Critically analyze and reflect on how our understanding of a set of theories or a theory of your choice can inform social work practice

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Students should provide a critical appraisal of the interplay of theory and practice in the context of social justice and anti-oppression.
The essay should:
• Critically discuss the relationship of theory and practice
• Critically analyze and reflect on how our understanding of a set of theories or a theory of your choice can inform social work practice
• Critically evaluate the extent to which our theoretical understanding of the social world informs anti-oppressive practice or promotes social justice.
Note that it is a requirement that students follow the guidelines for the presentation of assignments as indicated in the Programme and Module
Handbooks.
All references used in Coursework must abide by the University’s Referencing Style;
i.e., Harvard Style. A referencing guide is also provided in the Moodle site (under this Module).

Sized 12 plain font (e.g Calibri), Doubled spaced, Margin width of least 25mm (1inch) each side,
Page numbered (e.g, page 1 of 10, page 2 of 10, page 3 of 10 etc)
page breaks where necessary, spell checked, and read proof
Paragraph style should be consistent
Either one blank line space (only) with no indentation on the first line of paragraph, or no space between paragraph and indent on the first line.

4. Recommended References Uploaded below:
References double spacing (normally hanging indent)  appendices double spacing if possible.

The assignment length /work count (includes all written text apart from figures & tables; reference list; appendices and title page) should be the beginning of the course work.

Compare the accuracy and precision of the two methods using graphical and analytical methods. Which method was more accurate?

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Case Study 1: Understanding Process Measurement Variation

Due Week 4 and worth 180 points
For this assignment, you will need to conduct an experiment then create visuals that will be placed within a PowerPoint presentation to present your findings. Your presentation should be easy to read and have a consistent design theme throughout. Please view the first four chapters in the following Lynda.com course on PowerPoint Essentials before creating your presentation.

PowerPoint2019 Essentials Training

Read the following experimental variation scenario:

To help you learn about measurement variation, try this experiential learning exercise. (We are indebted to Alan Goodman, DuPont Company, Wilmington, Delaware, for bringing this exercise to our attention.)

You have started a new business providing height measurements of humans. Your customers expect accurate and precise measurements. You offer two methods of measurement: (1) a yardstick or a meter stick, and (2) a tape measure. You need to test the two methods to evaluate their performance and provide the results to your customers.

For this experiment you will need the following tools:
A yardstick or meter stick
A tape measure
Access to an entrance door that is 6 feet or taller
A group of 20 or more people (they do not have to be gathered at the same time, but it should be 20 different people that participate).
You will test Method 1 in this way: Identify a group of 20 or more people. You will ask the group of 20 or more people to measure the height of the entrance door that is approximately 6 feet or taller. Be sure that the entrance door is the same for each member of the group. Each person will measure the height of the door using the yardstick or the meter stick and will silently report the measurement to you or to someone you have designated as the data collector. You will then tabulate the data and plot each measurement on a run or sequence chart. No deviation from the prescribed method is allowed.
In method 2, you may use the same, or a different, group of 20 or more people and the same or a different entrance door. This time, the group will use the tape measure in any way the group members desire. Again, each person silently reports the measurement of the entrance door to you or a designated data collector, and you will tabulate and plot each data point.

You will then create a PowerPoint presentation that includes each of the following items:

Compare the accuracy and precision of the two methods using graphical and analytical methods. Which method was more accurate? Develop a flow chart for each method in which you specify the key problems that might be present. Develop the supplier, input, process steps, output, and customer (SIPOC) model to analyze the process of both methods. This can also be done in the flow chart. (Please reference these instructions on how to create a flow chart in Microsoft Word.)

Analyze the flow chart and SIPOC model to identify opportunity for improvement (OFI). Next, categorize whether the OFI are caused by special causes or common causes variations. Provide a rationale for your response. Which method of measurement would you recommend? Why? Should different methods be used under different circumstances? Consider the role of different customer segments.

Discuss the feelings the group(s) had when using the two methods. What were the differences between the two sets of feelings? Are these differences important?

Use research.strayer.edu to identify at least two (2) quality references to support your discussion

Based upon your research findings for the marketing mix, recommend a strategy that you believe will increase profits and sales to the target market.

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Continue using the company McDonalds that you used in parts 1 and 2 to complete part 3 requirements.

Part 3 requirements
1:
Continuing in the role of a marketing professional who has been tasked with completing a marketing plan for a client, refer back to the research you completed in the Part 1: Research and the Part 2: Product or Service and Price assignments. Conduct additional research related to place and promotion and use it to complete the “Marketing Plan Analysis and Presentation: Part 3 – Research Template.”

2:
Add to the PowerPoint presentation you created by creating five to eight additional slides that summarize your marketing plan analysis based on the research you have conducted about place and promotion. Slides should address each of the key areas listed below and should include speaker notes that explain how the company could have used what it learned about consumer behavior, product or service, and pricing to help it develop a marketing plan in order to meet the company’s marketing objectives and business needs. When creating the presentation, provide links to specific YouTube and social media site examples that illustrate the current company messaging and promotional techniques. The final presentation should provide a comprehensive look at how the brand promotes their products to customers.
Based upon what you learned from your research and strategy assessment, recommend a strategy the company could employ to increase profits and sales to the target market. Include two or three final slides that summarize and justify your strategy recommendation.

Place:
1. Describe distribution channels (direct, manufacturer to consumer, indirect, wholesalers/retailers, multi channels).
2. Discuss possible channel conflicts.
Promotion:
1. What forms of advertising and promotion does the company use? What role does personal selling fulfill for the company?
2. What forms of media does the company use? Describe the media mix.
3. Illustrate the messages the company currently uses.
Strategy Recommendation:
1. Based upon your research findings for the marketing mix, recommend a strategy that you believe will increase profits and sales to the target market.
2. Cite your specific research findings to justify your strategy assessment and recommendations.

General Requirements:
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Attached are Part 1 and Part 2 along with the powerpoint.

Analyze the end-of-course surveys for their effectiveness as a sociological measurement tool.

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Week 8 Discussion: Coming Back to Research
No unread replies.11 reply.
Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

Textbook: review Chapter 1, 15, 16
Lesson: Week 1, 7
Minimum of 1 outside scholarly source
Initial Post Instructions
End-of-course student surveys exist for you to share your anonymous feedback on your courses. The purpose of the survey is to gather data from a specific population (you, the students) to understand your experience in the course, and to determine areas of success and improvement in our courses, including this one (so hopefully you do share your feedback because we always want to improve our courses and teaching).

Chapter 1 of the textbook and Week 1 of this course explored the research process. As mentioned in Week 1, research is fundamental in the social sciences, and a survey is a common sociological data collection method. If we look at the course surveys from a sociological perspective, we see that they are used to understand a specific population’s perspective of a social experience/issue. For this discussion, then, you will observe and analyze and evaluate the survey itself, as the budding social scientists you all now are, based on your learning in this course!

Now, to come full circle, analyze the end-of-course surveys for their effectiveness as a sociological measurement tool.

How would you improve the survey itself to create the very best snapshot of student impressions of this or any Chamberlain University Online course?
Which questions would you add and why?
Which would you delete and why?
What questions would you change and why?
What questions would you keep the same and why?
Follow-Up Post Instructions
Respond to at least two peers or one peer and the instructor. Further the dialogue by providing more information and clarification and/or include perspectives from outside scholarly sources shared in the discussion forum by classmates and/or the instructor.

Writing Requirements

Minimum of 3 posts (1 initial & 2 follow-up)
APA format for in-text citations and list of references
Include citations from at least the assigned textbook/lesson reading and one additional outside scholarly source to support your response.
Grading
This activity will be graded using the Discussion Grading Rubric. Please review the following link:

Link (webpage): Discussion Guidelines
Course Outcomes (CO): 1, 2, 3

Identify, locate, and research published information about one (1) current topic related to an area of technology management from the list to be provided.

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Identify, locate, and research published information about one (1) current topic related to an area of technology management from the list to be provided.
• Develop and write an original paper that describes the topic and explains the potential impact that the situation will have on the broader technology management field over the next five years.
• If you use the Internet as a source of your information, ensure it comes from a reliable source. Wikipedia is not considered, generally, to be a reliable source of accurate historical factoids.
• The paper is to be 300 to 400 words not including reference pages. NO ABSTRACT!
• Use proper APA formatting to assist your reader.
• Each paper is to have, at least, three (3) cited references other than the textbook.
• Assignment Submission Instructions: Paper is to be submitted through the associated D2L Brightspace assignment folder. The file name must follow this format: 01W-Your Last Name-Assignment 4.
• Your paper is to be written in Times New Roman, 12 point font.
• Margins: One (1”) inch margins left, right and bottom and a two (2”) inch margin at top of page (an exception to APA).
• Line Spacing: Single-spaced between all text lines of the paper and a single line between paragraphs (an exception to APA).On all pages of the paper, place your full name (last name first), CWID, course number and section, and the date submitted in the upper left-hand corner of the page. Use 10 point font.
Example: Doe, John-12345678
TMGT 350 01W-03/17/2019
• Pagination: On all pages of the paper, place page numbers in the upper right-hand corner of the page. Use 10 point font.
Examples: 1 of 10 or Page 1 of 10
• Summary Title: On the first line of page 1, centered and bold in 12 point font, place the research paper title. The title is to be (example): ASSIGNMENT 4: RESEARCH PAPER ON …
Short bulleted lists are acceptable as they make it easier for the reader to process information. However, they should not serve as a replacement for narrative! Follow APA guidelines for developing bulleted lists.

Critically analyze the impact of globalization on the emergence, spread and control of communicable diseases and the challenges this creates for global public health responses and governance.

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It is important that the essay demonstrates reference to a wide range of sources, for example research papers, journal articles, books, edited book chapters and policy documents.

ESSAY QUESTION
You are required to write an essay of approximately 4000 words in length to answer the following questions:

Critically analyze the impact of globalization on the emergence, spread and control of communicable diseases and the challenges this creates for global public health responses and governance.

Guidelines
To answer this question you will need to analyze critically the link between globalization processes and communicable diseases. You will need to analyze critically the meaning of globalization and other relevant concepts and debate how globalization impacts on the emergence, spread and control of communicable diseases. Illustrate your discussion with one or two examples of recent communicable disease outbreaks and analyze critically the extent to which globalization has contributed to these outbreaks. The essay invites you to think about global public health arrangements to control the emergence and spread of communicable disease and the challenges this brings for partnerships and governance.

The module learning outcomes: the essay (components 1 and 2 of the assignment) should express all the module learning outcomes 1-4. This does not mean that the essay is directly about them (for example writing a specific section about each specified outcome). Rather, it means evidence for the learning outcomes comes from your answering the essay question clearly and completely.

MODULE LEARNING OUTCOMES;
1. Define and critically analyze debates surrounding key concepts such as globalization, global change, global health and governance
2. Analyze critically the various drivers and forms of global change and their relationship with globalization processes
3. Critically appraise the effects and contemporary challenges of globalization for global public health
4. Evaluate the role of different actors and global health partnerships and initiatives that aim to promote and protect health and issues of global health governance

Show the breakdown of hospital admissions by age, then by transportation method and by gender for all patients. What kind of a hospital is this?

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1. Show the breakdown of hospital admissions by age, then by transportation method and by gender for all patients. What kind of a hospital is this?

2. Show the relationship between age and LOS (length of stay) for all emergency admissions. Is there a difference between males and females?

Perhaps the best way to show this is to use screenshots of your final graphs for each question. You can save them as either jpgs or pdfs. please do them in excel

Explain how the NIST SP800-61, Rev. 1 could assist the personnel in classifying incidents so each is identified appropriately and the proper incident-handling procedures are taken.

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Imagine you have just taken over the manager position for your organization’s incident response team, after coming from another division in the company. Your first realization is that proper procedures, best practices, and sound technologies are not being utilized. You decide to revamp the team’s efforts.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
Explicate the main efforts that would be included in the incident response efforts, including but not limited to personnel and team structure, tools and utilities, and proper procedures.
Discuss in detail the role that an IDS / IPS would play in the IR efforts, and explain how these systems can assist in the event notification, determination, and escalation processes.
Explain how the NIST SP800-61, Rev. 1 could assist the personnel in classifying incidents so each is identified appropriately and the proper incident-handling procedures are taken.
Explain how the use of log management systems (e.g., Splunk) could be a legitimate and useful component of the IR efforts, and describe the potential issues that could arise if not utilized.5.Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Explain whether the fact that Hand was not a citizen of the United States affects his rights in relation to the Fifth.Amendment right to remain silent.

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Determine whether Hand was entitled to Miranda warnings.
Explain whether the fact that Hand was not a citizen of the United States affects his rights in relation to the Fifth.Amendment right to remain silent.
Identify whether Hand’s questioning was custodial.
Explain whether McFadden’s statement abouthis family constitutes custodial interrogation.
Evaluate whether Hand’s statement can be used against him in a court of law.
Explain whether Jaxon’s statement be used against him in a court of law.
Determine whether Jaxon can testify against Hand.

Write a review covering the challenge and opportunities of bioinformatics to analyze the data generated from long-read sequencing technologies (e.g. Oxford Nanopore).

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Assignment

“Bioinformatic challenges of long-read nucleid acid sequencing technologies”

The learning objectives of this assignment are:

  1. To become familiar with sequencing technologies and specifically for long-read generating sequencing technologies such as the Oxford Nanopore
  2. To become familiar with the range of bioinformatics tools that can assist the analysis of long-read sequencing technologies
  3. To understand how bioinformatics can contribute to extract value out of long-read sequencing technologies (opportunities) and what problems it has to overcome to achieve this aim (challenges)
  4. To learn and practice the skills of scientific writing.

Write a review covering the challenge and opportunities of bioinformatics to analyze the data generated from long-read sequencing technologies (e.g. Oxford Nanopore). Include in the review, a detailed description of *one* specific application of long-reads sequencing technologies using a paper (or closely related series of papers) that you have found from PubMed or a similar source. Comment as well, from a general perspective, on how such type of sequencing technologies is challenging (and changing) conventional bioinformatics tools.

Marks will be awarded for:

  • General description of long-read sequencing technologies: 20%
  • Bioinformatic tools for long-read sequencing technologies: 15%
  • Description of a specific biological/biomedical application: 15%
  • Challenges to conventional bioinformatics: 20%
  • Writing style, structure: 10%
  • Good use of Figures: 10%
  • Correct use of citations and good references: 10%

It is VERY important that you use references and citations correctly and do not copy material from other sources without correctly citing it. Please see the University information on plagiarism.

Deliverables

A finished review paper, addressing the sections listed above of at most 2000 words. Use headings and subheadings as necessary. Use the layout and reference style required by the journal Bioinformatics.

(see http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/bioinformatics/for_authors/submission_online.html)