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What physiological factors might contribute to Mr. Basset’s weight loss? What psychosocial factors might contribute to Mr. Basset’s weight loss? Give one likely explanation why Mr. Basset’s dentures do not fit.

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Case study

You are asked to see Mr. Basset, who is 80 years old and has recently lost his wife. His children do not live nearby, but Mr. Basset sees them on holidays. Mr. Basset has had an unexplained weight loss of 20 pounds in 3 months. He is taking medication for hypertension and arthritis.
Mr. Basset reports that his wife did most of the cooking and he has limited cooking skills. He usually has cereal with milk and coffee for breakfast and soup for a second meal later in the day. He eats crackers throughout the day if he is hungry. In addition, Mr. Basset has ill-fitting dentures and claims that food just does not taste the same. He is also on a limited budget. More than anything, however, Mr. Basset is lonely.

Discussion Questions

a. What physiological factors might contribute to Mr. Basset’s weight loss?

b. What psychosocial factors might contribute to Mr. Basset’s weight loss?

c. Give one likely explanation why Mr. Basset’s dentures do not fit.

d. What community resources might be used to improve Mr. Basset’s nutritional status?

e. Compare the risk factors described in Mr. Basset’s case with the “Determine Your Nutritional Health” checklist from the Nutrition Screening Initiative

f. Come up with a nursing diagnosis and care plan with goal and at least three interventions to follow Mr. Basset. Nurselabs.com is an excellent resource.

g. SBAR a concern to Mr. Basset’s PCP relevant to Mr. Bassett’s status.

Describe the context of your historical event that influenced your current event. How does the context of your historical event help tell the story of what was happening at the time? How might this historical event connect or lead to your current event?

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Hist project

Part 1: Creating a Research Question: The quality of research often depends on the quality of the question driving it. It is important to understand how personal opinions, perspectives, and historical sources all play a part in developing and examining a research question. Complete the following steps to discuss how you developed a strong research question about your chosen historical event.

  1. Describe how your assumptions, beliefs, and values influenced your choice of topic.
    1. How might your own perspectives and opinions impact the topic you chose and how you may approach studying it?
  2. Discuss the significance of your historical research question in relation to your current event.
    1. State your historical research question and explain the connection between your current event and your question.
  3. Explain how you used sources to finalize your research question.
    1. Identify the specific primary and secondary sources you used.
    2. Discuss how evidence in these primary and secondary sources strengthened or challenged the focus of your question.

Part 2: Building Context to Address Questions: In this part of the project, you will examine the historical context related to your historical event. The context will be like snapshots that capture what was happening in history that affected the development of your current event.

  1. Describe the context of your historical event that influenced your current event.
    1. How does the context of your historical event help tell the story of what was happening at the time? How might this historical event connect or lead to your current event?
  2. Describe a historical figure or group’s participation in your historical event.
    1. This person or people must have directly participated in the event you identified as it was happening, not after it.
    2. Use specific details from your primary and secondary sources to demonstrate how the person or people participated in the event.
  3. Explain the historical figure or group’s motivation to participate in your historical event.
    1. Consider why the person or people were motivated to get involved in the event.

Part 3: Examining How Bias Impacts Narrative:Narrative is how people tell stories based on their own assumptions, beliefs, and values. From a historical perspective, narratives influence who we focus on, what we focus on, and how we discuss events and issues in the past and present. Complete the following steps to explore how the stories about your current event and the historical events leading to it have been told.

  1. Describe a narrative you identified while researching the history of your historical event.
    1. There can be multiple narratives depending on your sources. Pick one or two that you feel have been the most influential.
  2. Articulate how biased perspectives presented in primary and secondary sources influence what is known or unknown about history.
    1. How do potentially biased sources influence knowledge of your historical event and current event?
    2. Support your stance with examples from your primary and secondary sources.
  3. Identify the perspectives that you think are missing from your historical event’s narrative.
    1. Whose stories were not recorded? Whose voices were ignored or silenced?

Part 4: Connecting the Past With the Present:Consider how the work you have done to develop your research question and investigate it can be used to explain connections between the past and present. Complete the following steps to discuss the value of developing historical inquiry skills.

  1. Explain how researching its historical root shelped improve your understanding of your current event.
    1. How did examining your current event from a historical perspective help you better comprehend its origins?
  2. Articulate how questioning your assumptions, beliefs, and values may benefit you as an individual.
    1. Why is it valuable to be aware of your assumptions, beliefs, and values when encountering information in your personal, academic, and professional life?
  3. Discuss how being a more historically informed citizen may help you understand contemporary issues.
    1. Consider how having knowledge of history could influence how you approach current challenges or questions in the world

Briefly explain the origins of Kikuchi lines (see chapter 2 near end for discussion in context of a TEM diffraction pattern. Also read sections 5.6.4-5.6.6. What changes in the discussion for the OIM / EBSD context as opposed to TEM context?

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Answer questions on XRD

Use the book attached in the following link and any other relevant source to answer the following questions.

 Make your answers short and cite the source (and page number or link) of each of your answer. Kindly, we should be able to reproduce you answer from the page you cite.

5. Examine figure 2.57 in Brandon & Kaplan which shows a TEM diffraction pattern from a single grain of α-Fe (BCC Fe). Examine the apparent symmetry of the pattern (note spot diam is used to indicate the intensity of the diffracted beams) – what is the zone axis for this pattern? (hint:the diffraction pattern MUST reflect AT LEAST the symmetry of the real crystal along that direction but could appear to be higher symmetry. Index the pattern, remembering the following rules:

  • The zone axis (vector that the e-beam is travelling along) points straight out of the page and is centered in the center of the pattern
  • The in-plane vectors to the diffraction spots are the momentum transfer vectors and reciprocal lattice vectors ∆k=G. Since the zone axis is normal to the page and all the G vectors are in plane, the dot products of G*zone axis vector must be zero.
  • The radius from pattern center to each spot is the magnitude of the G vector times a scale factor. So you can take ratios of these radii and invert them to get the ratios of d-spacings in real space.
  • The d-spacing as function of hkl for a cubic crystal is equation 2.38 in B&K book.

6. Briefly explain the origins of Kikuchi lines (see chapter 2 near end for discussion in context of a TEM diffraction pattern. Also read sections 5.6.4-5.6.6. What changes in the discussion for the OIM / EBSD context as opposed to TEM context?

Describe what specific logistics and Supply Chain Management concepts/tools be applied to achieve the objective. This section should make it clear that you understand the concepts/tools you are about to use.

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Assignment 1 MGT322

Critical Writing

The purpose of this assignment is to identify and apply Logistics and Supply Chain Management concepts/tools to suggest logistics performance priorities. To this purpose, you should search and review about these companies through secondary available information. Think about how you can apply the concepts/tools that you learned in this course.

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

The Answer must follow the outline points below:

  1. Executive summary (3 Mark, Max word count 450-500)

– Summarize what is logistics performance priorities, and what Logistics and Supply Chain Management concepts/tools applied to achieve the company’s objective.

  1. Background information (3 Mark, Max word count 450-500)

– Briefly introduce the company background (e.g., name, products, business size, location, internal/external interesting facts, etc).

  1. Problem Description (3 Mark, Max word count 450-500)

– Describe the objectives clearly and specifically.

– The objective may involve either logistics decision-making or process improvement.

  1. Application of logistics and SCM concepts/tools that were applied (3 Mark, Max word count 450-500)

– Describe what specific logistics and Supply Chain Management concepts/tools be applied to achieve the objective. This section should make it clear that you understand the concepts/tools you are about to use.

5- Conclusion and results (2 Mark, Max word count 300-400)

– Analyze the expected results / the proposed solution.

  1. References at least 7-10. (1 Marks)

Note: Use APA style of referencing

 

Explain the three ways (in detail) with which a firm can increase the likelihood of the projects being both technically and commercially successful.

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Management of Technology (MGT 325)

QUESTIONS:

 Q1– ‘Technological innovation is thus the creation of new knowledge that is applied to practical problems. Sometimes this knowledge is applied to problems hastily……’. In your own words, explain what can be the possible consequences of hasty application of technological innovation. Explain whether the benefits of technological innovation over power its drawbacks. (5 Marks, Min words 400-500)

Q2. Explain the three ways (in detail) with which a firm can increase the likelihood of the projects being both technically and commercially successful.  (6 Marks, Min words 550-600)

Q3– On the basis of your own research, map the timeline of the Most Important Technological Innovation in the last 50 years (1982-2022). Select one innovation as per your choice and write a detailed note about its positive as well as negative effects on the society. (4 Marks, Min words 450-500)

 

Using information from class discussions, textbooks, websites, and/or journals, create a project in any of the following formats.

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Connections to Speech

Using information from class discussions, textbooks, websites, and/or journals, create a project in any of the following formats (only select one, you don’t need to do all of them).

  • PowerPoint Presentation: Must be at least 7 slides, keep the font, size, and color consistent. Do not copy and paste directly from your sources.
  • Written report: Must be in MLA or APA format and needs to have an introduction, body paragraphs (at least 6 paragraphs), conclusion, and works cited
  • Online portfolio: Can be a blog, newsletter, online presentation, ect
  • Video recording: The duration doesn’t matter as long as all the points have been thoroughly discussed.

Other Choice: If you select a different way of doing the project you must notify me at least 4 weeks prior to the deadline for approval. You must include the following information:1. Definition of exceptionality: Select ONLY ONE of the following exceptionalities listed and explain at least 3 salient characteristics that are often associated with your chosen exceptionality.(Minimum 1 paragraph. if you are doing a written report, please include an introduction before discussing your chosen exceptionality)

  • Dyslexia
  • Hyperlexia
  • LD (Learning Disabilities)
  • ID (Intellectual Disabilities)
  • SSD (Speech Sound Disorders)
  • DLD (Developmental Language Disorders)

2. Connections to Speech. Language, and Literacy:(Minimum 2 paragraphs. If doing a PowerPoint, please make at least 1 slide for challenges and 1 slide for literacy)

  • Describe at least 3 challenges or symptoms that may impact the development of their speech and language skills.
  • Explain at least 2 reading and literacy problems that may occur with this population.

3. Evidence-based strategies (Minimum 1 paragraph for each strategy (3 paragraphs total). If using PowerPoint, please describe each strategy in a separate slide)

  • Name, describe, and discuss at least 2 evidence-based strategies that can be used either in the classroom or at home.
  • Name, describe, and discuss at least 1 evidence-based strategy focused on literacy development.

4. Related websites and/or resources

  • A bibliography must be included with at least 3 out of the 5 sources listed below.
    • Peer-reviewed journal article
    • Academic website
    • Multimedia Resource (Video interview, podcast, Q & A, etc)
    • Interview
    • Textbooks

5. Grammar & Mechanics

Check for grammar and punctuation (You’d be surprised how many students still begin their sentences with a lowercase letter)

Keep the font size and style consistent

Do not copy and paste from another source (If you copy and paste, you will not receive a grade for that portion of the project, and will result in a deduction of points from your overall score)

How can psychologists best disseminate knowledge to the public as a way to improve public health?

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Clinical psychology

For this final written assignment, you will be discussing a current “hot” professional or clinical issue related to the field of clinical psychology. The issue that you select must be discussed in some degree in the course textbook and/or class lectures, but you will be adding to the knowledge of this issue via additional research. Your paper must reference, at minimum, the text plus an additional four peer-reviewed sources. You will be summarizing the issue and your literature review of the issue. (Again, these are minimum requirements). You will also be making an argument about the issue (e.g., what you think should be done to address the issue) that is informed by your thorough research.

  • Dissemination of knowledge: How can psychologists best disseminate knowledge to the public as a way to improve public health?

Additional Requirements:

  • This is a formal, cohesive written essay in paragraph style and 1500 words at minimum
  • All factual statements, including “common knowledge statements” must be cited both in-text and via a full reference in the references page (you need a references page)
  • Only Word or pdf documents are accepted
  • One-inch margins, double spaced, 12-point font
  • Documents must be named in the following format: LASTNAME_PSY394_Final Paper
  • Paper heading must include: Your Name, date, course title, CA name, Paper title

An elevator raises a 3000 lb load through a distance of 50 ft in 10s. If the efficiency of the entire system is 80%, how much input horsepower is required by the elevator hoist motor? How much torque is delivered by a 2 hp, 1800 rpm hydraulic motor?

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Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

University of Jeddah

ENME 457:  Pumps & Hydraulics (SEM-III 2022-23)

assignment 1: Fluid power, fluid machinery & Fundamentals of pump (due date: 18.04.23)

NAME:                                                                                                                             ID:
SECTION:

 

Part A: Fluid Power

  • Define the term fluid power. Explain any five benefits of fluid power for the users.
  • Compare between a hydraulic and a pneumatic systems.
  • What are the major functions of fluid power? State any five fluid power machineries and their end users.
  • Sketch the basic hydraulic system and state its major components.
  • Sketch and explain the spring load accumulator.
  • How are the control valve classified? Write the classification of the control valve.
  • Name and compare the four different types of power systems.
  • An elevator raises a 3000 lb load through a distance of 50 ft in 10s. If the efficiency of the entire system is 80%, how much input horsepower is required by the elevator hoist motor?
  • How much torque is delivered by a 2 hp, 1800 rpm hydraulic motor?

 

Part B: Fluid Machinery

  • Define turbo-machine. Explain the working principle of power absorbing and power producing turbo-machines.
  • Briefly discuss how the turbo-machines are classified in terms of i) power, ii) pressure change, iii) path of flow and iv) housing system.
  • Briefly explain the principal parts of a turbo machine.
  • Enlist the major characteristics of a positive displacement machine.
  • What is positive displacement machine? How does it compare with a turbo-machine with respect to the following aspects: i) Mode of action, ii) Operation, iii) Mechanical features, iv) Efficiency of energy conversion, and v) Volumetric efficiency?

 

Part C: Fundamentals of pumps

  • Define pump and briefly state its importance and classifications.
  • Write a short note on Noria, Egyptian and Archimedean pumps.
  • Define positive displacement pump and briefly state its characteristics and working principle.
  • Define dynamic pump and briefly state its characteristics and working principle.
  • Compare between dynamic and positive displacement pumps.

 

NOTE: You should study all the questions listed above for exam and quiz. For submission of assignment, answer the bold questions only. Your answer must be handwritten!

Write a short (1-2 pages of text, plus supporting tables and figures) project report for the engineers at ABC Chemicals documenting your findings.

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ChE 321 – Design Project 1

Pick A Rate Law, Any Rate Law

The Scenario:

Professor Z. O. Lite and his fabulously talented group of undergraduate chemical engineers at UND have developed a new catalyst.  In preliminary studies it has dramatically increased the rate at which  p-xylene is formed from the reaction of toluene and methanol.

Several different reaction mechanisms have been postulated that suggest the following possible rate laws:

(1)                            (2)

(3)                          (4)

(5)                        (6)

(7)            (8)

(9)          (10)

 

Your Assignment:

Use experimental rate-pressure data from a differential reactor to find a suitable rate law and determine all relevant rate constants in Arrhenius form (k1=A1e-E1/RT)

You have $10,000 available for lab work.  Kinetic rate data for the Toluene + Methanol reaction can be purchased from XYZ Consulting for $200 / run (one run = one data point, not one set of 8 data points).  Pick your data carefully so that you don’t run out of money!  Fill out a Rate Data Request Form (available on Blackboard) with the experimental conditions you want to run and submit it through Blackboard (Project Groups > XYZ Consulting > File Exchange.  Results will be posted (to your group file exchange on Blackboard) daily Monday-Friday, beginning Feb 23.

Write a short (1-2 pages of text, plus supporting tables and figures) project report for the engineers at ABC Chemicals documenting your findings.  It should include the following information:

  • Proposed rate law with numerical values, units, and estimated uncertainty for all constants
  • Discussion and analysis of experimental data that supports proposed rate law and rules out other rate laws
  • Table of all experimental data
  • Figures, regression results, and any other information used in your analysis