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The interpretation of research in health care is essential to decision making. By understanding research, health care providers can identify risk factors, trends, outcomes for treatment, health care costs and best practices. To be effective in evaluating and interpreting research, the reader must first understand how to interpret the findings. You will practice article analysis in Topics 2, 3, and 5.
For this assignment:
Search the GCU Library and find three different health care articles that use quantitative research. Do not use articles that appear in the Topic Materials or textbook. Complete an article analysis for each using the “Article Analysis 1” template.
Refer to the “Patient Preference and Satisfaction in Hospital-at-Home and Usual Hospital Care for COPD Exacerbations: Results of a Randomised Controlled Trial,” in conjunction with the “Article Analysis Example 1,” for an example of an article analysis.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance
Rubric
Three articles are presented. All three articles are based on quantitative research.
Article citation and permalink are presented. Article citation is accurately presented in APA format. Page numbers are accurate and used in all areas when citing information.
Broad topic area and title are fully presented and accurate.
Variable types and data for variables are presented and accurate.
Population of interest for the study is presented and accurate.
Sample is presented and accurate.
Sampling method is presented and accurate.
Descriptive statistic examples from the article are presented and accurate.
Inferential statistic examples from the article are presented and accurate.
The writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English

 
The final project offers you the opportunity to explore one of the many themes presented in the course in a final term paper. You are encouraged to choose topics that are relevant to their undergraduate major. Some examples are provided below, but the range of potential topics is broad. All topics must be pre-approved by the instructor by the end of the fourth week of class.

Option 1- Essay

The best written products explore narrowly defined topics and integrates themes and concepts from the course. The following guidelines should be followed:

• 1,500-2,000 words (excluding references)
• In-text citations and references provided
• Single-spaced with double spacing between paragraphs
• No title page needed
  • Name top left
  • Panther ID under name
  • Title – Centered

Sample Topics

• The guidelines and limits Foreign Corrupt Practice Act
• Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the use of AI in Selection and Talent Management
• Ethical Issues Related to the Marketing of Tobacco in Developing Countries
• Ethical Considerations to the Marketing of Fast Food
• Examination of a Specific Corporate Scandal (there are many to choose from)
• Ethical Considerations to Off-Shoring Dangerous Work

Discussion Topic
In this unit’s Discussions, you will work to integrate developmental theory to practice by exploring typical adolescent development and the issues faced by them.
Read the scenario below and use your understanding of adolescent social, cultural, and cognitive development to respond to the questions. Try to evaluate the main problem in the scenario and then use any of the theories or concepts from your Reading to support your response. Be sure you have read the article by Dahl before responding to this Discussion Board.
Scenario: Manny
You work as a psychologist in an outreach program within your community. Your new client, Manny, is a 14-year-old Hispanic male who lives with his grandmother in a two-room apartment in a poor section of the city. He is physically small for his age and seems to struggle with academic skills (he is functionally illiterate according to the intake assessor). His grandmother recently found out Manny had been drinking beer with other teenagers at a local park. Manny is also known as a “risk taker” and enjoys showing off, particularly in front of his friends. When asked about his behavior, he simply looks at his shoes and shrugs. In fact, he really does not provide much information about anything, which you know is typical of most adolescents. You notice that Manny does become animated when you ask about his grandmother, music, and cars.
In this session, he finally tells you more about himself and his troubles. He tells you that he has not attended his classes at the high school (he is a freshman) in over 2 weeks. Now, he is afraid to return because he thinks that he will be in trouble and that they may not allow him to return. He says that he realizes that getting an education will help him to leave his neighborhood someday for a better life. In addition, he expresses his concern about his current friend group and is worried that they all may get into serious trouble eventually.

1. Given what you know about adolescent development, assess Manny’s main problems. Predict which of the problems might worsen without proper intervention and support your ideas using the concepts/theories from the Reading.
2. Create a short dialogue of what you would say to Manny to help him to identify his core issues. Then, guide him towards understanding the core issues, focusing on how his biological development might be interfering with his social development.

Instructions

Implementation Plan: Part 3 assignment of this course, you will continue your work with the company you used in Unit IV and Unit VI. For the Unit VIII Project, you will complete the final components of your implementation plan.For Part 3, you will focus on the following points:

• internal and external issues,
• competition,
• future outlook for the organization, and
• implementation of tools for measuring business success.

Much of the information you will need to complete this segment can be found in the case study in the textbook. However, you will also need to conduct some outside research. For the future of the organization, you may be creative and add your own insight on where you see the company going. You will need to reference your textbook and at least one outside source for this assignment. You are encouraged to utilize the CSU Online Library, but you may also use external sources, as long as the source is reliable.

A city’s administration isn’t driven by the goal of maximizing revenues or profits but instead looks at improving the quality of life of its residents. Many American cities are confronted with high traffic and congestion. Finding parking spaces, whether in the street or a parking lot, can be time consuming and contribute to congestion. Some cities have rolled out data-driven parking space management to reduce congestion and make traffic more fluid.
You’re a data analyst working for a mid-size city that has anticipated significant increments in population and car traffic. The city is evaluating whether it makes sense to invest in infrastructure to count and report the number of parking spaces available at the different parking lots downtown. This data would be collected and processed in real-time, feeding an app that motorists can access to find parking space availability in different parking lots throughout the city.
Instructions: Work with the provided Excel database. This database has the following columns:

• LotCode: A unique code that identifies the parking lot
• LotCapacity: A number with the respective parking lot capacity
• LotOccupancy: A number with the current number of cars in the parking lot
• TimeStamp: A day/time combination indicating the moment when occupancy was measured
• Day: The day of the week corresponding to the TimeStamp
• Insert a new column, OccupancyRate, recording occupancy rate as a percentage with one decimal. For instance, if the current LotOccupancy is 61 and LotCapacity is 577, then the OccupancyRate would be reported as 10.6 (or 10.6%).
• Using the OccupancyRate and Day columns, construct box plots for each day of the week. You can use Insert > Insert Statistic Chart >Box and Whisker for this purpose. Is the median occupancy rate approximately the same throughout the week? If not, which days have lower median occupancy rates? Which days have higher median occupancy rates? Is this what you expected?
• Using the OccupancyRate and LotCode columns,construct box plots for each parking lot. You can use Insert > Insert Statistic Chart >Box and Whisker for this purpose. Do all parking lots experience approximately equal occupancy rates?Are some parking lots more frequented than others? Is this what you expected?
• Select any 2 parking lots. For each one, prepare as scatter plot showing occupancy rate against TimeStamp for the week 11/20/2016 –11/26/2016. Are occupancy rates time dependent? If so, which times seem to experience highest occupancy rates? Is this what you expected?

Presentation: 
Create a 10- to 12-slide presentation with speaker notes and audio. Your audience is the City Council members who are responsible for deciding whether the city invests in resources to set in motion the smart parking space app.
Complete the following in your presentation:

• Outline the rationale and goals of the project.
• Utilize boxplots showing the occupancy rates for each day of the week. Include your interpretation of results.
• Utilize box plots showing the occupancy rates for each parking lot. Include your interpretation of results.
• Provide scatter plots showing occupancy rate against time of day of your selected four parking lots. Include your interpretation of results.
• Make a recommendation about continuing with the implementation of this project.

The interpretation of research in health care is essential to decision making. By understanding research, health care providers can identify risk factors, trends, outcomes for treatment, health care costs and best practices. To be effective in evaluating and interpreting research, the reader must first understand how to interpret the findings. You will practice article analysis in Topics 2, 3, and 5.
For this assignment:
Search the GCU Library and find three different health care articles that use quantitative research. Do not use articles that appear in the Topic Materials or textbook. Complete an article analysis for each using the “Article Analysis 1” template.
Refer to the “Patient Preference and Satisfaction in Hospital-at-Home and Usual Hospital Care for COPD Exacerbations: Results of a Randomised Controlled Trial,” in conjunction with the “Article Analysis Example 1,” for an example of an article analysis.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance
Rubric
Three articles are presented. All three articles are based on quantitative research.
Article citation and permalink are presented. Article citation is accurately presented in APA format. Page numbers are accurate and used in all areas when citing information.
Broad topic area and title are fully presented and accurate.
Variable types and data for variables are presented and accurate.
Population of interest for the study is presented and accurate.
Sample is presented and accurate.
Sampling method is presented and accurate.
Descriptive statistic examples from the article are presented and accurate.
Inferential statistic examples from the article are presented and accurate.
The writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English

Imagine this scenario: After considering their 3 target markets, Pine Valley Furniture’s board of directors has selected the student furniture project for the WebStore. They are asking you to help them choose a method for determining the requirements.
Create a 12- to 18-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes to the board in which you:

• Compare traditional, contemporary, radical, and agile methodologies for requirements gathering as they would apply to the Pine Valley Furniture project, outlining the advantages and disadvantages for Pine Valley Furniture in your comparison.
• Recommend the methodology (i.e., traditional, contemporary, radical, or agile) you think will work best for Pine Valley Furniture’s student furniture WebStore and describe why you think it will work best for Pine Valley Furniture’s student furniture WebStore.
• Explain “Figure 7-22: Level-0 DFD for the WebStore” of Ch. 7, “Structuring System Process Requirements” from Modern Systems Analysis and Design. Please note that this is more than just explaining what a Level-0 DFD is, you need to explain what happens in at least two of the process flows.

Consider incorporating multimedia and images where appropriate.
Provide any references and citations according to APA guidelines. Please review the Center for Writing Excellence material regarding references, citations, paraphrasing, plagiarism and the Student Code of Academic Integrity. To sum this up, proper references and citations are needed for all of your work and should also be provided on your Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides and speaker notes pages when needed – just having a Reference Slide at the end is not sufficient.
Please make sure your material is specific for the Pine Valley Furniture project and not just generic material. You should always consider that your audience may be more business-oriented than technical oriented so you need to spell out what you mean.
Submit your assignment.
Please note that I do not consider simply parroting back material from another source to be sufficient – you will need to provide your material in your own words and discuss or describe how any external material you provide relates to the scenario. Also, please make sure you properly paraphrase, quote, reference and cite any material you are discussing.
Regarding Speaker Notes: Some presentations are more just bullet points, and some are more sentence-like. Your speaker notes certainly do not have to be complete essays for each bullet point, but if your presentations are just bullet points, then your speaker notes should be what you would say to explain the point. Speaker notes are not required for every slide or for every bullet point on a slide if the meaning of the material is obvious or if the material on the slide is sufficiently explanatory. The Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation (and speaker notes) should be able to stand on its own to present the material in sufficient depth for the intended audience to understand the overview of your material and the critical details and to remain as a reference. Also note that speaker notes should be incorporated within the presentation using the Microsoft® PowerPoint® Notes pages capability and not as a separate file. Your speaker notes have the same spelling/grammar and reference/citation requirements as a written assignment.

 The “Greening of Business” is a large and growing field. This week, I encourage you to: attend a remote event or watch a recorded lecture to learn more about how business leaders are grappling with greening issues today; conduct a research project on a topic of your choice (related to your final project topic if you’d like); or research employment opportunities related to sustainable business within a particular industry. Please share your experience and/or findings with the class via a ~500 word written summary.
 
Guidelines for the written summary
Please post a ~500 word written summary of your experience and/or research findings either directly in the iLearn Forum or as an attached Word or PDF document. Please include at least one image and quote in your report. Organize your report into at least three sections using headings for each section. Please cite any sources that inform your summary and include any websites that you think would be of interest to your readers.