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Study the topic West Nile virus diseases in detail. Click here to view information provided about West Nile cases in the US and your state.

Also, click here to visit the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and read the research, diagnosis, prevention, resources, and understanding of the disease.

On the basis of your reading and analysis, create a 2- to 3-page report in a Microsoft Word document answering the following questions:

• How many cases of West Nile Virus were reported in your state based on the epidemiology data?
  • What is the name of the bacteria which causes West Nile Virus?
  • What is the mode of transmission?
• What types of epidemiological studies would be most useful to help one gather data, descriptive or analytical studies, and why?
• What is the significance to your local community and the state community in relation to the disease?
• How can communities educate the public to reduce potential rates of disease?
• How can the community control the spread of the disease?
• What effect does the disease have on families?
• What specific health care agencies may also be involved, in addition to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
• What impact does this disease have on you after reading the websites? How can one be proactive in the community to raise awareness about the West Nile Virus and provide a health wellness program?

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

After reading Chapters 7 and 8 in McCarthy & Archer (2013) and performing additional research on your own, write a 4-6 page reaction paper in which you discuss the following:

1. Explain how thought-focused treatment systems are inherently different from psychoanalytical/psychodynamic approaches in treating psychological dysfunctions.
2. In REBT, “rational” means that which helps people to achieve their basic goals and purposes. Therefore, irrational beliefs are those that interfere with goals. Do a web search and find the eleven or twelve irrational beliefs (called “IB’s”) used by REBT therapists. Choose two of them and provide an example for each.
3. Cognitive therapy is directed at common cognitive distortions, or faulty thought patterns. These send us into depression. Examine the list of cognitive distortions based on Aaron Beck’s work. Choose two and provide an example for each.
4. Explain briefly the terms “shaping” and “token economies” used in behavioral based therapies and give an example for each.

Assignment 2: External and Internal Environments 

Due Week 4 and worth 350 points

 

Choose an industry you have not yet written about in this course, and one publicly traded corporation within that industry. Research the company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

 

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

 

1. Choose the two (2) segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose. Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates.
2. Considering the five (5) forces of competition, choose the two (2) that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose. Evaluate how well the company has addressed these two (2) forces in the recent past.
3. With the same two (2) forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.
4. Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation. Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Justify your answer.
5. Give your opinion on the corporation’s greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses.  Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.
6. Determine the company’s resources, capabilities, and core competencies.
7. Analyze the company’s value chain to determine where they can create value using the resources, capabilities, and core competencies discussed above.
8. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• 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 and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

• Identify how the six segments of the general environment affect an industry and its firms.
• Identify the five forces of competition.
• Analyze the external environment for opportunities and threats that impact the firm.
• Analyze the internal environment of a company for strengths and weaknesses that impact the firm’s competitiveness.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
• Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.

Paradise Hospital, Inc. is a for-profit hospital. As the facility’s new hospital administrator, you have been tasked with improving the service value of the hospital. The administration has not done this process since the hospital began operating in the year 1995. The investors are not familiar with the value proposition strategies of hospitals in the current day America.

Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Articulate the meaning of value-added service as it pertains to patient care services, and argue the major reasons why it matters to add value to patient services. Justify your response.
2. Outline a system for identifying the functional areas in which changes might be necessary in order to improve the hospital’s service value. Recommend the key methods that you would use to acquire the information necessary to identify the specified functional areas.
3. Specify four (4) specific areas where you believe the administration can add value in Paradise Hospital, and argue the most significant reasons why such value proposition would improve the value of services to the patients.
4. Use four (4) recent (within the last five [5] years) quality academic resources in this assignment.

   Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• 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 and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Propose methodologies that have been proven to increase value in health care delivery systems.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in health care management.
• Write clearly and concisely about health care management using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you identify, compare, and contrast the policing function at the local, state, and federal organizational levels. Analyze how the organizational, management, administration, and operational functions at these three organizational levels are similar or different and why. Be sure to identify the leadership characteristics and responsibilities pertaining to each organizational level.

Include at least four complete peer reviewed references.

 

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Include in-text citations and at least four peer reviewed references.

Describe qualities of a good boss in a health organization.

Components of Knowledge Management

According to the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the four core components of knowledge management are:

• Governance: The leadership that commits to an organizational structure capable of managing the knowledge.
• Content: The quantity and quality of the data and information that is managed.
• Processes: The standards and guidelines that will be used to collect, manage, and disseminate information.
• Technology: The system supporting the other three components.

Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research and read the article, “Rhode Island HEALTH Web Data Query System: Death Certificate Module” (Gjelsvik & Monteiro, 2009).

Or

Click here to read the article. http://rimed.org/medhealthri/2009-01/2009-01-32.pdf

Reference:

Gjelsvik, A., & Monteiro, K. (2009). Rhode Island HEALTH web data query system:

Death certificate module. Health by Numbers, 92(1), 32-33.

Based on your reading, create a 5- to 6-page document in Microsoft Word, which includes the answers to the following questions:

• What is the “Rhode Island HEALTH Web Data Query System: Death Certificate Module?” Briefly describe the system’s purpose and how it came about.
• Which organizations are involved in its governance? Provide a list and description of each organization.
• What information can be found using this system? What are the advantages and limitations, if any, to the information that is available?
• How is the information collected, managed, and retrieved?
• What are the technological components or services that this system relies on? Why?

Conduct a query using one of the programs on this site.

http://health.ri.gov/programs/detail.php?pgm_id=138/

Describe your query and then provide the results you obtained using this system.

 

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Please talk about the four core components (governance, content, processes, and technology) in the first part of the paper.

 

Prepare a 1,050-word paper examining the ethical issues organizations face when implementing change. Be sure to:

Integrate the assigned readings to your discussion

Properly cite your specific references.

Include the URL if you used an electronic source and if you used a printed source please attach a copy of the data to your paper.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 

 

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1.  If you jump upward (on Earth) with an initial velocity of 3 m/s, how long will will it take before you return to the ground?  How high will you have gone?

 

2.  What is the gravitational potential energy of a 10 kg TV held 1 m off the ground?  10 m off the ground?  100 m off the ground?

 

3.  You are moving a 100 kg refrigerator up a small staircase to a height of 1 m.  You use a ramp that is 10 m long.  What is the minimum amount of force along the ramp must you exert to push the refrigerator to the top?

 

4.  A bolt requires 6 N m of torque to tighten.  Using a wrench with a handle 10 cm long, how much force must you exert to turn the bolt?

 

5.  On one side of a seesaw, a 10 kg child sits 2 m from the fulcrum (the balance point at the center of the seesaw).  How far from the fulcrum must a 20 kg child sit on the other side to balance the seesaw?

 

A roll of paper has initial mass , initial radius  and length .

(a)  Calculate the density () of the roll of paper in units of kgm3.  The volume Vof a cylinder is .

 

You give the paper a tiny push so it starts rolling forward.  Assume that the push is so small that the initial kinetic energy is effectively zero.

(b)  Calculate the gravitational potential energy of the roll of paper right at the moment it starts to move.  Use the center of mass as the reference height.

 

It leaves behind a trail of paper, meaning that the mass decreases and the radius decreases as the paper rolls.  We wish to determine how fast the paper is moving forward (velocity v) when it has rolled to where the radius is half the initial radius.

(c)  Once the paper has rolled to where the radius is half the initial radius, what is the new mass?  What is the “rotational mass” at this point?  The “rotational mass” I of a cylinder may be calculated using .

(d)  Calculate the new gravitational potential energy.  Write down an expression for the total kinetic energy (linear + rotational) of the paper in terms of the unknown linear velocity vand the unknown angular velocity ωand your answers from part (c).

(e)  Given that energy is conserved () and that angular velocity is related to linear velocity by ωvr, use your answers from parts (b) and (d)  to calculate the forward velocity of the paper at the point where its radius is half the initial radius.

Overview

Activity	Due Date	Format	Grading Percent
Elements of a Contract	Day 3 (1st Post)	Discussion	3
The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)	Day 3 (1st Post)	Discussion	3
Week Two Quiz	Day 6	Quiz	5
Critical Analysis Paper	Day 7	Assignment	10

For help with the Course Calendar, review the overview video in

Learning Outcomes

This week students will:

1. Describe the importance of the elements of a valid contract.
2. Apply the elements of a valid contract to a set of facts.
3. Evaluate remedies for breach of contract.
4. Assess the role the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) plays in contracts for the sale of goods.

Introduction

During Week 2, the course learning transitions from general principles of law to specific areas related to business law. Week 2 is focused on the elements of a contract. By the end of this week, students should be able to describe and apply the elements of a valid contract; and, evaluate remedies for breach of contract. Additionally, students should be able to assess the role the Uniform Commercial Code plays in contracts for the sale of goods. A two to three page Critical Analysis Paper is due on Day 7 to provide students the opportunity to implement the learned concepts by applying the elements of a contract and identifying available remedies for breach of contract to a contract the student has entered into or someone they know has entered into. Finally, a quiz will be due on Day 6 to reinforce the learning for this week.