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Informal Writing Assignment Keith Grant-Davie: "Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents." You should produce at least 500 words in responding to these questions. 1. This article covers a lot of the same territory as Laura Bolin Carroll's "Backpacks vs. Briefcases." Do a quick inventory: what does Grant-Davie repeat from Carroll? What does he add that's new? 2. What does Carroll provide that Grant-Davie doesn't? 3. Consider a time when you needed to address a situation that you felt was a problem--"a situation that both calls for and might be resolved by discourse." Take a few minutes to think about that, and select one instance when you attempted to resolve a problem through language. Briefly summarize the situation, and then analyze it using the three questions provide by Grant-Davie: What [was] the discourse about? Why [was] the discourse needed? and What [was] the discourse trying to accomplish? .

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Infectious and Noninfectious Prevention and Control Techniques In this assignment, you will review, compare, and contrast the prevention and control techniques for an infectious and a noninfectious disease. Visit the diseases and conditions index of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Web site. Select an infectious and a noninfectious disease and complete a one-page review of the prevention and control techniques utilized for each of the two diseases you have selected to compare and contrast. Outline the following for the selected diseases: Signs, symptoms, and transmission of the diseaseDiagnosis and treatment for the diseaseHow the disease is prevented and controlledThe public health impact of the disease Submit your focus area review in a Word document to the W2: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Saturday, July 11, 2015. On a separate page, cite all sources using the APA format. Name your document: SU_HSC4010_W2_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc. Assignment 2 Grading Criteria Maximum Points Included a 1-page synopsis of a selected infectious and noninfectious disease and outlined the public health importance of the selected diseases. 15 Described signs, symptoms, and transmission of the selected diseases. 10 Described prevention, control, and treatment methods for the selected diseases. 10 Justified ideas and responses by using appropriate examples and references from texts, Web sites, and other references and cited the sources in the APA format. 10 Used correct spelling, grammar, and professional vocabulary. 5 Total: 50 .

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" Information Management and Software Development " Please respond to the following: According to your point of view, which of the defined criteria of measurement is considered as most important for evaluation and monitoring of information systems? How does computer-aided software engineering (CASE) aid in analyzing and evaluating characteristics of a project? Discuss how IT is impacting the business processes and applications of e-Business? How does the system development life cycle (SDLC) assist in accomplishing essential tasks and objectives of an organization? .

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Information Paper The Chief of Staff is preparing preliminary studies for the DHS secretary. He has directed you to prepare an information paper that identifies possible mission areas or responsibility overlaps within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operating agencies and to provide recommendations for possible consolidation. You are required to conduct library research to locate scholarly studies on the topic. .

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INF 410 week 4 assign on Assume you are the project manager for a software company and your team is in charge of delivering an update to tax preparation software for the next tax season. The project team has ten software developers working together, but located across the country. You have the following information about the project, and need to provide a status to the sponsors. New items you learned this month about the project: There is a three day weekend in the coming month. Nine of the developers are on track to finish their tasks two weeks early. One software developer took the recently announced “early retirement” package, and is leaving in one week. He is confident he will be able to finish his piece of the work before he leaves. It is hurricane season in Florida, where three of the developers are located. The developer who is retiring is the only person who knows how to get approval for the final product from the IRS. The project costs are under budget and there has been no need for overtime. Write a one page status report (excluding the title page) to the sponsors providing a clear indication of status of the project (suggestion below into their assignment. Green Yellow Red The sponsors also like to only know the two most important risks, and what could be done to mitigate the risk if it happens. The conclusion of the status report should include a paragraph that describes any requests for additional resources, if they are necessary. .

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Information Technology in Public Health Public health surveillance and prevention efforts in the U.S. reflect the involvement of numerous health care providers and organizations. Government agencies such as the CDC often function as a hub for the collection, coordination, and communication of public health-related data. Common applications of public health IT to promote and improve the health of populations include (but are not limited to) biosurveillance, disease registries, and immunization tracking. The timely and appropriate implementation of these applications can have a significant impact on the ability of providers to deliver health care to the their patients, which, in turn, can have a profound effect on a community's overall state of health and wellness. Consider the dire impact a SARS outbreak might have, for example, if patient diagnoses were not reported and shared regionally, nationally, and internationally. Prepare for this Application as follows: Conduct a literature review of a specific application of health information technology in public health and locate an example in which the application was used to address a public health-related concern. (You might wish to begin by researching a particular surveillance program, disease outbreak, disease registry, prevention program, or other public health-related event, and then identify the technology involved in this activity.) Find out how this application has impacted the public's health. Learn also about any ways in which health care providers and organizations were involved in the use of this information technology. Then write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following: Describe the specific application you selected and the ways in which it addresses a public health-related concern. Summarize the potential benefits to the public, as well as any possible drawbacks, arising from the use of this application. Explain the role of hospitals and other health care organizations in contributing to or making use of this public health-related IT application. Discuss other implications of this application for health care providers and organizations. How has it impacted (or might it impact) clinical or administrative practices in hospitals or other health care institutions? Provide a rationale for your response. .

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Information System and Enterprise Systems" Identify the key factors that companies should consider when deciding whether to buy or to build their own information systems. Explain your rationale. Select one (1) type of the four (4) enterprise systems (i.e., supply chain management, customer relationship management, knowledge management systems, and enterprise resource planning), and speculate on the main issues that companies may encounter when implementing the type of enterprise system that you have selected. Next, suggest two or three (2 or 3) general techniques that companies could use in order to mitigate the issues in question. 50 + word answer .

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Individuals react to a variety of social cues to construct their personal realities. These cues include social categorization. Are social categories a valid basis for the construction of personal reality? Why or why not? How might the misinterpretation of social categorization cues lead to errant self-categorization and falsely shape the personal reality of the individual? Note: Just need 150 - 200 words explaining the personal relaity of an individual .

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Information Technology and Decision Making Patient safety and care is reliant upon the quality of nurses' daily decision making. Nurses are constantly tending to the needs of multiple patients by providing health care information, administering drug treatments, managing patient family concerns, as well as informing other nurses and staff on the patient's condition. Review your reading from this week and then address the following: • Explain how well your current work setting supports you and your colleagues in decision making. • Share your thoughts on two ways that electronic or computerized information technology could help you and your nursing colleagues improve decision making in your work setting. You can include decision support applications or not, as you wish. Support your ideas or those of others with references from the professional nursing literature. Cite the references used in APA style format. .

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Individuals use social movements when they feel a social institution is unjust. Current theoretical perspectives on social movements provide an awareness of the nature of social movements and their role in defining human behavior. In terms of human services, it is important to be able to recognize and assess the costs and benefits to individuals who participate in social movement activities (for example, healthcare reform, charity organizations, and disability movements) as well as the effects of social movements on human behavior. Tasks: Using the vignette provided in this module, your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, conduct research to support your response. In a 3- to 4-page essay, address the following: Provide a summary of the vignette's key points as related to the social movements it represents. Identify and describe the concepts from this module that can be applied to the vignette to describe human behavior (i.e., cultural framing). Identify and discuss the effects of the identified social movement on the individual described in the vignette. Provide a summary of service methods or options that could be used to support this person. You can use examples you have identified in your own community as well. Submission Details: By Wednesday, October 14, 2015 , prepare a 3- to 4-page essay. Your response should rely upon at least three sources from professional literature. This may include the Argosy University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov). Write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e., APA format); and use accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation. .

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Individuals who are frequent voters share common characteristics, regardless of the nation in which they may reside. Identify and describe at least three of these common characteristics. Explain why each characteristic is influential in motivating a person to vote. Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. .

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Infectious diseases come with extremely tough challenges to mitigate them and then finally get them under control. Bringing any such infectious disease under control involves a lot of decisions and cooperation between various branches of government and the health services. Using the Internet, choose an infectious disease that was prevalent in the United States and had lasting consequences or select a disease ( Yellow Fever is the chosen disease) Based on your research and understanding, create a 3 to 4-page report in a Microsoft Word document that includes the following: A brief description of your chosen infectious disease along with your reasons for choosing the disease. Information on the work conducted by government departments to mitigate the impact of your chosen infectious disease. Investigations, research studies, and other surveillance data analyses regarding your chosen infectious disease. Instances of the emergence and re-emergence of your chosen disease. A brief summary of the government's findings and investigations about your chosen disease. Past, current, and ongoing research pertaining to your chosen disease. Support your writing with relevant facts or figures and indicate your current knowledge of the infectious disease. Support your responses with examples. Cite any sources in APA format. .

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