Are there societal changes that need to happen first?

Question – How can we better integrate re-integrative shaming into our criminal justice system? Are there societal changes that need to happen first?

Is Restorative Justice “weak” on crime? How so? Can we overcome that perception?

Question – Is Restorative Justice “weak” on crime? How so? Can we overcome that perception? How?

Return to the board and read over the posts of your fellow classmates. Choose at least one classmate and create a post responding to his/her initial post on the Discussion Board. Be thoughtful in your response, indicating your agreement/disagreement with their posting and give a careful reasoning of your position. Please note: in all of your postings/replies, you must demonstrate careful reasoning and logic to bolster your position. Unsubstantiated opinions have no place in this area.

The Department of Criminal Justice

You are required to select a course-related topic to research and then prepare a paper. The paper should include an overview of the subject and major relevant points relative to individual, community, social and/or legal implications or impacts.

The Department of Criminal Justice recognizes the value of excellence in writing for students in Criminal Justice. In part, each professor is expected to provide guidance on improving a student’s writing skills. Students are required to use only the APA (American Psychological Association) format to write and develop a scholarly paper for submission in the Social Sciences. APA has been adopted by the Department as its writing standard for all academic written assignments. No other writing style is acceptable.

APA is the American Psychological Association, and the style is one of many in the academic world used to regulate the language, citations, procedure, and formatting of manuscripts and other examples of writing in the social sciences. Please be consistent throughout each written paper. Refer to APA Guide under Resources on the Course Menu for APA specifics.

All projects, assignments, or papers submitted for grading will be required to include an abstract and reference page. All references are to be cited using the American Psychology Association (APA) format (6th edition). Other formats will not be accepted. For each scholarly paper and group assignment(s), the work will be assessed using an individual grading rubric for each assignment. This tool and process helps the students identify and professor measure the key points necessary to successfully complete written or group assignments. Wikipedia is not an appropriate source for any scholarly writing and is not permitted for any assignment in this program.

The paper will make a connection between the selected topic and a Saint Leo University Core Value. Research must be documented in a college-level, typewritten paper that uses APA format and includes an abstract and reference pages. Word count will be 1500 to 2000 words, double-spaces with a 12-point font. The topic must be submitted for prior approval.

The paper must be your original work. You are required to use no more than 15% of others quoted work when completing any assignments within this course of study. Your research paper must therefore be 85% original. No previously submitted papers, articles, reports, or projects, in whole or in part, to any university or college will be accepted.

What ethical issues and ethical reasoning are argued?

View one or more of the following YouTube TED Talks about Biotechnology Ethics:

It’s Time to Question Bioengineering – Paul Root Wolpe (19:42) (Links to an external site.) – Bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe describes an astonishing series of recent bioengineering experiments, from glowing dogs to mice that grow human ears. He asks: Isn’t it time to set some ground rules?

GMOs: Why We Should Give Them a Second Chance | Lee Dong | TEDxYouth@BeaconStreet (8:59) (Links to an external site.) – The term GMO has been bogged down by controversy. But what actually are GMOs, and is that controversy completely justified?

The Promise of Stem Cell Therapy | Neil Neimark, MD | TEDxAshland (17:35) (Links to an external site.) – Neil Neimark, MD and other doctors across the United States are part of a group that enjoys being on the cutting edge of the enormous possibilities and positive results that stem cell produces today and will continue to be a crucial part of wellness in the future.

The Use of Cloning and Stem Cells to Resurrect Life (10:37) (Links to an external site.) – In this Ted Talk, Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology and possessor for the Institute for Regenerative Medical Wake Forest University School of Medicine discusses the cloning of cells (somatic cell nuclear transfer) and cell reprogramming (iPs).

The Coming Trans-Human Era: Jason Sosa at TEDxGrandRapids (15:37) (Links to an external site.) – In this talk, IMSRV CEO and founder Jason Sosa connects the dots and takes you into the possible future of the trans-human era. He discusses the possibilities and the potential benefits.

Thoughtfully reflect on the issues discussed in the talks you have viewed. Address the following points in your discussion:

• What is the speaker’s point of view about the topic? Is the speaker biased?
• What ethical issues and ethical reasoning are argued?
• Do you think that bio-engineering issues have moral and ethical implications? Why or why not?
• Do you agree with the speaker’s point of view? Be specific and thorough. Express how and why you agree or disagree and discuss how ethics and values contribute to your opinion. Consider the theoretical concepts discussed in the course. Do not just state your viewpoint, rather provide relevant details to support your findings and/or position.

Return to this discussion activity throughout the week and reply with meaningful comments to a minimum of two of your peers. In your replies, identify an opinion expressed that you disagree with or a point that you see differently. Respectfully discuss your alternate view and your reasons.

lessons gleaned from this accident to prevent another similar one.

Answer the following questions.

1. Opine to the major issues in the Roselawn, IN. [NTSB AAR-9601(PDF)] icing accident. Was causation a unique meteorological condition, crew issue, or an aircraft design flaw? And what lessons could be gleaned from this accident to prevent another similar one. For best viewing, download this large NTSB file and read the formal report.

A substantial response shows thought and critical thinking, a short, two or three sentence response is not acceptable. Support your opinions with at least one valid reference. You may use course material, but be specific. Personal experiences etc. may be used to enhance your perspective of the questions but they must be valid and relative to the subject matter. Your instructor will evaluate your posts using the discussion rubric.

Read the posts of your classmates, reply and evaluate at least one other student’s posting. Look for any additional questions or comments your instructor may reply to you on before the last day of the module week

Model current (As-Is) process using BPMN 2.0 utilizing any tool such as Visio and analyze As-Is process from time and quality perspectives.  

AMAZING PIZZA SHOP CASE STUDY

Introduction about Amazing Pizza Shop:

Amazing Pizza Shop is a traditional pizza shop established in 1999. It was a small shop owned by two persons. One of them was responsible for buying goods and bringing them to the shop two times a day (every morning and late afternoon). The other one is managing the shop activity and arranging shifts for employees. They work 24/7 and have three shifts. They employ well-experienced employees in each shift. The shop has three chefs for making the dough and sauce, three well-trained employees for preparing and putting the ingredients, and three well-trained employees for cooking the pizza and controlling the oven heat.

The order process in Amazing Pizza Shop:

The owners work on this shop and have other employees to help them. The process starts and by welcoming the customer and giving them the menu. The customer looks into the menu then places their order. The cashier writes down the order on a separate paper for each customer, calculates the prices, and then asks the customer to pay (3 minutes). After getting the payment, the cashier handed the paper of each order to the second employee. The second employee then starts to prepare the dough based on the order (the shop has two bases: thin and thick). After preparing the dough, the employee puts it into the plate and hand to the next employee (4 minutes). The third employee puts the special pizza sauce of their amazing pizza shop (1 minute). Then it hands it manually to the third employee responsible for mixing the ingredients based on each customer’s order (3 minutes). The fourth employee takes the plate, puts it into the oven until it is ready, and then gets it back (3 minutes for thin base-5 minutes for thick base). The fifth employees tack the pizza and package it then hands it to the customer (1 minute).

The current situation of Amazing Pizza Shop:

The shop starts to get a lot of orders that are over its capacity due to its reputation. It usually gets around 20 orders from persons coming to their shop in each hour. Each order – on average – includes 3-5 pizzas of different bases and ingredients. However, the shop lost a couple of its experienced employees responsible for preparing and cooking the pizza.

The Issues in Amazing Pizza Shop:

The Amazing Pizza Shop was very successful and had many customers and significant revenue. However, the shop starts to lose many of its loyal customers and receives a considerable number of complaints. The managers started to investigate the complaints they received. They also contacted their loyal customers to understand the different issues more clearly. After this deep investigation, they categorized the issues into the following categories:

The requirements to solve Amazing Pizza Shop process issue:

Besides the available information, you are expected and allowed to make assumptions, if you need, to improve the process and solve the issue of the Amazing Pizza Shop. 

You are requested to solve the issue of the Amazing Pizza Shop by answering the following questions.

3 Marks Learning Outcome(s): CLO1.1:  Explain the interdisciplinary concepts, theories, and trends in ES and their role in supporting business operations.s:             Question One

Explain the main Input, Process activities, and Output of the Amazing Pizza Shop. Then, calculate the cycle time and the throughput time for this process. Also, find out the bottleneck activities and suggest a way to solve them.  

2.5  Marks Learning Outcome(s): CLO2.1: Design ES architectural models for various business processes.                 Question Two

Model current (As-Is) process using BPMN 2.0 utilizing any tool such as Visio and analyze As-Is process from time and quality perspectives.  

4.5 Marks Learning Outcome(s): CLO2.1: Design ES architectural models for various business processes.             Question Three

Suggest ways for improving the current process utilizing IT & IS technologies considering different stakeholder perspectives, views, and viewpoints. Next, explain how your suggestions and proposed To-be process will solve Amazing Pizza Shop issues. Finally, model your proposed process (To-be) using BPMN 2.0.

Discuss advantages and disadvantages associated with advertising in movie theatres. For what types of products and/or services might these media be most effective?

Instructions:

1. As an individual answer the questions below and reference the concept from the course material.
2. Yours answer should be comprehensive. You should connect your answers back to at least three concepts from the e-text or slides for the entire assignment and use the following in-text citation format (Concept X, chapter 2, p. 114) or (Concept X, Chapter 2, slide 6)
3. Format your answer using Times New Roman, 12 pt font,1.5 spacing, normal margins using MS Word or PDF, 1.5 to 2 pages in length.
4. This is built to take you 75-minutes but you have 24 hours to complete the exam.
5. You must submit the test by 9am ADT on Tuesday November 30th in the upload folder in Brightspace.
6. Your name should be on the front cover of the assignment and/ or in the Header.

Questions: Refer to chapters 13, 14 and 20 for your answers and write in an essay format bringing all the questions together. (each questions is worth 5 marks).

1. Discuss advantages and disadvantages associated with advertising in movie theatres. For what types of products and/or services might these media be most effective?

• Why does the Red Bull Crashed Ice event not use imagery from the advertising with the slogan “Red Bull Gives You Wings”? Red Bull Crashed Ice

• Find an advertisement to children and explain how it does or does not meet the regulations to protect minors through advertising. Please include a picture of the ad in your response.

Limited liability company

1. CASE STUDY John, Lesa, and Trevor form a limited liability company. John contributes 60 percent of the capital, and Lesa and Trevor each contribute 20 percent. Nothing is decided about how profits will be divided. John assumes that he will be entitled to 60 percent of the profits, in accordance with his contribution. Lesa and Trevor, however, assume that the profits will be divided equally. A dispute over the profits arises, and ultimately a court has to decide the issue.What will be the result?How could this dispute have been avoided in the first place?ACTION ITEMS
   1. Read the case study above.
   2. By the due date, submit your answers to the case study questions. Justify your answers.

What is the average score change in this group?

Practical Assignment 2.

Data Management and Analysis Exercise objectives: Use Microsoft Excel to further understand commonly used statistical measures in healthcare, such as sensitivity and specificity. Practice in Excel for data management / processing, analysis, and reporting / visualization (e.g., using tables and charts). The file name of your final submission on Blackboard should be HLTH2411_A2_Firstname_ Lastname.xlsx (e.g., HLTH2411_A2_ Yulong_Gu.xlsx). Submissions that are not in the Microsoft Excel format will receive a grade of zero for the assignment. Late submissions will receive a grade of zero for the assignment.
Exercise 1. Sensitivity and specificity (2.5 points) Use Excel formulas to calculate the sensitivity (0.5 point), specificity (0.5 point), positive predictive value (0.5 point), and negative predictive value (0.5 point) for a cancer screening test. The truth table of this test is in the ‘Sensitivity_ Specificity’ worksheet in HLTH2411_A2.xlsx. Assuming the prevalence in a population for this particular cancer is reflected in the truth table, use Excel formula/function to calculate this prevalence rate (0.5 point). N.B.: use correct formulas (and functions) in your submission, the result format should be in percentage style, and don’t forget to label each measure clearly (e.g., you may fill each calculation in the blank cells next to the cells marked as “sensitivity”, “specificity”, “PPV”, “NPV”, and “prevalence”, respectively, in the ‘Sensitivity_ Specificity’ worksheet). Exercise 2. Data processing, analysis and reporting (12.5 points) Analyze a pseudo dataset collected from school counselling service and answer questions on the next page in the same Excel file. The dataset is based on a depression screening tool – Patient Health Questionnaire for Adolescents (PHQ-A1). The PHQ-A instrument is shown in Table 1. Table 1. PHQ-A (adapted from online resource) How often have you been bothered by each of the following symptoms during the past two weeks? (Please CIRCLE to indicate your answer) Not at all Several days More than half the days Nearly every day 1. Feeling down, depressed, irritable, or hopeless? 0 1 2 3 2. Little interest or pleasure in doing things? 0 1 2 3 3. Trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or sleeping too much? 0 1 2 3 4. Poor appetite, weight loss, or overeating? 0 1 2 3 5. Feeling tired, or having little energy? 0 1 2 3 6. Feeling bad about yourself – or feeling that you are a failure, or that you have let yourself or your family down? 0 1 2 3 7. Trouble concentrating on things like school work, reading, or watching TV? 0 1 2 3 8. Moving or speaking so slowly that other people could have noticed? Or the opposite – being so fidgety or restless that you were moving around a lot more than usual? 0 1 2 3 9. Thoughts that you would be better off dead, or of hurting yourself in some way? 0 1 2 3 1 PHQ-A is based on PHQ-9 which was developed by Drs Kroenke, Spitzer, and Williams, see: Kroenke, K., Spitzer, R. L., Williams, J.B. (2001). The PHQ-9: validity of a brief depression severity measure. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 16(9), 606-613. For more info on PHQ-A, see: http://www.phqscreeners.com/.
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Exercise 2.1 Analyze PHQ-A questionnaire responses before counselling Answer the following questions in the blank worksheet (‘PHQ-A_Findings_Pre’) by processing and analyzing the raw data in the ‘PHQ-A_Pre_Counselling’ worksheet in HLTH2411_A2.xlsx: 1. In the sample (N=250), what percentage of the questionnaire participants report their race as “White” (including those identifying with ≥2 races, one of which is “White”)? (1 point) 2. In the sample (N=250), how many questionnaire participants have answered all 9 PHQ-A questions (Q1 – Q9)? (1 point) Among these participants who have completed Q1 – Q9, please answer the following questions (a-b): a. Calculate the total PHQ-A score for each participant in this group (n<250) in the ‘PHQ-A_Pre_Counselling’ worksheet ‘Total’ column. This total PHQ-A score is calculated by adding up responses to Q1 – Q9. Answer in the ‘PHQA_Findings_Pre’ worksheet: what is the average of the total PHQ-A scores in the group? (1 point) What is the median of the total PHQ-A score? (1 point) b. Identify the depression profile for each participant in this group (n<250) in the ‘PHQ-A_Pre_Counselling’ worksheet ‘Depression’ column. Criteria: a total PHQ-A score of <5 indicates that the participant has no depression symptom, total score of 5-9: mild depression, 10-14: moderate depression, 15-19: moderately severe depression, and ≥20: severe depression. Present their depression profiles in a chart. For instance, you may use a pie chart to show the percentage of participants in each of the five categories (i.e., 1. no symptom, 2. mild symptom, 3. moderate symptom, 4. moderately severe symptom, and 5. severe symptom). (2 points) 3. In the sample (N=250), what is the total number of female + male adolescents (aged 12 – 19) who have completed Q9? (1 point) Among these participants (n<250), identify the self-harm risk for each participant in this group. Criteria: the response to Question 9 indicates self-harm risk, as Q9 score of 0 or 1 indicates low risk, score 2: medium risk, and score 3: high risk. Now answer the following questions (a-b): a. Which statistical test would you use to see if there is a significant difference in selfharm risk between the two genders? (1 point) b. Does your test result (showing P value) indicate a statistically significant difference in self-harm risk between male and female participants? (2 points) Exercise 2.2 Compare PHQ-A total scores from before counselling to after

Answer the following questions in the blank worksheet (‘PHQ-A_Findings_Post’) using both the pre-counselling data (on the ‘PHQ-A_Pre_Counselling’ worksheet) and the post-counselling data (on the ‘PHQ-A_Post_Counselling’ worksheet):

1. Calculate the number of questions each participant answered in PHQ-A pre- and post- counselling questionnaires in the ‘PHQ-A_Post_Counselling’ worksheet ‘# Q answered – Pre’ and ‘# Q answered – Post’ columns. Then use these two new variables to answer this question: how many participants have completed all 9 PHQ-A questions (Q1 – Q9) in the pre-counselling questionnaire as well as in the post-counselling questionnaire? (1 point)

2. Considering only these complete responses, please calculate the within-subject total PHQ-A score change from pre-counselling to post-counselling for each participant (score change = pre-counselling total score – post-counselling total score). What is the average score change in this group? (1 point) Does this mean on average people got better or worse

Assess possible methods to build rapport within Happy Land and surrounding communities.

Part I:

You currently work as a Marketing Director for Ascend Home Care, a private home health company that offers nursing care and physical therapy services to the elderly residents of a medium-sized city with about 500,000 people. The neighboring town (Happy Land), with a population of 100.000 people, is about 40 miles away, has a much smaller community, but as the population ages, this town is seeing an increase in retirees. The chief executive officer (CEO) of Ascend Home Care has decided that it would be beneficial to expand into this town by opening a satellite office. He is eager to be the first home health company to open a physical office in this new territory and has tasked you with developing a marketing plan. You have been asked to provide an Executive Report of the marketing plan to the management team.

The Executive Report needs to explain how the following will be used in your marketing plan:

• The company’s historical resident trends and current strategic plan
• Demographic data
• Quality standard, policies, and procedures
• Marketplace analysis, including competition
• Models and best practices for reaching the target audience
• Developing recommendations to ensure alignment with company strategy
• Writing the plan and setting expectations.
• Implementing the plan and proven best practices for implementation
• Tools for evaluating and monitoring the plan

The summary should be 10-15 content pages, not including the title page and reference page, and include at least 20 scholarly references including at least five (5) peer-reviewed articles published in the last five years. The use of APA formatting is required.

Part II:

Impressed with your Executive Report from last week, the chief executive officer (CEO) for Ascend Home Care would like you to market it across the region. The goal is to build a stronger relationship with the physician community and expand a broader reach to the community.

The first step is to analyze and research the changing community and develop a marketing campaign for your boss, the director of development, on how to best connect with the community of Happy Land and increase referrals from New City Home Care.

For this assignment, develop an innovative marketing campaign on the above scenario that includes the following elements:

• Define the target audience, determine the marketing objectives, determine resource requirements, define how the marketing message will be delivered through integrated marketing communication, specify the media plan, and discuss how the marketing campaign will be evaluated.
• Evaluate the potential impact of the expanded facility in patient satisfaction and developing new marketing share.
• Assess possible methods to build rapport within Happy Land and surrounding communities.
• Provide details on how ongoing research into the community will help New City Home Care stay ahead of the competition and stay well-connected with the community. Consider concepts in monitoring the changing demographics of the community and the growing healthcare sector.

The campaign plan should be 10-12 ppt—slides, not including title and references slides. Speaker notes of 100 – 150 words in each content slide is required. Adding audio over ppt. is highly recommended. Include at least 10 scholarly references including at least five (5) peer-reviewed articles published in the last five years. The use of APA formatting is required.