Day: January 27, 2020

Any topic (writer’s choice)

January 27, 2020 6 Comments APA, Philosophy

lets start with a question based on your opinion. Consider this: most Americans have their tissue on file somewhere. In 1999 the RAND Corporation published a report that more than 307 million tissue samples from more than 178 million people were stored in the United States. This number, the report said, was increasing by more than 20 million samples each year. These samples come from routine medical tests, operations, clinical trials and research donations. (See the New York Times article)

1. What do you think would be the repercussions if scientists were required to inform and get consent? Would restricting this impede scientific advancements and perhaps harm the public good?

After reading and viewing the materials on Henrietta Lacks, answer the follow questions:

1. At the time of it’s occurrence (prior to Belmont Report) was there an ethical breach in the medical care that Henrietta Lacks received?

2. Was there an ethical breach by the researchers that received Henrietta Lacks cells?
If this happened today:

3. What kind of harm may have been done to Henrietta or her family by the researchers? (intentionally or unintentionally)

4. Is there an ethical consequence for the Lacks family that we should be concerned about?

References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnUp0xQlfK8&feature=youtu.be

Argumentative essay on an Ethical Dilema Movie

January 27, 2020 3 Comments APA, English and Literature

Choose  a movie to write about: Platoon, Bridge on the River Kwai, Rules of Engagement, Zero Dark Thirty, Saving Private Ryan, The Gate Keepers, Lone Survivor, or Gallipoli.

The argumentative essay will defend your ethical belief from a key ethical point that takes place during the movie. At least two references must be used; books or a trusted web page not wikipedia.

Attains highest cognitive level that is appropriate to the assignment. Insightful, original analysis; conclusions superbly supported by evidence clearly explained; consideration of ethical/legal issues when relevant;consideration of alternative points of view or counter-evidence is fully addressed.

Hospice at end of life

January 27, 2020 3 Comments APA, Health Care and Life Sciences

Please be detailed in answering questions and I must have at least two references.  I will attach the PDF file to use as one and the questions to be answered,  This will go with my PICOT Question:  Do terminally ill patients that seek hospice care have better end of life results than terminally ill patients that do not use hospice care?  If you don’t feel you can thoroughly answer the question in two pages let me know

Using the business Publix Grocery Store in America and the country China prepare a Word document of the political structure and economic environment, including important political events that may lead to success or high risk due to business expansion to

January 27, 2020 No Comments APA, Business and Management

Using the business Publix Grocery Store in America and the country China prepare a Word document of the political structure and economic environment, including important political events that may lead to success or high risk due to business expansion to that region.
In a minimum of 500 words, be sure to include the following:
1. background and economic strategy,
2. national goals,
3. national trade policies, and
4. emerging trends.

Any topic (writer’s choice)

January 27, 2020 1 Comment APA, English and Literature

**** ONLY REQUIRED TO ANSWER #4***

So youve got your fictional business, and you know a little about the data that you plan to collect. Now its time to focus on data and what that means for your organization.

The data that you collect is what will help you understand the inner mechanisms of your organization, and will enable you to be able to fine-tune your business to create operational excellence.

What can operational excellence enable? Some examples below:

Spot sales trends in certain geographic regions so that marketing efforts can be adjusted.
Identify if there are inefficiencies in the supply chain, and make adjustments, and measure/test changes to the operation.
Adjust staffing to account for peak store activity.
Before you can do any of that, youre going to need to give some thought to the data you are going to collect, and then some more thought to how you want to organize it and use it.

For this exercise you will be focusing on two components:

1) What your data model is.

2) What privacy issues could surface with the data that is being collected.

Learning Objectives

Define the requirements of a database for a fictional business.
Apply concepts of relational database design for a fictional business.
Explain the database design for a fictional business.
Explain potential applications of collected data.
Explain the role of business analytics in the business decision-making process.
Summarize the competencies of the aforementioned fictional business verbally, and in writing.

Instructions

Step 1: Watch Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) Tutorial – Part 1

Entities – an object, such as a person, place or thing, or event that can be tracked in your database. An entity on Amazon can be a customer, an order, or a product.
Attributes – the various properties or traits.
Step 2: Think about your business. Think about what you can learn about your customers and their interactions with you. Think about what you need to know about your products or services. Think about any events that take place in your business (a transaction, a door opening or closing, etc.).These are your entities. Write all of these down.

Step 3: Now that you know about all of your entities, write down everything that you think you need to know about them. These are your attributes.

Step 4: Navigate to https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/usecase/education and create an account with your student email (@fiu.edu email). You will then get access to a free student account. You can always do this with pen and paper, but it is much easier in lucidchart.

Sample ERD Diagram (A Conceptual Data Model)

Entity Relationship Diagram Example

Step 5: Create a basic entity-relationship diagram for your fictional organization (the example I give above with the cat is pretty basic). Limit yourself to 10 entities max. Do not worry about the cardinality (the way the arrows connect) for your entities. This is not a systems analysis and design course – I just want you to get exposed to this concept so that you can think through what you need to capture with data.

Step 6: List the primary keys for all of your entities.

Step 7: Imagine you had data populated for all of the entities and attributes youve described. What would this tell you?

Step 8: You have all of this data (fictionally), what are you going to do to protect and minimize the invasion of privacy for your customers? Think about your experience when visiting a website. What do most websites have you agree to before you do anything?

Step 9: Submit a reflection statement via the Activity #2 Reflection Survey in Canvas about what you think worked well and did not work well with your group.

What should my submission include?

1) A screenshot of your ERD diagram
2) A list of all of your primary keys
3) A brief fictional scenario on what you can do with your data (2-3 sentences)
4) What you will do to protect and minimize the invasion of privacy for your customers. (2-3 sentences)

Im only required to ask #4

compare and contrast between different work groups and teams

January 27, 2020 No Comments APA, Business and Management

 Assignment Description

The course scenario stated the following relative to this assignment: As happens on occasion, there were some factors that had an effect on company profits, but the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Jared Smith, was in a position to focus on several internal strategic areas, including structure, work design, motivation, conflict, and company culture as a whole. To stay profitable, the company had to eliminate several management positions in an effort to flatten the organizational chart. Many of the responsibilities fell to the employees, and many people resisted the change.

As the economy recovers, CMA continues to rebuild. Since 2012, the company has been divided into a functional structure that includes four departments: Research and development (R&D), marketing, production, and finance. Each department is headed by a vice president who has responsibility over each of the functional areas. The company currently sells components to computer manufacturers. As technology continues to advance, the CMA R&D department and its vice president, Kevin Adams, are feeling pressure to keep up with the competition. However, because of the differentiation and separation between the departments, the CEO is concerned that communication is hampered.

You as the OB consultant had a training and development session about teams with the managers that went very well, so well that the participants expressed a desire to have some of the information that you discussed to be available in writing so they can reference it, as needed. One person wrote the following in the post-session questionnaire: The information I got during this training was very good. I’d like to have something I can read about the different types of workgroups and teams you talked about during the training session. Also, could you give us something that compares and contrasts the various types of teams? Jared, the CEO also wants your recommendation on which types of groups and teams you think would work most effectively at CMA.

If there are any questions on any of this, reach out to your instructor and also be sure to attend or listen to the chats as that is where you will be able to ask questions and gain many insights in what is being asked for here.

What is Religion?

January 27, 2020 2 Comments MLA, Religion / Theology

Analyze Stake a claim about the nature of religion, and demonstrate the process of reaching your conclusion in your writing.

Requirements include:

Attention grabber/HOOK
1-3 sentences connected to your big idea that grab attention through the big picture/a surprising fact, an anecdote (story), an analogy, a contrast etc.

2-4 bridging sentences
These sentences bridge your attention grabber to your thesis by introducing your specific topic and the argument surrounding it (context)
– PROVIDE evidence
– CITE whatever you use in MLA format

Your thesis statement
LAST sentence of your introduction

6 to 7 SENTENCES TOTAL

decision support and business intelligence

January 27, 2020 2 Comments APA, Mathematics and Statistics

Each Question at least 300 Words, and reference.
Question1:
Describe how OLAP facilitates visualization, as well as how it is used to support operational decision making.

Question2:
Read the case study for Paterson Public Schools (pages 4-10) located here: https://sdp.cepr.harvard.edu/files/cepr-sdp/files/sdp-fellowship-capstone-data-governance-visualization-utilization.pdf
Please provide an example of how poor Data Governance Practices hinders the overall learning outcomes of students and teachers.

Any topic (writer’s choice)

January 27, 2020 1 Comment APA, Health Care and Life Sciences

Morgan and his students observed spontaneous mutations in fruit flies, crossed the mutant flies and recorded recombination frequencies to create the first chromosomal map. Lets consider the importance of knowing gene locations on chromosomes and how we can use simple organisms to help us understand complex problems.  Read the following articles to help in your clarification between linked genes and sex-linked genes.

Genetics and Genomics Timeline (2004). 1910 (Links to an external site.).
Genetics. (nd). Sex Linkage (Links to an external site.).

Because males are hemizygotic for their traits (or heterogametic regarding their sex chromosomes).XY..they provide a relatively easier tool for observing some traits in the offspring.  Morgan used this trend to observe that certain traits are linked to a particular sex-determining chromosome.  This means traits on the X chromosome (sex linked genes) were used to advance our broader understanding of gene linkage and how crossing-over for any homologous pair can lead to recombinant phenotypes in the progeny.

Lets discuss the following:

1. What does it mean for genes to be linked?

2. What does it mean for genes to be sex-linked?

3. Why is it important to know gene location on chromosomes?

4.  Identify and describe an X-linked disorder (put the name of the disorder in the first line of your post)

5. Explain how this trait was discovered, Discuss preventions/treatments for this trait due to its location on the X chromosome.

References
http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/resources/timeline/1910_Morgan.php

https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/pigeons/sexlinkage/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/guide/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/

Food Web

January 27, 2020 2 Comments APA, Natural science

Draw a simple food web for a natural area near you.  The natural area can also include your backyard, open areas of condo and/or apartments, work, school, etc. Include producers and at least three levels of consumers, as well as, detritivores, and decomposers. Include the HAND-DRAWN food web in your post.  DO NOT INCLUDE A FOOD WEB OF THE EVERGLADES UNLESS YOU ARE AT THE PARK AND OBSERVING. The goal of the assignment is to construct a food web using observations, not copying from known examples.  http://www.wildflorida.com/index.php