Day: October 23, 2020

education

October 23, 2020 Leave a comment Not applicable, Psychology and Education

Read Ediths case (attached) and answer the following questions. You may combine answers as long as you address each question. Please remember to use research, theory, and laws from this courses texts (from any Module) as well as specific examples from the case to support each answer.

1) What are Ediths strengths?

2) What practices at school and at home support Ediths learning and development?

3) What are some areas that you think Edith may need additional support in?

4) Write one specific, measurable goal for Edith and explain why you chose this goal.

5) What is one strategy that you would use to support Edith in achieving this goal? Be as specific as possible about how and why you would use this strategy with Edith.

6) Review the definition for EBD. Do you feel that Edith is a student with EBD? Why or why not?

7) If you were hired as an advocate for Edith’s family, what recommendations would you have made to Edith’s mother? What types of services might you have suggested to assist Edith?

Oil Production Business

October 23, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 7"), Humanities

As an Intelligence Analyst in the commercial world, you would often be asked by your superiors to gather open source intelligence regarding a wide range of topics that impact your company. It would not be uncommon for you to be assigned to collect, process, and analyze information pertaining to the risks associated with travelling or doing business in a foreign country. For this assignment, your boss wants you to do a position paper on the risks associated with starting an oil production business in Nigeria. In the real world, this would be a major report comprised of 100s of pages comprised of graphs, charts, financial reports, etc., along with input from Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from every section of the company, and outside consultants.

The purpose of this paper is not only to get you to apply the lessons you learned in class, but to get you to do something you most likely have not done before in school that has a real world feel to it. When conducting an analysis of a foreign nation you will naturally research the political, economic and military aspects of the nation. I would also like you to look at the 7- Major “Hazard” Categories Chart (Attached.) and see what risk sub categories would most likely be relevant to this fact scenario. That means you do your best to research the issues as they apply to Nigeria.

After identifying the relevant risks from each category, research and evaluate the risks, and then put a fact-based assessment in paragraph form that is a sound approach. You do not need to make up data, or create graphs and tables.

Remember, if you were receiving this report, how would you want it to look/read?

Research Paper 1: Fact Scenario
As the companys new All Source Intelligence Analyst, you have been called to a meeting by your boss Thomas Landry, Vice President, Security and Risks, Aggie Energy. Mr. Landry advised you that an emergency meeting of the corporate board has been scheduled for next month to debate CEO Bum Phillips Nigeria Delta proposal. You have been asked to collect all relevant open source intelligence pertaining to security and the risks associated with doing business in Nigeria. He further stated that he would like for you to provide a detailed open source security assessment of this proposal and to provide your recommendations at the end of the report. The report should be between 8-10 pages. Insure that if you use any outside sources, they are appropriately cited.

Aggie Energy Incorporated is a small and aggressive oil and gas exploration company focusing its efforts on making large commercial discoveries and establishing petroleum production in low to medium risk, but high potential reward. Aggie Energy is based out of Houston, Texas and currently employs over 1000 employees with annual revenue more than $200 million. Aggie Energy is a family owned and operated business that has been in existence for over 50 years. The company has a solid reputation within the community and is known to treat its employees well. The companys entire retirement plan is built around Aggie stock options. Aggie Energy has exclusively operated out of North America since being incorporated in 1960. The companys CEO is Bum Phillips. Bum is approaching 90 years old and is looking to double the companys profits to solidify his legacy and provide long term financial security for his family. The COO, Tex Schramm is concerned that Bum is getting a little careless in his later years and might be pushing the company toward a riskier business model that could have devastating consequences for the company and its employees.

During the recent quarterly corporation meeting, Bum made a presentation based on a business opportunity in Nigeria. Bum advised that he had attended an embassy function in which he was approached by a member of the current Nigerian Presidents staff, advising him of an opportunity to explore, produce and move petroleum from the Nigeria Delta to one of the six petroleum terminals located on the Nigerian coast. One of these terminals is located at Port Harcourt. The Nigeria Delta region has a long and positive history of oil exploration success. Geological conditions are favorable for hydrocarbon accumulation. The aid advised that large tracts of prospective acreage can be accumulated in the Delta region for Aggie Energy. The aid advised that he would be willing to broker all necessary meetings with the current Nigerian cabinet. The initial cost for doing business would be a lump sum payment of $1 million dollars. The aid further advised that under the New Local Content Act, the Nigerian Federal Government charges a 1% local content levy on all gross revenues.

Bum proceeded to advise that oil exploration starts with a vision. Any resource exploration company relies almost entirely upon the talent and experience of its technical staff and management. Aggie Energys base staff of geologists, geophysicists, engineers and oilfield operations personnel has an accumulated over 1000 years of oil and gas exploration and production experience among them. Bum further stated that Nigeria is the worlds 12th largest producer of petroleum and the 8th largest exporter of petroleum. Nigeria produces over 2.5 million barrels of oil per day. Currently, the United States obtains over 20% of its petroleum from Nigeria. To date, the economic terms allow a fair and lucrative return for producers of oil and gas within the Nigerian Delta. Bum believes that within 5 years this Nigerian business proposal will double Aggie Energys employee base to 2000 and more than double its corporate annual revenue to close to half billion dollars.

Bum proposed that this venture be run out of Aggie Energys subsidiary, Texas Tea Exploration LLC. Texas Tea Exploration LLC engineers recently developed cutting edge technology in oil exploration and safety systems. The United States Department of Energy is currently negotiating with Texas Tea Exploration LLC to incorporate their safety equipment within all nuclear power plants. Since Aggie Energy faces stiff competition from other oil companies for oil and gas properties and investor dollars, to be successful, Bum believes that Texas Tea Exploration will not be able to compete with the current big boys in the Nigerian Delta Royal Dutch Shell, Mobil, Chevron, and the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, the state-owned oil and gas company.

To minimize this competition, Bum advised that we not attempt to compete with these major oil companies and their deep pockets, but instead Texas Tea Exploration will focus on the market opportunities in the Delta where our technical competence and experience give us an advantage in a strong market that still has high demands for both crude oil and natural gas. Since oil exploration involves a high degree of commercial and technical risk there is a continuous need for new capital. Bum understands that such a venture will require the company to tap into its equity and possibly go public on its stock offerings. Aggie Energy will try to minimize and spread this risk by joint venturing in this oil exploration. Currently most local companies in Nigeria are forming strategic alliances with foreign companies. This might result in a local company obtaining controlling interest in Texas Tea Exploration LLC.

Bum concluded the meeting by stating that Aggie Energys new long-term objective is to grow the company into a viable international oil and gas exploration, development, and production company. This caught the companys officials off guard since Aggie Energy has never conducted business outside of North America.

GRADING RUBRIC:

Focus of paper was appropriate and on-point with the assignment instructions.
20.0 pts
Analysis was thoughtful, concise, and well-articulated.
20.0 pts
Demonstrated critical thinking and/or integration with the concepts covered in the course.
20.0 pts
Logic and Flow
20.0 pts
Writing Style: Spelling, Grammar, Word Choice
10.0 pts
References and Correct Citations
10.0 pts

DB5

October 23, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Other

Respond to the following discussion question for this module. Discuss the utilization of “other” vessels such as the popliteal, anterior and posterior tibial, radial, ulnar or facial. Are these vessels you’d actually use in the process of embalming, or would you rather depend on hypodermic embalming? Why or why not? Would it depend on the case? Why?

Respond to two other people.

First person: The various vessels within the body are crucial to our work as embalmers, therefore, our selection choices are just as crucial.  Ideally, most would likely opt for the use of more common ones such as the carotid artery and jugular vein, however, these options are not always the most viable.  In cases such as this, other vessels have the chance to become more appealing candidates.  These other vessels include the popliteal, anterior and posterior tibial, radial, ulnar and facial.  While each of these present their own appeals, it is still for the embalmer to decide what they would do.  Between raising any of these vessels and hypodermic injection, I personally would lean more towards the use of hypodermic injection, but ultimately would depend on the case.  Each of these vessels carries their own benefits and if the case does not feel as though it would not require raising an excessive amount, then there is a good chance I would go ahead and utilize one of these.  Should it be necessary to raise a few of them, especially if I am constricted on time or if I feel it is not worth raising them, then I would feel more comfortable using hypodermic injection.  In particular, I would like to especially avoid raising the facial vessels as I am still new and worry that I may mess up and cause swelling, which I have heard is pretty annoying to deal with.  For the most part, I have not seen my preceptor raise any of these vessels and the only other vessels I have seen raised other than the carotid and jugular are the femoral. 

The second person: Depending on the individual case, I feel that the use of other vessels would be important.  The only experience that I have has been observing the funeral director doing the procedure.  It has always been injection from the common carotid and drainage from the jugular on the right.  Sometimes very messy with the blood clotting as the blood drains.  The hands were always a problem to clear up due to bruising from blood thinners.  Hypodermic injections were used on occasions but mostly they were touched up with cosmetics.  They never attempted to raise other arteries or even use the femoral as the primary injection site.  Why they never raised other arteries, the world may never know.  It’s what they did and they were pretty set in their ways.

    From what I have learned, I would definitely use other vessels like the radial or ulnar arteries to clear the hands.  It just makes sense.  If an area that is distal to the injection site is not clearing, lets find one that will.  The few times I witnessed hypodermic, there was little improvement.  This was in the web space, between the metacarpals. of the hand.  It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if the radial or ulnar used.

education

October 23, 2020 Leave a comment Not applicable, Psychology and Education

1.What does LRE refer to? What are some legal and educational considerations you will need to think about when recommending that a particular student be educated in a particular setting?

2. What are some things you can do to support your students in the least restrictive environment possible? Please use specific examples from the texts and your own area of expertise (e.g., middle school earth science) to illustrate.

3. Which student perspectives from the texts did you find surprising, affirming, confusing, or otherwise striking to you? Why?

4. What questions do you have after reading this modules texts?

VIDEOS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFrbfdOTf7o
https://www.theaccessiblestall.com/episode-54-high-school/

Blockchain Technology in Healthcare

October 23, 2020 Leave a comment Health Care and Life Sciences, MLA

This is about how blockchain technology is affecting healthcare in a positive way

The purpose of a review paper is to succinctly review recent progress in a particular topic. Overall, the paper summarizes the current state of knowledge of the topic. It creates an understanding of the topic for the reader by discussing the findings presented in recent research papers. A review paper is not a “term paper” or book report. It is not merely a report on some references you found. Instead, a review paper synthesizes the results from several primary literature papers to produce a coherent argument about a topic or focused description of a field.

Abstract and Introduction
For the first deliverable, you will submit the title and group members’ names listed on the first page (see example paper for formatting), abstract, and Introduction.
How to write abstract and introduction sections?
Abstract
For abstract follow the following annotated example to formula
The abstract should not be longer than 250 words which means you have to describe a compelling story/idea within the defined word limit.

Article Review

October 23, 2020 Leave a comment MLA, Other

To do this the student will provide a detailed outline of that weeks assigned readings to all their classmates and lead the class in a discussion of the piece. Discussions should be designed to address questions regarding the readings:
1. what are the main arguments of the piece?
2. what types of evidence are being deployed to make these arguments?
3. what are the pieces relative strengths and weakness?
4. how could the piece be expanded and / or improved, etc.

Students are also encouraged to provide clips in order to supplement the readings and to spur further inquiry.

Stress Mgmt

October 23, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 7"), Health Care and Life Sciences

Instructions: It is easy to get lost in reading and theory when you are in college. For this discussion board exercise, I’d like you to what the documentary called The Social Dilemma”. The Social Dilemma is a 2020 American docudrama film. Never before have a handful of tech designers had such control over the way billions of us think, act, and live our lives. Discover whats hiding on the other side of your screen. We tweet, we like, and we share but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? As digital platforms increasingly become a lifeline to stay connected, Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media is reprogramming civilization by exposing whats hiding on the other side of your screen.https://Netflix.com/thesocialdilemm (Links to an external site.)

After viewing the documentary, answer the following questions in your initial post. Remember to follow the “discussion board protocol”.

1) How would you define the problem?

2) What do you think are the foreseeable threats that exploitative and extractive technologies post to our society?

3) Who do you think is responsible for solving “the social dilemma”? What should they do? Is there anything you can do?

4) From the image posted below about the mental health, choose one discussion question and answer. Please write which question you choose.

5) From the images posted below about the discrimination dilemma, choose one discussion and answer. Please write which question you choose.

education

October 23, 2020 Leave a comment Not applicable, Psychology and Education

1.How do Vygotsky and Piaget differ in their views on the relationship between instruction and development?
2.What Vygotskian ideas and concepts can support your socio-emotional observation?
3.In the video, preschoolers learn how to create an environment on a poster. They work with an assistance of a teacher. Could you offer a more effective strategy to develop childrens ZPD than the teacher does? Please explain. (Text #7.) 
4.What questions did these texts raise for you in light of your own experience with students/children? What critical questions about this/these theories do these observations raise for you? Remember you can also google for critical questions of theories if you cite your source!

VIDEOS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gNjGD_W3dM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu-rr2PRNkE

Section 4: Business Analytics Center Location and Projects

October 23, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management

Section 4: Business Analytics Center Location and Projects

4.1 Business Analytics Center Location

Write a 1-2 paragraph description (100-400 words) describing how a Business Analytics center for this company should be structured and where it should be located within the organization. This should include whether the BA center should be centralized as a formal organizational unit, or decentralized as a virtual organizational unit (see Exhibit 7.4 in the textbook). Also describe where the BA center should report in the company’s organizational structure (e.g., directly to top management; to the IT department; or to some other department such as marketing, finance, etc.). Explain your choices in terms of the organization’s strategy, maturity, and the expected role of the BA center in the organization.

4.2 Business Analytics Projects

4.2.1 Project #1

4.2.1.1 Analytical Question: State the analytical question to be answered.

4.2.1.2 Information Source(s): Suggest one or more information sources (such as internal accounting reports, customer surveys, market research, etc.) that could be used in the analysis.

4.2.1.3 Analytical Method: Identify the general analytical method that could be used for the project (see Exhibit 4.2 in the textbook).

4.2.1.4 Benefits: Describe the potential benefits to the organization of completing the project.

4.2.1.5 Strategic Value: Explain how the project relates to the organization’s strategy, objectives, critical success factors, and KPIs identified in previous sections.

4.2.2 Project #2

4.2.2.1 Analytical Question: State the analytical question to be answered.

4.2.2.2 Information Source(s): Suggest one or more information sources (such as internal accounting reports, customer surveys, market research, etc.) that could be used in the analysis.

4.2.2.3 Analytical Method: Identify the general analytical method that could be used for the project (see Exhibit 4.2 in the textbook).

Confidence Exercise assignment

October 23, 2020 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Psychology and Education

This assignment is both a physical and mental challenge for you because I am asking you to work out a little bit.  In addition to listening to the audio lecture you are to either walk or run for 45 minutes.  During and after working out, I want you to document your physical and psychological experiences. This will require you to be attentive during the workout. Notice the feelings at the beginning of the walk/run, 15 minutes in, 30 minutes in, at the end of the walk/run and finally one hour after you completed the workout. Use words or phrases to describe BOTH the psychological and physical responses. You do NOT need to write paragraphs, just words and phrases.
Once you have completed this workout and listened to the audio, I want you to apply the 4 levels of confidence to this exercise making sure to incorporate your thoughts and feelings.  If you were the pt and your therapist was treating you, how would he or she incorporate confidence building into the treatments you are doing with them.  This assignment should be no more than 2 pages max.  I am expecting your words or phrases and then a paragraph or so addressing each of the 4 levels of confidence.

I have attached an example and the confidence power point.