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What would your research question be if you proposed a process evaluation component to your research? For the outcome evaluation, what is your independent variable and what would your dependent variable be? How would you operationalize both?

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Developing a Research Proposal

 

Imagine that you are submitting a proposal to the U.S. Justice Department to evaluate the efficacy of a new treatment program for substance abusers within federal correctional institutions.

What would your research question be if you proposed a process evaluation component to your research?
For the outcome evaluation, what is your independent variable and what would your dependent variable be? How would you operationalize both?
What type of research design would you propose to answer both the process evaluation and outcome evaluation components in your proposal? Discuss.

What is the Vision and Mission? What is the status of the company now? What type of challenges did the entrepreneur face? What made the company successful?

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Term paper

Identify an entrepreneur that you find interesting.
Write a short paper about the entrepreneur and the idea for a product or service.
What is the Vision and Mission?
What is the status of the company now?
What type of challenges did the entrepreneur face?
What made the company successful?
How is the entrepreneur sustaining the business?
What differentiates this business?
Were you able to see the business plan?
The paper is a summary from 5 to 10 pages

Is there anything that surprised you about the profession? Reflect on the information provided in the exercise and how it might impact how you think about your career.

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Discussion

1) After reading Fentz and Trillingsgaard (2016), Checking Up on Couples: A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Assessment and Feedback on Martial Functioning and individual Mental Health in Couples from this units studies, describe the effects of assessment and feedback on relationship functioning and individual partner health in couples.

What role does assessment play in treatment outcomes at the individual and dyadic levels?

 

2) After completing the Marriage and Family Therapy Professional Identity – Matching Exercise [DOCX], compare your knowledge with the MFT Professional Identity Matching Exercise Answer Key [DOCX].

In this discussion, answer the following:

Is there anything that surprised you about the profession?
Reflect on the information provided in the exercise and how it might impact how you think about your career.

While reading, circle three significant images you will write about. Your post should discuss one of these images and state what it means.

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Poem

While reading, circle three significant images you will write about. Your post should discuss one of these images and state what it means.

While reading notice the role of poetic narrator and their voice. Who is the poetic narrator and what is their point of view (1sr, 2nd or 3rd person)? What are the issues of voice?

The forum post might comment upon why the narrator in Plath’s poem “Daddy” says “every woman adores a fascist”–do you agree? What kind of a gender statement is this?

Also. what is the meaning of the word “Admonition” and why is it the title of Plath’s poem about a bird?

What is the difference between the “Bluebird” by Bukowski and Wanda Coleman’s “Bluesbird”?

What does image of a bird represent?

Why is it so prevalent in poetry and prose?

Where does the image of “bird” come up in “Sonny’s Blues” and why?

Explain the effects of Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy and Yoga on Major Depressive Disorder.

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Major Depressive Disorder

Explain the effects of Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy and Yoga on Major Depressive Disorder.

Identify and discuss the main argument of the book. What sources does the author use to support her argument? – Be specific

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Manifest Destinies by Laura E. Gomez

-Introduction (150 words)
Summary of the book
Identify and discuss the main argument
-Organization of the book (150 words)
Chronological, Thematic, other? – Discuss the significance
What sources does the author use to support her argument? – Be specific
-Assessment/interrogation (200 words)
Can be specific idea/circumstance/chapter
-Assessment/interrogation (200 words)
Can be specific idea/circumstance/chapter
-Assessment/interrogation (200 words)
Can be specific idea/circumstance/chapter
-Conclusion (150 words)
Contribution to the Topic
Was the argument persuasive

What strategies did you use to deal with this scenario? What worked? What didn’t? Were you able to complete the project successfully?

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Project Management Simulation: Evaluation of Scenario Session 2

This session should probably be shorter than the first session, because students are now already familiar with the simulations and won’t be surprised by the unexpected events in the scenario. It’s best to allow time to play each scenario, B, C and F, one or two times. These scenarios will be more challenging for students than scenario A, so students may want to play longer, in order to try to master the new challenge.
The instructor has some control over how surprised students are likely to be by the staff, crises in Scenario B and the competitor announcements in Scenario C, and the many sources of uncertainty in Scenario F. For example, situation the simulation within a course topic explicitly called something like “Managing Risk and Uncertainty” can obviously forewarn the students. Even without complete surprise, the simulation will be effective. The situation in the simulation will not be much different than the situation facing a real project manager. He or she knows to expect something unexpected but doesn’t know what it might be.
Before beginning, suggest some questions that guide student thinking in the direction of managing risk and uncertainty but that do give away too much.
Submission Instructions
After playing the simulation, students will generate a short debrief summary that responds the following assignment questions and provide screenshot that shows that you played the simulation.
What’s different about the project context in this scenario?
In this scenario, how have causal relationships been affected or changed? Why have they changed?
What strategies did you use to deal with this scenario? What worked? What didn’t? Were you able to complete the project successfully?
Having dealt now with different project scenarios, how would you revise your project management advice? If so, how?

Analyze the projected costs, revenue streams, and net present value for the concept from launch until two years after the breakeven point.

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Business Capstone

Submit a financial analysis and funding plan, which includes your analysis of the projected costs, revenue streams, and net present value for the concept from launch until two years after the breakeven point. Be sure to include a budget, an assessment of assets and liabilities, your anticipated sources of funding, and the associated costs of attaining that capital as part of your analysis. Support your analysis with relevant primary and secondary data in an appendix, specifying any relevant assumptions and limitations. You should include, among other support, sales forecasts, cash flow statements, income projections, and any other relevant calculations or financial reports.

Critical Elements:

 Analyze the projected costs, revenue streams, and net present value for the concept from launch until two years after the breakeven point.

 Include the following as part of your analysis:

o Budget

o Assessment of assets and liabilities

o Anticipated sources of funding

o Associated costs of attaining that capital

 Include relevant proforma financial reports:

o Sales forecasts

o Cash flow statements

o Income projections

o All other relevant reports specific to your concept or ide

Determine the smallest safe diameter for the two shafts using the ASME design code for transmission shafts. Calculate the dimensions of the keys and the keyways at shaft 1 and 2 for the two gears and the pulleys.

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Shaft Design

Determine the smallest safe diameter for the two shafts using the ASME design code for transmission shafts.
Calculate the dimensions of the keys and the keyways at shaft 1 and 2 for the two gears and the pulleys.
Calculate the critical speed of rotation for shaft 2.
Prepare the construction drawings of the device.
Design the full 3D part and two different cress sections.

Did Johnson use Starbucks’ shared values as the cornerstone of his decision making after the arrests? Did his decision to close all Starbucks stores for unconscious bias training and to create a new “Third Space Policy” align with Starbucks’ mission and goals?

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CASE STUDY Starbucks CEO

Along with character as a cornerstone for anyone’s practice of ethical leadership, we can look at the five additional ethical leadership practices Skeet identifies as a way to explore whether Johnson’s actions are enhancing his impact as an ethical leader in his role as Starbucks CEO.

1. Creating Community: Did Johnson use Starbucks’ shared values as the cornerstone of his decision making after the arrests? Did his decision to close all Starbucks stores for unconscious bias training and to create a new “Third Space Policy” align with Starbucks’ mission and goals? Did his handling of the incident promote positive relationships between employees and customers? Did it encourage a sense of connectedness and shared values?

1. Encouraging Ethical Conduct: Did Johnson openly acknowledge that his decision was based in ethics and morality? Did his apology and actions promote awareness of an ethical issue? Did it create a positive or negative difference in the
communities Starbucks serves? Did it make a positive or negative difference for Starbucks employees and customers?

1. Showing Discipline in One’s Role: Does Johnson explicitly accept responsibility for the incident and provide direction for a course correction? Does he identify ways to collaborate with others when necessary? Does he show he understands what his role is in fixing this problem?

1. Clarifying Culture: Did Johnson clarify his values and the company’s values in his apology and with his subsequent actions? Did Johnson’s apology and follow–up actions uphold Starbucks’ mission and core values? Did he identify gaps between stated and actual values? Did Johnson’s apology help Starbucks employees figure out if their personal values align with the company’s?

1. Designing Ethical Systems: Did Johnson’s actions have impact beyond Starbucks? Did they sent a precedent for other companies to follow? Did his apology create a conversation about unconscious bias in the workplace? How do his apology and the subsequent follow–up actions compare to other companies and CEOs that have faced similar problems?