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Discuss future directions of this topic based on current research. Where would you like to see this research go next? How would you like to see this expanded.

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Research & Summaries Question

For this assignment, you will conduct a literature review of a specific mindfulness treatment (e.g., MBCT, MBSR, MBCT-C, ACT, DBT) and a health outcome. This health outcome is up to you. It can be a physical diagnosis, mental health diagnosis, or something relevant to your specific treatment (e.g., sports health outcomes, work health, etc.). Note, if you choose a modality that has mindfulness as a component and not the bulk of the treatment (e.g., ACT, DBT, etc), focus your paper on the mindfulness components of this treatment. Your literature review should include:

– Exploration into the causal relationship between the intervention and the health outcome (including lack of evidence!) Discuss how mindfulness improves this specific outcome, including drawing hypotheses from what we’ve discussed in class. This is the bulk of the paper

– Strengths and limitations of the current research. 1-2 pages

– Discuss future directions of this topic based on current research. Where would you like to see this research go next? How would you like to see this expanded. (Populations, settings, etc). 1-2 pages

Provide specific examples of potential issues at each stage of the SDLC and explain how the inclusion of nurses may help address these issues.

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THE INCLUSION OF NURSES IN THE SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE

To Prepare:

Review the steps of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as presented in the Resources.

Reflect on your own healthcare organization and consider any steps your healthcare organization goes through when purchasing and implementing a new health information technology system.

Consider what a nurse might contribute to decisions made at each stage of the SDLC when planning for new health information technology.

Post a description of what you believe to be the consequences of a healthcare organization not involving nurses in each stage of the SDLC when purchasing and implementing a new health information technology system. Provide specific examples of potential issues at each stage of the SDLC and explain how the inclusion of nurses may help address these issues. Then, explain whether you had any input in the selection and planning of new health information technology systems in your nursing practice or healthcare organization and explain potential impacts of being included or not in the decision-making process. Be specific and provide examples.

Respond to at least two of your colleagues*, by offering additional thoughts regarding the examples shared, SDLC-related issues, and ideas on how the inclusion of nurses might have impacted the example described by your colleagues.

Write an essay in which you compare and contrast the following strategic measurement tools used by business and human resource professionals as presented in the Required Unit Resources for this unit. Compare and contrast the following measurement tools.

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Human Resource Management

Instructions

For this assignment, you will write an essay in which you compare and contrast the following strategic measurement tools used by business and human resource professionals as presented in the Required Unit Resources for this unit. Compare and contrast the following measurement tools.

  • Economic Value Added (EVA)
  • Return on Investment (ROI)
  • Balanced Scorecard (BSC)
  • HR Scorecard

What are the advantages and disadvantages of each measurement tool? Give an example of how each could be used in your current (or a previous) organization.

Support your essay with an introduction as well as a minimum of two references from the CSU Online Library.

Your essay must be at least two pages in length, not counting the title or reference pages. Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed.

Write about the logistics performance priorities of any ONE of your choice in Covid 19 restrictions.

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Logistics performance

Write about the logistics performance priorities of any ONE of your choice in Covid 19 restrictions. Explain why you have come to your conclusions:

1) A low-fare Airline FLYADEAL

2) A fast-food chain Such as Albaik

ow does Smith define “Niche Construction”? What are the six categories of niche construction he discussed? What is an example of each of these? Why are have these been harder to recognize in the archaeological record?

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Write a 200-400 word (+- 50 word) commentary on the readings

This commentary will be on Kimmerer (2013) and Smith (2011).

Minimally, your commentary on the readings should provide a brief 1-2 sentence summary of each reading and a thoughtful reflection on the numbered questions I pose below.

Complete/answer the following questions in your reading comment:

  • Provide a brief 1-2 sentence summary of each reading.
  • How does Smith define “Niche Construction”? What are the six categories of niche construction he discussed? What is an example of each of these? Why are have these been harder to recognize in the archaeological record?
  • What do these readings tell us about the divide between domesticated and wild foods? Is this very clear cut? Why is this harder for some species than for others?
  • How is niche construction practiced in the example illustrated by Kimmerer?
  • Reading these, do you think that the divide between foraging and farming is as clear cut as you once believed?

Don’t forget to end by asking bringing up questions you have about the readings. Was there anything you did not understand?

What do you think it is trying to deconstruct? What is the subtext or the implied message? Negative or positive effects on society? does it reinforce or challenge anything?

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Communications Question

Find an advertisement or song to deconstruct (produced between 2019-present). Post the specific example (direct link or embed it onto the post). Then, deconstruct your chosen example by focusing on at least 2 particular aspects of the example (ex. color, language choice, imagery, etc.) What do you think it is trying to deconstruct? What is the subtext or the implied message? Negative or positive effects on society? does it reinforce or challenge anything?

Collect and compare quantitative data from two populations. Use statistical methods to determine if there a difference between the means of the two populations.

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Math 109 Project Part 2

Description: For this semester–long project, you will collect and compare quantitative data from two populations. You will use statistical methods to determine if there a difference between the means of the two populations.

You will present your results and conclusions for this second part of project in an essay format that is at least 800 words in length. Do NOT include definitions or state how to calculate results in your project. State your findings and conclusions in your own words.

Discussion of Topic (Total: 4pts)
• Give a clear and concise overview of the topic chosen for the project: This should be basically the same as the Discussion of Topic from Part I. Introduce your topic and why it was interesting to you. You can copy and paste your introduction from part I of the project, just make sure that you hadn’t lost any points for it the first time around. This section should be at most 1 short paragraph.

Discussion of Part 1 (Total: 5pts)
• Summarize methods from part 1: What were some of the methods you used in part one to compare shape, center, and spread? Comment briefly about your visual comparison of the samples.
• Summarize conclusions from part 1: What was the answer to your main overarching question that you came to by the end of part one? Did you decide the populations were likely about the same, or did you decide that the two populations were different?
• Describe how confident you were in your conclusions from part 1: Do you feel like your samples led you to accurate conclusions? What are some things you know about your samples and this project that you feel make your data good, and what are some things you know that make your data unreliable?
• This section should be at most 1 paragraph.

Discussion of Hypothesis Statement (Total: 4pts)
• State the null and alternative hypothesis in symbol form: Provide the symbol form of your null and alternative hypotheses for the two–tailed test testing if there is a difference between the population means.
• State the null and alternative hypothesis in sentence form: Interpret the symbol form of the hypotheses in the context of the project. Use specifics about your specific data and populations.

Discussion of Hypothesis Test Results (Total: 12pts)

• Provide a clear analysis of the hypothesis test results: What does it mean to run a ‘two– tailed’ test? What is the test statistic? What is the P–value?
• State your conclusion and support the decision: Given your test results, do you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? How did you (mathematically) come to that conclusion?
• Discuss what the conclusion means for the two populations: Interpret your conclusion in the context of the project. Use specifics about your populations. Based on your conclusion, what is the answer to the main overarching question? Are your population means the same or different?
• Discuss if the results of the hypothesis test match the previous conclusions from part 1 of the project: Go back to your conclusions from part 1. Is it the same conclusion? It is okay if it is different. Just compare the two conclusions. If the conclusions are different, which is more reliable?

Discussion of Confidence Interval (Total: 12pts)
• Discuss the confidence interval: What is the confidence interval? State the plausible range of differences between the two populations.
• Interpret the confidence interval: What does your confidence interval represent in the context of the project? Are the population means the same or different? Is one likely larger than the other? How do you know?
• Discuss if the values make sense: Do these values seem reasonable to be the differences between your population means? Does the interval seem too wide or narrow to be reasonable?

Comparison of Hypothesis Test and CI (Total: 6pts)
• Compare the results of the Hypothesis Test and Confidence Interval: You had to answer the main question: “Are the population means the same or different?” based on hypothesis test and also based on your confidence interval. Did you come to the same conclusion?

Discussion of Expectations (Total: 4pts)

• Briefly discuss what the expectations were at the beginning of the project: When you chose your topic, what did you think the result would be?
• Discuss how the analysis has supported or changed any initial thoughts: Did your results from part 1 support your original expectation? Did your results from part 2 support your original expectation? Now that you have completed the analysis, was your original expectation right or wrong?

Discussion of Possible Changes (Total: 4pts)
• Clearly discuss any changes that could be made if the project was to be redone: Imagine that you are a real statistician. What would you change about your project? Think about the things you know about your project topic and data collection that make your analysis accurate or inaccurate. How would you improve on those methods, what mistakes would you want to correct?

How might children raised in Boarding Schools have a difficult time becoming good parents? Discuss ideas of nurture; what does sexual abuse do?

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Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding Schools

Unspoken: Native American Boarding Schools http://www.pbs.org/video/unspoken-americas-native-american-boarding-schools-oobt1r/

Links to an external site.

Short Answers [2-4 sentences]: answer these questions below (10 points) and view these other items for the bonus questions (5 pts)

  1. What is Assimilation? Give examples of how it was implemented. (2 pts)
  2. How were the children treated that was like the military? What did General Pratt at Carlisle say about killing Indians? (2 pts)
  3. How might children raised in Boarding Schools have a difficult time becoming good parents? Discuss ideas of nurture; what does sexual abuse do? (2 pts)
  4. How did Boarding Schools make some Indians stronger? What eventually happened in modern schools? (2 pts)
  5. Name one of the famous people mentioned who excelled although they were in Boarding School. What were their accomplishments? (2 pts)

Bonus:

  1. How do Native American mascots affect some people both negatively and positively? (2 Bonus pts)
  2. Discuss the intergenerational trauma in each of the two clips below. Name the clip you are referring to (3 Bonus pts)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1TCQf2NTFc&t=4s

Links to an external site.

Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School

Links to an external site.Our Spirits Don't Speak English: Indian Boarding School

More information on Intergenerational Trauma.

https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/our-spirits-dont-speak-english-indian-boarding-school-2/

Links to an external site.

Does an ethical problem(s) exist? How do you know? What responsibility does the individual(s) have to respond to this ethical problem? State the ethical problem clearly; how do we separate the ethical problem from other non-ethical components?

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Film Abstract Instructions and Sample

Questions and points to consider (asterisk indicates required questions/items):

Instructions: View 5 films – one abstract for each film; upload one document to “assignments” in Canvas by the due date noted in syllabus.

  • Does an ethical problem(s) exist? How do you know? (must be included for each film)
  • What responsibility does the individual(s) have to respond to this ethical problem? (must be included for each film)
  • State the ethical problem clearly; how do we separate the ethical problem from other non-ethical components? They are often entangled in real-life in various ways, from company policies to types of relationships (marriage, friendship, co-worker, boss, etc.) in which you are involved, your role in an organization, etc. (must be included for each film)
  • How do we begin to resolve the ethical issues? You need to be able to justify your choices; explain why they work or do not work. (can include this for each film – or a version of this…)
  • What are the choices you can make – are you free to choose to act or not to act? To what/to whom are your responsibilities? (can include this for each film – or a version of this…)
  • What are the primary duties and/or obligations? (can include this for each film – or a version of this…)
    • Consider: Are you willing to pursue the “good” in order to conform to the good? (…such as the values of an organization such as your employer) For example: courage is the willingness to make your behavior conform to the good, even with it is dangerous to do so.
      • “Good” needs to be defined.
  • What is/are the lesson(s) to be learned from this film? (must be included for each film)

Read the articles below and write an informative 2-page essay about the potential risks associated with spreadsheets.

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Risks Inherent in Spreadsheets.

As part of your AOL assignment discuss the risks associated with spreadsheets.

Read the articles below and write an informative 2–page essay about the potential risks associated with spreadsheets:

1. Spreadsheet horror stories: https://handsontable.com/blog/articles/2020/10/spreadsheet–horror– stories
2. 5 of the most terrifying Excel spreadsheet horror stories we’ve ever heard: https://www.caspio.com/blog/5–of–the–most–terrifying–excel–spreadsheet–horror–stories–weve–ever–heard/
3. Spreadsheet horror stories: https://www.qcommission.com/blog/spreadsheet–horror–stories.html
4. Spreadsheet blunders costing business billions: http://www.cnbc.com/id/100923538
5. Every spreadsheet has an error: 7 lessons motivated by Reinhart and Rogoff: https://www.forbes.com/sites/billconerly/2013/04/25/every–spreadsheet–has–an–error–7–lessons–motivated–by–reinhart–and–rogoff/?sh=3110e9553f2b
6. Eight of the worst Excel blunders: https://www.cio.c