Deliverable 4 – Evaluating Blockchain with Cryptocurrency Power Point (10-12Slides)

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 Competency

Evaluate technology used in digital transactions

 

Scenario

You are the financial advisor for a large antique coin and gold distributor. Some of your large customers are requesting the distributor begin accepting cryptocurrency, which is possible because of blockchain technology.

The distributor has been accepting credit cards and money transfers for many years. The fees associated with transactions have continued to increase. The fees have become so large that the distributor has been forced to pass along the cost to customers.

Customers outside the United States have also requested to use cryptocurrency since currency exchange rates can fluctuate greatly depending on world events.

The distributor asks that you prepare a presentation to stakeholders in the distributorship, discussing the acceptance of cryptocurrency, which uses blockchain technology. Be sure to support your recommendations with credible resources. Using the assigned readings in this module is a good starting point. Research databases are listed in the Resources area below.

Instructions

You are tasked with preparing a presentation that will discuss blockchain technology, which could allow the distributor to accept cryptocurrency. The presentation will discuss the types of cryptocurrency, the advantages, the concerns, and the risks related to using cryptocurrency in the business. The stakeholders may not be familiar with this technology so be thorough in your description of the technology.

In Microsoft PowerPoint, Prezi, or another presentation tool create the presentation. The presentation should be at least 6 slides and should accomplish these objectives:

  • Define blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies and how they work together
  • Evaluate the types of cryptocurrency technologies appropriate for the distributor
  • Explain how blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies create a competitive advantage for the distributor
  • Examine the risks associated with accepting cryptocurrency
  • Recommend that the stakeholders approve or deny the request to use cryptocurrency in a clear recommendation statement or call to action
  • Begin with a title slide
  • Use formatting tools to create visual interest and support the message visually
  • End with a References slide

Case Studies

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D 2.1

From the lecture and from chapter 2 of the book, What are the types of hackers and what defines them? A hacker’s skills can range from the novice to the very experienced.  What differentiates a novice hacker versus a very experienced hacker?  What are the ways that a hacker can “perfect” their skills?  

CS 2.1

Conduct research on one of the following attacks (DAPT, Stuxnet, Duqu, or the Iran Certificate Attack.  In a 3 to 4 page paper (not including title and reference pages) provide a brief synopsis of the attack.  Use what you’ve learned in the first 3 chapters of the course.  Some information that should be included in your paper is, the type of attack, why the attack occurred, and who conducted the attack.    Be sure to cite your sources and follow APA formatting.  Some sources for the attacks can be found on page 50 of your online textbook. 

Book Review Chapter 2

Chapter two, write a 3-4 page review (not including the Title page or Reference page) of the chapter. The review is to give your point of view on one of the topics  based on the web sites found on page 50 of the book

Advance Marketing Microsoft analysis

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 Case analysis of Microsoft. Conduct research on Microsoft. In the case analysis, you will look at the situational analysis, problem, and alternatives, and you will provide a recommendation. Refer to the instructions below as you construct your analysis.

  • Situational Analysis  
    • Discuss the external environment through the compilation of a PEST (political, economic, sociocultural, and technology) analysis.  
    • Discuss the internal and external environment through the compilation of a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis.  
  • Problem
    • Identify at least one organizational problem that Microsoft is currently having or one that you project it will have in the future. Base this on your research and critical thinking.  
  • Alternatives  
    • Compile three or four potential marketing-related solutions to the problem above. Remember that these are potential alternatives; you will not select all of the alternatives to solve the problem.  
  • Recommendation (Marketing Strategy)  
    • Select one or two of the alternatives above to solve the problem that you identified in this case analysis.  
    • Discuss your rationale for choosing these and not the others. Include supporting research that will increase the depth of your analysis.

    Must be at least four pages in length. Follow APA Style when creating citations and references for this assignment. Support with at least three sources outside of the textbook. 

Professionalism and social media

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Social media plays a significant role in the lives of nurses in both their professional and personal lives. Additionally, social media is now considered a mainstream part of the process for recruiting and hiring candidates. Inappropriate or unethical conduct on social media can create legal problems for nurses as well as the field of nursing.

Login to all social media sites in which you engage. Review your profile, pictures and posts. Based on the professional standards of nursing, identify items that would be considered unprofessional and potentially detrimental to your career and that negatively impact the reputation of the nursing field.

In 500-750 words, summarize the findings of your review. Include the following:

  1. Describe the posts or conversations in which you have engaged that might be considered inappropriate based on the professional standards of nursing.
  2. Discuss why nurses have a responsibility to uphold a standard of conduct consistent with the standards governing the profession of nursing at work and in their personal lives. Include discussion of how personal conduct can violate HIPAA or be considered unethical or unprofessional. Provide an example of each to support your answer.
  3. Based on the analysis of your social media, discuss what areas of your social media activity reflect Christian values as they relate to respecting human value and dignity for all individuals. Describe areas of your social media activity that could be improved.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

HIST 1301 Research Project Instructions

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HIST 1301 Research Project Instructions

The purpose of this research project is to enhance your abilities as a researcher, writer, editor, student and future professional. You will be required to choose a historical topic and demonstrate what you have learned in your tenure as a student. 

Learning Objectives

1. Create an argument through the use of historical evidence. 

2. Analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources. 

3. Analyze the effects of historical, social, political, economic, cultural, and global forces on this period of United States history. 

Tasks

This research project divided into a series of tasks, each with its own set of instructions.

1. Select your Topic

2. Compile a Research Journal

3. Outline your Ideas

4. Write your Research Paper

5. Make Corrections

Minimum Requirements for the Paper

Your paper must meet or exceed the minimum requirements listed below: 

1. Minimum of approximately 1,500 words. (I will be checking.) You will lose ten points for every 100 words below the minimum limit.  

2. Your work needs to be cited in Chicago format with footnotes. There will be no excuse for not having proper citations. There are plenty of materials on my website and the internet on how to do this. No Citations = No Grade  

3. Your paper must contain at least three primary and four secondary sources. The secondary sources must come from academic journals. 

4. Using Direct Quotes – You are limited to two direct quotes.  Five points will be deducted for each direct quote in excess of two. 

5. The paper needs to be submitted in Adobe (.pdf) or MSWORD.

Below you will find a step-by-step guide to assist you in developing your research project. 

Step 1 – Select your Topic

Selecting a topic for your paper is an important part of the research process. Select a topic that is both interesting to you and that there are enough available resources available. First, the topic must be interesting to you because you will find the paper more difficult to complete if you quickly lose interest. Secondly, you want to choose a topic that has enough available information; for example, writing about pre-Columbian Native American societies, you may run into the problem of a lack of primary sources.

If you wish to discuss a topic with me, you need to visit me during tutoring, office hours or by appointment.  We can also discuss your topic through email. There are a few topics that are off-limits. You cannot write papers over topics covered in other assignments in this course.  I also ban the Salem Witch Trials, out of redundancy.

Requirements for Topic Selection

1. The topic must be between the years 1607 and 1865. 

2. The topic should not be a biography or a summary of an event.

3. The topic should be about United States History

4. Do not choose topics that are too broad, this is a short paper, trying to discuss the Civil War 

Please submit your topics to the corresponding area in the Canvas Modules. 

Step 2 – Compiling a Research Journal

A research journal will help you organize and track your sources throughout the research project. There is a Research Journal Worksheet in the Major Paper Module in Canvas. This worksheet will assist you in completing your paper’s bibliography. 

Step 3 – Developing an Outline

At some point, before you begin to write your paper, you will need to organize your thoughts and information you have collected. A poorly organized paper is confusing and will leave the reader wondering what the purpose of the paper is.

Organize the information you have collected into major themes you wish to discuss. You will need to distinguish between your main arguments, secondary arguments, and supporting evidence. A sample outline is available at the end of this document (click here).  

Question and Answer

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Discussion Post #2: Assessing Risk and Resiliency

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Read the Individual Case Study #1 in the Course Content area of Canvas. Then, imagine you are assisting a team of developmental specialists tasked with assessing her to help determine whether she has a Developmental Disability.

  •            Compare and contrast the risk and protective factors in this
  • List key considerations, specific to Case Study #1, which should be assessed (using the Multifactor Ecocultural Model), and briefly state why each is important.

 

Case Study #1Regina

Regina is a three and a half-year-old, Hispanic child. She is the first born of two children of professional parents. She was referred by her pediatrician due to uneven development and atypical behavior. According to her parents, Regina’s delivery was difficult and she needed oxygen at birth. Her physical appearance, motor development, and self help skills were all age appropriate, but her parents have been uneasy for quite some time about Regina’s lack of response to social contact and usual baby games. Their fears are recently increasing due to comparisons with their second child (Chris, who is two years and five months old), who, unlike Regina enjoyed social communication from early infancy.Regina appears to be self-sufficient and aloof from others. She does not greet her parents in the mornings or evenings when they pick her up from daycare. She has been in daycare for three months, but continues to scream for up to an hour after drop off each morning. The daycare Director has recently requested her parents consider another program given the program’s limited resources meeting Regina’s needs and little progress helping her adapt to the classroom system. Regina shows little to no interest in other children and ignores her younger brother. Her babbling had no conversational intonation. At age three, she could understand simple one-step instructions. Her speech consisted of repeating some words and phrases she’d heard in the past, with the speaker’s accent and intonation. She could use one to two word phrases to indicate simple needs. For example, if she said, “Do you want a drink?” she meant she was thirsty. She did not communicate by facial expression or use gesture or mime, except for pulling someone along and placing their hand on an object she wanted.Regina appears to be fascinated by window blinds, and stares at them or attempts to touch or open/close them any opportunity she gets. She usually puts her face up close to the blinds and smiles, laughs, flaps her hands, jumps up and down and appears giddy whenever she is able to do this. She displays similar behavior while listening to music, which she has liked since infancy. She is intensely attached to a hair brush, which she holds in her hand, day and night, but never used to brush her hair or in any other way. She does not play with any toys other than jigsaw puzzles, which she is able to assemble rapidly with one hand (while holding the hair brush in the other) even if the picture side is hidden. From age two, she collects kitchen utensils and arranges these in rows (always from right to left, always starting with a fork and ending with a spoon) all over the floor of the house. These activities, together with occasional aimless running around, constitute her whole repertoire of spontaneous activity.Regina’s intense resistance to any attempt to remove her hair brush, collect the kitchen utensils, or prevent her from touching window blinds results in what her parents call “meltdowns,” during which Regina engages in screaming, kicking, and biting herself or others for up to an hour. The only way to stop these tantrums is to allow her to continue what she was doing or playing music has also worked on occasion.

ORG 6520/ 6

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Systems and Professional Integrity

Ethics is a code of thinking and behavior governed by a combination of personal, moral, legal, and social standards of what is right. Although the definition of “right” varies with situations and cultures, its meaning in the context of a community work involves many guiding principles with which most community activists and service providers would probably agree. Above all else, do no harm. Hippocrates put this in words over 2,000 years ago, and it’s still Rule Number One.

You have volunteered to run a community violence-prevention program, working with kids who are gang members or gang hangers-on. The kids trust you, and sometimes tell you about some of their less-than-savory activities. The police also know you work with gang members and often ask you for information about kids. What are you obligated to tell them or to keep from them?

If you are actively striving to do “good,” how far does that obligation take you? If there are issues affecting the community that have nothing to do directly with the one you’re concerned with, do you nonetheless have an obligation to become involved? What if you don’t really understand the whole situation, and your involvement may do as much harm as good—do you still have an ethical obligation to support or become active on the right side? What if your support or activism endangers or compromises your community intervention? Your initial post should be at least 300 words in length. 

Data Science Research

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No Plagiarism, minimum of 4 pages content only, no grammar mistakes

  1. This week’s article provided a case study approach which highlights how businesses have integrated Big Data Analytics with their Business Intelligence to gain dominance within their respective industry.  Search the UC Library and/or Google Scholar for a “Fortune 1000” company that has been successful in this integration. Discuss the company, its approach to big data analytics with business intelligence, what they are doing right, what they are doing wrong, and how they can improve to be more successful in the implementation and maintenance of big data analytics with business intelligence
    Your paper should meet the following requirements:

    • Be approximately four pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
    • Follow APA 7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
    • Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find resources.
    • Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing

Quality Measurement and Assessment in Healthcare

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Project: Promoting Health Care Quality  Section 3:    

  Quality Measurement and Assessment  Measuring and assessing quality provides a foundation for identifying needs for improvement, developing effective interventions, and then monitoring progress toward desired results.   In the Sadeghi, Barzi, Mikhail, and Shabot text, the authors assert that an effort to improve quality “calls for setting outcome and performance targets (goals and expectations) beginning with the end in mind, and then formulating initiatives and actions (processes) that can serve as a bridge to take the organization from its current performance to its desired performance” (p. 182).   Having this “end in mind” can provide justification for dedicating valuable resources toward the effort, and help to lay a clear, concrete path that takes the organization from uncovering gaps between current performance and evidence-based targets to actually achieving those goals.  In this section of the Course Project, you focus on what you would measure—and how you would measure it—relative to your previously identified quality improvement issue. Note: This section of the Course Project will serve as the Portfolio Assignment for this course.       Course Project: Section 3: Quality Measurement and Assessment: write a 3-5 page paper to introduce your quality improvement plan. For more details on this project, see the Week 7 Project area for specifics to include for this paper.     I have attached my paper from week 4 for the continuation of the project.     To prepare: •Review the Learning Resources. Also conduct a search of the literature related to your selected quality improvement issue and complete the Evidence Matrix (provided in this week’s Learning Resources).   •Evaluate the evidence presented in the research literature and the quality standards proposed by various organizations, including the IOM’s six aims for quality improvement.   •Based on this review and your knowledge of the organization that you have selected, determine appropriate measures and indicators of performance related to your identified quality improvement issue.   •Consider how you could gather and use historical evidence of the organization’s performance related to the quality improvement issue. Also consider methods for gathering and assessing current quantitative and qualitative data, including those currently in use by the organization (e.g., chart audit data, staff surveys, quality indicators that are monitored, observations). If possible, examine actual data to assess your selected organization’s performance related to the issue.   •Think about what, specifically, you would like to achieve related to this issue. Establish realistic, evidence-based quality performance targets.   •Analyze gap(s) between the organization’s current performance and the performance targets.   •As you do this, you may wish to create a graphic organizer/alignment chart for your own use that illustrates:   •The measures and indicators that you would evaluate   •Current and historical data related to this quality issue—either actual data or methods for how you would collect and analyze the data   •Methods for collecting and analyzing data in the future (including when you would do this)   •Realistic, evidence-based targets

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 PSY 7710

4 days agoKarissa Milano unit 9 discussion scenario 3COLLAPSE

ABA Procedure:  A DRO (differential reinforcement of other behavior) to address SIB exhibited by a toddler in a home setting.

Special Methods: Any appropriate behaviors other than SIB will be reinforced through a specific amount of time (every five minutes). Reinforcement is only given when the individual does not engage in SIB behaviors.

Risks

Notes

1 Implementing the plan at home can be difficult.

1 The family might be concerned with their safety and the safety of the child. There should be a protocol before implementing this intervention.

2 Family members and client could be at risk for danger.

2 The parents might be concerned for the safety of themselves and their child.

3 Possible increase in SIB

3 SIB behaviors might increase before it decreases due to an extinction burst.  The behavior analyst should have a protocol before implementing this intervention.

4 SIB behaviors could remain the same.  

4 If there is no change in the clients SIB behaviors then a preference test should be conducted to determine motivating reinfoncers.

Benefits

Notes

1 Generalization

1 The client will learn to use this skill at home as well as be able generalize this skill into other settings. 

2 Improved learning environment

2 SIB behaviors will decrease and appropriate behavior will be taught. SIB will no longer impact the client and family in the future.

3 Increase in appropriate behaviors

3 Appropriate behaviors will be taught and replace the SIB behavior.

4 Least intrusive intervention

4 Using reinforcement to decrease the problem behavior and increase appropriate behaviors. This is a least restrictive method of treatment.

5 Parent training and involvement

5 Parents will feel confident about implementing this evidence based treatment at home. This will can lead to an increase a buy in from the family and they will feel comfortable implementing other interventions in the future.

Summary: DRO is an intervention that is used when the client does not engage in the problem behavior (SIB) (Bailey & Burch, 2016).  Reinforcement should only be given to the individual after a certain amount of time that the client is not engaging in the problem behavior; in this case it should be after five minutes of the client not engaging in SIB. The person who is implementing this treatment should not reinforce the problem behavior. The benefits of implementing DRO outweigh the risks of implementing DRO. DRO is a good intervention to use when decreasing SIB behavior.  Although there are some risks, the individual who is implementing DRO should have the knowledge, training and experience and be confident when implementing DRO ( Bailey & Burch, 2016).

Reference

Bailey, J. S., & Burch, M. R. (2016). Ethics for behavior analysts (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.

PSY 7711

 
3 days agoEmily Gentile Unit 9 DiscussionCOLLAPSE

      Validity is the extent to which the data represents the behavior being assessed. In simpler terms did the measurement system measure what it was intended to measure. There are three types of validity: internal, external, and social (Barlow et al., 2012).

      Internal validity provides a clear demonstration that the changes in the dependent variable were directly caused by manipulations of the independent variable and not by cofounding variables. A confounding variable is an extraneous variable that can have an impact on either the independent or dependent variable (Cooper et al., 2019). A few examples of confounding variables are others in a person’s environment, the weather, or a participant being sick. When evaluating the internal validity all confounding variables need to be accounted for and controlled. The visual analysis should illustrate a clear correlation between the change in the dependent variable based on the manipulation of the independent variable.

      External validity is the degree to which an experiment can be replicated and generalized to different people, settings, and behaviors (Cooper et al., 2019). External validity is important in behavioral research since it allows the research to be replicated under a variety of conditions. External validity can be evaluated by replicating the initial experiment under different conditions and analyzing to see if the outcomes are the same.

      Social validity refers to choosing socially significant target behaviors for the client and the overall acceptability of the procedures by others (Cooper et al., 2019). Social validity is important because our client’s well being should always be at the forefront of our research. Social validity can be evaluated by analyzing to see if significant others are applying the procedures to the target behaviors and by assessing to see if the procedures are being utilized by the client in social situations.

References

Cooper, J. O., Heron, T. E., & Heward, W. L. (2019). Applied behavior analysis (3rd. ed.). Pearson Education, Inc.

Barlow D. H., Nock M. K., & Hersen M. (2012). Single Case Experimental Designs: Strategies for Studying Behavior Change, 3/e Vitalsource for Capella University.