Author: chris

Joseph Farms, Inc. is a small firm in the agricultural industry. They have asked you to help them complete the limited data they have gathered in an effort to enable effective decision-making. Some work can be done using MS Excel but it must be copied to an MS Word file for the final submission of this assignment. To assist Joseph Farms, Inc., respond to the following:

• Using MS Excel or a table in MS Word, complete Table-1 (Joseph Farms, Inc., Cost and Revenue Data).
  • Assume that the price is $165.
  • Assume the fixed costs are $125, at an output level of 1.
  • Assume that the data represents a firm in pure competition.
  • Show your calculations.
• Explain the MC=MR Rule.  Describe the market structures to which this rule applies.
• Create a chart to illustrate the data in Columns 9 and 10.
• Describe the profit maximizing (or loss minimizing) output for this firm.  Explain why or why not there is an economic profit?
• Explain why a firm in pure competition is considered to be a “price taker.”

(Assignment continues below Table-1.)

Table-1:  Joseph Farms, Inc., Cost and Revenue Data

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6	Column 7		Column 8	Column 9	Column 10	Column 11
Output Level	Price per unit	Total Fixed Cost	Total Variable Cost	Total Cost	Average Fixed Cost	Average Variable Cost		Average Total Cost	Marginal Cost	Marginal Revenue	Total Revenue
0			$             –		NA
1			$    113.00
2			$    213.00
3			$    300.00
4			$    375.00
5			$    463.00
6			$    563.00
7			$    675.00
8			$    813.00
9			$    975.00
10			$ 1,163.00

 

• Using the data in Table-1 (Joseph Farms, Inc., Cost and Revenue Data), complete Table-2 (Joseph Farms, Inc., Revenue/Profit/Loss Data). Show your calculations in summary form.
• Using the completed data in Table-2 (Joseph Farms, Inc., Revenue/Profit/Loss Data), Identify the break even output level for this firm.

Table-2: Joseph Farms, Inc., Revenue/Profit/Loss Data

Output Level	Price	Total Revenue	Total Costs from Table 1	Profit or Loss
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

 

 

 

Group Influence

 

This required Portfolio assignment due in Week Four will give you experience observing and interacting with people outside of the classroom. It has been designed to provide you with the opportunity to develop skills, synthesize knowledge, and integrate learning in a real world setting.  This assignment accomplishes that goal by challenging you to:

 

• Observe a group discussing a topic of interest such as a focus group, a community public assembly, a department meeting at your workplace, or local support group
• Study how the group members interact and impact one another
• Analyze how the group behaviors and communication patterns influence social facilitation
• Integrate your findings with evidence-based literature from journal articles, textbook, and additional scholarly sources

 

Purpose: To provide you with an opportunity to experience a group setting and analyze how the presence of others substantially influences the behaviors of its members through social facilitation.

Process: You will participate as a guest at an interest group meeting in your community to gather data for a qualitative research paper. Once you have located an interest group, contact stakeholders and explain the purpose of your inquiry. After you receive permission to participate, you will schedule a date to attend the meeting; at which time you will observe the members and document the following for your analysis:

 

Part I

 

• How were the people arranged in the physical environment (layout of room and seating arrangement)?
• What is the composition of the group, in terms of number of people, ages, sex, ethnicity, etc.?
• What are the group purpose, mission, and goals?
• What is the duration of the group (short, long-term)? Explain.
• Did the group structure its discussion around an agenda, program, rules of order, etc.?
• Describe the structure of the group. How is the group organized?
• Who are the primary facilitators of the group?
• What subject or issues did the group members examine during the meeting?
• What types of information did members exchange in their group?
• What were the group’s norms, roles, status hierarchy, or communication patterns?
• What communication patterns illustrated if the group was unified or fragmented? Explain.
• Did the members share a sense of identity with one another (characteristics of the group-similarities, interests, philosophy, etc.)?
• Was there any indication that members might be vulnerable to Groupthink? Why or why not?
• In your opinion, how did the collective group behaviors influence individual attitudes and the group’s effectiveness? Provide your overall analysis.

 

Part II

 

 

Write a 1,200- to 1,500-word paper incorporating your analysis with evidence to substantiate your conclusion. Explain how your observations relate to research studies on norm formation, group norms, conformity, and/or social influence. Integrate your findings with literature from the textbook, peer

You have been asked to present your proposed health care facility to the board of directors. Based on your previous assignments, you are to put together a PowerPoint presentation of 15–20 slides with 300–400 words of speaker notes per slide that includes the following:

• The type of health care facility (Week 1)
  • Discuss the type of facility that you are recommending and the rationale behind your recommendation.
  • Discuss the type of health care delivery that is provided at the facility.
• Financing the organization (Week 2)
  • Discuss the method(s) of reimbursement that you believe will work best for the health care facility that you have proposed to be developed, and explain why you chose that method.
  • Discuss the pros and cons of the reimbursement method(s) you chose.
  • Discuss the impact that the method(s) may have on the financial operations of the facility that you chose.
• Medical technology (Week 3)
  • Discuss the financial and health benefits that can be realized by implementing an electronic health record (EHR).
  • Discuss the estimated cost of implementing an EHR and the estimated cost of managing an EHR over the long run.
  • Discuss current security concerns surrounding health information technology (HIT) and the EHR.
• Ethical and legal considerations (Week 4)
  • Discuss an accrediting body that will provide accreditation to the facility you are proposing.
  • Discuss the ethical or legal requirements and responsibilities that a health care organization has in ensuring that its facility is licensed, certified, and accredited. When discussing licensure requirements, ensure that you research requirements based on the state in which you reside.
• Quality measures (Week 5)(This will be a new section as part of your project)
  • Research and describe at least 3 measures that you plan to use in your facility that are currently used to gauge quality in health care.
  • Set realistic benchmarks for each proposed measurement, and explain the rationale behind the benchmarks that you set.

Discuss three of the main disputes about climate change that are often heard and read in the popular media. Do you think that any of these claims are valid? Why, or why not?

 

Your response must be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

Cunningham, W. P., & Cunningham, M. A. (2011). Principles of environmental science inquiry and applications (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Discuss how a constructed wetland system works to treat municipal wastewater. What advantages does a constructed wetland system have over conventional sewage treatment?

Your response must be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced;

Describe the greenhouse effect and its importance to life on earth. What are the ways in which human activity is increasing heat storage in the atmosphere?

Your response must be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

Cunningham, W. P., & Cunningham, M. A. (2011). Principles of environmental science inquiry and applications (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Discuss three causes of water shortages. Why is it likely that water scarcity will be an even more significant problem in coming years, and what are some possible solutions?

Your response must be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

Cunningham, W. P., & Cunningham, M. A. (2011). Principles of environmental science inquiry and applications (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Risk-Based Reimbursement

In an effort to understand the intricacies involved with physician reimbursement, particularly in an era of health care reform, identify and interview an expert in the field, such as:

• Hospital Administrator
• Managed Care Organization (MCO) executive
• Health care Consultant
• Legal Professional

Assumption: MCOs use risk-based reimbursement for primary care physicians.

Ask the following questions in the interview:

• What kind of risk do the MCOs assess?
• Does risk-based compensation limit the freedom of primary care physicians in any way in terms of patient care? Why or why not?
• How does the capitation model of reimbursement work? Do physicians generally prefer one model over the other? Why or why not?
• Why do HMOs prefer the prepaid, monthly premium?
• Is pay-for-performance a better model than existing models of compensation? Are there limitations to it as well?

Feel free to add additional follow-up questions for depth and clarification as you see fit.

Create a 4- to 5-page report in Microsoft Word document, analyzing the responses provided (which should be included as part of the report) using the evidence from the literature to help support or refute the responses provided.

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format. Include all in text citations.

Start the video at minute 9 and listen till the 24th minute , and then read this article http://blogs.reuters.com/lawrencesummers/2014/01/06/what-to-do-about-secular-stagnation/ (Links to an external site.)

and answer the following question in no more than 400 words:

What is secular stagnation? what are its causes? what are the implications of secular stagnation for the US  society well-being and what are the implications in terms of economic policy response, i.e How should we respond to secular stagnation in your opinion?

The video is :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zXQ3cv-Ygc

In EDU671, you identified the type of data, the frequency of collection, tools and have also explored topics related to ethical consideration of this information. You are in the process of collecting data for your action research in the field at this time.

Be reminded that you’re the approved Action Research Informed Consent allows your implementation of this action research intervention or innovation in a specialized setting as follows:

 

• Those currently employed in a classroom setting.
• Those currently employed in a non-classroom or educational setting.
• Those not employed but implementing the intervention or innovation with family members, yourself, or your own children.

 

You are also in the final week of your action research intervention. Through this process, your experience reinforces action research as being cyclical (Buczynski & Hansen, 2014; Mills, 2014) and for the best outcome we must engage in critical reflection of the data (Volante & Beckett, 2011).

Vital to the process of collecting data is the continual alignment to your research question(s). Equally important is how you will systematically collect multiple sources of data and present the finding to arise at comprehensive conclusions at the termination of your study. The quality of your data analysis is a strong predictor of the ease with which you can manage the data but how you can develop sound findings at the end of your study. Consider: How will you triangulate this information? How will you continue to build upon this information in order to make sense and correlate your data to your outcomes?

The focus of this assignment is to reflect on the data and to prepare for how to analyze in order to answer the research question. We want to answer the question of “So what?” (Mills, 2014, p.132) This is a critical stage of your action research! In this assignment, you evaluate the main themes emerging from your data thus far and how they are or are not supporting your research questions. For example, depending on what you are seeing in the data, you may have assessed that your research question should have been stated in a slightly different manner in order to more authentically capture the specific data. Or, perhaps the data tells you that one of your questions was irrelevant or that an additional question with a slightly different focus should have been asked.

Construct your assignment to meet the content and written communication expectations below.

Content Expectations

 

• Themes (2 points): Describe the themes emerging from the data collection.
• Personal Experiences (2 points): Analyze how the preliminary findings relate to your personal experiences using specific examples.
• Implications. (3 points): Describe the implications of your data that can be used to answer your research question(s).

 

Written Communication Expectations

 

• Page Requirement (.5 points): Three-to-four pages, not including title, references, and appendix pages.
• APA Formatting (.5 points): Use APA formatting consistently throughout the assignment.
• Syntax and Mechanics (.5 points): Display meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar.
• Source Requirement (.5 points): Use no less than two scholarly sources in addition to the Buczynski and Hansen (2014) and Mills (2009) textbooks, providing compelling evidence to support ideas, and if applicable, reference to original project if enhancement of existing project occurred. All sources on the reference page need to be used and cited correctly within the body of the assignment.