Author: chris

• As a public health professional, it is likely that you will conduct focus groups as part of community health assessments. Focus groups are useful when exploring community issues and developing good survey questions. As with all research, planning the focus group is important so that the data you seek can be easily and reliably collected and will yield valid results. A focus group protocol is created to describe all planned procedures. It serves as a road map to the public health professional detailing what he or she plans to do when conducting a particular focus group. For this week’s Assignment, review the readings on qualitative research skills to help you develop a focus group protocol.

  The Assignment (4–6 pages):

  Submit  5– to 6-page paper outlining a focus group protocol:

  • Describe a subgroup from your community (include relevant demographics such as gender, socioeconomic status, age).
  • Restate the public health problem in the community health profile you created in Week 5.
  • Create six questions for the focus group related to the identified public health problem (e.g., contributing factors, potential solutions, assets available to solve the problem).
  • Describe methods you would use for recruiting participants and collecting and managing the data. Explain why these methods would be effective.
  • Create a brief (two-paragraph) consent form that summarizes the reason for the focus group, procedures to be followed, participants’ rights, and procedures for maintaining confidentiality

A competency model is a set of knowledge, skills, behaviors, or attributes, which defines what is needed by a person to be effective in a particular leadership position. Chapter 7 of the course text introduces the concept of competency models and provides an example of a leadership competency model. Study the practice of competency modeling and existing leadership competency models. Using the Ashford University Library, search for a minimum of three scholarly sources on competency models and develop a competency model for a particular leadership position, such as college president, mayor, college athletic coach, or chief executive officer.

In your paper

• Provide an overview of your competency model.
• List three to five specific skills, abilities, behaviors, attitudes, and/or knowledge areas you believe are important for success in the position. Clearly define and provide examples of each.
• Illustrate how you would go about evaluating leaders in a specific leadership position using your model.
• Discuss how your model of leadership assists in the development of leaders.

Your paper should be two to three pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center, and it must include citations and references from the text and at least three scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library.

Question 1  

Describe how ISO 9000 has evolved in the past several years. What are the eight quality management principles the standards enhance?

Your response should 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.

Question 2  

Is it possible for a product’s life-cycle stage to affect its product strategy? Describe how one product in growth and another in maturity might have different product strategies.

Your response should 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.

Question 3

Identify and describe the three process regions from process-chain-network (PCN) analysis.

Your response should 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.

Question 4

Read the Southwestern University case study on page 230, including the fan satisfaction survey results in table 6.6 and the open-ended comments on survey cards at the top of page 231. Use at least two different quality tools to analyze the data. What conclusions would you present to SWU president Joel Wisner?

Your response should 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.

Course Textbook

Heizer, J., & Render, B. (2013). Operations management: Sustainability and supply chain management (11th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

You have learned that the oldest and most reliable type of biometrics is the fingerprint; however, other biometrics are being used alone or in conjunction with fingerprints in in criminal investigations.

Respond to the following:

• Identify and explain 2 other forms of biometrics.
• How they are helping identify suspects in criminal investigations?
• What are some of the limitations or challenges of your chosen biometrics related to criminal investigations?

In your own words, please post a response to the Discussion Board and comment on other postings. You will be graded 

Biometrics continues to be an emerging field, and its use continues to evolve in criminal investigations. As you know, fingerprints are considered to be scientifically valid evidence that has been accepted by various courts. However, many of these new technologies have not had enough time to be scientifically recognized as valid means of identifying somebody for criminal trial related purposes. With this in mind, examine some of the challenges with the lesser accurate forms of biometrics, including facial recognition, voice recognition (voice stress analysis), or signature recognition. Prepare a 3–5 page paper that addresses the following questions:

• Select 1 of the above listed less accurate forms of biometrics and summarize the science behind it (i.e., how it works) and how it can be used in criminal investigations.
• Identify at least 2 challenges to the selected biometric. In other words, what are the limitations of its use?
• Provide a hypothetical example of the selected biometric being used in a criminal investigation.
• Support your work with properly cited research and examples of the selected biometrics applied in the public and private sector.

Chapter 1:

1. What do you think Christine Frederick feared when she said “Our greatest enemy is the woman with the career?” Page 29

Christine Frederick’s quote went against what Ellen Richards was working towards. I think by her saying this, she was fearful that women would go into the workforce and forget about their home and role as a homemaker. She might have also feared that a woman would wait until she finished school to get married and have children. A woman with a career would have other priorities, not just to please her husband and to procreate. Instead, she suggested that a woman can practice her skills as in the home, for example decorating her house and planning balanced meals for her own children.

2. Ellen Richards was accepted in MIT as a “special student” because they didn’t want have the precedent of coeducation. Is this something that could still be happening in today’s society? A woman having to be unknown or not on a roster because of her gender?

It seems silly that in the 21st century, women can be rejected into schools because of their gender. I don’t think this is an issue in schools. I think it is more common in the work force, specifically in the writing world. Many female authors have pseudonames because publishers won’t even look at their books if they are written by females. Many famous books/series, for example the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling, would never have been published.

Chapter 2:

1. Why did women carry a heavier burden during the domestic sanitary uplift?

It was easier for men to upkeep the outside of the home. They could hire someone to fix the plumbing or to aid with construction of the house. Women were responsible inside the home because they were deemed more fit. They had to make sure the home was clean and their kids were healthy. Although some middle/upperclass women could afford to pay for help, they still had to make sure everything was done right to avoid someone catching ill.

2. The end of the chapter states “we may find ourselves turning to those old texts on household sanitation and bacteriology for more than historical insight” (54). Do you think this is true or has our science come far enough?

Being in the science field has showed me that science has come so far in preventing the spread of diseases in everyday life. Every hospital/clinic I have volunteered/interned at has SDS books that can help anyone in any situation. Even in our homes, all of our cleaning supplies have warning signs and directions that help even the novice cleaner. I think the foreshadow or threat in this book is dramatic and incorrect. We also know many of the ways bacteria/germs were handled in the past were incorrect.

Write a white paper on a company of your choice and discuss the market segmentation within that industry along with the target market for the company and the selection process for that target market.

Required Elements:

• No more than 2100 words
• Include demographic, psychographic, geographic, and behavioral characteristics for the selected company.
• A positioning statement for the company with careful consideration of their brand and strategy
• Paper is consistent with APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

Develop the framework for an ideal psychological support agency to respond to a national catastrophic event. (Recent events).

Write a 1,400- to 2,450-word report that details the psychological support framework.

Include the following in your report:

• The size of the agency
• Qualifications and skills of the employees
• Services provided
• The key components of the agency and its overarching mission
• How the agency can work with other organizations and what role the criminal justice system would play in this agency, if any.

Format the report consistent with APA guidelines, utilize in-text citations, and references.

Write a 1,250- to 1,500-word paper on the innovation planning and design process addressed in Week Two. Include the following in your paper:

• Analyze the internal and external factors related to designing innovation strategies. Describe how they relate to one another and to the overall innovation process.
• Describe the factors involved in innovation systems design. Explain the importance of innovation systems.
• Describe the steps involved in the innovation planning process.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines and incorporate at least four scholarly references in addition to your texts.