Gene technology carries with it social and ethical implicationsmany of which engender personal views and discussion. Select one (1) of the following biotechnology topics to write about: Genetically modified crop plants Genetically modified microorganisms Genetically modified animals Personal genomics and / or personalized medicine for humans Gene therapy Write a four to six (4 to 6) page paper on your chosen topic. Organize your paper into sections corresponding to the following requirements: Biological basis. Describe the technology. Discuss what it accomplishes.
Gene technology carries with it social and ethical implicationsmany of which engender personal views and discussion. Select one (1) of the following biotechnology topics to write about: Genetically modified crop plants Genetically modified microorganisms Genetically modified animals Personal genomics and / or personalized medicine for humans Gene therapy Write a four to six (4 to 6) page paper on your chosen topic. Organize your paper into sections corresponding to the following requirements: Biological basis. Describe the technology. Discuss what it accomplishes. Elaborate on the scientific principles that make this technology possible. Your goal in this section of the paper is to show the instructor that you understand the underlying science behind the technology. Describe how exactly the technology works. Discuss the biological principles that underlie this technology. Social and ethical implications. Without disclosing your personal view about this technology, provide an analysis of its social and ethical implications. State the ethical concerns apparent in the use of this technology. Discuss the benefits and risks. Your goal in this section is to look at all sides of the issue. In the next section, you will give your opinion.Personal viewpoint. In the previous section, your goal was to be as objective as possible, to look at all sides of the issues. In this section, your goals are to give a personal opinion about the technology and provide a justification of that opinion. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment, in addition to the course text. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources. The body of the paper must have in-text citations that correspond to the references. Integrate all sources into your paper using proper techniques of quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing, along with proper use of in-text citations to credit your sources. your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: Be typed, double spaced, using Times
Scenario:As a third-year teacher, you have become increasingly involved in community events, such as volunteering in a soup kitchen. Recently, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Rodriguez, invited you to give a talk to local business leaders about the benefits for everyone when businesses create a culture that helps families work and care well for their children. During your talk, you decide to present a poster that outlines the benefits of family-friendly policies for businesses. Mr. Rodriguez mentions that some of the business owners in town are particularly concerned about parents who lose time at work when their children are home sick. He asks you for your ideas on how businesses can respond in a proactive way to families who need child care assistance. Losing parents as workers because they feel they must choose between their child and their employer is another issue, according to Mr. Rodriguez. Focus Assignment 1. Create a poster, either by hand and then scanned in or by using digital tools. On your poster, highlight three to four key benefits for businesses when they adopt family-friendly policy policies for their employees. Next, list three to four policies businesses can adopt to help parents reduce stress and continue to be productive when their children need to miss school due to illness. Last, list one to two big ideas that would help relieve parental anxieties about feeling the need to choose between their child and their livelihood.
create a poster to summarize corporate involvement in child care and to evaluate your poster. Assignment not complete without the self evaluation
Scenario:As a third-year teacher, you have become increasingly involved in community events, such as volunteering in a soup kitchen. Recently, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Rodriguez, invited you to give a talk to local business leaders about the benefits for everyone when businesses create a culture that helps families work and care well for their children. During your talk, you decide to present a poster that outlines the benefits of family-friendly policies for businesses. Mr. Rodriguez mentions that some of the business owners in town are particularly concerned about parents who lose time at work when their children are home sick. He asks you for your ideas on how businesses can respond in a proactive way to families who need child care assistance. Losing parents as workers because they feel they must choose between their child and their employer is another issue, according to Mr. Rodriguez.
Focus Assignment
1. Create a poster, either by hand and then scanned in or by using digital tools. On your poster, highlight three to four key benefits for businesses when they adopt family-friendly policy policies for their employees. Next, list three to four policies businesses can adopt to help parents reduce stress and continue to be productive when their children need to miss school due to illness. Last, list one to two big ideas that would help relieve parental anxieties about feeling the need to choose between their child and their livelihood.
2. Be sure to read the SELF-EVALUATION section below to guide your thinking. Write your self-evaluation after you have completed your poster.
Self-Evaluation
1. For each item on your poster: a. Explain how this item addresses the issues in the scenario.
2. Describe and justify how your poster would improve teaching and learning in the scenario.
You have been presented an outstanding opportunity to serve as a graduate student intern for the chief executive officer (CEO) of a large HCO. The HCO is an HMO model and originated approximately a century ago as a small rural hospital. Due to the rural setting, the HMO model flourished and, over the years, expanded throughout the region. Today, the HMO has a presence in over eighteen counties and has a number of competing interests from for-profit and not-for-profit HCOs in the region. The board of directors recently approved the acquisition of two regional hospitals. First, the HCO decided to acquire a small rural critical-care-access hospital in a relatively remote county. The interest in acquiring the hospital is to service the existing population and expand the reach of the HMO. Second, the HCO decided to acquire a private full-service hospital in a moderate-size city (population forty-two thousand). The HCO’s move is strategic in nature, preventing the sale of the hospital to its for-profit competitor, and will gain the region its sole emergency department level 2 (two) trauma center with helicopter transport while giving the HCO the ability to service its growing HMO membership in the area. Based on the above information: · Evaluate the various HMO models (staff, group, and network) and identify the model that would probably be best suited for the region. Justify your answer. · Research and comment on the importance and applicability of the various levels of emergency department trauma care. Investigate the exemptions afforded to a critical care rural hospital with respect to Medicare reimbursement and accreditation.
You have been presented an outstanding opportunity to serve as a graduate student intern for the chief executive officer (CEO) of a large HCO. The HCO is an HMO model and originated approximately a century ago as a small rural hospital. Due to the rural setting, the HMO model flourished and, over the years, expanded throughout the region. Today, the HMO has a presence in over eighteen counties and has a number of competing interests from for-profit and not-for-profit HCOs in the region.
The board of directors recently approved the acquisition of two regional hospitals. First, the HCO decided to acquire a small rural critical-care-access hospital in a relatively remote county. The interest in acquiring the hospital is to service the existing population and expand the reach of the HMO. Second, the HCO decided to acquire a private full-service hospital in a moderate-size city (population forty-two thousand). The HCO’s move is strategic in nature, preventing the sale of the hospital to its for-profit competitor, and will gain the region its sole emergency department level 2 (two) trauma center with helicopter transport while giving the HCO the ability to service its growing HMO membership in the area.
Based on the above information:
· Evaluate the various HMO models (staff, group, and network) and identify the model that would probably be best suited for the region. Justify your answer.
· Research and comment on the importance and applicability of the various levels of emergency department trauma care. Investigate the exemptions afforded to a critical care rural hospital with respect to Medicare reimbursement and accreditation.
· Elaborate on the difference between an HMO and an accountable care organization (ACO).
· Explain the concept of capitation, its importance to the HMO and participating providers, and how the concept of capitation varies with the ACO model.
· Explain patient-centered care and its importance in healthcare delivery.
Submit your answers in a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document.
Draw an ER diagram of your complete design for the community library. You can use Visio, or Microsoft word feature to draw the chart, or write down the table schemata and describe the relationships among them.
Community library
You recently got a job offer from a local community library. The manager asks you to develop a database system to track customers and books they check out.
Task 1
Your initial assignment is to create a table for customers. The manager tells you that this table needs to track the following information: all customers’ social security number, first and last name, address, city, state and zip code, email, phone number, birth date, and date of applying for a library card. Your task is to first “sketch” a customer table (basically what data items or columns should be included in the table) using the Customer_information table at background section as an example. Your table should contain the following:
Column heading include all the attributes that need to be in this table.
Populate the table with five records of data
Task 2
Your next task is to design one more table: Customer checkout table to track the books and CDs that the customer has checked out from the library. Customers and Customer Checkout table are related to one another.
The Customer table contains the basic data on each customer and the primary key is customer number. There is one row for each customer.
The Customer Checkout table contains the data for each book. The primary key consists of two pieces of data: Checkout number and customer number. One customer can check out 1 or more books/CDs at a time, but only one customer on a check out order.
Use the templates below to design the two tables.
“Templates” for Table Design
Customer Table
Draw an ER diagram of your complete design for the community library. You can use Visio, or Microsoft word feature to draw the chart, or write down the table schemata and describe the relationships among them.
Include a half page report about your experience with this assignment.
Demonstrate understanding of using ER diagram to represent database design.
Correctly design tables based on requirement.
Paper must be in APA Format, ~ 600 words.
Intensive Care Urology Practice (ICUP), a not-for-profit business, had revenues in 2014 of $96,000. Expenses other than depreciation were 75% of revenues and Depreciation was $10,000. All revenues were collected in cash, and all expenses, excluding depreciation, were paid in cash during the year. No other assets were purchased, and no money was borrowed.A. Construct ICUPs Income Statement. B. What was ICUPs Cash Flow for the year?
1. (10 Points) Eiffel Payne Hospital, a for profit hospital, wants to issue bonds for a major expansion. An investor, Terry Noirs, is in the 40% tax bracket and would be interested in the bonds. Tax Exempt hospital bonds of the same risk pay 6% interest. What is the minimum rate Eiffel Payne can set for Terry to invest in the bonds?
2. (30 Points) Intensive Care Urology Practice (ICUP), a not-for-profit business, had revenues in 2014 of $96,000. Expenses other than depreciation were 75% of revenues and Depreciation was $10,000. All revenues were collected in cash, and all expenses, excluding depreciation, were paid in cash during the year. No other assets were purchased, and no money was borrowed.A. Construct ICUPs Income Statement.
B. What was ICUPs Cash Flow for the year?
C. If (under GAAP) PU changed its depreciation method so that the Depreciation Expense doubled, what would be the new Net Income?
D. Again, if (under GAAP) ICUP changed its depreciation method so that the Depreciation Expense tripled, what would be the Cash Flow?
E. Comment on the results.
3. (20 Points) The following are account balances on December 31, 2014 for Intensive Care Urology Practice (ICUP), (in alphabetical order):
Accounts Payable $45,000Accounts Receivable, $60,000Cash $24,000Equity (January 1, 2014) $176,000Expenses (includes taxes) $82,000Inventory $91,000Long-term Debt $105,000Long-term Investments $30,000Net Property & Equipment $135,000Revenues $96,000
Read, reflect, and compare Netflixs SWOT Analysis already conducted in the two different sources provided for this assignment. Describe at least two differences between both analyses after carefully comparing both.
Part 1: For this discussion, please do the following:
Read, reflect, and compare Netflixs SWOT Analysis already conducted in the two different sources provided for this assignment.
Describe at least two differences between both analyses after carefully comparing both.
Post your reflections explaining to your classmates the reasoning behind the differences you have detected.
Be ready to engage with at least two fellow classmates. Engaging is more than saying yes or no as you must support your reasoning/opinion with at least two articles from class readings or relevant reputable sources (a combination of original posting and responses). Please follow APA Style when citing sources.
Reply to at least two fellow classmates.
Resources:The Business Models Analyst
Business Strategy Hub
Part 2:
Read about the VRIO framework from Principles of Management and additional explanations and video provided for this week in the Resources section.
Review examples of companies who have applied the VRIO framework: 3 Business Strategy Examples to Inspire Your Own and Explaining The VRIO Framework (With A Real-Life Example). Please feel free to explore more if you feel inclined.
Select from any of the readings and resources provided/selected, two companies (ideally one of those is your own or perhaps the one selected from last week) who have applied the VRIO framework. (for one of the companies please choose McDonalds)
Create an Excel with five columns comparing both companies. Columns to include are V (Value), R (Rarity), I (Imitability), O (Organization). The last column is the Note section where you explain what you see for each company (this is your reflection on what VRIO is telling you).
Submit the Excel file when done and before the deadline indicated.
Resources:Please watch the VRIO Framework explanation and read about companies who have applied it to see its applicability.
ative Americans and Alaska Natives report a higher prevalence of pain symptoms and painful conditions when compared with the general population of the United States. What is your understanding of these findings?
Your response to each question should be 1- 1½ pages per question. Your entire assignment should be 6-8 pages plus a title and reference page.
1. Studies show that people in countries such as Japan and Korea tend to evaluate themselves critically in surveys; they tend to consider self as not necessarily hard-working. Explain the reasons for such cultural response bias.
2. Native Americans and Alaska Natives report a higher prevalence of pain symptoms and painful conditions when compared with the general population of the United States. What is your understanding of these findings?
3. It is assumed that multicultural experiences foster the creative expansion of ideas. Consider expatriate artists and writers whose brilliant insights emerged when they left their homeland settled in a foreign country. Do you think that creativity can be sparked when a person is exposed to a foreign culture?
4. A study of samples in 32 countries showed that individualism was positively correlated with higher expressivity of emotions, especially happiness and surprise. Individualism was negatively correlated with expression of sadness. What is your understanding of these research findings?
5. For years, sexual orientations other than ‘heterosexual’ were considered mental illness in the United States. Is this still perceived as an illness today? Do you agree or disagree?
6. Research shows that in Buddhist and Western societies may encourage two somewhat different types of motivation, namely maximizing and satisfying. Explain both briefly.
A woman in her mid-thirties suffered from a rare malignancy in her brain and around her spinal cord. She had surgery, and most of the tumor mass was removed, but residual tumor remained in the brain and around the spinal cord. The doctors informed her that chemotherapy and radiation were possible treatment options but could cause serious problems such as sepsis, a permanent loss of IQ and stature, and even death. She wished to proceed with the therapy. After undergoing aggressive chemotherapy and radiation, she did independent research and read of several drugs being administered for cancer in other states that were unapproved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and were illegal in their home state but were touted by physicians using them as miracle cures. The woman is considering suing her physician for failure to disclose alternative treatments, thus depriving her of informed consent. A court awarded summary judgment to the physician. Respond to the following questions about this case: In your opinion, does the courts decision seem warranted? Why or why not?
A woman in her mid-thirties suffered from a rare malignancy in her brain and around her spinal cord. She had surgery, and most of the tumor mass was removed, but residual tumor remained in the brain and around the spinal cord. The doctors informed her that chemotherapy and radiation were possible treatment options but could cause serious problems such as sepsis, a permanent loss of IQ and stature, and even death. She wished to proceed with the therapy.
After undergoing aggressive chemotherapy and radiation, she did independent research and read of several drugs being administered for cancer in other states that were unapproved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and were illegal in their home state but were touted by physicians using them as miracle cures. The woman is considering suing her physician for failure to disclose alternative treatments, thus depriving her of informed consent.
A court awarded summary judgment to the physician.
Respond to the following questions about this case:
In your opinion, does the courts decision seem warranted? Why or why not?
Under the doctrine of informed consent, should a physician be responsible for informing patients of all treatment options, even if some of the treatments are illegal or not yet proven effective? Explain your answer.
Use APA formatting and citation standards. Use at least two (2) scholarly references published within the last 5 years to substantiate your work.
One of the most important documents within a project is the project charter. Review the research to learn more about what is commonly found within a project charter. Using your research, evaluate the project charter below. ? What sections are missing from this document? ? Why are they important??
One of the most important documents within a project is the project charter. Review the research to learn more about what is commonly found within a project charter. Using your research, evaluate the project charter below. ? What sections are missing from this document? ? Why are they important?? Recreate this project charter to include those sections and offer suggested wording. ? What are the remaining areas which may need to be refined to prevent scope creep?Project Title: SIS Implementation Date: April 7, 2000 Scope and Objectives: Everywhere University is undergoing rapid growth resulting in an urgent need for a more efficient access to internal and external policies related to the student experience and programs. To this end, we are implementing a new p Student Information System Portal that will satisfy both these needs and will enhance communication across the organization. Defining Conditions, Constraints, and Assumptions: The SIS must be operational on the last day of the Spring semester. Staffing: The project manager will determine the skill requirements for the project and provide them, along with specific team member names, by June 1 to the appropriate functional managers. The project manager is authorized to have one clerical person to assist. Because of other campus priorities, the project team is limited to no more than 2 technical members without specific authority from the President. Communications: Status reports will be provided to the President, the Deans, and the Project Sponsor bi-monthly.
Describe how the supervisor should state minimum job requirements when he or she requests new employees to be hired into the department. Explain how the supervisor might communicate to his or her department (of all male employees) when a female is about to become part of the work team.
Individual Project 500 words
Diversity Training Manual: Part III
As a continuation of the diversity training manual, you (as the new manager of human resources) should now create portions that specifically address gender issues and are targeted at training and raising the sensitivity of all supervisors regarding potential gender issues. It should include a section on how the supervisor should or should not handle certain gender-based workplace issues. For example, can the supervisor hand out work assignments that he or she feels are better suited to different genders? Can he or she write a job requirement that only one gender can meet, such as a strength requirement?
This section of the manual must, at a minimum, address the following information:
A few general facts about the U.S. population’s gender mix and the gender mix found in notable segments of the workforce should be included. Make sure to include all sources of information.
The essence and applicability of the landmark Griggs v. Duke Powercase dealing with stated job requirements should be addressed.
Click here to read the Griggs v. Duke Power case.
Describe how the supervisor should state minimum job requirements when he or she requests new employees to be hired into the department.
Explain how the supervisor might communicate to his or her department (of all male employees) when a female is about to become part of the work team.
Reference
Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424 (1971). Retrieved from the FindLaw Web site: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=401&invol=424
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