Author: chris

Listed below are the details outlining a crime scene that occurred over a period of time. You are to investigate and evaluate the crime and be prepared to present your information in a court in the form of a written document. You will have to use entomology, odontology, anthropology, pathology, and microbiology techniques to complete your investigation.

Carl and Joseph were in the woods of Georgia in early fall. They had set up a camp because they were both deer hunters. In the fall of years when the weather is cooler, deer are very prevalent. On this cool November morning, the men were walking through the woods in their quest for deer. On the second day of being in the woods, walking through what was really thick brush and uneven terrain, one of the men slipped and fell into what appeared to be a covering of a hole in the ground. As he began to try and pull himself out, he saw several skulls and bones lying around. He immediately screamed for his friend, who assisted him in getting out of the hole. Together, they looked in and saw skeletons and what appeared to be a decomposing body.

The two men called the local police. The police arrived, secured the area, and called for the forensic team to come and investigate. You are the forensic person that has been asked to identify the 5 skeletons in the grave and the body that was only partially decomposed.

Assignment Guidelines

• Address the following in 10–12 pages:
  • Why will this particular case require the use of forensic biology? Explain in detail.
  • When you arrive on the scene, what is your first course of action? Describe your process, and be specific.
    • How will you avoid contamination at this stage of the investigation? Explain.
    • How will you control the other first responders or law enforcement officers? What challenges do they pose to a forensic investigator? Explain.
  • What will you do to identify the remains at this crime scene? Explain.
    • What is the documentation process for collecting and preserving this type of evidence? Explain.
  • How will you transport your evidence to the lab safely? Explain.
  • Once you arrive back at the lab, what significant risks of contamination exist? Explain.
    • How will you avoid this contamination? Explain.
  • What is the process for DNA analysis on the decomposing body?
    • What specific tests will you use? Explain.
    • How will serology play a role in the selected testing processes? Explain.
      • Using this decomposing body as an example, what is the process that you will follow to properly conduct this DNA test?
    • What challenges or barriers exist when you begin to interpret the results of your DNA test? Explain in detail.
  • How large of a role will facial reconstruction play in this investigation? Explain.
  • Next, provide 2 scenarios of court case outcomes regarding this investigation.
    • One scenario must result in the successful identification and conviction of the perpetrator. You will need to fill in the blanks with regard to physical evidence and other necessary details.
    • The other scenario must result in a wrongful conviction. You will need to identify the elements that lead to this wrongful conviction.
• Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

Select a publicly traded corporation for which you would like to work or are currently working.

Research the corporation on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

1. Create a SWOT analysis for the company to determine its major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
2. Based on the SWOT analysis, outline a strategy for the company to capitalize on its strengths and opportunities, and minimize its weaknesses and threats.
3. Discuss the various levels and types of strategies the firm may use to maximize its competitiveness and profitability.
4. Outline a communications plan the company could use to make the strategies you recommend above known to all stakeholders.
5. Use at least five (5) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.
6. 5 pages on Marriott

Overview/Description: The final assignment will synthesize what you have discovered about the different advanced practice roles and scope of practice found in the master of nursing curriculum: NP, nurse educator, nurse informaticist, and nurse administrator. You will review all roles and then examine the specialty for which you were admitted, focusing on the scope of practice, core competencies, certification requirements, and legal aspects of practice for that specific role. You will also identify the practice environment and population you will be working with, as well as peers and colleagues. In addition, you will discuss your future leadership role and participation in professional organizations. Your paper is to be based on current literature, standards of practice, core competencies, and certification bodies for your chosen role. The paper should be 10–12 pages excluding the title and reference, and APA format is required. Criteria: • Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing: o Compare and contrast the roles of the NP, nurse educator, nurse informaticist, and nurse administrator in advanced practice nursing pertaining to clinical practice, primary care, education, administration, and research. • Selected Advanced Practice Role: o Examine regulatory and legal requirements for the state in which you plan to practice. o Describe the professional organizations available for membership based on your selected role. o Identify required competencies, including certification requirements for your selected role. o Predict the organization and setting, population, and colleagues with whom you plan to work. • Leadership Attributes of the Advanced Practice Role: o Determine your leadership style (http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl-leadershipquiz.htm). o After taking the quiz my leadership style was Participative Leadership Participative leaders accept input from one or more group members when making decisions and solving problems, but the leader retains the final say when choices are made. Group members tend to be encouraged and motivated by this style of leadership. This style of leadership often leads to more effective and accurate decisions, since no leader can be an expert in all areas. Input from group members with specialized knowledge and expertise creates a more complete basis for decision-making. o Identify leadership attributes you currently possess, and attributes you may need to develop. o Determine how to attain and evaluate those missing attributes. • Health Policy and the Advanced Practice Role • Visit the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (http://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/newsroom/features-and-articles/health-policy.html) and identify a health policy issue. Conduct a review of literature and address the following: o Describe the current policy and what needs to change; justify your conclusions with citations from the literature. o Provide the process required to make the change with key players and parties of interest. o Explain how you could lead the effort to make or influence the change in policy. o Predict the effect on healthcare quality if the change in policy is implemented. Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing: • Compared and contrasted the roles of the NP, nurse educator, nurse informaticist, and nurse administrator in advanced practice nursing pertaining to clinical practice, primary care, education, administration, and research. 60 Individual Advanced Practice Role (20 points each): • Examined regulatory and legal requirements for the state in which you plan to practice. • Described the professional organizations available for membership based on your selected role. • Identified required competencies, including certification requirements for your selected role. • Predicted the organization and setting, population, and colleagues with whom you plan to work. 80 Leadership Attributes of the Advanced Practice Role (20 points each): • Determined your leadership style. • Identified leadership attributes you currently possess and attributes you may need to develop. • Determined how to attain and evaluate those missing attributes. 60 Health Policy and the Advanced Practice Role (20 points each): Visited the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and identified a health policy issue. Conducted a review of literature and addressed the following: • Described the current policy and what needs to change; justified your conclusions with citations from the literature. • Provided the process required to make the change with key players and parties of interest. • Explained how you could lead the effort to make or influence the change in policy. • Predicted the effect on healthcare quality if the change in policy is implemented. 80 APA Style/Format: Used correct spelling, grammar, and professional vocabulary. Cited and referenced all sources using APA format. Free of grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors. Citations and references are written in correct APA Style. 20 Total: 300

Paper PHI 2010 – Debate

Choose a debate that concerns you in some way (I.E. Business Ethics/Law etc). Make a clear decision on which side of the debate you stand on. Use facts to back up your position.

Requirements

1. A) Choose a debate topic that interests you and your possible/current career or life interests (the problem of evil, ethics at workplace, laws, freedom, etc.) Briefly explain the topic in simple terms and introduce your thesis immediately (how and why do you stand on this side of the argument or why you have a new idea about the argument) – 1 page
2. B) Sketch out how the main philosophical debates and philosophers that we have discussed in class feel about this issue). Use examples from the texts to support your stance on how they feel, this is not the part of the paper where you place your opinion yet, so remain neutral. – 4 pages
3. C) Criticize the arguments that you disagree with – 3 pages
4. D) Defend your thesis with quotes, resources and statistics as well as opinion – 3 pages
5. E) Present information that may weaken your thesis – 1 page
6. F) Present new arguments (this part will be all new and synthesized by you) to strengthen and overcome your thesis weakness – 1 page
7. G) Present evidence/opinion on how your thesis works in real world scenarios (provide examples that are original and your own) to further support its usefulness and correctness. 1 page
8. H) Provide a synopsis or conclusion of what you discovered in the process – 1 page

 

 

Tips on Writing the Paper

1. A philosophy paper consists of the reasoned defense of some claim

Your paper must offer an argument. It can’t consist in the mere report of your opinions, nor in a mere report of the opinions of the philosophers we discuss. You have to defend the claims you make. You have to offer reasons to believe them.

So you can’t just say:

My view is that P.

You must say something like:

My view is that P. I believe this because…or: I find that the following considerations…provide a convincing argument for P.

Similarly, don’t just say:

Descartes says that Q.

Instead, say something like:

Descartes says that Q; however, the following thought-experiment will show that Q is not true… or: Descartes says that Q. I find this claim plausible, for the following reasons…

There are a variety of things a philosophy paper can aim to accomplish. It usually begins by putting some thesis or argument on the table for consideration. Then it goes on to do one or two of the following:

1. 1. Criticize that argument; or show that certain arguments for the thesis are no good
   2. Defend the argument or thesis against someone else’s criticism
   3. Offer reasons to believe the thesis
   4. Offer counter-examples to the thesis
   5. Contrast the strengths and weaknesses of two opposing views about the thesis
   6. Give examples which help explain the thesis, or which help to make the thesis more plausible
   7. Argue that certain philosophers are committed to the thesis by their other views, though they do not come out and explicitly endorse the thesis
   8. Discuss what consequences the thesis would have, if it were true
   9. Revise the thesis, in the light of some objection

No matter which of these aims you set for yourself, you have to explicitly present reasons for the claims you make. Students often feel that since it’s clear to them that some claim is true, it does not need much argument. But it’s very easy to overestimate the strength of your own position. After all, you already accept it. You should assume that your audience does not already accept your position; and you should treat your paper as an attempt to persuade such an audience. Hence, don’t start with assumptions which your opponents are sure to reject. If you’re to have any chance of persuading people, you have to start from common assumptions you all agree to.

1. A good philosophy paper is modest and makes a small point; but it makes that point clearly and straightforwardly, and it offers good reasons in support of it

People very often attempt to accomplish too much in a philosophy paper. The usual result of this is a paper that’s hard to read, and which is full of inadequately defended and poorly explained claims. So don’t be over-ambitious. Don’t try to establish any earth-shattering conclusions in your 15-18 page paper. Done properly, philosophy moves at a slow pace.

1. Originality

The aim of these papers is for you to show that you understand the material and that you’re able to think critically about it. To do this, your paper does have to show some independent thinking.

That doesn’t mean you have to come up with your own theory, or that you have to make a completely original contribution to human thought. There will be plenty of time for that later on. An ideal paper will be clear and straightforward (see below), will be accurate when it attributes views to other philosophers (see below), and will contain thoughtful critical responses to the texts we read. It need not always break completely new ground.

But you should try to come up with your own arguments, or your own way of elaborating or criticizing or defending some argument we looked at in class. Merely summarizing what others have said won’t be enough.

 

Identify a theory that can be used to support your proposed solution. Write a summary (250-500 words) in which you: 1. Describe the theory and your rationale for selecting the theory. 2. Discuss how the theory works to support your proposed solution. 3. Explain how you will incorporate the theory into your project. Model/Theory of choice is Pender’s Health Belief Model Please use only citations from 2011 to 2016.

Discuss teen pregnancy and drug use.

Read about Hofstede’s Six Dimensions of Culture here: http://geert-hofstede.com/national-culture.html Discuss Hofstede’s six cultural dimensions and how they relate to leadership. Explain what combination of dimensions you think would make the most effective leader.

1.Name and explain two different types of risks especially relevant to early stage high-potential ventures.

2.Please explain the compensation structure of VC and PE firms.

3.Describe possible explanations for an investor’s decision to convert preferred stock to common stock in connection with a liquidation event for a venture

4.Describe the shortcomings/limitations of the Venture Opportunity Screening (VOS) Model discussed in class. How did we say the Model could be modified (adapted) to make it more useful to entrepreneurs and prospective investors? Remember that many of the comments also apply to the other screening models (New venture template & VOSE)

5.What does it mean that a firm is “Burning Cash”; and how does burning cash relate to the need for external funding in a start-up business?

6.

Marty Jones is negotiating with a Venture Capital Fund for $10 MIL financing for his new venture. Marty is the sole founder and owns 100% of the company’s equity. He is adamant that he must keep a 60% interest in the company after external capital is raised.

A VC investor believes an 10X return in NLT 5 years is an appropriate return for the risk associated with this investment.

The company has just begun generating revenue, and it does not expect to generate positive Cash Flow (CF) until Year 2. Discreet Cash Flow projections prepared from pro forma financial statements are presented below. After the discreet forecasting period (Yr 4), Rick and the VC expect CFs to grow by 3.5% per year in perpetuity.

Year	Cash Flow
1	$ -2,800,000
2	$  1,000,000
3	$  3,750,000
4	$ 11,000,000

1. What imputed rate of return demanded by the investor? (3)
2. Given that required rate of return, what value would the VCs probably give to projected Discreet Period pro forma CFs? (3)
3. What is the firm’s Terminal Value (TV)? (2)
4. What is the Present Value of the firm? (2)
5. At that valuation; how much of the company will Marty have to give up to raise $10 million and will he do the deal?

7.

Your start-up company has been funded as follows:

	Investment	% ownership	Preference	Cap
Family Loans (Yr 0)	$ 1,250,000	0	na	na
Founders Investment (YR 0)	$   500,000	40%	(0)	na
Round #1 Investment (YR 2)	4,000,000	35%	(2X)	None
Round #2 Investment (YR 3)	5,000,000	25%	(1X)	2X

 

The family loans carry a 14% coupon cumulative simple interest rate; however the company was only able to pay $50,000 interest in Year 1 and $ 80,000 interest in Year 3.

In Year 6 the company is considering a $31,000,000 purchase offer from larger competitor. Round #1 and Round #2 investors hold CONVERTIBLE, fully PARTICIPATING Preferred Stock.

Participation is in the %’s indicated above. Round #1 Shares earn 8% CUMULATIVE annual Dividends; and Round #2 Shares earn 6% CUMULATIVE annual Dividends. No Dividends have been paid prior to the Sales Transaction. Assume preference will be paid in order of investment (i.e Round 1 gets paid first)

How will the net sale proceeds be distributed to each stakeholder and what are their rates of returns assuming the deal closes during Year 6?

Family lenders:

Round 1 Investors:

Round 2 Investors:

Founders:

 

You have been hired as the CIO of a large multinational Internet advertising company. The president of the company is entertaining a major new software development project to keep track of advertising revenues. She asked you to prepare a report on the current and future state of software development and testing for this advertising company so that she can make an educated decision on how to proceed with the new development. The goal is to have a loosely coupled, Java-based platform for this Web-based company.

 

Use the Strayer Library or other libraries of your choice to conduct research about software development and testing.

 

Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page paper in which you:

1. Define and explain, in your own words, the primary challenge(s) of software development projects.
2. Compare and contrast at least three (3) different software development methods.
3. Explain why the testing of software products is of great importance.
4. Provide a graphical depiction of your solution through the use of Microsoft Visio or its open source alternative, Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
5. Identify potential ethical issues that may arise as a result of the company doing business across several different countries and cultures, and recommend ways to mitigate these challenges.
6. Compare and contrast at least three (3) testing approaches to software development.
7. 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; 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.
• Include charts or diagrams created in Visio or an equivalent such as Dia. The completed diagrams / charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Evaluate the issues and challenges associated with software engineering.
• Compare and contrast software development process models.
• Explain the importance of software testing.
• Compare and contrast the various testing approaches to software engineering.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in software engineering.
• Write clearly and concisely about software engineering using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

 

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills

Looking at the world from today’s perspective what do you consider to be the two biggest problems (political, economic. Social or military) that we as a global citizens face and why? What are the historical roots of these problems, and how have they impacted the world that we live in? Hints: your response should make reference to at least one of the major historical moments that we have discussed this – decolonization the Cold War, globalization, religious conflict, global terrorism etc your response should also give specific detail about the historical moment you reference the more detail the better