Discuss the strengths of your chosen strategy and potential weakness you can foresee.
Research Topic- COVID-19 and Social Media’s role with domestic violence during the lockdown -Identify two research questions and hypotheses (formulate your conceptual and concrete hypotheses). -Identify variables in your research. Go through the conceptualizing process. Provide both conceptual and operational definitions. Outline how you are going to measure the ‘outcome’ in your research (dependent variable). How is this variable defined? What is the source of the data? Outline how you will measure any other variables (independent variables) in your research. How is this variable(s) defined? What is the source of the data? Discuss the strengths of your chosen strategy and potential weakness you can foresee.
write a proposal to a high official for non intervention in Syria
i will attach a previous paper on the Syrian crisis and power sharing, as a reference. please write this paper as a proposal to a high official for non intervention in Syria, no reason to normalise ties with Syria given the current regime.
Critically analyse the strategic context within which human service organisations operate in Australia.
Introduction or conclusion NOT required Critically analyse the strategic context within which human service organisations operate in Australia. Particular attention should be paid to describing: the context and setting human services sector in Australia, including an overview of key management theories and practices and how these relate to human service organisations (Topic 1) an analysis of how external funding and reporting frameworks influence the operation of human service organisations (Topic 2) how the key functions required for both effective management and leadership within human service organisations shape organisational structure and culture. (Topic 3) the key principles of effective culture in human service organisations (topic 4) Please use Berends, L., & Crinall, K. (2014). Management and practice in health and human service organisations. South Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press. as one of the references. thank you
Identify information about an aggregate population to identify needs, priorities, and targets for attention.
The Community Assessment Assignment provides you with the opportunity to perform a community level health assessment. The community assessment will be done on a county (not town or city) that you select. I have chosen LAMAR COUNTY, ALABAMA. The Community Assessment Assignment will allow you to: Apply clinical content/criteria considered essential in baccalaureate nursing education. Analyze how aggregate populations are unique in terms of their demographic characteristics, available health care resources, health status and risk factors, and patterns of use of services. Apply available written information that characterizes the health status of an aggregate population and provides an inventory of available human services agencies. Identify information about an aggregate population to identify needs, priorities, and targets for attention. Develop plans for a primary prevention intervention to address identified needs. This assignment has three main components: The Windshield Survey, which is to be completed in person in the community you select. This community will be a part of the county at large. It does not have to be a windshield survey of the whole county. Online research on health statistics and data concerning the community, county, state/region, and country. Analysis and assessment of health statistics and data. You should get started on this assignment as early as possible because portions are required to be completed in person, requiring participation from people within your selected community. Make up this part based on the information you gathered about LAMAR COUNTY, ALABAMA while doing the research for this assignment. LAMAR COUNTY, ALABAMA is a rural area in Alabama that is probably below poverty level.
Why do you think these unethical issues occurred?
Please read this article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1173356/ about Ellen Roche, and answer these 5 questions regarding the article above. 1. What happened? What is/were the unethical problem(s) of your assigned case? 2. When and where did this case occur? 3. Who are/were affected by the unethical behavior(s)? 4. Why do you think these unethical issues occurred? What were the driving forces? 5. What are the long-term implications? please don’t use any other sources, just the article and the 5 questions. Thank you
Explain why it is important to appraise community resources (nonprofit, spiritual/religious, etc.) as part of a community assessment and why these resources are important in population health promotion.
Explain the role of the community health nurse in partnership with community stakeholders for population health promotion. Explain why it is important to appraise community resources (nonprofit, spiritual/religious, etc.) as part of a community assessment and why these resources are important in population health promotion. Reference sites to search from and use: American Public Health Association Explore the American Public Health Association (APHA) website. https://www.apha.org/ Community and Public Health: The Future of Health Care Read Chapter 1 in Community and Public Health: The Future of Health Care. https://www.gcumedia.com/digital-resources/grand-canyon-university/2018/community-and-public-health_the-future-of-health-care_1e.php
What’s Your Risk Type?
Instructions
Module 2 Assignment – What’s Your Risk Type?
Let’s say that you’re not a broke collage graduate student (sigh…), and that you happen to have $15,000 just hanging around, burning a hole in your pocket. So yes, very hypothetical here!
Are you risk adverse, or risk seeking? What do you think? To answer this question, please download and complete the attached Risk Tolerance quiz, created by a professor from BYU. When finished, grade your results per the attachment’s instructions and then also answer the following questions:
1. Based on the overall results, are you a risk seeker, risk neutral, or risk adverse? Why?
2. Discuss if you agree or disagree with the survey’s results and overall category in which you were placed. Do you agree with this finding? Why, or why not?
3. If you were to respond to this survey again, only this time without the $15,000 having been automatically given to you to invest, would your response be any different, now being required to use your hard-earned money as the initial principle investment?
4. How does this exercise apply to your future role as a healthcare administrator? In what way can you use this exercise to influence (or not influence) your decisions as an organizational leader?
5. Finally, apply this lesson on risk to any healthcare organization’s action in the news. For instance, have any healthcare organizations (noticed in your workplace, on TV, located on the internet) demonstrated risk aversion, risk seeking, or risk neutral behaviors? Was this a good idea (in your opinion) considering the situation?
Animal Protection Law and Climate Change
Paper should include an introduction, literature review including the gaps in the literature, and the scholarly importance of the subject.
Competition and Regulation in EU Healthcare Markets
What I should do is write an essay answering this question in 4500 words (I need to get a distinction):
‘Medical devices fulfil comparable functions and create comparable risks to human health as pharmaceuticals. It is incomprehensible that they should not be subject to a comparable system of marketing authorisation.’ Identify what are, in your view, the most significant differences between the system for placing medical devices on the market and that for medicinal products and discuss whether you agree that a common approach should be adopted for both categories of products.
What I am asking you to do is providing me with:
– Help with the structure of my essay, i.e. titles and contents for each paragraph. This should contain ALL the relevant issues and should be something on which I can elaborate to do a detailed essay;
– Sources through which I can elaborate on each point;
All the above mentioned should amount to 6 pages, which is what I am paying for. I am attaching to the present message:
1. Outline of the TWO lectures and TWO seminars that tackled the topic of my essay. There you can find SOME of the relevant bibliography. If you have no access to those reading materials on any platform, I can see if I can find some of them somewhere, so feel free to contact me;
2. Power point presentation on the lectures, that you might find helpful.
Anyway, the content of the essay should NOT be exclusively based on this. Moreover, the question of the essay could lead one to include medical data on risks and so on, but this is a law essay, so that some medical data are ok, but only to the extent needed for my legal arguments.
My paper will be checked to see if there is plagiarism, so that I need it to be NOT PLAGIARISED.
Discuss the difference between frictional and cyclical unemployment.
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Referencing No in-text referencing or
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= 0% Minimal referencing
evident = 1%-4% Referencing evident but inconsistent, incomplete, and fewer than required
= 5% Depending on application of referencing
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required = 6%-9% Perfect in-text referencing, reference list, variety and number of references consulted and substantially
exceeding the minimum number of references
required = 10%
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Referencing
• Plagiarism is a serious offence. Do not copy directly from any text unless absolutely necessary. Enclose quotes in inverted commas to indicate that they are not your words, and include an intext reference with each quote. Paraphrase all the reference comments that you use and include appropriate reference and page numbers.
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Gitman, L.J. 2010, Principles of Managerial Finance, Cape Town: Pearson Education.
• Extensive and credible academic references are required to demonstrate that you have researched the topics fully and so that you can substantiate your arguments critically.
NOTE: At postgraduate level, you are expected to substantiate your answers with evidence from independent research.
You may work on this assignment in a group BUT you must write the assignment individually, and in your own words. If NOT, you will be told you have copied and you will have to do a brand new assignment. The mark will be capped at 60%, and you will have to pay a resubmission fee.
INTRODUCTION TO THE ASSIGNMENT
• This assignment consists of FOUR questions.
• Please answer all of the questions.
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Good luck!
ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS
QUESTION 1 (20 MARKS)
1.1 List and briefly explain the three economic questions that form the foundations of the (14) discipline.
1.2 Consider the population of LaLa-Land. In 2018, the country had a total population of (06) 30-million, 10-million of whom were older than 64 years old and younger than 16 years old (the minimum working age) while 9-million, mostly housewives and students, did not want to work. A total of 8-million of the population between 16 years old and 64 years old who wanted to work were employed while the rest remained unemployed. Based on this information answer the following questions:
a) What is the size of the labour force or economically active population?
b) What is the labour force participation rate?
c) How many people are unemployed?
d) What is the unemployment rate?
Bear in mind this question will require you to read and research further than the content given to you in the study materials provided.
QUESTION 2 [20 MARKS]
2.1 Consider the rand/dollar exchange rate. Assuming that the exchange rate is currently (14) quoted as R11.50 to the US dollar answer the following questions:
a) How many US cents would be required to buy R1.00? (2)
b) If you bought an economic textbook for $45 over the internet, how much (3) would you have to pay in Rands?
c) If the exchange rate were to change to R11.80 to the dollar, which currency
has appreciated and which has depreciated? (2)
d) How much will the textbook priced at $45 cost you now in terms of the South (3)
African Rand?
e) Explain how a change in the exchange rate results in “winners” and “losers”. (4)
Bear in mind this question will require you to read and research further than the content given to you in the study materials provided.
2.2 Before receiving the textbook you have ordered, you are contacted by the courier (06) company who informs you that in addition to the price that you paid for the item and its delivery you are now compelled to pay an additional R200 before it can be released by customs officials. What is this R200 known as in economics and how will it impact future international purchases you make?
QUESTION 3 [25 MARKS]
3.1 Discuss the difference between frictional and cyclical unemployment. Please make (13) use of examples in your response.
3.2 Critically discuss GDP as an economic indicator and its strengths and weaknesses. (12) QUESTION 4 [35 MARKS]
How small business owners are managing the 4th wave
Small businesses are facing increasing challenges as the fourth wave of the pandemic looms. New statistics published by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) reports small businesses owe an average of $170,000 and that number almost doubles to $333,174 for businesses in the hospitality sector.
Corinne Pohlmann, senior vice-president of national affairs at CFIB, says repaying this debt will be the next major challenge as businesses head into the uncertainty of the fall. “It’s so incredibly important for consumers to really think about making a purchase at a smaller company rather than through Amazon or Walmart,” adds Ms. Pohlmann. “It’s the small businesses on Main Street that make a place unique.”
Despite the headlines, entrepreneurs have remained resilient during this economic roller coaster brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. “Keeping contact with customers – seeing them walk in, seeing the impact that you have on your customers and your neighbourhood – keeps us positive and optimistic,” says coffee shop and bakery owner Billy Dertillis, who co-owns Red Rocket Coffee in Toronto with his brother, Ellias.
“[Small business owners] have been incredibly resilient. The fact that we’re now 17 months into the pandemic and there are some businesses that have been closed for more than 300 days in certain parts of the country, the ability for many of those to still reopen and operate and feel optimistic, is inspiring,” adds Ms. Pohlman.
• [Source: Baxter, J. 2021, ‘How small business owners are managing the 4th wave’, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/small-business/article-how-small-business-ownersare-preparing-for-the-4th-wave/ (accessed 09 November 2021).]
Analyse the current state of the South African business landscape and map a plan of action for businesses that considers the role of government intervention with the economic tools and policies available to them to mitigate the impact of the fourth wave. Be guided by the rubric provided below.
SCORING
TOPIC POOR
ROOM TO DEVELOP
PROFICIENT
MASTERLY
CRITERIA
Analysis of the state of the retail economy at present No analysis is provided. No discussion on issues pertaining to spending, employment levels, and economic growth are taken into consideration.
Some attempt is made to analyse the needs of the economy as a whole. The
understanding of issues pertaining to spending, employment levels, and economic growth is basic.
A concise discussion of the state of the nation with a clear focus on businesses. Some discussion on issues pertaining to spending, employment levels, and economic growth but not at a level that shows great depth of understanding.
Objective and thorough discussion of the state of the nation bearing in mind the needs of businesses. Issues pertaining to spending, employment levels, and economic growth are taken into consideration clearly and concisely.
Possible solutions proposed in the form of a plan of action for businesses are proposed No attempt made to identify solutions for businesses. Some attempt is made to identify solutions in the form of a plausible plan of action. Some solutions proposed in the form of a workable action plan. In addition possible deterrents to this plan are recognised but not discussed. A range of solutions are proposed in the form of an action plan for businesses. In addition possible deterrents to this programme are recognised and discussed. Issues pertaining to spending, employment levels, and economic growth are taken into consideration clearly and concisely.
No reform recommendations made that make provision for the economic impact of Covid-19 on businesses. No understanding or application of monetary and fiscal policy and how this can and will impact retailers. The reform programme is conscious of the economic impact of Covid-19 on businesses and via action taken by government to influence economic activity through the application of monetary and fiscal policy.
Recommendations made are barely plausible and vaguely make provision for the economic impact of Covid-19 on businesses. A general understanding or application of monetary and fiscal policy and how this can and will impact retailers. Plausible recommendations made that make provision for the Covid19 on businesses. Clear understanding or application of monetary and fiscal policy and how this can and will impact firms without any suggestion as to how to mitigate these risks. Recommendations made are astute, plausible and justifiable and that make provision for the Covid-19 on businesses. Clearly considered understanding and application of monetary and fiscal policy decisions and how this can and will impact firms and strategies posed to mitigate this.
