Category: Essays

The U.S. has higher infant mortality rates than other developed nations. In the course project, you will examine many aspects of this issue.

Begin your investigation of infant mortality rates in the U.S. by gathering and analyzing statistical data.

Gather data about infant mortality rates in various countries. Identify fivecountries that have the lowest infant mortality rates and five countries that have the highest infant mortality rates.
Find out the infant mortality rate in the U.S. and discuss where the U.S. ranks internationally.

Note: Using tables is a helpful approach when presenting numerical data.

Task 2–Medical Causes of Infant Mortality (20 pts)

Using the South University Online Library, select and read five articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of Environment Health, and Journal of Applied Epidemiology, on medical causes of infant mortality.

Write an annotated bibliography of the five articles, which should include a one-paragraph summary of each article. Write original summaries; do not merely copy the abstracts. In each of your summaries, include the following:

The study’s hypothesis or objective
The study’s methodological approach
The study’s pertinent findings and conclusions

Task 3–Social, Economic, and Cultural Determinants (20 pts)

Using the South University Online Library, select and read five articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as Journal of Epidemiology and American Journal of Public Health, on socioeconomic/cultural causes of infant mortality.

Write an annotated bibliography of the five articles, which should include a one-paragraph summary of each article. Write original summaries; do not merely copy the abstracts. In each of your summaries, include the following:

The study’s hypothesis or objective
The study’s methodological approach
The study’s pertinent findings and conclusions

Task 4–Analysis (100 pts)

Using the information gathered, write a 2- to 3-page report about effective measures to curb infant mortality rates. Consider necessary policy changes using specific evidence from your research as a guide. Note: It may be helpful to review strategies employed by nations with low infant mortality rates. Cite sources of information in the correct APA format.

Present all your work in a 3-page Microsoft Word document. Be sure to use APA forma

Write four (4) page paper in which you:

Fully explain emotional intelligence, and give two (2) examples of the concept. Next, examine the concept of “emotional quotient” compared to traditional “intelligence quotient.”

Suggest two to three (2-3) reasons why leaders’ need emotional intelligence to manage today’s workforce. Speculate on at least two (2) possible consequences should a leader not possess emotional intelligence.

Explore the elements of emotional intelligence that leaders must be aware of to increase leadership effectiveness.

Recommend a strategy that the organization could undertake in order to improve the social skills of leaders within the organization and thereby positively influence their emotional intelligence. Support your recommendation with specific examples that illustrate why the strategy would be effective.

Use at least two (2) quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource, and neither do web-based blogs.

Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:

Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA Annotated Bibliography format. The reference page is not included in the required page length

China and India have demonstrated trends toward Western-style consumption over the last decade. Given the emphasis on the youth market in the U.S. over the last 60 years (since the baby boom), what can you suggest for marketers in these youth-oriented consumer economies (China and India)?

Guided Response:

Describe the products (goods and services) that interest these youth markets.
Compare and contrast the micro and macro-environmental forces that can influence the marketing strategies for these products (goods and services).
Analyze the marketing strategies of these two countries and compare them with Western-based consumption marketers (e.g., US).
Identify opportunities for U.S. companies might you foresee? Support your reasoning.

This assignment is designed to assess your critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills. Your paper will be graded for its clarity, relevance, coherence, logic, and depth.

Your paper must be two- to three- pages in length (not including a cover page and reference page) and be formatted in APA style. Your paper must demonstrate that you understand international influence and micro-environmental and macro-environmental influences on marketing strategy. You must use your textbook and at least two additional scholarly

Choose a water park or other vacation destination. Create a hypothetical marketing campaign that uses what you’ve learned about the CRM approach. Describe how you might apply insights about developing long-lasting relationships with customers to retain or reactivate past visitors. You must use the text and at least one additional scholarly source.

QUESTION 2

Read “Why Marketers Need To Stop Following Trends And Start Advancing Movements”. Local businesses and organizations transitioning to global markets might concern themselves with many conditions occurring in host foreign countries, including trend. The author identified three strategies that marketers should implement in regards to trend.

What are the three ideas?
Provide an example of a trendy condition in a local or global arena and how you would implement these strategies in a local or global trendy condition.
Is the author right to take this approach?

Please write a two page reflection based on the poetry that you read in this section. Be sure to use MLA formatting.

What stood out to you?
How did it make you feel? Why?
What did you learn from the poetry?
How did the poetry impact your life?

You are a financial analyst for the CMC Corporation. This corporation predicts changes in the economy, such as interest rates, retail trends, and unemployment. Your job is to educate incoming analyst on the terminology, definitions, and uses of interest rate theories, yield curves, and predictions. In your next training session, you will cover major theories that have been developed to explain resulting yield curves and the term structure of interest rates. Prepare a training guide with the following:

Define and compare the following theories: expectations theory, liquidity theory, market segmentation theory, and preferred habitat hypothesis theory.
In 2–3 pages, explain how each of the above theories explain changes in the economy.
Provide examples for each, and be sure to use and properly cite scholarly sources

By Wednesday, February 3, 2016, using the textbook and Argosy Online Library, write a 750-word paper using APA standards that includes discussion of the following:

Describe an example of a television program that you believe clearly displays social deviance, and explain why you specifically selected it.
In this television program, how are people “labeled” as socially deviating from the expected social norms, and who does this labeling?
Analyze the deviance, using terms such as primary deviance, secondary deviance, retrospective labeling, and stigma.
Apply Durkheim’s four functions of deviance to the deviant actions in the television program. What purpose(s) does the deviance play?

Please post your completed paper to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points

Described a television show that displays social deviance.

16

Identified the people labeled as socially deviant and who labeled them as such.

24

Analyzed the deviance using the appropriate terminology. Applied Durkheim’s four functions of deviance.

24

Related essay writings to the concepts and theories discussed in the textbook and outside resources.

24

Used correct spelling and grammar and appropriate APA format.

Paper to be done in Microsoft Word using no more than 20% quoted material so it will pass a Turnitin check for plagiarism thru my school. Make sure you use APA in text citations and add a Reference page at the end in APA format.

Case Study 1

Blanche, Rose and Dorothy formed a partnership, Retirement Living, to provide temporary housing for elderly people in the Miami area. One of the temporary residents set fire to the house, which resulted in the loss of the entire building and contents. One of the residents, Sophia, sued Retirement Living and obtained a judgment of $ 50,000 against it, but the partnership could not pay the judgment.

What are Sophia’s options if the Retirement Living partnership cannot pay the $50,000?

Will Sophia win if she tries to collect the entire debt from Blanche?

What are Blanche’s options if Sophia sues her for the entire debt?

Analyze the case studies, respond to each of the three questions, and support your responses with the applicable law and/or text materials.

Case Study 3

The Conners family operates a small transportation service for the elderly to take them to doctor’s appointments, grocery shopping and other errands. The three (3) adult members of the Conners family, Dan, Roseanne and Jackie, would like to become a corporation and obtain limited liability; however, taxation at the corporate level would be very costly for them. If possible, Roseanne would rather be taxed as a partnership. Dan is worried about the additional paperwork and meetings that incorporation would surely bring. Jackie does not want a large board of directors to be formed. Jackie fears that the board would somehow detract from the family goals and orientation the business has always enjoyed. In light of these concerns, is there a corporate form or other type of business organization that would better suit the Conners family? Explain the options, select the best option for the Conners and justify your selection with the applicable law and/or text materials.

Support responses with examples, the law, and/or text materials, and use APA formatting in the pape

A manufacturer of network computer server systems is interested in improving the customer support service. As a first step, its marketing department has been charged with the responsibility of summarizing the extent of customer problems in terms of system downtime. The 40 most recent customers were surveyed to determine the amount of downtime in hours they had experienced in the previous month. The survey data are shown below.

[The calculations and the graph for this exercise must be done in Excel. With the data on class intervals and frequencies that are shown below, you will create a table in Excel with the necessary detailed column calculations that will be used as a basis to answer sub-questions (a), (b) and (c). You will paste your table here.] (15 points)

a) Construct a cumulative frequency distribution, and a cumulative relative frequency distribution. (3 points)

b) Using the appropriate formula for grouped data, calculate the mean number of hours in downtime. Use the table provided above for your computations. (4 points)

c) Using the appropriate formulas for grouped data, calculate the variance and the standard deviation. Use the table provided above for your computations. (4 points)

d) Using Excel, draw a histogram of the frequencies and paste it in the space provided below. Make a rough assessment about symmetry in the data and the implication for the size of the mean. (4 points)

2. In a new poll with regard to the future of the Canadian Senate, 70% of the respondents indicated that they would like to have a vote with respect to the upper chamber’s future. Furthermore, 50% of the respondents said that they would like to see the Senate abolished, while 40% of the respondents said that they would like it to be kept as is. (10 points)

a) If keeping the Senate or abolishing it represents two mutually exclusive events, what is the probability that a randomly chosen respondent would belong to either of the two groups? (3 points)

b) If abolishing the Senate and voting for its future are statistically independent events, what is the probability that a randomly chosen respondent would be in favour of either abolishing the Senate or voting for its future? (3 points)

c) Of the respondents who were in favour of keeping the Senate, 70% said that they would like to vote on it. What is the probability that a randomly chosen respondent would be in favour of either keeping the Senate or voting for its future? (4 points)

3. A student feels that 70% of his university courses have been enjoyable and the remainder have been boring. This student had access to student evaluations of professors and finds out that professors who had previously received positive evaluation have taught 80% of his enjoyable courses and 20% of his boring courses. (13 points)

a) Construct a table or a tree diagram of joint probabilities. (4 points)

b) What is the probability that a randomly chosen course will either be given by a professor with positive evaluation or it will be enjoyable (or both)? (3 points)

c) What is the probability that a professor with negative evaluation will give an enjoyable course? (3 points)

d) Are the teacher evaluations and the quality of courses statistically independent? (3 points)

4. A jury of 12 members is to be selected from a panel consisting of 8 men and 8 women. The qualities of the candidates are comparable, so the final selection will be made through a ballot. (14 points)

a. What is the probability that all of the 8 women will be included in the 12-member jury? (3 points)

b.What is the probability that the jury will be evenly divided from the gender point of view? (3 points)

c. What is the probability that, in the jury, women will have a majority status? (4 points)

d.Assume that just before the ballot, one man withdraws from the panel because of unexpected illness. How would the probability of having all women included in the 12-member jury, that was calculated in (a) above, be modified? (4 points)

5. In the game of blackjack as played in casinos, the dealer has the advantage as most of the players do not play very well. As a result, the probability that the average player wins a hand is about 40%. An average player decides to play 10 hands. (12 points)

a. What is the probability that he will win in all hands? (3 points)

b. What is the probability that he will not win any hand at all? (3 points)

c. What is the average number of hands that an average player should expect to win in a 10-hand game? (3 points)

d. What is the probability that he will win at least 1 hand? (3 points)

6. The number of accidents in a production facility has a Poisson distribution with mean 2 per month. (8 points)

a. What is the probability that in a particular month there will be less than two accidents? (4 points)

b. What is the probability that within a two-month period there will be less than two accidents? (4 points)

7. Your uncle has asked you to analyze his stock portfolio, which contains 6 shares of stock A and 8 shares of stock B. The joint probability distribution of the stock prices is shown below: (18 points)

Find the average price and variance of stock A. (3 points)

Find the average price and variance of stock B. (3 points)

Find the covariance and correlation coefficient of the prices of the two stocks. (5 points)

Find the average value of the entire portfolio. (2 points)

Find the standard deviation of the value of the entire portfolio and calculate a 68% range of its value. (5 points)

8. The scores of all applicants taking an aptitude test required by a law school follow a normal distribution with mean 420 and standard deviation 100. (10 points)

a. What is the probability that a randomly selected applicant will score less than 450 in this test? (3 points)

b. What is the probability that two randomly (and independently) selected applicants will both score less than 450 in this test? (3 points)

c. What is the probability that out of two randomly (and independently) selected applicants, at least one will score less than 450 in this test? (4 points

Public health surveillance and prevention efforts in the U.S. reflect the involvement of numerous health care providers and organizations. Government agencies such as the CDC often function as a hub for the collection, coordination, and communication of public health-related data. Common applications of public health IT to promote and improve the health of populations include (but are not limited to) biosurveillance, disease registries, and immunization tracking. The timely and appropriate implementation of these applications can have a significant impact on the ability of providers to deliver health care to the their patients, which, in turn, can have a profound effect on a community’s overall state of health and wellness. Consider the dire impact a SARS outbreak might have, for example, if patient diagnoses were not reported and shared regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Prepare for this Application as follows:

Conduct a literature review of a specific application of health information technology in public health and locate an example in which the application was used to address a public health-related concern. (You might wish to begin by researching a particular surveillance program, disease outbreak, disease registry, prevention program, or other public health-related event, and then identify the technology involved in this activity.)
Find out how this application has impacted the public’s health. Learn also about any ways in which health care providers and organizations were involved in the use of this information technology.

Then write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

Describe the specific application you selected and the ways in which it addresses a public health-related concern. Summarize the potential benefits to the public, as well as any possible drawbacks, arising from the use of this application.
Explain the role of hospitals and other health care organizations in contributing to or making use of this public health-related IT application.
Discuss other implications of this application for health care providers and organizations. How has it impacted (or might it impact) clinical or administrative practices in hospitals or other health care institutions? Provide a rationale for your response.

Your written assignments must follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Refer to the Essential Guide to APA Style to ensure your in-text citations and reference list are correct.