Author: chris

 

Creswell (2014) discusses data analysis and the interpretation of results. The author also identifies various threats to validity, strategies for specifying variables, techniques for dealing effectively with study participants, and suggests some techniques for evaluating the results of a research study (SEE ATTACHED).  After examining his suggestions, consider the strengths and weaknesses of his approach as you

 

• Describe the various components of an experimental method plan, as envisioned by the author.
• Explain two styles of threats to validity.
• Describe the nuances involved in interpreting results from an empirical study.

The paper

• Must use at least three peer-reviewed sources in addition to the course text.
• Must document all sources in APA style.
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style

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To maintain political, governmental, staff, and patient loyalty, the healthcare organization must provide a sense of organizational stability and view of the legislative landscape. In Chapters 14 and 15 we have researched and investigated the need to align both public opinion with staff trust. The political landscape is the basis for healthcare policy, guidance, state, local, and community support (both fiscal and legal) engaging in political trade-offs to stabilize the healthcare industry (such as in the cost, pharmaceuticals, insurance premiums, and organizational ROI in the healthcare industry). Healthcare organizations must provide the necessary guidance and advocacy for stakeholders in the setting of both state and federal legislature as a voice of reason, authority, and integrity. Provide information on the following:

• Research a policy associated with the Affordable Care Act in your home state or another state that may affect healthcare reform and/or the way health care is provided in the chosen state.
• Describe the policy and who wrote and/or promoted the policy legislature (provide statistical data).
• What are the trade-offs offered to bring balance to the healthcare stakeholders?
• What role have public perception and disinterestedness played in the valuation of healthcare performance?
• Describe how process innovation, risk taking, health policy analysis, and governance “sense-making” provide balance for stakeholders.

Your paper

• Must be 4 to 6 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at least four scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separat

 

To understand contemporary policing in America, it is essential to understand the history by looking at the past eras. The police have day-to-day practices influenced by deeply ingrained traditions.  It’s also necessary to comprehend how an officer’s career begins, from the academy to the street. The effective partnership between the police and the community must also be understood to better appreciate the development and functions of police.

 

Write a five to seven (5-7) page paper in which you:

 

1. Compare and contrast the major characteristics of the political and reform eras of policing.
2. Identify the skills and knowledge that are imparted to police trainees during their academy training and explain the importance of these skills in relation to real world applications.
3. Provide your own definition of community-policing and explain the difference between community policing and traditional policing.
4. Critically examine the important elements of implementation and evaluation phases of community policing and problem solving.
5. Determine the top five (5) qualities that detectives and undercover officers need to possess (one [1] being the most important). Provide a rationale for your response.
6. Use at least four (4) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources. Preferably criminal justice journals and book, can be more than 4.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• 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 and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

• Trace the development of law enforcement organizations and police operations in America.
• Illustrate the nature of police work and describe the training and management of police officers.
• Analyze the development of community-oriented policing and describe its impact on communities today.
• Describe the nature and purpose of criminal investigation, including some investigative techniques.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in law enforcement operations and management.
• Write clearly and concisely about law enforcement operations and management using proper writing mechanics.

 

Part III Overview

To make corporate finance decisions, take an advanced finance course, or pursue a career in finance, you will need to understand basic concepts. This includes going beyond the number crunching and reading graphs in order to analyze various financial indicators. This analysis can lead to many important decisions in your financial career. For this part of the final project, you will be given a scenario in which you are asked to illustrate your financial knowledge and analysis skills.

 

This part of the assessment addresses the following course outcomes:

 

• Analyze the roles and responsibilities of financial managers in confirming compliance with federal and shareholder requirements
• Differentiate between various financial markets and institutions by comparing and contrasting options when selecting appropriate private and corporate investments
• Compute financial ratios, time value, variables, and returns using industry standard tools for optimizing financial success
• Analyze corporate financial data for multiple companies in evaluating past and future financial performances

 

Part III Prompt

The results of both sections of your employment examination have finally been received, and you were offered the position. You have a few important decisions to make before you can formally accept or decline the position. When composing your answers to these decisions, ensure that they are cohesive and read like a short essay.

 

Your submission must address the following critical elements:

 

1. School Versus Work
2. The school you would like to attend costs $100,000. To help finance your education, you need to choose whether or not to sell your 1,000 shares of Apple stock, 1,000 EE Savings Bonds (with $100 denominations and 4.25% coupon rate) that are five years from their 30-year maturity date, or a combination of both. Provide the appropriate data and calculations that you would perform to make this decision.
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of selling a combination of stocks and bonds? Be sure to support your answers.
4. Suppose that you choose to sell your stocks, bonds, or a combination of both. What is your choice, and what is your financial reasoning behind this choice? Consider supporting your answer with quantitative data.
5. Suppose that you choose to accept the job. What is your financial reasoning behind this choice? Be sure to support your answer with quantitative data.

                

1. Bonus Versus Stock
2. The company has offered you a $5,000 bonus, which you may receive today, or 100 shares of the company’s stock, which has a current stock price of $50 per share. Mathematically, what is the best choice? Why?
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each option? Be sure to support your answers.
4. What would you ultimately choose to do? What is your financial reasoning behind this choice? Consider supporting your answer with quantitative data.

 

III.    Compliance

1933. While investigating the shares offered to you by your potential boss, you discover that the company you are considering working for is not registered as required under the Securities Act of 1933. How does this influence you as a potential employee and as a potential shareholder? Be sure to reference any applicable statutes or laws.
1934. You know that accepting this job may eventually lead to a promotion into the role of the financial manager. As the potential financial manager, what federal and shareholder requirements would you need to be familiar with in order to ensure that you are being completely compliant?

 

Review the assigned case study and complete this assignment.

Write a five to seven (5-7) page paper in which you:

1. Analyze how the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) apply to the facts of the case study. Provide examples to support your analysis.
2. Determine the project benefits, organizational readiness, and risk culture of the company in the case study. Provide justification for your response.
3. Develop at least three (3) project risk recommendations based on the analysis from criteria number 1 and 2 of this assignment.
4. Identify the initial categories of risk (RBS Level 1 and 2) that you see as being present in the case study using the Example Risk Checklist (Figure A-2, Hillson & Simon text).
5. Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be 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 and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze the critical success factors (CSFs), project benefits, and organizational readiness and risk culture of the company.
• Apply the results of this analysis to the development of project risk recommendations.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in project risk management
• Write clearly and concisely about project risk management using proper writing mechanics.

 

Families have changed greatly over the past 60 years, and they continue to become more diverse.

 

• Why is the family considered the most important agent of socialization?
• What caused the dramatic changes to the American family?  What are those changes?
• Describe the differences in marriage and family life that are linked to class, race, gender, and personal choice.
• Do you feel the trend towards diverse families is positive or negative?
• If the trend changed towards traditional (pre-World War II) families, how would that affect women’s rights?

 

This paper is an opportunity for you to reflect on your learning from the course readings and discussions – to apply them to the Leadership Challenge(s) faced by your chosen ‘Famous Leader’. The point of the assignment is to show your instructor that you have a reasonable command of the leadership subject matter and can see its impact in a real-world setting.  You need to provide sufficient explanation and documentation to support the points you are making.

 

Using the Davenport University Library resources and reputable websites such as biography.com and notablebiographies.com,research the life and leadership challenges faced by the ‘Famous Leader’ that you chose for this assignment.  You should have a minimum of 5 different references for your paper.

After finding sufficient biographical information:

• Thoroughly read and understand your leader’s background!
• Summarize the leader’s ‘life story‘ in 4 to 6 paragraphs.
• Describe one (or more, as appropriate) significant ‘leadership challenges’ that leader faced.
• Discuss how he/she overcame the challenge(s).
• Explain ‘why‘ the outcome was important.
• Finally, conclude with a paragraph or two stating what lessons can be learned from your report.
• Use proper citations (APA format) when discussing the information found in your research!
• Double-space your paper and use a standard 12-point font and standard margins.
• Proofread your paper for logical consistency, punctuation, and grammar.

At the end of your paper, properly reference books, articles and websites using standard APA format.  If you used information from a book, for example, provide the: Author’s Name(s), Year Published, Title, Place of Publication, and Publisher.  For example:

 

O’Reilly, B. & Dugard, M.  (2014).  Killing Patton: The strange death of World War II’s most  

            audacious general.  New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, LLC.

 

In addition, there must be a separate cover page and reference page.  I would expect that most leadership reports would be four to five pages of text (plus the required cover page and reference page).

 

Case Studies

 

Case studies are an important learning strategy in business classes as they provide an opportunity for you to analyze real-life events that have occurred in business and industry. You will examine situations that managers have dealt with in a variety of situations, applying theoretical concepts from the textbook and researching supplemental information that will aid you in responding to the questions. Typically, this will chart the way for a managerial response involving changing the business or corporate strategy.

 

Unit I Case Study

 

Choose ONE of the case options below. Evaluate the case, and respond to each question that follows the case using both theory and practical managerial thinking.

Your APA formatted Case Study should be a minimum of 500 words (not including the title and references pages). You are required to use a minimum of three peer-reviewed, academic sources that are no more than five years old (one of which may be your textbook). All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Kotler, P., & Keller, K. (2012). Marketing Management (14 ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ, US: Prentice Hall

Answer any 12 questions THOROUGHLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY!!!! Provide examples for each response when appropriate. Your answers need to reflect information and key terms from the textbook. This exam is DUE BY NOON ON FRIDAY. Compose your responses in Word document and submit your exam here.

Chapter 2

1. Discuss the various ways of measuring learning.

2. Explain how a cumulative recorder works?

3. Explain the difference between within-subject and between-subjects experiments.

4. Explain why a random assignment of subjects is unnecessary in ABA experiments.

5. Discuss the ethics of using animals for research on learning.

Chapter 3

6. Explain the differences among trace, delay, simultaneous, and backward procedures.

7. Explain why Pavlovian conditioning is not really a simple form of learning.

8. How has the study of Pavlovian conditioning altered your view of human nature?

9. Explain how extinction of CR can be viewed as the acquisition of a behavior?

Chapter 4

10. Describe how a person might learn to be an embarrassed by the word strawberry.

11. Summarize Garcia/s work on taste aversion. Explain how his work differed from most studies of Pavlovian conditioning.

12. Describe the work of Watson and Rayner with little Albert.

13. How might you use Pavlovian conditioning be use a boost the body’s immune system in response to a CS?

14. Describe how you might have cured Little Albert’s phobia?

15. How do the experiments of Carolyn and Aurthur Staats help us understand prejudice?

16. What are the practical implications of Siegel’s work for people who use narcotic drugs?

CHAPTER 5-7

Answer all questions THOROUGHLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY!!!! Provide examples for each response when appropriate. This is an open book exam and your answers need to reflect information and key terms from the textbook. This exam is DUE BY NOON ON FRIDAY. Compose your responses in Word document and submit your exam here.

Chapter 5

1. What are the differences between classical conditioning and operant conditioning?

2. What is the chief problem with the two-process theory of avoidance?

3. How does the Sidman avoidance procedure differ from other avoidance procedures?

4. Describe how you would use shaping to train a pigeon to hop on one foot.

5. Compare Premack’s relative value theory with the response deprivation theory of Timberlake and Allison.

6. Your textbook describes various tips for shaping effectively. Describe in these tips and provide a specific example of how you can use these tips for shaping in your daily life.

Ch 6

7. Your text describes various tips for shaping effectively. Describe as many of these tips as you can.

8. Describe the basic laboratory procedure for establishing superstitious behavior. Explain why it is usually difficult to specify in advance what superstitious behavior will result.

9. Why is insight not an adequate explanation of problem solving?

Chapter 7

10. Explain why fatigue is not a good explanation for postreinforcement pauses.

11. That teacher has a student, who gives up at the first sign of difficulty. How can the teacher increase the child’s persistence?

12. How might you use what you know about reinforcement schedules to study the effects of air temperature on behavior?

13. Why is the study of reinforcement schedules important?

CHAPTER 8-10

Answer all questions THOROUGHLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY!!!! Provide examples for each response when appropriate. This is an open book exam and your answers need to reflect information and key terms from the textbook. This exam is DUE BY NOON ON FRIDAY. Compose your responses in Word document and submit your exam here.

Chapter 8

1. You have a 10 year old child who mistreats the family dog. Describe two ways of dealing with this problem without using punishment.

2. It is common practice to begin punishment with a very weak punisher, and gradually increase the intensity of the punisher until one finds an effective level of intensity. Is this a good idea? Why or why not?

3. What is the fundamental difference between the two-process, and one-process theory of punishment?

4. Briefly discuss the problems associated with punishment.

Chapter 9

5. Which is the better way of reducing the frequency of misbehavior in students, time out or differential reinforcement?

6. Researchers have demonstrated that the rate of work-related accidents can be reduced by reinforcing safe practices with bonuses and time off, but why are such efforts necessary? In other words, why do workers not follow safe practices spontaneously since they benefit by avoiding injuries?

7. How could you use operant procedures to improve the adoption rate of orphans aged five to twelve?

Chapter 10

8. Discuss the role of observational learning in criminal behavior.

9. Why has observational learning received less attention than other forms of learning?

10. Design an experiment to determine the role of delayed reinforcement of a model’s behavior in observational learning.

 

CHAPTER 11-13

Answer all questions THOROUGHLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY!!!! Provide examples for each response when appropriate. This is an open book exam and your answers need to reflect information and key terms from the textbook. Compose your responses in Word document and submit your exam here.

Chapter 11

1. How could a speech teacher encourage oratorical skills to generalize outside of the classroom?

2, Discuss the DOE and its implications for discrimination training.

3. Describe the role that semantic generalization may play in prejudices.

Chapter 13

4. Suppose learning were passed on from generation to generation, how would your relationship with your parents be different?

5. How might preparedness to learn be nonadaptive?

6. Does learning inevitably mean progress? Why or why not?

7. Identify 20 major learning from this course and how you applied these lessons learned into your life.