Explain why you chose those particular items, and how those items are impacted by the marketing, management and operations decisions of the company.
Opening a new theme park, such as the Shanghai Disney Resort (company’s fourth and largest theme park in Asia), is a major capital budgeting project for Disney. A project of this scale requires coordinated planning across all functions of a business that you are studying in your Integrated Core classes. Choose and discuss three items on the income statement that you think will be impacted by this new undertaking. Explain why you chose those particular items, and how those items are impacted by the marketing, management and operations decisions of the company.
John and George are suing the partnership. What result? Discuss.
John Anderson and Carl Bailey owned an auto repair partnership. After much negotiation, Donald Hicks accepted an offer to join the partnership. Donald’s capital contribution to the firm was storage facility the partners planned on using to store cars.The partnership was in financial trouble before Donald joined, and a creditor sued and won a judgment against the partnership in the amount of $100,000. This was for debts that existed before Donald became a partner. The creditor wanted to take the storage facility and Donald’s home. What would be the result? Discuss.2. Sharon and Donna were partners in an accounting partnership. Business was very good and the partnership expanded much faster than anticipated. Alexander, a top accountant, was invited to join the accounting partnership, but he declined. Sharon and Donna indicated in an advertisement they published in a regional newspaper that Alexander was now a partner in their firm. Alexander does not dispute the erroneous fact in the ad. Frank extended credit to the partnership, but the partnership cannot pay. Can Frank sue Alexander? 3. Samuel Baker and Robert Conrad started a partnership painting houses. They rented a space from John Crown for the purpose of storing their painting equipment and supplies. Once day, Samuel was on the property to pick up some paint supplies when he got into an argument with John Crown. Samuel, a big guy, punched John and knocked him out.Samuel loaded the pick-up truck with paint and started driving into the city. On the way, he picked up George a hitch hiker. Samuel ran a red light and crashed into another truck. George was severely injured. The partnership came to an end a month later, and Samuel was left penniless. John and George are suing the partnership. What result? Discuss.
How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the implementation of the practice change project?
Evidence-based practice change project during the COVID-19 pandemic
PICOT Question: For nurses on a critical care unit, does the implementation of the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program, compared to current, impact nurse burnout in 8-10 weeks?
Discuss your ongoing implementation challenges and in meeting with your staff and observing – how you are providing feedback?
• What are you learning about project implementation?
• How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the implementation of the practice change project?
o This is a good time to thoroughly evaluate the success of your project implementation and challenges: What are alternate approaches that could be implemented to facilitate further success of your implementation of your project to overcome the current challenges and how would you change your evaluation process?
The course outcomes that guide your learning this week include:
CO 1: Demonstrate effective project management strategies (POs 2, 3, 6, 7, 8)
CO 3: Demonstrate knowledge and skills in support for and dissemination of scholarship (POs 2, 3)
CO 4: Use project management processes to implement the DNP project (POs 4, 8)
Introduce some stocks. Suitable for presentation length of five minutes.
Introduce some stocks. Suitable for presentation length of five minutes. Excellent content. There are no requirements
Provide a 200-300-word thoughtful reaction to (one of) the featured article(s) posted by the instructor. For a superb/quality post, the analysis must endeavor to connect the contemporaneous event/development to salient course concepts, applicable lectures/lecture slides, pertinent assigned readings (preferably, but not necessarily, for the module/week), “personal” experience (vicarious or otherwise, where applicable), GPE and/or business implications, and build rather than repeat previous posts for the selected featured article.
The discussion is intended to bring GPE/RBE-Europe alive, and make it less esoteric.
Read and react to one of the following contemporaneous events/developments:
<CURRENT EVENT ARTICLE TO BE POSTED>
Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated: Europe’s Covid Culture War (Links to an external site.) [NYT]
Bulgaria’s new anti-graft party holds narrow lead in parliamentary vote (Links to an external site.) [France-24]
Europe and Russia battle a new wave of COVID-19 (Links to an external site.) [NPR]
Shell ditches the Dutch, moves to London in share structure overhaul (Links to an external site.) [Reuters]
Portugal bans bosses texting staff after-hours (Links to an external site.) [BBC]
Post (1): provide a 200-300-word thoughtful reaction to (one of) the featured article(s) posted by the instructor. For a superb/quality post, the analysis must endeavor to connect the contemporaneous event/development to salient course concepts, applicable lectures/lecture slides, pertinent assigned readings (preferably, but not necessarily, for the module/week), “personal” experience (vicarious or otherwise, where applicable), GPE and/or business implications, and build rather than repeat previous posts for the selected featured article. Endeavor to place the title of your selected featured contemporaneous article atop your primary post/analysis, because you are allowed to post commentaries on the any/some/all of the remaining articles. The post should provide your own thoughtful and informed “so what?” analysis of the event/development. Be sure to reflect on at least their implications for the European business environment (manager, entrepreneur, enterprise, market, customer, client, supplier, investment, etc.) and the GPE. Besides the first reaction/analysis on a featured article, subsequent reactions should endeavor to reference (i.e., build on) earlier reactions to the selected article.
Please note: given the class size and the number of articles, only up to SIX students may select each of the featured articles for their primary post/analysis– in the spirit of evenness/symmetry.
Reference your (external) source(s), where applicable
Using this information, the bank officers can determine how many tellers are needed to ensure reasonably smooth service.
We have a system, such as a bank, where customers arrive and wait on a line until a teller is available. We are interested in how long on average a customer has to wait. Using this information, the bank officers can determine how many tellers are needed to ensure reasonably smooth service.
A simulation consists of processing a random sequence of events. At each step, the next randomly generated event is either:
A new customer, with a given priority, arrives.
A customer at a teller leaves.
The customer arrival, waiting, and departure times are not computed according to the real time, but to the number of ticks. A tick is a quantum unit representing one arrival or departure event.
At each step, if the event is an arrival, we have to add that customer, his arrival time, and his priority to a heap priority queue. The priority is a random value in the range 1-100.
If the event is a departure, processing includes gathering statistics for all departing customers (their average waiting time). After each departure, display the following updated output:
Sample Output: “The average waiting time for … customers was … ticks.”
You have to use class PriorityQueue from Java Collections Framework and you are not allowed to modify this class.
Create class Event. Consider each arrival and each departure as objects of type Event.
Create class Customer.
Create class CustomerCompare, implementing interface Comparator.
Generate the UML class diagrams.
Design and Implementation
Project uses class PriorityQueue from JCF to contain customers /15
Project uses class Event /10
Project uses class Customer /10
Project uses class CustomerCompare, implementing interface Comparator /15
Input/Output and Processing
The arrival/departure events are generated in an input stream, according to a random variable /15
After each departure, the updated average waiting time is displayed /15
UML documentation
UML class diagrams. /10
Style and Comments /5
Coding Efficiency /5
List the most frequently occurring problem first in the table, then the next more frequently occurring problem second in the table, and so forth.
Activity: Pareto Analysis and Business Process Flow Charting Practice
This activity consists of two problems.
Problem One
Gary Seitz is director of procurement for the Forest Medical Center in Oak Park, Illinois. His medical center recently purchased more than 300 new side tables for the patient rooms from Quick-and-Cheap Furniture. His team, however, is not happy with the paint quality of these tables. They feel the firm providing the tables was rushed to get the order out and did not do a great job.
They have examined each of the 312 tables that they have received so far and found the following defects, listed in alphabetical order:
Table Defects
Problem Number of Occurrences
Dirt in paint 65
Off-color 17
Orange peel 12
Other 1
Sad looking 43
Scratch 11
Sealer under 8
Thin paint 31
Instructions
Use Excel to:
Create a Pareto Chart for this situation.
Create and complete a table for this situation using the following headers:
Problem.
Frequency.
Cumulate Frequency.
Percentage.
Cumulate Percentage.
List the most frequently occurring problem first in the table, then the next more frequently occurring problem second in the table, and so forth.
In a Word document:
Draw two conclusions about the quality of the patient tables that Quick Furniture has shipped to the Forest Medical Center.
Submit both your Word and Excel files.
Problem Two
Ted Short, manager of procurement at the Lake Luna Medical Center (LLMC), is starting a process to examine at the general process that is followed at his center for procurement of medical supplies at his facility. His first step is to develop a flowchart for the current process that employees at his center follow. He has asked you to draw that flowchart for him and make any obvious changes to shorten the process.
Here are the key steps that are followed:
The LLMC employee fills out a paper requisition and sends that to his department head for approval.
The department secretary first examines the requisition to see if all needed information is present. If it is, then she sends to the department head for approval. If not, she returns to the employee for any needed corrections. The employee then returns the requisition to the department secretary for review again.
Requisitions with the correct information are sent to the department head.
The department head reviews the item to determine if the material requested seems appropriate. He may contact his employee to discuss any questions he might have.
If he feels it is inappropriate, then he rejects the request and sends it back to the employee.
If he feels it is appropriate, then he checks the budget to see if there are sufficient monies in the budget to pay for this. If there are not, then he rejects the request and sends it back to the employee. If there are sufficient funds, then he approves them.
If the requisition is approved, then the department secretary sends the requisition to a member of the LLMC Procurement Team.
The LLMC procurement specialist checks to see if the suggested vendor on the requisition is on the approved vendor list (AVL).
If not, he sends the request back to the department secretary and the process starts all over if the LLMC employee wants to continue to pursue it. If the employee does not, then the requisition is terminated.
If the vendor is on the AVL, the LLMC procurement specialist checks to see if a quote is required, either based on the type of equipment and material required or on the amount of the purchase.
If no quote is required, the procurement specialist transmits the PO to the vendor for execution.
If a quote is required, then the specialist contacts the vendor and asks for a quote. If the quote is satisfactory based on past purchases of such items, the specialist approves the quote and places the order.
If the quote is too high, the specialist contacts the LLMC employee and asks for another vendor to check. The procurement specialist then checks the second vendor. Usually, a procurement specialist will have to check only two vendors at most.
If the specialist cannot find a vendor with it suitable price after two tries, then the PO is cancelled.
When the specialist finds a vendor who submits a suitable quote, the transmits the PO to the vendor for execution by US postal service or by telephone.
The procurement specialist then logs the transaction into the financial system.
The procurement specialist then forwards the request to the Accounts Payable Department for payment when the receipt of the materials and equipment ordered, if acknowledged.
Instructions
Use Microsoft Word to complete the following:
Develop a flowchart for this process.
Suggest three improvements, based on total quality management, that Ted Short can use to make the current process more efficient.
Submit your Word document(s).
Explore what can be done to promote social change and reduce human suffering with respect to the social issue (e.g., what changes can be made).
Justice Statement:
Please double space and type your response to the following (total maximum of 600 words): Write a statement about a contemporary social justice issue that you are interested in. Your statement could include the following components:
• Describe the social issue and why you feel passionate about it.
• Explain why this is a social issue.
• Explain why this social issue is important.
• Explore the factors that contribute to the social issue.
• Explore the impacts of the social issue on individuals, families, communities and/or society.
• Explore what can be done to promote social change and reduce human suffering with respect to the social issue (e.g., what changes can be made).
Write the most significant issue of Carrie (the client) in Vignette.
You need to pick the most significant issue of Carrie (the client) in Vignette. She has multiple issues (sexual addiction, chemical dependency, marital problems, grief and loss over abortion, parenting) and works on it following the assignment guidelines. Part of the assignment is that it will start off with treating or noticing the chemical dependency (initial problem) but later discover the real issue is sex addiction. Please note You DO NOT ANSWER Questions written in the Vignette. You will use the Vignette only to gain information about the client. The Vignette is NOT to be used as a source, she is a fabricated client. As you will notice in the Vignette the therapist treating her (which will actually be you the Social Worker) has useful information in the Vignette which you may be used as insight but wording will need to be changed so it is not plagiarized. I have included High Assessment worksheet for answer portion F. (High-Risk Issues). An abstract is needed for this assignment. Detailed instructions are provided in the Upload titled Instructions. Please follow instructions 10 referances are needed starting at portion E. Books and academic journal articles are to be used not web based sources, unless government entities. It would be useful to use National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics as a reference. Please review example of paper and teacher notes for a better understanding. Any questions please ask.
Explain the effects of stress on the immune system and how this might potentially affect this woman’s condition.
Read the case study and answer the questions. Make sure you include the pathological rationale for each answer; see the case study rubric in the syllabus for expectations.
An 85-year-old Caucasian woman with Congestive Heart Failure complains that her medications are not working, and her condition is deteriorating. She worries about her two cats and who will take care of them if she is bedridden. She tells you “I have never been this stressed!”
Explain the effects of stress on the neuroendocrine control of cardiovascular function and its relationship to the woman’s subjective complaints.
Explain the effects of stress on the immune system and how this might potentially affect this woman’s condition.
