Day: April 27, 2018

ssignment Overview

For this assignment, you will create a chart to summarize and respond to chapters of Philosophy for Dummies. This chart will assist you in better understanding the material by practicing discriminatory and critical thinking.

Assignment Instructions

Read Philosophy for Dummies, by Morris
Chapter 4: Belief, Truth, and Knowledge
Chapter 5: The Challenge of Skepticism
Chapter 6: The Amazing Reality Basic Beliefs
Summarize chapters 4, 5 and 6 by constructing a two column table for each chapter (one page per chapter).
The left-hand column should be a summary of chapters 4, 5, and 6.
The summaries should include Morris’s main points, support for main points (in the form of citations) from the text, and Morris’s position on what he is writing about.
The right-hand column is your response to the chapter.
Your responses are to include at least two citations from other sources that support your comments.
Responses are to include passages you don’t understand for which you would like further clarification.
Assignment Requirements

3-page paper (not including cover page and references)
6 references (Two for each chapter; two references from other sources)
APA style formatting (Title page, in-text citation, reference page)

The Sixth Extinction as Man’s Long-Lasting Legacy
In her book The Six Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert argues that humanity is solely
responsible for the “sixth extinction.” Humanity stands on the edge of the knife; one step
backward will likely spell doom. Kolbert is no prophet of doom. Scientists all over the world are
currently monitoring the sixth extinction, deemed to be one of the most devastating mass
extinctions since the time of the dinosaurs. Accordingly, this is humanity’s long lasting legacy –
a legacy characterized mainly by biodiversity loss and ecological imbalance caused by man’s
insatiable greed, climate change, and the proliferation of climate-altering industrial systems.
Thus, in the book, the author chronicles the fate of several species in the wake of the sixth
extinction. These include the Panamanian golden frog, the great auk, ammonites, the brown bat,
and the Sumatran rhino.
More than a decade ago, Panama was once home to the Panamanian golden frogs. They
were practically everywhere, in the streets, in the woods, and even in gardens. However, within a
couple of years, the frogs started to disappear. Scientists have concluded that the introduction of
the Chytrid fungus was solely responsible for the disappearance of the frogs. Of course, the
Chytrid could not travel on its own. There is evidence to suggest that humans were solely
responsible for introducing this invasive species to Panama. The “extinction” of the Panamanian
golden frog was therefore man-made.
Sharon Maselli:
This is a great start to an introduction, but it is lacking an argument. If you want to discuss the species you list, how do their extinctions prove human responsibility? And why should your reader be concerned? Do you have a suggestion for what should be done in order to combat human influence/responsibility for species extinction? Is your argument that there is nothing we can do? And if so, why not?

The same case can be said with the Sumatran rhino. Before the turn of the 20th century,
the Sumatran rhino was once considered to be a pest. There were literally thousands of rhinos in
the jungles of Sumatra. Due to excessive logging, the rhino’s habitat became essentially
fragmented. By 1900, barely a few hundred survived in the wild. Although a captive breeding
program was implemented, only a few dozen rhinos survive to this day. Again, this is a man-
made induced extinction event.
Evidently, even coral reefs are disappearing at an increasing rate all over the world. It is
interesting to note that since the Industrial Revolution, enough fossil fuels have been consumed
and burned, emitting more than half a trillion tons of CO2 over the past 300 years or so.
Unknown to many, these emissions find their way into the sea. Higher CO2 emissions translate
to higher acidity. If CO2 emissions remain at their current levels, the oceans will be 150% acidic
by 2100 that it was at the start of the Industrial Revolution. At the present surface pH, a small
proportion of the world’s coral reefs are dying each year. Again, in the case of coral reefs, its
gradual disappearance is man-made rather than natural.
Of course, the disappearance of some species was not due primarily to the Industrial
Revolution and the perpetual rise in carbon emissions. The disappearance of the great auk, a
flightless bird native to the Northern Hemisphere, was due to excessive human hunting. Early
settlers used the bird for a variety of purposes, as fish bait, fuel, and stuffing material. Similarly,
the disappearance of the ammonites was primarily due to the KT extinction event which also
wiped out the dinosaurs. The dust created by the asteroid impact proved lethal, as it raised the
ocean acidity to unprecedented levels.
For the author, although the sixth extinction is man’s lasting legacy, there is still hope.
Humans are living in a time of very elevated extinction rates. How human will respond to this

challenge will ultimately define its character as a species. And as of the present time, people
around the world are exerting immense effort to avert this disaster.

 

Read Assignment 5 guidelines attached and notes below. I already chose the location (please see attached). I already did research part of ESRI Business Analyst Online. If I am missing anything please let me know.

I’d like to make a few suggestions on Assignment 5 when you work on it:

1. Have more specific details by looking at the 5-minute and 10-minute drive-time characteristics. You can even look at the characteristics for the 5/10/15 minute walk time, depending on the nature and target market of your development.

2. Look at the market potential profiles compiled by ESRI Business Analyst Online to help justify your market feasibility analysis.

3. Look at the tapestry segmentation profiles compiled by ESRI Business Analyst when conducting the market feasibility analysis.

4. Use the HUD excel models for financial analysis of your project. Then calculate the NPV, IRR, and profitability indices to further justify financial feasibility.

5. Describe the site, such as location, zoning, size, etc. before you get into everything else. Some of you did not do so for your Assignment 4.

6. Fully take advantage of the data reports, maps, and charts provided by ESRI Business Analyst.

7. Don’t simply copy and paste long tables from ESRI BAO into your report. Some long tables are not readable and have excessive information. The tables can be downloaded as Excel files. Choose part of the data and create tables or charts of your own.

8. Make sure your maps and charts are readable.

Discussion Part I: Assessment of Psychosocial Health Conditions

In acute care settings, patients with psychosocial health conditions may present with a variety of complex symptoms that require comprehensive assessment. The results from this assessment are crucial to developing a diagnosis and creating an individualized treatment plan for a patient. For this Discussion, you focus on the assessment as you consider case studies of patients with psychosocial health conditions. You determine what history should be collected from the patients as well as what physical exams and diagnostic tests should be conducted, and you formulate a differential diagnosis with several possible conditions.

To prepare:
•Review this week’s media in Assessment of Psychosocial Health Conditions and select one of the three case studies.
•With the case study you selected in mind, reflect on the patient information provided.
•Think about the health history you would need to collect from the patient.
•Consider what physical exams and diagnostic tests would be appropriate to help you gather more information about the patient’s condition. Reflect on how results might be used to make a diagnosis.
•Identify at least five possible conditions to consider in a differential diagnosis for the patient.

By Day 3

Post a description of the health history you would need to collect from the patient in the case study you selected. Explain what physical exams and diagnostic tests would be appropriate and how the results would be used to make a diagnosis. List five possible conditions for the patient’s differential diagnosis and justify why you selected each.

Postmortem Audit Review of Projects

Postmortem Guidelines (“Major Ground Rules”)

Do not get back at people – make it clear, postmortem is not for getting back at people or finger pointing
Do not be oversensitive – check your ego at the door; be humble
Do not attack anyone – focus on the problem, not the people
Do not forget facts – what gets measured, gets improved
Do not write a postmortem book – people in future won’t read long reports
Discussion Topic:

General Construction Company has a contract to build three lower-income apartment buildings for the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. During the construction of the first building, the Project Manager formed an auditing team to audit the construction process for each building. He asked the team to develop a list of minimum requirements for the projects and use this as a baseline in the audit.

While reviewing the contract documents, one of the audit team members found a discrepancy between the contract minimum requirements and the City’s minimum requirements. Based on his findings, he has told the project manager that he has decided to contact the City Administrator and discuss the problem.

Required:

Review the Postmortem Guidelines, a.k.a. “Major Ground Rules” outlined above, for preparing information inputs for a postmortem audit review of projects. As the Project Manager, discuss how you would handle the situation in the General Construction Company above.
In addition to your response above, respond to the discussions of at least two other students’ postings.
[Source: Samuel Mantel, Jack Meredith, Scott Shafer, and Margaret Sutton, Project Management in Practice, 4thEdition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2011]

literature review
CPP/Bioportide technologies have the capcity to reach intracellular sites that may be intractable targets for conventional drugs. Moreover, it is likely that many bioportides achieve a biological influence by a dominant-negative action upon protein-proitein interactions (PPIs).
Your next task is to choose a protein or a PPI interface that might be a useful target for therapeutic manipulation. There are of course many possibilities and I am keen for you to choose your own! Now imgaine you are tasked by a pharmaceutical company to develop a strategy, employing CPPs/Bioportides, to manipulate that intracellular target. You will need to produde a report to pass on to the peptide synthesis team highlighting sequences of peptides that can be screened as potential therapeutics. These might be inert CPPs attached to a bioactive peptide seuquence or a bioportide that is predicted to be both cell penetrant and bioactive. Your project write-up is essentially that report. The results section will contain the sequences and stratagies that you design to influence the activity of your intracellular protein or process. Theoretically, I could pass on your project to next year’s students and ask them to manufacture the peptides you design.

For those of you who decide to embark upon the DRY Project, your literature review should focus on Cell Penetrating Peptides, Bioportides and Protein-Protein Interactions

Problem – Pharmacy

You are the IT Director at a 175 acute care bed hospital in central Illinois that has been using Meditech for its core health care IT financial and admitting/registration applications. The organization has just completed the development of a strategic IT plan that calls for the implementation of a number of clinical applications during the next 2-3 years. The Director of Pharmacy has stated she would like to be among the first to begin implementing an automated clinical solution in her department. She has been pushing Bridge Medical as her system of choice and is trying to get other clinical department directors to agree upon Cerner as their system of choice. She is taking this position because she believes Bridge Medical will satisfy the demands of the “five rights” for medication safety while Meditech doesn’t have the capabilities she needs to be successful in this area.

The CFO of the hospital (your boss) recognizes if the hospital purchases the Bridge Medical clinical application then there could be data integration and billing issues from using two different IT suppliers. On the other hand, if the CFO dictates integration from a single supplier, then the clinical department directors could be very upset. The CFO has asked for your opinion on this matter. Should the hospital consider the purchase of Bridge Medical’s clinical application or should the hospital consider Meditech as its clinical system of choice?

He is asking that you prepare a 15-20-minute presentation that he’ll present to the hospital’s executive committee stating the background of the situation, an understanding of the problem, your position with supporting data and references, and your recommendation(s).

Choose two of the UK’S largest supermarket chains companies from the list provided (Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons) and download the companies’ annual reports from their website. Produce the 2013, 2014 and 2015 ratio table for the companies you have chosen from the list above (Profitability, Liquidity and Efficiency ratios as performed in class.) Choose two ratios from each category. Based on these ratios and any other additional information available from the annual reports, compile a report comparing the performance of the companies selected.

Learning outcomes to be examined in this assessment :
• Describe and analyse the role of accounting information in a business context.
• Analyse a set of financial statements including balance sheet, profit and loss accounts and cash flow statements.
• Demonstrate the relationship between accounting data and financial planning and resource allocation decisions.

Please write up your comments in no more than 2500 words (Times New Roman, 11 font, single spaced).
Demonstrate the ability to relate theory to the real world.

Paper Topic

Marjorie Shostak’s ethnography, Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, is guided by the narrative of the stories of Nisa’s life. About her stories, Nisa tells Shostak, “I’ll tell you another one now. I’ll break open the story and tell you what is there. Then, like the others that have fallen out onto the sand, I will finish with it, and the wind will take it away.” (36)

In this course, we learn about the stories of many people of many different cultures. At first glance, some of their stories may seem completely different from the events of our own lives. Upon closer examination, we can find many themes that run through the lives of the !Kung also run through our own.

Another major theme of our course is cultural adaptation. From your new anthropologist’s perspective, you should be able to examine a cultural practice in an objective way. For example, does the !Kung practice of sharing meat hurt or enhance their survival as a group? Does it support their health or well-being? A practice can be evaluated in this way even if it is not part of our own cultural norms.

PAPER TOPIC

Compare and contrast the aspects of !Kung life with your own. Choose at least three aspects to discuss. These may be rites of passage (such as birth, marriage, divorce, death) or other aspects of !Kung life (choosing a partner, healing the sick, securing food for consumption), etc.

For each aspect, first describe the practice in !Kung life. (You may rely solely on the Shostak text for this section, or use one of the required outside scholarly sources.)

Second, compare and/or contrast it with the practice in your own culture. Note the similarities or differences. (You may bring in outside scholarly sources in this section.)

Third, evaluate the practice based on its adaptability for the !Kung. Do you think the way the !Kung behave in this situation is adaptive for their health and well-being (even if it is unlike the way we behave in this situation)? Does it aid their success as a group? Give your opinion (analysis) based on evidence from the text or from scholarly sources.

PAPER REQUIREMENTS

Your paper must be 4-5 pages long, double-spaced with 0.8” to 1.0” margins with 10 or 12 point traditional font. The minimum length is 4 full pages. Please provide a References page at the end of the document using APA formatting.

Two scholarly sources are required for this assignment beyond the Shostak text. Scholarly sources come from academic journals or books from a university press. You will need to use the library’s databases (such as ProQuest) or physically check out books from the library to meet this requirement. Please see the TIPS FOR FINDING SCHOLARLY SOURCES handout in the Assignments section of the course.

Please use citations (or quotes) to support your arguments. To cite passages from a text, put quotation marks around a passage followed immediately by the author’s last name and page number in parentheses. Quotes should be brief, under four lines.

For example:

“My heart was so happy I moved around like a little dog, wagging my tail and running around. Really! I was so happy, I shouted out what I saw: ‘The rainy season has come today! Yea! Yea!'”(Shostak: 89)

If you must use a longer quote than four lines, eliminate the quotation marks, single space, and indent the entire quote several tabs from the left margin.

Be sure to explain why you are using a particular quote. A quote by itself does not prove a point. It only provides evidence for your argument. You must make an argument preceding or following the quote.

Using other people’s words constitutes plagiarism. Provide quotes and a reference including the author’s name, title and page number for more than three words in a row that are not your own. Please use APA formatting to provide a reference for the Nisa text and any other texts that you may have used at the end of the document.

Please spell-check your paper (check for typos, mistakes, etc.), organize it into indented paragraphs, and write in a clear and simple style.

Problem – Pharmacy

You are the IT Director at a 175 acute care bed hospital in central Illinois that has been using Meditech for its core health care IT financial and admitting/registration applications. The organization has just completed the development of a strategic IT plan that calls for the implementation of a number of clinical applications during the next 2-3 years. The Director of Pharmacy has stated she would like to be among the first to begin implementing an automated clinical solution in her department. She has been pushing Bridge Medical as her system of choice and is trying to get other clinical department directors to agree upon Cerner as their system of choice. She is taking this position because she believes Bridge Medical will satisfy the demands of the “five rights” for medication safety while Meditech doesn’t have the capabilities she needs to be successful in this area.

The CFO of the hospital (your boss) recognizes if the hospital purchases the Bridge Medical clinical application then there could be data integration and billing issues from using two different IT suppliers. On the other hand, if the CFO dictates integration from a single supplier, then the clinical department directors could be very upset. The CFO has asked for your opinion on this matter. Should the hospital consider the purchase of Bridge Medical’s clinical application or should the hospital consider Meditech as its clinical system of choice?

He is asking that you prepare a 15-20-minute presentation that he’ll present to the hospital’s executive committee stating the background of the situation, an understanding of the problem, your position with supporting data and references, and your recommendation(s).