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Individual Project 7-10 slides with in-depth speaker notes in MS PowerPoint

Prepare to test the hypothesis (Step 8 of the Sekaran & Bougie process) using simulated data:

Search and identify the surveys, assessment tools or instruments you would consider to gather data on the variables identified. Explain how these surveys help you understand what your collected data should look like (range of expected values).
Find a random number generator and create simulated data for not more than 25 participants (test subjects) in the study using the ranges of values for the variables you established above.
Using the hypothesis testing methods presented in Sekaran and Bougie (2010), suggest a method that you believe would be most appropriate to test this hypothesis. Limit your choices of hypothesis testing to only one of three possibilities: graphical method, correlation or t-test. You may use the statistical functions in MS Excel for any of these three methods. Finally, explain the rationale for your selection. Why was this method selected when compared with the strengths and weaknesses of the other two methods?
Now that you have created notional (simulated) data to illustrate the hypothesis testing method, apply these data to the hypothesis testing method you selected. Based on the simulated data and your hypothesis testing method, indicate if the null hypothesis is accepted or rejected and why.
Based on your findings, comment on the potential implications of these findings as a potential contribution to the scholarly literature.

Your work MUST include a reference list in APA format in the last slide of the presentation. All research should be cited in the body of the presentation. Assignments without citations are unacceptable. Your presentation should contain an abstract, a short introduction, and conclusion in addition to the body of the presentation. APA does not apply to PowerPoint slides, but again the last slide is expected to contain the references in APA format.

You may also use the EXCEL Lab or other supplemental sources in the Library or the Web to complement your understanding of statistical functions in EXCEL.

Click here to view the Sekaran & Bougie diagram on the research process.

NOTE: Article collections (scholarly databases) may be accessed in the Library. Suggestions are:

ABI Inform Global
Academic Search Premier
Business Source Premier

Please submit your assignment as a PowerPoint presentation with extensive narratives in the speaker notes section. Have all of your sources listed in the last slide and present them in APA format.

This assignment will be assessed using additional criteria provided here.

Please add your file.

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DIscussion Board 3-4 paragraphs

Competencies and Knowledge

What competencies were you able to develop in researching and writing the course Comprehensive Project? How did you leverage knowledge gained in the intellipath assignments (Units 1- 4) in completing the Comprehensive Project? How will these competencies and knowledge support your career advancement in management?

The replies must be at least 200 words each. submit the replies must interact with a minimum of 1 academic resource.

Posts must be completed in current APA format. The emphasis will be placed on the mechanics of citing information. For example, cite information in the body of the post as well as listing sources in the reference section. Properly cite direct quotations and include the page numbers at the end of the quotations.

How can you qualify for a 100?

1. Address the Discussion BoardForum topic thoroughly. Provide support for your comments through interaction with information from course resources or other academic resources in all posts.

2. Interact with information from the course resources or other academic sources in support of your comments and opinions; do so in all posts.

3. Correctly cite sources used in the posts both inside the body of the posts as well

National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) can be found at the EPA’s website. Link opens in a new window http://www.epa.gov/air/criteria.html. Over the past 50 years the standard annual mean for fine particulate matter PM2.5 has been significantly tightened, starting out at 75 µg/m3 of air in 1971 and now only 12 µg/m3 of air (as of 2012 standards).

For this discussion you will be using your 2013 data from Module 7. Create a new tab in your worksheet and name it “Mod 9”. Note the two conditions for a valid confidence interval are met. Use StatCrunch to find a 90% confidence interval for the column Daily Mean PM2.5 Concentration.

Is the 12 µg/m3 of air standard limit contained in your confidence interval? With standards getting stricter over time, it is possible that even if it the current standard is not contained in the confidence interval a future stricter standard might be. What concerns might you have if this were contained in your confidence interval? What can you interpret from this?

The textbook noted that confidence intervals may be reported in two different ways. Please give your results in both formats. Which format do you find to be more useful or clearer?

Now, utilize Excel’s COUNTIF function to find how many days in your data set had a Daily Mean PM2.5 Concentration over 12 µg/m3. Did your area have any days over the standard annual mean for fine particulate matter, and if so how many? Note that the 12 µg/m3 is an annual mean so that over the course of the year the AVERAGE for any given area should be under that value. As an average, one would expect some days to be higher and some days to be lower concentrations, but the overall average for the year should be below this value to meet the EPA’s standards

Multiple choice questions about business ethics.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that analyzes the principal objectives of punishment within the U.S. corrections system.

Answer the following questions in your paper:

What are the state and federal objectives of punishment?
How does sentencing affect the state and federal corrections systems overall? Support your answer.
What is determinate and indeterminate sentencing? Which sentencing model do you feel is most appropriate? Explain why and provide an example.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

1) The definition of a human services agency is so broad that you likely visit one frequently. Go sit in the waiting room of a human services agency in your community. If you are not able to visit an agency in person, refer to one of the agencies featured in one of the optional resources for the module (Bringing Storytime to the Long Wait for Social Services or What if Our Healthcare System Kept Us Healthy?). Consider the following questions from the point of view of a worker at the agency and that of a client:

What do you think it is like to work at the agency? What might the agency look like through the clients’ eyes?

If you worked at the agency, what do you think your day-to-day challenges would be and why?

How could you suggest an improved experience or environment to support the agency’s clients?

It is important to understand the human services waiting room from the perspective of both an employee and a client in need of services. Submit your answers as a journal entry

The value of a good assessment comes from the ability to conceptualize a situation and provide some language and a vehicle to promote change. Too many times in treatment, an assessment is completed as a task of the first few sessions and then left in the chart never to be reviewed again. This is a mistake, and good practice includes a constant review and update to the assessment as well as a plan of action.

Using the assessment that you completed for the LASA 1 in M3: Assignment 2, you will be able to practice making a difference in a child’s life by creating a training and intervention program for the adults in that child’s life.

Write a summary assessment of the case study to be handed out in the school meeting with the family and professionals. This summary should include the following:
Background information about the child, explaining his or her behavior and the current situation
Possible determinate s of the stated behaviors focusing on the family
Possible determinate s of the stated behaviors focusing on the school
Create a presentation, with detailed speaker notes, to train the parents and school personnel to better understand the socialization of this particular child and to create a training and intervention program for both parents and school personnel. The presentation should provide research support from at least two peer-reviewed articles and include the following:
Separate title and reference slides.
Provide a review of the role this child plays in his or her family, how that correlates with the expressed behavior, and specific interventions recommended to change problematic behaviors.
Provide a review of the role this child plays in his or her school and peer group, how that correlates with the expressed behavior, and interventions recommended to change problematic behaviors.
Create a guide for parents to find the resources needed in the community or methods to gain the services needed for their child. Be sure to also identify four or five resources in your own community, and provide a description of the services they provide that would be useful.
Provide information on resiliency and the research literature that best applies to this particular case study. Present the strength areas of the child, family, and school integrated with this resiliency literature to provide positive intervention strategies.

Write a 2-page summary assessment in Word format and develop a 15–20-slide presentation (with detailed speaker notes) in PowerPoint format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources, including use of in-text citations and full references. Academic sources could include your textbook, required readings for this module, or academic journal articles found in the Argosy University online library.

Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A1.doc and LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A1.ppt. For example, if your name is John Smith, your document will be named SmithJ_M5_A1.ppt.

For each term you select, you must summarize the paragraph in

which you find the term. You should do this in no more than 150 words.

Second, you must select a cognate term from the surrounding pages which

is related to the first term. This is a term of your choosing, and

it must clearly relate to the first term. Do not look for a cognate

term from a different chapter. Please do this in less than 100 words.

This should be done in your own words—no summary or paraphrase.

1. “slavery was vital to the nation” p98 Fields

2. Racism as “qualitative evil” p109 Fields

since time is limited, I will choose 2 people for this task, so you each only need to write 1 of them

Middle Childhood and Adolescence Paper:APA,Format, Conclusion, References Prepare a 950- to 1,150-word paper in which you describe changes that occur during middle childhood and adolescence concerning family and peer relationships, and how they might influence future development. Be sure to include the following items in your description:

Evaluate the effect of functional and dysfunctional family dynamics on development (e.g., family structure, function, and shared and nonshared environments).
Determine the positive and negative impact of peers and changes in peer relations from middle childhood to adolescence.
Examine additional pressures faced in adolescence compared to middle childhood.
Discuss the development of moral values from middle childhood into adolescence.

Use a minimum of two peer-reviewed sources.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

Resource: Tri-Fold Pamphlet Guide, your text, and the following websites:

EPA website: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/impacts-adaptation/southwest.html
Global change website: http://www.globalchange.gov/

Create a Tri-Fold Pamphlet about the impact of climate change on bio mes.

Address the following prompts in your brochure:

Identify and briefly describe a biome listed in Chapter 18.
Provide a description, explanation, and a visual to represent how your chosen biome could be impacted by climate change.
Identify at least 2 populations of animals and 2 populations of plants in the biome that may be at risk from climate change. You may include images, but be sure to cite and reference all images in APA forma