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Discussion: Confidence Intervals
Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
Textbook: Chapter 8
Lesson
Minimum of 1 scholarly source
In your reference for this assignment, be sure to include both your text/class materials AND your outside reading(s).
Confidence Intervals
In everyday terms, a confidence interval is the range of values around a sample statistic (such as mean or proportion) within which clinicians can expect to get the same results if they repeat the study protocol or intervention, including measuring the same outcomes the same ways. As you ask yourself, “Will I get the same results if I use this research?”, you must address the precision of study findings, which is determined by the Confidence Interval. If the CI around the sample statistic is narrow, you can be confident you will get close to the same results if you implement the same research in your practice.
Consider the following example. Suppose that you did a systematic review of studies on the effect of tai chi exercise on sleep quality, and you found that tai chi affected sleep quality in older people. If, according to your study, you found the lower boundary of the CI to be .49, the study statistic to be 0.87, and the upper boundary to be 1.25, this would mean that each end limit is 0.38 from the sample statistic, which is a relatively narrow CI.
(UB + LB)/2 = Statistic [(1.25 + .49)/2 = .87]
Keep in mind that a mean difference of 0 indicates there is no difference; this CI does not contain 0. Therefore, the sample statistic is statistically significant and unlikely to occur by chance.
Because this was a systematic review, and tai chi exercise has been established from the studies you assessed as helping people sleep, based on the sample statistics and the CI, clinicians could now use your study and confidently include tai chi exercises among possible recommendations for patients who have difficulty sleeping.
Now you can apply your knowledge of CIs to create your own studies and make wise decisions about whether to base your patient care on a particular research finding.
Initial Post Thinking of the many variables tracked by hospitals and doctors’ offices, confidence intervals could be created for population parameters (such as means or proportions) that were calculated from many of them. Choose a topic of study that is tracked (or that you would like to see tracked) from your place of work. Discuss the variable and parameter (mean or proportion) you chose, and explain why you would use these to create an interval that captures the true value of the parameter of patients with 95% confidence.
Consider the following:
Explain how would changing the confidence interval to 90% or 99% affect the study? Which of these values (90%, 95%, or 99%) would best suit the confidence level according to the type of study chosen? How might the study findings be presented to those in charge in an attempt to affect change at the workplace?
Follow-Up Post Respond to at least one peer. Further the dialogue by providing more information and clarification.
Writing Requirements
Minimum of 2 posts (1 initial & 1 follow-up)
APA format for in-text citations and list of references
Grading
This activity will be graded using the Discussion Grading Rubric. Please review the following link:

Writing Instructions:

1. Write a three to four (4-5) page paper
2. Demonstrate clear, insightful critical
thinking of the topic and provide a detailed
evaluation of the issues. Compare, contrast and synthesize the overall
topic.
3. Discuss the theory of supply chain quality
management.
4. Discuss strategies for leveraging supply
chain management.
5. How do supply chains for service
organizations differ from supply chains for
manufacturing organizations?
6. 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.
7. Support your research with at least four (4)
quality academic resources: (2) scholarly
journal articles, and/or peer-reviews, and (2)
textbooks (one can be from the course),
Grading Rubric:
Grading for this assignment will be based on context quality, logic /
organization of the paper, and language and
writing skills, using the grading rubric
located at the end of the syllabus.

In this unit, you learned about public health program evaluation and evidence-based management and the impact they have on public health policy. For this assignment, you will choose a peer-reviewed article related to a public health program evaluation and evidence-based management issue of your choice. Use the databases within the CSU Online Library, Google Scholar, or another reputable academic source that contains peer-reviewed articles. The purpose of this assignment is for you to practice reviewing public health articles that contribute to public health policy and management. The authors of these articles are researchers and professionals who have shared or experimented with ideas that demonstrate the potential to improve public health practice. As a professional in the industry, it is in your best interest to review the literature for past and current public health events, as well as evaluate proposed public health measures reviewed in such academic writings.
The article you choose must meet the following requirements:
be a peer-reviewed, academic article,
be related to the concepts of public health program evaluation and evidence-based management, and
be recent (within the last 10 years).
The writing you submit must address the following tasks.
Provide a summary of the article.
Analyze the main public health issue or trend in the article, and provide an overview of the problem as well as the suggested outcomes and measures to the problem (Make sure this includes a distinct discussion regarding the importance of public health evaluation and the evidence-based information related to the outcomes of the study/program being evaluated).
Identify the author’s intended audience and focus if they were able to distinguish between public health program evaluation and research.
Your review should be at least two full pages in length and double-spaced (this does not include the title and reference pages). Use references where necessary, and be sure to cite the article reviewed.

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jessejackson1984dnc.htm
This is the site you need to use
I need 2-3 paragraphs due tonight at 11:30PM
Full 1000 word essay is due February 8th, 11:45 PM
For the entire essay, these are the instructions:
Your analysis should focus on analysis and contain very little summary. Your audience is your classmates: fellow students who are trying to understand what makes a good rhetoric, good rhetoric. This is an academic essay, meaning you must provide good reasons and evidence for your claims. Your purpose may be to explore, persuade, or inform. All of you, in part, will be seeking to persuade, to persuade your audience that a speech is effective or ineffective.
Your thesis statement should explain whether the speech is rhetorically effective and why, mentioning specific strategies that makes the speech effective or ineffective. The introduction or a background paragraph will explain some of the typical genre expectations of the speech, such as who the audience is and typical elements of that particular speech (for instance, a State of the Union address has a particular form that is different from a speech given at a rally). Several body paragraphs will then outline each strategy and provide examples of the strategies. Then the paragraphs will analyze what makes that strategy effective or ineffective.

The team is looking at the way Mary deals with
money. Their observation of the company is that Mary is not in really bad
financial shape despite all of the downsizings she has done in the last three
years. Mary’s debt load is small but her accounts receivable is high. She does
seem to have money to pay her bills and make a profit but growth is not
realistic. Since one of the major purposes of this report is to give Mary
recommendations on how to put her company in a position to grow, it might be
best to help Mary with ways to improve her cash management flow and how it will
relate to financing. Also, you think that this is an area where growth must be
considered carefully.
Directions:
1.
By complete the following:
Research the best tips for managing cash flow and create a
checklist for Mary to use in the future. Try not to just pick the most
common ideas; look for those that are different as well.
To go with the checklist, make another checklist of the
things to avoid doing when managing cash flow.
Explain to Mary how and why she must correct her immediate
problem with accounts receivables if she hopes to get financing in the
future.
Create a table that describes all ways small business owners
can obtain financing. In the column, section use the following headings:
description of the finance type, who can benefit most from this type of
financing, recommendation. The rows will contain various types of
financing possible for Mary. Explain to Mary that you have started the
table for her but she should carefully examine the
recommendations the firm has made to see if they work for her in light of
her plans to grow.
Review part two again and explain to Mary how her downsizing
might affect her financial future. Be sure to identify what stage in the
life cycle she is in and how that will play into the financial plans she
should consider in growth.

Articles to review
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanhall/2012/10/20/5-means-of-funding-a-small-business-how-to-get-your-piece-of-the-pie/?sh=ef873881cf2c

Life Cycle Financing Options

History of Mary’s company is attached and other readings to use

Discussion: Photography and Cinema
Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
Textbook: Chapter 11
Lesson 1, 2
Minimum of 1 primary or scholarly source (from photographer or critic – either will count as your scholarly source requirement for discussions)
Initial Post For the initial post, address one of the following options:
Option 1: In the 19th century, the camera was a revolutionary invention, and many artists were concerned about the effect that photographs would have on the art world.
Did the invention of the camera change the arts? Why or why not?
Choose an artistic movement that you believe was influenced by the camera and discuss how the movement was affected.
Include at least one example of an artist and artwork in your response.
Include a statement from a current photographer or critic to support your points.
Option 2: In the 21st century, the smartphone camera changed the way we use and view photography. In addition, apps and social media have changed the way we share photography.
How has the invention of the smartphone camera changed photography?
How have apps and social media changed the way we share photos? Are they positive and/or negative changes? Explain.
Include a statement from a current photographer or critic to support your points.
Follow-Up Post Respond to at least one peer. Respond to one peer who chose an option different from yours. Further the dialogue by providing more information and clarification.
Writing Requirements
Minimum of 2 posts (1 initial & 1 follow-up)
Minimum of 2 sources cited (assigned readings/online lessons and an outside source)
APA format for in-text citations and list of references
Grading
This activity will be graded using the Discussion Grading Rubric. Please review the following link:
This week we talk about photography and how digitization has changed the field, especially in terms of being able to share photos rapidly via social media.
In thinking of sharing photos quickly online, consider the story of Massachusetts college student Kim Stafford, who posed for a Facebook photo dressed as, she said, an extreme version of a protesting member of the political Tea Party movement, and holding an anti-Obama sign. She was going to a Boston-Tea-Party-themed party, she said, and thought her costume was clever. The Internet, however, thought otherwise.
Read her story and see the photo here.
The Poynter Institute, a nonprofit journalism center, in St. Petersburg, Fla., named the incident one of the top “errors” of 2012.
How much skepticism do you bring to photos you see published online? What if it was on a friend’s Facebook page?
Read her story and see the photo here.
https://www.al.com/spotnews/2012/10/internet_fail_the_truth_about.html

Recommend a branding strategy that the company could use to increase brand awareness for the new product. Provide a rationale for your recommendation. Why are you recommending this strategy? Consider how your recommendation aligns to the company’s mission, vision, target market, and overall organizational goals.

Explain how social responsibility initiatives will help support the brand, including examples. How will the initiatives influence how the target customers see the brand? (100–150 words)

Outline how you would apply the marketing mix to your recommended strategy. Provide specific examples. (200–300 words)
Do your marketing mix and your branding strategy align?
How would you adjust your marketing mix to support your branding strategy?
How would you position your product to differentiate from the competition?

Explain how consistent brand communications will contribute to increasing brand awareness for the new product. Support your response with specific examples.
Propose strategies the company could implement to protect the brand: Consider actions that the company could take to proactively protect the brand, and possible scenarios that the company might need to react to. (200–250 words)
How will these strategies help you improve or sustain the company’s reputation?
How would you plan for an inevitable crisis situation? What does the company need to have in place to properly react to a crisis?
What legal strategies do you recommend to protect the brand?

Identify the ethical considerations that must be made when conducting marketing activities for this product. For instance, what should the company consider to avoid unethical marketing? How could unethical marketing affect the product’s brand? (100–150 words)

This week you will examine the United States workplace from the perspective of other cultures. You will create a worshop within an accounting firm that supports the integration of foreign employees and installs the practice of intercultural communication among American employee

Review Employee Intercultural Training document

Analyze the scenario, with Jana Teslarova, a master’s degree student from the country of Slovakia who recently joined a large accounting firm in the United States. Jana becomes increasingly more agitated with the different social practices and traditions that seem to contradict her own. In her frustration, Jana appears to be almost prepared to leave the accounting firm after sharing her experiences with human resources. You are the director of human resources, and after hearing about Jana’s experience, you realize that your company needs to create a special workshop to help new employees from outside of the United States adapt to the U.S culture and to encourage greater intercultural competence and empathy for managers to understand the culture of foreign arrivals.

Note: You are not designing the full worshop; instead, you are identifying the priority topic areas and supporting content that should be included.

Design a draft of the content areas to address in this new employee intercultural workshop.

Create a powerpoint presentation of 5 slides including the following in your presentation:

*Outline the specific topic areas that to include within this workshop.

*Include supporting content for each of these areas.

*What can existing employees, departments, and managers do to ease culture shock for new arrivals?

*How should new arrivals be prepared for the United States

*Should their onboarding program address their culture?

*How can you address cultural differences without making one culture sound better than another? For instance, explain to managers that they should be informed about the do’s and don’ts from the culture of their new hires, without resorting to sterotypes. Use specific examples.

*Does your strategy focus on redpect for other cultural viewpoints and backgrounds, while also drawing a line on actions, attitudes, and behaviors that make people uncomfortable?

*Reference specific intercultural elements and concepts within your content to suppory your analysis and recommendations.

*Include speaker notes
Cite at least 2 credible references

PLEASE FOLLOW THE PROMPTS

Case Study: You are called to a postpartum room and find Michael, a two-hour-old infant, irritable and spitting up copious amounts of formula. You do not know the maternal history, so you advise the mother that you would like to return the baby to the nursery for assessment and monitoring. In the medical record, you focus on the prenatal history and find the mother had an addiction to opioids with her last pregnancy but denied drug use with this pregnancy. You witness the baby having some significant tremors, vital signs: T (axillary) – 36.0, RR- 78, HR- 166, and the infant is alert, irritable, and does not console easily. The infant is constantly moving and sucking vigorously on the pacifier.
What do you think is occurring with the infant?
What lab test can be ordered to confirm your suspected diagnosis?
What interventions can be implemented to treat this infant?

The world is shrinking. New therapies and new uses for old therapies are shared across continents. For this project, you will focus on a type of biologically based medicine (aromatherapy, herbal medicines, functional foods and nutraceuticals) and how these therapies are viewed around the world.
Find an article, video, or recent news event about biologically based medicine that could be considered controversial from your cultural perspective.
State the therapy’s country of origin and describe how and why your chosen therapy is used by individuals in the country of origin and in the United States.
Discuss the controversial topic from both the proponent and opponent perspectives.
Discuss your personal perspectives of this type of therapy.
Would you incorporate this therapy in your clinical practice? Why or why not?
Create a presentation (PowerPoint, video, etc.) to include the all of the objectives listed above. The title slide of your presentation or first frame of your video should contain the link to your chosen article, video, or news event. Include citations on slides. References should be listed at the end of the presentation on separate slide(s) or video frame(s). PowerPoint presentations should contain a minimum of 7 slides, not including the title or reference slides. Video presentations should be a minimum of 2 ½ minutes. Include 1-2 peer-reviewed journal article(s) as references (not including your chosen article). Journal articles used as references must have been published within the last 5 years, unless it is considered a sentinel article. Additional references may include your textbook or other scholarly sources. All assignments should be in APA format according to the 7th edition of the American Psychological Association’s Manual.