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Respond to the following questions in 75 to 150 words each.

1. Differentiate between sensation and perception. Explain the importance of separating these concepts.
2. Identify the biological factors that influence sensation and perception.

3. As we age or incur visual impairment, we may need brighter light when reading. Explain why this is the case.

4. You are shown a picture of an elephant. Explain how that stimulus is processed from the retina to the visual cortex of the brain.

 

Identifying Research Components

 

The focus of this week’s assignment is identifying research components. You will be responsible for reviewing two articles (listed below) and completing the following tasks for each one:

 

•Summarize each article utilizing the Week 2 research template. I am attaching the research template to this assignment.

 

•Identify and describe the problem, purpose, and hypothesis or research of each study.

 

•Analyze and state if and how the study is significant to nursing.

 

Cite all sources in APA format.

 

Article Assignments (I am attaching both of the articles listed below).

 

1. Assigned quantitative articles (SEE ATTACHED)

 

Park, M., Cho, S., & Hong, H. (2015). Prevalence and perpetrators of workplace violence by nursing unit and the relationship between violence and the perceived work environment. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 47(1), 87-95. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12112

 

 

 

1. Assigned qualitative articles  (SEE ATTACHED)

 

Turk, M., Fapohunda, A., & Zoucha, R. (2015). Using photovoice to explore Nigerian immigrants’ eating and physical activity in the United States. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 47(1), 16-24. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12105

 

 

 

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria

 

1. Summarized the two assigned research articles.
2. 2. Identified and described the problem of each article.
3. Identified the purpose statement of each article.
4. Identified the hypothesis or research question for each article.
5. Discussed the articles’ significance to nursing.

 

Being well-informed, at least knowing the right questions to ask, can save you from being taken advantage of. The purchase of a car involves so many variables that it is best to have some understanding before you attempt to purchase a car. There are even more variables to consider when you lease a car. For the purpose of this example, you will ignore such things as tax and dealer rebates. Research the difference between buying and leasing a car.

 

1. Choose a car that you wish to own, and find the price of this car. For this example, only consider new cars to purchase from a dealership. This will be your principle value, P.
2. Research available interest rates on this particular car. This will be the rate, r.
3. Decide how long you would like to take to pay off this car. Choose between 3–7 years. This will be the time, t.
4. The simple interest formula, can tell you how much interest will be added to the principle amount of this loan. Calculate the interest on your loan.
5. How much will you be repaying over the life of your loan?
6. How much are your monthly payments?
7. Assume that you have 5% to put as a down payment. How much will you be putting down?
8. With the down payment, what will the new monthly payments be?

 

Now, consider the option to lease this same car.

 

1. Most leases require a down payment. Assume that the dealership is requiring a 5% down payment. What is the new value of P on your lease?
2. The appeal to a lease is a lower interest rate. Reduce the interest rate that you received on your purchase by 2%, with a minimum rate of 0.5%.
3. The length of a lease is typically 2–5 years. Choose how long you wish to lease this car.
4. The monthly payment on a lease accounts for the depreciation of the car’s value. Assume at the end of your lease, the car has only retained 50% of its original value. What is your car’s value at the end of the loan? Use this for your new value of P.
5. How much interest will you be paying over the course of this lease?
6. What is your total cost, in other words principle plus interest?
7. What are the monthly payments?
8. At the end of the lease, you do not own the car. If you wish to purchase the car, you would still owe the value of P from step 12. At this point, you could turn in the keys and walk away, assuming the car is in perfect condition and ignoring mileage fees. What are the benefits and disadvantages to walking away from this car?
9. Instead of walking away, you could also purchase the car for what it is now worth. Using P from step 12, r from step 2 and t from step 3, calculate how much you would repay over the course of this new loan.
10. How much did you pay in total for this car?
11. Would you consider leasing a car? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages for buying versus leasing a car.

 

Be sure to show ALL of your work details.  Submit your answers in a Word document in the Unit 3 IP Submissions area.

Application: Addressing Challenges through Management Information Systems

The types of management information systems used across health care may vary by the setting, but they have in common the objective to streamline and enhance administrative processes and thereby support the institution’s ultimate goal of delivering optimal patient care.

In this Application Assignment, you will explore ways that technology might help address health care management problems with which you are already familiar from past coursework and/or professional experiences, such as issues in human resources, operations, organizational management, or financial management.

Prepare for this Application Assignment as follows:

• Identify a specific management challenge in health care that you have learned about through coursework or professional experience. This may be an issue you have researched for an assignment in a previous course, but it need not be.
• Conduct an online search to identify and learn more about one management information system (or application) that can improve performance in this area. Find out about challenges to adoption that this technology might pose.
• Keeping in mind Chapter 13, “IT Alignment and Strategic Planning,” from the course text Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Management consider the various steps an organization would need to take, and the various stakeholders who would be involved, in planning for this system. What would be some of the barriers in planning for this system?

Then write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

• Briefly summarize the nature and purpose of the management information system you selected, and identify the specific health care setting in which it might be used.
• What challenge(s) would this system address? Describe how this system would lead to improvements in particular managerial functions. How would you expect this system to transform the organization?
• What are key organizational barriers to adopting this system?
• Discuss the ways in which this system might align with an organization’s strategic goals, the processes by which an organization would strategically plan for this system, and the primary stakeholders who would be involved.

 

Your written assignments must follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Refer to the Essential Guide to APA Style to ensure your in-text citations and reference list are correct.

Assignment 2: Concepts of Emerging Markets

One of the best ways to learn a concept is to teach a concept, and in this assignment it will be necessary for the learner to understand and explain the concepts from Modules 1 and 2 in a 7–10-slide PowerPoint presentation. The Internet will be a great resource for completing this assignment because the learner can use keyword phrases to pull the specifics needed to cover the topics and complete the assignment.

You have been asked to create a PowerPoint presentation to train a group of new employees for Future Trends Financial Firm on key concepts of emerging markets. Include the following in your presentation:

• Identify and explain key concepts of emerging technologies, highlighting their use and availability for emerging and developed markets.
• Define and describe common industry concepts including: institutional voids, business groups, technological capabilities, changing income distribution, and bottom of the pyramid. Please be sure that the correlation between concepts and various markets is appropriate.

Develop a 7–10-slide presentation in PowerPoint format, utilizing at least two scholarly sources. Apply APA standards to the citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M2_A2.ppt.

Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Click here to download the APA guidelines document. Use these guidelines to format your assignment.

By Monday, January 18, 2016, deliver your assignment to the M2: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Explanation of emerging technologies highlighted their use and availability in emerging and developed markets.	40
Description of common industry terms is specific and accurate. The correlation between concepts and various markets is appropriate.	40
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in adequate and accurate representation and attribution of sources; and displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Use of scholarly sources aligned with specified assignment requirements.	20
Total:	1

Assignment 2: Concepts of Emerging Markets

One of the best ways to learn a concept is to teach a concept, and in this assignment it will be necessary for the learner to understand and explain the concepts from Modules 1 and 2 in a 7–10-slide PowerPoint presentation. The Internet will be a great resource for completing this assignment because the learner can use keyword phrases to pull the specifics needed to cover the topics and complete the assignment.

You have been asked to create a PowerPoint presentation to train a group of new employees for Future Trends Financial Firm on key concepts of emerging markets. Include the following in your presentation:

• Identify and explain key concepts of emerging technologies, highlighting their use and availability for emerging and developed markets.
• Define and describe common industry concepts including: institutional voids, business groups, technological capabilities, changing income distribution, and bottom of the pyramid. Please be sure that the correlation between concepts and various markets is appropriate.

Develop a 7–10-slide presentation in PowerPoint format, utilizing at least two scholarly sources. Apply APA standards to the citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M2_A2.ppt.

Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Click here to download the APA guidelines document. Use these guidelines to format your assignment.

By Monday, January 18, 2016, deliver your assignment to the M2: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Explanation of emerging technologies highlighted their use and availability in emerging and developed markets.	40
Description of common industry terms is specific and accurate. The correlation between concepts and various markets is appropriate.	40
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in adequate and accurate representation and attribution of sources; and displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Use of scholarly sources aligned with specified assignment requirements.	20
Total:	100

This week’s paper is required to be approximately 4 -6 pages in length, not including the title page and the reference page. No paper should be fewer than 1400 words.  Double space your work, cite your work, limit quotes, and edit your work well for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors. If you have quotes included in your paper, you should have more than 1400 words to compensate. Your work will be automatically reviewed by Turnitin upon submission.   Please make sure you have cited your work properly.

 

After reading chapters 9 & 10 from week 6 and reading chapters 11 & 12 from week 7 you should have an understanding of the  types of strategic control, the need for balance between rewards, culture, and boundaries, the pros and cons of different organizational structures, the elements of effective leadership, ethics programs, the types of risk a company may take.   After reading the attached articles below, you then can incorporate all of these strategies with the managerial economic impact certain decisions will have on a company.

 

Read the two articles attached about managerial economics.

 

C:\Users\bop46919\Documents\Managerial Economics _2_.pdf

 

C:\Users\bop46919\Documents\Updating Managerial Economics.pdf

 

Research this company using at least (2) outside scholarly articles. Do not use a website as a reference. Your reference source must have an author.Discuss these six topics in relation to your company and also incorporate the issue of managerial economics within your company and how the economic situation of today influences the strategic decisions your company is making. Each of the six topics discussed should be in bold print. For example, one topic you may choose may be how your company attains balance between culture, rewards, and boundaries.  Another topic may be your company’s organizational structure and why they have the structure they have.

 

Give examples using the terms and concepts in your textbook and your research articles.

 

B. What is the importance of each of the six topics within your company?

 

C. What is the usefulness of understanding this topic in today’s corporate structure?

 

D. How does managerial economics fit into your topic?

 

 

 

HERE ARE THE CASES TO CHOOSE FROM:

 

CASE 1     Robin Hood

 

CASE 2     Edward Marshall Boehm, Inc.

 

CASE 3    American International Groups and the Bonus Fiasco

 

CASE 4     Pixar

 

CASE 5     The Casino Industry

 

CASE 6     Apple Inc.: Still Taking a Bite Out of the Competition?

 

CASE 7     Weight Watchers International Inc.

 

CASE 8     Jamba Juice

 

CASE 9     Ann Taylor: Survival in Specialty Retail

 

CASE 10   Heineken

 

CASE 11   QVC

 

CASE 12   World Wrestling Entertainment

 

CASE 13   eBay: Expanding into China

 

CASE 14   Microfinance: Going Global and Going Public?

 

CASE 15   McDonald’s

 

CASE 16   The Movie Exhibition Industry 2013

 

CASE 17   Is Dippin’ Dots Frozen Out?

 

CASE 18   Johnson & Johnson

 

CASE 19   Zynga

 

CASE 20   The Boston Beer Company

 

CASE 21   Southwest Airlines: Is LUV Soaring or Sour?

 

CASE 22   JetBlue Airlines: Getting Over the “Blues”?

 

CASE 23   Beiersdorf AG: Expanding Nivea’s Global Reach

 

CASE 24   Louis Vuitton

 

CASE 25   Nintendo’s Wii U

 

CASE 26   Backers Beware: Kickstarter Is Not a Store

 

CASE 27   Samsung Electronics

 

CASE 28   Procter & Gamble

 

CASE 29   FreshDirect: Is It Really Fresh?

 

CASE 30   General Motors

 

CASE 31   Is One Ford Really Working?

 

CASE 32   Campbell: Is the Soup Still Simmering?

 

CASE 33   United Way Worldwide

 

CASE 34   Keurig: Convenience, Choice, and Competitive Brands

 

CASE 35   Yahoo!

 

https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/books/1259742318/cfi/6/108[;vnd.vst.idref=Case28]

For your second submission towards your research paper, you will expand upon the Unit I Research Paper Topic by creating an annotated bibliography.  I have chosen the Path-Goal Theory

 

Your annotated bibliography will include five outside sources from the CSU Online Library that you can use for the research paper due in Unit VII. In the Unit I Research Paper Topic, you located two scholarly sources. You may continue to use these sources for this assignment or choose all new articles.

 

Within your annotations, you will include a brief summary of the source. The summary should include answers to the following questions:

 

 What are the author’s main points?

 

 How does this source fit into my research?

 

 Is this source objective, or does it have a bias?

 

 How could I use this information in my paper?

 

Also, be sure to avoid including your own opinion on the contingency theory of leadership you selected and any information not related to your theory.

 

Each of your five sources should include a 100-150 word annotation

Jim and Laura Buyer visit the local car dealership because they are interested in buying a new car. The car they currently have is aging and is starting to have mechanical problems. Jim and Laura would share the new car, and use it to go back and forth to work and school. Before going to the dealership, Jim and Laura decide that they can only afford $400.00 a month in car payments.

Once at the car dealership, Jim and Laura meet Stan Salesman. Stan shows them several vehicles and Jim and Laura test-drive several of the cars. Jim and Laura particularly like the blue 4-door sedan.  Therefore, they agree to give Stan Salesman a $100.00 deposit to hold the car for a day. Stan Salesman does not give them the receipt but guarantees that the $100.00 is refundable. No documents were signed.

The next day, Stan Salesman calls Jim and Laura to ask them when they would like to take delivery of the car. Jim and Laura, on the way home from the dealership, decided that they were not going to buy the car because they did not want to spend that money each month. Therefore, Jim and Laura tell Stan salesman that they have decided not to buy the car and request their $100.00 deposit back.

Stan insists that the $100.00 was a deposit on the car and was meant to be part of the contract to buy the car. Stan is very persistent and insistent that Jim and Laura have contracted to buy the car; therefore, the $100.00 will be applied to the purchase price of the car. Jim and Laura are shocked and angry as not only do they not want to spend the money, but now feel as though they are being duped by Stan Salesman.

Jim and Laura have an appointment to see a lawyer in a few days, but know you are a student taking a business law class and come to you for advice. They are very frazzled, and understandably upset that they may have just purchased a car. Since you have been taking business law, you have read and understand the elements of a contract and the defenses to a contract. Therefore, although you are not a lawyer, you provide some basic advice from what you’ve learned in your business law class.

In three to five (3-5) pages, advise Jim and Laura based on the above facts as presented, the material provided in the text, and material covered in the lecture. In your paper, be sure to address the following:

1. Define the elements of a legal contract using examples from the scenario where applicable.
2. Decide whether or not there was a contract for the purchase of the automobile.
3. Identify the facts from the scenario which support your decision on whether or not a contract exists for the purchase of the automobile.
4. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.
5. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
   • Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
   • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
   • Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.