Explain beta distribution, when it is used, and the benefits and shortcomings of the technique.

Option #1: Beta Distribution

(Note: This subject is often included in the PMP exam questions.)

You are the project manager for the Sweep Time software project. You have decided to use the beta distribution, or 3-point estimation, technique for this project. For the “phase 1 test” activity in days, the following estimates are available: O=5, P=10, M=6.

Address the following:

1. Explain beta distribution, when it is used, and the benefits and shortcomings of the technique.
2. What is the result of this estimate in the example?
3. How does a skew from the mean/median figure relate to planning a project? That is, if your beta is 7.5 and your M=6, how do these relate?

Submission:

• Write a 3 page paper addressing beta distribution. The length does not include the required title and references pages, and the appendix in which you show your calculations.
• Support your paper with a minimum of two current scholarly sources from the CSU-Global Library, in addition to any course textbooks or lecture material. Note that for this assignment, current sources are those published in the past five years. Of course, you may always exceed the minimum number of sources.
• Format the entire submission according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA (Links to an external site.).

Describe nontraditional health care practices in different cultures. Compare at least three cultures.

Research different popular nontraditional health care practices. Write a 1,000-1,200-word paper exploring nontraditional health care practices and include the following:

Describe nontraditional health care practices in different cultures. Compare at least three cultures.
Explain the importance of these practices in providing holistic and quality health care.
Identify the nontraditional health care options in your areas, and identify the number of people choosing to use them over traditional medical practices. Propose reasons why the number of people using nontraditional health care options is rising.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

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Describe the short-term effects stress can have on an individual

Topic 5 – Motivation, Emotion, Health, and Well-Being

Pinterest Board

Directions: Fill out the following information so your instructor can find your board on Pinterest. It is okay to copy and paste the information from your board. However, please remember all of the descriptions in the board should be your original thoughts.

Persistent link for Pinterest Board:

Provide a substantive description of themes in your board (such as stress triggers, coping mechanisms, etc):

Individual Pin Descriptions, for at least 10 pins:

PSY-102 – General Psychology

Topic 5 – Motivation, Emotion, Health, and Well-Being

Identifying, Managing and Reducing Stress

You will be examining the role stress can play in your life. For this assignment you will select ONE of the three formats and then complete the assignment criterion by answering the questions below.

1. Create a PowerPoint: PowerPoint must include a minimum of 12 slides (including Title Slide and Reference slide). Ensure that information is cited in-text throughout the presentation. Use inspirational quotes, graphics, visual aids, and video clips to enhance your presentation. Ensure that information included on your slides is properly paraphrased and cited; the use of direct quotes is prohibited. A minimum of three sources should be included (your textbook counts); ensure sources are credible.

2. Create a Pinterest Board: Pinterest boards should be created using the Pinterest website. Students can create a free account to complete this project. A minimum of ten pins must be included. Ensure pins address the different topics as related to stress – stress reduction, identifying stress, managing stress, etc. When selecting websites, consider credibility of the source; also consider pinning scholarly articles and videos (TED Talks) which may be helpful. Please provide APA formatted citations in the notes area of your pin. Use the attached document “Stress Pins” to provide information to your instructor on your Pinterest board.

3. Create a Newsletter: Newsletters must use an appropriate template – an example of a newsletter template can be found in Word Templates. Use inspirational quotes, graphics, charts, and visual aids to enhance your newsletter. Ensure that information included in your newsletter is properly paraphrased and cited; the use of direct quotes is prohibited. A minimum of three sources should be included (your textbook does count); ensure sources are credible. One section of your newsletter should be designated for additional resources that could be used by those reading the newsletter to gain more information on topics presented in the newsletter. One small section of your newsletter should be designated for references used in creating the final product.

Once you have chosen your format, choose a type of stress (schoolwork, family, job, a relationship, etc) and answer all of the following questions:

1. Give examples that causes the stress.

2. Describe healthy coping mechanisms you can use to help with stress.

3. Discuss of the warning signs of stress is in your life.

4. Describe the short-term effects stress can have on an individual.

5. Describe the long-term effects stress can have on an individual.

imagine that you are a public health professional tasked with convincing skeptical members of a community in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to get the Ebola vaccine during an Ebola outbreak.

For this assignment, imagine that you are a public health professional tasked with convincing skeptical members of a community in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to get the Ebola vaccine during an Ebola outbreak. In this assignment, you will write an information sheet for members of the community. This information sheet would be handed out to all people attending health clinics in the DRC during an Ebola outbreak. Within this information sheet you should explain how Ebola is transmitted and prevention measures used to reduce risk of transmission (including vaccination), provide a simple and clear explanation of how vaccines work, the type of vaccine used in the rVSV-EBOV vaccine (also called Ervebo), why this vaccine cannot cause Ebola, the efficacy of the Ebola vaccine, and how getting the vaccine will help not only you – but other members of your community. Because this is a class assignment, I expect you to describe the Ebola vaccine in a clear way using relevant scientific terms and to define or explain any scientific terms that the patients may not be familiar with.

do you think Florence Nightingale is relevant in the 21 st century to the nursing profession? Why or why not?

After reading Chapter 1 and reviewing the lecture power point (located in lectures tab), please answer the following questions. Each question must have at least 3 paragraphs and you must use at 3 least references included in your post.

Additionally, you are expected to reply to two other students and include a reference that justifies your post. Your reply must be at least 3 paragraphs.

Chapter 1

1. After reading Chapter 1, do you think Florence Nightingale is relevant in the 21 st century to the nursing profession? Why or why not?

2. What do you think would be the response of historical nursing leaders such as Florence Nightingale, Lillian Wald, and Mary Breckenridge if they could see what the profession of nursing looks like today?

How large was the breach and how long did it take to find the problem.

Locate an article on a system breach (Target stores, Sony Pictures, US Government, and many more).In 2-3 paragraphs, briefly explain the situation and what kind of information was compromised. How large was the breach and how long did it take to find the problem. Include a link to any of your Internet resources.

https://learn-us-east-1-prod-fleet01-xythos.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/5b75a0e7334a9/572494?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF-8%27%277-CEHv9%2520Module%252005%2520System%2520Hacking.pdf&response-content-type=application%2Fpdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20191221T033642Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=21600&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAZH6WM4PLTYPZRQMY%2F20191221%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=36a178925f4395d00539edee288effc4353db1060878ad281a8d44cb382fd52c

articulate the relationship between epistemology, identity, and power. How do these concepts work and how do they influence each other?

Drawing from at least  three readings, one of which must be either Hall reading on ideology or the Power and the Body reading, articulate the relationship between epistemology, identity, and power. How do these concepts work and how do they influence each other? Please do your best to tie these ideas to real life.
 
Was thinking of using Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas from Penn as the real life portion.

Investigate and analyse the real and intangible essences (touch-points) that constitute a contemporary brand

Learning Outcomes:
a. Investigate and analyse the real and intangible essences (touch-points) that constitute a contemporary brand
b. Review and evaluate the value, meaning and sustainability generated by a range of contemporary Brands
Description:
To begin your exploration into brand experience, it is important to learn from others.
Therefore, your first assignment is about analysing the brand essence and elements of a best practice brand of your choice. Recommend you choose brands that have a lot of public information available on their brand strategy.
You should include:
1. Brand overview – Overview of the history of the brand and products offered, history of the brand name and brand worth. Discuss why the brand has succeeded and has staying power/will continue to succeed?
2. Brand essence – using tools from class (the branding 4Ps and brand essence wheel) to identify the brands reason for existence.
3. Brand assets – analyse all the brand elements (colours, typography, style, name, symbols, logo form etc). Discuss any meanings tied to these elements and how they work together to communicate the brand essence to the consumer.
4. Creative execution – analyse 2 examples of how the brand essence and assets have been translated into communications and consumer experiences. Examples can be sourced from advertising campaigns, website and digital activity, in-store or event activity.
5. Moving forward – identify 3 problems you think the brand needs to address based on your analysis and identify 5 gaps/opportunities you think the brand needs to address based on market trends. Trends could be fashion and sustainability, changing consumer tastes, changing technology expectations etc.
6. Presentation – summarise your report into 5 slides (1 for each area), post to the class Padlet page and be prepared to discuss for 5minutes in our week 5 class.
Details:
1. Individual assignment
2. This assignment is part one of a two-part assessment
3. Report should be limited to 1,000 words (+/- 10%), Presentation no more than 5 slides + header page
4. Report should include an executive summary and conclusion
5. Show examples of brand assets, images and creative

Based on the first stanza of the poem, how do you think the speaker feels about the person he is addressing? Is this feeling different from how he felt in the past?

Read the poem ‘Testimony’ by Chris Mann (page 409-410 in The New Century of South African Poetry, available as an e-reserve on the library website) before answering the questions that follow.
You must answer in full sentences, and you should support your answers by quoting from the poem.
‘Testimony’ – Chris Mann
I do not love you anymore. I used to, when we were young and words like love were tumbling in our thoughts. The scent of jasmine in the streets of spring, the press of starlight through a sky of leaves was what such words then meant to me.
But when I track back through the years and see what we have shared, the bliss and strain of parenting,
the stress of work and terror at the loss of work, the illnesses, bereavements and despair, I reach a truth we thought we knew but only glimpsed in ghostly silhouette, that more, much mores enfolded in loves gift than youth and starlight and the scents of spring.
Ah no, my subtle-fingered, humorous one, stepping back a moment from your easel, brush in hand, oblivious to the ringing of the phone,
I more than love you now,
I cannot bear to think of life outside your plenteous horn.
And when I recollect your flying curls, your mulberry-coloured jacket and your black beret, and see you standing in a midnight doorway once again where jasmines fragrance drifted through the dark and stars outlined your tilt of head, your fling of hair, the white camellia of your throat, that love, if such it be returns, that wild, sweet, fiery exhilaration storms back and cloudbursts through my mid-life s shaken heart.
Note: You will notice that each question includes a mark allocation. This is to indicate how much you should write to support your answer. One mark represents one main point or reason. If a question counts four marks, that means that you will need to supply four points or reasons.
Remember that you can use an example from a poem only once; you cannot use the same example for each of your answers.
1. Refer stanza 1 and 2.
1.1 Based on the first stanza of the poem, how do you think the speaker feels about the person he is addressing? Is this feeling different from how he felt in the past? Explain. (2)
1.2 The word ‘but’ in line 7 indicates a shift in the poem. What change occurs here? (1)
1.3 In lines 9-11, the speaker mentions numerous aspects of life that have influenced his relationship with the addressee. Describe one of the life events that the speaker mentions. What did the experience teach the speaker and his partner about love? (3)
2. Refer to stanzas 3 and 4.
2.1 How does the speaker describe his beloved in the third stanza, and what do these descriptions reveal about her? (4)
2.2 Explain the image of her ‘plenteous horn’ (line 24) in your own words. In your answer, refer to the image of the ‘cornucopia’ (see: https://www.britannica.com/art/cornucopia). (2)
3. Give an outline of the imagery used in the poem – what kind of images are used, and what is the effect of these images? Quote at least two examples to support your reading. (4)
4. Identify a prominent sound device used in the poem. Name the device, quote at least two examples from the poem, and explain the effect it has. Remember to underline or highlight the relevant sounds in your answer. (3)
5. The tone of the poem changes from the first stanza to the last stanza. Identify and explain the tone in the first and last stanza and reflect on the change that occurs. Your answer should include one word to describe the tone in the first stanza, with a reason for your answer, and one word to describe the tone in the last stanza, with a reason for your answer. Explain how the tone has changed. Be specific: happy/sad are not acceptable answers. (3)
6. Identify and explain the main theme of the poem. Refer to the title of the poem to support your analysis. (2)
Sub-total for content: 25 marks
Use of language, organisation, and overall structure of assignment: 25 marks Total: 50
decorative art cornucopia, also called Horn Of Plenty, decorative motif, dating from ancient Greece, that symbolizes abundance. The motif originated as a curved goat’s horn filled to overflowing with fruit and grain. It is emblematic of the horn possessed by Zeus’s nurse, the Greek nymph Amalthaea (q.v.), which could be filled with whatever the owner wished.

compare and contrast learning theories and discuss practical applications.

Many influential psychologists made significant contributions to the field of Learning Theory.  For this assignment, you will compare and contrast learning theories and discuss practical applications.  See the attached document for complete instructions and grading rubric.