Consult published criticism through JSTOR and construct a paragraph of literary research and analysis that presents observations and evidence in a PIPE format
PIPE Paragraph Analysis
Consult published criticism through JSTOR and construct a paragraph of literary research and analysis that presents observations and evidence in a PIPE format. A PIPE paragraph uses research to develop an analytical position, enabling you to assume the central voice in your paragraph and develop your ideas with reference to published criticism. Post your paragraph to a relevant passage in CommentPress as you normally would, and include a citation for your secondary source or sources (at least one) in correct MLA format.
P = POINT The point is made at the outset of your paragraph. It consists of your own claim or observation in your own words. The P may be only a single sentence, or more if the complexity of your point requires considerable explanation.
I = INFORMATION This part of the paragraph provides information about the point. It may be a definition, a theory, an example, a summary, or some other detail which supports or clarifies the POINT. If the I is common knowledge or your own account of the information, it is not documented. If the I is borrowed, it must be documented.
P = PROOFS This part of the paragraph offers research support for the point. It is drawn from secondary sources to demonstrate the accuracy of your position. The Pr must be documented whether you use a paraphrase of an authority’s views, a direct quotation, or combination thereof.
E = EXPANSION The concluding portion of PIPE explains, clarifies, emphasizes, or otherwise addresses the relationships presented in the paragraph. E is never documented because it is your explanation of the evidence offered.
Discuss developments in residential care policy in the UK
1. Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of health and social care challenges of an ageing society and relevant policy.
2. Demonstrate the skills and abilities associated with critically analysis of the research evidence and the assessment of the impact of health and social care reforms on user experience. individual report (2,000 words).
Task:
Students are expected to discuss developments in long-term care policy in the country of student’s choice, identify major issues and challenges related to the long-term care provision and make suggestions for improvement based on their findings.
• In order to answer the question, you are required to:
– Discuss developments in residential care policy in the UK
– Identify challenges related to the provision of the type of care.
– Make suggestions for improvement to overcome the challenges identified
• Identify key health and social care challenges of an ageing society in a country of the student’s choice.
• Explore the development of health and social care policy in a country of the student’s choice and study how they addressed the challenges.
• Critically evaluate recent health and social care reforms in a country of the student’s choice and make suggestions for improvement.
Think about how you can produce high quality work that meets the key assignment requirements and complete this section yourself,
critical understanding of key health and social care reforms and key challenges surrounding the longterm care provision in individual countries, making use of the skills relating to critical policy analysis and evaluation.
• You must use a minimum of 8 academic sources (i.e., only peer-reviewed journal articles are counted as academic sources). You are encouraged to carry out wider reading.
• Ensure that you include your in-text references. In all cases, in-text citations must match up with what appears in your reference list. Every in-text citation should correspond to a reference on the list at the end (and vice versa).
• You must use the Harvard referencing system. The University officially advises students to use the following website for referencing guidelines: https://www.citethemrightonline.com/
• For every issue/challenge you identified, there must be a matching solution/suggestion for improvement. The suggestions can be made based on your own ideas OR ideas from the academic sources (you must reference if the ideas are not yours).
• No more than 5% of your work should be in the form of quotes.
• You must write in your own words. You are reminded that plagiarism of any type will be penalised and result in a fail.
• The assignment structure and suggested word length is as follows:
• Introduction and background (about the country and the type of care chosen) – approx. 200 words
• Developments in policy (in community care OR in residential care) – 800 words
• Issues/challenges (with the chosen type of care provision): 600 words
• Suggestions to overcome challenges – 250 words
• Conclusions – 150 words
REMINDEER
DISCUSS
Residential care in the, UK
Developments in long-term care policy
identify major issues and challenges related to the long-term care provision
make suggestions for improvement based on findings.
Describe the planning (P) method to enter the Toronto market based on their core competency and what should be their competitive strategy if they wish to enter this market?
Please note that this Case and your analysis of it assumes that we are in September, 2016.
You are a world-renowned Independent Management Consultant with several decades of experience providing management consulting to organizations across North America. You have just been hired by Managed by Q’s Co-Founders Dan Teran and Allen Erickson. They have called you and provided you with the information described in the case Managed by Q (Ton &
Reavis, 2016).
The Co-Founders are thinking of expanding into Canada and so they need your management advice on:
• Describe the planning (P) method to enter the Toronto market based on their core competency and what should be their competitive strategy if they wish to enter this market? Describe a decision-making process by using a decision matrix with alternatives and decision criteria to enter the Canadian market. (10 marks)
• Consider their current organizational (O) structure. Argue why the sub-contractor model is more appropriate for the Canadian market. Review their recruitment strategy as described in the case and explain how to adjust this recruitment process to account for the Ontario Human Rights Code (use the current code as described in this course and current to today even though it is not the same as the 2016 code).
• What leadership (L) style should their local management in Toronto use, describe why that would be appropriate and how would it be different from the current leadership style (hint- what is the current leadership style)? What specific motivational tool should be used that is not already described in the case?
• They both believe that decentralized controls are good for Managed by Q but they have heard about Simons’ (1994) management control (C) systems and wonder if they can be applied to strategic planning at Q’s Canadian operations and if so, how? They are also concerned about the bottom line and would like you to take a quick look as to their budgetary control (C) and assumptions to see if their projected gross margin projections over 5 years give them sufficient margins to expand into Canada (see appendix 7) – what
do you suggest that Q does to improve their financial performance and generate more cash?
Take the role and point of view of a consultant; make sure that you use content from Robbins et al. (2021), the case study (Ton & Reavis, 2016) and Simons (1994) and that you cite your evidence (including page number as ‘p.’ or Chapter/Section number if it’s from Robbins et al. (2021)).
Read the questions carefully, answer every element of the questions and support your answers with factual or conceptual support from the appropriate site in the textbook, from the course website, the assigned readings or the case.
This final exam requires you to do critical reflection and to use terminology and content as described in the course.
The structure should be essay type with a title page, a brief Introduction followed by subtitles for each of the four sections of Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling and a brief Conclusion.
How can parents improve the mental health development of a child with ADHD
You are to write a research proposal of around 1400 words.
The Project Information file is attached as Ethical Approval Form, which has been approved and all the Aims & Objectives, Methodology / Research Design,
Significance of research have been filled already; you just need to use the information to create the research proposal.
Two examples have been added as well.
Please reference everything.
LO 1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of research design, theory, and
methods in relation to Health & Social care.
LO 2. Critically consider ethical issues and concerns pertinent to research
practice.
LO 3. Produce a creative and original research proposal in response
to a presenting problem or issue in the field of Health & Social
care. The research proposal should include consideration of ethical issues if
data is collected from human subjects in compliance with ethical best
practice.
Why do people hold different opinions on gun control?
Stage One: The Group Stage
The first stage is the group portion of the project in which you and three to four other students create questions to measure opinion on an issue or a related set of issues. Your group will also theorize about why opinion on these issues varies. Based on these discussions and what we’ve learned in class, you will come up with three hypotheses about the issue. (You can generate more hypotheses if you like, but three is a good goal). Keep in mind that you will need survey items that measure both the independent and the dependent variables you build your hypotheses around. How many questions your survey includes depends on what issue you are working on, but a good guideline is between 5-10 questions.
An example using the issue of guns:
1. Brainstorm with your group, asking the following: Why do people hold different opinions on gun control? How do we explain the variation of opinion in support for banning assault weapons (or background checks, etc.?) In other words, why do some people support banning assault weapons while others do not?
Example Theory: People who were socialized in times of mass school shootings are more likely to support gun control. Example rationale from lecture/book: Research on socialization shows that when people come of age politically can have long lasting effects on their political orientations.
Research Hypothesis: Younger age cohorts will be more supportive of assault weapons bans than older age cohorts.
2. Decide how you are going to measure your key variables of interest. How will you measure support for gun control, your dependent variable? There are many potential ways to measure it out there. Scour other polling organizations such as the Pew Research Center, Gallup, and the General Social Survey, just to name a few. How are you going to measure age? (There are several ways to ask these questions.) What are the specific questions you are going to ask on your survey? And what are the specific options you will offer respondents to the survey? (Note: It is okay, and often recommended, to ask questions about various aspects of an issue. You might ask about specific gun control policies or more general support for the Second Amendment or both. Explore surveys on these issues and see what items are promising for your study. It is acceptable and indeed common practice to use survey items from other reputable survey firms. But keep in mind you will ultimately need to make sure these are good questions (see below). How many questions you include on your survey is dependent on the issue your group is exploring. Again, a good guide is between 5-10 questions, though you can propose more.
How to look for potential question wording:
1. Search pollingreport.com for a clearinghouse of survey data.
2. Explore the American National Election Study. https://electionstudies.org/resources/anes-question-search/
(Note that this is a fairly sensitive search engine. When I typed in guns, I got a different set of results than when I typed in gun or gun control. So do be as general as you can or try different searches.)
3. Go to https://www.pewresearch.org/search/ and search in the box on the right hand side at the top.
4. Google the issue you are assigned and the word survey (google “climate change survey” or “climate change gallup” or “climate change yougov”, etc). Note: Gallup and yougov are large survey firms. Morning Consult and Yougov field many contemporary surveys, so you might want to look at them specifically for current issues like police brutality, protests, Black Lives Matter, etc. that may not have long survey histories on large academic surveys.
5. Go to google scholar (scholar.google.com) or jstor.org and search the issue you are interested in. These search engines return published scholarly work in these issue areas. Browse some of the articles that your search returns. See how the authors in those surveys measured the topics you are interested in.
• When finalizing questions, consider the information from the Asher book about good survey questions. For example, you will want to consider whether you should add a “don’t know” response, whether you should have a neutral option, and whether you need to be sensitive to social desirability effects. Check your questions carefully. I will be looking to see that your survey displays a strategic sequence of questions, employs simple/straightforward question wording, uses balanced arguments, avoids ambiguous language, avoids double-barreled/multiple stimuli questions, avoids double-negatives, avoids biased/manipulative information, and accurately measures key concepts that match the proposed hypotheses. Here’s a good summary that may help, too: https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/u-s-survey-research/questionnaire-design/#pretests
Tips: When you are developing your hypotheses, you should think in terms of demographics (age, race, gender*, income, region of the country, rural/urban, religious affiliation, religiosity, economic class) and general orientations that might affect support or opposition to the issues you are studying (party identification, ideological self-identification, worldview, personality, racial resentment, egalitarianism, modern sexism, etc.) We have already studied many of these, and you can find how authors have measured these by reviewing the readings or lectures or by searching google scholar. For example, we are studying the concept of racial resentment, and our book provides the specific question wording for this battery. There are also batteries we have discussed like the TIPI which measures personality; we know about measures of disgust, etc. (*Note that surveys have traditionally measured gender as a binary construction, though that is changing in more recent surveys. I suggest you look into this.)
Putting it all together: your group needs to turn in the following: 1) a word document (or pdf) that is formatted exactly as if you were going to send out a survey to a group of people. That is, you must include the exact question wording and response options. Think about the question order as well. 2) a summary of the (at least) three hypotheses you formulated and a brief rationale for your thinking behind each. 3) a discussion of the process by which you selected your questions, including any concerns or alternative questions you considered but discarded and why. 4) the biggest challenges you all faced in completing the process, and5) a link to the Qualtrics survey you have created. Note: You might consider assigning one of these sections to each group member.
Stage II: Putting our class survey together
your group will present your survey items and hypotheses to the class in a short (approximately five minute) presentation. The rest of the class will provide constructive feedback about the hypotheses and questions. I will then take the class feedback and my own and together we will make any edits. Once we sign off on the survey, on November 4th we will devote class time to learning how to program it in Qualtrics you should have the link turned in and approved by me. You will then send it to as many people as you can. It would be ideal if your group solicited approximately 150 responses or more. Once you have finished your collection period, we will work on downloading the data into a Stata file and getting it ready for your analysis. Ideally this would be done by November 9th.
Stage III: Your individual data analysis assignment
Finally, you will write an individual analysis of the survey data in which you provide information about your main variable of interest and evidence for/against your hypothesis. You only need to choose one to explore. In all, this analysis will probably run you about 7-8 pages double-spaced not including works cited. This part of the paper but I will accept papers until the last class day without penalty. This should give you two to three weeks to complete the data analysis portion.
Suggested Components of Paper
• Introduction — This brief section sets up your issue area and broad research questions. (“In this paper, I will examine the public’s attitudes towards gun control. I will explore the role of xx in explaining how much an individual supports banning assault weapons.”)
• Hypotheses State the hypotheses (in words) that your study is going to test. Think about homework 3 here. What is the rationale/theory behind this hypotheses? In other words, what have we learned (or what have you read) that leads you to formulate this hypothesis? (See above for my example about gun control and age). You do not need to test all three of your group’s hypotheses. Instead, focus on testing one of them. (If you want to test more, that’s fine but it’s not mandatory.)
• Data and Methods of Describe how we got the sample, report the total number of people included in the sample, and identify any potential biases our survey collection method has introduced. In a table, provide summary statistics (mean, median, or mode and, when appropriate, standard deviation or interquartile range) that describe what our sample looks like in terms of such things as age, race, education level, partisanship, ideology, gender, and region. How representative is our sample compared to the U.S.? Note that for these you will need to use the commands we learned in homework 1 to summarize these variables. You should also provide a measure of the central tendency and dispersion of the dependent variable as well as tell me how you measured it and any relevant independent variables.
• Hypothesis testing Find the sample statistics, run the appropriate test, and draw your conclusion. For example, let’s say you are looking at whether men and women’s support for an assault weapons ban differs in the sample. Report the sample statistics that tell us how supportive women are of the ban and how supportive men are. Then, think about the level of measurement of your independent and dependent variables and run the appropriate statistical test (see homework 3) to see if this difference holds in the population. In doing so, explain what your p-value tells you. In general, did you find support for your hypothesis or not?
• Conclusion This is where you summarize what you learned from the project . You might include something about the most interesting thing that you learned from the project. You could discuss anything that you found surprising or any ways you might improve the questionnaire or sample method.
If you have questions or concerns about writing an academic paper for Political Science, check out these links:
• http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/political-science/• http://twp.duke.edu/uploads/media_items/poli-sci.original.pdf
Review the Resources and reflect on the evolution of nursing informatics from a science to a nursing specialty.
Nature offers many examples of specialization and collaboration. Ant colonies and bee hives are but two examples of nature’s sophisticated organizations. Each thrives because their members specialize by tasks, divide labor, and collaborate to ensure food, safety, and general well-being of the colony or
hive.
Of course, humans don’t fare too badly in this regard either. And healthcare is a great example. As specialists in the collection, access, and application of data, nurse informaticists collaborate with specialists on a regular basis to ensure that appropriate data is available to make decisions and take
actions to ensure the general well-being of patients.
In this Discussion, you will reflect on your own observations of and/or experiences with informaticist collaboration. You will also propose strategies for how these collaborative experiences might be improved.
To Prepare:
Review the Resources and reflect on the evolution of nursing informatics from a science to a nursing specialty.
Consider your experiences with nurse Informaticists or technology specialists within your healthcare organization.
Post a description of experiences or observations about how nurse informaticists and/or data or technology specialists interact with other professionals within your healthcare organization. Suggest at least one strategy on how these interactions might be improved. Be specific and provide examples.
Then, explain the impact you believe the continued evolution of nursing informatics as a specialty and/or the continued emergence of new technologies might have on professional interactions.
In your initial post, brainstorm several questions that would enable you to complete a reliable CVP analysis for this situation
The owner of a local bowling alley has determined that attendance on weekends and evenings is strong, but during the day, Monday through Friday, attendance is poor. The owner is considering whether contracts with local grade schools can boost attendance for a set charge per student. The
bowling alley can be used for educational purposes suitable to the needs of each school. The owner wants your help to prepare a CVP analysis listing the costs and sales projections for the proposal. The owner must propose to the administrators of the schools a fee per student. At a minimum, the fee per
child should be such as to the allow the bowling alley to break even.
In your initial post, brainstorm several questions that would enable you to complete a reliable CVP analysis for this situation. Then, list at least five questions that would need to be answered by the owner of the bowling alley and at least five questions that school administrators would need to answer.
What are the psychological factors that influence female suicide bombers?
The topic you chose was (What are the psychological factors that influence female suicide bombers?
Do they have different motivations compared to their male counterparts? –The study will focus on cases of Palestinian and Boko Haram suicide bombers.)
The professors feedback is (excellent topic. however, it’s too broad. how about focusing on ONE female suicide bomber? Hamas female suicide bombers are well researched + they wrote personal farewell letters (you can also use their farewell video although they’re less revealing). outside the middle east, the most prolific female suicide unit is the ‘Black Tigers’ of the LTTE (Tamil Tigers).
there are interviews with their leaders on youtube (e.g Thamilini) which can give you an adequate insight.)
Write a paper discussing the above topic.
propose one realistic recommendation for clinical nursing practice.
This assignment comprises of two interlinked sections:
1. An integrative literature review (academic enquiry) on a contemporary researchable clinical problem of your choosing which relates to your field of nursing. Having chosen your research question you must find between 5 and 8 research articles which answer your question. These research articles must include primary sources of research; however, you may include a maximum of 2 secondary sources of research (literature reviews). After thematically analysing the findings from your 5 – 8 research articles you will generate 2-4 theme headings which answer your question. A minimum of two articles must support each theme. The research methods of all 5 – 8 articles must be critically appraised at some point in the results section of your assignment.
2. The ‘practice enquiry’ component requires you to propose one realistic recommendation for clinical nursing practice. This recommendation must be informed by some of the findings discussed in the results section of your assignment. Having rationalised your recommendation, you must critically consider the impact on patients/service users or carers. Finally, you need to analyse the steps involved in implementing your recommendation into one clinical setting. Analysis should illustrate consideration of relevant barriers and facilitators.
– The word limit for this assignment is 4000 words +/- 10%. Word count excludes tables and the reference list.
– Please use 1 ½ or double line spacing in the main body of the assignment.
– Please use font size 12 and theme font Calibri (body) or Arial.
– You will submit the assignment via the “assignment submission point” on the AcPE Moodle page
– You are authorised to submit a maximum of 2 Microsoft Word documents.
Assignment Guideline: please follow each step
Introduction (500 words max)
• Very brief introduction to your review
• Rationale for the research topic and the specific research question chosen.
• Rationale should be supported by wide range of academic literature. This is necessary to demonstrate understanding of the subject area you are reviewing. You may also use some clinical and/or personal experiences to help justify your research question.
• Explain why an integrative review of the literature is important for your research question.
investigate and identify the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) of implementing Building Information Modeling (BIM) into sustainable construction projects in the UAE and examine their ranking and relationships
Identifying the Critical Success Factors of Building Information Modeling Implementation into Sustainable Construction Projects. Case Study of UAE Construction Industry.
Abstract
Background: The construction sector faces significant problems in its shift to sustainable practices and one of these practices is the implementation of building information modeling technologies. In the setting of the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates has made important efforts in implementing building information modeling technologies into sustainable practices in the construction projects in United Arab Emirates, which is used to advance procedures in the green building industry. This has gotten extensive action in the literature worldwide. Nonetheless, some cases have taken advantage of this essential cooperation between building information modeling and green practices in United Arab Emirates, while others have not been able to fully realize the potential of BMI in sustainable construction.
Purpose: The main aim of this paper is to investigate and identify the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) of implementing Building Information Modeling (BIM) into sustainable construction projects in the UAE and examine their ranking and relationships
Methodology: A list of critical success factors will be gathered from the previous literature review to identify the critical success factors for implementing and use of Building Information Modeling and arrange them based on the three main pillars of sustainability, which will help in designing the survey. A structured questionnaire which will be used to validate the collected factors and target professionals like consulting firms and engineers. Furthermore, the survey will be considering the assessment and the opinions of academics in construction and sustainability. After data collection, data analysis will take place using the structural equation modeling (SEM) technique. Statistical tests were exploited for data analysis and were used to elaborate and validate results. This kind of analysis study has already been conducted in other developed countries like UK and USA however, no such study has been done in UAE.
Results: The expected outcomes will proofed that success factors are related mainly to the client accepting of BIM adaptat in construction projects, a good organizational structure to support a BIM system within the company and financial help from the government to set up the BIM system.
This research will:
1. Develop a clear understanding of BIM implantation in the sustainable construction industry in the UAE.
2. Investigating the critical success factors of implementing BIM in the construction industry (Globally – UAE).
3. Determine the effective BIM tools (software) of various sustainable construction applications such as energy modeling and life cycle assessment.
4. Explore the benefits of successful BIM implementation in sustainable construction projects.
Key segments of proposal Example of verbiage
Topic Identifying the Critical Success Factors of Building Information Modeling Implementation into Sustainable Construction Projects. Case Study of UAE Construction Industry.
Briefly, what is the subject of research and how important is it locally, nationally, globally? What have others said about the subject (detailed literature review later) Building information modeling (BIM) is a coordinated digital process to manage and create all the aspects of buildings information on a construction project throughout its whole life cycle.
The study will focus on identifying the main critical success factors of BIM implementations into sustainable construction projects in the UAE construction industry.
Engineers began adopting CAD (computer-aided design) systems instead of traditional sketching and computation tools in the second part of the twentieth century, and they stopped employing papyrus, paper, and ink. Traditionally, 2D drawings have served as the foundation for construction teams, practices, and management, with each specialist working on individual construction drawings (made on tracing paper) containing only the aspects relevant to their tasks.
During the coordination meeting, the tracing papers are then imposed on each other to confirm project compatibility. Later, the CAD system was introduced, and the entire process was revamped, with each specialist using different layers in the CAD system rather than tracing sheets. However, as computing technology advanced, CAD advanced, increasing its capabilities to 3D, and more recently, CAD has fostered the creation of Building Information Modelling (BIM), which marks the next stage in the evolution of computer-aided design. Instead of having numerous specialized papers containing architecture design, landscape design, construction and installation designs, bills of quantities, and cost estimates, BIM uses a single collaborated 3D model with a database containing all of these documents. Which allows for fast tweaks and modifications to 3D models during the interdisciplinary collaboration process.
All participants in the construction projects can benefit from using BIM if it is applied as a philosophy rather than a program with some keys clicked and tools used only superficially.Since the BIM system is used throughout the project implementation time and even after its completion, all construction parties (engineers, contractors, subcontractors, architects, vendors, and academicians in the construction sector) should have a reasonable understanding of it. It is not a system that is restricted to the planning, design, and implementation stages, but it extends throughout the building’s life cycle, encompassing cost management, construction management, and operating facilities.
Moreover, despite the prevalence of academic research and scholars in the field of implementing and integrating BIM around the world, it has yet to receive attention in the United Arab Emirates context, particularly when studying the critical success to incorporating Building Information Modeling (BIM) into Sustainable Construction projects.
What is/are the research aim/s and question/s? The main aim of this paper is to investigate and identify the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) of implementing Building Information Modeling (BIM) into sustainable construction projects in the UAE and examine their ranking and relationships.
1. What are the critical success factors of BIM implantation in the construction industry (Globally – UAE)?
2. How does the effective BIM tools (software) of various sustainable construction applications such as energy modeling and life cycle assessment enhance the sustainability assessment of the project?
3. What are the benefits of successful BIM implementation in sustainable construction projects?
How will the research be conducted?
An extensive literature review will be conducted on the topic which will help in designing the survey. This survey will be then distributed among different parties in the construction industry in UAE. After data collection, data analysis will take place using the structural equation modeling (SEM) technique. This kind of analysis study has already been conducted in other developed countries like the UK and USA however, no such study has been done in the UAE.
What are expected findings and usefulness of the research? The expected outcomes will proofed that success factors are related mainly to the client accepting of BIM adaptation in construction projects, a good organizational structure to support a BIM system within the company and financial help from the government to set up the BIM system.
Understanding the critical success factors of BIM implantation will helps in a better documentation of the project. By having accurate data about all aspects of the project pre-build, such as materials, means less time fixing inaccuracies. There are many areas in which BIM can help save costs through the entire process:
1. Team collaboration
2. Increasing efficiency
3. Transparency
4. Clear accountability
5. BIM Keeps Meticulous Records
