Day: September 19, 2020

Any topic (writer’s choice)

September 19, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Social Sciences

Article Summary :

For this assignment you will write a summary essay for the following article, which considers how different college environments shape Latino identity (article posted below):

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco. 2017. DISPARATE LESSONS: Racial Climates and Identity- Formation Processes Among Latino Students. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 124.

A summary essay should be organized to clearly state the main components of the article, and then your brief assessment. Your essay should be approximately 2 double-spaced pages, and no more than 3.

Required Elements :

Your summary essay should clearly describe the following information (1 paragraph recommended per element):

    Motivation/Research Question Explain the point of the article: what is the question (or questions) the author is trying to answer and why is it (or are they) of interest?
    Methods Describe how the author answered her question(s): type of research, data, participants, measures, and procedure (how data was gathered and analyzed)
    Results Summarize the key results of the study. What did the author find? What was expected or surprising? Include at least one example from the research evidence.
    Implications Explain why it matters. What are the broader lessons of this research, either for how we understand schools or for educational policy?
    Assessment Provide a brief analysis of the article. Possibilities include: What are your opinions of the main results? Are they right?

Citations:
It may be useful to quote key text from the article. If so, you must clearly indicate the passage with quotation marks and provide a reference to the specific page number.

Law and Ethics

September 19, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Health Care and Life Sciences

The type of court case depends on the state law or federal law that was allegedly violated. The federal court system, with some exceptions, hears cases involving federal matters. State court systems are independent of one another, and each system has its own rules and regulations. Generally, state courts decide cases involving matters occurring within their own state borders. Federal jurisdiction is the power of the court to hear and decide a case before it. In most common law systems, jurisdiction is conceptually divided between jurisdiction over the subject matter of a case and jurisdiction over the person of the litigants. Examples of cases over which federal courts have jurisdiction include federal crimes, federal antitrust law, bankruptcy, patents, copyrights, trademarks, suits against the United States, and areas of admiralty law (pertaining to the sea). State courts: Each state has its own court system, but the general structure is the same in all states. The bottom tier consists of local courts. The next highest tier is trial courts, followed by appellate courts, and then the state supreme court. As with the federal court system, there are also special state courts with jurisdiction in certain kind of cases.

In 2008 the Illinois Appellate Court affirmed a Cook County jury’s $2.7 million verdict for institutional negligence against Loyola Medical Center in a Chicago transplant error case. The Issue in the Longnecker was whether Loyloa University Medical Center was negligent when it transplanted the decedent with a severely hypertrophy replacement heart. The harvested heart was severely diseased and was considered for transplantation only because the harvesting doctors did not examine it. Despite the diseased state of the new heart, the decedent’s heart surgeon went ahead with the new transplant. The decedent died without ever waking up from the surgical procedure. Knowing all that you do from what you have studied this semester what is your expert opinion. Was the harvesting doctors, the surgeon and/or the hospital at fault and why? Do you agree with the courts findings? What type of court case is this an example of?

NoSQL database systems

September 19, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Computer Science

For this paper, you will select a topic and write a paper on current research in NoSQL database systems. Choose one data model, and highlight several systems that use that data model. Or alternatively, choose a topic such as transactions in NoSQL systems, and focus on that.
Paper is formatted according to the specifications below, which contain the following components
1.    Introduction in which you introduce the research topic and explain its importance
2.    Explain the challenges and difficulties in this area
3.    Present at least 3 different approaches, explaining how each addresses the challenges of the area. What counts as an approach will vary depending on the topic you chose. An approach may be an entire database management system, or an algorithm, or a component underlying database management systems. You will get a sense by reading some current research in the area.
4.    A comparison of the approaches.
5.    Conclusion summarize and predict where this research area is going.
References should be to technical books or to technical articles and research papers. Thus, you should have at least 10 references to technical and research articles and books.
Use ACM Digital library or Google Scholar. The main journals are ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), and International Journal on Very Large Databases, but many other journals also contain database related articles.
Formatting:
Use Times New Roman font, 12 point, single spaced, 1 inch margins, 1.5 line spacing. This assignment description has the correct formatting. The title should be bold faced, and have your name and the course immediately below.
Use ACM formatting for the bibliography. Here is a link showing examples http://www.acm.org/publications/authors/reference-formatting
NOTE;Paper will have 2 deadlines: 1. September 22nd and need to have summary and bibliography and 2. is October 12th.

Karl Marx

September 19, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Social Sciences

“Karl Marx first spoke of Conflict theory in the late 19th and early 20th century, he focused on two main groups the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The bourgeoisie is the ruling class who owns the means of production and therefore have the power over the working class or proletariat. Modern society is still oriented in this fashion but the divide between the two classes is more hidden and harder to distinguish.  As the upper classes gain money they also gain power and the ability to further suppress the working class.  Conflict theory is present outside of just economic theory in the modern world it can be seen in almost every power struggle that exists.  The unrest between police and regular people can be related to conflict theory, the police are the bourgeoisie in this scenario and everyone else is the working class.  As the police become more powerful through increased laws that are signed into being by other members of the power class they are seen to be oppressing the lower working class.  This idea though is constructed by the extreme high end of the upper class as many of the police are living in the same socioeconomic status as the people they are arresting.  This idea is present in Marx’s original idea in the form of using managers as scapegoat targets for the working class. The working class would be angered at their manager or boss for unfair wages or working conditions instead of the actual owner.  Allowing the owner to continue profiting and avoid any of the real consequences of their rules and policies. This idea continues to modern times with police, the public is angered at police and the criminal justice system and are expressing this displeasure by protesting against the police instead of the politicians that make the laws the police have to enforce.  This allows the politicians to continue profiting and continue to look like the good guys when they change or repeal the laws they created in the first place thereby appeasing the working class.”

Comment on this and why do you agreed on this? Tell me why this is also relevant in today’s society.

Do not use any sources or any references. This is only your thoughts.

Peer Influence

September 19, 2020 Leave a comment Not applicable, Psychology and Education

Step 1: Research the social and emotional development of an Adolescent.

Step 2: In a one page pager, explain how peer influences change during adolescence

Discuss Piaget’s formal operational stage of development and how it may impact the thoughts and choices in adolescence.
Discuss the shift of reliance on peers
Discuss the shift from reliance on parents
Are there dangers? Explain your answer
Are there consequences? Explain your answer
Are there advantages? Explain your answer

Measurement and Data Mining

September 19, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Computer Science

The purpose of this assignment is to develop and execute a measurement plan and data mining analysis for a quality improvement problem. This assignment addresses course objective 3, where students should be able to:

Demonstrate the conceptual ability and technical skills to develop and execute an evaluation plan involving data extraction from practice information systems and databases.

In previous courses and experiences, youve likely used the PICOT format to create measurable clinical questions to improve quality through evidence based practice. This assignment builds on that knowledge and experience to use information technologies to manage knowledge and information for scholarly advanced nursing practice. The activities and thinking you will be doing as a part of this assignment are very similar to how you might approach portions of your DNP scholarly project, as well as your future work in practice and in positions of leadership to evaluate and implement EBP guidelines, but also to assess practice for quality improvement and generating PBE.

In Practice-Based Evidence, real world practice must be documented and measured to better inform evidence and improve quality. One of the key challenges relates to measurement of concepts and outcomes of practice.

Identify a problem: Identify a clinical or health systems problem (either related to your focus area for your blog or to your practice or just something that youre interested in) related to one of the six dimensions of healthcare quality (safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered). Examples could include: effective pain management in ICU patients, proactive access to palliative care, patient-centered mental health integration in primary care, prevention of patient falls, efficient patient education during transitions in care, etc.

Define the problem: Try to choose a problem that can be summarized in a few words or a short phrase. Conduct a brief literature search for the problem youve chosen and based on what you find create a brief (2-3 sentences) definition for the problem. For example, how would the literature briefly define effective pain management in ICU patients (vs. what is ineffective pain management in that population). What are the outcomes of interest for your problem? In order to measure improvement for a problem, you have to be able to clearly define the problem and the critical outcomes that you are interested in.

Select measures for your problem: If your ultimate goal is to improve your identified problem, you need to select appropriate measures based on your problem definition and critical markers or outcomes. In other words, think about how you would measure whether an intervention or changes that you might implement to a healthcare system actually improved the problem. Review existing databases of measures (as well as any other sources you can identify) such as http://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/ or http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov. Search for any measures you can find for your problem as defined. For example, are there any measures of effectiveness of care? Are any of them specific to effectiveness of pain management? Or effectiveness of care in the ICU? Discuss your searching process and any challenges you experienced in identifying or evaluating measures. Were there measures for your problem? Were there multiple measures? How would you select one to use to evaluate changes in outcomes for your problem? If you cant find any existing measures for your problem, how would you go about identifying a measure or critical outcome to evaluate your problem? Can you directly measure outcomes related to your problem? Or, do you need to identify proxy measures? What would those be?

Data collection: Briefly discuss how informatics relates to measurement for quality improvement. How would you gather data for your identified measures? What data sources or tools would you use to collect, store, and later analyze data related to your measures? What challenges might you anticipate with ensuring high quality data for your measures?

Data mining analysis: Finally, assume that your organization can collect the data needed for your measures. How would you use data mining to explore patterns in the data? For example, how would you evaluate whether there are differences in effectiveness of pain management in the ICU for patients who can communicate vs. those that cannot communicate? Or for patients with a specific diagnosis? Describe specifically what question you might ask and how you would use data structures within health IT systems in a data mining approach (e.g., you might integrate some discussion of ICD codes or specific data fields from an EHR that could be used to create a report to understand patterns or differences in outcomes or measures for your problem).

Upload a brief report (~3 pages using APA format for citations, you can use tables or figures if they help to more clearly and/or concisely convey your points) addressing the points above and post to the assignment.