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Being engaged in all three dimension of entrepreneurial training through BSM2530-Enterprise Creation, write a reflective essay on the type of entrepreneurial skills you developed throughout the module.

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Enterprise Creation

You are required to produce a 2,500-word essay on the following topic:

One of the most popular typologies of entrepreneurship education suggests that the majority of courses train learners about, for and through entrepreneurship (Pittaway and Edwards 2012).

The first two refer to introducing theories of entrepreneurship and new venture creation and the preparation of learners for entrepreneurship by teaching them how to act as an entrepreneur, how to create new business ventures or how to be good managers of entrepreneurial ventures. While the third category refers to practice-led learning where students are immersed in experiential learning while engaging in new venture creation (real or fictional).

Being engaged in all three dimension of entrepreneurial training through BSM2530-Enterprise Creation, write a reflective essay on the type of entrepreneurial skills you developed throughout the module.

As a starting point, read the following material:

Bacigalupo M, Kampylis P, Punie Y and Van Den Brande L. EntreComp: The Entrepreneurship Competence Framework. EUR 27939 EN. Luxembourg (Luxembourg): Publications Office of the European Union; 2016. JRC101581 – Download from:

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A guide on writing reflective essays from study skills:

With this new medication what patient education/instructions might you share with him based on his new diet? Do to his new diet the patient has been taking omeprazole for his occasional acid reflux and wants to know if he should continue to take it. What is your response.

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Medication Classifications

Part 2: Case Studies

Please answer the following case study questions using the knowledge gained in this course. Remember to cite your references in APA format. Answer the questions in complete sentences and spell-check your assignment.

Textbook: Woodrow, R., & Colbert, B., (2018). Essentials of Pharmacology for Health Occupations. Cengage Learning. https://purdueuniversityglobal.vitalsource.com/books/9781337670852

Case 1

A physician asks you to call an amoxicillin prescription into the pharmacy for a patient. (2pts each)

  1. After 5 days, the patient feels better and wants to stop the amoxicillin because it is upsetting his stomach. What is your response?

 

  1. Since the patient has suffered an upset stomach, he believes he is allergic to amoxicillin. Would you agree? Explain your response.

Case 2

Mr. Jones has just recently been prescribed Coumadin for his high blood pressure. He explains to you that since his diagnosis he has been exercising and eating more healthier foods like vegetables, legumes, and salmon.  (2pts each)

  1. With this new medication what patient education/instructions might you share with him based on his new diet?

 

  1. Do to his new diet the patient has been taking omeprazole for his occasional acid reflux and wants to know if he should continue to take it. What is your response

 

Case 3

Mrs. Cox presented to the office explaining that it burns when she urinates. You’re thinking about prescribing the medication nitrofurantoin. (2pts each)

  1. When asked if she is currently taking medicine she states that she takes Maalox for her GERD. Can she continue taking Maalox with nitrofurantoin? Why or why not? Would you suggest another type of antacid?
  2. What are some instructions and education you may provide her when taking this medication?

Case 4

Mrs. Carleton has been diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Her physician orders digoxin 0.25 mg, two tablets stat and then one tablet daily. (2pts each)

  1. Mrs. Carleton asks why she needs to take two tablets now but will only take one daily after that. What is your response?

 

  1. Mrs. Carleton wants to know how digoxin will help her heart. What do you tell her?

 

Case 5

Mr. Brownstone injured his hip and lower back when he fell off his ladder. When OTC medications did not work he was prescribe oxycodone to help ease the pain. (2pts each)

  1. Over the next few weeks he has noticed that he has become constipated. What would you explain to him in regards to these new symptoms and how can he resolve it?

 

  1. In between doses his wife noticed that her husband would show an increase in restlessness and agitation. She is concerned that her husband is becoming addicted to the meds. Is this true? What would discuss with her?

RESEARCH BLACK HOLES, AND WRITE A 2 PAGE ESSAY ON HOW THEY ARE FORMED, WHAT DO THEY AFTER THEY ARE FORMED, ALSO ADDRESS IF THEY STAY OPEN OR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME OR DO THEY DIE OUT LIKE A STAR.

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Black holes

RESEARCH BLACK HOLES, AND WRITE A 2 PAGE ESSAY ON HOW THEY ARE FORMED, WHAT DO THEY AFTER THEY ARE FORMED, ALSO ADDRESS IF THEY STAY OPEN OR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME OR DO THEY DIE OUT LIKE A STAR.

In the new waste heat recovery system, unfortunately, a leak was found in the heat exchanger pipeline that collects the heat from steam and transfers it to desalination tank. You suspect a higher pressure within the exchanger pipeline than it could withstand. Considering the coolant within the pipeline is a mixture of 2 liquids (A and B), calculate the maximum and minimum pressure that you can expect at 80 ◦C.

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Assignment 2 – Mass Transfer

Overview
• Consider all the mixtures/solutions to be ideal unless otherwise mentioned.
• The ambient conditions are assumed to be at NTP (20 ◦C and 1 atm).
• During grading, least importance will be given to accuracy in the end values. Therefore try to answer using sufficient concepts and equations. Keep your answers short, but don’t miss out the key words.
• This is an educational exercise. Therefore, we tried to keep it as practical as possible.
• A Q&A session will be held online. The time and date will be notified via brightspace.
• You can upload your completed report to the brightspace assignment page. Make sure that the first page of the report contains the course name, group number, student names and student IDs.
In the brightspace assignments page, EHMT student can upload it under their group number, and SPDO students can upload it under their individual name/IDs (it is enough if one person from the group uploads it).
• The file name should be course groupnumber. course = EHMT/SPDO, group number =Group numericvalue. For example, EHMT Group 1
• Bonus marks with be given for the report formatting. You can refer to the pdf attachment provided with the assignment for the type setting requirements.
• Also for setting up meetings, doubts, etc.. you are welcome to e-mail: n.nagalingam@tudelft.nl.

Question 1
Imagine you are a consultant engineer. You have been invited to solve the scaling issues within a boiler in a thermal power plant.

a. At first you decide to trouble shoot the boiler system by checking the pressure within it. Assuming the water is pure, what would be the expected pressure value for a boiler operating at 150 ◦C. (for pressure in bar and temperature in K, the component-specific constants in Antoine equation for water are A=6.20963, B=2354.731, C=7.559, use log10)

b. Since you physically observe scaling over the boilers inner surface, you suspect the presence of some dissolved salts in the boiler feed water. Will the dissolved salts increase/decrease/not-affect the calculated pressure in the above question? Lets say the deviation is as mentioned in table 1, what is the concentration of the salt in wt% ? Upon further inspection you notice a fault in the desalination system due to which there is an uncontrolled amount of salt in the boiler feed water. Therefore, at the desalination tank you decide to add some special home made mineral(in solid state) at the tank’s bottom, which has the ability to combine with the existing salt and precipitate it.

c. If the container is left undisturbed, How long will it take for the special mineral to diffuse to the top layer of the desalination tank ? (lets say the desalination tank is 1 m heigh and the diffusion coefficient of the mineral is 1 × 10−9 m2/s)

d. Lets say you decide to increase the diffusion process by heating up the tank. To do so you use the waste steam from the turbines that could heat up the tank to 80 ◦C. What would be the percentage increase/decrease in the time calculated from the previous question.

e. Can you mention what design parameters can be changed to make the process faster? Also mention the associated dimensionless numbers that can be used to characterise/rationalise the changes made.

Question 2
a. In the new waste heat recovery system, unfortunately, a leak was found in the heat exchanger pipeline that collects the heat from steam and transfers it to desalination tank. You suspect a higher pressure within the exchanger pipeline than it could withstand. Considering the coolant within the pipeline is a mixture of 2 liquids (A and B), calculate the maximum and minimum pressure that you can expect at 80 ◦C. (their component-specific constants are given in table 2)

b. Lets say all of a sudden this mixture becomes a non-ideal mixture. What is the additional coefficient(s) that you should consider for your calculations?. If we consider both of our ingredients to have activity coefficient greater than 1 what will be the newly measured total pressure. Will it be greater or smaller than before? why?

Question 3
All of a sudden you remember that your mass transfer course has taught you an alternate way to purify salt water. Therefore you decide use a membrane as an alternative to extract the fresh water from the desalination talk without the use of your special home made mineral. (only passage of the solvent is allowed in all the below cases)

a. You decide to use a a big compartment containing two containers separated by a membrane. Container A is filled with the salt water (concentration is same as in Question 1.b) and container B is filled with fresh water. How can you make the water(solvent) from container A to permeate to container B via membrane. What is the name of the process ? What is the minimum pressure need for the water purification in the above question ?

b. Since you are a smart engineer, you try to avoid the use of power/electricity to supply this necessary pressure. Therefore, you now do some basic calculation to let the gravity do the work by creating a pressure head. You plan to place one container at a certain height above the other to make the process in the above question happen. What should be the minimum height between the two containers ? Which container should be placed above and which one should be below ? For some reason you decide to drop the plan on leaving things to gravity. Therefore, now have decided to use the help of a pressure pump, with the containers placed at the same height level.

c. For the water purification to happen, you have decided to supply twice the osmotic pressure over the appropriate container. How much and when would you have the maximum solvent flux through the membrane? (let the solvent permeability and membrane thickness be 3.5 × 10−10 kg m s−1 m−2 bar−1 and 2 μ m)

d. While performing the purification process, at one point you notice that the system is no longer functional. Upon inspection, you notice some solid matter blocking the membrane within the container A. What could these solid matter be ? How/why did the appear within the container A ?

e. Using the solution from container A (concentration is same as in Question 1.b), you decide to make this a continuous process. In order to do so you roll the membrane into the shape of a tube with diameter 1 m and pass the salt water (from container A) through it with fresh water on the exterior side of the tube. The flow velocity of the solution is 1 m s−1. Taking the calculated value of the flux from Question 3.c to be constant along the length (50 m) of the tube, can you calculate the final concentration of the solution exiting the tube?

f. (bonus question) In a real case there should be a pressure drop across the tube in order to make the solution flow. Lets say you supply twice the osmotic pressure at the inlet compared to the outlet. Can you expect the reverse osmosis to happen through the length of the tube? If yes/no, then when/why? For this question you don’t need to calculate any numeric values. Just mention and balance the equations. (tip: Hagen–Poiseuille equation)

Explain your state laws for involuntary psychiatric holds for child and adult psychiatric emergencies. Include who can hold a patient and for how long, who can release the emergency hold, and who can pick up the patient after a hold is released. Explain the differences among emergency hospitalization for evaluation/psychiatric hold, inpatient commitment, and outpatient commitment in your state.

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Legal and Ethical Issues Related to Psychiatric Emergencies

2–3 pages, address the following:

Explain your state laws for involuntary psychiatric holds for child and adult psychiatric emergencies. Include who can hold a patient and for how long, who can release the emergency hold, and who can pick up the patient after a hold is released.

Explain the differences among emergency hospitalization for evaluation/psychiatric hold, inpatient commitment, and outpatient commitment in your state.

Explain the difference between capacity and competency in mental health contexts.

Select one of the following topics, and explain one legal issue and one ethical issue related to this topic that may apply within the context of treating psychiatric emergencies: patient autonomy, EMTALA, confidentiality, HIPAA privacy rule, HIPAA security rule, protected information, legal gun ownership, career obstacles (security clearances/background checks), and payer source.

Identify one evidence-based suicide risk assessment that you could use to screen patients.

Identify one evidence-based violence risk assessment that you could use to screen patients.

Critically discuss the above statement with reference to the institutional make-up of the EU with a particular focus on the legislative process.

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Institutions of the EU

Critically discuss the above statement with reference to the institutional make-up of the EU with a particular focus on the legislative process.

“Criticisms around a democratic deficit in the European Union are unfounded now that the European Parliament fulfils a central role in the EU’s law-making process”

What are the key concepts you wish to investigate? What are the relationships (if any) that you want to explore between or among your key concepts? What is your target population?

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Concept Paper

Using this template, you will write your first draft of the research topic you would like to develop into a dissertation topic. The template will guide you step by step in doing so.

Step 1: Starting Out—Getting It on Paper

In each of the following spaces, write the elements of your research topic as directed. A successful research topic:

  • Names the key concepts to be investigated.
  • Describes the relationship (if any) between them.
  • Identifies the target population of interest.
  • Is sufficiently narrow and focused to permit research.
  • Is a phrase, not a complete sentence.

 

What are the key concepts you wish to investigate? Use terminology appropriate to your specialization and discipline

What are the relationships (if any) that you want to explore between or among your key concepts?

What is your target population? Be as specific and descriptive as you can.

Good work. Now, combine all three elements into a single phrase. Write it as carefully as you can and do not hesitate to rewrite it as often as needed. Your phrase should be clear, well worded, and articulate the topic statement.

 

Step 2: Narrowing and Focusing the Topic

Here you will use an exercise to narrow your topic’s key concepts and population at least four times. A helpful resource for this exercise is keyword searching. You can reach out to a librarian for help with keyword searches.

As you try to focus your concepts more tightly, using keyword searching or subject searching in the library databases will help you find alternative concept words. For instance, if you search on a key concept term such as “management,” finding an article on management will also provide you some new keywords used by that author or journal.

Realize that once you get deeply into the literature and begin doing the multiple searches you will ultimately carry out, your key concepts will become increasingly focused and powerful. You may easily change them many more times, as you grow toward mastery of your topical and methodological literature. For now, four iterations of the exercise will get you to a fairly focused place and will prepare you for your initial literature searches.

Complete the steps in sequential order as you follow these instructions:

Analysis, Findings, Discussion, and Ethics

  • Enter the first concept from your research topic in 1.4 in the first left-hand cell of the grid. Enter the second key concept in the second cell. Continue entering all your key concepts (if you need additional rows, click in the last cell and then press the Tab key to add new rows).
  • For each concept, fill in the second column with a narrower term for that concept. Ask yourself what you mean by the broad term and try to find a term that is more focused. For example, if your concept is learning, do you mean rote learning (learning by memorization) or adaptation (learning by trial and error) or some specific kind such as learning to read or learning to drive a car? If a concept is educational instruction, do you mean a level of instruction (such as high school), a modality of instruction (such as lecture or audiovisual), or some particular approach to instruction (such as experiential learning)? Do not rush yourself. Keep reflecting on what you really mean and want to know. Push yourself to be as specific as possible.
  • Move to the third column when you are satisfied with the second column. For this iteration, we recommend that you visit the library and start searching using the terms in the second column. Do not link them; just search as broadly as you can on the single term. For instance, if in the second column your key concept is now experiential learning, search just on that term, and look for keywords or subjects. This will probably provide you with some new terms from the literature, and you can browse them and decide which term will allow you to further focus and narrow your key concept.
  • Lastly, when you are satisfied with the third column, go through the process a fourth time. Once again, use the library and search on the term in the third column. Here, you may want to make use of the database’s thesaurus or controlled vocabulary list. When you obtain a variety of new terms, reflect carefully on them. Choose the term that takes you where you want to go and clearly expresses the key concept that you wish to investigate.
  • Enter the Target Population in the “2.5 Target Population” rows.

Identify and discuss competitors who might also occupy this space and formulate a plan for differentiating yourself from your competitors. Discuss ways in which you plan on marketing and branding your consulting practice to the clientele base you have developed.

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Marketing plan for your consulting practice

Text: Practice Development in Sport and Performance Psychology, Jim Taylor, Editor. ISBN#: 978-1-935412-92-2

Market Analysis – Chapter 5 discusses the seven building blocks of formulating a marketing plan for your consulting practice. For this assignment, you are asked to develop an in-depth MARKET ANALYSIS so that you can better understand the professional environment you wish to enter.

In your essay, please address the following questions:

Identify the niche area you want to focus your efforts in and discuss why you believe you can impact this area (eg. What is your target market?)

Research your clientele base in the geographical region you plan on working and provide a list of potential clients. (eg. Market size, Demographics, Sport/Corporate breadth)

Identify and discuss competitors who might also occupy this space and formulate a plan for differentiating yourself from your competitors.

Discuss ways in which you plan on marketing and branding your consulting practice to the clientele base you have developed.

Develop arguments for and against the auction of the medical records. Consider what could happen to the data upon its release, or any laws that may be broken. Consider the likely benefits to the public. Consider what mechanisms for data protection should be explored or stipulated by the NHS prior to the release of the records.

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Net neutrality, crypto-currenencies, privacy and data protection

1. Net Neutrality
The original founders of the internet, and subsequently, the wide-wide-web, envisaged equality in terms of how and when network data should be routed around the networks.
Recently, the large media streaming services and some internet service providers have lobbied governments in the US and Europe (including the UK) to allow certain data to be routed with a higher priority than other traffic. The services would decide which traffic would be routed and when.
Arguments have raged for many years about this, with proponents of net neutrality wanting the internet to remain free of control of data, especially by big corporations and governments. On the other side, many companies want control to enhance network transmission speeds and to generate extra sources of income.
Service providers claim that they need to do this to ensure optimum network speeds in the face of ever-increasing video traffic and to ensure a high quality of service for their customers. The providers often say they would charge a premium to eliminate waits/buffering of video by placing a higher priority on such traffic across their networks. Consider revenue for internet service providers and quality of service for customers.
Supporters of Net Neutrality claim internet traffic should be free to move around, unhindered or interfered with. They also argue that the internet would become only usable to those able to afford the higher costs of guaranteeing their traffic would be transmitted. Here, consider the paying public and society in general

Develop arguments to determine whether the internet should be controlled on behalf of internet services providers (ISP) or not.

2. Crypto-Currencies
In recent years, there has been much excitement surrounding crypto-currencies. These are purely digital mechanisms to represent money. They have no paper-based or real-world version. Transactions are recorded digitally. Crypto-currencies transcend international boundaries and jurisdictions.
The concept behind crypto-currencies is that they provide an anonymous means to hold and transfer money. They are designed in such a way to hide details of ownership and retain the anonymity of those involved in any transactions. Because of these design features, many governments, tax departments and law-enforcement agencies have declared crypto-currencies dangerous – they claim that criminals can easily take advantage of their anonymous properties and others can use them to avoid paying tax.
Crypto-currencies usually work by recording transactions in what is known as a ‘block chain’. This is a very large distributed data store that is effectively a ‘ledger’ or ‘record’ of transactions. This ledger is held on the many computers (known as ‘nodes’) that participate in supporting a particular block-chain. Individual transactions are added to the block-chain and are communicated between the nodes. Fundamentally, the block-chain is a data set and associated mathematical equations comprising algorithms that are used to validate the integrity of the data. Computers that participate in supporting a particular block-chain assist in processing the algorithms that check the data. Undertaking such activities reward those involved by awarding them an amount of the crypto-currency that the block-chain supports. This is known as ‘mining’, but without it, the given crypto-currency will stall as the transactions will go unverified and therefore be un-trusted.

Develop arguments for and against crypto-currencies. The considerations here are establishing frictionless financial transactions, anonymity, and the ability to transcend international boundaries, along with the link between crypto-currencies and crime (due to the anonymity of transactions) and the ability to evade local tax legislation. You may also wish to consider any limitations to the underlying technology.

3. Privacy and Data Protection
In today’s technologically driven world, storage and transmission of personal data is the norm. It is not unusual for data about an individual to be stored in thirty or more different places by different companies or organisations. Online retailers, media-streaming companies, social media sites, banks, insurance companies, medical services, educational establishments, and local authorities, are amongst the many organisations that store data about individuals. With a plethora of data sources, as well as a variety of different security arrangements, it is not entirely unknown for some of that data to end up in the hands of those who should not see it.
Because of some early electronic data breaches, most governments have created laws that protect an individual’s rights in terms of data access and security. In the UK, the adoption of the EU’s 2018 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which replaces the UK’s Data Protection Act, is an example of such laws. These specify the rights of individuals to see the data that is stored about them and place stipulations on those storing the data. Allowing data to be accessed flagrantly, not placing data in sufficiently secure storage mechanisms, or not allowing individuals to see what is held about them, all constitute breaches of this legislation.
Despite these laws, it is not uncommon for data breaches to occur. The often-feared occurrence of hacking, which involves an outside entity breaking into a system to gather information, does happen, but is not as common as most people think. Instead, the most common reason for data loss is incompetence whereby access credentials are left exposed, private data is transmitted/given away by accident, systems left open by mistake or actual coding errors. The next most common cause is insider knowledge and misuse (i.e., ‘inside jobs’). Actual physical theft of data storage devices or computers, such as stealing laptops from cars, is the next most common reason. Viruses or malware present much smaller causes of data breach.

That said, if an individual becomes a victim of a data breach, irrespective of method, the results can be serious. Financial loss, reputational loss and loss of private and personal information can all affect an individual, sometimes disastrously.

Hypothetical Scenario
The UK’s National Health Service has recently proposed to allow third parties to access to patient medical records. The third parties comprise pharmaceutical companies, private medical research companies and big-data analysis companies. The NHS will auction one million patient records at a time, and the records will go to the highest bidder. Monies received will go back to patient care. It is envisaged that each batch of patient records will occur every three months until all records have been released.

Develop arguments for and against the auction of the medical records. You may want to consider what could happen to the data upon its release, or any laws that may be broken. Consider the likely benefits to the public. Also consider what mechanisms for data protection should be explored or stipulated by the NHS prior to the release of the records.

Write a 10-page, typed, double-spaced and properly punctuated and documented term paper with an American Correction topic related to the course contents.

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Corrections in the Criminal Justice System

Term Paper
Write a 10-page, typed, double-spaced and properly punctuated and documented term paper with an American Correction topic related to the course contents. The paper should have APA format and documentation style. Heavily paraphrased and/or commercial papers will not be accepted.
Internet-based power-point papers are not acceptable. The paper should have the following constituents:

 A Title Page (a separate page)

 An Abstract (a separate sheet)

 An Introduction and the Text of the paper

 Conclusion

 Reference (a separate sheet)

 Properly paginated, punctuated

 APA style applies for these templates and the text

 papers will be subjected to plagiarism-detection soft wares.