Describe the honey bee including its morphology, classification, characteristics and unique biology.
Describe why the honey bee is significant culturally, economically, medically, and agriculturally.
Describe why people are interested in honey bees.
Category: essay
War of the Worlds
Folly and arrogance are two important themes in War of the Worlds. In a well-composed essay, evaluate why you think Wells chose to write in this way. Be sure to list at least two examples of folly from the excerpt and explain their significance.
The Whole System Measurement approach
USE Case Study – Section 5 – pages 10-16
Please address the following questions as you outline and write your case analysis
-Why did Cooley Dickinson Hospital (CHD) test and evaluate the Whole System Measurement approach? If adopted, what would this mean to their
organization?
-What types of resources and roles (STAKEHOLDERS) were needed to help evaluate and facilitate a strategy to adopt the Whole System Measure?
-What is the purpose of the “quality compass” (organizational PILLARS)? Comment on the framework in Figure 2., specifically the categories and how they
may drive quality performance.
Reference Figure 3: Board Dashboard. Review and explain ONE of the Quality Performance Metrics: (Patient Satisfaction, Clinical Quality, Patient Flow, Staff
Satisfaction, Financial, or Growth). As you review the 3 data graphs provided comment on the following:
-Name the measure referenced in each data graph (there are 3 per PILLAR).
-What is the data graph telling you? (trends, reliability, improved performance)
-Comment on what else you would like to learn.
Reflection on Your Relationship to Feminism
write a short reflection ( ~250 words) about your relationship to feminism. In your response focus on what comes to mind for you when you hear the word feminism. Please stick to the 250-word limit! I will post my own response and you can use it as a model for your response.
Road Map for Planned Change
Develop a scholarly paper addressing a problem, issue, or situation needing change within the practice setting. The paper will address how the advanced practice nurse can facilitate and develop a road map for change.
Assignment Criteria:
1. Identify a problem, issue, or situation needing change within the practice or organizational setting. Include background information.
2. Select and discuss a change model that can be applied to the selected problem, issue, or situation.
a. Discuss how to facilitate the change and create buy-in from the health care professionals
b. Discuss possible resistance to the change that would need to be overcome
3. Articulate a plan for making the change using a change road map for the team (the starting point, steps to take for making the change, and successful completion). This is a narrative format, not a diagram.
4. Explain the importance of effective communication and the role it plays in influencing decisions during the change.
5. The scholarly paper should be in narrative format and 4 to 5 pages excluding the title and reference page.
6. Include an introductory paragraph, purpose statement, and a conclusion.
7. Include level 1 and 2 headings to organize the paper.
8. Write the paper in third person, not first person (meaning do not use ‘we’ or ‘I’) and in a scholarly manner. To clarify I, we, you, me, our may not be used. In addition, describing yourself as the researcher or the author should not be used.
9. Include three professional peer-reviewed scholarly journal references to support the paper (review in Ulrich Periodical Directory) and be less than five (5) years old.
10. APA format is required (attention to spelling/grammar, a title page, a reference page, and in-text citations).
11. Submit the assignment to Turnitin prior to the final submission, review the originality report, and make any needed changes.
12. Submit by the posted due date.
Application for U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Scenario
Your team has been tasked with delivering a Section 508-validated application for U.S. Department of Homeland Security field officers to check potential immigrants for connections to criminal or terrorist behavior. This application must meet these requirements:
Conform with Section-508 accessibility guidelines.
Allow wireless real-time bidirectional data transfer and database queries with secure servers.
Have a secure login and, after two minutes of non-use, have autolocking that reactivates a secure login.
Allow for officers working on any day and at any time in offices, from vehicles, and on foot along the U.S. border and in cities across the country.
Overview
The first step in delivering the app specified in the scenario is to define what users of the app need and expect in order to create a positive user experience. You will do this by writing a proposal for your company’s IT executive.
Instructions
Write a 2–4 page proposal for your company’s IT executive that defines user applicability and needs. In your proposal, include the following:
Craft an executive summary that states the purpose of the proposal, as well as a conclusion paragraph that ties everything together.
Define the operating environments to include users and supported platforms. Explain your rationale.
For users, include who the users will be and the environments they will be working in.
For supported platforms, include the types of devices and interfaces required by the specifications for the app.
Define who you will sample to determine any specific user needs and the method you will use to collect data from these users. Explain why you chose this sample and method.
Outline the necessary criteria you will use for collecting and analyzing user data. For example, if you are using a survey or interview, what questions would you ask? Be sure to address user experience and needs, including specific design attributes that would reduce user frustration with your application.
Identify at least two applicable statistical tests you could use to evaluate the data you collected from users. Justify your choice of these tests, and explain how you will interpret them.
Incorporate a minimum of three credible and relevant resources to support your proposal. You may wish to begin your search by checking out the CIS – Computer Information Systems page in the Strayer Library for a list of guides and databases.
Your writing should be professional and free of grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
Determine methods of collecting and analyzing data in interaction design activities.
Quantitative research and Qualitative research
Focus on testing hypotheses and theories. Focus on exploring ideas formulating a theory or hypothesis.
Requires many respondents. Requires few respondents.
Closed questions. Open-ended questions.
Quantitative is a good fit for my study. My research question is ” Does foster kids have higher risk of homelessness compared to youth who were never placed out of home by child welfare? The reason why Quantitative fit my study because I will be able test the theory if foster children is more at risk of becoming homeless if they removed from their home. With quantitative research you to analyze a survey with multiple choice questions that is distributed to a sample. This could be done online, in person, or over phone. I could also experiment the situation. Situation in which different types of variables are controlled and manipulated to establish cause and effect relationships. I could observed the subject in a natural environment where variables can not be controlled.
The way how I will make sure my approach will be culturally sensitive by understanding how cultural differences may affect and influence individuals when forming their unique personalities, perceptions, and their interaction to others.
Respond to two colleagues by providing constructive feedback on their choice of methodological approach. Would a different approach be more appropriate or effective in answering the research question? Why or why not?
Matching the Supply Strategy to that of the Organization
It is critical that the supply strategy of the company supports the overall competitive strategies. It would not make sense for someone who competes in their market by being a premium brand to have a supply strategy that focuses on cheap, interchangeable suppliers.
For this Discussion, research news articles and provide an example of a company where there is a very good or a very bad match between their goals and their supply strategy. Provide the following details:
- Who is the company and how would you characterize their strategy of competing in their marketplace?
- Which of the goals listed on page 197 do you think they are pursuing?
- Explain their supplier situation and why you think they have a good/bad match with their goals
Barriers to Integration
Chapter 4 has a major focus on “integration,” which is defined as “the process of incorporating or bringing together different groups, functions, or organizations, either formally or informally, physically or by information technology, to work jointly and often concurrently on a common business related assignment or purpose.” This sounds wonderful, but in reality it is difficult to achieve due to many barriers.
What are some barriers that you can think of which may interfere with integrating the purchasing process with the rest of the organizational effort?
- Provide a real example, from your work experience if possible or from research.
- Conclude by describing how you think this barrier may be removed so efforts to integrate stand a better chance of success.
Research on a charity
Identify an organized charity (I have chosen Bread For City, https://breadforthecity.org). Below are questions to kick start research and while your research should address them, they are not limited to these questions. These are intended to get you launched but I want to encourage your own instincts in crafting the essays. While I encourage creativity, you are required to write about the connections between what you have learned about the organization and course readings:
* What is the name of the organization and what (if any) message about the organization is disclosed by its name?
* What kind of organization is it? Where is it and where does it do its work and what kind of place is that?
* What are its goals/mission statement?
* What is the founding history of the organization, including who was the founder and backstory about them (i.e., what led them to create organization and define its focus/work?)
* What does it do as its primary activity (i.e., what is “the work” of the organization?) How do its actions/programs relate to its mission statement? What is your assessment of the connection between mission statement and the work of the organization?
* Does the charity provide materials benefits (like basic needs supports of food, housing, etc.) (and if so, what sorts) and/or moral uplift/counseling (and if so, what sorts)—or possibly some combination of the two?
* Is this a membership organization? Who are the members and what is the basis of membership? Where do they meet, do their work, etc.? When and how did they become organized?
* Is the organization based on patron-client relationships? Who are “the patrons” and “the clients” and how are they recruited/selected?
* How would you characterize the relationship between the charity and their social justice focus? Are they providing emergency assistance (e.g., after a natural disaster)? Seeking long-term structural changes?
* Based on what you can learn about the organization, how does it conceptualize the people they are hoping to help? Victims? Clients? Partners? Co-community members?
* How did you find out about the organization and its work? What kind of media/online presence does it have either directly or through connections with other organizations and/or media outlets?
* How does the organization work in coalition with others? Find specific examples of when and how. Are there turf issues between it and other organizations working in the same area (geographically or topically defined)?
* What can you discern about the internal processes of the organization? Does it seem to operate according to democratic principles; is there one strong leader, perhaps a charismatic founder? Is there a large or small staff?
* How do the readings of the two weeks of the course about charity help you understand the charity organization that is the focus of your essay?
* How does the organization define charity (explicitly or implicitly)?
* Make specific connections with key concepts and arguments in the readings, for example about Wagner’s conception of “repressive benevolence”; Poppendieck’s arguments about charity and dignity and charity’s “moral bargain”; and Peck and Tickell’s notions of roll back and roll out neoliberalism.