information literacy 25

·Describe your experiences using resources, including concerns encountered when conducting academic research through the Ashford University Library. Areas of concern may include developing a research strategy, using the search function within a database, or evaluating sources.

·Explain how using the Ashford University Library has improved your experience in conducting research. For example, you could identify and explain how specific tutorials that you have used have helped improve your ability to conduct research.

See attachment for full instructions. I have also provided some of my thoughts is RED.

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discussion 2 life sentences for juveniles just punishment or cruel and unusual

The sentencing of juvenile offenders has been an ongoing debate, especially when juvenile offenders commit serious crimes such as homicide or rape. In the case of Miller v. Alabama (2012), the U.S. Supreme Court decided that life sentences for juveniles was unconstitutional because it was a violation of the 8th Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. You can read more about the case here.( see attached)

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Supreme Court of the United States. (2011). MILLER v. ALABAMA: CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA (10–9646). Retrieved from Supreme Court of the United States website: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-964..

Post by Day 3 of Week 3

whether you agree or disagree with the majority decision in this case and that life sentences for juveniles is unconstitutional. Support your stance on why you agree or disagree.

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business plan final 4

  1. This assignment consists of two sections: your final business plan and your business plan financials. Note: You must submit both sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment.You have completed all the necessary sections of your business plan and will now create a final draft. Use any/all feedback you have received to polish your plan to the point that you could confidently show it to investors and potential partners or customers.Refer to the outline of a business plan beginning on page 399 of the course text. Not all businesses will include all these components in this order, but use the outline as a guide. Specifically, your plan will not require the development, milestones, and exit plan sections of the business plan.Section 1: Business Plan – Final (MS Word or equivalent)Construct a 10–30-page business plan. Note: Twenty pages are sufficient for most businesses.
    • Write a 1–3-page executive summary for your business plan, in which you justify the following:
      1. A clear and concise business concept
      2. A thoroughly planned business concept
      3. A capable management structure
      4. A clear-cut market need
      5. Significant competitive advantages for your business
      6. Realistic financial projections
      7. That investors have an excellent chance to make money
      8. A realistic and developed exit plan

    Note: Read Chapters 4 and 18 of the course text, Successful Business Plan. Use the plan preparation worksheets on pages 58–61 and the sample executive summaries on pages 62–66 to help guide you; choose to write either a synopsis summary or a narrative summary and include highlights from each section of your business plan.

    • Combine all the sections stated below and revise your initial business plan draft, which you submitted in Week 8, based on feedback you have received.
    • Executive summary
    • Company description (Assignment 1)
    • Industry analysis and trends (Assignment 1)
    • Target market (Assignment 2)
    • Competition (Assignment 2)
    • Strategic position and risk assessment (Assignment 1)
    • Marketing plan and sales strategy (Assignment 2)
    • Operations plan (Assignment 3)
    • Technology plan (Assignment 3)
    • Management and organization plan (Assignment 3)
    • Ethics and social Responsibility plan (Assignment 3)
    • The Financials (Week 7 Discussion)
      • Hint:
        • The financial section of your business plan will be derived from the previously completed financial worksheets.
      • Note:
        • The financials and the management description must spark enough interest to convince a reader to continue. Enhance the two mentioned sections to engage the reader.

    Format your assignment according to these formatting requirements:

    • Cite the resources you have used to complete the exercise. Note: There is no minimum requirement for the number of resources used in the exercise.
    • The paper must be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with 1-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.

    Section 2: Business Plan Financials (MS Excel worksheets bundled with course textbook)

    1. For year one, submit a revised income statement, cash flow projection, and balance sheet from the “Business Plan Financials” Excel template based on your feedback from Project Deliverable 3: Operations. Technology, and Management Plan with Financials – Draft. You will submit the entire completed and revised Excel worksheet.

    The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

    • Construct a business plan with an executive summary that justifies a clear concept, a management structure, a market need, competitive advantages, and financial projections.
  2. By submitting this paper, you agree: (1) that you are submitting your paper to be used and stored as part of the SafeAssignâ„¢ services in accordance with the Blackboard Privacy Policy; (2) that your institution may use your paper in accordance with your institution’s policies; and (3) that your use of SafeAssign will be without recourse against Blackboard Inc. and its affiliates.
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nursing theory phylosophy

3-4 pages

Write a personal nursing philosophy reflecting growth and evolution during your tenure as a nursing student. This is a personal philosophy. Although this is a personal reflection, you should reference scholarly sources to support your ideas.

  • Describe are your beliefs and values about the four paradigms in nursing. Provide at least three examples for each paradigm:
    • Health
    • Nursing
    • Client
    • Environment
  • Consider the effect of each on health.
  • Include aspects of your career development.
  • Identify accountability and responsibility elements that guide your judgments, decisions, and actions as a nurse.
  • Identify nursing task delegation and assignment elements.

In addition to the assignment specifics above:

  • Submit 3–4 pages, not including the title page and reference list.
  • Integrated source(s) into the paragraphs to support your ideas.
  • Include in-text citations pointing to evidence in the literature that supports your ideas (paraphrased material and quotations).
  • Use current APA Style to format your paper and to cite your sources where appropriate.
  • Include a title page and a reference list of any sources you used. Be sure to plan enough time for proofreading and editing.
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i need help 428

In this assignment, you will take on the role of Utilization Review (UR) Coordinator at Rasmussen Hospital who is preparing for a Utilization Review Meeting.

Part 1 – Utilization Review Worksheet

As the UR Coordinator, part of your weekly duties includes determining whether or not patients need to stay a little longer in the hospital. This week you have 3 patients to evaluate.

Download the Utilization Review Worksheet, study the case for each of the 3 patients, and use the Continued Stay Criteria within the document to determine whether or not the patient should be discharged. Once you have complete the Utilization Review Form within the document, save and submit your completed worksheet.

Part 2 – Meeting Agenda

Now that you have determined the discharge status of each patient, you need to call a meeting with the CEO, Chief Medical Officer, the patients’ doctors, and the Director of Nursing to inform them of the plans. However, you also need to discuss a few more topics during the meeting: the number of discharges planned for the next week, the lack of physician documentation, Utilization Review statistics from the previous month, and coverage for your 2 week vacation.

In a separate document, prepare an agenda reflecting the 3 patients’ statuses and the topics stated above. A quick Internet search on agenda writing may be helpful to complete this task.

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wk 3 singing class

As you probably know, the laws relating to trade secrets include a requirement that the trade secret be protected from the time it is initially developed until it is no longer to be considered a trade secret. It doesn’t matter what form the information is in. It could be hard copy – perhaps a letter or specification that can be handed to someone. It could be stored in a computer’s memory. It all has to be protected.

In this week’s paper, I’d like you to think about the challenge that trade secrets pose in the development and operation of an ISMS. Should they be a separate category of information? How can we be sure that our ISMS protects trade secrets in every form? How do we need to deal with employees, contractors, vendors, business partners/associates with whom we must share trade secrets?

Instructions

  1. Put your thoughts on how trade secret protection fits into the concept of an ISMS. Your paper should spend no more than 100 words on background (what an ISMS is) and focus on the ISMS and trade secrets issues.
  2. Your paper should have a main text (not counting title pages and references list) of 800-1000 words. Going beyond 1,000 words is not recommended and probably means that you need to re-think your scope and tighten your presentation. Going below 800 probably means that you need more exposition or detail.
  3. Please submit as either a Microsoft Word or .pdf file. Please submit in 11-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced. 1-inch margins on top, bottom, left and right. Running heads are the class name (left), page number (center) and your first initial and last name (right).
  4. Grammar and spelling count. PLEASE proofread carefully. I would suggest reading it aloud as the fastest way of identifying run-on sentences or wording that doesn’t make sense. If you can’t read it without getting confused, you can be pretty sure that I can’t read it without also getting confused!
  5. It is expected that you will cite references in your submissions including this one. Footnotes or endnotes are equally acceptable. APA format is required. It is also expected that you will not limit your references to the textbook and readings in your assignment, but that you will do research to find additional sources that support your arguments in your paper.
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reading response 252

write 1 page repose, and pointing to specific concept, key ideas, and pages, and rasing questions that you would like to discuss in class. (single space)

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advanced technologies in journalism is the technology news talk tech talk share some technology news with the class

Write a 3–5 minutes draft for class presentation.

Here are some of the rules for presenting the Tech Talk to the class:

Tech Talk presentations must be based on current information.

The Tech Talk must relate to multimedia journalism news. This is not the place to talk about your favorite game, phone or iPad app/updates, family social media events or gaming platforms.

Be prepared and professional.

You are graded on the newsworthiness of your topic, how well it relates to multimedia journalism and/or communication and your presentation (delivery) skills in presenting this information to the class.

Points will be deducted if your presentation runs too short (under three minutes) and or if your presentations runs too long (more than five minutes), has no application to valuable technology news, is about a “stale” topic or if your Tech Talk is poorly presented to the class.

Here are some Web sites that may provide you with a Tech Talk idea:

Business Insider (Links to an external site.)

Google News (Click on the TECHNOLOGY news section) (Links to an external site.)

C-Net News (Links to an external site.)

CNN Technology News (Links to an external site.)

New York Times Technology News (Links to an external site.)

Wired (Links to an external site.)

Please do not write facts check APP.

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project charter 16

Use the following scenario. Review the scenario first and then continue on with your assignment. Consider saving the PDF or printing it out for your reference.

You have been meeting with the CEO, the project sponsor, your manager, and the heads of all the other departments to discuss the project and their expectations. You are starting to be concerned about the level of risk of this project and whether or not the organization really understands it. As far as you can tell, the company has never done formal risk management, taking a more relaxed approach to risks. You are starting to develop your risk management plan; you will present it to your manager and the sponsor in two weeks along with some other project planning deliverables.

Assignment Guidelines:

  • Create a project charter and identify the key constraints of the project (scope, budget, timeline, quality, people resources, etc.).
  • Using the scenario from this unit, create a spreadsheet that lists all the project risks you see based on what you currently know about the project. List at least 15 risks. For each project risk, provide a:
    • Detailed description
    • Category (schedule, strategy, people, etc.)

Note: This list will be used in later activities throughout the course.

Your submitted assignment (250 points) must include the following:

  • A 2-4 page typed document that includes:
    • A project charter and identification of key constraints
    • At least 15 risks listed in a spreadsheet with a detailed description and the category of each
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complete statistics discussion numbers 1 5 and use spreadsheet

THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS 1-5…THE EXCEL SPREADSHEET IS ATTACHED

  1. A. In the Questions 1-2 tab of Discussion Board Forum 1/Project 2.xls, use Question 1A to create a set of 5 points that are very close together and record the standard deviation. Next, add a sixth point that is far away from the original 5 and record the new standard deviation.

What is the impact of the new point on the standard deviation? Do not just give a numerical value for the change. Explain in sentence form what happened to the standard deviation.
(4 points)

B. In the Questions 1-2 tab of Discussion Board Forum 1/Project 2.xls, use Question 1B to create a data set with 8 points in it that has a mean of approximately 10 and a standard deviation of approximately 1. Use the second chart of Question 1B to create a second data set with 8 points that has a mean of approximately 10 and a standard deviation of approximately 4. What did you do differently to create the data set with the larger standard deviation? (4 points)

  1. In the Questions 1-2 tab of Discussion Board Forum 1/Project 2.xls, use Question 2 to enter values matching the following data set. (8 points)

50, 50, 50, 50, 50.

Notice that the standard deviation is 0. Explain why the standard deviation for this one is zero. Do not show the calculation. Explain in words why the standard deviation is zero when all of the points are the same. If you don’t know why, try doing the calculation by hand to see what is happening. If that does not make it clear, try doing a little research on standard deviation and see what it is measuring and then look again at the data set for this question.

  1. In the Question 3 tab of Discussion Board Forum 1/Project 2.xls, use Question 3 to enter each of the three data sets. Record what the standard deviation is for each data set and answer the questions below.

Data set 1:0, 0, 0, 100, 100, 100

Data set 2:0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100

Data set 3:0, 40, 45, 55, 60, 100

Note that all three data sets have a median of 50. Notice how spread out the points are in each data set and compare this to the standard deviations for the data sets. Describe the relationship you see between the amount of spread and the size of the standard deviation and explain why this connection exists. Do not give your calculations in your answer—explain in sentence form. (8 points)

For the last 2 questions, use the Question 4-5 (Project 1 Data) tab of Discussion Board Forum 1/Project 2.xls to review the data from Project 1.

  1. Explain what an outlier is. Then, if there are any outliers in the Project 1 Data Set, what are they? For each state, give both the name and the temperature. If there are no outliers, say no outliers.
    (4 points)
  2. Which 4 states have temperatures that look to be the most questionable or the most unrealistic to you? Explain why you selected these 4 states. For each state, give both the name and the temperature. (4 points)
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