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Case Study: Phase Separations Solutions (PS2): The China Question

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Case Study: Phase Separations Solutions (PS2): The China Question

Read the case study located on page 310 of the section titled Case Studies in your textbook and prepare a 4-6-page report in Microsoft, based on the following situation:

Entrepreneurial firm, PS2, has been presented with two opportunities to significantly expand their business in China. Paul Antle, President and CEO of PS2, has come to you asking for your advice regarding these opportunities. Review the information available to you in the case and write a response to Mr. Antle’s questions:

Should PS2 enter the Chinese market?
Which opportunity should PS2 pursue?
Could PS2 pursue both opportunities? Should they?
Did PS2 possess the required resources and capabilities to pursue an equity-based entry?
What ownership levels should PS2 assume for each option?

As you respond to each question, be sure that you explain the major issues that need to be considered. For example, what should be considered when thinking about entering the Chinese market?

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Analyzing Policy

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E Activity

· Review these sites to identify public policy at http://www.policyalmanac.org and http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/search.php?all_query=public+policy. Be prepared to discuss.

· Review the Federal Register which keeps up-to-date information on the various policies for each government agency, how to use it to research policies and policy types, and keeping up with the Daily Journal of the United States at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/, http://www.federalregister.gov/ and http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/tutorial/(Daily Journal of the United States). Be prepared to discuss.

Each question should contain references and obtain atleast 300 words

Discussion 1

“Analyzing Policy” Based on the lecture, respond to the following:

· Evaluate how useful the conservative/liberal policy typology is to describe and analyze policy. Suggest at least one recommendation for improvement.

· Analyze the benefits and shortcomings of labeling an idea, organization, or person as a liberal or conservative, and apply these benefits or shortcomings to what you see happening today with an example.

Discussion 2

Public Policy” Please respond to the following:

· Using the e-Activity, the student will respond to the following:

o Suggest a policy that would fit each policy type. Then, describe your experience doing this exercise: Was it easy to fit policies within one type, or did you experience difficulty finding a single category into which a policy will fit? Why do we use these typologies at all?

o Using the Daily Journal of the United States and your suggested policy, discuss any proposed and/or final rules, and presidential documents of the policy.

Engineering and ethics

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Engineering and Ethics
Midterm

How does the line-drawing approach help solve ethical problems and limit the risk on projects? (Approximately 2 paragraphs).
How does working with a team cause potential ethical problems? How can these issues be limited and avoided? (Approximately 2 paragraphs).
What makes engineering a true profession? What are the reasons of engineering not being considered to be the same level as medicine and law? (Approximately 2 paragraphs).
Why is analyzing a case study central to ethical problem solving? What benefits does this analysis provide? (Approximately 2 paragraphs).
Is the problem solving approach presented in this course similar or different from the engineering problem solving approach? Explain how and why it is different or similar? (Approximately 2 paragraphs)

LAW Paper for Certified Solutions only

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Locate an article specifically related to e-business and intellectual property.

Write a 350- to 700-word review of the article. Your review should assess the different types of and legal protections for intellectual property. Analyze the legal issues of e-business to include intellectual property, privacy, ethics, and security.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Be prepared to discuss your review in class.

Ownership Forms of Health Care Organizations

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You are an external consultant with 10 years experience in your field. Fifty doctors are trying to get together to form a health care organization, and they come to you for suggestions on developing the ownership form for the organization. It is your job to advise them on what common ownership forms are available for the organization and provide an example of each. Additionally, you must discuss the following:

The advantages and disadvantages of each ownership form.
The ownership form would you would recommend as being most appropriate for this particular organization as well as why it is the most appropriate.

Your paper must include an introduction, thesis, and conclusion. Your paper must be four to five double-spaced pages in length (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Utilize three scholarly and/or peer-reviewed sources that were published within the last five years. Cite your souces within the text of your paper and provide complete references for each source used on the reference page.

Week8 Paper

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Imagine you are the head administrator at Well Being Hospital, a hypothetical local health care facility. Your task is to communicate with Get Well Drugs, a major U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturer, in order to determine if the drugs supplied by this manufacturer are within benchmark standards set forth by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and are thus suitable for use at your hospital. Specifically, you have to report your findings to the health care professionals who use these medications.

Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

Recommend a strategy for communication with Get Well Drugs in order to determine if the drugs supplied by this manufacturer are within benchmark standards set forth by the FDA.
Outline a plan for asking questions directed toward Get Well Drugs about any FDA regulations which may be applicable to your local hospital.
Outline a plan for communicating these findings to a local consortium of nurses and physicians at your hospital. This plan must include, at a minimum, the cost of the drugs, as well as the types of drugs for use in mental, behavioral, and general services.
Conclude your findings, in which you suggest the pros and cons of using Get Well Drugs.
Use at least four (4) recent (i.e., last five [5] years), quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic 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; citations and 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 assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Explain the major components of the U.S. health care system, their functions, and the relationships among these components.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services organization.
Write clearly and concisely about health services organization using proper writing mechanics.

2 pages, font 12 time new roman double spaced

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The Dark Knight

Consider The Dark Knight, and evaluate the following three decisions made, in the context of Mill’s philosophy. 1) Batman’s decision not to kill the Joker. 2) Batman’s use of cell phone surveillance technology to locate the Joker. (remember that was an invasion of privacy and done without the consent of anyone) and 3) Batman’s decision to take the blame for Harvey Dent’s death and deceive the people of Gotham. How would a utilitarian like Mill evaluate each of these decisions? For Mill, which are right and which are wrong, and why? Now, speak to your own opinion. Is Mill right, is happiness the only worthy end? Do consequences matter more than intentions, why or why not? In your opinion, Which, if any of Batman’s decisions were morally correct, why or why not? If you agree, be sure to defend your opinion based on what you’ve learned about utilitarianism. And if you disagree, be sure to explain what flaw you see in utilitarianism that has led you to this decision.

Mill:Utilitarianism

A good act is the act that produces the most happiness for the most amount of people.

For Mill, the consequences are what determine the moral rightness of an act.

Happiness is the only thing that is an end unto itself.

What is happiness?

Pleasure and the absence of pain.

Long term happiness or immediate happiness?

we want happiness that is long term.

Is there a hierarchy of pleasures?

Mental/Intellectual pleasures are favored over physical pleasures.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you recommend various components that may be used to measure the value of an IS and IT department to a company. Include the following: Methods used to measure the economic value of an IT department to a company M

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Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you recommend various components that may be used to measure the value of an IS and IT department to a company. Include the following:

Methods used to measure the economic value of an IT department to a company
Models for assessing the IS value put in place by the IT department
Whether or not traditional financial ratios and measurements must be applied to determining the value of IT
Provide at least two recent articles from the UOP online library to support your paper.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

IRT/05

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The debate about the pacifying effects of democracy on international politics has been ongoing for the last several decades, fueled by the absence of major warfare between the democratic states of Western Europe in the post-WW II era. Given what you know about the causal arguments behind the Democratic Peace Theory (DPT), and the empirical evidence in support of the theory, do you believe that the Arab Spring phenomenon will lead to a decline in international warfare in the Middle East? Why, or why not?

Comparison Paper

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Comparison Paper

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that compares Fayol’s 14 principles of management (pp. 216–221) to Weber’s Bureaucracy (pp. 228–233). Are Weber and Fayol essentially presenting the same set of ideas, or are their ideas entirely different? In what ways are their ideas similar and different?

List your references according to APA guidelines, including links to any websites or online articles your paper refers to.

Hints:

Fayol lists “division of work” as one of his 14 principles of management (p. 217). Is this the same as Weber’s “division of labor” (p. 231)?
Is Fayol’s “scalar chain” (p. 219) similar to Weber’s “managerial hierarchy” (p. 231)?
Do any of Fayol’s principles (pp. 217–221) correspond to Weber’s “career orientation” (p. 231)?