Assess the external environment for the organization you researched in Week 1. 

Based on your assessment and the organization’s strengths and weaknesses you identified in Week 1, evaluate opportunities for that organization to add economic, social, and environmental value. 

Recommend an opportunity that best capitalizes on the organization’s valuable, rare, and hard-to-imitate resources, is least impacted by the organization’s weaknesses, and will take best advantage of the external environment.

Create a PowerPoint presentation to present your assessment, evaluation, and recommendation. Include the following sections in your presentation:

• A cover slide
• An agenda
• A description of the organization (1 slide with speaker’s notes).
• A summary of the strengths and weakness of the organization (2 slides with speaker’s notes)
• Key aspects of your assessment of the external environment that present opportunities for adding value, such as trends, unmet needs, unsolved problems, under-served consumer groups, etc. (2-3 slides with speaker’s notes)
• An evaluation of opportunities to add economic value (1 slide with speaker’s notes)
• An evaluation of opportunities to add social value (1 slide with speaker’s notes)
• An evaluation of opportunities to add environmental value (1 slide with speaker’s notes). Note: Some opportunities may appear on more than 1 slide. For example, you may find an opportunity that adds economic, social, and environmental value.
• A recommended opportunity to pursue first, with a rationale that shows how the opportunity capitalizes on the organization’s valuable, rare, and hard-to-imitate resources, is not much impacted by the organization’s weaknesses, and takes advantage of the external environment (1 slide, with speaker’s notes)
• A conclusion
• References

Cite references to support your assignment.

reply to this discussion post…Be sure that the responses to the post of peers include 2 peer reviewed references with content that demonstrates critical analysis and synthesis of references used. 

Mental health issues is a societal issue that we all have to be aware of and help those that suffer from these conditions. This literature search conducted is to find reputable and credible sources to show that with follow-up and education, those diagnosed with schizophrenia who remain compliant with medication regiments can be productive members of society. I tend to stay with the most common databases, which I am more familiar with and result in the highest-level evidence. These databases are easy to navigate with most filter options being on the left-hand side of the webpage. Using the Walden University library access to databases an extensive supportive evidence search conducted offered numerous supportive article. 

By using specific words, the results can be narrowing down to a more manageable listing (Houde, 2009). The most difficult part is trying to find specific words to be unique to the search to result in the best possible resources to offer the highest quality of evidence (Krainovich-Miller, Haber, Yost, & Jacobs, 2009). Another helpful hint in conducting this search is to access the videos in the weekly resources. By watching these videos, the speakers point out some excellent points in how to eliminate some of the resulting articles by skimming through the abstracts if available (Laureate Education, Inc., 2012a & 2012b). My final helpful hint, if you are ever in need of help, the assistance at the Walden University Library are beneficial and can walk you through the process of searching databases.

 

Step 1: Write Section 1 of the DAA: The Data Analysis Plan

• Name the variables used in this analysis and whether they are categorical or continuous.
• State a research question, null hypothesis, and an alternate hypothesis for the independent samples t-test.

Step 2: Write Section 2 of the DAA: Testing Assumptions

• Create SPSS output showing the Levene’s Test for Equality Variances. Run the Levene’s test on the dependent variable test for the entire sample. Do not split the data up by gender before running the homogeneity test.
• Paste the table in the DAA.
• Interpret the Levene’s test.

Step 3: Write Section 3 of the DAA: Results and Interpretation

Paste the SPSS output of the t test. Below the output:

• Report the means and standard deviations for each group.
• State the results of the t-test using the “Assume equal variances” row.
• Interpret the statistical results against the null hypothesis and state whether it is accepted or rejected.

Step 4: Write Section 4 of the DAA: Statistical Conclusions

• Provide a brief summary of your analysis and the conclusions drawn about this t-test.
• Analyze the limitations of the statistical test and/or possible alternative explanations for your results.

Step 5: Write Section 5 of the DAA: Application

• Analyze how you might use the independent samples t-test in your field of study.
• Name an independent variable and dependent variable that would work for such an analysis and why studying it may be important to the field or practice.

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Talking Points for Introduction

Before anything else, the first page should have a Title of your paper. You should have a title when you turn in this Introduction. This need not be the final title. You can change it later. A title should…

Not be vague and too general.

Not be too verbose and long. 

Have some key words, like Drosophila, development, the name of your gene, a key function of the gene, maybe.

Have proper capitalization. Here are examples. 

THIS IS THE TITLE OF MY PAPER

This is the Title of My Paper

This Is The Title Of My Paper

Titles don’t end in a period.

Introduction. This is the really first major section of the eventual review. An introduction starts with a very general background, and then ‘funnels’ the reader toward a more specific subject.  

1. Start this section with a heading. Probably the heading will be.. Introduction in some sort of enhanced type. Bold, all caps, big letters – your choice. But the chosen style should be kept for other section headings in the “body” of the paper to follow. 

2. Start by describing that Drosophila is a fruit fly & is useful for basic genetics research. Including genetics of development. Reasons: 

a. Generation time. 

b. Food used to raise in the lab. 

c. Small genome (how many genes does Drosophila have?)

d. Existence of mutant and transgenic stocks.

e. Locate and cite some papers that provide the above. ((You should be citing papers from now on, w/o my telling you)). Use the Author, year format. See the “Some guidelines” document. 

Note: ALWAYS write out Drosophila  like that. Italics. 

3. Briefly summarize Drosophila embryonic development. It can be more detailed in the Body of the paper where you describe more about the action of ‘your’ gene during embryonic development. 

a. Describe events and stages thru head involution. Early in this you will be citing a figure that shows the stages of embryonic development. This is Figure 1. You don’t need to have Figure 1 now, since figures are put toward the back of the paper. See the “Some guidelines” document.

b. Describe hatching and development  adult fly. Mention imaginal discs (look this up if you don’t know).  (( Note: Your gene may not really be “about” the embryo. It could be mainly used in the ovaries, where eggs develop, or in the imaginal discs or histoblasts, which are tissues that later form adult structures. If so, you really should focus on those. Good luck!))

4. For some (not all), your gene fits into a class of genes that you had learned about 

(maternal effect, homeotic, etc.). If so, then you should describe this general class and what it’s about. Not everyone’s gene fits into those classes. If you are not sure what to say on this, feel free to ask me. 

5. Work in a narrative that explains your gene. 

a. What your gene does during development of Drosophila.

b. Along the way you will of course provide the name of your gene, and its abbreviation. You are introducing your gene here, so you should know what that means from then on. 

c. Describe major aspects of the biology of this gene. You can choose to describe the nature of its protein product. Or the mutant phenotypes. Lots of common points are brought up. For example, why is your gene given its name. Who first discovered (and named) the gene? How does the protein product work? This should not be an exhaustive description. You don’t need to do all these things here since you want to set aside a larger portion for the ‘body’ of the paper. So discover what there is to discover. Use some of it in the Intro, and set aside the rest (probably most of it) for the body. Remember to keep track of references, and to ‘steal’ some pictures for later. Keep track of the source for those pictures, though, since you will need them! 

6. State some reasons for this review. 

a. Why is this gene important for Drosophila. How does that fit into the bigger picture of understanding animal development. For example, understanding the role of a segmentation gene contributes to our understanding of segmentation in animals, since most animals have a segmented body plan. Understanding the role of a gene needed for axial development, or nervous system development comes to the same argument. 

b. Importance outside of Drosophila. What are important homologs in other species? Humans? Much like the above summary about the gene and its biology, you will be discovering a lot about this topic. More than what would go into the Intro. Use some basic points about this for the Intro, then set aside the larger and more detailed part for the body of the paper. 

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REMEMBER ALSO:

I need this to be TRIPLE SPACED. 

Append REFERENCES to the end of the Intro. For now these can just be url addresses. Those should include actual papers. Not just citations of FlyBase, or The Interactive Fly!  I