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For the MMWR Term Paper, find a recent publication/paper within CDC’s MMWR from http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/ that describes an epidemiologic study. Make sure the article describes an exposure and an outcome that was investigated. Also, make sure that it describes what population was used and how the data on the exposure and outcome were collected.

Make sure the MMWR article is not an announcement, a review of ecological or cross-sectional data or a review of some performance metrics. You are looking for a study that looked at some cause-effect relationship.

In your paper, your purpose is to apply your learning in epidemiology to make the study and disease/health issue more accessible to an audience (the reader) as well as to analyze the MMWR study over-all.

The paper needs to be 4 pages, double-spaced summarizing the major points of the MMWR investigation/discovery/report. The pages for the APA formatted citations and a cover page are in addition to the 4 content pages.

The paper should include:

Introduction – (1/2 page) Overview of the study outlining the purpose of the MMWR paper (be sure to mention the exact study you are exploring early, if not in the title of your assignment;

Body – (3 pages) How the health issue was approached. To do this, you may answer the following questions:

· How was the disease defined?

· What was the scope of the study?

· Did the authors apply descriptive epidemiology and how was it used in the study.

· What determinants of health were discussed?

· How did the study address association and/or causality and to what degree is the study asserting a relationship with the disease and risk factors/determinants?

· What type of study design is this—and is it a good study design for the issue at hand?

Conclusion – (1/2 page), provide your own analyses of the MMWR study—if there was anything you would have hoped they included that they didn’t or anything was included which you would not have, and justify your assertions with points from the course or outside sources concerning the disease in question.

References – (pages at the end of the paper for APA style references)—you may use outside resources to further your analyses of the study beyond the MMWR posting (which should also be cited);

Remember: Times New Roman with 12-point font, the pages should have 1 point spacing (double spaced), and margins should all be 1 inch

For the MMWR Term Paper, find a recent publication/paper within CDC’s MMWR from http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/ that describes an epidemiologic study. Make sure the article describes an exposure and an outcome that was investigated. Also, make sure that it describes what population was used and how the data on the exposure and outcome were collected.

Make sure the MMWR article is not an announcement, a review of ecological or cross-sectional data or a review of some performance metrics. You are looking for a study that looked at some cause-effect relationship.

In your paper, your purpose is to apply your learning in epidemiology to make the study and disease/health issue more accessible to an audience (the reader) as well as to analyze the MMWR study over-all.

The paper needs to be 4 pages, double-spaced summarizing the major points of the MMWR investigation/discovery/report. The pages for the APA formatted citations and a cover page are in addition to the 4 content pages.

The paper should include:

Introduction – (1/2 page) Overview of the study outlining the purpose of the MMWR paper (be sure to mention the exact study you are exploring early, if not in the title of your assignment;

Body – (3 pages) How the health issue was approached. To do this, you may answer the following questions:

· How was the disease defined?

· What was the scope of the study?

· Did the authors apply descriptive epidemiology and how was it used in the study.

· What determinants of health were discussed?

· How did the study address association and/or causality and to what degree is the study asserting a relationship with the disease and risk factors/determinants?

· What type of study design is this—and is it a good study design for the issue at hand?

Conclusion – (1/2 page), provide your own analyses of the MMWR study—if there was anything you would have hoped they included that they didn’t or anything was included which you would not have, and justify your assertions with points from the course or outside sources concerning the disease in question.

References – (pages at the end of the paper for APA style references)—you may use outside resources to further your analyses of the study beyond the MMWR posting (which should also be cited);

Remember: Times New Roman with 12-point font, the pages should have 1 point spacing (double spaced), and margins should all be 1 inch

Resources: Virtual Organizations

Click the Virtual Organization link to access the Virtual Organizations.

Select one of the Virtual Organizations as the basis for this assignment.

Obtain faculty approval of your selected organization before beginning the assignment.

Access the information contained in your selected organization’s balance sheet and income statement to calculate the following:

Liquidity ratios
Current ratio
Acid-test, or quick, ratio
Receivables turnover
Inventory turnover
Profitability ratios
Asset turnover
Profit margin
Return on assets
Return on common stockholders’ equity
Solvency ratios
Debt to total assets
Times interest earned

Show your calculations for each ratio.

Create a horizontal and vertical analysis for the balance sheet and the income statement.

Write a 350- to 700-word memo to the CEO of your selected organization in which you discuss your findings from your ratio calculations and your horizontal and vertical analysis. In your memo, address the following questions:

What do the liquidity, profitability, and solvency ratios reveal about the financial position of the company?
Which users may be interested in each type of ratio?
What does the collected data reveal about the performance and position of the company?

Resources: Virtual Organizations

Click the Virtual Organization link to access the Virtual Organizations.

Select one of the Virtual Organizations as the basis for this assignment.

Obtain faculty approval of your selected organization before beginning the assignment.

Access the information contained in your selected organization’s balance sheet and income statement to calculate the following:

• Liquidity ratios
  • Current ratio
  • Acid-test, or quick, ratio
  • Receivables turnover
  • Inventory turnover
• Profitability ratios
  • Asset turnover
  • Profit margin
  • Return on assets
  • Return on common stockholders’ equity
• Solvency ratios
  • Debt to total assets
  • Times interest earned

Show your calculations for each ratio.

Create a horizontal and vertical analysis for the balance sheet and the income statement.

Write a 350- to 700-word memo to the CEO of your selected organization in which you discuss your findings from your ratio calculations and your horizontal and vertical analysis. In your memo, address the following questions:

• What do the liquidity, profitability, and solvency ratios reveal about the financial position of the company?
• Which users may be interested in each type of ratio?
• What does the collected data reveal about the performance and position of the company

Utilizing the Delphi technique, your team constructed the following risks register the VoIP project containing the risk, the likelihood of its occurrence on a scale of 1 (least likely) to 5 (most likely), and the potential negative impact on the project on the same scale. In addition, they recommended the appropriate response and identified its type for one of the risks identified.

 

New government regulations introduced during deployment increase the cost of running VoIP

 

Yearly renewal fee issued on the legacy system due to delay of over 30 days in deployment of the new system

 

Mitigation

Schedule check 30 days before project deadline to determine if action needs to be taken to avoid delay. Decision tree will be utilized.

Write a 6 page paper in which you:

Explain risk management and its associated activities and defend the need for a risk management plan.
Describe the Delphi technique used to identify risks and infer on types of projects where this technique is most accurate.
Examine the four (4) types of risk response (i.e., avoidance, acceptance, transference, and mitigation) and determine the appropriate situation where each should be used.
Complete the table with the risk response type (i.e., avoidance, acceptance, transference, and mitigation) and a description of the response.
Create a decision tree with the software of your choice to address risk number 6. Assume that when you check the schedule on day 60 of the project, it becomes evident that two (2) additional engineers are needed to ensure on-time completion of the project. The engineers cost $25,000 each and a fee of $120,000 is issued by the legacy provider. The probability of completing the project on time is as follows: With the current personnel – 60%; With one (1) engineer – 80%; With both engineers – 98%.
Explain the methodology utilized to create a decision tree and recommend the appropriate action to take based on your decision tree from criterion 5.
Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Assignment 1: Should You Believe a Statistical Study?

We are bombarded by statistical information from a wide variety of sources. Much of the statistical research performed in the world is conducted with a great deal of integrity, validity, and reliability. However, there are many statistical studies that are conducted that are—whether intentionally or unintentionally—plagued by bias.

As a member of society, and as a consumer, it is prudent to develop the skills necessary to critically examine reported statistical claims. Determining whether the report contains bias is a great way to determine the reliability of study results and make a better informed decision.

In this assignment, you will apply the guidelines found in the textbook Unit 5B “Should You Believe a Statistical Study?” in order to critically analyze the content, design, and reported results of a statistical study.

Conduct an Internet search to find a study whose statistical results have been published in the news or any other public forum. Applying the following guidelines, critically analyze the study’s reported content and results.

Identify the goal, population, and type of study.
Who conducted the study? Is there bias here?
Is there bias in the sample used in the study?
Are there any problems in defining or measuring the variables of interest in the study?
Are there any confounding variables present in the study?
Are the results presented fairly?
Is the study’s conclusion reasonable? Does it make sense?
Do the results make practical significance?

Write your initial response in a minimum of 200 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

By Saturday, August 22, 2015, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, August 26, 2015, review the postings of your peers and respond to at least two of them. Consider commenting on the following:

Do you agree with the student’s identification of bias in the study? Are there other sources of bias to consider?
Based upon the student’s analysis, and your review, would you accept the conclusion of this study?

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full animated slides including slide transitions.

NON plagiarized notes and slides on MED-BOX company.

Create a 15-20 minute, 15-20 slide presentation about a instructor approved U. S. publicly traded corporation. The following information should be covered:

Brief Company History

Stock Symbol

12 month stock price activity

Most current audited annual financial statements(provide instructor printed copy 1 week in advance):

Balance

Income Statement

Retained Earnings Statement

Cash Flow Statement

Do a vertical and horizontal analysis for the current and previous year Balance Sheet and Income Statement.

Complete Six different ratios

Compare the ratios, Sales, Net Income, Gross Profit, Assets, Current Assets, Non Current Liabilities and Total Liabilities with two different competitors.

Describe any unethical behavior in their past and/or sex related issues.

Discuss which company is the best investment for us.

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Common Assignment: Written assignment on strategies for classifying and treating offenders (8 PAGES TOTAL)

Based on the seven (7) types of offender rehabilitation treatments:

Psychological
Behavior
Social
Educational/vocational
Substance abuse
Sex offender
Religious

How should offenders and treatment needs be determined and classified?

These programs have been proven to assist numerous offender populations, but there are no clear guidelines that address how or when they should be implemented within correctional institutions. In this assignment, students will select 5 of the 7 types of rehabilitative treatments to analyze and discuss.

Assignment Guidelines

Select five (5) of the rehabilitative treatment types from the list above.
Write 5-6 pages that address the following:
The name and purpose of each selected rehabilitative treatment
The scope of the treatments
What conditions or problems do the programs aim to treat?
What are the limitations of the programs?
What type(s) of offenders should be treated?
How you classify offenders and treatment needs?
The effectiveness of the programs within your rehabilitative treatment categories
What types of offenders are ideal candidates for these types of treatments?
Be sure to use examples to support your explanation.

In 3-4 additional pages, discuss the impact that one of your selected rehabilitative treatments has had on the field of corrections and society’s view of offender rehabilitation within the last 10 years.

The aim of this assignment is to provide learners with a specific example of why it is important to understand the culture of a foreign country. A video interview database of Canadian managers in Japan is the forum for sharing this insight.
Instructor Comments

Aside from solid research and textual web based explanations, another means to understand the nuances of a nation’s culture is to listen to what people have to say about it. We travelled to Tokyo in the summer of 2006 and decided to ask a group of Canadian managers what they thought about working and living in a different culture. We were curious about their experiences, their struggles, their preparations, their prior misconceptions, the role of business networks and the advice that they might be able to offer others.

We also wanted to know about what made the culture of Japan unique from those of other countries. We asked these Canadians about the use of business cards, the role of silence, the set up of a business office, the etiquette surrounding dining, the role of seniority, the way to start a business relationship, the patterns of communication, the way to constructively criticize a Japanese colleague, the means to motivate a team and other important challenges such as maintaining the respect of colleagues. The collection of interviews is a fascinating look at a different culture from the perspective of outsiders. The interview responses were unscripted and respondents spoke from the heart.
Assignment

This assignment seeks to help you understand the answer to a broader concern and that is, “What are some of the cultural features specific to Japan that managers should pay attention to when operating in that country?” You should base your responses to the following questions on the answers offered by Canadian managers to questions posed in the video interview database.

In order to complete this assignment you will be using the AIEIS video interview database.

Note: This process provides you with a password to access the Acadia Multi-Media Case Management System (AMCMS) which includes AIEIS – this does not change your ACORN account information

Module 8 – The Ideas of Fons Trompenaars: Cultural Dimensions & Online Information Sources ObjectivesInstructor CommentsAssignmentObjectives The aim of this assignment is to expose learners to the information offered by the Canadian Centre for Inter-Cultural Effectiveness and apply this information to the ideas of Fons Trompenaars.

Instructor Comments When working through these assignments do consider that Fons Trompenaars is considered the main intellectual competitor to Geert Hofstede. His ideas appear somewhat similar but on closer inspection are different. Unlike Hofstede, Trompenaars suggests seven cultural dimensions. An interesting critique of Trompenaars and Hofstede originates with anthropologists.

Commenting on the topic of training, Hassoun (2006) argues that most anthropologists today define culture as “all that is learned and passed from one generation to the next” and/or the framework through which we view the world that cannot easily be reduced into a group of simplistic parameters. While Trompenaars perspectives may be widely accepted in business circles, few anthropologists that have made a lifelong study using ethnographic methods can be entirely comfortable with five or seven simplistic dimensions to culture…. When we train students to understand culture in the classroom, we have a semester to expose them to other cultures and usually cover 16 to 20 major chapters in a book, outlining hundreds of dimensions to culture. The first and foremost issues we address are the issues of ethnocentrism and cultural relativity. It is very easy for these to be lost in the easily judgmental dimensions of Hofstede and Trompenaars.”

Assignment This assignment seeks to help you understand the answer to a broader concern and that is, “How might the ideas of Fons Trompenaars be applied in real life?” You should base your responses to the following questions on the country cultural descriptions found on the website of the Canadian Centre for Inter Cultural Learning.

In order to complete the assignment, please access the CCICL website http://www.intercultures.ca/. On the country Insights page, please use the Country List scroll bar and choose a country. For this assignment please choose four countries for comparative purposes. Once a specific country is chosen, please use the Country Insight scroll bar and choose ‘culture’. Please recall that the issues covered include making a good impression, dress, punctuality and formality, preferred managerial qualities, religion, class ethnicity and gender, relationship building, recommended books, films and foods, conflicts in the workplace, motivating local colleagues, in-country activities, national heroes, shared historical events, and stereotypes.

Please also base your responses to the following questions on your analysis of the article and the series of websites noted below.

•Fons Trompenaars Trade Culture Dimensions. http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/seven-dimensions.htm

•Fons Trompenaars and Peter Wooliams: A new framework for managing change across cultures, Journal of Change Management 2003 3(4) 361 – 375 Please answer the following questions:

Which inter-cultural issues noted in the Country Insights database help to explain differences (if any) in the Internal vs. External dimension among the four countries? What are some of the differences?

Which inter-cultural issues noted in the Country Insights database help to explain differences (if any) in Specific vs. Diffuse dimension among the four countries? What are some of the differences?

Which inter-cultural issues noted in the Country Insights database help to explain differences (if any) in Achievement vs. Ascription dimension among the four countries? What are some of the differences?

Hint: Please look carefully at the descriptions of the inter-cultural issues and the thinking patterns. This should help the matching exercise.

Please limit your response to this assignment to three single spaced, typed pages. Please cite your sources in the text and please reference them at the end of your assignment. Please end your write-up with one paragraph that summarizes what you think is the importance of this assignment.