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What can the use of a long, complex selection process symbolize to job seekers? How do you think this would affect the organization’s ability to attract the best employees?

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Economics Question

Some organizations set up a long and complex selection process. In some people’s opinion, not only is this kind of selection process more valid, it also has symbolic value.

  • What can the use of a long, complex selection process symbolize to job seekers?
  • How do you think this would affect the organization’s ability to attract the best employees?
  • Share your past experience as an interviewer or interviewee as you respond to these questions.

Create a presentation on homelessness in America. You can add videos and graphs.

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Presentation about homelessness

Create a presentation on homelessness in America. You can add videos and graphs.

Describe the disease. Describe the roles and functions of the human nervous and endocrine systems in relation to the disease. Explain why the disease interrupts an individual’s ability.

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Slides on science

Neuropsychology looks at the link between the brain and behavior. Understanding neuropsychology allows a person in the field of mental health to understand how damage or illness to the brain impacts behavior and allows for insight into working with individuals who may have had a traumatic brain injury or stroke.

Imagine you work for a neuropsychologist with patients who have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease or Huntington’s disease. You have been asked to educate the patients and their family members about the diseases.

Select either Parkinson’s disease or Huntington’s disease as your topic, and research information about the disease.

Create an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation in which you address the following for the selected disease:

  • Describe the disease.
  • Describe the roles and functions of the human nervous and endocrine systems in relation to the disease.
  • Explain why the disease interrupts an individual’s ability.
  • Describe the behaviors that are typically exhibited following the onset of the disease.
  • Describe the deficits typically seen because of the disease.
  • Describe treatment options available for individuals with the disease.
  • Explain the current research findings related to outcomes of the disease.

Include detailed speaker notes on each slide.

Cite your sources according to APA guidelines.

Why would evolution have enabled blind mole rats to synchronize their suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) activity to light, even though they cannot see well enough to make use of the light?

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Discussion 4

Respond to the following in a minimum of 200 words:

  • Why would evolution have enabled blind mole rats to synchronize their suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) activity to light, even though they cannot see well enough to make use of the light?
  • Describe the stages of sleep. During which part of a night’s sleep is REM most common?
  • Unlike adults, infants alternate between short waking periods and short naps. What can we infer about their neurotransmitters?
  • According to the neurocognitive hypothesis, why do we have visual imagery?

What effect does Oliver’s playing the Pat Collins report (about the graffitied car) have on you as a viewer? In your opinion, how effective is Oliver’s reaction to the rainbow fentanyl reports? Why?

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English writing

As was implied on the previous page, John Oliver’s reporting on Last Week Tonight often employs the structure of academic essays with jokes thrown in. With that in mind, I’ve written the following questions, which are arranged in sections that guide you through the content and structure of the piece.

Answer the following questions about Last Week Tonight‘s piece on how the media goes about reporting crime. The video is embedded at the bottom of this page.

Because this assignment asks more questions than qualitatively similar assignments do, this assignment is worth 30 points.

Questions about the piece’s rhetorical strategy:

  1. List two examples of when John Oliver (the host) uses a secondary source for each of the following purposes:
    1. To give credence to what he’s just said.
    2. To argue against that source.
    3. To use that source’s words as a springboard to a larger point.
  2. What do you notice about the way that Oliver sets up/leads into quotations?
  3. Note the times that John reads a passage that appears on the screen verbatim. What part of an essay is this analogous with?

Content-based questions:

  1. What effect does Oliver’s playing the Pat Collins report (about the graffitied car) have on you as a viewer?
  2. In your opinion, how effective is Oliver’s reaction to the rainbow fentanyl reports? Why?
  3. Aside from the jokes, this piece is structured like an academic essay. Thinking of it that way, what is its thesis?

General approaches to covering crime:

  1. When it comes to news coverage, what notable change happened around the 1970s?
  2. What stands out to you about the CNN program on crime reporting that aired in the 1990s?
  3. How has crime reporting contributed to the public’s race-based fears?

The media’s sources in their coverage:

  1. According to the video, what are the problems with the media relying on police as sources of information?
    1. What are the shortcomings of the phrase “officer-involved shooting”?
  2. What is your reaction to the video’s discussion of the Minneapolis police’s handling of the George Floyd incident?
  3. What stands out to you about Oliver’s follow-up on Pat Camden (the Fraternal Order of Police spokesman)?

Greater harm caused by uncritical crime reporting:

  1. According to the piece, what are some of the effects of uncritical reporting of crime?
  2. What is the problem with news reports consistently saying “police say” in their reporting? What are some possible solutions that the piece offers?
  3. What other solutions to current crime reporting practices does the piece offer?

Discuss in detail Bukowitz and Williams Knowledge management cycle. How is it different from Wiig’s KM cycle. Write minimum two points of difference.

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Report-based assignment

This Assignment is a report-based assignment.

Besides other materials like journal papers, report, and research articles, students are advised to read chapter 1 to chapter 3 thoroughly from the book prescribed for this course.

Students must use proper references to justify their assignment work.

The Assignment structure is as follows:

  • Introduction: The introductory part must contain the following. (7.5 Marks)
  • Knowledge management cycles and Models: (7.5 Marks)
  • Concept of knowledge management.
  • Define the term “Knowledge”. Use proper example to differentiate the term “Knowledge” from Data, and information.Write a detailed note on major types of Knowledge. (400-500 Words) (3 Marks) Chapter 1

(Provide minimum 3 definitions of knowledge management by well-known authors) followed by detailed discussion about the concept of Knowledge management and its importance in present day world of business. (400-500 Words) (3.5 Mark) Chapter 1

References:(1 Mark). 0 Mark for No references, less than 5 References (0.5 Mark) More than 5 references 1 Mark.

  • Discuss in detail Bukowitz and Williams Knowledge management cycle. How is it different from Wiig’s KM cycle. Write minimum two points of difference. (Minimum 500 words) (3 Marks) Chapter 2
  • Discuss in detail the Nonaka and Takeuchi knowledge spiral model of KM. Write a brief paragraph on Choo’s Sense making model. (400-500 words) (3 Marks) Chapter 3

References:(1.5 Marks). 0 Mark for No references, Less than 5 References (0.75 Mark) More than 5 references 1.5 Marks.

Describe what we should do to (e.g., change or reform or enact new policies and legislation, engage in advocacy and activism, establish non-profit organizations) reduce the adverse impacts of the social problem depicted by your picture. Discuss how those initiatives are likely to reduce or eradicate the harmful effects of social problems on health and behavioral outcomes?

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Photography project

Instruction: This assignment provides you with an opportunity to be a sociologically informed photojournalist. You have been tasked with bringing attention to an issue (or social problem) affecting your community. Your goal is to use a photograph to inform the public about the extent of the problem and the ways to address it. You will apply sociological ideas to discuss how that issue or problem is related to larger issues of wealth, income, health, and health care disparities and offer necessary solutions (e.g., policy, legislation, social movements, community outreach, individual initiatives). You are required to take at least one photograph of a social issue that influences or affects our daily lives (e.g., house, community, work place etc.) of your community members. Your photo must depict issues/factors at the community level that are likely to influence health and behavioral outcomes. Note that the photo should depict difficulties that impact “groups of people” (such as members of the community with a lower socioeconomic status) and not a specific individual. For instance, you may photograph grocery food selections (or the UNLV student union), walking routes, public parks, neighborhood environment (e.g., vandalism, housing conditions), disability access in a building/public area, venues for physical activity, junk food advertisements, etc.

“IMPORTANT” Be mindful of personal privacy. You must not post a picture that reveals identity of a person. You can take a picture of advertisements that influence individual behaviors, but you must not take a picture of individual behaviors (such as a picture of someone smoking or drinking alcohol).

You should submit one picture with descriptions (see below), discussion post, and at lease two responses to your classmates’ posts post.

Complete the following steps:

  1. Identify relevant object/area/feature/environment for this assignment.
  2. Take pictures (with your cell phone camera or digital camera).
  3. Save your pictures on your computer/tablet/smart phone.

**To upload the picture from your computer to a Canvas Discussion reply, you should:

  1. Find the Images icon on the menu and select Upload Image.
  2. You can then either click to browse and select image file or drag and drop it from your computer into the Upload Image box.
  3. When you are done, click Submit to embed the image and post the reply.

In the news report! You should:

1. Submit least one picture that clearly represents a social problem confronting our community. [10 points]

2. Describe the social problem represented by the picture. Your description should include information about the groups of people likely to be disproportionately impacted (at least five sentences). Provide evidence that establishes the seriousness of a given issue or problem (e.g., what impact a given situation has on stress, coping resources, health, health behaviors, and health care utilization?). You are then expected to discuss how those issues could lead to increased stress, depression, and poor health outcomes. You also need to identify social groups (e.g., Older adults, Latinx, Black, Women, LGBTQIA+, Poor) more likely to confront those issues. You are encouraged to use outside sources for evidence to build up your case (i.e., to show the public why they should care about the problem). That may include searching for research articles, prior news coverage, statistics, and information provided by governmental and non-governmental agencies (at least ten sentences). [5+15=20 points]

3. Explain why you think the issue or problem you identified relates to medical sociology (at least five meaningful sentences). You should explicitly cite information provided in course materials to draw the linkage. For instance, if you find that many people cannot afford rent or lack money to afford food during the pandemic, you should tell readers how that problem relates to the ideas of structural disadvantage (e.g., low wage jobs, wealth inequality, etc. institutional racism, poverty). Utilize sociological ideas or theories to discuss how that problem will positively or negatively affect health and behavioral outcomes. Which theoretical frameworks or sociological ideas help you explain or establish linkages between factors such as lack of economic resources during the pandemic and health disparities? Use your sociological imagination to identify the root causes. Why are some social groups better able to cope with the adverse circumstances such as the pandemic than other social groups? Why are some social groups more likely to die from the virus than other social groups? (at least ten meaningful sentences). [10+15= 25 points]

4. Describe what we should do to (e.g., change or reform or enact new policies and legislation, engage in advocacy and activism, establish non-profit organizations) reduce the adverse impacts of the social problem depicted by your picture. Discuss how those initiatives are likely to reduce or eradicate the harmful effects of social problems on health and behavioral outcomes? If the picture is about social factors (e.g., readily available public parks and fresh foods) that positively affect health and well-being, you should discuss whether such facilities are available for all social groups? If not, what can be done to expand the access and affordability? (at least 12 meaningful sentences). [You can be creative here–15 points]

Describe the general function of the endocrine system. Describe the selected disease or disorder related to the endocrine system. What are the underlying causes of symptoms of the disease or disorder?

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Wait A what?

Imagine that you are employed at a local nonprofit agency and belong to an online community of people who work in the field of mental health. In a blog space, you are interested in sharing information on a particular disease that is related to the endocrine system function.

Select and research a disease or disorder related to the endocrine system. Refer to this week’s University Library articles to begin your research.

Write a 350- to 700-word informational blog post based on your research. Address the following in your post:

  • Describe the general function of the endocrine system.
  • Describe the selected disease or disorder related to the endocrine system.
  • What are the underlying causes of symptoms of the disease or disorder?
  • How is the endocrine system related to the causes of these symptoms?
  • What are recommendations on how to treat the disease or disorder?

Cite your sources according to APA guidelines.

What is the difference between audit, attestation, and assurance services? And how do the answers provide value to stakeholders?

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Assignment (1)

Assignment Question(s):   (Marks 15)

IMPORTANT NOTES: Answer in your OWN words, DO NOT COPY from slides, fellow students, or internet sources without proper citation.

Q1. What is the difference between audit, attestation, and assurance services? And how do the answers provide value to stakeholders?

Your answer should have a minimum of 400 words. (5 Marks)

 

 

Q2. How can auditors effectively plan an audit in a dynamic and uncertain environment? Provide an example to describe your answer.

Your answer should have a minimum of 400 words. (5 Marks)

 

 

Q3. In your opinion, what are the benefits of assessing the effectiveness of internal controls over financial statements ICFR to the audit process, other than being a requirement of PCAOB?

Your answer should have a minimum of 300 words. (5 Marks)

Discuss how you can manage the potential of unauthorized disclosure and the breach of confidentiality in your use of technology. Identify the training you would need to be able to provide services using technology.

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Submit Journal Entry: Identify Ethical Challenges in Social Work and Technology

 

In this week’s journal, you will discuss some potential ethical challenges you may encounter in your use of technology. After reviewing this week’s readings, discuss the following:

  • Discuss how you can manage the potential of unauthorized disclosure and the breach of confidentiality in your use of technology.
  • Identify the training you would need to be able to provide services using technology.
  • Determine if the field practicum offers any digital services. Then explain why or why not? Do you think more technology could be integrated to better serve your clients?
  • Identify your state’s requirements related to the use of technology as a professional social worker.

Length: 2-4 pages

Your journal entry should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect graduate-level writing and APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.

Remember to add to your table of statutes that will be part of your Signature Assignment due in Week 11. This will be similar to what you completed in Week 2.