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Assignment 2: Discussion—DNA Profiling

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Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) profiling is a laboratory method used by forensic scientists to determine the identification of individuals by their unique DNA signature. Also known as DNA testing, this method has been used to diagnose potential genetic disorders, identify heritage, and provide forensic evidence.

Respond to the following:

. Consider the following:
Describe how a sample of DNA is collected and prepared for study.
State the steps involved in determining the DNA sequence of a sample.
Discuss one type of DNA sequencing and the steps involved in that method.
Provide an example of the application of DNA profiling and discuss its efficacy related to this particular application. Consider the following:
Why is DNA testing important to this application?
What questions are addressed in this application?
What are the unique steps or techniques in this application that must be followed for it to be effective?
What alternative methods might be employed to address the same questions that can be answered via DNA testing?

Provide a minimum of two scholarly references. These scholarly references should be peer reviewed and from authoritative sources.

Using the ethical decision making process

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Health care providers, managers, and administrators are faced with a variety of ethical issues. These issues range from right to life and abortion to right to die and physician assisted suicide. For this Assignment you will write an APA style paper addressing common ethical issues found in health care. Your paper should clearly identify a minimum of three ethical issues. Using the ethical decision making process located in Chapter 4 analyze each of the ethical issues you have identified.

Requirements:

3–5 pages in length (not including cover and reference pages)
A minimum of three outside resources (one of these resources can be your textbook)
Your paper should be formatted according to APA, include a proper introduction, appropriate headings, and conclusion

Anyone do finance? 14-1. United Parcel Service (UPS) provides package delivery services throughout the United States and the world. Discuss the…

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Anyone do finance?

14-1. United Parcel Service (UPS) provides package delivery services throughout the United States and the world. Discuss the impact of seasonal variations in the delivery of business for forecasting the firm’s financing requirements.

14-2. Discuss the shortcomings of the percent of sales method of financial forecasting.

14-3. What would be the probable effect on a firms cash position of the following events?

A.rapidly rising sales

B.A delay in the payment of payables

C.A more liberal credit policy on sales (to the firm’s customers)

D.Holding larger inventories

14-4. A cash budget is usually thought of as a means of planning for future financing needs. Why would a cash budget also be important for a firms that has excess cash on hand?

need help 7.2

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Case Study 3: Carlson Companies

Due Week 7 and worth 80 points

Read the case study titled “Carlson Companies” found at the end of Chapter 10.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

Assess how the Carlson SAN approach would be implemented in today’s environment.
Compare the pros and cons of consolidating data on a SAN central data facility versus the dispersed arrangement it replaces.
Evaluate the issues raised from the Carlson SAN mixing equipment from a number of vendors and determine the management options for dealing with this type of situation.
Justify the reduction of administration and management of storage networking through Carlson’s IP SAN.
Assess how cloud computing could be used by Carlson instead of a SAN. Create a diagram using Vision or its open source alternative software to illustrate the use of cloud computing. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Compare and contrast among local area and wide area network technologies and architectures.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in communication networks.
Write clearly and concisely about communication networks using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Assignment 4: Legal and Ethical Considerations in Marketing, Product Safety, and Intellectual Property
Worth 300 points….. Remember this is just a hypothetical scenario not literal.. Read and follow instructions carefully.. PROPER IN-TEXT CITATIONS AND CITE CASE PROPERLY.. DO NOT USE ALL INTERNET SOURCES, USE 1 OR 2 INTERNET SOURCE AND OTHERS SHOULD BE LEGAL AUTHORATIVE REFERENCES…. NOT STUDENT PAPERS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN SUBMITTED!!!!!!! NOT ACCEPTABLE!! I need ORIGINALITY!!!!
You are a new associate at the law firm of Dewey, Chetum, and Howe. John, a former researcher at PharmaCARE, comes to your office. He has concerns about PharmaCARE’s use of AD23, one of the company’s top-selling diabetes drugs. Two (2) years ago, after PharmaCARE’s research indicated that AD23 might also slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, John and his team of pharmacists began reformulating the drug to maximize that effect. In order to avoid the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) scrutiny, PharmaCARE established a wholly-owned subsidiary, CompCARE, to operate as a compounding pharmacy to sell the new formulation to individuals on a prescription basis. CompCARE established itself in a suburban office park near its parent’s headquarters. To conserve money and time, CompCARE did a quick, low-cost renovation.
CompCARE benefited from PharmaCARE’s reputation, databases, networks, and sales and marketing expertise, and within six (6) months had the medical community buzzing about AD23. Demand soared, particularly among Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans Affairs patients. Seeing the opportunity to realize even more profit, CompCARE began advertising AD23 directly to consumers and marketing the drug directly to hospitals, clinics, and physician offices, even though compounding pharmacies are not permitted to sell drugs in bulk for general use. To circumvent this technicality, CompCARE encouraged doctors to fax lists of fictitious patient names to CompCARE. PharmaCARE sold CompCARE to WellCo, a large drugstore chain, just weeks before AD23 was publicly linked to over 200 cardiac deaths.
As CompCARE and its new parent company enjoyed record profits and PharmaCARE’s stock price approached $300 per share, reports started surfacing that people who received AD23 seemed to be suffering heart attacks at an alarming rate. The company ignored this data and continued filling large orders and paying huge bonuses to all the executives and managers, including John, whose wife recently died from a heart attack after using AD23.
John has come to you with an internal company memo describing the potential problems with AD23, and information describing the company’s willingness “roll the dice” and continue to market the drug.
Your senior partner has asked you to write a memo outlining the following issues for review by the senior partners.
In preparation for this assignment, use the Internet or Library to research examples of intellectual property theft that occurred within the past two (2) years.
(8-10) page :
1.
2. Argue for or against Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) marketing by drug companies. Provide support for your response.
3. Determine the parties responsible for regulating compounding pharmacies under the current regulatory scheme, the actions that either these parties or the FDA could / should have taken in this scenario, and whether PharmaCARE could face legal exposure surrounding its practices. Support your response.
4. Analyze the manner in which PharmaCARE used U.S. law to protect its own intellectual property and if John has any claim to being the true “inventor” of AD23. Suggest at least three (3) ways the company could compensate John for the use of his intellectual property.
5. Summarize at least one (1) current example (within the past two [2] years) of intellectual property theft, and examine the effect on that company’s brand.
6. Analyze the potential issue surrounding the death of John’s wife and other potential litigants against PharmaCARE as a result of AD23.
7. Specify both the major arguments that John can make to claim that he is a whistleblower and the type of protections that he should be afforded. Justify your response.
8. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference and proprietary Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
• Include a cover page (OPTIONAL), and reference page (NEEDED)…. The cover page and the reference page are NOT included in the required assignment page length.
• I don’t need 7 and a half, I need 8 pages or more… 8 pages mean all the way to the bottom of the page going to page 9.
• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with me for any additional instructions. Please don’t do your own thing, follow MY instructions…

NO PLAGIARISM!!! I NEED THE WORK TO BE ORIGINAL, I HAVE TO SUBMIT MY PAPERS IN A DATABASE, SO IT TELLS ME IF IT COMES FROM A STUDENT PAPER, INTERNET OR WHEREVER. IT DOESN’T MATTER WHERE IT COMES FROM, IT TELLS ME EVERYTHING!
I CAN’T HAVE NO MORE THAN 9% PLAGIARISM… AND I HAVE BEEN GETTING MORE THAN THAT FROM RECENT PAPERS …. PLEASE DON’T DISSAPOINT ME!!

FOR KIM WOODS ONLY EDU 486 Week 2 Assignment

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School Improvement Paradigms

Watch the following videos:

5 Keys To Social and Emotional Learning Success.
How a Longer School Day Can Improve Academics
Finland’s Formula for School Success (Education Everywhere Series)
Four Keys To College and Career Readiness: Dr. David T. Conley
Real-World Internships Lead To College and Career Readiness
Improvement plan for schools (Education Everywhere Series)

Select two or three principles for improving schools as listed on page 281 of your course text. Design a detailed plan for implementing and supporting those principles, per policy and program adoption, within a district or school. Be sure to provide evidence/examples of best practice strategies from scholarly sources. Your paper must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including the required title and reference pages). You must cite at least one scholarly source in addition to the course text both with in-text citations and on the reference page. Your paper and references must be formatted using APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

its due this Sunday at 5 pm

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If you were to start your own business, which business entity structure would you choose? Justify why your chosen structure is the best organizational form.

Explain the following business structures: sole proprietorship, partnership, LLC, and a corporation. In your analysis address the following for each business structure:

Steps to form
Personal liability for owners
Taxation
Advantages and disadvantages

Your paper must be three to five pages (excluding title and reference pages), and it must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. You must cite at least two scholarly sources in addition to the course textbook..

Criminal Justice Policies: 2

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Absolutely no PLAGIARISM!!! The work will be checked using turnitin. If you are unable to meet the deadline, do not send a handshake!!!! Do not send a handshake and then want to increase your price after I have agreed. Once the down payment is made, please copy and paste the work so that I can remove it from the site. Thank you

Who has the most influence on crime control policy? The president? The governor? Our representatives?

“Without someone to implement it, policy is nothing more than words on a page. Furthermore, what is written as policy is often more theory than reality, because implementing a policy at the street-level is seldom as neat and clean as it appears on the page.”

First, select a crime control policy (e.g., the three-strikes law, legalization of recreational use of marijuana, combatting terrorism and the Patriot Act, gang initiatives, or gun control, etc.). In your paper:

Summarize the key elements of the selected crime control policy.
Explain the political process that sets the foundation for the selected crime control policy.
Examine the role of the federal government when it comes to formulating crime control policy.
Discuss how the U.S. Congress influences crime control policy of the states and ensures consistency of laws among the states (Note: Traditionally, crime control legislation falls under state legislatures).

Your paper must:

Be three pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style.
Use at least five scholarly sources in addition to the course text.

Loan Project: Buying a House
For this assignment, you will analyze a home mortgage loan.
1.
Find a description, asking price, and real estate taxes of a house for sale,
and decide on a purchase price you would be willing
to pay (assuming you
have the means). Find a current market interest rat
e for a 30-year fixed-rate
mortgage having a down payment of 20 percent of the
purchase price.
2.
Compute the down payment, amount financed, and the
monthly mortgage
payment (showing how to use the appropriate financi
al formula).
3.
Compute the monthly amount of real estate taxes and
add to the monthly
mortgage payment to get the total monthly amount pa
id.
4.
Suppose that in order to qualify for the loan, the
total monthly amount paid
cannot exceed 30 percent of monthly income. What is
the minimum
monthly income needed to qualify for the loan? What
is the minimum
annual income needed? (Note: This is a simplified m
inimum income
requirement calculation, for the purposes of this p
roject, as it does not take
into account other costs such as insurance or other
loans or assets currently
held.)
5.
Construct an amortization table (using spreadsheet
software or online
resources such as
http://www.bankrate.com
).
6.
Assume that the first payment is made in January of
the current year. Find
the month and year of the last payment. Find the da
te of the first month
when the amount applied to the principal exceeds th
e amount of interest
paid. How many of the 360 payments have been made a
t this point?
7.
Assuming that the mortgage is held for the full 30
years, compute the total
principal paid and the total interest paid.
8.
Effectively communicate your analysis, interpretati
on, evaluation, and the results
you found to be particularly interesting, and why.
Your report must include
•
name of project and your name
•
house’s description, asking price, and real estate
taxes, the purchase price,
and the current market interest rate (include refer
ences)
•
computations and answers for tasks 2, 3, and 4, amo
rtization table for task
5, answers for task 6, and computations and answers
for task 7
•
conclusion (task 8)

Week 5 Assignment

Your assignment this week is to review the IKEA Case Study below. While reviewing it, consider it as background information for your upcoming presentation to the IKEA Senior Management Team. More details on your upcoming PowerPoint presentation to the management team are provided at the end of the case study guidelines.

Deliver the Value: IKEA Case Study

IKEA is a Swedish-owned global business founded in 1943. The business generates annual revenues of 27 billion euros and employs 139,000 people in 298 stores and 26 countries. The values and design philosophy of the founder continue to underpin the brand. These values might be summed up as frugal, democratic, environmentally aware, and design oriented. IKEA has become synonymous with Swedish lifestyle. The stores are virtually identical across the globe and sell a range of globally sourced flat-packed furniture products as well as a range of related furnishings for the home—the stores offer customers a Swedish experience by incorporating restaurants and a variety of customer services intended to simplify the shopping process (e.g., childcare). What is interesting about IKEA is that customers have become a significant part of the value creating process—customers play a key role in terms of logistics and in production. By performing the assembly of the flat-packed furniture, customers complete the final stages in the production process. In terms of logistics, the customer “moves” goods from warehouse-style storage through the checkout, and then transports the goods home. The trade-off for the consumer is lower prices and immediate gratification—furniture is typically sold using just in time (JIT) inventory management, which means that once a customer has placed an order, the furniture then goes into production and is delivered to the customer’s home some 3–4 months later.

IKEA’s senior management has in the past pursued an aggressive expansion policy, but management is currently changing direction, adopting a slower rate of expansion and investing in existing stores. The company plans to increase sales by 10% a year to 2020, thereby doubling annual sales revenues. Management is concerned about how expansion in the BRIC countries, particularly India and China, is pursued. There are fears about preserving the company’s culture in these huge markets (Milne, 2013).

Sources:
http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/this-is-ikea/company-information/index.html

Milne, R. (2013, September 1). Ikea signals slower expansion. Financial Times.

What do you think? What would you do? What problems do you foresee and how will this impact IKEA’s Swedish concept? Please recommend a marketing solution that will help IKEA achieve growth in either India or China based on your understanding of the place P and how delivering the value is evolving.

Please use the case study guidelines below to perform a brief analysis, identify the problem, suggest alternative solutions, and make recommendations for the implementation of the solution that you believe is the best fit.

 
Case Study Guidelines

1. Analysis of the Current Situation—The proper context must be established for the case analysis. Please provide a SWOT analysis in a SWOT box.

• Research: Identify the key environmental factors such as industry trends, level of competitiveness, customer perceptions, legal considerations, and evolving technology at the outset of the analysis.

• Summarize the key aspects of the internal environment of the firm in terms of strengths and weaknesses and the external environment in terms of opportunities and threats to the firm in your SWOT box.

2. The Target Market—Identify your target market: Who is your target customer? In terms of demographics and lifestyle, what aspects of consumer behavior provide insights into this group of customers?

3. The Problem—Identification of key problem(s). It is easy to identify symptoms of problems while failing to identify the real problems. For example, declining sales may be identified as a problem, when the decline is only symptomatic of more complex problems that are harder to observe. Make a clear distinction between what is identified as the problem and the symptoms of the problems.

4. Alternative Solutions—Identify and evaluate alternatives. Develop reasonable alternatives and evaluate them in terms of feasibility, projected costs advantages, disadvantages, and potential short-term and long-term consequences.

5. Recommended Course of Action—Select a course of action and provide the appropriate strategies and tactics to accomplish the chosen course. Justify your choice in terms of your analysis. As most practitioners know, charting a course of action can be a difficult job, but implementation is the true challenge. Produce a workable action plan that would have a reasonable probability of success in the implementation phase.

This assignment will be a presentation using PowerPoint. Develop a set of at least five (5) PowerPoint slides to present the findings of your analysis. Some additional research is expected. The IKEA website is highly informative. Use APA format and include an additional slide with your sources. Assume that your analysis will be presented to the IKEA senior management team and that your job depends on it!