WEEK 10 TERM PAPER

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Select one (1) of the following topics in which you will base your responses in the form of a term paper:

  • Network Neutrality
  • Web2.0
  • Wireless Technology
  • Broadband Convergence
  • U.S. Telecommunication Policy
  • Internet Security
  • IPv6
  • WWAN
  • WLAN
  • DNSSEC
  • WAN

Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page paper in which you:

  1. Compose an executive summary highlighting the paper’s contents and reasoning for your chosen topic.
  2. Conduct a SWOT analysis by analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, application opportunities, and threats from competitors of the chosen topic.
  3. Evaluate the current ethical and legal concerns surrounding your topic.
  4. Select one (1) ethical or legal concern surrounding your topic, take a position on the issue, and provide rationale.
  5. Analyze the improvements over the last two (2) years to your communication technology topic, and suggest an improvement based on its current usage.
  6. Predict the future role of the communication technology you’ve selected for both personal and commercial use.
  7. Create a diagram that illustrates the communication structure of your chosen technology in Visio or its open source alternative software. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
  8. Use at least eight (8) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Points: 160

Term Paper: Networking

Criteria

Unacceptable

Below 70% F

Fair

70-79% C

Proficient

80-89% B

Exemplary

90-100% A

1. Compose an executive summary highlighting the paper’s contents and reasoning for your chosen topic.

Weight: 5%

Did not submit or incompletelycomposed an executive summary highlighting the paper’s contents and reasoning for your chosen topic.

Partiallycomposed an executive summary highlighting the paper’s contents and reasoning for your chosen topic.

Satisfactorilycomposed an executive summary highlighting the paper’s contents and reasoning for your chosen topic.

Thoroughlycomposed an executive summary highlighting the paper’s contents and reasoning for your chosen topic.

2. Conduct a SWOT analysis by analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, application opportunities, and threats from competitors of the chosen topic.

Weight: 15%

Did not submit or incompletely conducted a SWOT analysis by analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, application opportunities, and threats from competitors of the chosen topic.

Partially conducted a SWOT analysis by analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, application opportunities, and threats from competitors of the chosen topic.

Satisfactorily conducted a SWOT analysis by analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, application opportunities, and threats from competitors of the chosen topic.

Thoroughly conducted a SWOT analysis by analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, application opportunities, and threats from competitors of the chosen topic.

3. Evaluate the current ethical and legal concerns surrounding your topic.
Weight: 10%

Did not submit or incompletelyevaluated the current ethical and legal concerns surrounding your topic.

Partiallyevaluated the current ethical and legal concerns surrounding your topic.

Satisfactorilyevaluated the current ethical and legal concerns surrounding your topic.

Thoroughlyevaluated the current ethical and legal concerns surrounding your topic.

4. Select one (1) ethical or legal concern surrounding your topic, take a position on the issue, and provide rationale.

Weight: 15%

Did not submit or incompletelyselected one (1) ethical or legal concern surrounding your topic; did not submit, or incompletely took a position on the issue and did not submit or incompletely provided rationale.

Partiallyselected one (1) ethical or legal concern surrounding your topic, partially took a position on the issue, and partially provided rationale.

Satisfactorilyselected one (1) ethical or legal concern surrounding your topic, satisfactorily took a position on the issue, and satisfactorily provided rationale.

Thoroughlyselected one (1) ethical or legal concern surrounding your topic,thoroughly took a position on the issue, and thoroughly provided rationale.

5. Analyze the improvements over the last two (2) years to your communication technology topic, and suggest an improvement based on its current usage.

Weight: 15%

Did not submit or incompletelyanalyzed the improvements over the last two (2) years to your communication technology topic, if any, and did not submit or incompletely suggested an improvement based on its current usage.

Partiallyanalyzed the improvements over the last two (2) years to your communication technology topic, if any, and partially suggested an improvement based on its current usage.

Satisfactorilyanalyzed the improvements over the last two (2) years to your communication technology topic, if any, and satisfactorily suggested an improvement based on its current usage.

Thoroughlyanalyzed the improvements over the last two (2) years to your communication technology topic, if any, and thoroughly suggested an improvement based on its current usage.

6. Predict the future role of the communication technology you’ve selected for both personal and commercial use.

Weight: 10%

Did not submit or incompletelypredicted the future role of the communication technology you’ve selected for both personal and commercial use.

Partiallypredicted the future role of the communication technology you’ve selected for both personal and commercial use.

Satisfactorilypredicted the future role of the communication technology you’ve selected for both personal and commercial use.

Thoroughlypredicted the future role of the communication technology you’ve selected for both personal and commercial use.

7.  Create a diagram that illustrates the communication structure of your chosen technology in Visio or its open source alternative software.

Weight: 15%

Did not submit or incompletelycreated a diagram that illustrates the communication structure of your chosen technology in Visio or its open source alternative software.

Partiallycreated a diagram that illustrates the communication structure of your chosen technology in Visio or its open source alternative software.

Satisfactorilycreated a diagram that illustrates the communication structure of your chosen technology in Visio or its open source alternative software.

Thoroughlycreated a diagram that illustrates the communication structure of your chosen technology in Visio or its open source alternative software.

8. 8 references

Weight: 5%

No references provided

Does not meet the required number of references; some or all references poor quality choices.

Meets number of required references; all references high quality choices.

Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choices.

9. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements

Weight: 10%

More than 6 errors present

5-6 errors present

3-4 errors present

0-2 errors present

Week 2: Course Project Draft 1

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The Course Project for MKTG425 is a sales plan that includes designing a sales organization structure, code of ethics, communications policy, lead generation plan, sales call policy, presentation strategy, training plan, relationship management plan, and internal communications policy.

You may do your project on any of the following.

  • An imaginary business that you could start
  • A potential business that you plan to start
  • An existing business that does not have a sales plan

You’ll also need to select a product for the business to sell.

Because this course is about personal selling and sales management, your Course Project is to be written from the perspective of a sales manager who is pursuing the financial and ethical goals of the organization while simultaneously keeping a sales force productive and motivated.

Include the sections listed below with each respective draft, and use the section titles as headings in the body of your paper.

Week: Draft
Section Title
Topic Prompts
Week 2: Draft 1Sales Organization Structure

  1. Design a sales organization focused on relationship selling by
  2. segmenting an industry and market in which your sales force will compete; and
  3. outlining a sales strategy that addresses legal and ethical implications.

Code of Ethics

  1. Evaluate business ethics from personal and professional perspectives.
  2. Create a code of ethics that considers the values and needs of all stakeholders.

Communications Policy

  1. Analyze buyer behavior within target markets and industries.
  2. Select appropriate channels in B2B and B2C markets.
  3. Create a communications plan that utilizes current communication technologies.

Your paper must be in APA seventh edition format for all submissions. Each draft must include the topics listed below.

Please use the following file naming convention for your upload: MKTG425 Draft # Last Name (e.g., MKTG425 Draft 2 Smith).

Your final draft should be a maximum of 10 pages in length not including title page, table of contents, references page, or any appendices. Therefore, each draft’s length may vary, but in general, should not exceed two pages. This is a short paper format that will require you to be concise with your writing.

For Drafts 1–3, submit only those sections designated in the Outlines section above. For the Final Draft, however, please incorporate Drafts 1–3 at the beginning of the paper so your final submission is one cohesive paper including all sections listed below.

  1. Title Page
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Sales Organization Structure
  4. Code of Ethics
  5. Communications Policy
  6. Lead Generation Plan
  7. Sales Call Policy
  8. Presentation Strategy
  9. Sales Negotiation Strategy
  10. Relationship Management Plan
  11. Internal Communications Policy
  12. References

1 Draft: 2 Pages 

literature review (only accept it if you are going to use PUBMED)

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 . Do NOT submit as a screenshot or picture. If submitted as a screenshot or picture, a 25% grade reduction will be applied.The purpose of this paper is for you to develop and demonstrate your research and written skills in communicating a topic of interest of your approved topic. You will utilize all six (6) research articles from the Article Matrix assignment to help write your Literature Review. Additional research articles may be included. 

Meta-analyses, review papers, blogs, interviews, and internet articlesare prohibited. Incorporation of any of these will automatically result in 75% grade reduction.

  This paper will consist of an Introduction, Review of the literature, Summary of Findings, and Conclusion. Furthermore, the Literature Review should be synthesizing the research articles. This means you should not state each article’s methods and results in their own separate paragraphs or write each article as a separate paragraph. If you are having trouble synthesizing information or writing, please utilize the writing center https://www.lindenwood.edu/academics/library/services/writing-center/ Also, when writing, do not use direct quotes or state the title of the paper (this is why we use in-text citation and have a reference page). The paper should be four (4) pages in length (not including title page and reference page). Less than four (4) pages will result in point reduction. Paper Requirements:1) Title Page:  Includes title of paper, your name, date, course name, and instructor. 2) Body of Paper:a.  Includes introduction, review of literature, summary of findings and conclusionb.  Double spaced typed on 8 1/2 x 11 white paperc.   Arial 12 fontd.  1-inch margin on all sidese.  Pages must be numbered appropriately in the lower right-hand corner and contain the title of the paperf.   Use the in-text citation guidelines of the Journal of Applied Physiology (JAP)3) References: Your references should following the guidelines of the  Journal of Applied Physiology (JAP) 

approved topic is ” The efficacy of yoga as a form of treatment for depression”

Six articles to help from PUBMED write this review are :

  

1- Perceptions of hatha yoga amongst persistently depressed individuals enrolled in a trial of yoga for depression

Uebelacker, L. A., Kraines, M., Broughton, M. K., Tremont, G., Gillette, L. T., Epstein-Lubow, G., Abrantes, A. M., Battle, C., & Miller, I. W. (2017). Perceptions of hatha yoga amongst persistently depressed individuals enrolled in a trial of yoga for depression. Complementary therapies in medicine, 34, 149–155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctim.2017.06.008

2- Yoga and massage therapy reduce prenatal depression and prematurity

Field, T., Diego, M., Hernandez-Reif, M., Medina, L., Delgado, J., & Hernandez, A. (2012). Yoga and massage therapy reduce prenatal depression and prematurity. Journal of bodywork and movement therapies, 16(2), 204–209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbmt.2011.08.002

3- Treating major depression with yoga: A prospective, randomized, controlled pilot trial

Prathikanti, S., Rivera, R., Cochran, A., Tungol, J. G., Fayazmanesh, N., & Weinmann, E. (2017). Treating major depression with yoga: A prospective, randomized, controlled pilot trial. PloS one, 12(3), e0173869. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173869

4- Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder with Iyengar Yoga and Coherent Breathing: A Randomized Controlled Dosing Study

Streeter, C. C., Gerbarg, P. L., Whitfield, T. H., Owen, L., Johnston, J., Silveri, M. M., Gensler, M., Faulkner, C. L., Mann, C., Wixted, M., Hernon, A. M., Nyer, M. B., Brown, E. R., & Jensen, J. E. (2017). Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder with Iyengar Yoga and Coherent Breathing: A Randomized Controlled Dosing Study. Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.), 23(3), 201–207. https://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2016.0140

5-Thalamic Gamma Aminobutyric Acid Level Changes in Major Depressive Disorder After a 12-Week Iyengar Yoga and Coherent Breathing Intervention

Streeter CC, Gerbarg PL, Brown RP, Scott TM, Nielsen GH, Owen L, Sakai O, Sneider JT, Nyer MB, Silveri MM. Thalamic Gamma Aminobutyric Acid Level Changes in Major Depressive Disorder After a 12-Week Iyengar Yoga and Coherent Breathing Intervention. J Altern Complement Med. 2020 Mar;26(3):190-197. doi: 10.1089/acm.2019.0234. Epub 2020 Jan 14. PMID: 31934793; PMCID: PMC7074898.

6- Effect of the Information Support Method Combined with Yoga Exercise on the Depression, Anxiety, and Sleep Quality of Menopausal Women

Lu, X., Liu, L., & Yuan, R. (2020). Effect of the Information Support Method Combined with Yoga Exercise on the Depression, Anxiety, and Sleep Quality of Menopausal Women. Psychiatria Danubina, 32(3-4), 380–388. https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2020.380

Public Health Preparedness

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Assignment 5: Public Health Preparedness
Due Week 10 and worth 200 points

You have just been hired as a new Vice President of quality and safety for a full-service 600-bed government healthcare organization.  Within your first month on the job, the national security threat level has been raised to Imminent, which means there is a credible, specific, and impending terrorist threat against the United States, and your facility may be directly impacted. The Chief Executive Officer has requested an immediate six to eight-page report of your proposal for handling such a situation.

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

Write a 6-8 page paper in which you:

  1. Examine the existing procedures related to at least four (4) of the ten (10) essential public health services. Focus on the principal effects that these procedures will have on your hospital during the emergency.
  2. Specify the importance of continuing to evaluate patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency.
  3. Detail three (3) measures that you would use in order to maintain the electronic medical record system during the emergency.
  4. Defend your position on the decision to accept health insurance during the emergency as a potential source of income for the facility. Provide support with at least three (3) examples that illustrate your position.
  5. Analyze the extent to which this emergency might affect the quality of care provided to the patients and the unimpeded operation of the organization.
  6. Use at least three (3) quality references. 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.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Examine information management and health care records and how the legal reporting requirements impact health care.
  • Analyze the impact of healthcare financing and health insurance on healthcare access, quality, and cost.
  • Analyze the influence of health policy and health reform on healthcare access, quality, and cost in the U.S.
  • Analyze tort reform and healthcare quality.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in healthcare policy, law, and ethics.
  • Write clearly and concisely about healthcare policy and law using proper writing mechanics.

SOCW 6311 Wk 9 Assignment

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Assignment: Drafting a Process Evaluation

The steps for process evaluation outlined by Bliss and Emshoff (2002) may seem very similar to those for conducting other types of evaluation that you have learned about in this course; in fact, it is the purpose and timing of a process evaluation that most distinguish it from other types of evaluation. A process evaluation is conducted during the implementation of the program to evaluate whether the program has been implemented as intended and how the delivery of a program can be improved. A process evaluation can also be useful in supporting an outcome evaluation by helping to determine the reason behind program outcomes.

There are several reasons for conducting process evaluation throughout the implementation of a program. Chief among them is to compare the program that is being delivered to the original program plan, in order to identify gaps and make improvements. Therefore, documentation from the planning stage may prove useful when planning a process evaluation.

For this Assignment, you either build on the work that you completed in Weeks 6, 7, and 8 related to a support group for caregivers, or on your knowledge about a program with which you are familiar. Review the resource “Workbook for Designing a Process Evaluation”.

Submit a 4-page plan for a process evaluation. Include the following minimal information:

· A description of the key program elements

· A description of the strategies that the program uses to produce change

· A description of the needs of the target population

· An explanation of why a process evaluation is important for the program

· A plan for building relationships with the staff and management

· Broad questions to be answered by the process evaluation

· Specific questions to be answered by the process evaluation

· A plan for gathering and analyzing the information

References (use 3 or more)

Dudley, J. R. (2014). Social work evaluation: Enhancing what we do.(2nd ed.) Chicago, IL: Lyceum Books.

Chapter 8, “Improving How Programs and Practice Work” (pp. 167–207)

Document:Bliss, M. J., & Emshoff, J. G. (2002). Workbook for designing a process evaluation.Retrieved from http://beta.roadsafetyevaluation.com/evaluationguides/info/workbook-for-designing-a-process-evaluation.pdf (PDF)

Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Public Health.

Week 7 (Feb 22 – 28) Decision Making

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 What do you see as the main difference between a successful and unsuccessful decision? Describe your own personal decision making skills and what you have done to make your decisions more successful. 

Response must be a 150 word initial post.

Respond to this comment:

 The difference in a successful and unsuccessful decision I believe a successful decision if not only when your decision works out the way you wanted it too, but also if you go by making your decision in the right way, and unsuccessful decision is just that, it did not work, maybe due to not following the plan that you laid out or maybe people just didn’t like the decision you made for a company.

  One of my most successful and scariest  decision I have made was to go to school and learn to do hair and skin care, and  then I open my on hair salon and tanning salon, I worked very hard long days and long nights, but it paid off and I had a very successful business for 25 years, For me to have made that decision was very scary to go out and open my on business and could have been a bad decision but it turned into a very good decision.

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The Calamities of Consensus

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The Calamities of Consensus

When it is time for groups to reach a decision, many turn to consensus. Consensus, a situation of agreement, seems like a good idea. To achieve consensus, groups must cooperate and collaborate, which ultimately will produce higher levels of camaraderie and trust. In addition, if everyone agrees, then the prevailing wisdom is that everyone will be more committed to the decision.

However, there are times when the need for consensus can be detrimental to group functioning. Consider the recent ‘fiscal cliff’ faced by the U.S. government toward the end of 2012. The White House and Congress needed to reach a deal that would reduce the swelling budget deficit. However, many Republicans and Democrats stuck to their party lines, refusing to compromise. Many viewed the end product that achieved consensus as a less than optimal solution. The public gave Congress an approval rating of only 13 percent, expressing frustration with the lack of compromise, but the group may not have been able to function well partly because of the need for consensus.

If consensus is reached, does that mean the decision is the right one? Critics of consensus-based methods argue that any decisions that are ultimately reached are inferior to decisions using other methods such as voting or having team members provide input to their leader, who then makes the final decision. Critics also argue that, because of pressures to conform, groupthink is much more likely, and decisions reached through consensus are simply those that are disliked the least by everyone.

Sources: D. Leonhardt, “When the Crowd Isn’t Wise,” The New York Times (July 8, 2012), p. SR BW 4; and K. Jensen, “Consensus Is Poison! Who’s With Me?” Forbes (May 20, 2013), downloaded on May 30, 2013, from www.forbes.com (Links to an external site.).

Questions

  1. Is consensus a good way for groups to make decisions? Why or why not?
  2. Can you think of a time where a group of which you were a part relied on consensus? How do you think the decision turned out?  
  3. Martin Luther King Jr. once proclaimed, “A genuine leader is not a seeker of consensus but a modeler of consensus”. What do you think he meant by that statement? Do you agree with it? Why or why not?

Using Open-Ended Questioning in Assessment

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Open-ended questions cannot be answered in a one- or two-word response. Rather, they are phrased to encourage elaboration and typically begin with words, such as “why,” “how,” or “what,” or phrases, such as “tell me about…” or “help me understand…” For example, an advanced human services professional practitioner, meeting with a service user who is married to an abusive spouse, might ask an open-ended question like, “What is your relationship with your spouse like?,” rather than “When did the physical abuse begin?”

To Prepare

  • Review your Course Announcements for possible information related to this week’s Discussion and Assignment.
  • Review the Learning Resources on open-ended questioning. Pay particular attention to the examples of open-ended questions, how they are structured, and how they are different from closed-ended questions.
  • Go to the Hart City virtual community using the link that is provided in the Learning Resources. Once you are in the community, review the case study you were assigned.
  • Create three open-ended questions you would ask the service user from the case study to elicit information. Consider why you would ask each, as well as what information you are trying to elicit from the service user. 

Identify the Hart City case study you were assigned in the subject line of your post.

Post the three most important questions you would ask your service user in the case study to assess their most critical need. Remember to use open-ended questions. Explain why you chose to ask each question and what information you are trying to elicit from the service user. Be specific. 

Assignments

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These are three different assignments

Assignment 1

 

Compare and contrast Gestalt therapy with Behavioral Therapy. 2 pages and please don’t forget to cite.

Assignment 2

 

Which of the therapies, Gestalt or Behavioral, is most likely to be  used in a school setting?  Why?  Discuss briefly how play therapy is  used in Gestalt counseling in mental health counseling. 2 pages and don’t forget to cite.

Assignment 3

 

1.  Complete an interview with the parent/caregiver of a child or  adolescent who will be the subject of the recorded practice session in  Week 6.  For this Interview you will meet with the parent/caregiver of  the child or adolescent who will be able to provide a detailed  background and history of the child or adolescent, as well as a family  history.  Do not use the child’s real name.  THIS session is NOT  recorded and should be a comfortable length of time for the person you  are meeting with.  These meetings can typically be from 45  minutes up  to 90 minutes. 

2.  The child or adolescent subject may or may not be present for  this meeting.  If the subject is present be sure to acknowledge the  child in the interview and provide an activity for the child to do while  the parent is being interviewed. 

3.  A biopsychosocial guide is attached .  Create questions that comver the topics in the attached guide. 

4.  Submit a report of how you did in this meeting.  Information  about the child is important but the types of questions you asked to get  the necessary information about the family and the subject are  important too.  (Questions are expected to be non-clinical, creative and  open-ended)

I also uploaded a attachment for this assignment