Discourse Media Analysis

Choose a news or lifestyle/entertainment article to analyze using discourse. Your chosen article could be from a news source (print or online) or a magazine (print or online). It may include images alongside text, but this is not a requirement. You must include a copy of the article in your paper. Your essay should address the following questions: What is discourse and what theoretical tradition does it develop from? Why is discourse important for media studies? What is the discourse(s) being produced and circulated in the article? What types of knowledge(s) is the discourse(s) producing in the article? What is the regime of truth being constructed through this article?

Quality Healthcare

Requirements:
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) was formed to ensure quality of patient care and measurement of patient outcomes with set standards.
Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is a performance measurement tool used by millions of health insurance plans. There are 6 domains of care:

Effectiveness of Care.
Access/Availability of Care.
Experience of Care.
Utilization and Risk Adjusted Utilization.
Health Plan Descriptive Information.
Measures Collected Using Electronic Clinical Data Systems

As an APN, productivity will be an important measurement for the practice to determine reimbursement and salary. Fee-for-service practices will require a set number of patients per day to maintain productivity. A capitated practice will require the APN to have a large panel of patients but also will focus on controlling costs. This can be accomplished through effective primary care that is accessible, convenient for the patients and has a method of measuring quality of care.
Write a formal paper in APA format with title page, introduction, the three required elements below, conclusion and reference page.
You are now employed as an NP in primary care. Choose one performance measure from one of the six domains of care, i.e. Adult BMI Assessment, Prenatal and Postpartum care, etc.
Develop three different patient interventions for that one performance measure and how you would specifically implement the intervention and measure the outcomes for that particular performance measure in clinical practice.
How would these primary care interventions result in improved patient outcomes and health care cost savings?

Answer questions on dynamic group culture

Please answer each section separately, there are 2 sections.Please use the book attached as reference.

Section 1
Authority, Leadership & Power
McRae and Short (2010) discussed authority, leadership and power in Ch. 7. If you were the CEO of an organization, what training would you develop for teaching new leaders and team members these three concepts? Explain why you selected these training concepts.

Section 2
The focus of chapter 8 is on “Strategies for Leadership in Multicultural Group.” McRae and Short (2010) explained when there is an exploration and an understanding of feelings and thoughts, behavioral changes can occur between people, groups, and organizations. Working with groups from different racial and cultural backgrounds, attending to the differences, inquiring about their meaning, and openly discussing power differentials are strategies that allow members the opportunity to see they are not alone (page 129). Share an example of a group in which you have been a member or leader where these or similar strategies have been utilized. How did it impact the overall effectiveness of achieving group goals?

Strategic management & business policy simulation

please write the answer after each question

1. Introduction
a. Brief description of the company and what it does

2. Analysis of the company (Main body)
a. What is the competitive advantage of Just Falafel?
b. What are the strengths; weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of Just
Falafel?
c. Analyze Just Falafel’s industry by using Porter’s five forces model.

3. Solutions / Recommendations
a. Should Just Falafel expand even more internationally? Yes, no. Why?
b. What would be the best strategic plan for the company for the next three years?
Why?

Paper on creativity, intelligence, memory and learning

Creativity, intelligence, memory, and learning are interrelated. In this assignment, you will explore the interrelations of these ideas and predict how they can best be harnessed to enhance student outcomes.

1) Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

a) This assignment uses a grading rubric.

b) Include two scholarly resources, other than those in the assigned readings, with appropriate references and in-text citations.

c) Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

2) Write a paper in which you do the following:

a) Analyze the interrelation of creativity, intelligence, memory, and learning.

b) Describe how this interrelation can be exploited to enhance student learning outcomes.

Ethical decision-making scenarios worksheet

For each scenario, discuss what the helper should do or should not have done. Support your answer with statements from the ethical standards for human service professionals (BOX 9.6 in Ch. 9 of the text) that provide guidance for each issue the helper faces. Your response must be thorough to demonstrate understanding of the ethical standards. Write in complete sentences with correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

Roseanne is a social worker with two preschool-aged children. Wanda, one of Roseanne’s clients, is a single parent who also has a preschool-aged child. Wanda has been unable to find work since she was laid off from her position at a daycare center that allowed her to bring her young son to work with her. She tells Roseanne that she is desperate for work, but even if she could get a job, she would not be able to afford childcare. Roseanne’s own daycare provider has just announced that she will be moving out of state at the end of the month. Roseanne is considering offering Wanda a job as her daycare provider.

Caseworker Lee met with a Vietnamese family who had recently immigrated to the United States. The family was referred to him by a teacher who was concerned about the unkempt appearance of one of the children, a 7-year old girl. When Lee visited the home, he found that there were at least 12 people living in the two-bedroom apartment, which is a violation of the rental agreement. None of the adults spoke much English, so the 7-year-old translated for them. The child explained that the others in the household were her aunts, uncles, and cousins. Lee presented the parents with a standard consent-for-services form and directed the child to ask her parents to sign it.

Ross is a social worker at a public high school. He is also a deacon at his local church, and he volunteers twice a month at a shelter for pregnant teens. At school, he met with a 16-year-old girl who confided that she is pregnant and asked for information on where and how to obtain an abortion. Ross is strongly opposed to abortion on moral grounds.

Maria is a counselor at a human services agency working with Clarence, a 51-year-old man who was laid off from his job over a year ago and who has been unable to find work since. Lately, Clarence has become increasingly despondent and angry about being unable to provide for his family. He admits that he has been trying to find out where his ex-boss lives so he can “give him what’s coming to him.” When asked what he means by this, Clarence refuses to answer and angrily leaves the office.

In the United States, special education is guided by four federal statutes

In the United States, special education is guided by four federal statutes, the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act of 2004 (IDEA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1975 (Section 504), the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

Public Law 94-142, Education of All Handicapped Children Act (EHA), passed in 1975, was a foundational congressional act, which required all schools that receive federal funding to provide a free appropriate public education for all students with disabilities. For the first time, this law guaranteed and enforced the rights of children with disabilities to receive unique educational opportunities delivered in the “least restrictive environment.” Prior to this legislation, more than half of all students with disabilities were turned away from schools or were provided a substandard education (U.S. Department of Education, 2015). The law, through multiple reauthorizations, is now known as the IDEA.

Since this landmark legislation was passed, key events have continued to impact the development of the field of special education. For example, in 1990, PL-94-142 was amended with a name change and updated requirements to meet the changing needs of students with disabilities and public education. This bill was amended again in 1997, and a final time in 2004 (ProjectIDEAL, 2013).

The legislative cornerstone of the IDEA set the foundation to “(a) improve how children with disabilities were identified and educated, (b) evaluate the success of these efforts, and (c) provide due process protections for children and families.” (U.S. Department of Education, 2015, Public Law 94-142, para. 2). Current and future special educators have an ethical responsibility to uphold these guiding principles as advocates for children with disabilities.

Please be sure to take about an hour to review this week’s Instructor Guidance; there you will find a wealth of useful information that will guide you as you progress through the week’s discussions and assignments and that can also be used as a scholarly reference in this week’s assignments. In addition, be sure to review the grading rubric as support for performance.

Initial Post:
Summarize how the amendments of IDEA addressed the progressive improvements of special education in meeting the needs of children with disabilities. Then, explain how special education law provides for an appropriate and equal public education as intended by the original iteration of the IDEA, Public Law 94-142, as well as the current governing law. Complete your initial post by reflecting on the impact that the development of these laws have had in protecting the rights of children with disabilities.

Advanced statistical concepts and business analytics

Question:
Although natural gas is currently inexpensive and nuclear power currently (and perhaps deservedly) does not have a good reputation, it is possible that more nuclear power plants will be constructed in the future. Table 4 presents data concerning the construction costs of light water reactor (LWR) nuclear power plants. The dependent variable, C, construction cost, is expressed in millions of dollars, adjusted to a 1976 base. Preliminary analysis of the data and economic theory indicate that variation in cost increases as cost increases. This suggests transforming cost by taking its natural logarithm.

S Power plant capacity in MWe

N Cumulative number of power plants built by the contractor

1. Build a multiple regression model to predict ln(C) by taking S and N or their natural logarithms as the independent variables. Make sure to check for multicollinearity.

2. Use residual analysis and R2 to check your model.

3. State which variables are important in predicting the cost of constructing an LWR plant, and

4. State a prediction equation that can be used to predict ln(C).

What are YOU going to do about it?

What are YOU going to do about it?

In the past weeks, you have examined and explored the challenges and issues facing delivery of public health services in a given community and across the nation. The goal of public health is to prevent disease and promote health.

To that end, take a moment to review your own communities health needs through a purview of current events, your own setting by informally interviewing public health professionals, or reviewing national databases like the ones listed below:

America’s Health Rankings. (2015). Retrieved from http://www.americashealthrankings.org/
The Commonwealth Fund. (2015). Overall Ranking, 2014. Retrieved from http://datacenter.commonwealthfund.org/#ind=1/sc=1

For this discussion, you are asked to do the following:

Describe a significant health issue in your community or state.
Compare its significance to the national priorities of Healthy People 2020 goals (is it a national priority or just one found in your state/community).
Explain what type of effort it will take to fully address it (leadership skills, financing, organizational buy-in, stakeholders, perceptions, barriers)
Evaluate the efforts YOU can take to address this issue. (As a public health practitioner, what is YOUR role such as: Will you develop, lead or be part of a public health program to address the issue? Will you work on financing, organizational buy-in, stakeholders…what are you going to do to address this concern?)

Ayala Corporation accumulates the following data relative to jobs started and finished during the month of June 2014.

Ayala Corporation accumulates the following data relative to jobs started and finished during the month of June 2014.

Costs and Production Data Actual Standard
Raw materials unit cost $2.25 $2.10
Raw materials units used 10,600 10,000
Direct labor payroll $120,960 $120,000
Direct labor hours worked 14,400 15,000

Manufacturing overhead incurred $189,500
Manufacturing overhead applied $189,000
Machine hours expected to be used at normal capacity 42,500
Budgeted fixed overhead for June $55,250
Variable overhead rate per machine hour $3.00
Fixed overhead rate per machine hour $1.30

Overhead is applied on the basis of standard machine hours. Three hours of machine time are required for each direct labor hour. The jobs were sold for $400,000. Selling and administrative expenses were $40,000. Assume that the amount of raw materials purchased equaled the amount used.

Instructions
(a) Compute all of the variances for (1) direct materials and (2) direct labor.
(b) Compute the total overhead variance.
(c) Prepare an income statement for management. (Ignore income taxes.)