Author: chris

To prepare:

•Consider the following examples of pediatric patients and their families: ◦Overweight 5-year-old boy with overweight parents

◦Example 1: Overweight 5-year-old boy with overweight parents

•Select the examples on which to focus for this Discussion. What health issues and risks may be relevant to the child you selected?

•Based on the risks you identified, consider what further information you would need to gain a full understanding of the child’s health. Think about how you could gather this information in a sensitive fashion.

•Consider how you could encourage parents or caregivers to be proactive toward the child’s health.

Study Questions

Answer the following questions (based on the reading), save it and then submit it to the professor.

Who is Eliezer?
Remember the discussion about the location of Ur (Module 5). Does the location of the city of Nahor, as given by Davis, influence the location of Ur? Explain your answer.
Why was Eliezer’s journey successful?
Whose decision was it for Rebekkah to go with Eliezer?
How old was Isaac at Abraham’s death? Ishmael?
What does the mentioning of Ishmael and his sons tell us about God?
“The elder shall serve the younger” tells us what about God?
Explain in detail the patriarchal custom of the birthright.
How did Esau feel about his birthright (Heb 12:15-17)?
What practical lesson can parents learn from the story of Jacob and Esau?
When a famine hit the land, what did Isaac do? Be thorough.
What do the weaknesses of Biblical characters tell us about the Bible?
Give another practical lesson to be learned from the story of Jacob’s deception of Isaac.
Which of the interpretations of Isaac’s promise to Esau makes the most sense to you?
Did Rebekkah ever see Jacob again? Explain your answer.
Discuss the uniqueness of the patriarch’s monotheism.

Identify and describe the components of a person analysis. Include the steps as well as a pertinent example.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Identify and describe the components of a strategic/organizational analysis, including the methods and advantages.

The local domestic violence shelter has noticed an increase in the number of families affected by substance abuse. They have contacted your agency about providing information on how to serve the needs of this growing population. In your communication, you are to discuss the following:

Discuss interventions for substance abuse situations.
Describe how to help system (family) members to identify and interrupt harmful interaction patterns and practice healthy interaction patterns.

Once you have made your corrections, you will make your final submission for the course project. Below is a summary of the expectations for Phase 5 of the course project:

Introduce your scenario and data set.

Provide a brief overview of the scenario you are given above and the data set that you will be analyzing.
Classify the variables in your data set.
Which variables are quantitative/qualitative?
Which variables are discrete/continuous?
Describe the level of measurement for each variable included in your data set.

Discuss the importance of the Measures of Center and the Measures of Variation.

What are the measures of center and why are they important?
What are the measures of variation and why are they important?

Calculate the measures of center and measures of variation. Interpret your results in context of the selected topic.

Mean
Median
Mode
Midrange
Range
Variance
Standard Deviation

Discuss the importance of constructing confidence intervals for the population mean.

What are confidence intervals?
What is a point estimate?
What is the best point estimate for the population mean? Explain.
Why do we need confidence intervals?

Based on your selected topic, evaluate the following:

Find the best point estimate of the population mean.
Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean. Assume that your data is normally distributed and σ is unknown.
Please show your work for the construction of this confidence interval and be sure to use the Equation Editor to format your equations.
Write a statement that correctly interprets the confidence interval in context of your selected topic.

Based on your selected topic, evaluate the following:

Find the best point estimate of the population mean.
Construct a 99% confidence interval for the population mean. Assume that your data is normally distributed and σ is unknown.
Please show your work for the construction of this confidence interval and be sure to use the Equation Editor to format your equations.
Write a statement that correctly interprets the confidence interval in context of your selected topic.

Compare and contrast your findings for the 95% and 99% confidence interval.
Did you notice any changes in your interval estimate? Explain.
What conclusion(s) can be drawn about your interval estimates when the confidence level is increased? Explain.

Discuss the process for hypothesis testing.

Discuss the 8 steps of hypothesis testing?
When performing the 8 steps for hypothesis testing, which method do you prefer; P-Value method or Critical Value method? Why?

Discussion 1

Claims to Environmental-Friendliness

After reading “The ‘Six Sins of Greenwashing’: A Study of Environmental Claims in North American Markets”, discuss the tension between businesses interests in maximizing profits and the public’s interest in receiving complete, truthful, and non-misleading information about products that they purchase. From a business perspective, what are the dangers of “greenwashing”? If you were a marketing executive, would you have a policy against “greenwashing”? Why or why not?

TerraChoice Environmental Marketing Inc. (n.d.). The ‘six sins of greenwashing’: A study of environmental claims in North American markets [PDF file]. The Six Sins of Greenwashing.

Discussion 2

Environmental Statutes

Read the U.S. Small Business Administration’s article, titled Environmental Regulations, and visit the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s “Laws & Regulations” page.

Identify one environmental law that is relevant to your past, current, or future employer. Apply that law to a business situation created by that employer. How does (or did) that employer maintain compliance with that statute? Do you believe that environmental regulations help or hinder business? Why or why not?

U.S. Small Business Administration (n.d.). Environmental regulations . Retrieved from http://www.sba.gov/content/environmental-regulations

United States Environmental Protection Agency. (2012). Laws & Regulations. (n.d.). U.S. EPA. Retrieved from www.epa.gov/lawsregs/

Assignment 1: Discussion—Effective Punishment

One aspect of raising healthy children is understanding how to best provide correction when they make poor choices or behave in unacceptable ways. Over the years, there has been much debate over the most effective form of punishment for children. As part of this debate, you have to take into consideration operant conditioning as this is the basis for how effective correction works. Operant conditioning should be considered when choosing how to best administer corrective actions whether the parents choose to use corporal punishment, time outs, or loss of privileges.

Discuss the differences between negative and positive punishment. What are the factors that make punishment effective?
Discuss the effectiveness of corporal punishment and elaborate upon when you think it should be used.
Discuss how culture affects the type of punishment used.
Give reasons in support of your responses based on your readings and personal experiences.

Write your initial response in 2–3 paragraphs. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

By Saturday, December 12, 2015, post your response to the appropriateDiscussion Area. Through Wednesday, December 16, 2015, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses. In your responses, consider the following:

Have your peers accurately identified the differences between negative and positive punishment? Explain your answer.

public policy

Outline your team’s Public Involvement strategy as well as the type of Genre as related to BULLYING. Complete the following in your outline:

Identify various techniques available to ensure public involvement, including external stakeholders. Provide rationale for the chosen techniques.

· Include possible challenges with public involvement in the decision-making process. Provide recommendations to overcome anticipated challenges.

· Evaluate three communication genres based on how closely they align to stakeholder criterion.

Within criminal justice, researchers are often faced with a plethora of anecdotal data with little empirical support for such assertions. We have all, no doubt, heard anecdotes pertaining to gang initiation rites, killers stalking baby sitters, or corpses discovered rolled in carpets by hapless hotel maids. Criminal justice researchers depend primarily upon empirical data as the most useful tools with which to explore the nuances of the issues plaguing society. However, one can always ponder the usefulness of anecdotal data. In contemporary research, there has yet to be a consensus pertaining to the proper place and function of anecdotal data. Jacques (2014) discusses both quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Respond fully to the following questions:

How would you explain the differences between the use of empirical research data from that of anecdotal data?
How do these differences inform how criminal justice data might be evaluated and interpreted in published research findings?
Is there a place in formal research for anecdotal data?

PSYC221 Personality Theories

(1) First identify one or two aspects of the course that added to your knowledge of personality development, in general, and explain why.

(2) Then identify at least one thing you learned that is directly related to your own area of interest. For example, if your area of interest is criminal justice, what can you take away from this class that will help you with your future work in that area? If your area of interest is psychology, how will what you learned in this class help you be successful in future psychology courses? If your area of interest is being a better spouse and/or parent, then what new tools can you glean from this course for that purpose? If there is more than one area to which you think you can apply what you have learned, you may, of course, discuss more than one, but only one application of learning to interest area is required for this last post.