New Experiments

•Sodium sulfate soundness

•Water-alcohol freeze thaw

•Acid-insoluble residue

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Milestone Two provides the support for the quality improvement initiative with details about the leadership style, existing interprofessional strategies, evidence-based resources, reimbursement, and change theory. You will continue to use the topic that you chose in Milestone One.

Milestone Two provides the support for the quality improvement initiative with details about the leadership style, existing interprofessional strategies, evidence-based resources, reimbursement, and change theory. You will continue to use the topic that you chose in Milestone One.

For more information on this assignment, please see the Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric.

Case Study: Cloud Helps Fight Cancer

Each minute a person in the United States dies from cancer—over half a million deaths per year. Thousands of scientists and physicians are working around the clock to fight cancer where it starts—in our DNA.
DNA is a molecule present in our cells that carries most of the genetic instructions used in the development, functioning, and reproduction of all known living organisms.
The information in DNA is stored as a code made up of four chemical bases adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T). Human DNA consists of about 3 billion bases, and more than 99 percent of those bases are the same in all people. The complete set of DNA instructions is called your genome, and it comes packaged into two sets of chromosomes, one set from your mother and one set from your father. Sometimes those instructions are miscoded or misread, which can cause cells to malfunction and grow out of control—resulting in cancer.
Doctors now routinely use patient genetic data along with personal data and health factors to design highly personalized treatments for cancer patients. However, genome sequencing is a highly complex effort—it takes about 100 gigabytes of data to represent just a single human genome. Only a few years ago, it was not even feasible to analyze an entire human genome. The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international, collaborative research program whose goal was the complete mapping and understanding of all the genes of human beings. The HGP took over 15 years and cost the neighborhood $3 billion, but the result was the ability to read the complete genetic blueprint for humans.
It takes a computer with powerful processing power and prodigious amounts of storage capacity to process all the patient data required to sequence their genome. Most researchers simply do not have the in-house computing facilities equal to the challenge. As a result, they turn to cloud computing solutions, such as the Amazon Web Services public cloud system. Thanks to cloud computing and other technical advances, sequencing of a human genome can now be done in about 40 hours at a cost of under $5000.
Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio invented Churchill, a software application that analyzes gene sequences very efficiently. Using cloud computing and this new algorithm, researchers at the hospital are now able to analyze a thousand individual genomes over a period of a week. Not only does this technology enable the hospital to help individual patients, it also helps large-scale research efforts exploring the genetic mutations that cause diseases.
Using the cloud also enables doctors and researchers worldwide to share information and collaborate more easily. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is a research program supported by the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute, whose goal is to identify genomic changes in more than 20 different types of human cancer. TCGA researchers compare the DNA samples of normal tissue with cancer tissue taken from the same patient to identify changes specific to that cancer. The researchers hope to analyze hundreds of samples for each type of cancer from many different patients to better understand what makes one cancer different from another cancer. This is critical because two patients with the same type of cancer can experience very different outcomes and respond very differently to the same treatment. Researchers hope to develop more effective, individualized treatments for each patient by connecting specific genomic changes with specific outcomes.
Critical Thinking Questions
What advantages does cloud computing offer physicians and researchers in their fight against cancer?
Estimate the amount of data required to analyze the human genome of 100 patients for each of 20 different types of cancer.
Physicians must abide by HIPAA regulations when transmitting data back and forth to the cloud. The penalties for noncompliance are based on the level of negligence and can range from $100 to $50,000 per violation (or per record). Violations can also carry criminal charges, resulting in jail time. What measures can be taken when using cloud computing to ensure that patient confidentiality will not be violated?
Submit the assignment to Dropbox.
Remember, information should be restated in your own words. Any direct quotes should be properly credited to the source and quotes should not comprise more than 20% of the paper.

Putting the I in Integrity

Chapter 2b – Assignment: Putting the I in Integrity

read instructions and answer the questions regarding the article

Your paper should be:
One (1) page
Typed according to APA style for margins, formatting and spacing standards
Typed into a Microsoft Word document, save the file, and then upload the file

For this essay, you will write about all things

For this essay, you will write about all of the texts we have studied in light of our essential question. By answering the essential question with your opinion, you will find examples within all of the texts, and you will incorporate them into your essay.
USE SIMPLE WORDS AND SENTENCES ONLYYYYY
Your Prompt: In light of what we have read this semester, ( Tales, of two cities , Things fall aparat, My fair lady , Othello ,) how does literature help us to relate to and understand other cultures, individuals, and experiences?

Your essay should include the following:
1. Introduction: This should be no fewer than three sentences, and it should include a hook, a statement of background, and a complex thesis statement that alludes to what is to come in the body paragraphs.
2. Body Paragraphs: You will need at least six body paragraphs. Think of it as two per text we have read. Within these body paragraphs, you will be expected to cite each of our texts at least three times. This is a total of nine quotations throughout the entire essay. These paragraphs should emphasize the ways that the texts we have read inform your answer to the prompt.
3. Conclusion: This should be no fewer than four sentences. Begin with a restatement of the thesis, and then move into a concluding discussion on the overall answer to the question (independent of how you feel about the books and their bearing on the question).

base on readings

Discussing at least two of the assigned books for the course, answer the following questions:
In what ways do the practices of industrialized food production create social costs that are passed on to others?
What are some ways in which we can reduce the costs?
Please be explicit about what the costs are (you must name and explain them).
You may refer to supplementary texts (including films), but you must demonstrate your understanding of the assigned readings that you select and cite every source you use.
You should not merely mention the readings, but discuss them with depth and clarity, offering correctly cited quotes.
You will also be graded on the mechanics of your writing, so be sure to take extra time to proofread for grammatical and spelling errors and other typos.
books:
Jonathan Safran Foer (2019), We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
-Timothy Pachirat (2013), Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized -Slaughter and the Politics of Sight (Also available as a free e-book through the CSI library)
-Peter Singer and Jim Mason (2007), The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

How does (or should) your organization measure forecast accuracy? What would you do differently to improve forecast accuracy in your organization.

I work in the military

In addition to reading your assigned resources for week 1, research each of the three topics regarding the organization you currently work for, or previously worked for:

From the viewpoint of your organization, discuss the concept of demand as it applies to your organization.
Next, choose a resource or activity that is forecast in your organization and address why achieving results significantly different than the forecast can be a potential problem for your organization.
How does (or should) your organization measure forecast accuracy? What would you do differently to improve forecast accuracy in your organization.

Environmental Factors/Health Promotion Presentation

Assessment Descriiption

The growth, development, and learned behaviors that occur during the first year of infancy have a direct effect on the individual throughout a lifetime. For this assignment, research an environmental factor that poses a threat to the health or safety of infants and develop a health promotion that can be presented to caregivers.

Create a 10-12 slide PowerPoint health promotion, with speaker notes, that outlines a teaching plan. For the presentation of your PowerPoint, use Loom to create a voice over or a video. Include an additional slide for the Loom link at the beginning, and an additional slide for references at the end.

In developing your PowerPoint, take into consideration the health care literacy level of your target audience, as well as the demographic of the caregiver/patient (socioeconomic level, language, culture, and any other relevant characteristic of the caregiver) for which the presentation is tailored.

Include the following in your presentation:

Describe the selected environmental factor. Explain how the environmental factor you selected can potentially affect the health or safety of infants.Create a health promotion plan that can be presented to caregivers to address the environmental factor and improve the overall health and well-being of infants.Offer recommendations on accident prevention and safety promotion as they relate to the selected environmental factor and the health or safety of infants.Offer examples, interventions, and suggestions from evidence-based research. At least three scholarly resources are required. Two of the three resources must be peer-reviewed and no more than 6 years old.Provide readers with two community resources, a national resource, and a Web-based resource. Include a brief descriiption and contact information for each resource.

You are required to cite a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years, appropriate for the assignment criteria, and relevant to nursing practice.

Refer to the resource, “Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on completing this assignment in the appropriate style.

Refer to the resource, “Loom,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on recording your presentation.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Critical/ Argumentative Essay Assignment: Write an essay in which you examine the novel (of mice and men) through a critical lens – take a stance on an issue that is raised in the novel. Prove your point through text evidence and explanation that connects the text to the thesis. Always be sure to frame your quotes by setting them up with preliminary statements, supplying the quote, and then making the connection/explanation.

Critical/ Argumentative Essay Assignment: Write an essay in which you examine the novel (of mice and men) through a critical lens – take a stance on an issue that is raised in the novel. Prove your point through text evidence and explanation that connects the text to the thesis. Always be sure to frame your quotes by setting them up with preliminary statements, supplying the quote, and then making the connection/explanation.

Use the basic argument organizer provided to guide you. You do not need to turn this in, but it may be helpful to you to remind yourself of the basics of a literary analysis essay.

● IMPORTANT – You must include a counterclaim – consider how “others” may see this differently from yourself. [Providing a counterclaim helps to build credibility (ethos) for your point of view.] This should go after the last support paragraph and BEFORE the conclusion. I have linked a generic formula for the counterclaim. *I like to start a counterclaim with a signal phrase such as: “While some critics may feel….” or “Although it could be seen as….” or “Though there could be debate about….” and then the “rebuttal” piece of it is something to bring the reader back to your point of view.

The essay should be 2-21/2 pages in length, MLA format, Times New Roman, 12 point font, 1 inch margins, double spaced.