Discussion: Foundational Neuroscience

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As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, it is essential for you to have a strong background in foundational neuroscience. In order to diagnose and treat patients, you must not only understand the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders but also how medications for these disorders impact the central nervous system. These concepts of foundational neuroscience can be challenging to understand. Therefore, this Discussion is designed to encourage you to think through these concepts, develop a rationale for your thinking, and deepen your understanding by interacting with your colleagues. 

 

For this Discussion, review the Learning Resources and reflect on the concepts of foundational neuroscience as they might apply to your role as the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in prescribing medications for patients. 

Post a response to each of the following:

  1. Explain the agonist-to-antagonist spectrum of action of psychopharmacologic agents, including how partial and inverse agonist functionality may impact the efficacy of psychopharmacologic treatments.
  2. Compare and contrast the actions of g couple proteins and ion gated channels.
  3. Explain how the role of epigenetics may contribute to pharmacologic action.
  4. Explain how this information may impact the way you prescribe medications to patients. Include a specific example of a situation or case with a patient in which the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner must be aware of the medication’s action.

wk4 assignment brilliant answers

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The manager of Sensible Essential Consulting conducted an excellent  seminar explaining debt and equity financing and how firms should  analyze their cost of capital. Nevertheless, the guidelines failed to  fully demonstrate the essence of the cost of debt and equity, which is  the required rate of return expected by suppliers of funds.

You are the Genesis Energy accountant and have taken a class recently  in financing. You agree to prepare a PowerPoint presentation of  approximately 6–8 minutes using the examples and information below:

  1. Debt: Jones Industries borrows $600,000 for 10 years with an annual  payment of $100,000. What is the expected interest rate (cost of debt)?
  2. Internal common stock: Jones Industries has a beta of 1.39. The  risk-free rate as measured by the rate on short-term US Treasury bill is  3 percent, and the expected return on the overall market is 12 percent.  Determine the expected rate of return on Jones’s stock (cost of  equity). Here are the details:

   

Jones Total Assets

$2,000,000

 

Long- & short-term debt

$600,000

 

Common internal stock equity

$400,000

 

New common stock equity

$1,000,000

 

Total liabilities & equity

$2,000,000

Develop a 10–12-slide presentation in PowerPoint format. Perform your  calculations in an Excel spreadsheet. Cut and paste the calculations  into your presentation. Include speaker’s notes to explain each point in  detail. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. 

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1-2 paragraphs

references

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Increasingly each of us, regardless of where we reside—in a city, country, region, or continent—is bombarded by movies, advertisements, song lyrics, political discourse, books, work programs, and education courses that make the claim that leaders are fundamental to organizational success and social civility.

Journalists, educators, and politicians around the world extol the virtues of leaders—and the dearth of leadership in many contexts. In 2021, a key word search on the word “leadership” results in a list of more than 30,000 books distributed through Amazon alone. Further, each of us likely has a personal perception of the definition, role, and purpose of leadership. 

With much attention on leadership (even amid a lack of leadership standards), managers and scholars are wise to grasp their own leadership philosophies, assumptions, and biases.

  • To launch our discussion this week, begin by identifying a leadership approach with which you are personally familiar. The original post should be no more than three to four paragraphs written in clear, concise form.
  • Support your writing with at least two scholarly sources that are in addition to required readings.
  • When responding to other original posts, discuss the findings, and assess the effective use of the critical inquiry method. Do the findings resonate with your own experiences with and knowledge about leadership practices? Why or why not? Support your position.

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Narrative and solution-focused therapy are postmodern theories of working with couples and families. In terms of practitioner relationships, both forms of therapy can be viewed as more collaborative than other theories discussed thus far in the course. They emphasize a more equal distribution of power between helping professional and client. They also promote movement away from a traditional metaphor of couple/family relations toward conceptualizing couple/family relationships as networks of co-constructed meanings.

For this Assignment, view two of the media resources in this week’s resources (at least one narrative and one solution-focused video). Identify the couple’s or family’s issue(s) and begin to think about short- and long-term goals you might include in treatment plans for them. As you consider techniques or interventions to accomplish these goals, think about how you would measure progress in re-authoring or storytelling.

The Assignment (2–3 pages)

Based on the theory demonstrated in the narrative video:

  • Define the problem.
  • Formulate a theory-based treatment plan including short- and long-term goals for the couple’s or family’s issues.
  • Describe two theory-based interventions you would use and justify your selection.

Based on the theory demonstrated in the solution-focused video:

  • Define the problem.
  • Formulate a theory-based treatment plan including short- and long-term goals for the couple’s or family’s issues.
  • Describe two theory-based interventions you would use and justify your selection.
  • Explain one anticipated outcome of each.

Support your Assignment 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 resources for this course.

Public Policy Analysis

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Based on the Criterion of Efficiency, the City of Indus-Valley has to select any one project as the best policy option between the following projects A, B, and C. Please suggest which project would be the best policy option for the City of Indus-Valley. The data for projects a, b, and c is provided in the attached excel sheet. Please provide the complete step-wise calculations either in the excel sheet or the word document for this question (worth 15 points).

Project A. A bridge takes five years to build, then yields a $50 Million (M) benefit per year for the next 10 years. The benefits are received at the end of each year. Assume that the costs are spread out evenly over the five years (i.e. year 1 to year 5) and are paid at the end of each year.

Project B. Temporary classrooms for schools yielding $50M benefit per year for five years. The benefits are received at the end of each year. Assume that all costs are paid at the end of year 1.

 Project C. Tax breaks per year to a foreign auto manufacturer for a new auto plant yielding a $ 20 M benefit per year from the tenth year for the next 5 years. The benefits are received at the end of each year. Assume that all costs are paid at the end of year 1.

Article 1

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Article Reviews 

You will write a 2 page review/abstract/summary on an article from a peer reviewed scholarly journal. This is to assess your ability to select and summarize the research of others, analyze and apply the research of others, and communicate professionally and effectively to their regard. However, the most important rationale for this assignment is for you to see how statistical analysis is presented. 

Instructions: 

1. Use the library system (https://www.ucumberlands.edu/library) or online catalog to locate a journal article that pertains to your research, thesis, or area of interest. The article you chose should have performed some statistical analysis of gathered data and made an inference using something other than just the average (mean). That is, they can’t just talk about averages; they must have used one of these tests: t-test, chi-square, F-test, Fischer test, ANOVA, MANOVA, ANCOVA, Mann-Whitney, correlation, regression. 

2. Read the article thoroughly. 

3. Write a 2-page summary about the article following the given guidelines. Guidelines: 1. 

Your review should include: 

a. The question/problem being researched by the author 

b. The experiment that will answer the question 

c. How they collected data 

d. Analysis of the data (Must identify the statistical test used) 

e. Their conclusion or findings

 2. Your review can be single spaced or double spaced in at least 11 pt font. 

3. You should make a bibliography to list the article you chose and practice APA format. NOTE: The APA Guidelines address specifically how the reference page is title and how articles are provided! Note: It is not called Bibliography. 

4. Graphs or visual representations are not needed for this assignment. 

5. A title page is not required, but you may include one if you want to practice APA style. If you have a title page, your submission is 4 pages. If you do not  have a title page, your submission is 3 pages. Do not go over. There are points associated with following the directions.

 6. Your grade on these assignments will be based on the rubric below. 

FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES.

Circuit City Assignemnt

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Circuit City was an American consumer electronics company founded by Samuel Wurtzel in 1949. By 1990s, Circuit City became the second largest consumer electronics store in the United States with annual sales of $12 billion. On March 8 2009, Circuit City shutdown all its stores. On January 8th at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Circuit City CEO announced a comeback and relaunch of Circuit City into “a dynamic, a social-focused ecommerce site” and a new business strategy for its retail stores12 . 

In this case study, assume that Circuit City hired you as the new chief information officer (CIO) to help relaunch the company into a global e-commerce multinational company. 

Assignment should be of 11 pages. APA Format. 4 -5 Professional References. Attached the project rubrics for reference. Make sure to check the rubrics for good score.

Create an Assignment & PowerPoint presentation containing the IT strategic plan that will address Circuit City ecommerce initiatives. 

The following information should be covered in the Assignment / presentation. 

Abstract

1. Introduction / History of Circuit City 

2. What were the issues and challenges that caused the collapse of Circuit City in 2009? 

3. What are the issues and challenges with Circuit City 2018 latest e-commerce initiative?  

4. Discuss the major competitors in global e-commerce. 

5. How would IT deliver value to the business? 

6. Proposed the IT infrastructure required to support global e-commerce 

7. Proposed the IT budget/cost analysis for the e-commerce initiative 

8. Discuss the IT based risks associated with global e-commerce 

9. Discuss how IT can leverage innovative technologies such as social media, big data and business intelligence to provide value to the business 

10. Discuss the future or emerging technologies that would be leveraged to give Circuit City a competitive advantage.

11. Conclusion

Links: 

1 http://circuitcitycorporation.com/circuit-city-to-announce-official-company-relaunch-at-the-2018-consumerelectronics-show-on-january-8th/ 

2 http://fortune.com/2018/01/09/circuit-city-relaunch-website/

Airbnb case

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Airbnb

From creating new value to disrupting existing businesses, the rise of the sharing economy has had a major impact on the hospitality and transportation industries.  Built on the concept of exchanging goods via an online marketplace, the sharing economy allows individuals to seamlessly move between acting as buyers and sellers.  Emerging companies such as Uber and Airbnb have been winners in this sharing model, creating uncertainty for traditional incumbents such as taxis and hotels. 

Airbnb, an online and user-friendly platform that allows “hosts” to list their homes as a destination, was founded in 2008 with the intention of connecting people to unique travel experiences at any price point.  Within three years it had reached 1 million bookings.  This success hit a major hurdle in 2020 with the COVID-19 pandemic.  Once the pandemic hit, travel restrictions in many areas were put into place, and many consumers were wary of travel; this put a significant dent in Airbnb’s growth.  As a result, Airbnb decided to tighten up and return to its core of everyday people hosting their homes and offering experiences.  This meant putting some activities on hold (e.g., transportation) and scaling back on others (e.g., investments in luxury properties).  

Questions:

  • As the example above illustrates, it is imperative that companies be able to prepare for strategic uncertainties as much as possible.  While COVID-19 might have been difficult to predict, many other strategic uncertainties exist for Airbnb.  Identify and explain one such strategic uncertainty.  While  your answer here can be related to COVID-19, there are plenty more out there to choose from.  If you do choose one related to COVID-19, make sure that you use original thought regarding what new uncertainties related to the pandemic might exist.
  • How should Airbnb respond to the demographic trends outlined in your textbook? What about cultural trends?  Notice that this says “should,” meaning don’t focus on what Airbnb is already doing–you need to do your research here!  Please be sure to answer each of these questions; they should not be lumped together but instead treated separately. 
  • Note that there is a 2 page limit for content (excluding references).  Please do not use single spacing–line and a half or double spacing is preferred.  Font size 12 point.  Use APA or MLA for proper citing and referencing (refer to Purdue OWL (Links to an external site.) for examples).   

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Read the case study titled “Religion or Free Speech?” located in the online course shell. Next, propose an argument justifying if free speech and equal access rights of the Christian and Bible club are or are not being violated. 

Case Study:  Religion or Free Speech 

 

The local community is very involved with Jackson High School, which serves as a community center with many community based activities taking place at the high school. Local organizations are often functioning in and around the daily routine of the high school schedule. The city of Jackson is multicultural and diverse. Some of the clubs at Jackson High School include:  Hispanic Club; Chess Club; Gay, Lesbian, Transgender Alliance; Environmental Education Club; Soccer Club; Dance Club; International Student Alliance; and so forth. All student groups and clubs have been allowed to promote their meetings and events at school through use of appointed club activity bulletin boards, announcements, flyers/brochures, and school newspaper ads. Some clubs do have displays in some school locations (hallways, lobbies, hall entrances, library, administrative and guidance offices) at times. Recently, the Christian and Bible Club created a display with Christian content and materials in a display location and the school administration received a few complaints from students and parents. The principal asked the Christian and Bible Club advisors to remove the display. Later that same day, the school administration removed the display altogether to not give the community the impression of endorsing Christianity. 

Analysis on the Threats Defense Argument DJ See Attached also

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Select the statement that uses logos as a rhetorical appeal. 

  • If we do not do something about climate change now, it may soon be too late for the survival of many species.
  • I think we can all agree that we have a responsibility to future generations to take care of our planet. 
  • As a scientist, I know how climate change will impact our planet and the consequences it will have. 
  • Research indicates that the sea level has risen roughly 6.5 inches in the last 100 years due to climate change.
  • Cultural taboos.
  • Climate change.

There are four remaining threats that you did not discuss in your PowerPoint. This assignment will focus on two of those four. Here are the specific tasks you will complete:

  • Review the remaining four threats that you did not use in Presentation on the Threats to the Global Environment.
  • Pick two of the four to focus on in Analysis on the Threats Defense Argument assignment.
  • Identify the reasons why you think these two threats are less critical than the four threats you chose for your PowerPoint presentation.
Step II. Prepare Your Report

The U.N. has given you the following guidelines.

Introduction

Briefly introduce the topic of the analysis (about 100–150 words):

  1. State the topic and intent of the paper.
  2. Identify the two threats you will discuss in the paper in the order in which they appear in the paper.
Section I. Threat 1
  1. Write an opening statement describing the perception of the threat.
  2. Write one page giving three reasons that explain why you saw this threat as less critical than the four you chose for your presentation in the Presentation on the Threats to the Global Environment assignment.
  3. Support these reasons with at least three credible sources.
Section II. Threat 2
  1. Write an opening statement describing the perception of the threat.
  2. Write one page giving three reasons to explain why you saw this threat as less critical than the four you chose for your presentation in the Presentation on the Threats to the Global Environment assignment.
  3. Support these reasons with at least three credible sources.
Conclusion
  • Offer a summary (one page or less) of your defense of your choices that the United Nations can use to address their prioritization concerns.
Formatting Requirements
  • Your paper may consist of up to four pages (not including the cover or reference pages).
  • Create headings for each section of your paper as follows: 
    • Introduction.
    • Threat 1 (include the name of your chosen threat).
    • Threat 2 (include the name of your chosen threat).
    • Conclusion.
  • Use and cite 4–6 credible sources in your analysis. You may use the same source for more than one threat as long as you use a minimum of four different sources. A list of potential resources is available at the end of this course guide.