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Explain what ARDS is. Explain what is significant with her lab results using the ABG normal values and the nursing mnemonic ROME which was also referenced in week #2 of this course. Explain what an appropriate treatment would be.

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Pathophysiology

Part 1: Discussion

Answer the following questions about the respiratory system, using the included case study, for this week’s discussion.

  1. Explain what ARDS is.
  2. Explain what is significant with her lab results using the ABG normal values and the nursing mnemonic ROME which was also referenced in week #2 of this course.
  3. Explain what an appropriate treatment would be.
  4. At least 200 – 250 words

Case Study:

Mrs. Breathless is a 43-year-old female, just getting off the late shift. She reports to the ER in the early morning with shortness of breath. She has cyanosis of the lips. She has had a productive cough for 2 weeks. Her temperature is 102.2, blood pressure 110/76, heart rate 108, respiration 32, rapid and shallow. Breath sounds are diminished in both bases, with coarse rhonchi in the upper lobes. Chest X-ray indicates bilateral pneumonia.

  • ABG (Arterial Blood Gases) Lab results are:
    • pH= 7.44
    • PaCO2= 28
    • HCO3= low
    • PaO2= 54

Note: rhonchi are continuous low pitched rattling lung sounds that often resemble snoring or wheezes.

Problems:

  • PaCO2 is low.
  • pH is on the high side of normal, therefore compensated respiratory alkalosis.
  • Also, PaO2 is low, probably due to mucous displacing air in the alveoli affected by the pneumonia.

Part 2:

This week, you will have the opportunity to unleash your creativity in order to help you and your classmates study.

Assignment Instructions:

For this assignment you will be able to create an infographic or video presentation.

1. Select one of the topics below.

    • Structures of the Pulmonary System, (Chapter 28, p. 655)
    • Functions of the Pulmonary System, (Chapter 28, p. 660)
    • Signs and Symptoms of Pulmonary Disease, (Chapter 29, p. 670)
    • Pulmonary Disorders, (Chapter 29, p. 676)
    • Table 29-1, Mechanism of Pleural Effusion, (Chapter 29, p. 676)
    • Table 29-2, Clinical Manifestations of Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, (Chapter 29, p. 686)
    • Disorders of the Upper Airway, (Chapter 30, p. 697)
    • Obstructive Sleep Apnea, (Chapter 30, p. 700)

2. Explore the topic and gather the information needed to teach your fellow learners.

3.Create these items using infographics (Canva.com) or video (Powtoon.com). If you would like to use a different media source, please email your Instructor first for permission.

Write feedback one page about “Recently Power Transformer Testing, Monitoring, Maintains and Protection in USA”.

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Engineering Question

Write feedback one page about “Recently Power Transformer Testing, Monitoring, Maintains and Protection in USA”.

  • Expected Layout:
    • Font: 11-pt Time New Roman with 1.25 line spacing
    • Page layout: 1″ margins / Normal

    for the source you have only ONE OPTION

  • you can use any information, source from the internet relative to this guy “Robert Carritte” talk about the Power Transformer Testing, Monitoring, Maintains and Protection to write a feedback.
  • Don’t use another person or other sources to write

What is the optimal capital structure (or Debt/Asset ratio) in the above table? What is the firm value under the optimal capital structure? What is the stock price under the optimal capital structure?

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Capital Structure

Assume that you have just been hired as business manager of Campus Deli(CD), located adjacent to the campus. Its Free Cash Flow(FCF) is $400,000. Because the university’s enrollment is capped, FCF is expected to be constant over time. Because no expansion capital is required, CD pays out all earnings as dividends. CD currently has no debt—it is an all-equity firm—and its 100,000 shares outstanding selling at $40 per share. The firm’s federal-plus-state tax rate is 35%.

On the basis of statements made in your finance text, you believe that CD’s shareholders would be better off if some debt financing were used. When you suggested this to your new boss, she encouraged you to pursue the idea but supported the suggestion.

In today’s market, the risk-free rate is 5% and the market risk premium is 5%. CD’s unlevered beta is 1.0. CD currently has no debt, so its cost of equity (and WACC) is 10%. If the firm was recapitalized, debt would be issued and the borrowed funds would be used to repurchase stock. After speaking with a local investment banker, you obtain the following estimates of the cost of debt at different debt levels (in thousands of dollars):

Amount Borrowed Debt/Asset Ratio Bond Rating Yield
$0 0 — —
500 0.125 AA 8.0%
1000 0.250 A 9.0%
1500 0.375 BBB 11.0%
2000 0.500 BB 13.0%

Now answer the following questions:

  1. ) What is the optimal capital structure (or Debt/Asset ratio) in the above table?
  2. ) What is the firm value under the optimal capital structure?
  3. ) What is the stock price under the optimal capital structure?

Who or what did you feel was the most significant person or event in the readings/videos this week? Explain why.

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History Question

http://www.americanyawp.com/text/25-the-cold-war/

Who or what did you feel was the most significant person or event in the readings/videos this week? Explain why.

What are the principles behind Value Engineering Change Proposal (VECP)? What is the distinction between design specifications and performance specifications?

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Civil Engineering Question

Answer the questions below based on the information in chapter 14:

1) What are the principles behind Value Engineering Change Proposal (VECP)?

2) What is the distinction between design specifications and performance specifications?

3) When it comes to authority, why is it important to have clear lines of specific authority on a particular project

4) Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of at least three project delivery systems.

 

Textbook Link http://library.lol/main/A272E9AAB5A42F55A478B5487E…

Why is the web so important to communications today? What are some of the ways that the web is used for technical communications?

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Discussion Post

When discussing technical communications, we generally think of memos, emails, presentations, and the like. We do not always immediately think of using the World Wide Web, although it is a key component of technical communication in the twenty-first century. Why is the web so important to communications today? What are some of the ways that the web is used for technical communications?

Create different types of technical communications. These are designed to actively test your understanding and to apply your knowledge to potential real-world situations.

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Communications Question

This course includes five short writing activities that will require you to create different types of technical communications. These are designed to actively test your understanding and to apply your knowledge to potential real–world situations. These writing activities also provide practice in communicating your reasoning in a professional manner.

Creating Effective Web Communications (Module Eight)
In your role as corporate communications manager at International Gadgets, you have been tasked with establishing communication standards for the new corporate website. Develop a style guide for your staff that outlines the basics for successful web communications. Be sure to use specific examples. Your style guide must include the following critical elements:
 The characteristics of online communication
 Accessibility
 Establishing corporate credibility
 Ethical considerations
 Allowances for access by various devices

Find data that appears to have a linear or exponential trend. Find data that someone hasn’t already used. Create a new thread in this forum.

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Growth Models Discussion, Linear or Exponential Analysis

1. Search the Internet to find a graph or table of values that shows how something is changing over time. The data should be real measured data (not some made-up values for a math problem example or something), and should show something that is changing linear or exponentially.

  • The graph or table should show data for at least 4 time periods (years, months, etc.)
  • Find data that appears to have a linear or exponential trend.
  • Find data that someone hasn’t already used.
  • Create a new thread in this forum.
  • Paste in the web link (+1 pt for including)
  • State whether the data appears to be changing linearly or exponentially, and give a reason (1 pt)
  • Find an explicit equation to model the data, clearly defining your variables and showing your work (5 pts)
  • Use your model to make a prediction about the future (2 pts)

Craft and support an argument identifying 2 “best practices” that should apply universally to large technology companies in protecting individual privacy rights.

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Module-2 Video Case Study (ISCS-570)

Instructions:

Read the information and watch the 2 videos below. As you watch the videos, consider the balance of a corporation’s right to use information they collect (especially in exchange for free services) and an individual’s right to privacy. Using what you’ve learned, do the following:

A. Craft and support an argument identifying 2 “best practices” that should apply universally to large technology companies in protecting individual privacy rights.

B. Additionally, identify the most egrigious technique by either Facebook or Google (from the case study only) and explain why it constitutes a serious individual privacy breach.

Be sure to fully support your positions (in both parts A & B) with at least 2 external sources (total) – these sources can be used to support either your “best practices” argument or your “most egrigious” argument, but the textbook is not considered an external source.

Submission Instructions:
Submit your answers/arguments in a single MS Word document. Be sure to properly cite all sources and provide a bibliography.

Videos:

1.)https://youtu.be/IWlyut4zsko

2.https://youtu.be/V7M_FOhXXKM

Case:

In a 2010 interview, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, proclaimed that the “age of privacy” had to come to an end. According to Zuckerberg, social norms had changed and people were no longer worried about sharing their personal information with friends, friends of friends, or even the entire Web. This view is in accordance with Facebook’s broader goal, which is, according to Zuckerberg, to make the world a more open and connected place. Supporters of Zuckerberg’s viewpoint, including fellow tech titan Google, believe the 21st century is an age of “information exhibitionism,” a new era of openness and transparency. However, times have changed, and there are growing calls to put new limits on the personal information that Facebook, and Google, collect and provide to advertisers.

Facebook has a long history of invading the personal privacy of its users. In fact, the very foundation of Facebook’s business model is to sell the personal private information of its users to advertisers. In essence, Facebook is like any broadcast or cable television service that uses entertainment to attract large audiences, and then once those audiences are in place, to sell air time to advertisers in 30 to 60 second blocks. Of course, television broadcasters do not have much if any personal information on their users, and in that sense are much less of a privacy threat. Facebook, with over 2.9 billion users worldwide, clearly attracts a huge audience.

Although Facebook started out at Harvard and other campuses with a simple privacy policy of not giving anyone except friends access to your profile, this quickly changed as its founder Mark Zuckerberg realized the revenue-generating potential of a social networking site open to the public.

In 2007 Facebook introduced the Beacon program, which was designed to broadcast users’ activities on participating websites to their friends. Class-action suits followed. Facebook initially tried to mollify members by making the program “opt in” but this policy change was discovered to be a sham, as personal information continued to flow from Facebook to various websites. Facebook finally terminated the Beacon program in 2009, and paid $9.5 million to settle the class-action suits.

In 2009, undeterred by the Beacon fiasco, Facebook unilaterally decided that it would publish users’ basic personal information on the public Internet, andannounced that whatever content users had contributed belonged to Facebook, and that its ownership of that information never terminated. However, as with the Beacon program, Facebook’s efforts to take permanent control of user information resulted in users joining online resistance groups and it was ultimately forced to withdraw this policy as well. The widespread user unrest prompted Facebook to propose a new Facebook Principles and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, which was approved by 75 percent of its members, who voted in an online survey. However, the resulting privacy policy was so complicated that many users preferred the default “share” setting to working through over 170 privacy options.

In 2009, Facebook also introduced the Like button, and in 2010 extended it to thirdparty websites to alert Facebook users to their friends’ browsing and purchases. In 2011, it began publicizing users’ “likes” of various advertisers’ products in Sponsored Stories (i.e., advertisements) that included the users’ names and profile pictures without their explicit consent, without paying them, and without giving them a way to opt out. This resulted in yet another class-action lawsuit, which Facebook settled for $20 million in June 2012. As part of the settlement, Facebook agreed to make it clear to users that information like their names and profile pictures might be used in Sponsored Stories, and also give users and parents of minor children greater control over how that personal information is used.

In 2011, Facebook enrolled all Facebook subscribers into its facial recognition program without asking anyone. When a user uploaded photos, the software recognized the faces, tagged them, and created a record of that person/photo. Later, users could retrieve all photos containing an image of a specific friend. Any existing friend could be tagged, and the software suggested the names of friends to tag when you upload the photos. This too raised the privacy alarm, forcing Facebook to make it easier for users to opt out. In 2021, Facebook finally terminated the program after years of privacy concerns about it.

In 2012, Facebook went public, creating more pressure on it to increase revenues and profits to justify its stock market value. Shortly thereafter, Facebook announced that it was launching a mobile advertising product that would push ads to the mobile News Feeds of users based on the apps they used through the Facebook Connect feature, without explicit permission from the user to do so. It also announced Facebook Exchange (also known as FBX), an advertising platform that allows advertisers to serve ads to Facebook users based on their browsing activity while not on Facebook.

In 2018 and 2019 Facebook’s reputation for invading the personal privacy of its users took a turn for the worse when it was revealed that it had lost control of personal information on 87 million users to agents of the Russian government who had been able to use fake accounts and apps to target political ads designed to sway the 2016 presidential election. The Russian agents used 75,000 fake accounts, and 230,00 bots to send political messages to an estimated 146 million U.S. Facebook users. Facebook also revealed it had shared personal data with 60 device makers of smartphones and TVs, and to large advertisers like Nissan Motors. In 2019 a Wall Street Journal investigation found that eleven out of the top fifty Facebook apps were sharing data they collect with Facebook. Most of these apps involved health, fitness, and real estate data. In response, the app developers stopped sharing sensitive personal data with Facebook, and Facebook itself contacted large developers and advertisers and reminded them Facebook’s policy prohibits sharing any sensitive information with Facebook’s servers.

It isn’t just Facebook that allows app developers to share personal information with online ad platforms like Google. Facebook announced that this was “industry standard practice.” But clearly, Facebook’s ability to effectively monitor and police exactly what information apps and advertisers share with Facebook’s SDK (software development kit) is limited, at best, and at worst, not possible given the scale of Facebook’s platform, which is the most widely used app platform on the Internet with tens of thousands of app developers and advertisers.

Not to be outdone, Google has also taken liberties with user personal information, with services like Google Street View taking pictures of neighborhoods, houses and driveways, without consent; advertisements served using the content of Gmail messages (though Google claims the content is anonymized), and pervasive tracking cookies following users across the Internet. Echoing Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has stated that “true transparency and no anonymity” is the best policy for Internet users.

Textbook link below (not to be used as a reference for this assignment per what instructor noted above)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19cxt3pMvrETe6MHwj… (https://drive.google.com/file/d/19cxt3pMvrETe6MHwj…)

What kind of marketing activities should the company plan to implement within each stage of the Consumer Decision Making/Buying Process?

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PRINCIPLES OF-MARKETING

CASE #2
A. majority of the companies that are very successful today study the Consumer Markets and Buyer Behavior prior to developing a Marketing Plan for its products/services. This enables marketers to understand who constitutes the market, what and why the market buys, who participates in and influences the buying process and how, when, and where the consumers buy.
Choose a particular product/service within the Consumer marketplace. Assume you are the VP of Marketing far that particular company and are responsible for researching, analyzing and developing a marketing plan for that particular product/service. Review all the marketing materials available i.e. Web sites, marketing brochures, advertisements, etc.

After you selected- a product/service and reviewed their materials, prepare a Marketing Position paper that addresses the following issues:

  1. ) What kind of marketing activities should the company plan to implement within each stage of the Consumer Decision Making/Buying Process? Please be specific.
  2. ) What factQrs should the Company’s marketing departure-nt take into considerationqthat may influence consumers in buying their product/service?
  3. ) What are some of the-newest trends in Consumer Marketing also referred to as7E- Marketing that thacompany can use relative to their product/service?

CASE WRITE UP Make sure in your recommendations/conclusions that you explain in detail, specifically how the marketing concepts discussed in class, were used and why.