Analyze the root causes, effects, and solutions of environmental problems IN Florida

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State: FLORIDA

Competency

Analyze the root causes, effects, and solutions of environmental problems

Scenario

You are an environmental lobbyist who has been asked to make a presentation to your state’s legislature. You will gather data about a local or regional environmental issue unique to your area or home state and prepare a PowerPoint Presentation. You may focus on any environmental issue, but the area of focus must be in your local area or home state. The environmental issue may be related to land, water, or air.

Instructions

Choose a Superfund website that is registered with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). You can use this search engine to find a Superfund site in your state. Each assignment leading up to the final assignment is evaluated and graded independently. Your instructor will provide specific grading criteria for each step of the project prior to its due date.The Superfund website will have information about contaminated areas, how they became contaminated, and who is responsible for the contamination, as well as clean-up plans for the contamination.
Your PowerPoint Presentation should include:

  • Your voiceover narration using Screencast-O-Matic for each slide as well as references in APA format
  • The issue (background information from the website, contamination, clean-up)
  • The major players and stakeholders involved (the people who created the problem, the people who can fix the problem, and the people who are most impacted by the problem)
  • Possible controversies (differences in opinion about the issue)
  • Impact of this environmental issue to the surrounding environment (nearby rivers, streams, farmland, animal habitats, etc.)

you are to create a one-day lesson plan that incorporates at least one educational software and at least one high-leverage practice.

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For this assignment, you are to create a one-day lesson plan that incorporates at least one educational software and at least one high-leverage practice. If more are essential to enhance the quality of this one-day plan, you may add. Keep in mind that this one-day lesson plan will become part of the upcoming Lesson Plan Presentation (weekly set of lesson plans for a unit). Thus, keep that in mind when selecting the standard and specific objectives for your submission as well as the implementation of educational software and high-leverage practices.

The Weekly Lesson Plan RubricPreview the document will be applied in evaluating the overall Lesson Plan Presentation so be sure to use those evaluation measures when applicable in creating this one-day lesson plan, knowing that this one-day lesson plan will be part of your overall submission  of the Lesson Plan Presentation. More information about the Lesson Plan Presentation will be shared soon.

You may use any lesson plan format to present your information as you either have used certain formats in other graduate courses or have one that you use at your current place of employment. Some of you may submit lesson plans through a district-wide software; however, I will need a document (i.e., Word, PDF) uploaded and submitted for this assignment. Nevertheless, if you are unsure of your lesson plan format, feel free to share your ideas with me so we can determine if your choice is best suited for you.

Overall, you may consider this assignment as a rough draft to the Lesson Plan Presentation so I may review and help you readjust your plans accordingly to create an exemplary weekly lesson plan set. Yet, do take this assignment seriously as I expect top-notch submissions.

References:

High-Leverage Practices in EducationPreview the document

High-Leverage Practices and Evidence-Based Practices: A Promising PairPreview the document

MS College and Career Readiness Standards  (Links to an external site.)(look under Subject Areas, bottom right of page, for your content area, if needed)

Florida Center of Instructional Technology Matrix (Links to an external site.)

Arizona K-12 Center and their implementation of the FCIT Matrix (Links to an external site.)

Write a paper exploring the ethical, economic, cultural, and social issues that women of childbearing age face today in the United States.

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Learning Objective:

Explain the ethical, cultural, economic, and social issues impacting the care women receive before, during, and after pregnancy. Understand how these issues can affect the health of women of childbearing age and their fetus in the United States.

Overview of Assignment:

Write a paper exploring the ethical, economic, cultural, and social issues that women of childbearing age face today in the United States. You can pick a topic that affects women in the childbearing stage of their lives and how it impacts the care received, their lives, their health, or the health of their fetus. Or you can explain each topic individually based on different topics. Overall, research how the ethical, economic, cultural, and social issues can impact women living in the United States.

You MUST USE at least 6 scholarly sources to support your ideas, at least one for each consideration you are discussing.

Paper Requirements:

Length and Elements: The length of this essay should only be 3-4 written pages and should include:

1) Introduction with specific thesis statement (i.e. The purpose of this paper is to…Make sure to introduce the four issues you will be discussing in your paper)

2) Body of Paper: discuss each of the following considerations in separate sections with the following headings:

a. Ethical Issues—explore the ethical issues that surround and confront the childbearing women in the United States (DO NOT discuss informed consent as this is not the type of ethical issue I am looking for, look for issues related to abortion, IVF, genetic testing, ect.)

b. Economic Issues—consider the economic (money related) barriers women face, including such topics as: insurance coverage or lack thereof, WIC, money for food, Medicaid, rural access to childbearing services, etc.

c. Cultural Issues—discuss the various cultural norms that can be found among the different cultures of people and how these different cultural norms can impact the care received during pregnancy

d. Social Issues—consider health disparities a person experiences due to their social environment such as women of poverty, women of color, Amish women, being an immigrant (legal or illegal), being rich, teenagers experiencing pregnancy, ect  in the United States. Relate these specific social considerations to childbearing women and how it affects maternal morbidity and mortality.

3) Conclusion: Summarize your findings; re-emphasize the thesis of the paper without simply repeating it; and do not introduce new ideas here

4) Use proper grammar, spelling, and APA 7th edition formatting including a title and reference page (the title and reference pages do not count toward the page total).

You are the human resources manager of Endothon Company, which helps its clients eliminate paper use by automating their business processes.

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INTRODUCTION

A well-thought-out compensation plan is essential in giving a company an advantage in competitive hiring markets to attract and retain a quality workforce. In this assessment, you will apply your knowledge of total rewards to create an organizational rewards structure. This structure should consider organizational strategy, HR strategy, and the external business environment.

SCENARIO

You are the human resources manager of Endothon Company, which helps its clients eliminate paper use by automating their business processes. Endothon is implementing a new software program and faces the challenge of hiring additional staff to help sell and support the program.

The company has been in business for five years and currently has 20 employees working on a variety of software applications for clients. Endothon will likely double in size during the next six months and add even more employees by the end of the year.

The first round of hires will include three new positions: one brand manager and two product sales representatives. Because Endothon is located in a geographic area in California where the job market is ultracompetitive, recruiting quality candidates will be challenging.

Also, the organization’s partners feel that the current job-value structure and pay policy as well as the lack of a formal system of variable pay are outdated. You must define the company’s compensation strategy to allow Endothon to be competitive in the workplace and to attract and retain a quality workforce.

REQUIREMENTS

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

Note: You have been provided with the following attachments: “Brand Manager Job Description,” “Current Job-Value Structure,” “Market Rewards Survey,” and “Product Sales Representative Job Position.” These attachments must be used as you complete this assessment. It is also recommended that you consult the websites provided and integrate any relevant coursework resources into this assessment.

Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).

  • For this task, the file size of your submission must be no more than 200 MB. Your submission must be submitted as a Word, Pages, or PDF file. Your file name may only contain letters, numbers, spaces, and the following symbols: ! – _ . * ‘ ( )

A.  Revise the attached “Current Job-Value Structure” to enable internal reward equity by doing the following:

•   Update the salary information for the 20 current employees, as necessary.

•   Add in the three new positions, one brand manager and two product sales representatives, with their anticipated salaries.

 Note: You must base your revisions on the attached “Brand Manager Job Description,” “Market Rewards Survey,” and “Product Sales Representative Job Description.”

1.  Justify the salaries and placement of the three new positions, one brand manager and two product sales representatives, within the revised job-value structure.

B.  Create a pay grade and ranges table that addresses the current and new roles by using your revised job-value structure and all other attachments.

1.  Describe a strategy to address the original salaries found in the attached “Current Job-Value Structure” that might now be outside the proposed ranges.

Note: If the original salaries are not outside the proposed ranges in your pay grade and ranges table, describe a strategy that you would use if they were.

2.  Justify the pay grades and ranges in the table, commenting on attraction and retention strategies.

C.  Recommend one distinct variable pay option to motivate employees in three different pay ranges from part B, including a justification of why each  recommendation would motivate individuals in that particular pay range.

   Note: One distinct variable pay option should be provided for each pay range.

D.  Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

E.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

Characterizing Risk And Return

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In a Word document, respond to the following. Number your responses 1–3.

  1. Define risk, and explain how it is measured.
  2. Identify a source of firm-specific risk. What is the source of market risk?
  3. Explain what the coefficient of variation measures.

Use references to support your responses as needed. Be sure to cite all references using correct APA style. Your responses should be free of grammar and spelling errors, demonstrating strong written communication skills.

Problems

In either a Word document or Excel spreadsheet, complete the following problems.

  • You may solve the problems algebraically, or you may use a financial calculator or an Excel spreadsheet.
  • If you choose to solve the problems algebraically, be sure to show your computations.
  • If you use a financial calculator, show your input values.
  • If you use an Excel spreadsheet, show your input values and formulas.

In addition to your solution to each computational problem, you must show the supporting work leading to your solution to receive credit for your answer.

  1. Two years ago, Conglomco stock ended at $73.02 per share. Last year, the stock paid a $0.34 per share dividend. Conglomco stock ended last year at $77.24. If you owned 200 shares of Conglomco stock, what were your dollar return and percent return last year?
  2. Calculate the coefficient of variation for the following three stocks. Then rank them by their level of total risk, from highest to lowest:
    • Conglomco has an average return of 11 percent and standard deviation of 24 percent.
    • Supercorp has an average return of 16 percent and standard deviation of 37 percent.
    • Megaorg has an average return of 10 percent and standard deviation of 29 percent.
  3. Year-to-date, Conglomco has earned a −1.64 percent return, Supercorp has earned a 5.69 percent return, and Megaorg has earned a 0.23 percent return. If your portfolio is made up of 40 percent Conglomco stock, 30 percent Supercorp stock, and 30 percent Megaorg stock, what is your portfolio return?

How ERM can be integrated with an organization’s overall strategy.

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How ERM can be integrated with an organization’s overall strategy. Prepare a research paper on some of the various issues, protocols, methods, frameworks you found and discuss how – if possible – organizations can use ERM as strategy. It is perfectly acceptable if you deem ERM cannot be used as strategy, just back up your claim with scholarly research and justifications. Your paper should meet these requirements:

  • Be approximately four to six 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.
  • 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.

use an appraisal tool to conduct a critical appraisal of published research

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Assignment: Evidence-Based Project, Part 3: Critical Appraisal of Research

Realtors rely on detailed property appraisals—conducted using appraisal tools—to assign market values to houses and other properties. These values are then presented to buyers and sellers to set prices and initiate offers.

Research appraisal is not that different. The critical appraisal process utilizes formal appraisal tools to assess the results of research to determine value to the context at hand. Evidence-based practitioners often present these findings to make the case for specific courses of action.

In this Assignment, you will use an appraisal tool to conduct a critical appraisal of published research. You will then present the results of your efforts.

To Prepare:

  • Reflect on the four peer-reviewed articles you selected in Module 2 and the four systematic reviews (or other filtered high- level evidence) you selected in Module 3.
  • Reflect on the four peer-reviewed articles you selected in Module 2 and analyzed in Module 3.
  • Review and download the Critical Appraisal Tool Worksheet Template provided in the Resources.

The Assignment (Evidence-Based Project)

Part 3A: Critical Appraisal of Research

Conduct a critical appraisal of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected by completing the Evaluation Table within the Critical Appraisal Tool Worksheet Template. Choose a total of four peer- reviewed articles that you selected related to your clinical topic of interest in Module 2 and Module 3.

Note: You can choose any combination of articles from Modules 2 and 3 for your Critical Appraisal. For example, you may choose two unfiltered research articles from Module 2 and two filtered research articles (systematic reviews) from Module 3 or one article from Module 2 and three articles from Module 3. You can choose any combination of articles from the prior Module Assignments as long as both modules and types of studies are represented.

Part 3B: Critical Appraisal of Research

Based on your appraisal, in a 1-2-page critical appraisal, suggest a best practice that emerges from the research you reviewed. Briefly explain the best practice, justifying your proposal with APA citations of the research.

Submit Part 3A and 3B of your Evidence-Based Project.

Resources provided

 

Melnyk, B. M., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2018). Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare: A guide to best practice (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
Chapter 5, “Critically Appraising Quantitative Evidence for Clinical Decision Making” (pp. 124–188)
Chapter 6, “Critically Appraising Qualitative Evidence for Clinical Decision Making” (pp. 189–218)

Fineout-Overholt, E., Melnyk, B. M., Stillwell, S. B., & Williamson, K. M. (2010a). Evidence-based practice step by step: Critical appraisal of the evidence: Part I. American Journal of Nursing, 110(7), 47–52. doi:10.1097/01.NAJ.0000383935.22721.9c
Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Fineout-Overholt, E., Melnyk, B. M., Stillwell, S. B., & Williamson, K. M. (2010b). Evidence-based practice, step by step: Critical appraisal of the evidence: Part II: Digging deeper—examining the “keeper” studies. American Journal of Nursing, 110(9), 41–48. doi:10.1097/01.NAJ.0000388264.49427.f9
Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Fineout-Overholt, E., Melnyk, B. M., Stillwell, S. B., & Williamson, K. M. (2010c). Evidence-based practice, step by step: Critical appraisal of the evidence: Part III: The process of synthesis: Seeing similarities and differences across the body of evidence. American Journal of Nursing, 110(11), 43–51. doi: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000390523.99066.b5
Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Williamson, K. M. (2009). Evidence-based practice: Critical appraisal of qualitative evidence. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 15(3), 202–207. doi:10.1177/1078390309338733
Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Document: Critical Appraisal Tool Worksheet Template (Word document)

Discuss what you feel are the potential benefits of stem cell research for Alzheimer’s patients and their families

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Stem cells are undifferentiated, primitive cells with the ability both to multiply and to differentiate into specific kinds of cells. Stem cells hold the promise of allowing researchers to grow specialized cells or tissue, which could be used to treat injuries or disease (e.g., spinal cord injuries, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, strokes, burns).” (Slevin, 2010)

Choose ONE of the following issues and post to its thread with supporting evidence. Respond to two peers who wrote about issues other than the one you chose.

  1. Discuss what you feel are the potential benefits of stem cell research for Alzheimer’s patients and their families.
  2. Share your perspective on the stem cell debate regarding donation of surplus embryos to couples for “embryo adoption.”
  3. Why is the task of disposing unused frozen human embryos different from disposing of other medical tissue?
  4. Discuss why you think embryonic stem cell research “crosses a moral boundary.”

Choose two of the study objectives from Chapters 1 and 2 with your lowest scores on the Build Your Proficiency diagnostic. Explain how these topics have an impact on planning for your future financial goals.

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In this discussion, you will have an opportunity to make connections between your prior knowledge and the new content you are learning this week. Use your results from this week’s Build Your Proficiency Diagnostic to provide context for your prior knowledge and consider the new content about personal financial goals, factors that affect our financial decisions, and the economic forces that can impact them as you respond to the following discussion prompt.

In a minimum of 175 words respond to question 1 and at least two additional questions from this list:

  • Choose two of the study objectives from Chapters 1 and 2 with your lowest scores on the Build Your Proficiency diagnostic. Explain how these topics have an impact on planning for your future financial goals.
  • Use this Compound Interest Calculator from Bankrate to gain a broader perspective on your goals in 10, 20, and 30 years. What does the calculator show you about the time value of money and compound interest?
  • Provide an example of opportunity cost related to your financial goals.
  • In the Wk 1 Learning Path, watch “How to Set Financial Goals- Young Guys Finance” in WileyPLUS. Then share a financial goal in the SMART format.
  • In the Wk 1 Learning Path, enter some prices in the Personal Financial Planning Worksheet 1.2 Inflation Calculator in WileyPLUS to see how inflation affects cost of items and services. Watch “Time Value of Money: Cash vs. Annuity for Lottery Payout” in WileyPLUS, then answer this question: How do economic factors, including inflation, interest rates, and economic cycles impact your financial decisions and financial goals?

Principles Of Organizational Behavior

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  • Define organizational behavior.
  • Describe how different components of organizational behavior are used within an organization.
  • Identify how the use of organizational behavior can lead to the success and failure of an organization.

Cite any reputable references. Reputable references include trade or industry publications; government or agency websites; scholarly works; your textbook, Organizational Behavior in Health Care (4th ed.); or other sources of similar quality.