, a contract at work,
asking for a raise, booking a vacation, hiring a contractor, etc. The deal does not have to be
implemented for the purposes of this class (e.g. you can finalize the price for
something you’re
thinking of buying without following through on the purchase right now). The scenario you
choose should be significant enough to allow you to do substantial research and detail for your
paper. Submit a five page paper (minimum), double
spaces, utilizing proper grammar and
spelling, which summarizes the following:
2.
Your Preparation
–
Describe the process you us
ed and results of your preparation. You should
also discuss your strategies, targets, and negotiating plan. Make sure you do your research,
working on both your BATNA and the other party’s. (Consider newspapers, bookstores, libraries,
the internet, and p
ers ...
1. FAMILYMy 57 year old mother died after a short illness MartineMccracken314
1. FAMILY
My 57 year old mother died after a short illness last June. She was a wonderful mother and my 66 year old father
adored her. They had been married for 38 years. He is finding it extremely difficult to cope without her. To make
matters worse, he retired just two months before she died and is at a loss to fill his days.
He is disorganized and has not established any pattern in his life. I invite him for meals and outings, but he is
detached and depressed. He doesn’t seem to be part of the world any more. I am terribly worried about him. How
long will he be like this? I am 34 and have small children. I thought being with the children would help him, but it’s
as though he doesn’t see or know them. He just sits and stares into space for much of the day. He seems locked
into his grief.
2. FAMILY
One of our 17 year old son’s best friends took his life several months ago. Our son didn’t say much at the time, but
he was very shaken. Since then he has gradually “retired” into himself. He stays in his room most of the time
listening to rock music.
He is unemployed and no longer sees his former schoolmates. We are very worried about him. How do we get him
out of himself? He has always been a quiet guy but his present behavior is beyond “quiet.” We have two other
children, girls aged 13 and 10, but our son now just ignores them.
3. FAMILY - rural
Ken is a 67 year old farmer who lives with his wife Margaret. Ken and Margaret had hoped to retire late in their 60s
and move to the west coast to be closer to their children, reluctantly selling the family property that has been
struggling financially. They have limited investment funds set aside to support their retirement and have been told
it is unlikely that they would be successful in selling their farm. Ken also suffers chronic back pain from a previous
farm injury. A neighbor has become concerned about Ken’s ability to cope with his property, and has visited Ken
and Margaret a number of times due to problems with his stock and pasture management. Margaret believes the
farm is “too much for them now,” but feels she can’t talk to Ken about this. Ken has become withdrawn and
refuses to discuss the issue. He talks about there being “no way out of this,” and that it “might as well be over.” He
sees his physician infrequently, having difficulty traveling the 60 miles to the nearby town.
4. FAMILY - rural
Jason is 34 years old and lives with his wife Jenny and their two children (8 and 3 years old). After completing a
mechanical trade apprenticeship in Boston, he has returned home with plans to build his future as a farmer. He has
become increasingly irritable and frustrated with what he believes is his failure to “get on top of things” on the
farm, and they are struggling to manage financially.
Jason is drinking heavily, mostly at home, but still drives his car into town. Jenny is angry and worried about this.
She is feeling isolated, having few friends in the area, and relying on Jas ...
1. Explain the four characteristics of B-DNA structure DifferentiMartineMccracken314
1. Explain the four characteristics of B-DNA structure? Differentiate between the A-DNA and Z-DNA structural features?
2. Describe the supercoiled DNA with its properties and how naturally occurring DNA under wound?
3. What are topoisomerases? Explain the two types of topoisomerases with their mechanism of action?
4. Explain the three interactions that are required to stabilize nucleic acids? How DNA denatures and renatures?
5. What are ribozymes and explain their properties?
Case 20 Restructuring
General Electric
The appointment of Larry Culp as the chairman and CEO of the General Electric
Company (GE) on October 1st, 2018 was a clear indication of the seriousness of the
problems that had engulfed the company. Culp, the former CEO of the highly-successful
conglomerate, Danaher Corporation, had been appointed a GE director only six months
previously and was the first outsider to lead GE—every one of GE’s previous CEOs had
been a career manager at the company. On the same day as Culp’s appointment, GE
abandoned its earning guidance for the year and announced a $23 billion accounting
charge arising from a write-down of goodwill at its troubled electrical power division.1
Culp’s predecessor, John Flannery had been CEO for a mere 14 months—a sharp
contrast to GE’s two previous CEOs: Jeff Immelt (16 years) and Jack Welch (20 years).
Flannery’s tenure at GE has coincided with of the company’s most difficult periods in its
entire 126-year history. In November 2017, amidst deteriorating financial performance,
Flannery announced a halving of GE’s quarterly dividend, the proposed sale of its
lighting and locomotive units—two of GE’s oldest businesses—and the elimination of
12,000 jobs in the power division.
In 2018, the situation worsened. In January, GE announced that it would be paying
$15 bn. to cover liabilities at insurance companies it had sold 12 years previously. In
February, GE confirmed suspicions over its dubious accounting practices by restating its
revenues and earnings for the previous two years, while also announcing the likelihood
of legal claims arising from its its subprime mortgage lending over a decade earlier.
The outcome was a precipitous fall in GE’s share price (see Figure 1) that culminated
in GE’s dismissal from the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). Until June 2018, GE
was the sole surviving member of the DJIA when it was created in 1896.
The crisis at GE presented the board with two central questions. First, should GE
be broken up? Second, if GE was to continue as a widely-diversified company, how
should it be managed?
As a diversified corporation that extended from jet engines, to oil and gas equipment,
to healthcare products, to financial services, GE was an anomaly. For three decades, con-
glomerates—diversified companies comprising unrelated or loosely related businesses—
had been deeply unfashionable. CEOs, Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt, had claimed that,
by virtue of its integrated m ...
1. examine three of the upstream impacts of mining. Which of theseMartineMccracken314
1. examine three of the upstream impacts of mining. Which of these do you think would be most difficult to estimate in a life cycle assessment?
Your response should be at least 250 words in length.
2. Discuss the pollutants that are emitted during the operation stage of a life cycle assessment for a fossil fuel source.
Your response should be at least 250 words in length
Body Ritual among the Nacirema
H O R A C E M I N E R
University of Michigan
HE anthropologist has become so familiar with the diversity of ways iq T which different peoples behave in similar situations that he is not a p t to.
be surprised by even the most exotic customs. I n fact, if all of thelogically
possible combinations of behavior have not been found somewhere in the
world, he is a p t to suspect that they must be present in some yet undescribed
tribe. This point has, in fact, been expressed with respect to clan organization
by Murdock (1949: 7 1 ) . I n this light, the magical beliefs and practices of the
Nacirema present such unusual aspects that i t seems desirable t o describe
them a s an example of the extremes to which human behavior can go.
Professor Linton first brought the ritual of the Nacirema to the attention
of anthropologists twenty years ago (1936:326), but the culture of this people
is still very poorly understood. They are a North American group living in the
territory between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico,
and the Carib and Arawak of the Antilles. Little is known of their origin, al-
though tradition states that they came from the east. According to Nacirema
mythology, their nation was originated by a culture hero, Notgnihsaw, who is
otherwise known for two great feats of strength-the throwing of a piece of
wampum across the river Pa-To-Mac and the chopping down of a cherry tree
in which the Spirit of Truth resided.
Nacirema culture is characterized by a highly developed market economy
which has evolved in a rich natural habitat. While much of the people’s time
is devoted to economic pursuits, a large part of the fruits of these labors and a
considerable portion of the day are spent in ritual activity. The focus of this
activity is the human body, the appearance and health of which loom a s a
dominant concern in the ethos of the people. While such a concern is certainly
not unusual, its ceremonial aspects and associated philosophy are unique.
The fundamental belief underlying the whole system appears to be that the
human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is t o debility and disease.
Incarcerated in such a body, man’s only hope is to avert these characteristics
through the use of the powerful influences of ritual and ceremony. Every house-
hold has one or more shrines devoted to this purpose. The more powerful in-
dividuals in the society have several shrines in their houses and, in fact, the
opulence of a house is often referred to in terms of the num ...
1. Examine Hofstedes model of national culture. Are all four dimeMartineMccracken314
1. Examine Hofstede's model of national culture. Are all four dimensions still important in today's society as it relates to the success of the multinational manager? Why, or why not? Which do you think is the least important as it relates to multinational management? Why?
2. More companies are seeking to fill multinational management positions due to the influx of business growth abroad. If you were offered and accepted a position as a multinational manager, what would you do to personally prepare for the culture of a different country? Where would you seek information? What overall responsibilities would you expect of the job? How do you think the managerial responsibilities would be different from those you would face in the United States?
3. Multinational managers encounter many levels of culture. Which of the culture levels do you think might be the most difficult to manage? Why? Share an example. Which culture level do you think might be the easiest to understand? Why? Give an example of this.
4. In your own words, what is your perception of free trade? Think about the advantages of free trade; what are two benefits that result from free trade? There is also a downside to free trade; what are two disadvantages resulting from free trade? Provide reasoning for your choices.
5. What are the three major economic systems that nations utilize, and what is the role of each? How does each affect and influence individuals, multinational managers, and corporations?
6. How would you define ethical convergence? What are the four basic reasons for ethical convergence? Which might be the most difficult for multinational companies to follow, and why?
7. Describe the four major world religions. What are the impacts of each religion type on an economic environment? What do you think makes religion a concern in societies?
8. If you were a multinational manager, and you encountered an ethical dilemma within the multinational company, what heuristic questions would you use to decide between ethical relativism and ethical universalism? Of the different heuristic questions, which one do you think is most important? Explain your reasoning.
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Week Two Instructor’s Notes
PHIL 1103 Summer
This week you will be learning in detail about the four different moral perspectives that
we will use to analyze moral questions.
Notice two things right at the start. First, because normative ethics is our main focus this
term, we are not going to attempt to settle the question of whether any moral perspective at all
could be correct or known to be correct—that is a task for metaethics. Our task in this second
week is to learn in some detail about four different kinds of consideration or value that often
seem relevant when we try to decide what is morally right or wrong in particular cases, namely:
(1) Respect for the rights and autonomy of the persons involved
(2) Increasing the overall well-being of the most individuals possible
(3) Asking wha ...
1. Do you think the Earth is a living organism Why or why notMartineMccracken314
1. Do you think the Earth is a living organism? Why or why not?
2. Why are people in Haiti so vulnerable to major natural hazards?
3. Why did you take this environmental geology course?
4. Would an exponential negative growth of human population be a solution to many environmental problems?
5. Are there any conflicts between global environmental unity principle and regional economic development?
6. a. Look around your house or apartment and make a list of five different materials that relate to geology. For example, do you have a granite countertop? Slate floor or pool table? Salt in your kitchen? Drywall (made from gypsum)? Metal Objects? Plastic items (made from petroleum)?
b. Indicate those items that can be recycled.
c. If you currently do not recycle, describe what would cause you
7. Assume the Pangaea never broke up, how might today’s environments be different?
8. What are the major differences in plate tectonic settings between the U.S. eastern and western coasts?
9. Will the tectonic cycle ever stop? Why or why not?
10. Why is most seismic and volcanic energy released along the Pacific rim?
11. Does plate tectonics play a role in shaping your local environment?
12. Extremophile bacteria can live and thrive under extreme conditions. Why are they important to the search for extraterrestrial life?
13. Discuss different ways that rocks and minerals are used to benefit or to harm the environment
14. What rock property and rock structure factors should you consider for a major engineering site selection?
15. Suppose you are the superintendent of schools, what steps would you take to determine if there was an asbestos hazard, and how would you communicate with parents?
16. What factors contributed to the failure of the St. Francis Dam?
17. A town is located in the foothills of a mountain range. The rock types in the city limits and just beyond include basalt, shale, and limestone. As the town grows and expands, what advice could you give planners as to potential geologic problems related to the rocks to be aware of as new buildings and roads are sited? What additional geologic information would be necessary?
18. The rock cycle indicates how rocks can be transformed from one type to another. In other words, older rocks are recycled into new rocks. How can an older sedimentary rock be transformed into a new sedimentary rock without first becoming a metamorphic rock?
19. An ecosystem consists of both living community and its nonliving environment. Is one of two components more important?
20. Based upon the linkage between ecology and geology, what is the importance of interdisciplinary collaborations in ecological restoration?
21. What are the critical ecological challenges in your area?
22. Are there any positive impacts of land transformation on your local ecosystems?
23. How do seawalls reduce biodiversity?
24. What did you learn from the case history of wolves in Yellowstone National Park?
25. List all the nat ...
1. Discuss the nursing implications of the findings of the researcMartineMccracken314
1. Discuss the nursing implications of the findings of the research. Consider the following questions:
· Were the results statistically significant, if reported?
· What is the clinical significance of the findings?
· What are the risks vs. benefits to practice of the findings?
· Are the findings feasible to implement?
Work 57 (2017) 259–268
DOI:10.3233/WOR-172551
IOS Press
259
“I’ve never been able to stay in a job”:
A qualitative study of Veterans’
experiences of maintaining employment
Molly Harroda,∗, Erin M. Millerb, Jennifer Henrya and Kara Zivina,b,c,d
a VA Center for Clinical Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Health Care System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
bDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
cDepartment of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health,
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
dInstitute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Received 5 February 2016
Accepted 4 December 2016
Abstract.
BACKGROUND: Ensuring Veteran employment needs are met is a top priority for the Department of Veteran Affairs
and the United States government. However, Veterans, especially those with mental health disorders, continue to encounter
difficulties when employed. While many employment related programs offer numerous services aimed at helping Veterans
gain employment, their ability to maintain long-term employment remains unknown.
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to understand factors that affect the ability of Veterans with mental health
disorders to maintain long-term employment.
METHODS: An exploratory, qualitative study design consisting of semi-structured interviews with 10 Veterans was per-
formed. Inductive thematic analysis was performed to identify salient themes.
RESULTS: We found that participants’ symptoms manifested themselves within the workplace affecting their ability to
maintain employment, participants felt as if they had been demoted from what they did in the military, and they felt unable
to relate to civilian co-workers. Strategies that helped some transition into the civilian workforce were also identified.
CONCLUSIONS: A better understanding of the difficulties some Veterans face when trying to maintain employment is
needed. Our findings suggest that increasing awareness of existing programs and ensuring that services provide resources
and skills that help Veterans maintain long-term employment is critical.
Keywords: Long-term employment, mental health, reintegration
1. Introduction
Within the United States there are approximately
5.5 million Veterans who served during the Gulf War
era (from August 1990 until present) [1]. These Vet-
erans are younger, more likely to be of working age
(18–55), and looking to secure civilian employment.
∗Address for correspondence: Molly Harrod, HSR&D (152)
P.O. Box 130170 Ann Arbor, MI 48113-0170, USA. Tel.: +1 734
845 3600; Fax: +1 734 222 7503; E-mail: [email protected]
Ensuring that V ...
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1. Define the following concepts (key terms) in YOUR OWN WORDS:
◦ object permanence
◦ causality
◦ mental combinations
◦ deferred imitation
2. Using this list of behaviors, sort them into the correct sensorimotor stage in the table below. You must use them all:
• Looks for hidden objects
• Shakes rattle in different ways
• Grasping
• Repeats interesting action
• Putting mom’s hands together to make her clap
• Plays alone with a doll
• Sits & passes toy from one hand to another
• Attempting to hold a bottle to drink it
• Gazes at adults
• Laughs when mom starts playing
• Manipulates items
• Makes deliberate cry to get attention
• Plays peek-a-boo
• Imitates parts of an adult role
• Looks in several places for lost object
• Sucks on own hands
• Sucking on pacifier or bottle
• Feels texture of blanket
• Imaginary play
• Hides from dad at bedtime
• Points to car and says, “car”
• Reaches for bib at feeding time
Sensorimotor
Substage
Age Range? Typical Behaviors (from the list above)
Substage 1:
Reflexive
Substage 2:
Primary Circular
Reactions
Substage 3:
Secondary Circular
Reactions
Substage 4: of
Secondary Circular
Reactions
Substage 5:
Tertiary Circular
Reactions
Substage 6: Mental
Representation
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1. Development Plan Career Activity. Respond to the followingMartineMccracken314
1. Development Plan Career Activity
. Respond to the following:
· What are some of the key concepts that should be included in a career plan?
· What common mistakes do people make when developing a career plan?
Assignment Instructions
Write a one-page paper (not to exceed 250 words). You will be graded on the following:
· Quality of your response.
· Coherence and organization.
· Mechanics.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
The specific course outcome associated with this assignment is:
· Develop a professional development strategy that fosters career readiness skills for master's-prepared health care administrators.
A guide to
Social Return
on Investment
January 2012
in association with
“For FRC Group using SROI has been a fascinating
process which has fine tuned our understanding of
the impacts that are achieved as we improve our
performance, and exposed areas in which we can
do more.”
Verity Timmins, Impact Manager, FRC Group
“At Impact Arts we have embraced SROI as one of our
central evaluation tools, which complements our existing
evaluation practice very well. SROI has clear benefits
for our organisation in terms of our future funding and
business development activities, as well as focusing our
day to day practice on where and how we add value.”
Susan Akternel, Innovation and Development Director, Impact Arts
“SROI has helped us develop an ongoing relationship
with our stakeholders which shows that we are listening
to their needs and we can now report how our work
impacts on their lives and the lives of others.”
Maeve Monaghan, Director, NOW Project
A guide to Social Return on Investment 3
Update to the 2009 Guide
This Guide is an update to the 2009 Guide to Social Return on Investment that was
published by the Cabinet Office. There are no changes to the principles or to the
methodology used to apply those principles within the framework. The purpose of
the update is to amend the language used so that it is more relevant for international
audiences and for different sectors and types of organisations.
A small number of typographical errors have also been corrected.
The worked example was included as an example of how those principles are applied
in practice. A supplement will be available for the worked example ‘Wheels to Meals:
one year on’ which sets out how the organisation has developed its approach to SROI
after completing an evaluation against the initial forecast.
Supplements to the Guide will be prepared from time to time and form part of the
guidance available. At the date of this update a supplement on Materiality has been
released and is available from the SROI Network website.
January 2012
Acknowledgements
The 2009 gui ...
1. Developing Information Technology training that can be understoMartineMccracken314
1. Developing Information Technology training that can be understood by users at all levels (e.g., formal training, how to guides, operating procedures).
EXPERIENCE - Describe your work experience relevant to performing this task, both paid and volunteer.
Qualifications:
Provide relevant examples of the more complex work you have been responsible for that demonstrate your ability to perform this task(1000 characters max):
2. Recommending information technology hardware and/or software solutions to meet system requirements.
EXPERIENCE - Describe your work experience relevant to performing this task, both paid and volunteer.
Qualifications:
Provide relevant examples of the more complex work you have been responsible for that demonstrate your ability to perform this task(1000 characters max):
3. Incorporating information security practices and principles throughout the Systems Development Life Cycle.
EXPERIENCE - Describe your work experience relevant to performing this task, both paid and volunteer.
Qualifications:
Provide relevant examples of the more complex work you have been responsible for that demonstrate your ability to perform this task(1000 characters max):
4. Resolving user/client information technology hardware and/or software issues utilizing an incident management process.
EXPERIENCE - Describe your work experience relevant to performing this task, both paid and volunteer. Qualifications:
Provide relevant examples of the more complex work you have been responsible for that demonstrate your ability to perform this task(1000 characters max):
5. Validating system and operational requirements using information technology testing methodologies.
EXPERIENCE - Describe your work experience relevant to performing this task, both paid and volunteer. Qualifications:
Provide relevant examples of the more complex work you have been responsible for that demonstrate your ability to perform this task(1000 characters max):
6. Implementing system improvements based on analyzing measures or indicators of information technology system performance.
EXPERIENCE - Describe your work experience relevant to performing this task, both paid and volunteer.
Qualifications:
Provide relevant examples of the more complex work you have been responsible for that demonstrate your ability to perform this task(1000 characters max):
9. Conducting root cause analysis for resolution of information technology issues (e.g., network, database, server, applications).
EXPERIENCE - Describe your work experience relevant to performing this task, both paid and volunteer.
Qualifications:
Provide relevant examples of the more complex work you have been responsible for that demonstrate your ability to perform this task(1000 characters max):
10. Testing information technology solutions to ensure they meet the organization’s needs.
EXPERIENCE - Describe your work experience relevant to performing this task, both paid and volunteer.
Qualifications:
Provide releva ...
1. Describe digital freight matchmaking in your own words.2. HowMartineMccracken314
1. Describe digital freight matchmaking in your own words.
2. How has digital freight matchmaking been able to gain traction?
3. Who stands to benefit most from digital matchmaking and why? What is the primary benefit they get?
4. Who stands to lose most from digital matchmaking and why?
...
1. Describe the ways in which governments and international bodiMartineMccracken314
1. Describe the ways in which governments and international bodies promote and regulate global trade (150 words)
2. Identify the questions to ask in choosing the appropriate form of ownership for a business (150 words)
3. You’re a partner in a U.S. engineering firm that’s interested in bidding on a water-treatment project in China. You know that firms from two other countries—Malaysia and Italy—will submit bids. The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act forbids you from making any payment to Chinese officials to enlist their help in getting the job. Unfortunately, the governments of Malaysia and Italy don’t prohibit local firms from offering bribes. Are you at a disadvantage? Should the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act be repealed? Why, or why not? (1page)
4. Because the United States has placed quotas on textile and apparel imports for the last thirty years, certain countries, such as China and India, have been able to export to the United States only as much clothing as their respective quotas permit. One effect of this policy was spreading textile and apparel manufacture around the world and preventing any single nation from dominating the world market. As a result, many developing countries, such as Vietnam, Cambodia, and Honduras, were able to enter the market and provide much-needed jobs for local workers. The rules, however, have changed: as of January 1, 2005, quotas on U.S. textile imports were eliminated, permitting U.S. companies to import textile supplies from any country they choose. In your opinion, what effect will the new U.S. policy have on each of the following groups: (1page)
· Firms that outsource the manufacture of their apparel
· Textile manufacturers and workers in the following countries:
• China• Indonesia• Mexico• United States
· 3. American consumers
...
1. Describe the process of beta oxidation of fatty acids with FA aMartineMccracken314
1. Describe the process of beta oxidation of fatty acids with FA activation and degradation?
2. Discuss the oxidation of unsaturated FAs with their three problems?
3. Explain the steps of odd chain FAs oxidation with emphasis on mutase?
4. Give the differences in peroxisomal and mitochondrial beta oxidation?
5. What are ketone bodies and write the steps of ketogenesis and metabolic degradation of ketone bodies?
Firewall Security Strategies
You are working with your manager on a project. You are attempting to determine the best approach for securing inbound traffic from the Internet to various application servers on the client’s local area network (LAN). You would like to select a strategy that gives the client significant control over user accessibility. You would also like to ensure that all data passing into your client’s network is properly evaluated before access is granted. Integrity of data is the top priority; however, your client has a limited budget for deployment.
Using the information presented above, discuss which of the following firewall security strategies would be a good fit for your client’s network environment.
Firewall Security Strategies
Security through obscurity
By configuring systems in a way that does not follow normal patterns and is not easily understandable, security through obscurity can be obtained. By utilizing abnormal configurations, the probability of exploitation is reduced and a level of protection is obtained. Administrators seek security through obscurity by performing one or more of the following actions:
· Modification of default ports
· Spoofing of banners or headers
· Utilization of extraordinary long Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
· Utilizing uncommon protocols or operating systems
Keep in mind that this strategy may instill a false sense of security. Because attackers have multiple methods to scan against system configurations, utilizing this as the only security mechanism is like using nothing at all.
Least privilege
This strategy requires that each user or group that requires access to resources be explicitly granted permission. Because all resource access would be denied by default, each individual access need would have to be individually addressed. When least privilege is employed, there is often a dramatic increase in administrative overhead as a direct result. Least privilege is preferred for administrative scenarios.
Simplicity
This strategy reinforces that the selected solution should remain simple. By retaining a simple solution, the potential for error in configuration, bugs, or other problems is reduced.
Defense in Depth
This strategy emphasizes on a layered approach. The use of multiple safeguards ensures that no system that represents a single point of failure could be breached. The characteristics of a defense-in-depth strategy are:
· Public networks are separate from private networks
· Multiple security controls are implemented
· Redundant security controls are implemente ...
1. I believe that the protagonist is Nel because she is the one thMartineMccracken314
1. I believe that the protagonist is Nel because she is the one that goes through different changes throughout the book. I also think she is the protagonist because most people can relate to her more. Nel was done wrong by Sula and her husband Jude Green. Sula did the one thing that a best friend should never do and, that is sleep with your best friend's husband. Even though Sula did a terrible thing Nel still cares about her best friend because she goes and visits her when she is sick even after all the pain she caused her. Nel is also deeply saddened when she visits Sulas grave. That is not the only thing that happened to Nel. Nel not only had to deal with the affair but also accepted her guilt in Chicken Little's drowning. But in the end, Nel realized she enjoyed watching him drown.
Everything changed when Sula came back to Nels life. Nel was happy before. She was happy with her family and her husband, but when Sula came back that all changed. After the affair and Sulas death, Nel was alone. Nel became a single mother and, she no longer has a good relationship with another man.
2. I believe that although the title of the story is Sula, the main protaginist of the story is Nel. Nel is kept until the end of the story and Sulay passes away and exit's the story. I think in this pivitol moment is when the author wanted to make Nel the main character. Nel contained her emotion until towards the end of the story when she has a conversation with Eva, Nel nervously comments "Who told you all these lies? Miss Peace? Who told you? Why are you telling lies on me?" I believe the author wanted us to feel the anxiousness and wonder that Nel found out that somebody finally knew about the little boy being thrown. I believe this admission of guilt to Eva brings closure to Nel. Nel was trying to hide her emotions the entire time and it wasn't after being confronted that she broke down about it and visited Sulay's grave. Nel even stated "I don't know. No." when asked whether somebody saw the boy being thrown into the river. This shows that Nel was not sure at all in the moment it happened whether somebody knew. Nel wanted to not think about what happen forever and try to mute the situation but Eva bringing it up, made Nel feel terrible about what happened which is why she ended up visting Sulay's grave. I think muting herself from knowing the little boy was thrown was still not a 'good' way to look at it, from her end. She wanted to believe a lie by just pretending it never happened. It wasn't after someone brought up the situation to her that her feelings change.
3. Although the novel is titled Sula, the real protagonist is Nel because she is the one who is transformed by the end. Sula and Nel were very great friends and were very dedicated to each other. But they were also very different. Nel was known as the more mature and "good person" while Sula is more impulsive. "Nel is the product of a family that believes deeply in social conventions, hers is a st ...
1. If the profit from the sale of x units of a product is P = MartineMccracken314
1. If the profit from the sale of x units of a product is P = 105x − 300 − x2, what
level(s) of production will yield a profit of $1050? (Enter your answers as a
comma-separated list.)
x = _________ units
2. The total costs for a company are given by
C(x) = 5400 + 80x + x2
and the total revenues are given by
R(x) = 230x.
Find the break-even points. (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list.)
x= __________ units
3. If total costs are C(x) = 900 + 800x and total revenues are R(x) = 900x − x2, find the
break-even points. (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list.)
x= _____________
4. For the years since 2001, the percent p of high school seniors who have tried marijuana
can be considered as a function of time t according to
p = f(t) = 0.17t2 − 2.61t + 52.64
where t is the number of years past 2000.† In what year after 2000 is the percent
predicted to reach 75%, if this function remains valid?
_______________
5. Using data from 2002 and with projections to 2024, total annual expenditures for
national health care (in billions of dollars) can be described by
E = 4.61x2 + 43.4x + 1620
where x is the number of years past 2000.† If the pattern indicated by the model
remains valid, in what year does the model predict these expenditures will reach
$15,315 billion?
__________________
6. The monthly profit from the sale of a product is given by P = 32x − 0.2x2 − 150 dollars.
(a) What level of production maximizes profit?
___________ units
(b) What is the maximum possible profit?
$_____________
7. Consider the following equation.
y = 9 + 6x − x2
(a) Find the vertex of the graph of the equation.
(x, y) = (__________)
(b) Determine what value of x gives the optimal value of the function.
x=_____________
(c) Determine the optimal (maximum or minimum) value of the function.
y=______________
8. Consider the following equation.
f(x) = 6x − x2
(a) Find the vertex of the graph of the equation.
(x, y) = (__________)
(b) Determine what value of x gives the optimal value of the function.
x=_____________
(c) Determine the optimal (maximum or minimum) value of the function.
f(x)= _____________
9. Find the maximum revenue for the revenue function R(x) = 358x − 0.7x2. (Round your
answer to the nearest cent.)
R = $______________
10. The profit function for a certain commodity is P(x) = 150x − x2 − 1000. Find the level of
production that yields maximum profit, and find the maximum profit.
x= _________ units
P=$ _________
11. If, in a monopoly market, the demand for a product is p = 2000 − x and the revenue is
R = px, where x is the number of units sold, what price will maximize revenue?
$________________
12. If the supply function for a commodity is p = q2 + 6q + 16 and the demand function is p
= −3q2 + 4q + 436, find the equilibrium quantity and equilibrium price.
equilibrium quantity_______________
equilibrium price $_______________
13. If the supply and demand functions for a commodity are given by p ...
1. How does CO2 and other greenhouse gases promote global warminMartineMccracken314
1. How does CO2 and other greenhouse gases promote global warming? Discuss your opinion on the use of geoengineering measures to mitigate the effects of global warming.
Your response should be at least 250 words in length.
2. How does CO2 and other greenhouse gases promote global warming? Discuss your opinion on the use of geoengineering measures to mitigate the effects of global warming.
Your response should be at least 250 words in length.
Raw DataNamePayResponsibilitiesSupervisionGenderDepartmentRudolph211MaleAccountingOlga211FemaleAccountingInstructionsErnest211MaleAccountingEmily211FemaleAccountingThe sheet labeled "Raw Data" lists 366 employees and their rating (1-5) of their satisfaction with their Pay, Responsibilities, and Supervision. A rating of 5 is the highest satisfaction.Bobby211MaleAccountingRaw Data also includes the Gender and Department for each employee.Benjamin211MaleAccountingBeatrice211FemaleAccountingInsert a new column in EKeith211MaleAccountingLabel this new column "Overall Satisfaction Rating"Hilda211FemaleAccountingFor each employee, compute the Overall Satisfaction Rating as the Average of Pay, Responsibilities, and Supervision.Leslie311MaleAccountingFormat Overall Satisfaction Rating to one decimal place.Curtis311MaleAccountingAlice311FemaleAccountingOn a New sheet titled Results, create a Pivot Chart & Pivot TableSophie311FemaleAccountingAssign Gender to Columns, Department to rows, and Pay to Values. Change the value field setting from Sum to Average if necessary.Sally311FemaleAccountingSort the departments in descending order of satisfaction.Melvin311MaleAccountingCreate a title for the chart, which includes your last namePearl411FemaleAccountingBe sure your chart includes a legend for male & female employees, change male color to blue and female to orangeJohnny411MaleAccountingBe sure to include axis titlesEunice411FemaleAccountingFormat the vertical axis for a max of 5 and major tick marks at 1 and one decimal place.Opal212FemaleAccountingJulia212FemaleAccountingCreate a new sheet titled "Graphs".Jimmie212MaleAccountingCopy & Paste as Picture your graph of Pay SatisfactionEsther212FemaleAccountingAlbert212MaleAccountingAlter your Pivot chart/table to display Responsibilities Satisfaction. Change titles as needed.Mike212MaleAccountingPaste this chart on the Graphs sheetMarion212MaleAccountingJosephine212FemaleAccountingAlter your Pivot chart/table to display Supervision Satisfaction. Change titles as needed.Ida212FemaleAccountingPaste this chart on the Graphs sheetGerald212MaleAccountingCaroline212FemaleAccountingAlter your Pivot chart/table to display Overall Satisfaction. Change titles as needed.Alberta212FemaleAccountingPaste this chart on the Graphs sheetLeroy312MaleAccountingLeave Results sheet with the Pivot Table & Chart displaying the Overall Satisfaction.Anita312FemaleAccountingMildred412FemaleAccountingBeulah412FemaleAccountingAda412FemaleAccountingClayton212MaleAccountingWayne312MaleA ...
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1. How do you think communication and the role of training address performance gaps or training needs as it relates to how Adults learn?
2. There are many ways – or methods – available to gather data during a need’s assessment. Each one has advantages and disadvantages. What is important is to select the appropriate method based on your business problem. The most common methods for data gathering are:
· Document reviews or Extant Data Analysis – reviewing existing material like process maps, procedure guides, previous training material, etc.,
· Needs Assessment
· Interviews
· Focus groups
· Surveys
· Questionnaires
· Direct Observations
· Testing
· Subject Matter Expert Analysis
Select one of these data gathering methods to discuss and share what you see as the advantages and disadvantages associated with using the selected method.
1. Team teaching
In team teaching, both teachers are in the room at the same time but take turns teaching the whole class. Team teaching is sometimes called “tag team teaching.” You and your co-teacher teacher are a bit like co-presenters at a conference or the Oscars. You don’t necessarily plan who takes which part of the lesson, and when one of you makes a point, the other can jump in and elaborate if needed.
Team teaching can make you feel vulnerable. It asks you to step outside of your comfort zone and allow another teacher to see how you approach a classroom full of students. However, it also gives you the opportunity to learn about and improve your teaching skills by having a partner who can provide feedback and — in some cases — mentorship.
In team teaching, as well as the five other co-teaching models below, a teacher team may be made up of two general education teachers, two special education teachers, or one of each. Or, in some cases, it may be a teacher and a paraprofessional working together. Some IEPs specify that a student’s teaching team needs to include a general education teacher and a special education teacher.
Here’s what you need to know about the team teaching method:
What it looks like in the classroom
Both teachers teach at the front of the room and move about to check in with students (as needed).
Benefits
· Provides both teachers with an active instructional role
· Introduces students to complementary teaching styles and personalities
· Allows for lessons to be presented by two different people with different teaching styles
· Models multiple ways of presenting and engaging with information
· Models for students what a successful collaborative working relationship can look like
· Provides more opportunities to pursue teachable moments that may arise
Challenges
· Takes time and trust for teachers to build a working relationship that values each teacher equally in the classroom
· Necessitates a lot of planning time and coordination of schedules
· Requires teachers to have equal involvement not just in planning, but also in grading, which means assignments need to be evaluated ...
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1. How brain meets its requirement for its energy in terms of well-fed and during starvation or fasting?
2. Explain the utilization of different sources of energy in muscle during anaerobic and aerobic conditions of high physical activity and resting?
3. Why and how adipose tissue and kidney are significant for fuel metabolism?
4. Explain in detail why liver is significant for metabolism of mammals and how does it coordinate the different metabolic pathways essential for organism?
5. Explain the Cori cycle and glucose-alanine cycle for interorgan fuel metabolism?
...
1. Give an introduction to contemporary Chinese art (Talk a littleMartineMccracken314
1. Give an introduction to contemporary Chinese art (Talk a little bit about some of the major changes in Chinese art)
2. Read the article that is provided. Do some research on the artist, Xu Bing. According to the article, give some background information about Xu Bing, and investigate the body of work.
3. Select one piece of his artwork to write about. It could be a traditional work of art, such as drawing, painting, or sculpture, or something more experimental like performance art, body art, or installation art.
4. Write a 3-page analysis of the artwork you select. The paper should have a short introduction and conclusion, but the body should focus on your analysis of the artwork. Some of the questions that you might want to work through in the paper include: Why is the work important? In what ways does it challenge the viewer? Is there an allegorical meaning to the work? How is it in dialogue with Western art traditions or earlier Chinese art traditions? Does it engage with Chinese history? Etc.
5. Be sure to include an image of the work you select into the paper, and the paper must be grammatically correct.
...
1. For this reaction essay is a brief written reaction to the readMartineMccracken314
1. For this reaction essay is a brief written reaction to the readings. It may be somewhat informal (and I would encourage you to be personal), but it must be well-written and well-organized. It must not be more than 2 pages, use 12-point font, single-spaced, at least 1" margins. You will react to the results of this systematic review article on Telemedicine " Effectiveness of Telemedicine A Systematic Review of Reviews.pdf
Focus on the results of the synthesis only, react to the authors' conclusions- do you agree or disagree with their synthesis? Discuss your opinion, are there faults in their conclusions?
Telemedicine is increasingly being suggested as an alternative for an in-person visit, especially with emergent diseases that call for person-to-person distancing. What are the potential concerns with this suggestion? What are in the authors' synthesis and conclusions underscore the limitations of this suggestion?
2. The next day a representative from Bristol Myers Squibb visits your office and tells you that Plavix® (clopidogrel) decreases cardiovascular events by 8.7% compared to aspirin. That sure sounds good to you, as you have many elderly patients at risk of heart attacks and strokes and many are already on aspirin. The brochure quotes the CAPRIE study, and you decide to investigate this further. A review of the 1996 article reveals that study patients on Plavix® experienced cardiovascular events 9.78% of the time compared to 10.64% of the time with aspirin. Plavix® was approved by the FDA based on this one study. Cost of Plavix/day=$6.50. Cost of aspirin/day = $1.33
• What was the NNT?
• How much does Plavix® cost monthly?
• What meaning do these values have for this problem?
• Be sure to include your actual calculations/math
i n t e r n a t i o n a l j o u r n a l o f m e d i c a l i n f o r m a t i c s 7 9 ( 2 0 1 0 ) 736–771
j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w . i n t l . e l s e v i e r h e a l t h . c o m / j o u r n a l s / i j m i
Effectiveness of telemedicine: A systematic review of
reviews
Anne G. Ekeland a,∗, Alison Bowes b, Signe Flottorp c,d
a Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway, P.O. Box 6060, N-9038 Tromsø, Norway
b Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
c Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway
d Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Norway
a r t i c l e i n f o
Article history:
Received 23 April 2010
Received in revised form
11 July 2010
Accepted 29 August 2010
Keywords:
Telemedicine
Telecare
Systematic review
Effectiveness
Outcome
a b s t r a c t
Objectives: To conduct a review of reviews on the impacts and costs of telemedicine services.
Methods: A review of systematic reviews of telemedicine interventions was conducted. Inter-
ventions included all e-health interventions, information and communication technologies
for communication ...
1. Find something to negotiate in your personal or professional liMartineMccracken314
1. Find something to negotiate in your personal or professional life. Examples include: redistribution of household chores, a personal or professional purchase, a contract at work, asking for a raise, booking a vacation, hiring a contractor, etc. The deal does not have to be implemented for the purposes of this class (e.g. you can finalize the price for something you’re thinking of buying without following through on the purchase right now). The scenario you choose should be significant enough to allow you to do substantial research and detail for your paper. Submit a five page paper (minimum), double spaces, utilizing proper grammar and spelling, which summarizes the following:
1. Your Preparation – Describe the process you used and results of your preparation. You should also discuss your strategies, targets, and negotiating plan. Make sure you do your research, working on both your BATNA and the other party’s. (Consider newspapers, bookstores, libraries, the internet, and personal calls and visits as possible sources of information). This is the most important step, so being thorough is critical.
1. The Negotiating Process – Describe what happened in the negotiation itself. List he sequence of events and how you reacted/adjusted to the other party’s position. What was the negotiation style of the other party? What “tricks” did they try? How did you react? Were there any other influencing factors (e.g. cultural differences, misperceptions, emotion, etc.)?
1. The Outcome – What was the outcome and how did you feel about it? What worked well? What would you have done differently? Do you feel the result you arrived at was better than it would have been if you hadn’t taken the class? Why/Why not?
Your understanding of the appropriate preparation and process steps to take in negotiating this deal is more important than the final outcome.
Be sure to cite your sources, and include copies of necessary quotes/documentation.
1.
Find something to negotiate in your personal or professional life. Examples include:
redistributi
on of household chores, a personal or professional purchase, a contract at work,
asking for a raise, booking a vacation, hiring a contractor, etc. The deal does not have to be
implemented for the purposes of this class (e.g. you can finalize the price for
something you’re
thinking of buying without following through on the purchase right now). The scenario you
choose should be significant enough to allow you to do substantial research and detail for your
paper. Submit a five page paper (minimum), double
spaces, utilizing proper grammar and
spelling, which summarizes the following:
2.
Your Preparation
–
Describe the process you us
ed and results of your preparation. You should
also discuss your strategies, targets, and negotiating plan. Make sure you do your research,
working on both your BATNA and the other party’s. (Consider newspapers, bookstores, libraries,
the internet, and p
ers ...
1. FAMILYMy 57 year old mother died after a short illness MartineMccracken314
1. FAMILY
My 57 year old mother died after a short illness last June. She was a wonderful mother and my 66 year old father
adored her. They had been married for 38 years. He is finding it extremely difficult to cope without her. To make
matters worse, he retired just two months before she died and is at a loss to fill his days.
He is disorganized and has not established any pattern in his life. I invite him for meals and outings, but he is
detached and depressed. He doesn’t seem to be part of the world any more. I am terribly worried about him. How
long will he be like this? I am 34 and have small children. I thought being with the children would help him, but it’s
as though he doesn’t see or know them. He just sits and stares into space for much of the day. He seems locked
into his grief.
2. FAMILY
One of our 17 year old son’s best friends took his life several months ago. Our son didn’t say much at the time, but
he was very shaken. Since then he has gradually “retired” into himself. He stays in his room most of the time
listening to rock music.
He is unemployed and no longer sees his former schoolmates. We are very worried about him. How do we get him
out of himself? He has always been a quiet guy but his present behavior is beyond “quiet.” We have two other
children, girls aged 13 and 10, but our son now just ignores them.
3. FAMILY - rural
Ken is a 67 year old farmer who lives with his wife Margaret. Ken and Margaret had hoped to retire late in their 60s
and move to the west coast to be closer to their children, reluctantly selling the family property that has been
struggling financially. They have limited investment funds set aside to support their retirement and have been told
it is unlikely that they would be successful in selling their farm. Ken also suffers chronic back pain from a previous
farm injury. A neighbor has become concerned about Ken’s ability to cope with his property, and has visited Ken
and Margaret a number of times due to problems with his stock and pasture management. Margaret believes the
farm is “too much for them now,” but feels she can’t talk to Ken about this. Ken has become withdrawn and
refuses to discuss the issue. He talks about there being “no way out of this,” and that it “might as well be over.” He
sees his physician infrequently, having difficulty traveling the 60 miles to the nearby town.
4. FAMILY - rural
Jason is 34 years old and lives with his wife Jenny and their two children (8 and 3 years old). After completing a
mechanical trade apprenticeship in Boston, he has returned home with plans to build his future as a farmer. He has
become increasingly irritable and frustrated with what he believes is his failure to “get on top of things” on the
farm, and they are struggling to manage financially.
Jason is drinking heavily, mostly at home, but still drives his car into town. Jenny is angry and worried about this.
She is feeling isolated, having few friends in the area, and relying on Jas ...
1. Explain the four characteristics of B-DNA structure DifferentiMartineMccracken314
1. Explain the four characteristics of B-DNA structure? Differentiate between the A-DNA and Z-DNA structural features?
2. Describe the supercoiled DNA with its properties and how naturally occurring DNA under wound?
3. What are topoisomerases? Explain the two types of topoisomerases with their mechanism of action?
4. Explain the three interactions that are required to stabilize nucleic acids? How DNA denatures and renatures?
5. What are ribozymes and explain their properties?
Case 20 Restructuring
General Electric
The appointment of Larry Culp as the chairman and CEO of the General Electric
Company (GE) on October 1st, 2018 was a clear indication of the seriousness of the
problems that had engulfed the company. Culp, the former CEO of the highly-successful
conglomerate, Danaher Corporation, had been appointed a GE director only six months
previously and was the first outsider to lead GE—every one of GE’s previous CEOs had
been a career manager at the company. On the same day as Culp’s appointment, GE
abandoned its earning guidance for the year and announced a $23 billion accounting
charge arising from a write-down of goodwill at its troubled electrical power division.1
Culp’s predecessor, John Flannery had been CEO for a mere 14 months—a sharp
contrast to GE’s two previous CEOs: Jeff Immelt (16 years) and Jack Welch (20 years).
Flannery’s tenure at GE has coincided with of the company’s most difficult periods in its
entire 126-year history. In November 2017, amidst deteriorating financial performance,
Flannery announced a halving of GE’s quarterly dividend, the proposed sale of its
lighting and locomotive units—two of GE’s oldest businesses—and the elimination of
12,000 jobs in the power division.
In 2018, the situation worsened. In January, GE announced that it would be paying
$15 bn. to cover liabilities at insurance companies it had sold 12 years previously. In
February, GE confirmed suspicions over its dubious accounting practices by restating its
revenues and earnings for the previous two years, while also announcing the likelihood
of legal claims arising from its its subprime mortgage lending over a decade earlier.
The outcome was a precipitous fall in GE’s share price (see Figure 1) that culminated
in GE’s dismissal from the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). Until June 2018, GE
was the sole surviving member of the DJIA when it was created in 1896.
The crisis at GE presented the board with two central questions. First, should GE
be broken up? Second, if GE was to continue as a widely-diversified company, how
should it be managed?
As a diversified corporation that extended from jet engines, to oil and gas equipment,
to healthcare products, to financial services, GE was an anomaly. For three decades, con-
glomerates—diversified companies comprising unrelated or loosely related businesses—
had been deeply unfashionable. CEOs, Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt, had claimed that,
by virtue of its integrated m ...
1. examine three of the upstream impacts of mining. Which of theseMartineMccracken314
1. examine three of the upstream impacts of mining. Which of these do you think would be most difficult to estimate in a life cycle assessment?
Your response should be at least 250 words in length.
2. Discuss the pollutants that are emitted during the operation stage of a life cycle assessment for a fossil fuel source.
Your response should be at least 250 words in length
Body Ritual among the Nacirema
H O R A C E M I N E R
University of Michigan
HE anthropologist has become so familiar with the diversity of ways iq T which different peoples behave in similar situations that he is not a p t to.
be surprised by even the most exotic customs. I n fact, if all of thelogically
possible combinations of behavior have not been found somewhere in the
world, he is a p t to suspect that they must be present in some yet undescribed
tribe. This point has, in fact, been expressed with respect to clan organization
by Murdock (1949: 7 1 ) . I n this light, the magical beliefs and practices of the
Nacirema present such unusual aspects that i t seems desirable t o describe
them a s an example of the extremes to which human behavior can go.
Professor Linton first brought the ritual of the Nacirema to the attention
of anthropologists twenty years ago (1936:326), but the culture of this people
is still very poorly understood. They are a North American group living in the
territory between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico,
and the Carib and Arawak of the Antilles. Little is known of their origin, al-
though tradition states that they came from the east. According to Nacirema
mythology, their nation was originated by a culture hero, Notgnihsaw, who is
otherwise known for two great feats of strength-the throwing of a piece of
wampum across the river Pa-To-Mac and the chopping down of a cherry tree
in which the Spirit of Truth resided.
Nacirema culture is characterized by a highly developed market economy
which has evolved in a rich natural habitat. While much of the people’s time
is devoted to economic pursuits, a large part of the fruits of these labors and a
considerable portion of the day are spent in ritual activity. The focus of this
activity is the human body, the appearance and health of which loom a s a
dominant concern in the ethos of the people. While such a concern is certainly
not unusual, its ceremonial aspects and associated philosophy are unique.
The fundamental belief underlying the whole system appears to be that the
human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is t o debility and disease.
Incarcerated in such a body, man’s only hope is to avert these characteristics
through the use of the powerful influences of ritual and ceremony. Every house-
hold has one or more shrines devoted to this purpose. The more powerful in-
dividuals in the society have several shrines in their houses and, in fact, the
opulence of a house is often referred to in terms of the num ...
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1. Examine Hofstede's model of national culture. Are all four dimensions still important in today's society as it relates to the success of the multinational manager? Why, or why not? Which do you think is the least important as it relates to multinational management? Why?
2. More companies are seeking to fill multinational management positions due to the influx of business growth abroad. If you were offered and accepted a position as a multinational manager, what would you do to personally prepare for the culture of a different country? Where would you seek information? What overall responsibilities would you expect of the job? How do you think the managerial responsibilities would be different from those you would face in the United States?
3. Multinational managers encounter many levels of culture. Which of the culture levels do you think might be the most difficult to manage? Why? Share an example. Which culture level do you think might be the easiest to understand? Why? Give an example of this.
4. In your own words, what is your perception of free trade? Think about the advantages of free trade; what are two benefits that result from free trade? There is also a downside to free trade; what are two disadvantages resulting from free trade? Provide reasoning for your choices.
5. What are the three major economic systems that nations utilize, and what is the role of each? How does each affect and influence individuals, multinational managers, and corporations?
6. How would you define ethical convergence? What are the four basic reasons for ethical convergence? Which might be the most difficult for multinational companies to follow, and why?
7. Describe the four major world religions. What are the impacts of each religion type on an economic environment? What do you think makes religion a concern in societies?
8. If you were a multinational manager, and you encountered an ethical dilemma within the multinational company, what heuristic questions would you use to decide between ethical relativism and ethical universalism? Of the different heuristic questions, which one do you think is most important? Explain your reasoning.
1
Week Two Instructor’s Notes
PHIL 1103 Summer
This week you will be learning in detail about the four different moral perspectives that
we will use to analyze moral questions.
Notice two things right at the start. First, because normative ethics is our main focus this
term, we are not going to attempt to settle the question of whether any moral perspective at all
could be correct or known to be correct—that is a task for metaethics. Our task in this second
week is to learn in some detail about four different kinds of consideration or value that often
seem relevant when we try to decide what is morally right or wrong in particular cases, namely:
(1) Respect for the rights and autonomy of the persons involved
(2) Increasing the overall well-being of the most individuals possible
(3) Asking wha ...
1. Do you think the Earth is a living organism Why or why notMartineMccracken314
1. Do you think the Earth is a living organism? Why or why not?
2. Why are people in Haiti so vulnerable to major natural hazards?
3. Why did you take this environmental geology course?
4. Would an exponential negative growth of human population be a solution to many environmental problems?
5. Are there any conflicts between global environmental unity principle and regional economic development?
6. a. Look around your house or apartment and make a list of five different materials that relate to geology. For example, do you have a granite countertop? Slate floor or pool table? Salt in your kitchen? Drywall (made from gypsum)? Metal Objects? Plastic items (made from petroleum)?
b. Indicate those items that can be recycled.
c. If you currently do not recycle, describe what would cause you
7. Assume the Pangaea never broke up, how might today’s environments be different?
8. What are the major differences in plate tectonic settings between the U.S. eastern and western coasts?
9. Will the tectonic cycle ever stop? Why or why not?
10. Why is most seismic and volcanic energy released along the Pacific rim?
11. Does plate tectonics play a role in shaping your local environment?
12. Extremophile bacteria can live and thrive under extreme conditions. Why are they important to the search for extraterrestrial life?
13. Discuss different ways that rocks and minerals are used to benefit or to harm the environment
14. What rock property and rock structure factors should you consider for a major engineering site selection?
15. Suppose you are the superintendent of schools, what steps would you take to determine if there was an asbestos hazard, and how would you communicate with parents?
16. What factors contributed to the failure of the St. Francis Dam?
17. A town is located in the foothills of a mountain range. The rock types in the city limits and just beyond include basalt, shale, and limestone. As the town grows and expands, what advice could you give planners as to potential geologic problems related to the rocks to be aware of as new buildings and roads are sited? What additional geologic information would be necessary?
18. The rock cycle indicates how rocks can be transformed from one type to another. In other words, older rocks are recycled into new rocks. How can an older sedimentary rock be transformed into a new sedimentary rock without first becoming a metamorphic rock?
19. An ecosystem consists of both living community and its nonliving environment. Is one of two components more important?
20. Based upon the linkage between ecology and geology, what is the importance of interdisciplinary collaborations in ecological restoration?
21. What are the critical ecological challenges in your area?
22. Are there any positive impacts of land transformation on your local ecosystems?
23. How do seawalls reduce biodiversity?
24. What did you learn from the case history of wolves in Yellowstone National Park?
25. List all the nat ...
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1. Discuss the nursing implications of the findings of the research. Consider the following questions:
· Were the results statistically significant, if reported?
· What is the clinical significance of the findings?
· What are the risks vs. benefits to practice of the findings?
· Are the findings feasible to implement?
Work 57 (2017) 259–268
DOI:10.3233/WOR-172551
IOS Press
259
“I’ve never been able to stay in a job”:
A qualitative study of Veterans’
experiences of maintaining employment
Molly Harroda,∗, Erin M. Millerb, Jennifer Henrya and Kara Zivina,b,c,d
a VA Center for Clinical Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Health Care System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
bDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
cDepartment of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health,
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
dInstitute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Received 5 February 2016
Accepted 4 December 2016
Abstract.
BACKGROUND: Ensuring Veteran employment needs are met is a top priority for the Department of Veteran Affairs
and the United States government. However, Veterans, especially those with mental health disorders, continue to encounter
difficulties when employed. While many employment related programs offer numerous services aimed at helping Veterans
gain employment, their ability to maintain long-term employment remains unknown.
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to understand factors that affect the ability of Veterans with mental health
disorders to maintain long-term employment.
METHODS: An exploratory, qualitative study design consisting of semi-structured interviews with 10 Veterans was per-
formed. Inductive thematic analysis was performed to identify salient themes.
RESULTS: We found that participants’ symptoms manifested themselves within the workplace affecting their ability to
maintain employment, participants felt as if they had been demoted from what they did in the military, and they felt unable
to relate to civilian co-workers. Strategies that helped some transition into the civilian workforce were also identified.
CONCLUSIONS: A better understanding of the difficulties some Veterans face when trying to maintain employment is
needed. Our findings suggest that increasing awareness of existing programs and ensuring that services provide resources
and skills that help Veterans maintain long-term employment is critical.
Keywords: Long-term employment, mental health, reintegration
1. Introduction
Within the United States there are approximately
5.5 million Veterans who served during the Gulf War
era (from August 1990 until present) [1]. These Vet-
erans are younger, more likely to be of working age
(18–55), and looking to secure civilian employment.
∗Address for correspondence: Molly Harrod, HSR&D (152)
P.O. Box 130170 Ann Arbor, MI 48113-0170, USA. Tel.: +1 734
845 3600; Fax: +1 734 222 7503; E-mail: [email protected]
Ensuring that V ...
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1. Define the following concepts (key terms) in YOUR OWN WORDS:
◦ object permanence
◦ causality
◦ mental combinations
◦ deferred imitation
2. Using this list of behaviors, sort them into the correct sensorimotor stage in the table below. You must use them all:
• Looks for hidden objects
• Shakes rattle in different ways
• Grasping
• Repeats interesting action
• Putting mom’s hands together to make her clap
• Plays alone with a doll
• Sits & passes toy from one hand to another
• Attempting to hold a bottle to drink it
• Gazes at adults
• Laughs when mom starts playing
• Manipulates items
• Makes deliberate cry to get attention
• Plays peek-a-boo
• Imitates parts of an adult role
• Looks in several places for lost object
• Sucks on own hands
• Sucking on pacifier or bottle
• Feels texture of blanket
• Imaginary play
• Hides from dad at bedtime
• Points to car and says, “car”
• Reaches for bib at feeding time
Sensorimotor
Substage
Age Range? Typical Behaviors (from the list above)
Substage 1:
Reflexive
Substage 2:
Primary Circular
Reactions
Substage 3:
Secondary Circular
Reactions
Substage 4: of
Secondary Circular
Reactions
Substage 5:
Tertiary Circular
Reactions
Substage 6: Mental
Representation
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1. Development Plan Career Activity. Respond to the followingMartineMccracken314
1. Development Plan Career Activity
. Respond to the following:
· What are some of the key concepts that should be included in a career plan?
· What common mistakes do people make when developing a career plan?
Assignment Instructions
Write a one-page paper (not to exceed 250 words). You will be graded on the following:
· Quality of your response.
· Coherence and organization.
· Mechanics.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
The specific course outcome associated with this assignment is:
· Develop a professional development strategy that fosters career readiness skills for master's-prepared health care administrators.
A guide to
Social Return
on Investment
January 2012
in association with
“For FRC Group using SROI has been a fascinating
process which has fine tuned our understanding of
the impacts that are achieved as we improve our
performance, and exposed areas in which we can
do more.”
Verity Timmins, Impact Manager, FRC Group
“At Impact Arts we have embraced SROI as one of our
central evaluation tools, which complements our existing
evaluation practice very well. SROI has clear benefits
for our organisation in terms of our future funding and
business development activities, as well as focusing our
day to day practice on where and how we add value.”
Susan Akternel, Innovation and Development Director, Impact Arts
“SROI has helped us develop an ongoing relationship
with our stakeholders which shows that we are listening
to their needs and we can now report how our work
impacts on their lives and the lives of others.”
Maeve Monaghan, Director, NOW Project
A guide to Social Return on Investment 3
Update to the 2009 Guide
This Guide is an update to the 2009 Guide to Social Return on Investment that was
published by the Cabinet Office. There are no changes to the principles or to the
methodology used to apply those principles within the framework. The purpose of
the update is to amend the language used so that it is more relevant for international
audiences and for different sectors and types of organisations.
A small number of typographical errors have also been corrected.
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5. ARTICLE HISTORY
Received 21 April 2020
Accepted 9 June 2020
KEYWORDS
Burglary; tornado; New
Orleans; concentrated
disadvantage; routine
activities
Introduction
The study of disasters has long had its home in sociology
(Dynes Dynes 1970; Dynes, De Marchi, and
Pelanda 1987; Dynes and Tierney 1994; Fischer 2008; Mileti
1987; Quarantelli 1978, 1987; Rodriguez,
Quarantelli, and Dynes 2007; Wenger 1987). Systematic
disaster research beginning in the middle of
the 20th century revealed post-disaster reactions characterized
by altruism, cooperation, and ration-
ality and not by antisocial or criminal behavior. In light of these
empirical realities, theories of
collective behavior were modi!ed to include focus on disruption
of the existing social structure by
a precipitating event such as a disaster and on norms and
behaviors that emerge in the wake of such
an event (Wenger 1987). These revisions had a dual e"ect: they
provided a new framework for
understanding behavior in disaster and they paved the way for
the persistent claim that criminal
behavior was a rarity in disaster. According to Dynes (1970),
disasters do not create disorganization.
Rather, they create organization in which the emergent norms
support prosocial behavior. Barton
(1969) called this the informal mass assault, which refers to the
prosocial behavior that emerges in
7. and Johnston 1994), mass hysteria (Stallings 1994), and price
gouging (Fischer 2008). The over-
arching conclusion of disaster sociology is that disasters
engender a therapeutic community among
survivors, which serves to minimize antisocial behavior, such as
crime.
However, major disasters of the late 20th and early 21st
centuries demanded a reexamination of
these long-held conclusions drawn by disaster sociologists.
Widespread looting in the wakes of
Hurricanes Hugo (1989) and Katrina (2005) led some schol ars
to theorize that pre-disaster conditions,
especially those related to social strati!cation and crime, were
important in understanding why the
behavioral response to these disasters was so di"erent from what
had been previously observed,
namely the emergence of a therapeutic community characterized
by altruism and prosocial helping
behavior (Akimoto 1987; Albala-Bertrand 1993; Barsky,
Trainor, and Torres 2006; Brown 2012; Drabek
2010; Quarantelli 2006, 2007; Tierney, Bevc, and Kuligowski
2007). These two disasters in particular
and the theorizing around them paved the way for disaster
criminology, a new !eld that examines
criminal and other antisocial behavior in the wake of disasters.
Relying on the theories and methods
of criminology, disaster criminologists have argued that
property crime, interpersonal violence, and
fraud increase in the wake of some disasters (Frailing and
Harper 2017). Most of the empirical work
on property crime, particularly burglary, in the wake of disaster
so far has focused on Hurricane
Katrina (Frailing and Harper 2007, 2010a, 2010b, 2015a;
Frailing, Harper, and Serpas 2015b, Frailing
8. and Harper 2016a), and !nds that certain social structural
indicators, including population loss, high
unemployment, low wages, family disruption, and a segregated
school system are associated with
increases in the burglary rate in the month after Katrina in New
Orleans as compared to the month
before. Empirical work focused on property crime and other
disasters bears out similar conclusions
(Leitner and Helbich 2011; Siman 1977; Teh 2008; Walker,
Sim, and Keys-Mathews 2014; Yu et al.
2017; Zahnow et al. 2017; Zhou 1997, but see Breetzke, King,
and Fabris-Rotelli 2018; Zahran et al.
2009).
Applicable theories for disaster criminology
Criminologists who study disaster (e.g., Frailing and Harper
2017) have typically applied two theories
to understand crime in the wake of disaster, particularly
residential burglary. The !rst of these is
routine activity theory. Routine activity theory is part of the
environmental criminology paradigm,
which ‘is a family of theories that share a common interest in
criminal events and the immediate
circumstances in which they occur’ (Wortley and Mazerolle
2011, p. 1). Routine activity theory (Cohen
and Felson 1979) holds that three elements – motivated
o"enders, suitable targets, and the absence
of capable guardianship, either formal or informal, must be
present together in time and space for
crime to occur. Disasters may create suitable targets, i ncrease
the number of motivated o"enders,
and may diminish especially formal guardianship; they may also
change people’s routine activities so
that they become suitable targets in the presence of motivated
o"enders and the absence of
9. capable guardianship.
As noted above, disaster criminologists have also investigated
the macro-level social structural
indicators in the areas impacted by disaster. This is in line with
the social disorganization theory,
which holds that poverty, residential instability, and ethnic
heterogeneity (Shaw and McKay 1942) as
well as family disruption (Sampson 1986) are important
neighborhood-level characteristics asso-
ciated with crime in the area. Social disorganization theory has
also taken into account the notion of
concentrated disadvantage. Concentrated disadvantage is a
concept aimed at capturing deprivation
and is typically comprised of indicators such as poverty,
unemployment, female-headed households,
and receipt of public assistance. Research has shown
concentrated disadvantage is important in
predicting crime at the neighborhood level (Krivo and Peterson
1996; Sampson, Raudenbush, and
Earls 1997; Wilson 1987).
The legitimacy of disaster criminology as a sub!eld is
predicated on the continued testing of its
propositions as laid out in Frailing and Harper (2017), namely
that some crimes increase after
a disaster and that these increases are in part predictable by
criminological theory. Here, we examine
2 K. FRAILING ET AL.
burglary before and after the February 2017 tornado in New
Orleans, Louisiana in order to test three
of Frailing and Harper (2017) hypotheses. The !rst of these
10. hypotheses is that concentrated
disadvantage is associated with pre-disaster burglary. The
second is that burglaries increase in the
short-term aftermath of a disaster and then return to pre-disaster
levels, and the third is that areas
characterized by concentrated disadvantage will see the greatest
increases in post-disaster burglary.
The New Orleans tornado
Though New Orleans is no stranger to hurricane impacts,
tornados are relatively rare. However,
despite this statistical pattern, on 7 February 2017 six tornados
hit southeastern Louisiana and three
hit the New Orleans metro area. The most serious of them was
the tornado that hit New Orleans East
in the morning at approximately 11:12 am. This EF-3 tornado
lasted 20 minutes, had a maximum
wind speed of 150 miles an hour, a width of 600 yards and a
path length of 10.1 miles. It damaged
638 homes and 40 businesses, about half of which were
considered total losses (NWS 2017a).
Pre-tornado burglary and concentrated disadvantage
New Orleans East is comprised of six neighborhoods, three of
which, Plum Orchard, Read Boulevard
East, and Read Boulevard West, were in the path of the tornado,
whereas Pines Village, Little Woods,
and West Lake Forest were not.
In order to determine the number of burglaries before and after
the tornado, we utilized the New
Orleans Police Department’s (NOPD’s) publicly available calls
for service database, which includes the
location of each call for service by latitude and longitude
11. (NOPD 2017). We retrieved all the calls for
service for residential burglaries in the NOPD’s Seventh
District, which covers the three neighbor-
hoods under investigation here, from 1 December 2016 to 30
April 2017. This timeframe allowed us
to examine residential burglaries across all six neighborhoods
as far as 2 months before and 2
months after the tornado.
As seen in Table 1, commonalities across the neighborhoods
impacted by the tornado include
population loss, majority African American population, an
increase in percent female-headed house-
hold, a decrease in average household income, and an increase
in the percent of vacant properties.
Importantly, Table 1 also includes characteristics associated
with concentrated disadvantage.
We created a concentrated disadvantage measure for the 2015
data comprised three key vari-
ables: (1) percent of vacant property, (2) percent female-headed
households, and (3) percent Black.
While these variables are a somewhat atypical construction of
concentrated disadvantage, they
loaded on a single factor with an Eigenvalue of 4.082 with a
Cronbach’s alpha of.901, above the
thresholds of 1 and .800, respectively. We then employed a
negative binomial regression analysis to
test the measure’s ability to predict pre-disaster burglary by
neighborhood. Table 2 presents the
results of the negative binomial regression (NBR) analysis for
only those neighborhoods within the
path of the tornado (Plum Orchard, Read Boulevard East, and
Read Boulevard West) and for the time
period of 2 months after the tornado. As shown, our measure of
concentrated disadvantage was not
12. a signi!cant predictor of burglary for these three neighborhoods.
Similarly, Table 3 shows the results
of the negative binomial regression for those neighborhoods
that were not within the path of the
tornado. Again, our measure of concentrated disadvantage was
not a signi!cant predictor of
burglaries for the two-month period following the tornado.
Subsequent analyses (not shown)
were conducted for the number of burglaries 1 week, 2 weeks,
and 1 month before and after the
date of the tornado. This included separate analyses for both
clusters of neighborhoods (those
impacted by the tornado and those not) and all neighborhoods
together. Like our !rst two analyses,
our measure of concentrated disadvantage was not a predictor of
burglary counts.
We further explored the possibility of an association between
concentrated disadvantage and
number of burglaries by conducting bivariate correlations
between counts for time periods and
concentrated disadvantage. Table 4 presents the results for the
association between the number of
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38. burglaries 2 months after the tornado and concentrated
disadvantage. There was no signi!cant
association between concentrated disadvantage and the total
number of burglaries in either time-
frame. Subsequent analyses (not shown) were conducted for 2
weeks, 1 month, and 2 months before
and after the tornado. Results for these analyses also indicated
non-signi!cant associations between
the number of burglaries and concentrated disadvantage.
Burglaries before and after the New Orleans tornado
As seen in Table 5, there was an overall increase in residential
burglaries 1 week, 2 weeks, and 1
month after the tornado for the area in question. The increase in
residential burglaries was not
uniformly spread over neighborhoods, though. The Plum
Orchard, Read Boulevard West, and Read
Boulevard East neighborhoods, the three neighborhoods directly
impacted by the tornado, saw an
increase in residential burglaries at each of the time peri ods.
Nor was the increase in residential
burglaries uniformly spread over time. The increase in
residential burglaries is largely con!ned to the
!rst month after the tornado. By the 2-month mark, the number
of residential burglaries had
returned to (and even dipped slightly below) the pre-tornado
number.
In order to determine where residential burglaries occurred
before and after the tornado, we
created dot maps showing the location of residential burglaries
before and after the tornado using
geospatial referencing in ArcMap. Included in each of these dot
maps is the path of the tornado
(NWS 2017b); inclusion of the path allowed us to investigate
39. the association between the occurrence
of the tornado and changes in residential burglary. Figures 1–4
show the location of residential
burglaries 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, and 2 months before and
after the tornado, as well as the path
of the tornado itself. Plum Orchard appears to retain its pre-
disaster burglary patterns after the
tornado. However, residential burglaries concentrated around
the path of the tornado in the Read
Boulevard West and Read Boulevard East neighborhoods in
particular beginning within the week
after the tornado; this was a stark change from pre-tornado
burglary patterns.
Table 2. NBR Predicting Burglary Counts for Neighborhoods in
the Tornado Path.
Coe!cient Std. Error Z p
Intercept 4.477 1.883 2.378 0.017
Concentrated Disadvantage "0.054 0.044 "1.223 0.221
Source: The authors.
Table 3. NBR Predicting Burglary Counts for Neighborhoods
outside of the Tornado Path.
Coe!cient Std. Error Z p
Intercept 26.26 14.49 1.812 0.070
Concentrated Disadvantage "0.481 0.296 "1.627 0.104
Source: The authors.
Table 4. Correlations Between Concentrated Disadvantage (CD)
and Burglaries.
40. Two Months Before Two Months After
CD 0.350 "0.006
p 0.4961 0.991
Source: The authors.
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Applying criminological theory
We believe the routine activity theory is potentially useful in
helping to understand this change.
Routine activity theory (Cohen and Felson 1979) holds that
three elements – motivated o"enders,
suitable targets, and the absence of capable guardianship, either
formal or informal, must be present
together in time and space for crime to occur. As the theor y
itself does, we put aside the notion of
Table 5. Number of Residential Burglaries Before and After the
New Orleans Tornado by Neighborhood.
Before After Total Before Total After
Time Period
One Week 8 23
Little Woods 7 4
Pines Village 0 2
West Lake Forest 0 1
Plum Orchard* 0 3
Read Blvd E* 0 4
Read Blvd W* 1 3
41. Two Weeks 17 34
Little Woods 10 13
Pines Village 2 2
West Lake Forest 0 1
Plum Orchard* 1 4
Read Blvd E* 1 5
Read Blvd W* 1 4
One Month 31 50
Little Woods 15 18
Pines Village 2 3
West Lake Forest 4 4
Plum Orchard* 2 4
Read Blvd E* 1 10
Read Blvd W* 2 5
Two Months 84 83
Little Woods 39 38
Pines Village 6 5
West Lake Forest 17 7
Plum Orchard* 4 9
Read Blvd E* 4 12
Read Blvd W* 4 5
* indicates a neighborhood directly impacted by the tornado.
Source: Adapted from NOPD (2017).
Figure 1. Tornado Path Burglaries One Week Before and After.
Source: The authors.
6 K. FRAILING ET AL.
motivated o"enders and focus on target suitability and capable
42. guardianship to explain the !ndings
in the Read Boulevard neighborhoods. The tornado may have
created a number of suitable targets –
as noted above, over 600 homes were damaged by the tornado –
and the usual guardianship that
prevents homes from being suitable targets for burglary,
namely, the presence of their residents, was
presumably absent in the wake of the tornado, especially for
those homes that sustained great or
total damage, which as noted above was about half of the
impacted structures. In other words, the
tornado may have increased the number of suitable targets and
decreased the capable guardianship
of those targets, facilitating an increase in burglary in those
neighborhoods especially.
Discussion
Our !ndings do not provide support for the !rst hypothesis that
concentrated disadvantage would
be associated with pre-disaster burglary. This may be because
there is relatively little variation
among the three neighborhoods of interest in terms of
characteristics that comprised the concen-
trated disadvantage index. The neighborhoods are too similar on
these characteristics for any of
them to show an impact on burglary. We did !nd support for the
second hypothesis that residential
Figure 2. Tornado Path Burglaries Two Weeks Before and
After. Source: The authors.
Figure 3. Tornado Path Burglaries One Month Before and After.
Source: The authors.
JOURNAL OF CRIME AND JUSTICE 7
43. burglaries would increase in the immediate aftermath of the
tornado, then return to pre-disaster
levels. This !nding is inconsistent with conclusions drawn by
disaster sociologists, which as seen
above, tend to reveal the emergence of a therapeutic community
that serves to keep antisocial
behavior low. These !ndings are very likely due to the
timeframe of the study and the methodolo-
gical techniques used for measuring crime; as Frailing and
Harper (2017) argue, the criminological
approach is preferred when determining the type and extent of
antisocial behavior after a disaster.
We did not !nd support for our third hypothesis that indicators
of concentrated disadvantage
would explain post-disaster burglary. Here, and in conjunction
with better understanding the
temporary increase in post-disaster burglary, it is useful to draw
on routine activity theory as
described above. It is presumable that the tornado created
suitable targets and facilitated the
absence of capable guardianship in the Read Boulevard
neighborhoods in particular. The otherwise
rare burglary neighborhoods of Read Boulevard West and
especially Read Boulevard East experi-
enced an increase in residential burglaries that were
concentrated near the path of the tornado. In
fact, these two neighborhoods largely drove the post-disaster
increase in residential burglary in New
Orleans East as a whole for the !rst 2 months and especially the
!rst month after the disaster. In
a quite meaningful sense, these two neighborhoods could be
considered ‘hot spots,’ areas where
44. crime regularly and predictably occurs. (Sherman, Gartin, and
Buerger 1989).
Limitations
Like any study, this one is not without limitations. Probably the
most important of these is the nature
of our data. Calls for service only represent those incidents
reported to the police. It could be that there
were more residential burglaries than are re#ected in the calls
for service. It could also be that calls for
service for residential burglaries, particularly those in the short-
term wake of the tornado, were actually
losses due to the tornado itself. Moreover, it is important to
note that the number of burglaries in the
timeframe is relatively low, which means that changes could be
due to chance, and the timeframe
itself may be too short to account for longer term variations in
burglary that could be independent of
the tornado. In other words, relying on calls for service data to
determine the number, timing, and
location of residential burglaries before and after a disaster is
imperfect at best. Nevertheless, we can
presume enough accuracy in these data to draw the
aforementioned conclusions, at least tentatively.
Another important limitation is our designation of the variables
that indicate concentrated
disadvantage. It could be the case that our selected indicators,
namely poverty, female-headed
households, and renting, do not fully capture the e"ects of
concentrated disadvantage and therefore
Figure 4. Tornado Path Burglaries Two Months Before and
After. Source: The authors.
45. 8 K. FRAILING ET AL.
do not permit the e"ects of concentrated disadvantage on pre- or
post-disaster burglary (if any) to
be observed. It could also be the case that the indicators from
2015 are too dated to reveal the e"ects
of concentrated disadvantage in 2017. Moreover, examining
these indicators at the census tract level
rather than the block level, which we were unable to do, may
have obscured the e"ects (if any) of
concentrated disadvantage on burglary. While we believe our
selected indicators are valid and
thorough, we nevertheless acknowledge these potential
shortcomings.
Finally, it could be the case that either target suitability or the
absence of capable guardianship is
far more important than the other in determining where post-
disaster burglaries will occur. We simply
do not have enough information on the extent of the damage to
each of the 84 burglarized residences
out of the over 600 that were damaged to determine whether the
residence was a suitable target but
ostensibly had capable guardianship (i.e., residents were still
able to live there), or whether both
elements of routine activity theory were in play. Moreover, we
do not have information about target
suitability or capable guardianship within the neighborhoods in
this study that preceded the tornado
and how the tornado impacted them, if at all. We believe we
have su$cient evidence to presume that
both suitable targets and the absence of capable guardianship
are important in understanding post-
disaster burglary, but acknowledge that this presumption may be
46. incomplete.
Conclusion
As noted, the legitimacy of disaster criminology as a discipline
hinges on empirical tests like the one
described here. We believe our !ndings mostly support the
contentions disaster criminologists have
laid out (i.e., Frailing and Harper 2017), and have potentially
useful policy and practice implications.
For example, disaster response plans for local law enforcement
should include the provision of
guardianship in disaster-stricken areas, particularly those where
typical informal guardianship is
temporarily unavailable as a result of the disaster. Importantly,
the guardianship provided by law
enforcement should last well into the post-disaster period
(Frailing and Harper 2016b). Of course,
due to the dynamic nature of disasters and the damage they
cause, law enforcement may be
consumed with search and rescue operations and unable to
provide formal guardianship, especially
in the immediate aftermath of a disaster (Harper 2016). One
way to supplement the guardianship
provided by law enforcement is with clearly marked and
weather-resistant crime cameras, such as
those recently installed throughout New Orleans. Through their
ubiquity, these cameras are
designed to deter crime, including post-disaster crime (Stein
2018; La Vigne et al. 2011).
Finally, we believe further and more nuanced investigations
similar to this one are important
so that the circumstances, both those that precede and those that
follow disasters, which
facilitate crime can be better understood so that disaster crime
47. can be reduced or even
prevented.
Disclosure statement
No potential con#ict of interest was reported by the authors.
Notes on contributors
Kelly Frailing earned her doctorate in Criminology from the
University of Cambridge and is currently an Associate
Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator in the Department
of Criminology and Justice at Loyola University New
Orleans. She is the coeditor of Criminalization of Mental
Illness: A Reader, and of all three editions of Crime and
Criminal
Justice in Disaster. She is the coauthor of both editions of
Fundamentals of Criminology: New Dimensions and of Toward
a Criminology of Disaster: What We Know and What We Need
to Find Out.
Thomas Zawisza is an assistant professor at Lasell University.
His main research interests include using eye-tracking
technology as a medium to study burglar target selection,
investigating distance and direction of crime and victimiza-
tion, and how non-disastrous natural phenomenon a"ects crime
patterns. His most recent works appeared in the
JOURNAL OF CRIME AND JUSTICE 9
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, Crime Prevention
and Community Safety, and in the Journal of Contemporary
Criminology.
48. Dee Wood Harper, Jr. (Ph.D., LSU, 1967) Emeritus Professor of
Sociology, Criminology and Justice at Loyola University,
New Orleans has published extensively on the problem of crime
and disaster since Hurricane Katrina. Beginning with
a session at the Southern Sociological Society meetings in New
Orleans in the Spring of 2006 on crime and policing
during Katrina, a chapter in The Sociology of Katrina through
three editions of Crime and Criminal Justice in Disaster, and
more recently, Toward a Criminology of Disaster. Currently, we
(with Kelly Frailing) are laying the groundwork for testing
theories focusing on fraud and other criminal behavior linked to
the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States.
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Advanced Research Methods
Question Set #1 (10 points total)
You are a counselor assigned with the duty to help inmates cope
with everyday life in prison. As a graduate of Dr. Z’s School of
Awesomeness University, you learned a number of new
techniques aimed to reduce stress and violence. You believe
that the techniques you have learned at DZSA-U are far superior
to the techniques learned at other, well-known institutions. To
test whether or not these techniques were successful, you
randomly assigned new inmates to one of two groups. The first
group, A, receives the traditional counseling sessions used
within the prison. The second group, B, receives the counseling
sessions that you have learned at DZSA-U. Once each person
has completed the session, you gather the number of infractions
made by each person for two weeks. The number of infractions
are shown below. Test to see whether or not the mean of each
group differs from 4.5 infractions.
Group A: 2 1 2 3 3 5 4 5 6 1 2
3 5 4 2
Group B: 6 8 9 7 8 9 7 5 9 8 7
58. 5 4 6 8
1. State H0 and H1 for both A and B. (2 points)
2. Calculate the measures of center and spread for each group (2
points)
3. What are your findings? (3 points)
4. Which of the programs do you recommend? (2 points) Why?
(1 point)
Question Set #2 (10 points total)
You are a researcher for Dr. Z’s Wonder Drug Corp. and you
have synthesized a drug that grants its users heightened senses
for 3 hours. The drug you have created has an infinite number
of uses, but you are really interested in whether or not people
are able to correctly identify offenders in a line-up. Test to see
if each group is able to correctly identify more than 7 suspects.
Control: 3 4 5 5 4 5 6 4 2 4
59. 100mg: 2 4 6 5 2 1 4 5 3 5
1. State H0 and H1 for both the control group and 100mg group.
(2 points)
2. Calculate measures of center and dispersion for both groups.
Report your findings below
3. What is the Independent Variable in this study? Dependent
Variable? Explain your answers.
3. Now that you have analyzed the data, what can you conclude?
Explain
Question Set #3 (10 points)
It is my personal belief that students do not study, on average, 3
hours a day. I randomly surveyed 25 students on their studying
habits. Test to see whether or not the average number of hours
students spend studying is different than 3 hours. Data is on
60. CANVAS under final project stuff.
1. What is the null and alternative hypothesis? (2 point)
2. Do you think that students’ study approximately 3 hours a
day? Explain your reasoning based on the results from the data.
3. What might influence the number of hours studied (4
points)?
61. Question #4 (30 points)
Using the article provided on CANVAS, please answer the
following questions.
1) What was the purpose of this research? Explain your answer
(4 points).
2) Identify a null and alternative hypothesis for this study. It is
not explicitly stated so you will have to deduce it from the
article. (4 points)
3) What is the dependent variable? What is / are the
independent variable(s)? (4 points)
4) Explain where the sample came from. (2 points)
5) Of all the types of sampling, what type of sampling frame did
the authors use? (e.g. random sampling, systematic random
sampling, etc.) (3 points)
6) Was this an experiment? Using your book, explain your
reasoning. (3 points)
7) What were the major findings of the article? (3 points)
8) Was there a relationship between disadvantage and burglary?
(2 points)
9) What can you conclude about tornados and burglary? (2
points)
62. Question #5 (20 points)
Using the teen birth data found on CANVAS conduct a
regression predicting violent crime rates using teen births.
Provide a write up of your results using the video I posted as a
guide.