Identifying a Researchable Problem and Develop a Research Question

Identifying a Researchable Problem

A research problem is a statement about a specific issue, difficulty, contradiction, or gap in knowledge that you will aim to address in your research. You might look for practical problems aimed at contributing to change, or theoretical problems aimed at expanding knowledge. Your goal is to find a gap that your research project can fill.

After reading about your topic and looking for under-explored aspects and areas of concern, conflict, or controversy and thoroughly gathering data, students are to develop a two-page paper to identify the specific problem that they will attempt to study and begin to formulate their research question.

The paper should include the following:

Identification of the study problem- the scope of the problem statistics, and the need and relevancy of your research study for policy, and social work practice

Highlight historic developments in the policies- recent research, theory, and debates on your topic

Provide two practice theories that can used to address the study problem.

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Unit 3 Part 2: Develop a Research Question

A research question is a sentence that defines what you will examine and within which population. The research question helps you narrow your research and write a clear, arguable study. A research question focuses the study, determines the methodology, and guides the inquiry, analysis, and reporting. Your research question needs to be concise, arguable, and focused on your topic.

Before writing your research question, narrow down your topic and brainstorm possible questions. Research questions should be focused on a single problem; researchable; able to be answered, specific, and relevant to the social work profession. When you have a clearly defined problem, you need to formulate one or more questions. Think about exactly what you want to know and how it will contribute to resolving the problem. Students are to submit their research question in a word document.

( Just 1 sentence / Question )

Feedback from professor :

Great topic. Your research question needs to be more detailed in order to answer what your rsearch seeks. Make sure it is detailed, etc.

For example, instead of what are the risk factor, list a specific risk factor instead.

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Review page 8 of the Developing High-Quality Individualized Education Programs IRIS module and respond to the following questions

1) Review page 8 of the Developing High-Quality Individualized Education Programs IRIS module.
2) Complete the Related Services: Common Supports for Students with Disabilities IRIS module and complete the assessment at the end.

To answer these questions please use the websites below.

Page 8: Individualized Services & Supports

Related Services: Common Supports for Students with Disabilities

1. Describe what related services are and how they help students with disabilities in school environments.

2. Why do you think there is such a wide range of related services and why is this important to students who have disabilities?

3. Once a student is determined to be eligible for special education and related services, what decisions must the multidisciplinary team make about the delivery of the related services? Discuss at least three.

4. In your own words, briefly describe what school social workers or school psychologists do and how they help students with disabilities.

5. Serena is a second grader who has Down syndrome. She has articulation difficulties and balance and gross-motor control issues and is highly distractible in the classroom setting. What related services might be beneficial for this student and why?

What are the central beliefs of Islam?

What are the central beliefs of Islam? Provide examples of how they are reflected in the Five Pillars. What is the origin and importance of the Q’uran?Consider the distinct Muslim groups. How are those groups similar and how are they different? What challenges, if any, do Islamic traditions face in a secular world?

Create an advertisement for water

please make an advertisement pamphlet for water with the following topics

Evaluate the importance of water to all life on Earth.
Analyze the properties of water that make it unique.
Explain the bonding of water including hydrogen bonds and dehydration synthesis.
Describe the role of water as the universal solvent.
Explain the role of water in maintaining homeostasis.
Explore the relationship between water and pH.

The ad should be engaging for the audience and exemplify what you have learned about water and life. The ad should include an introduction that establishes credibility while framing the overall presentation. Facts, figures and statistics should be used to support claims when needed. Importantly, logical organization and transitions should be used throughout the ad. To ensure that your ad is visually appealing, select and place images carefully.

Prepare a managerial report that addresses the following issues and recommends an order quantity for the Weather Teddy product.

Specialty Toys, Inc. (Specialty), sells a variety of new and innovative children’s toys. Management learned that the pre-holiday season is the best time to introduce a new toy, because many families use this time to look for new ideas for December holiday gifts. When Specialty discovers a new toy with good market potential, it chooses an October market entry date.

To get toys in its stores by October, Specialty places one-time orders with its manufacturers in June or July of each year. Demand for children’s toys can be highly volatile. If a new toy catches on, a sense of shortage in the marketplace often increases the demand to high levels and large profits can be realized. However, new toys can also flop, leaving Specialty stuck with high levels of inventory that must be sold at reduced prices. The most important question the company faces is deciding how many units of a new toy should be purchased to meet anticipated sales demand. If too few are purchased, sales will be lost; if too many are purchased, profits will be reduced because of low prices realized in clearance sales.

For the coming season, Specialty plans to introduce a new product called Weather Teddy (Teddy). This variation of a talking teddy bear is made by a company in Taiwan. When a child presses Teddy’s hand, the bear begins to talk. A built-in barometer selects one of five responses that predict the weather conditions. The responses range from “It looks to be a very nice day! Have fun” to “I think it may rain today. Don’t forget your umbrella.” Tests with the product show that, even though it is not a perfect weather predictor, its predictions are surprisingly good. Several of Specialty’s managers claimed Teddy gave predictions of the weather that were as good as many local television weather forecasters.

As with other products, Specialty faces the decision of how many Weather Teddy units to order for the coming holiday season. Members of the management team suggested order quantities of 15,000, 18,000, 24,000, or 28,000 units. The wide range of order quantities suggested indicates considerable disagreement concerning the market potential. The product management team asks you for an analysis of the stockout probabilities for various order quantities, an estimate of the profit potential, and to help make an order quantity recommendation. Specialty expects to sell Weather Teddy for $24 based on a cost of $16 per unit. If inventory remains after the holiday season, Specialty will sell all surplus inventory for $5 per unit. After reviewing the sales history of similar products, Specialty’s senior sales forecaster predicted an expected demand of 20,000 units with a .95 probability that demand would be between 10,000 units and 30,000 units.

Prepare a managerial report that addresses the following issues and recommends an order quantity for the Weather Teddy product.

1. Use the sales forecaster’s prediction to describe a normal probability distribution that can be used to approximate the demand distribution. Sketch the distribution and show its mean and standard deviation.

2. Compute the probability of a stockout for the order quantities suggested by members of the management team.

3. Compute the projected profit for the order quantities suggested by the management team under three scenarios: worst case in which sales = 10,000 units, most likely case in which sales = 20,000 units, and best case in which sales = 30,000 units.

4. One of Specialty’s managers felt that the profit potential was so great that the order quantity should have a 70% chance of meeting demand and only a 30% chance of any stockouts. What quantity would be ordered under this policy, and what is the projected profit under the three sales scenarios?

5. Provide your own recommendation for an order quantity and note the associated profit projections. Provide a rationale for your recommendation.

construct a network schedule for the stadium project and answer the following questions:

Greendale Stadium Case

The G&E Company is preparing a bid to build the new 47,000 seat Greendale baseball stadium. The construction must start July 1, 2011, and be completed in time for the start of the 2014 season. A penalty clause of $100,000 per day of delay beyond May 20, 2014, is written into the contract.

Ben Keith, the president of the company, expressed optimism at obtaining the contract and revealed that the company could net as much as $2 million on the project. He also said if they are successful, the prospects for future projects are quite good since there is a projected renaissance in building classic ball parks with modern luxury boxes.

ASSIGNMENT

Given the information provided in Table 6.3, construct a network schedule for the stadium project and answer the following questions:

Will the project be able to be completed by the May 20 deadline? How long will it take?
What is the critical path for the project?
Based on the schedule would you recommend that G&E pursue this contact? Why? Include a one-page Gantt chart for the stadium schedule.
CASE APPENDIX: TECHNICAL DETAILS OF THE GREENDALE BASEBALL STADIUM

The baseball stadium is an outdoor structure with a retractable roof. The project begins with clearing the site, an activity that lasts 70 days. Once the site is clear, work can start simultaneously on the structure itself and demolishing an adjacent building site. This demolition is necessary to create a construction stage for storing materials and equipment. It will take 30 days to demolish the buildings and another 70 days to set up the construction site.

TABLE 6.3 Greendale Stadium Case

The work on the stadium begins by driving 160 support pilings, which will take 120 days. Next comes the pouring of the lower concrete bowl (120 days). Once this is done and the construction site has been set up, then the pouring of the main concourse (120 days), the installation of the playing field (90 days), and the construction of the upper steel bowl can occur (120 days).

Once the concourse and upper bowl are completed, work can start simultaneously on building the luxury boxes (90 days), installing the seats (140 days), installing the jumbotron (30 days), and installing stadium infrastructure (120 days) which includes: bathrooms, lockers, restaurants, etc. Once the seats are installed then the steel canopy can be constructed (75 days) followed by the installation of the lights (30 days).

The retractable roof represents the most significant technical challenge to the project. Building the roof track supports (90 days) can begin after the lower concrete bowl is constructed. At this time the dimensions of the roof can be finalized and the construction of the roof at a separate site can begin (180 days). After the roof supports are completed then the roof tracks can be installed (90 days). Once the tracks and the roof are completed then the roof can be installed and made operational (90 days). Once all activities are completed it will take 20 days to inspect the stadium.

For purposes of this case assume the following:

The following holidays are observed: January 1, Memorial Day (last Monday in May), July 4th, Labor Day (first Monday in September), Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday in November), December 25 and 26.
If a holiday falls on a Saturday then Friday will be given as an extra day off, and if it falls on a Sunday then Monday will be given as a day off.
The construction crew work Monday through Friday.
assignment is this one:

Greendale Project ReDux
Due Week 8 and worth 90 points

This assignment consists of two (2) parts: a project schedule, and a written response. You must submit both parts as separate files for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name according to the part of the assignment it is written for.

Part A: Project Schedule

Create a multi-level work breakdown structure (WBS) and detailed project schedule, using the information from the “Greendale Stadium Case” located at the end of Chapter 6, and incorporating the following constraints.
Note: When you create your MS Project schedule, you will need to update your project per the following constraints:
The project must consist of at least twenty (20) tasks.
Each task must have a start and finish date that matches the duration noted in the assignment.
Each task must be assigned to a resource (e.g., Demolishing Crew; Construction Crew; Landscaping Crew).
Assume that the crew works during normal weekdays (no weekend work) under normal conditions (8 hours per day).
In terms of holidays, you can assume no work will be done the following days: New Year’s Day, President’s Day, Good Friday, Good Monday, Friday before Memorial Day, Memorial Day, the business day before Independence Day, Independence Day, the Friday before Labor Day, Labor Day, the day before Thanksgiving Day, Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday (day after Thanksgiving), the business day before Christmas, Christmas Day, the business day after Christmas Day, and New Year’s Eve.
Part B: Written Response

Respond to the following questions in a paper based on your project schedule.
When will the project be completed?
What is the critical path for the project?
How much slack / float is in your project? What activities have the greatest slack / float?
Identify the top three (3) activities that you believe could impact the project completion date.
What additional activities you would add to this project to make it more complete, from a project management viewpoint?

Provide solutions to the the following questions

1. Question: Which hormone prompts increased anxiety, vigilance, and arousal during a stress response?

2. Question: Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is an autoimmune process involving antibodies attacking which type of cells?

3. Question: When renin is released, it is capable of which action?

4. Question: Which of the following are formed elements of the blood that are not cells but are disk-shaped cytoplasmic fragments essential for blood clotting?

5. Question: In a full-term infant, the normal erythrocyte life span is _____ days, whereas the adult erythrocyte life span is _____ days.

6. Question: Graves disease is a result of:

7. Question: What is the most commonly reported symptom of cancer treatment?

8. Question: In which structure does B lymphocytes mature and undergo changes that commit them to becoming B cells?

9. Question: Chvostek and Trousseau signs indicate which electrolyte imbalance?

10. Question: On average, what percent of cardiac output do the kidneys receive?

11. Question: Which substance is used to correct the chronic anemia associated with chronic renal failure?

12. Question: When the maternal immune system becomes sensitized against antigens expressed by the fetus, what reaction occurs?

13. Question: Which statement is true regarding pain and cancer?

14. Question: During an infection, why do lymph nodes enlarge and become tender?

15. Question: Which statement best describes cystic fibrosis?

16. Question: Carcinoma refers to abnormal cell proliferation originating from which tissue origin?

17. Question: What local complication of a gonococcal infection is diagnosed in approximately 10% of affected women?

18. Question: Which terms represent the correct nomenclature for benign and malignant tumors of adipose tissue, respectively?

19. Question: What provides the best estimate of the functioning of renal tissue?

20. Question: Children with phenylketonuria (PKU) are unable to synthesize:

21. Question: Which of the following causes condylomata acuminata or genital warts?

22. Question: Cystic fibrosis is caused by which process?

23. Question: The area of the kidneys that contains the glomeruli and portions of the tubules is called the:

24. Question: The concentration of the final urine is determined by antidiuretic hormone (ADH), which is secreted by which gland?

25. Question: The ability of the pathogen to invade and multiply in the host is referred to as:

26. Question: In 95% of children of delayed puberty, the problem is caused by:

27. Question: Which substance is a water-soluble protein hormone?

28. Question: Having ejected a mature ovum, the ovarian follicle develops into a(n):

29. Question: The most critical aspect in correctly diagnosing a seizure disorder and establishing its cause is:

30. Question: The two most important risk factors for type 2 diabetes are:

31. Question: It is true that myasthenia gravis:

32. Question: What term is used to identify an interlacing bundle of dense, white fibrous tissue that is richly supplied with nerves, blood vessels, and lymphatic vessels?

33. Question: The mucosal secretions of the cervix secrete which immunoglobulin?

34. Question: Clinical manifestations that include irregular or heavy bleeding, the passage of large clots, and the depletion of iron stores support which diagnosis?

35. Question: What is the first indication of nephrotic syndrome in children?

36. Question: What is the most common opportunistic infection associated with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)?

37. Question: What part of the brain provides the emotional response to pain?

38. Question: What directly causes ovulation during the menstrual cycle?

39. Question: Transcription is best defined as a process by which:

40. Question: Considering the mediating factors of premenstrual syndrome (PMS), which medication may be used either continually or only during the menstrual period as a treatment for the condition?

41. Question: Pinkeye is characterized by inflammation of which structure?

42. Question: Atrial fibrillation, rheumatic heart disease, and valvular prosthetics are risk factors for which type of stroke?

43. Question: Clinical manifestations of Parkinson disease are caused by a deficit in which of the brain’s neurotransmitters?

44. Question: Which hormone is linked to an increase in appetite during puberty?

45. Question: Which change is a result of puberty and defends the vagina from infection?

46. Question: Which hormone is involved in the regulation of serum calcium levels?

47. Question: Which medication compensates for the deficiency that occurs as a result of cystic fibrosis?

48. Question: It is true that Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS):

49. Question: An infant suddenly develops abdominal pain, becomes irritable (colicky), and draws up the knees. Vomiting occurs soon afterward. The mother reports that the infant passed a normal stool, followed by one that looked like currant jelly. Based on these data, which disorder does the nurse suspect?

50. Question: Which condition is considered a clinical cause of amenorrhea?

51. Question: Which anatomic structure secretes follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH)?

52. Question: Which medical diagnosis is described as a chronic inflammatory joint disease characterized by stiffening and fusion of the spine and sacroiliac joints?

53. Question: How can glaucoma cause blindness?

54. Question: Which virus is a precursor for developing cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) and cervical cancer?

55. Question: Which type of diarrhea results from lactose intolerance?

56. Question: Which pain theory proposes that a balance of impulses conducted from the spinal cord to the higher centers in the central nervous system (CNS) modulates the transmission of pain?

57. Question: Obesity acts as an important risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus by:

58. Question: A blunt force injury to the forehead would result in a coup injury to which region of the brain?

59. Question: The secretion of adrenocorticotropic-stimulating hormone (ACTH) will result in the increased level of which hormone?

60. Question: Bacteria gain access to the female urinary tract by which means?

61. Question: The failure of bones to ossify, resulting in soft bones and skeletal deformity, characterizes which disorder?

62. Question: What is the cause of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH)?

63. Question: Which characteristic is true of type II (white fast-motor) muscle fibers?

64. Question: The presence of a zygote having one chromosome with the normal complement of genes and one with a missing gene is characteristic of which genetic disorder?

65. Question: What term is used to identify the condition that exists when the urethral meatus is located on the undersurface of the penis?

66. Question: Which hormone stimulates gonads to produce both male and female hormones?

67. Question: Which term is used to describe an intestinal obstruction caused by the invagination of the ileum into the cecum and part of the ascending colon by collapsing through the ileocecal valve?

68. Question: Where is the usual site of cervical dysplasia or cancer in situ?

69. Question: Which statement is true regarding the major difference between male and female sex hormone production?

70. Question: Using a fan to reduce body temperature is an example of which mechanism of heat loss?

71. Question: In scoliosis, curves in the thoracic spine greater than how many degrees result in decreased pulmonary function?

72. Question: What is the second most commonly recognized genetic cause of mental retardation?

73. Question: Which risk factor for hypertension is influenced by genetic factors and lifestyle?

74. Question: Prolonged high environmental temperatures that produce dehydration, decreased plasma volumes, hypotension, decreased cardiac output, and tachycardia cause which disorder of temperature regulation?

75. Question: Saliva contains which immunoglobulin (Ig)?