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Describe that video. What aspect of the video is protected under copyright? Explain your response.

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Right to Use

As you prepare to respond to this post, refer to the “What Is a Copyright” Learning Activity. According to the text, what protects copyright and what is copyright purposed to protect? Provide an example from the text. Next, think back to the last social media video you watched that provided you with information. Describe that video. What aspect of the video is protected under copyright? Explain your response.

Compare and contrast the four frameworks (Strategic Alignment Model, The Amsterdam Information Model, The DAMA-DMBOK Framework including Evolved (sections 3.3 and 3.5) and the DMBOK Pyramid (Aiken) noted towards the end of chapter 1.

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Data Management Frameworks: Analyze and Create

For the first part of this assignment, compare and contrast the four frameworks (Strategic Alignment Model, The Amsterdam Information Model, The DAMA-DMBOK Framework including Evolved (sections 3.3 and 3.5) and the DMBOK Pyramid (Aiken) noted towards the end of chapter 1. Specifically discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each.

For the second part of this assignment develop a framework of your own including how you will measure both the quality and monetary value of data (also see valuation methods sec 1.3.7 on page 77). Please feel free to use Microsoft Word, Visio or Lucidcharts to create your diagram.

After reading the case in the Activity “Something’s Rotten in Hondo,” provide an example of an ethical dilemma you have encountered in your professional life. Using the theories and suggestions from the reading, compare and contrast the way you approached your dilemma to the way Bill handled the ethical dilemma in the case study.

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How Do You Decide?

After reading the case in the Activity “Something’s Rotten in Hondo,” provide an example of an ethical dilemma you have encountered in your professional life. Using the theories and suggestions from the reading, compare and contrast the way you approached your dilemma to the way Bill handled the ethical dilemma in the case study. What was the outcome regarding your dilemma and what, if any, suggestions from the reading would you employ next time? Do you agree or disagree with the way Bill handled his situation? Please illustrate your response with examples from the reading.

Describe the recommendations for methods of identifying employee performance issues. Evaluate alternative methods of employee development. Describe the steps you would take to implement your recommendations.

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Performance Management

As a newly hired human resources manager, the CEO solicits a meeting with you and other senior leaders in the organization. During the meeting, she raises concerns about the decline in employee performance and shares that she suspects it must be due to the quality of new hires or a lack of incentive for them to perform better. The Vice President (VP) of operations shares his frustration with the poor performance and productivity seen in his department and states the following: “I think we should fire underperforming employees immediately and start over by hiring those who are better qualified.” At the conclusion of the meeting, the CEO tasks you with sharing your diagnosis and recommendations at the next meeting. In preparation for the follow up meeting, you begin conducting internal research, and your investigation uncovers several critical problems that must be solved in order to improve the performance of the organization. Some of the problems include poor job descriptions, a poor performance management system, a lack of training, low base pay for new hires, and no recognition program.

To communicate with senior leaders, you must create a two-page memo to explain the issues, as well as offer appropriate solutions. Given your assessment of the current use of individual development plans, describe the necessary steps to mitigate the current issues. In your memo,

  • Describe the recommendations for methods of identifying employee performance issues.
  • Evaluate alternative methods of employee development.
  • Describe the steps you would take to implement your recommendations.
  • Support your assessment and recommendations with at least one scholarly and/or credible source.

Identify and define the learning disability. Discuss how it is manifested in your organization’s actions. Describe how it prevents you and your teammates, colleagues, and/or fellow employees from learning.

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Organizational Learning Disabilities

We learned about Senge’s seven learning disabilities and how each can affect an organization. For this assignment, you will think back to your time at any type of organization or team and connect to Senge’s teachings to describe at least two of the learning disabilities you have experienced.

Instructions:

  • For each learning disability:

o Identify and define the learning disability.

o Discuss how it is manifested in your organization’s actions (be specific).

o Describe how it prevents you and your teammates, colleagues, and/or fellow employees from learning.

o Explain what actions you would take as a leader of the organization to help fix the problem(s). Discuss why you believe these actions will fix the problem(s).

Create a process and strategy that the operator can follow that will allow for a safe method for each bulleted tasks. Ensure the processes and strategy includes all lifting and bending motions that are required when changing the flat tire.

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Industrial Ergonomics

Answer 3 questions

Question 1

You have sustained a flat tire while driving your company vehicle. The vehicle has a spare tire. In this essay, describe the steps necessary to change out the tire. Focus on the following movements:

  • jacking up the vehicle,
  • removing the lug nuts,
  • lifting the flat tire off the axle,
  • bending over and lifting the spare tire out of the trunk,
  • placing the spare tire on the car,
  • tightening the lug nuts, and
  • placing the flat tire in the trunk.

What specific movements would be required to perform these tasks. Use the textbook Appendix B Physical Risk Factor checklist to explain your answers. Also, discuss the possible work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) that could occur.
Create a process and strategy that the operator can follow that will allow for a safe method for each bulleted tasks. Ensure the processes and strategy includes all lifting and bending motions that are required when changing the flat tire.

Your written response answer must be at least 300 words in length.
Question 2

Points Health care workers are at a high risk for WMSDs. Discuss in this essay some of the items that increase their risk of WMSDs. Then discuss how they could alleviate those risks through preventive actions and the hierarchy of controls.

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.
Question 3

PointsConsider an employee who works at the big-box store stocking shelves overnight while the store is closed. The employee begins to experience some mild to moderate low-back pain from the lifting of the boxes. The boxes vary in size and weight. Use the calculations found in Chapter 14 to determine the RWL and LI for this employee. The average weight of the boxes is 40 lbs and the average size is a standard banker’s box. What recommendations could be made based on the findings of your calculations? Show the calculations.

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

Explain 2 role of transformational leadership in nursing.

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 Transformational leadership in nursing

Explain 2 role of transformational leadership in nursing.

Should Dawn be forced to settle her claim through arbitration? Why? Assume your company’s arbitration policy was exactly like Tooters’. Name one aspect would you retain, and which one might you change? Why? Be specific.

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Tooter’s and ADR

Tooters Restaurant used an alternative dispute resolution program. Employees of Tooters had to sign an “agreement to arbitrate employment-related disputes” to be eligible for raises, transfers, and promotions. Under the agreement, both Tooters and the employee agreed to resolve all disputes arising out of employment, including “any claim of discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, or wrongful discharge, whether arising under federal or state law,” through arbitration.

In a separate policy document not shared with employees until after they had signed the agreement, Tooters set forth the rules and procedures of its arbitration program:

The employee had to provide notice of the specifics of the claim, but Tooters did not need to file any type of response to these specifics or notify the employee of what kinds of defenses the company planned to raise.

Only the employee had to provide a list of all facts or witnesses and a brief summary of the facts known to each.

While the employee and Tooters could each choose an arbitrator from a list, and the two arbitrators chosen would then select a third to create the arbitration panel that would hear the dispute, Tooters alone selected the arbitrators that were put on the list.

Only Tooters had the right to widen the scope of arbitration to include award any matter, whereas the employee was limited to the matters raised in his or her notice.

Only Tooters had the right to record the arbitration.

Only Tooters could cancel the agreement to arbitrate or change the arbitration rules.

Dawn had worked as a bartender at the Tooters restaurant for about five years before Tooters adopted its arbitration policy. Dawn was given a copy of the agreement to arbitrate to review for five days and then sign. Approximately two years later, a Tooters official grabbed and slapped her buttocks. After appealing to her manager for help and being told to “let it go,” she quit her job. When she threatened to file a lawsuit for sexual harassment, Tooters filed an action in federal district court to compel arbitration of Dawn’s claims.

  1. Should Dawn be forced to settle her claim through arbitration? Why?
  2. Assume your company’s arbitration policy was exactly like Tooters’. Name one aspect would you retain, and which one might you change? Why? Be specific.

Describe a product that you will only buy the name brand of (not the generic version). Explain why you only buy the name brand. Does the name brand cost more than the generic version? Why is it worth the extra money?

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Monopolistic competition discussion

Describe a product that you will only buy the name brand of (not the generic version). Explain why you only buy the name brand. Does the name brand cost more than the generic version? Why is it worth the extra money?

Construct a volcano plot to visualise the changes in fold change and p values from health to sepsis. (By excel) If you assume p<0.05 is significant and prioritise two-fold increased or decreased: name the two most increased and two most decreased proteins of significant interest. What are the biological processes for these proteins?

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Biochemistry Question

Omics_Microbes:

 Introduction

Sepsis (also known as blood poisoning) is the immune system’s overreaction to an infection. Normally the human immune system fights infection but sometimes it attacks our body’s own organs and tissues. If not treated immediately, sepsis can result in organ failure and death. Yet with early diagnosis, it can be treated with antibiotics. Five people die each hour in the UK as a result of sepsis.

Study Design

Blood plasma samples were collected, processed and frozen from subjects visiting the X Hospital Accident and Emergency Unit and who were diagnosed with sepsis. Age and gender-matched control subjects were recruited from the same Accident and Emergency Unit and blood plasma was also collected, processed and stored; these control subjects were tested for but were not diagnosed with sepsis. The sepsis and control samples have been analysed applying a quantitative proteomics method; a specific protein has received a more in-depth mass spectrometry analysis; and the sepsis and control samples have been analysed applying an untargeted metabolomics method to identify changes in metabolites.

Assessment

This assessment will allow you to investigate the data acquired. The assessment is broken down in to three separate sections.

The assessment should be submitted as a short scientific report defining (a) the computational methods applied; (b) the data analysis results generated and (c) a discussion/conclusion section. The maximum word count is 800 words.

 

The data collected is presented in the file named ‘Proteomics data.xls’.

  1. Construct a volcano plot to visualise the changes in fold change and p values from health to sepsis. (By excel)
  2. If you assume p<0.05 is significant and prioritise two-fold increased or decreased: name the two most increased and two most decreased proteins of significant interest.
  3. What are the biological processes for these proteins?

 

Serum samples were extracted and analysed for 15 subjects diagnosed with sepsis and 15 subjects not diagnosed with sepsis. Plasma was extracted in 50/50 methanol/water (v/v). Each sample was analysed applying a ultra-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) method followed by raw data processing. Quality Control (QC) samples were also analysed as part of the study.

The processed LC-MS data is presented in the file named ‘Omics_Microbes_Metabolomics_dataset_Case_Study.csv’.

  1. Assess the quality of the data provided applying multivariate analysis methods. Define whether the data is of an adequate quality to perform statistical analysis.
  2. Applying univariate statistical analysis methods, identify the metabolites which show a statistical significance between subjects with sepsis and subjects without sepsis. Report the metabolite and statistical critical p-value for all metabolites with a critical p-value < 0.05 (FDR-corrected).
  3. Identify the metabolite pathway or pathways that are associated with the statistically significant metabolites described in part b.