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Explain how you might improve the patient’s drug therapy plan and explain why you would make these recommended improvements.

Case Study
LM is an 89-year-old female resident of a long-term care facility who has been experiencing multiple falls, some resulting in injuries such as bruising and skin tears. Over the last 6 months, her ambulation status has declined from independent to wheelchair level. She complains of pain in her legs when walking more than short distances across the nursing unit.
PMH:
HTN
Alzheimer’s disease
Hypothyroidism
Osteoarthritis
Diabetes
MEDICATIONS:
Amlodipine 10 mg QD
Donepezil 10 mg QHS
Levothyroxine 0.88 mg QAM
Celecoxib 200 mg QD
Furosemide 40 mg QAM
Metformin 500mg, 1 BID
Glyburide 5mg, 1 BID
ALLERGIES: NKA
SOCIAL HISTORY:
Widowed with 2 adult children living in town, retired photographer and owner of an art supply store
VITALS:                                             LABS:
Weight: 129 lbs                                   TSH 2.45         Free T4 0.98
Height: 64 inches                                Na 135, K+ 3.8, Cl 99, CO2 25,
BP: Supine = 177/82                           Glucose 101, SCr 0.9, BUN 42
HR: 78 bpm WBC 7.0, RBC 4.5, Hgb 11.9, Hct 34.1
Plt 255
Cr: 1.6 UA: Clear
eGFR: 45 ml/min
PE:
HEENT: Normocephalic, no evidence of trauma, PERRLA, EOMI, Dry mucous membranes
CV: RRR
Respiratory: Clear to auscultation bilaterally
Abdomen: Soft, non-tender, no masses or guarding
G/U: Skin intact, assisted with toileting and personal hygiene by staff
Extremities: Bilateral 2+ edema to lower extremities; skin dry, dark bruising and skin tear to right elbow and forearm
Neuro: Alert and oriented to person only. MMSE 18/30, stable over last 12 months.
PAIN ASSESSMENT:
Faces pain scale: No pain occurs at rest, upon walking, pain is moderate to severe

To Prepare
Review the case study assigned by your Instructor for this Assignment.
Select one the following factors: genetics, gender, ethnicity, age, or behavior factors.
Reflect on how the factor you selected might influence the patient’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.
Consider how changes in the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes might impact the patient’s recommended drug therapy.
Think about how you might improve the patient’s drug therapy plan based on the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes. Reflect on whether you would modify the current drug treatment or provide an alternative treatment option for the patient.

Assignment
Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:
Explain how the factor you selected might influence the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes in the patient from the case study you were assigned.
Describe how changes in the processes might impact the patient’s recommended drug therapy. Be specific and provide examples.
Explain how you might improve the patient’s drug therapy plan and explain why you would make these recommended improvements.

What safeguards should Facebook have in place to maintain the ethical integrity of its AI driven business model?

INSTRUCTIONS

The ethics paper must be typed and submitted on Canvas for evaluation. This written assignment should be 4-page paper, double-spaced, 11-12 readable font, excluding reference section. Please do not exceed four (4) typed pages.

The ethics paper should be typed with one (1) inch margins for the sides, top and bottom. It should contain a heading that includes, title of the assignment, date, and instructor’s name (No cover sheet required). It should include in-text citations pursuant to APA formatting style. The paper should include a reference section at the end of the document (endnotes) with proper citation for each source. For APA guide and APA citation examples please visit https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_style_introduction.html. Also, you can watch https://youtu.be/Q7TBmi8-9G0on how to write in APA style.

This paper requires critical thinking and research. In your writing avoid informal verbiage.

You may use any materials you want. When you use textbook, articles, reports, supplementary materials or class handouts, you must provide an ACCURATE citation each time you use such materials in your writing. A link to APA citations is provided in your syllabus as well as under item 3 above.

Read the facts in part A and questions carefully and outline your answers prior to writing. Organization is Key.

There is no single correct answer. If your arguments are persuasive and compelling, based on your outline and organization of the essay, content and proper format you will be eligible to gain all points no matter what your chosen answer to the question is.

Part A: Facts
While new technologies can break the barriers and empower people by combating discrimination and encouraging dignity assurance, there are alerting concerns around the discriminatory outcomes these machines themselves can create. An increasing body of research suggests that algorithms and artificial intelligence aren’t necessarily a panacea for ending prejudice, and they can have disproportionate impacts on groups that are already socially disadvantaged.
As Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms learn patterns in the data, they also absorb biases in it. For example, Google showed more ads for lower paying-jobs to women than to men, Amazon’s same-day delivery bypassed black neighborhoods, and the software on several types of digital cameras struggled to recognize the faces of non-white users. In one of the most striking examples, an algorithm called COMPAS, used by law enforcement agencies across multiple states to assess a defendant’s risk of reoffending, was found to falsely flag black individuals almost twice as often as whites, according to a ProPublica investigation. There are similar concerns about algorithmic bias in facial-recognition technology, which already has a far broader impact than most people realize: Over 117 million American adults have had their images entered into a law-enforcement agency’s face-recognition database, often without their consent or knowledge, and the technology remains largely unregulated. Another example of a data bias emerged in Nikon’s camera software, which misread images of Asian people as blinking, and in Hewlett-Packard’s web camera software, which had difficulty recognizing people with dark skin tones. These challenges are either related to the data itself or to the way algorithms are designed, developed and deployed. Machine learning systems lack transparency and auditability and are almost entirely developed by small, homogenous teams most often of men.
On August 13, 2018, the Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (“Assistant Secretary”) filed a complaint with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) alleging that Facebook Inc. violated the Fair Housing Act by discriminating because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, national origin and disability. Subsequently, HUD issued a Charge of Discrimination (“Charge”) on behalf of aggrieved persons following an investigation and a determination that reasonable cause exists to believe that a discriminatory housing practice has occurred.
Facebook is the second largest online advertiser in the United States and is responsible for approximately twenty percent of all online advertising nationwide. Facebook collects millions of data points about its users, draws inferences about each user based on this data, and then charges advertisers for the ability to micro target ads to users based on Facebook’s inferences about them. These ads are then shown to users across the web and in mobile applications. As Facebook explains, its advertising platform enables advertisers to “[r]each people based on zip code, age and gender, specific languages, the interests they’ve shared, their activities, the Pages they’ve liked, their purchase behaviors or intents, device usage and more.” Thus, Facebook “uses location-related information-such as your current location, where you live, the places you like to go, and the businesses and people you’re near to provide, personalize and improve its Products, including ads, for you and others.”
Facebook holds out its advertising platform as a powerful resource for advertisers in many industries, including housing and housing-related services. Such ads include ads for mortgages from large national lenders, ads for rental housing from large real estate listing services, and ads for specific houses for sale from real estate agents.
Facebook has provided a toggle button that enables advertisers to exclude men or women from seeing an ad, a search-box to exclude people who do not speak a specific language from seeing an ad, and a map tool to exclude people who live in a specified area from seeing an ad by drawing a red line around that area. Facebook also provides drop-down menus and search boxes to exclude or include people who share specified attributes. Facebook has offered advertisers hundreds of thousands of attributes from which to choose, for example to exclude “women in the workforce,” “moms of grade school kids,” “foreigners,” “Puerto Rico Islanders,” or people interested in “parenting,” “accessibility,” “service animal,” “Hijab Fashion,” or “Hispanic Culture.” Facebook also has offered advertisers the ability to limit the audience of an ad by selecting to include only those classified as, for example, “Christian” or “Childfree.”
Facebook alone, not the advertiser, determines which users will constitute the “actual audience” for each ad. Facebook structured its ad delivery system such that it generally will not deliver an ad to users whom the system determines are unlikely to engage with the ad, even if the advertiser explicitly wants to reach those users regardless. Facebook uses machine learning and other prediction techniques to classify and group users to project each user’s likely response to a given ad. In doing so, Facebook inevitably recreates groupings defined by their protected class. For example, the top Facebook pages users “like” vary sharply by their protected class, according to Facebook’s “Audience Insights” tool. Therefore, by grouping users who “like” similar pages (unrelated to housing) and presuming a shared interest or disinterest in housing-related advertisements, Facebook’s mechanisms function just like an advertiser who intentionally targets or excludes users based on their protected class.
Part B – Questions
Based on facts provided above, write an essay and answer below questions:
Should Facebook be held ethically liable for its biased dwelling advertisements? Why?
Identify procedures that help Facebook prevent data bias, ensure data quality and improve its ethical responsibility towards its users. What safeguards should Facebook have in place to maintain the ethical integrity of its AI driven business model?
Do you think Facebook must have strict liability? Meaning that all Facebook agents, employees, successors, and all other persons in active concert or participation with it, have participated in discriminating because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, national origin or disability in any aspect of the sale, rental, use, marketing, or advertising of dwellings and related services must be held liable? Or we should only hold Facebook liable based on theory of negligence?

End of the Ethics Paper Assignment

Compare and Contrast Japanese vs. US Management Styles

Compare and Contrast Japanese vs. US Management Styles Essay
The purpose of this research paper is to compare and contrast U.S. and Japanese styles of management. Include in the essay an Introduction – what the paper will be about, discuss each national culture, discuss each workforce, discuss each management style, discuss employee-employer relationships, and a conclusion – which style do you feel is a better fit for you. A minimum of 5 full pages addressing the components listed above, but not including title page and reference page. Need at least 5 “peer-reviewed” sources, must be cited in the text of the paper. Do not use direct quotes, be sure to paraphrase. Use APA style to properly cite all sources. Make sure the paper begins with a Level One Heading: Introduction (Do not confuse an Introduction with an Abstract). Include a properly formatted APA cover sheet. Include a properly formatted APA reference page. Use 12 point Times New Roman font. Double-space the entire paper. Accurate In-text citations must be included. APA documentation and formatting style used appropriately (including in-text citations, reference entries, and format). Avoid bullet points and write in third person.

What roles do decision trees and influence diagrams play in helping to understand and communicate the structure of your decisions in this project?

BBA312 Decision Making Final Assignment Brief and Rubrics

Task

• This is an individual task

• Read and study the information below and answer the questions.

• There are 8 questions. Make sure the questions are clearly labelled.

• Document format (upload in pdf format)

Formalities:

• Wordcount: 2000 words

• Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.

• Font: Arial 12,5 pts.

• Text alignment: Justified.

• The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.

The Project Information

Madrid FC own land in the metropolitan area of Madrid. They would like to build a sports complex which would include state-of the art training facilities for elite athletes. Your consultancy office with the help of architects and sports consultant have drawn up three different projects) (i) 10 hectare site with small capacity for athletes (ii) 20 Ha site and moderate level of capacity; (iii) a high-level complex at 30 Ha.

The success of the project depends upon several factors. Madrid FC want to build make the largest profit. There is uncertainty concerning the demand for the three projects. The decision is to select the optimum project depends on following three decision alternatives:

Decision 1: a small sports complex at 10 Ha

Decision 2: a medium complex at 20 Ha

Decision 3: a large complex at 30 Ha

Some other information investigated:

Decision 1 would be in the centre of town where property and land are expensive but would have some kudos as it is close to the football ground.

Decision 2 is close to the centre but transport would be needed to get to it.

Decision 3 is out of town with lots of opportunity for expansion.

A study was conducted to get some prior knowledge for the probability of each alternative occurring at 2 different demand level. The two directions investigated were high demand and low demand and based on various financial metrics and a probability assigned to these variables (see table 1 below).

Thus, management must first select a decision alternative (complex size), then other states of nature will be investigated e.g. (demand for the sports facility).

Given the three decision alternatives and the two states of nature, which sports complex should Madrid FC advance?

To answer this question, Madrid FC will need to know the consequence associated with each decision alternative and each state of nature.

Table 1: Payoff for Madrid FC Sports Complex (payoff in Euros million)

Low Demand High Demand

Size Decision S1 (p=0.4) S2 (p=0.6) Small D1 3000 3200

Medium D2 2500 2800

Large D3 2000 2100

Table 2: A survey was completed with 100 people that showed strong interest in signing up to train at the complex. A contingency table of the data is shown below

Trains more than 3 times a week

Trains less than 3 times a month TOTAL

Football fan 20 40 60

Non-football fan 20 20 40

TOTAL 40 60 100

Questions:

1) Based on the information in the case, what are Madrid FCs key drivers and objectives in this decision- making process?

2) Are there any other objectives that you think they should consider?

3) Identify the basic elements governing Madrid FCs decision-making (values, decisions, uncertain events, consequences, etc) ? 4) Develop a decision tree for this decision-making process.

5) What roles do decision trees and influence diagrams play in helping to understand and communicate the structure of your decisions in this project?

6) Which decision would you recommend based on your investigations. Justify your recommendations?

7) Given the information in the contingency table, what is the significance of this data and which marketing solutions might be applicable for Madrid FC?

8) Develop arguments on how decision-making could be improved in a project of this nature?

Submission: Week 12 – 8th January 2023, 23:59

Weight: This task is worth 60% of your total grade for this subject.

This assignment assesses the following learning outcomes:

• Outcome 1: to have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of effective decision-making processes within a business context marked by uncertainty

risk danger opportunity and growth.

• Outcome 2: Identify and apply interpretive and analytical methods for effective analysis and decision making

• Outcome 3: Apply the framework of effective decision-making within a business context and of risk management.

• Outcome 4: To critically appreciate the framework of problem analysis within the context of decision-making

DEVELOP A “ CREATIVE BRIEF” FOR YOUR BRAND’S UPCOMING SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN .

STORY TELLING IN MARKETING AND SALES – Assignment

Story-Telling Portfolio Project Part (2)

Executing Your Story

Good marketing consists of telling the right story to the right people at the right time. Now that we know who the right people are, it’s time to create the story.

NOTE FOR THE WRITER: YOU CHOOSE “NIKE” AS YOUR BRAND IN THE PROJECT PART (1) SO YOU WILL WRITE ABOUT “NIKE” IN THIS ASSIGNMENT. I also attach Portfolio Project Part 1 too for your reference.

Assignment Description:

Portfolio Project (Part 2) consists of 2 MAIN TASKS:

Answer the followings (minimum 350-400 words, combine 1 to 2)

1) DEVELOP A “ CREATIVE BRIEF” FOR YOUR BRAND’S UPCOMING SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN . Remember to consider your unique selling and value propositions, objectives, and goals you want to achieve. Also, make sure you consider which social media platforms you want to use to deliver your message.

Here’s a great article on creative briefs “Guide: How to Write a Creative Brief (With Examples)” https://www.skillshare.com/blog/guide-how-to-write-a-creative-brief-with-examples/

2) It’s time to execute your message using the creative brief as your guide. “ CREATE 2 EXAMPLES OF DIGITAL CONTENT” THAT WILL RESONATE WITH YOUR TARGET MARKET AND ACHIEVE YOUR MARKETING OBJECTIVES. It can be a YouTube video, a podcast, a UGC campaign, a blog post, digital ad, social media post, etc. Tell a great story to your audience.

Note: Write a minimum of 350-400 words for above 2 questions, conveying your own thoughts/views.

Apply a global health perspective to addressing the infectious disease illustrated in this case.

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Scenario: Cardiovascular and Infectious Diseases From a Sudanese Lens

Baruti is a 67-year-old farmer from Sudan. He has been migrating to other farming communities over the last few years. He has reported a family history of coronary vascular disease, with most males in his family dying in their 40s and 50s. Since last week, he has been experiencing weight loss, chronic cough, night sweats, and bloody sputum. His tuberculosis test shows a positive diagnosis. He is presently living in a community with a low literacy rate and limited healthcare availability.

Additionally, read the Sudan: Tuberculosis on the Rise in Sudan report for additional perspective on the rise of tuberculosis in Sudan.

Prompt

Apply your disciplinary perspective to evaluate the chronic cardiovascular and infectious disease risks implied by the case. In other words, defend your professional viewpoint regarding the most important factors that contribute to the health challenges. Then, in your responses, work as a group to refine those initial assessments.

Apply a global health perspective related to addressing chronic cardiovascular diseases illustrated in this case. Which factors are most important in understanding Baruti’s cardiovascular disease diagnosis (for example, age, genetic predisposition, access to healthcare)? Be sure to substantiate your claims with evidence.

Apply a global health perspective to addressing the infectious disease illustrated in this case. Which factors are most important in understanding Baruti’s infectious disease diagnosis (for example, socioeconomic group or migrant status)? Be sure to substantiate your claims with evidence.

Explain the clinical symptoms or noted characteristics of the health challenge.

Excellent work! Now that you have successfully conducted a mini ethnographic analysis of the population, you will focus on other related health challenges. Even though the health challenge for your chosen humanitarian aid trip will be the focus of your interventions, there are other real and potential health challenges the population or the team will encounter. If you want to be successful in this trip, you need to know about these other health challenges and how they interact with the health challenge of the chosen population.

By investigating the scholarly literature, you will answer the questions: What is known about the other health challenges among the population within the area of focus for the humanitarian aid trip? What should the team prepare to encounter?

Prompt

Building on the prior project preparation assignments, examine the details related to the other health challenges faced by the population, as well as those your team may meet, during the humanitarian aid trip. Then complete the provided worksheet to further your analysis of the nature of the other health challenges. Search the scholarly literature to outline your responses for at least three different health challenges for your chosen location. Your responses should be concise.

Note that you should cite at least three scholarly sources from your investigation. The evidence should not be older than five years. To access the Shapiro Library Guide: Nursing—Graduate, go to the Start Here section of the course.

You must identify three other health challenges and address all the following specified criteria for each of these other health challenges:

Other Health Challenge #1: Assess the implications and interactions of this health challenge with your selected health challenge for your aid trip.

Analysis: Analyze the other health challenge in the Analysis Table provided. Be sure to address the following aspects:

Incidence: Identify the incidence related to the health challenge.

Prevalence: Describe the prevalence of the health challenge.

Presentation: Explain the clinical symptoms or noted characteristics of the health challenge.

Influence of social determinants: Describe the influence of the social determinants related to the health challenge.

Inequities: Identify any inequities related to the location of the humanitarian aid trip.

Related programs, policies, or legislation: Identify any programs, policies, or legislation related to the health challenge.

Other characteristics or facts: Describe other characteristics or facts related to this health challenge.

Connections: Draw connections to your chosen health challenge for your humanitarian aid trip in the Connections section. How does this challenge impact the population and the health challenge of focus? Explain what the team should expect in relation to this challenge. In other words, what should the team be ready to address regarding this challenge?

Other Health Challenge #2: Assess the implications and interactions of this health challenge with your selected health challenge for your aid trip.