Author: chris

Topic:

Is police brutality and harassment in the United States real or imagined? Reflect on the recent cases involving deaths and bodily harm of citizens—i.e., the New York police chokehold induced death of unarmed Eric Garner in Staten Island, the freeway takedown and beating of an unarmed black woman by an officer of the California Highway Patrol, the shooting death of the unarmed teenager, Mike Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri, and the most recent case out of Chicago – the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald in October 2014. Reflect on other cases, if needed, to make your case.

*What are the contending or conflicting views, perspectives, and issue positions regarding police brutality in the United States?

*Based on your research, what is your position on the issue area that you have selected? Explain why.

Format:

Conduct research into your topic and prepare a final paper (4 pages in length), typed, double-spaced, 12 font, margins around each page not to exceed 1 inch, appropriate use of citations as footnotes, include a bibliography.

Note that citations, as necessary, should be provided in the form of footnotes (i.e., listed at the bottom of the page on which they appear–not at the end of the paper). Additionally, you should include a bibliography which lists all source materials that you sorted through in conducting research on your topic even if you did not specifically cite from any of these source materials in preparing your paper.

*Please ensure that paper contains an introductory paragraph(s) which should contain a clearly stated thesis, followed by body paragraphs that support that thesis, and finally, a conclusion.

Please can you make the paper following the instructions below AND looking at attached document which is a sample paper of the assignment
ALSO I have attached the Results of 5 Rounds which you need to use in order to write the paper

The term paper consists of your answers to 4 questions (listed in the Questions’ section below) about the business simulation team game that you played during the semester. The paper is to be written by each student as an individual piece of work and this will be individually assessed and graded. The paper is not part of the team project but can and should make use of the data generated in the simulation by the team. It is vital that your paper is your own individual work and is not shared or plagiarized with or from other students including those who were in your game team.
The student can and should make use of any documents, data and notes prepared or downloaded by the team to record and explain the decisions for each round of the game played. In addition the paper is expected to make use where appropriate of relevant academic concepts studied on the course.
Questions:
Please answer all 4 questions. The questions are not intended to be of exactly equal weight so the paper will be graded as one piece. Provide evidence and support for your answers, citing any market, simulation or other data used, or academic concepts applied. Use Harvard referencing where appropriate.
1. Describe the strategy adopted by your team at the start of the simulation game in year 1 and explain the basis and rationale for your decision. Extend your analysis to include not just the overall strategy but any decisions taken in relation to marketing, production and finance.
2. Did your strategy change in subsequent years? If so explain how, and for what reasons it changed or remained the same, and its implications?
3. What do you consider were the main competitive and market factors that had most impact on your performance over the 5 years and explain why?
4. How would you assess your team’s performance over the five years? On a personal level what did you learn about the task of defining and implementing strategy?

Imagine that you are working on a project to purchase 5,000 electrical generators with an electrical capacity of three (3) kilowatts and will be used by the U.S. Army for battlefield communications systems.

Choose to respond to this scenario from a government or a contractor perspective. If you select government, then you will complete the assignment as if you are a government employee (or military personnel) receiving the proposal from the contractor. If you select contractor, then you will complete the assignment as if you are a contractor employee submitting a proposal to the government.

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

Evaluate the requirements for announcing federal contract awards. Determine how these requirements apply to this scenario.
Establish the responsibilities of the Contracting Officers Representative (COR) for this contract.
Evaluate the existing training and certification requirements for CORs in general.
Create a set of specific requirements for the COR working on the contract for 5,000 electrical generators.
Assess the importance of safeguarding proprietary information. Propose two (2) ways that proprietary information can be safeguarded in this scenario.

Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify 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; 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.

Please include Resources: Compton, P. B. (2010). Federal acquisition: Key issues and guidance. Vienna, VA: Management Concepts, Inc. Feldman, S. W., & Keyes, W. N. (2011). Government contracts in a nutshell (5th ed.). St. Paul, MN: Thomson Reuters.

Using a spreadsheet format, create a data set of 10 patients as a master patient log, which includes the following:
Patient Name
Date of Admission
Admitting Diagnosis
Admitting Physician
Date of Discharge
Unique Identification Number
Describe how such a data set would be useful to a health care organization. THEN:
Review and assess the different functions between hardware and software used in health information systems.
THEN BRIEFLY: Discuss the fundamental elements of health information systems and how information might be exchanged between providers and other entities.

Sources should include: Gartee, R (2011). �Health Information Technology and Management�, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ (text book)

Please adhere to APA formatting. Thank you!

Analyze the impact in which it had on the definition of sovereignty; a good section of the essay should evaluate this piece of documentation.

It would be a good idea to look into the US National Security Strategy 2002 and analyse the impact in which it had on the definition of sovereignty; a good section of the essay should evaluate this piece of documentation.

A good structural idea in writing the essay would be roughly to keep to this:
Introduction – 312 words and Thesis – 50 words in the same paragraph

Road Map – 225 words discussing on what will be discussed within the essay

4 Paragraphs – 312 words each supporting the argument of the thesis

Anti thesis – 350 words discussing issues that go against the thesis, acknowledge and address possible criticisms of thesis

Conclusion – 312 words

Also you should be signposting between paragraphs by starting each argument by referring to the previous section.

Address the question or title; follow a structured and signposted sequence; demonstrate familiarity with the relevant literature to the concept of sovereignty; present an analysis and evaluation of the ideas and theories discussed; reveal internal integration and coherence; use references and examples to support the claims and arguments made; provide detailed references and sources in the bibliography or reference section; be written in good and grammatically correct English. Differences within the range are usually attributable to differences in the quality of analysis and evaluation and internal integration and coherence.

Good academic books to consider are:

Brown, C. (2006) Sovereignty, Rights and Justice, Polity

Chesterman, S. (2002) Just War or Just Peace?, Oxford University Press

Jackson, R. (2007) Sovereignty: Evolution of an Idea, Polity

Bain, W. (2003) Between Anarchy and Society, Oxford University Press

Booth, K. & Dunne, T. (2002) Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order, Palgrave

Cunliffe, P. et al (2007) Politics without Sovereignty, UCL Press

Chandler, D. (2010) International Statebuilding, Routledge

Chesterman, S. (2005) You the People, Oxford University Press

Hehir, A. (2013) Humanitarian Intervention: An Introduction, Palgrave

Hehir A. and Robinson, N. (2009) State-building: Theory and Practice, Routledge

Jackson, R. (1990) Quasi-states, Oxford University Press

Krasner, S. (1999) Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy?, Princeton University Press

Simpson, G. (2004) Great Powers and Outlaw States, Oxford University Press

Scheipers, S. (2009) Negotiating Sovereignty and Human Rights, Manchester University Press

Zaum, D. (2007) The Sovereignty Paradox, Oxford University Press

Two parts of this project are required. 1. One-page long report to explain the documentation and answer the questions below. 2. Java documentation.

Late delivery of either the report or the code will cause the refund.

https://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~matsd/uv/uv14/nlp/wsdnlp.html

First, make sure you understand: What is the problem of Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD)? Why is it important from a language technology engineering point of view? How is it a classification problem? How do you use SVM learning and classification to solve classification problems generally and in this WSD case? (No detailed understanding of the internal mechanisms of SVM:s and SVM learning algorithms is required.) What is an n-fold cross validation? How do you compute the precision, recall and F1 scores? And what do they show?
The course literature, the links given here, and other net resources give plenty of useful information about the matters important to this assignment.
A Java implementation for WSD experiments provides the point of departure for the assignment [package wsd (tar), doc].
The sense keys are from WordNet and you can see how they are explained there. Classification applies to tokens belonging to a certain lemma, defined by the lemma and pos attributes, and is binary, predicting that a token has a certain sense (defined by a WordNet sense key) or that it doesn’t have that sense (has another sense).
You (and the Java implementation) will use the following resources (placed as specified in theFileLocations class fields, which you’re expected to modify according to your own preferences):
 Data: The largest publicly available sense-tagged corpus: semcor3.0. (Download semcor3.0.) Put the semcor3.0 contents in the FileLocations.semCorLoc directory. (This is already done for our own linux system.)
 We’ll use Thorsten Joachims’ SVMlight implementation of SVM learning (svm_learn) and classification (svm_classify). (Other SVM implementations can be used, of course.) Put the two programmes in the FileLocations.progLoc directory. (This is already done for our own linux system.)
 We’ll use the classification tasks in the following text file for our experiments:senseDistinctions.txt. It lists those senses which have at least 100 positive instances, and which applies to between 40 and 60 percent of all the instances of that lemma. The 32 entries are like “add VB 2:30:00::”, i.e. lemma, pos tag, and sense key separated by blanks. PutsenseDistinctions.txt in the FileLocations.wsdData directory.
 The FileLocations.wsdData directory should have the subdirectories examples, model, and predictions, in which input and output from SVMlight will reside.
The code is compiled and executed in this way on our Linux system when you stand in the srcdirectory (but you might want to use som other environment):
javac se/uu/lingfil/stp/wsd/*.*
java se.uu.lingfil.stp.wsd.Main
To describe the experiment briefly, it performs WSD SVM training and classification on each of the sense distinctions in “senseDistinctions.txt“. First, the example data are extracted from the SemCor corpus, i.e. positive and negative instances are located and features extracted. After that, training and validation sets are created for a 10-fold crossvalidation. They are used for SVM training and classification.
The Main.main method runs the experiment and reports precision, recall and F1 score for each sense distinction crossvalidation experiment and also averages of these outcome scores. This is an example of this: output.
The Java code that is provided gives us the following:
 The ten-fold crossvalidation setup is for each sense distinction based on all available instances (i.e. the training set sizes vary). It computes precision, recall and F1 score for each sense distinction crossvalidation experiment.
 An extremely parsimonious feature extraction class – FeatureExtractorLetterLeft – is provided. It only extracts the letter immediately to the left as a feature for a token.FeatureExtractorPosLetterLeft in addition extracts the pos tag for the token immediately to the left. (Of course, a lot of useful information escapes these schemes.) FeatureExtractorLetterLeftgives this result. As the result depends on a random partitioning of the data into ten folds, each run will give slightly different results.
The assignment consists in doing the following:
 Evaluation may also be based on training sets of equal size. Overall evaluation metrics may also be based on the totality of token level outcomes. Contrast these evaluation choices with the ones made in the existing implementation! Which evaluation metrics are most interesting (in what context)? Furthermore, modify the implementation to allow evaluation metrics to be computed also in these ways.
 Try to find and implement the best pos-tag-based collocational (pos at a certain relative position) feature extraction scheme.
 Try to find and implement a better collocational (something at a certain relative position) feature extraction scheme.
 In relation to the these extractions schemes, are there any sense distinctions that are unusually easy or difficult to predict? Is it possible to explain this with the help of a linguistics-based analysis of what is reasonable to expect from behaviour of the lemma?
 Try to find and implement the best bag-of-lemmas and bag-of-word-forms feature extraction scheme and compare the two.
Grading
In order to pass this assignment, you will need to: submit solutions to all points above, document them, and support your conclusions in a way that shows that you understand the empirical methods being used.

Imagine that you are a senior consultant at Practical Health Care Consulting firm. Your supervisor has instructed you to spend three (3) months at the Caring Angel Hospital to help improve the quality of care, add value to the organization, improve employee morale, design an efficient organizational chart, create a strong team environment, and create the hospital�s competitive advantage. The hospital has traditionally made losses year after year. Furthermore, it is not performing well financially, and the banks are not willing to lend it large sums of money for more effective marketing.

After spending two (2) months within the hospital, you are very happy with your progress, and you think you are capable of acquiring more patient base and expanding the hospital market. However, with a closer look, you notice that your patients are still hopping from one specialized hospital to another in search of various specialized treatments. You also notice that the seats are not comfortable in the waiting area, and the patients continuously show up for appointments on the wrong dates. The nurses and the employees are not smiling during patient conversations, and everyone looks for ways to blame others for failures in the patient treatment process. Everyone seems to work alone and hide what they do from their colleagues.

At the end of the three (3) month period, you must provide a report with your recommended strategies designed to help Caring Angel Hospital achieve its goals.

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:

From a consulting perspective, propose the major steps that Caring Angel Hospital could take to achieve each of the following goals:
Improve the quality of care
Add value to the organization
Improve employee morale
Design an efficient organizational chart
Create a strong team environment
Create the hospital’s competitive edge.
Recommend one (1) approach that the hospital could use for acquiring a larger market share given the prevailing financial circumstances. Justify your recommendation.
Investigate at least two (2) value-added services that Caring Angel Hospital could offer to strengthen its value proposition. Provide at least two (2) examples of the advantages of these value-added services to the hospital.
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.
Examine leadership and management frameworks that are most applicable to a certain organization type within the health care industry.
Assess how politics in a health care organization motivates and demotivates employees, and recommend strategies to mitigate the challenges presented with each aspect.
Create a communication strategy to address an ethical dilemma within a health care organization regarding the quality of service and cost.
Craft a strategic plan that leads to a competitive advantage within a certain market.
Determine best practices for establishing and maintaining strategic alliances within the health care industry or enterprise.
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.
Click here to view the grading rubric.

Please answer the following questions.

Seminar Question One
-Why is understanding the context within which an organisation operates important?
(Remember you should be using the literature to develop and support your answers)

Seminar Question two

-What benefit would strategic decision-makers gain from utilising a definitive framework and following a specified strategy development and deployment process?

Seminar Question 3

(The Retail organisation should be NEXT PLC

• Carry out a PESTLE analysis of a nationally operating retailing organisation.
• Discuss the results of your analysis and any conclusions you can make concerning the organisations mid to long-term future.
• What trends might be useful to monitor as a performance indicator for strategic actions the organisation might take?
• Use the PESTLE grids we looked at this week and submit copies with your answer

hello 🙂 formate of the coursework is 1 paper answer per question and each answer should have 2-4 references meaning 6-12 references. does necessarily have to be 14 or 12

Course Project: Community Advocacy Project—Local Government
To prepare for this section of the Course Project:

• Review the Evans and Degutis article. Reflect on how you, as an advocate, can use your knowledge of the government’s basic structure and processes to make your advocacy efforts more effective.
• Research your local government. Think about processes, procedures, and functions of your local government—how your municipal government works.
• Identify whether your local government is run by a city council, how many people are on the council, and whether a mayor presides over the council. If your local government is not run by a city council, determine which legislative body runs your local government.
• Think about whether you would present your selected public health issue to your city council, county board, and/or any other special boards or committees. Consider how you would present the issue to this group.
• Review the Piotrowski article. Reflect on transparency in local governments, and consider whether the work of your local government is transparent.
• Identify local representatives, and explain how local officials and members of committees are elected or selected. If elected, consider whether they are elected via ward, precinct, or by top vote.
The Project (2–3 pages)

To complete this section of your Course Project, address the following:

• Describe processes, procedures, and functions of your local government.
o Explain whether your local government is run by a city council, how many people are on the council, and whether a mayor presides over the council. If your local government is not run by a city council, describe the legislative body that runs your local government.
o Determine whether you would present your selected public health issue to your city council, county board, and/or any other boards or committees.
o Explain how you would present the issue to this group.
o Explain whether the work of your local government is transparent, and how.
o Identify your local representatives, and explain how local officials and members of committees are elected or selected.
Support your Project with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are asked to provide a reference list for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this course.

Required Resources
Readings
• Piotrowski, S. J., & Van Ryzin, G. G. (2007). Citizen attitudes toward transparency in local government. The American Review of Public Administration, 37(3), 306–323.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Evans, C. H., & Degutis, L. C. (2003). What it takes for Congress to act. American Journal of Health Promotion, 18(2), 177–181.
LC Degutis. Copyright 2003 by the American Journal of Health Promotion. Used by permission of the American Journal of Health Promotion via the Copyright Clearance Center.
• United States House of Representatives. (n.d.). The legislative process.Retrieved from https://www.house.gov/content/learn/legislative_process/
• United States Senate. (n.d.). Legislative process: How a senate bill becomes law. Retrieved from https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/legprocessflowchart.pdf
• U.S. Government Printing Office. (2010). Ben’s guide to U.S. government. Retrieved from https://bensguide.gpo.gov/
Media
• Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2012). Public health policy process. Baltimore, MD: Author.
“Public Health Policy Process” Transcript
Optional Resources
• American Public Health Association. (2012). American public health association. Retrieved from https://www.apha.org/
• OpenSecrets.org. (2012). Lobbying database. Retrieved from https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/