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Propose a research study of a topic of interest related to the brain or mind. In order to do so, investigate recent developments in an area that interests you by reading 3 related news media articles or articles from scientific journals.

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Propose a research study of a topic of interest related to the brain or mind. In order to do so, investigate recent developments in an area that interests you by reading 3 related news media articles or articles from scientific journals. Since we want you to focus on topics of current interest, the articles you use cannot have been published before 2005.

2. While reading the articles keep in mind new research possibilities and unanswered questions. Utilize these ideas to propose a research study, and to write a short summary of your proposal.

What to include:

Paragraph 1: The research question your study aims to address.

Paragraph 2: Aspects of the design of your study, including (1) the methods you propose using to conduct your study (e.g., epidemiological survey, EEG, fMRI, nerve-cell stimulation, pharmacology, a blender, etc.) and (2) the population you will be conducting this study upon (i.e., mice, elephants, squid, adult human men and/or women, infants, elderly, etc.)

Paragraph 3: A concluding paragraph describing how your study question evolved out of the 3 articles you read and describing why you think this question is meaningful or interesting and what you hope to get from the results on both a personal and societal level.

Develop a research paper on a health care technology that has become essential to sharing information via electronic communication mediums (e.g., EMR, Telehealth, HMR, and so on). Explain each of the key components.

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Health Care Information Systems are important in dispensing information throughout the organization.

Develop a research paper on a health care technology that has become essential to sharing information via electronic communication mediums (e.g., EMR, Telehealth, HMR, and so on).
Explain each of the key components.
Explain each of the contributing factors.
Provide examples of ways to measure each part.
Present your findings as a 4-pages Word document formatted in APA style.

Explore the World Values Survey (WVS). Discuss the range of questions asked on the WVS, explore how and why questions are worded in specific ways, and find questions that have value in public safety.

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Survey research is still one of the most common ways to collect data in the public safety system. In this discussion, you will explore the World Values Survey (WVS). Specifically, you will discuss the range of questions asked on the WVS, explore how and why questions are worded in specific ways, and find questions that have value in public safety.

The specific steps are as follows:
Review the 2010–2012 WVS.
Read this overview of best practices in survey design.
Find at least 5 questions from the survey that you believe display best practices, and share those with the class.
Explain why these questions reflect best practices.
Find at least 3 questions from the survey that you believe have value in public safety.
Explain why you believe these questions have value.
Engage in a discussion with your classmates concerning your agreement with their selected questions.

Describe market forces that are relevant to pricing and company decision-making; includes information to make sound pricing decisions, such as risk or uncertainty assessments and responses to competitors’ pricing actions

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1) Describes market forces that are relevant to pricing and company decision-making; includes information to make sound pricing decisions, such as risk or uncertainty assessments and responses to competitors’ pricing actions
2) Discusses overall economic ups and downs, such as business cycles, to inform financial strategies used at different times; includes important trends and impacts for business owners.
3) Describes the impact of local economic trends on supply and demand, equilibrium prices, and business decisions; includes potential impact of a major fluctuation in inflation and unemployment rates or interest rate outlook.
4) Describes factors that influence price based on price elasticity; includes an average-price-level recommendation and revenue-maximizing price based on estimated demand, considering pricing versus competitors’ prices.
5)Determines the resulting revenues, costs, and operating income; defines opportunity costs, budget constraints, overhead, and other fixed and sunk costs and explains how they relate to pricing decisions.
6)Explains key takeaways from a competition analysis to inform pricing strategies; recommends further analysis and decisions based on the estimated effect on revenues, costs, and profit, and uses financial information to support.
7)Discusses how an import tariff might affect pricing and costs for the company and its competitors; includes potentially raising prices, lowering costs, and alternative options for purchasing materials, and the potential impacts of those decisions.

The researcher identifies two facilities and recruits volunteer participants. In one of the facilities, life review therapy is conducted for eight weeks, the other no-treatment support group takes place. What type of research design is this? What is the greatest threat to internal validity in this type of design? Explain.

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  • Methods in Behavioral Research:
  1. How may a researcher enhance the generalizability of the results of a single-case design?
  2. What is program evaluation? Provide an example.
  3. What are researchers examining in an efficacy assessment?
  4. Unlike true experiments, quasi-experimental designs lack.
  5. Why might a researcher use a quasi-experimental design rather than a true experimental design?
  6. A researcher is investigating the effects of life review group therapy on depression among older adult residents of assisted care facilities. The researcher identifies two facilities and recruits volunteer participants. In one of the facilities, life review therapy is conducted for eight weeks. In the other facility, a no-treatment support group takes place for eight weeks. Depression is measured after the program is administered. What type of research design is this? What is the greatest threat to internal validity in this type of design? Explain.
  7. A researcher wants to investigate patriotic behavior across the lifespan. She samples people in the following age groups: 18–28, 29–39, 40–50, 51–60, and 61 and above. All participants are interviewed and asked to complete questionnaires and rating scales about patriotic behavior. This type of developmental research design is called?What is the primary disadvantage of this type of design? Explain.

Is the increasing use of social media leading to more enhanced, meaningful connections than ever before, or is it detrimental to people’s relationships with one another? Can real relationships begin on social media?

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Using social media has become a way of life. We can now easily connect with old friends, keep in touch with people across the world, and even form relationships with people we may never meet face-to-face.

Is the increasing use of social media leading to more enhanced, meaningful connections than ever before, or is it detrimental to people’s relationships with one another?

Can real relationships begin on social media? Consider these questions as you write an essay on your position regarding whether the use of social media is beneficial or harmful for creating and maintaining relationships.

How does the presentation of Moore’s poem—the ragged lines, the uneven breaks—shape our understanding of the poem? How does Moore distinguish her work from the work of her predecessors like Dickinson and Whitman?

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“literalists of the imagination”—above insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, “imaginary gardens with real toads in them,” shall we have it. In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry

How does the presentation of Moore’s poem—the ragged lines, the uneven breaks—shape our understanding of the poem? How does Moore distinguish her work from the work of her predecessors like Dickinson and Whitman?

Economic theory suggests that technological innovation is an important factor of economic growth. The article, on the other hand, opines that new technologies destroy more jobs than they create. Is this statement true?

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The purpose of this problem is to make you acquainted with Statistics Canada’s website. Open http://www.statcan.gc.ca/start-debut-eng.html and look for “Real gross domestic product, expenditure-based, by province and territory.” Answer the following questions based on this table.
Which three provinces had the greatest real GDP per capita in 2017?

Calculate the shares of each of these provinces in Canada’s real GDP in 2017.

Now, look for another table “Inter-city indexes of price differentials in consumer goods and services.” In which city was the consumer price index the highest in both of the years 2017 and 2018? Can you think of an explanation for that? (3 marks)

Read the article “Are jobs obsolete?” by Douglas Rushkoff, Special to CNN September 7, 2011(http://goo.gl/0aUXL).

What are the main points of the article?

One of the principles of economics is that a country’s standard of living depends on the country’s ability to produce goods and services, while one of the main points of the article suggests that productivity is no longer a goal in the U.S. because the American economy is already able to produce enough for all its people. Does the author’s opinion contradict the economic principle?

Economic theory suggests that technological innovation is an important factor of economic growth. The article, on the other hand, opines that new technologies destroy more jobs than they create. Is this statement true? (Look for extra information that might or might not support this statement.) Does this statement contradict economic theory? (14 marks)

 

Identify the global societal problem within the introductory paragraph.Conclude with a thesis statement that states your proposed solutions to the problem. Describe background information on how that problem developed or came into existence. Show why this is a societal problem.

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Based on the topic that you have chosen, you will need to use critical thinking skills to thoroughly understand how this topic can be a global societal problem and determine some logical solutions to the problem.
Write: This Final Paper on Climate Change, an argumentative essay, will present research relating the critical thinker to the modern, globalized world. In this assignment, you need to address the items below in separate sections with new headings for each.
In your paper,
• Identify the global societal problem within the introductory paragraph.
o Conclude with a thesis statement that states your proposed solutions to the problem.
• Describe background information on how that problem developed or came into existence.
o Show why this is a societal problem.
o Provide perspectives from multiple disciplines or populations so that you fully represent what different parts of society have to say about this issue.
• Construct an argument supporting your proposed solutions, considering multiple disciplines or populations so that your solution shows that multiple parts of society will benefit from this solution.
o Provide evidence from multiple scholarly sources as evidence that your proposed solution is viable.
• Interpret statistical data from at least three peer-reviewed scholarly sources within your argument.
o Discuss the validity, reliability, and any biases.
o Identify the strengths and weaknesses of these sources, pointing out limitations of current research and attempting to indicate areas for future research. (You may even use visual representations such as graphs or charts to explain statistics from sources.)
• Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from your solution.
o Provide at least one positive ethical outcome as well as at least one negative ethical outcome that could result from your solution.
o Explain at least two ethical issues related to each of those outcomes. (It is important to consider all of society.)

Explain the cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary pathophysiologic processes that result in the patient presenting these symptoms. Explain any racial/ethnic variables that may impact physiological functioning.Explain how these processes interact to affect the patient.

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An understanding of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems is a critically important component of disease diagnosis and treatment. This importance is magnified by the fact that these two systems work so closely together. A variety of factors and circumstances that impact the emergence and severity of issues in one system can have a role in the performance of the other.
Effective disease analysis often requires an understanding that goes beyond these systems and their capacity to work together. The impact of patient characteristics, as well as racial and ethnic variables, can also have an important impact.

An understanding of the symptoms of alterations in cardiovascular and respiratory systems is a critical step in diagnosis and treatment of many diseases. For APRNs this understanding can also help educate patients and guide them through their treatment plans.
In this Assignment, you examine a case study and analyze the symptoms presented. You identify the elements that may be factors in the diagnosis, and you explain the implications to patient health.

Case Study/Scenario

76-year-old female patient complains of weight gain, shortness of breath, peripheral edema, and abdominal swelling. She has a history of congestive heart failure and admits to not taking her diuretic, as it makes her “have to get up every couple hours to go to the bathroom.” She now must sleep on two pillows in order to get enough air.

In your Case Study Analysis related to the scenario provided, explain the following
• The cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary pathophysiologic processes that result in the patient presenting these symptoms.
• Any racial/ethnic variables that may impact physiological functioning.
• How these processes interact to affect the patient