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  • “Connecting HILL to Your Major: A Canva Storyboard and Annotated Bibliography” “Assessment of Project Engagement and Connection to Course Themes”

    Needed information
    My major is Team and project management 
    I will link all class resources below 
    I paid for 2 pages 1 page is the canva one page is the biblography 
    In the 1 page abstract please include speaker notes as i have to present the canva you create 
    Introduction
    For this project, you will combine relevant course content with your university major/concentration and a Canva StoryboardLinks to an external site. on how and why HILL is important for your academic or future career goals. Overall, the grade for each part will depend on three factors: 1) Your classmates will peer-assess your presentation; 2) You will self-assess your contribution to the group project; and 3) I will assess the presentation and SciComm piece. 
    Overview
    The purpose of creating a StoryboardLinks to an external site. is to give you an opportunity to showcase your interests and what you’ve gained from this course by combining it with your university major/concentration. Since many of you are non-science majors taking this course as an elective, having the concepts of HILL applicable to you and your career goals are of great relevance. This project enables us to apply the learned skills and gained knowledge from within and beyond the classroom to help your classmates understand why topics from HILL are relevant and of interest to you.
    The aim is to communicate, in an accessible and relatable way, topics of the Anthropocene, biodiversity, climate change, sustainability, etc. that are of interest to you and directly relate to your university major or future career plans.
    How to Communicate
    The general process will involve:
    Identifying a topic (or topics) from HILL
    Research additional information or data on that chosen topic/s
    Determine how that topic/s directly applies to your university major
    Design a Storyboard using your major and the information gathered
    Present in class the relevancy of your chosen topic to your major by overviewing the Storyboard.
    In the Storyboard, you must address the following themes:
    The HILL topic and the environmental or societal issues related to that topic
    Do not chose a topic that is too broad like “Climate Change,” find something more narrowly focused within that topic like ‘the impact of sea level rise on Rhode Island coastal communities.’
    The major cause/s of this issue
    For example, if you are focused on sea level rise, you’d discuss increasing ocean temperatures and melting ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland.
    The major impacts associated with this issue
    For this, you may want to focus on either the impact on humans or human infrastructure, the impact on wild plants and animals, or the impacts on a specific industry or business.
    For example, the impact of sea level rise on the insurance industry.
    Your major – what it is and what can someone do with a degree in this major
    This is an overview of your major. You want to make it interesting, and should likely highlight what drew you to this major.
    How someone with your major can address issues associated with your chosen HILL topic
    That is, how someone with your major contributes to dealing with the impact of this HILL topic.
    Please be creative!
    The potential future “avenues” of your chosen issue
    For instance, is this issue only going to get worse or will the issue be addressed in the near future and how? Ideally, you’ll want to time in Theme 5 into this panel.
    How this Part is Assessed
    Your project is compelling when it shows some combination of the following:
    You stress why the topic/issue is of relevant to you and your major/concentration
    It is as complete as its topic and doesn’t leave the audience thinking that important points are being skipped over or ignored
    It is factual (any questions, evidence, conclusions, or arguments you raise are honestly and accurately presented)
    Deliverables
    I also ask that you provide a brief, ~500-word, annotated bibliography that highlights the importance of your sources. This brief should also include the citations on the background information presented in the Storyboard. This brief should be in a professional writing style, with complete sentences, properly formed paragraphs, and scholarly citations, for example. Please properly format your citations used the guide Download guide.
    Overall Project Assessment
    A project: This project constitutes a critical and active engagement with the course themes that shows insight and creativity and demonstrates time and effort devoted to creating something thoughtful. The PowerPoint is well designed and polished, addressing all of the points from above. The project’s structural and formal elements productively serve the core concept of the project. The project includes a clear and insightful connection between your major and ecological topic. The presentation will include an explanation of how your project responds to the class themes.
    B project: This project meaningfully engages course themes and shows an effort to creatively evaluate the information with some degree of clarity. It reflects some time, effort, and forethought. The presentation is well put together, but some additional design forethought would have helped. The project’s structural and formal elements serve the core concept of the project and address the above points.
    C project: This project shows some engagement with the course themes, but it is uncreative or inconsequential. It fails to develop a critical and reflective perspective as to why you chose your topic. The presentation only vaguely identifies a connection between the class themes and your major, and thus fails to offer a clear statement. Both it and the explanation will appear to be put together at the last minute.
    D or F project: This project lacks any serious effort to accomplish the assigned task. The project presentation and execution are ill-defined, lack focus and clarity, and contain no main argument and connection to class themes.

  • Course Wrap-Up Reflection: Applying Learning to Practice One of my major takeaways from this course is the importance of cultural competency in healthcare. Throughout the course, we discussed the impact of culture on health beliefs, behaviors, and outcomes. I learned

    In this course wrap-up discussion, please reflect on your experience in the course and address the following items:  
    Identify one of your major takeaways from this course.  
    What aspects of the course helped you achieve this?  
    Choose one of the course student learning outcomes (CSLO). Please explain how you could apply your chosen learning outcome to your practice and/or have achieved this outcome having participated in this class. 
    How will you apply this knowledge to your practice and career? 

  • “Gibb’s Cycle: Addressing Challenges in Pediatric Care and Communicating with Specialized Clinics”

    Gibb’s cycle.
    3 areas
    The non accidental injury child.
    Care of patient diagnosed with gnorrhea in eye and liaising with GUM clinic.
    Can of patient who’s surgery was cancelled as he was unsuitable for general anesthetic.

  • “Hands-On Excel Exercise: Data Analysis and Visualization”

    Attached are the instructions for the hands-on exercise for this week. Please be sure to complete all of the components outlined in Excel, and answer the questions in a Word document. You must upload both documents as Excel and Word.

  • The Impact of Stress on Family Dynamics: A Review of Leading Stress Researchers and Theories Introduction Stress is a common experience that impacts individuals and families in various ways. It can arise from a variety of sources, such as work, finances

    Write a 5–7-page research paper on one of the topics from your reading related to stress reactions.  You may not write about stress management techniques, only about stress reactions…i.e. family stress, children as caregivers, single parent families, etc.  You could write about a theory of stress that is briefly mentioned in your reading that you want to research and learn more about.  Or you can write a paper about some leading stress researchers such as Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D., Lazarus, Ph.D. and Folkman, Ph.D. or many others. If you choose a person to write about, write about their research, not their personal life.  In other words, don’t write a biography. What research did they do and why was it noteworthy?
    If you get stuck in choosing a topic, please email me and tell me what interests you about this course so far and I will send some suggestions.
    Include a minimum of four peer reviewed articles that are cited in the body of your paper and listed in the References section.
    APA formatting is a requirement.  There is an APA formatted document uploaded in the assignment folder for you to use.

  • “Leadership Agenda for the Role of Superintendent”

    Look at the document entitled “Leadership Agenda Example”.  This shows an example of a research agenda.  Pretend you are seeking a job as a Superintendent, the interview team has asked that you create a leadership agenda graphic.  This should be a one page graphic similar to the research agenda that discusses your leadership styles, beliefs, philosophy, etc. on leadership. Your name should be on the graphic.

  • Math 340 Homework Assignment One (Summer 24)

    Math 340 Homework Assignment One (Summer 24)
    Do the following problems showing all your work. Be sure to submit your solutions in
    PDF format to the Assignment area of LEO. (Point values are given in the square
    brackets.)
    1. [15] Use elimination to find all solutions of the system:
    � + 2� + 3� = 70
    4� + 5� + 6� = 160
    7� + 8� + 9� = 250
    2. [15] Find all the solutions of the linear system,
    � + 2� + 3� = �
    � + 3� + 8� = �
    � + 2� + 2� = �
    where a, b, and c are arbitrary constants. (We say this system is “parameterized”
    by a, b and c. Your answers for x, y and z should be in terms of a, b and c.)
    3. [15] Use “pencil and paper” with Gaussian elimination to solve the system,
    2�! − 3�” + 7�# + 7�$ = 0
    −2�! + �% + 6�” − 6�# − 12�$ = 0
    �% − 3�” + �# + 5�$ = 0
    −2�% + �& + �# + �$ = 0
    2�! + �% − 3�” + 8�# + 7�$ = 0
    4. [15] Find a polynomial of degree three (that is, a polynomial of the form �(�) =
    � + �� + ��% + ��”) whose graph goes through the points
    (0,1), (1,0), (−1,0), and (2, −15). Sketch a graph of this cubic and label the
    given points (or use an app).
    5. [15] “A duck costs four coins, five sparrows cost one coin, and a rooster costs one
    coin. Somebody buys 100 birds for 100 coins. How many of each kind of bird can
    he buy?”. Find all possible solutions. [Note that you cannot buy a fractional part
    of a bird]  

  • Title: The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Advancements, Implications, and Global Impact

    Requirements:
    Prepare a report on your approved topic Attached with a minimum of 2000 words, no less, but more is acceptable.
    References (10 minimum). You may use resources from the APUS Online Library, any library, government library, or any peer-reviewed reference (Wikipedia and any other publicly-reviewed source are not accepted). 
    The paper must have a title page, reference list and be in APA format. The information within your title page and reference list will not count towards the minimum word count.
    The paper will be subjected to checking against plagiarism. The paper must follow acceptable originality criteria (no more than 15% max total, and 2% per individual source match are allowed).
    Correct spelling and grammar.
    APA formatting: Title page, in paragraph citations, and the Reference list.
    At a minimum include the following:
    · Detailed description of the area researched
    · Technology involved 
    · Future trends
    · Global implications

  • Title: Gender Messages in the Media: Analyzing Stereotypes

    Gender-based stereotypes are presented through the mass media. Locate an article, cartoon, or advertisement that conveys a gender message. Analyze the message by answering the following questions. Also, please attach your media or share the media’s url address.
    What is the message the media is trying to convey?
    What examples are used to convey this message?
    Does the message fit a gender-role stereotype? Why?
    Is the gender message consistent with your beliefs about gender?

  • “The Ethical Justification for Allowing the Creation of a Saviour Sibling for a Child with Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome” “The Ethical Dilemma of Creating a Saviour Sibling: A DDM’s Decision in the Face of Chronic Illness”

    The topic for this essay is about saviour siblings. 
    Provide a normative argument, meaning to argue in favour of a position. 
    Please write an argument from the position of a designated decision-maker (DDM) from the following scenario. 
    A child, Ethan, has been diagnosed with Wiskott –Aldrich syndrome. This is a life-threatening illness, and reduces his quality of life substantially. 
    His elder brother, Jefrey, was cured via a marrow transplant from a younger brother, Charlie. Charlie is not a match for Ethan. 
    His parents would like to have another child with the intention that it will be a saviour sibling for Ethan. 
    In this essay, it is required to; 
    Identify and apply major ethical theories and principles;
    Apply skills of ethical reasoning and analysis to current issues in reproductive medicine and medical research;
    Better understand and relate to your own moral commitments and decisions, in addition to those of others.
    Please use Harvard referencing. 
    It is part of a forum, below I have given an example of a response that has already been submitted to help with the task layout etc. 
    “As a DDM considering this case, I have deemed it is ethical to allow the Thompson’s to use IVF with PGT to create a saviour sibling for their son Ethan. I have considered this decision from each persons’ perspective. 
    Ethan:
    Without the BMT, Ethan will have a chronic health issues including chronic eczema, frequent infections, an increased bleeding risk including easy bruising and internal bleeding. These health issues require frequent hospital visits and infusions and some of the complications from his condition can be life-threatening. With the BMT, Ethan will potentially be cured like his brother. The alternative of using an unmatched donor is an options, however, a sibling matched donor is superior in terms of the success of the BMT and lower risk of GVHD, thus a better outcome for Ethan. A saviour sibling may very well save his life. 
    Parents:
    Ultimately Ethan’s parents’ are autonomous individuals who are able to make informed decisions about their reproductive choices and the right to procreate.(1) IVF with PGT is expensive, invasive and has associated risks. They may also require multiple rounds in order to find a HLA compatible embryo that also does not carry the genetic condition WAS. Ethan’s parents want to do the absolute best thing for their child. Zeirhut et al’s paper was a descriptive analysis of parental experiences with PGT in of children with Fanconi anaemia (FA) and they found the health of the child was the most important factor in parents decision making process to undergo PGD. (2) Additionally, their findings demonstrated that parents who underwent PGD had little regret for the decision to do so, regardless of their IVF outcome. (2)
    Saviour sibling:
    Ultimately, proponents against saviour siblings will argue that the creation of a sibling for the purpose of a BMT diminishes the life of the saviour child. They will argue the child may come to physical and psychological harm from being a saviour sibling and could impact on relationships and the family dynamic. This does not consider the positives impact it may bring knowing that they were able to save their sibling’s life. Additionally, according to the non-identity principle, the saviour sibling would not exist if Ethan’s parents did not use IVF with PGT to create them. Thus, arguing of harm to the saviour child must be balanced against the alternative, which is non-existence. It is illogical to argue that non-existence is superior to being born to help save a sibling. This principle has been upheld in Australian high courts where children born with disabilities have no right to compensation for wrongful life.3  
    Societal implications:
    Having a readily available matched donor via a saviour sibling could lead to cure for Ethan. This would mean less of an economic burden on his family and on the healthcare system. Additionally, IVF with PGT would mean any children born to Ethan’s parents will not be affected by WAS and thus not have to undergo the pain and suffering of having a severe chronic health condition. 
    Ultimately, as a DDM there are two options to consider.
    1. Deny the IVF with PGT to create a saviour sibling for Ethan. This would lead to him to have ongoing chronic life-threatening health concerns and potentially a long wait for an unmatched donor for a BMT. If he is lucky to receive a BMT he is at a higher risk of failure and GVHD. This option leads to considerable pain and suffering for Ethan and his family and rejects his parents autonomy. 
    2. Allow IVF for PGT to create a saviour sibling for Ethan. This is more than likely to lead to a cure for Ethan and it respects the autonomy and reproductive rights of his parents. Overall, the benefit of this outweighs the potential risks and harm to the saviour sibling. 
    The morally and ethically right decision is to allow IVF for PGD to create a saviour sibling for Ethan.
    1. Brake, Elizabeth and Joseph Millum, “Parenthood and Procreation”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = .
    2. Zierhut, H., MacMillan, M. L., Wagner, J. E., & Bartels, D. M. (2013). More than 10 Years After the First ‘Savior Siblings’: Parental Experiences Surrounding Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 22(5), 594–602. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10897-013-9591-5
    3. David Hirsch. (2006). Rights and Responsibilities in Wrongful Birth/Wrongful Life Cases. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 29(2), 233–238.”