Nutrition Assignment

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  1. Which factors influence the dietary patterns and behaviors of the typical college student? What factors have been the greatest influences on your eating behaviors? Why is it important to recognize influences on your diet as you think about changing eating behaviors?
  2. What are the six major food groups in MyPyramid? From which groups do you eat too few servings? What can you do to increase or decrease your intake of selected food groups? How can you remember the six groups?
  3. What are the major types of nutrients that you need to obtain from the foods you eat? What happens if you fail to get enough or some of them? Are there significant differences between the sexes in particular areas of nutrition?
  4. Distinguish between the different types of vegetarianism. Which types are most likely to lead to nutrient deficiencies? What can be done to ensure that even the most strict vegetarian receives enough of the major nutrients?
  5. What are functional foods? What are the major functional foods discussed in this chapter? What are their reported benefits, if any?
  6. What are the major problems that many college students face when trying to eat the right foods? List five actions that you could take immediately to improve your eating.

Winfield Refuse Management, Inc. Case, Powerpoint presentation help

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Read the 3 files that I attach it and Do fact sheet and powerpoint about the factsheet Also see the sample of factsheet that I attach It

Assignment

– Winfield Refuse Management, Inc. Case – Raising debt versus equity

In choosing the “best” financing option for Winfield Refuse Management, Inc., consider the following:

 Pros and cons of issuing debt versus equity – specific to Winfield Refuse

 Interpreting EBIT chart and how used in your decision making

 Annual cash outlays for each financing decision, especially annual cash outlay in 2013 and 2030

 Risk and Return tradeoffs for bondholders versus stockholders – specific to Winfield Refuse

 Impact of each financing decision on relevant financial ratios, impact to control, corporate flexibility, increased risk

 Why your chosen financing option is the “best” for this company – how do you address each director’s concerns

  • Note
    • standard 1″ margins
    • single-spacing (text)
    • double-spacing between paragraphs
    • no paragraph indentation (left justified)
    • size 12 font, Times New Roman, black text
    • italicized or bold font for section headings

    • Also

    do the calculation

    Fact sheet pages must be 4 pages

    free Plagiarism.

    See attachment which some examples of factshee

    Use one image and use several graphs

For each case, students must summarize his/her individual analysis in a summary document/fact-sheet which is 4-pages (not including attached spreadsheet)

The grades of Factsheet

  • Understanding/Concise statement of Problem- 5 pts
  • Rationale for each financing option considered including understanding of EBIT chart- 10 pts
  • Annual cash outlays for each option – 10 pts
  • Impact of each decision – financial ratios, risk and return, corporate control and flexibility – 10 pts
  • Selling points (Pros and Cons) to each director; why financing option chosen – 10 pts
  • Format and Layout of Information in supporting decision – 5 pt

CPMGT/301 week 4 study questions

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I need the 100 word response or more to each bullet point.

  • What factors present barriers to communication in an organization?
  • What communication methods help to reduce the impact of communication barriers?
  • Is there a place for social networking in project management? Explain why or why not.
  • Does communication via social networking compromise professionalism? Explain why or why not.
  • Choose one example project (profession, military, nonprofit, personal) and determine what benefits the project will provide. Describe the scenario and the detailed benefits you would outline ahead of embarking on the new project.
  • If I could choose just one concept for you to takeaway from this class it would be on how to identify and resolve conflicting priorities. No matter what industry you are in, you will likely encounter individuals with conflicting priorities as you try to complete your own projects. What are some of the methods this chapter recommends to mitigate these conflicts? Include an example from your own experience of a conflicting priorities situation you encountered and what you, or a colleague, did to resolve it. Relate your resolution to a method deployed in our text.
  • Stakeholder influence cannot be emphasized enough in a project planning capacity. For something a bit different in this discussion, choose one of the articles (or videos from the other learning activities) and post a brief summary here for the benefit of the class. Include a relevant example from your own experience. Including your own experience is key to our discussion so we don’t wind up with the same four posts repeating. Try to highlight different elements of the articles or videos. If you are choosing a video, be sure to post your summary under the relevant thread where the video resides to avoid confusion.

https://www.lynda.com/Business-Skills-tutorials/Managing-Project-Stakeholders/168242-2.html

Beringer, C., Jonas, D., & Gemunden, H. G. (2012, November). Establishing project portfolio management: An exploratory analysis of the influence of internal stakeholders’ interactions. Project Management Journal 43(6), 16-32.

Beringer, C., Jonas, D., & Kock, A. (2013, August). Behavior of internal stakeholders in project portfolio management and its impact on success. International Journal of Project Management 31 (6), 830-846.

Public Stewardship Paper

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Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper outlining the critical need for public stewardship in budgeting. Detail the needs and methods for training public officials and staff members for ethical public budget preparation and maintenance strategies. Make sure to include:

  • Detail the need and importance of public stewardship in budgeting
  • Ethical requirements for leaders to consider for proper public stewardship
  • Consequences of unethical or poor public stewardship

Consider utilizing a recent current events article for reference to a recent incident of unethical public stewardship of budgetary monies.

Include at least two academic sources in your paper, including one from the University Library.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Employer Liability

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Read the fact pattern below

  • Prepare a memorandum of no less than three, but no more than five, pages that:
    • Summarizes the relevant facts
    • Determines whether an agency relationship exists and the nature of the agency and agent’s authority if the relationship does exist
    • Analysis of whether the employer is vicariously liable for each tortious act identified including the basis for such vicarious liability

fact pattern

Adventures in Pizza Delivery

You work at a general practice law
firm. About three years ago, the firm helped Luigi form a limited liability
company for his pizza parlor. Luigi has now come to the office seeing
representation as his company has been sued in tort twice in one week. Your
supervising attorney asks you to do the initial intake and prepare a memo
regarding Luigi’s exposure and any defenses he might have against the suit.

Luigi’s Pizza Parlor offers home
delivery. In fact, if your pie isn’t delivered within 60 minutes of your order,
it’s free. One of Luigi’s drivers is Carmen. Carmen is paid by the hour and
receives tips. Luigi creates her schedule. Carmen does use her own car for
deliveries but is reimbursed for mileage by Luigi. She delivers only to the
addresses Luigi gives her but picks her own route to get to the location.Carmen’s the best driver Luigi has because
she’s always on time and Luigi never has to forfeit the price of a pie she
delivers.Well, she was the best…

Two weeks ago, Luigi took an order
for a birthday party – three cheese and two pepperoni pizzas – and gives the
delivery job to Carmen.

Knowing that her bank account will
be overdrawn if she doesn’t deposit the paycheck she just received, she decides
to pick a route to the house that has her bank on the way. It’s not the
quickest route, but she figures she will have plenty of time to deposit the
check and still make the delivery within the deadline.

Carmen runs through the bank’s
drive thru and deposits the paycheck. However, she misjudges the speed of the
traffic coming down the street as she pulls into the traffic and gets hit by a
car. The driver takes her insurance card and notes the Luigi’s Pizza Parlor
sign on the roof of her car. The police arrive and ticket her for failing to
yield.

Carmen is now late and is ticked.
Her perfect delivery record is ruined. She pulls into the driveway to deliver
the pizzas. Company policy is not to pull into a customer’s driveway but rather
park on the side of the street, but Carmen is pressed for time and ignores the
rule. After delivering the pizza, she jumps in her car to return to the parlor
for the next delivery run. She fails to check her rear view mirror and
accidently bumps into a child riding a bicycle that was on the street in front
of the driveway. Carmen is both afraid and mad at herself because she knows if
she would have either checked the mirror or followed the “no driveway rule,”
she wouldn’t have hit the kid.

Carmen jumps out the car and saw a
young boy on the ground. Timmy, who is six, was out of control screaming and
crying. The child’s mother, Tina, who witnessed the entire accident from her
yard across the street, ran over, screaming and crying as well. Tina examined
the child and found several scrapes and abrasions but nothing else. The bike,
however, was damaged. Its frame and front wheel bent under the force of the car
pinning it down.

After suffering through Tina’s
screaming and threats, Carmen waited once again for the police to arrive on the
scene. She was ticketed for failing to yield to a pedestrian and for reckless
driving.

Timmy was taken to the ER.The ER confirmed that Timmy’s injuries were
confined to the scrapes and abrasions on his knees and elbows. His bike helmet
spared him from any head trauma.

Luigi and Carmen have been sued by
the driver involved in the traffic accident by the bank and sued in a separate
suit by Timmy’s parents.Both complaints
allege negligence on behalf of Carmen and that Luigi’s Pizza Parlor is
vicariously liable. Tina, Timmy’s mother, has also sued for negligent
infliction of emotional distress.

The audit report

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Choose a publicly traded company and research its annual report. (If you cannot find it online, you can go to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Web site and locate a copy). These results have been audited, but for this exercise, they will be viewed as if they have not.

Read the annual report and any other news items involving the company, and then complete the following tasks:

  • Create a framework for your audit procedure using the Audit Risk Approach. Your framework should include the following:
    • At least 3 examples of how you would mitigate risk in your audit
    • At least 3 accounts or areas that you would focus your attention on for this audit
    • An outline of tests and procedures that you would employ based on your company
    • A detailed analysis of the sampling techniques that you would utilize for each of the 3 accounts or areas that you chose
    • An explanation of the type(s) of documentation that you would require as audit evidence
  • Discuss the levels of assurance that can be provided on audit reports.
  • Explain how the internal controls of a company can impact the overall business.
    • Define 2 internal control areas that you would focus on with your business.

two pages paper

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Choose ONE of the prompts listed in the Module 3 Primary Source Assignments Prompts file, do the necessary reading in Reilly’s “Worlds of History” and write an essay in response. MLA format, 2 pages in lenght

Chapter 9
Read all of the primary and secondary source selections from this text and write an essay comparing and contrasting each of the cultures represented in this chapter and their different views of what the relationship was between love sex and marriage. Remember that the function of the historian is to understand, not to make judgments.

Chapter 10
Read all of the primary source selections in this chapter and then write an essay listing the different points of view represented in these sources and comparing and contrasting their accounts of the First Crusade. Taking all of them into account, what things can we say are probably true that all of the authors might have agreed upon?

Chapter 12
Read the secondary source selection by Dols and the primary source selections from Boccaccio and al-Maqrizi and write an essay discussing how the primary source selections help illustrate the points dols makes in his selection.

You are NOT being asked to summarize the chapter. Read the prompt, think about the issues raised, and write an essay using the primary sources to illustrate your arguments.

HIV/AIDS Prevention Learning Scenario

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In this assignment, you are asked to reflect on responses to the presented scenario. This should not just be writing down your first reaction or what you already know. Reflection involves critical thinking, which means rethinking your existing knowledge and previously held opinions in light of what we have learned about theories of ethics, logic, and reasoning. You will need to question your existing knowledge and beliefs. Why do you feel the way you do about HIV/AIDS prevention?

Of the four responses offered in the HIV/AIDS Prevention scenario, which do you feel is the most ethical and why?

To complete this assignment:

  • Complete the entire scenario.
  • Compose your reflection in a Word document. Of the four responses offered in the scenario, which do you feel is the most ethical and why?
  • Support your conclusions with evidence and specific examples from the textbook, as well as other sources as needed.
  • Your reflection must be at least 250 words in length and follow APA (6th ed.) formatting and citation guidelines as appropriate.

Writing ethnic amd racial health care disparities

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Ethnic and Racial Health Care Disparities and Disease

Among the goals set by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Healthy People initiative are to increase quality and years of healthy life, and to eliminate health disparities.

This assignment asks you to identify, reflect on, and build awareness about disparities in health and diseases among ethnic and racial groups. The following activities or considerations are important in preparing to submit your assignment:

  • After completing the studies in this unit, visit HealthyPeople.gov or similar sources. Select two ethnic or racial groups and study illnesses and related issues, health promotion, or other health disparities for this assignment. (I have picked African American and native Hawaiian)
  • For your course project, you will be selecting ethnic groups to develop a cultural competence development plan for an organization of your choice. With this in mind, consider using this assignment to begin your research on the ethnic group you plan to use for your project.
  • Locus of control is an important factor when considering how much control different groups and individuals have over their own health.

In a 2–3 page paper, address the following:

  • Select two ethnic or racial groups. Identify and discuss in detail at least one illness or disease for which this group shows a high incidence rate. Include your explanation—or hypothesis—for the possible reasons involved.
  • For each of the two groups you select, consider one health care disparity. Identify possible explanations for the disparity in relation to each group. As you think about locus of control, to what extent do you think each ethnic or racial group has control over decreasing health care disparities?
  • Place yourself in the role of a health care leader. Imagine that your hospital had a significant aging population among patients. How important would it be for your staff to understand disease prevention and health promotion for the aging, and how might you lead this effort?

Week 2 forum post responses

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In need of a 250 word response/discussion to each of the following forum posts. Agreement/disagreement/and/or continuing the discussion.

Original forum discussion/topic post is as follows:

Ethical Research. Research in the area of biological psychology often requires surgical procedures that end with the sacrifice of the organism being used as a subject. Review the methods presented and identify one that would fall into this category. Discuss what we have learned from this method and whether you believe it is worth the associated sacrifice.

Form post response #1

Biology Psychology research frequently requires surgical procedures that result in the sacrifice of the organism used as a subject; however, the research is not worth the associated sacrifice. Biology Psychology studies psychological processes connected with perception, cognition, intelligence, learning, moods, emotions, and motivating forces serving as the foundations of normal and abnormal behaviors (King, 2018). The neurological aspects of mental disorders are also investigated by biology-centered psychologists (King, 2018). Regarding all of these matters, specialized scientists conduct research with non-human animals. It is viewed that studies involving non-human animals are essential to determining how brain regions and/or neurotransmitters factor in with development and functionality. Apes, monkeys, cats, dogs, mice, rats, pigeons, and other animals might be used so that brain systems are better understood. These animals are used as “stand ins” for humans. The “stand ins” may receive purposeful permanent brain damage/trauma, surgical modifications, and deleterious effects resulting from tested chemicals. Invasive interventions, such as surgical, allow the scientists to investigate brain changes. It is further thought that information learned will help guide psychology’s efforts in healing segments of humanity that are suffering. Nevertheless, the philosophical explanation of “for the good of the whole” seems largely inadequate when justifying these animal sacrifices.

Biology Psychology often requires that surgical procedures be used on non-human subjects in order to help out humans in the long run; but this is not ethical. The best-known non-human psychology experiments are likely the Pavlov experiments on dogs and cats, which studied conditioning. Today, animals, such as cats and dogs, may be given deliberate neural damage via surgery so that scientists can study the recovery processes or the biological basis of disorders. Other invasive procedures, including isolation, deprivation, and amputation have also been used. Routinely, the scientists go into the experiment fully aware that the organism will have to be put down afterward. In the great majority of experiments, the animals are subjected to pain, distress, suffering, and – eventually – a pitiful death. It is, however, acknowledged that there is an abundance of state and federal laws in place to ensure that research animals are treated responsibly.

Biology Psychology, in its fervor to arrive at cutting edge therapies to treat anguished humans, may have lost its way. It gives a variety of explanations for the utility of using non-human organisms in research experiments, all deficient. Some say that only abandoned cats at the end of their life term are used. Some say that the animals are made comfortable throughout (which, naturally, does not make a lick of sense). Some suggest that experimentation on primates, even if the said experiments end in pain, maiming, or death, is worth it because primates are so similar to human beings. Most assert that animal experimentation advances Biology Psychology knowledge. I am not confident that any of these explanations holds water. In the grand pecking order of things, human beings dominate the earth due to our intelligence. In this regard, we are supposed to be responsible stewards of the creatures below us in this pecking order. Research that requires the sacrifice of the organism being studied is not reflective of decent stewardship. I believe that all creatures are sacred and possess souls. I am not, however, a rabid PETA follower. Mind you, there have been plenty of these “sacred” creatures I have had to dispatch in one way or another (usually through capture and relocation) because they have posed direct great danger to myself and/or the animals that I am a steward over on the farm. I have been personally confronted by daytime foxes, raccoons, and a wild dog pack, never mind venomous snakes. I have had my beloved ducks’ heads snatched off whole by aggressive kites. Each time, I recognized that the organism is doing what its instincts are driving it to do. And, I try to figure out a way to eliminate the threat to my homestead. My Have-a-Heart is one of my most trusted tools. Having said that, I cannot get behind Biology Psychology’s surgical procedures on non-human organisms, when the said research will inevitably lead to the test animal’s fear, agony, and death. The tendered covert explanation that human beings are – somehow – supreme and, therefore, worthy of all these sacrifices makes me uncomfortable and sad. Also, I am not convinced animal research findings directly correlate with that unique organism called a human being.

Forum post response #2

Biopsychology is the study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are impacted through psychology from a biological standpoint. McLeod (2015) states anything psychological begins with physiological factors. Based on this logic, there are three fundamental categories of examining biopsychological issues: comparative method, physiology, and inheritance (McLeod, 2015, paras. 1-3). Comparative method is observing and comparing differences between species and ecologic factors, while the physiological aspect assesses how the brain, hormones, behaviors, and parts of the nervous system (within the brain) are affected through psychological issues. Finally, inheritance is simply genetics passed from the parent to their offspring (as with other species).

The biomedical field is known to use animals in surgical procedures for new developments in medical and healthcare research. According to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (1991), animals are a critical asset in research to learn more about illnesses and diseases that can affect humans. Such techniques have been highly controversial, as it’s been considered morally and ethically wrong. Animals are known to be domesticated companions in households around the world. For instance, over 100 million households within the United States, alone, have animals as pets (Insurance Information Institute, 2018). Testing humans could be dangerous, so animals are tested to ensure procedures are deemed safe and effective. However, ethical implications project it’s inhumane to test on living creatures. Nonetheless, the American Psychology Association has mandated procedures for researchers on the handling and care of using animals in research.

Heart valve replacement is a common surgical procedure known to be tested on animals. For example, researchers use artificial valves and hearts to determine if organ transplants are possible for the human species. The process requires researchers to sow blood vessels together to conduct organ transplants and coronary artery bypasses. The surgical process was first conducted on cats and dogs, in which French surgeon and biologist, Alexis Carrel won a Nobel Prize (University of Houston, n.d). The National Academies of Sciences (2004) are emphatic that heart valve replacement would not be a possible procedure for human beings if it wasn’t initially test on animals. I know a few older individuals who’ve had valve replacements, so I do understand the importance of research and testing to determine the best treatment for human beings. However, I partial to testing on animals because I’m a pet owner. I can’t imagine sacrificing a dog for a research experiment, understanding the risks and possible permanent damage. At the same time, I am a meat eater– so I can guess it’s a “catch 22” here (not of cats or dogs)– just the perception of whether testing on animals is ethical. Nonetheless, animal research is necessary for this procedure because it identifies possible challenges that can occur, such as organ rejection or surgical procedures that may not be conducive to human beings. If animals aren’t tested, how do we know if procedures will be beneficial for people? It’s a difficult, ethical dilemma.

Forum Post response #3

Ethical research has been a subject of discussion in several of my previous courses, and I generally have a strong opinion on the subject. Biological psychology takes the approach that we are a consequence of our genetics and physiology, that our thought feeling and behaviors are a result of our biology (McLeod, 2015). Biological psychology is looked at in three ways, comparatively, physiologically, and investigation of inheritance. For the purposes of the discussion on ethical research, I will focus on the physiological method which focuses on how the nervous system and hormones work, along with how the brain functions and how changes in structure or function affect behavior (McLeod, 2015). How the human brain works has been the subject of many studies and is still not completely understood. Different physiological methods to study the brain range from EEGs to brain scans like MRIs or CAT scans to neuro surgery. Of those methods, neuro surgery can present the most ethical concerns when it comes to research for biological psychology. Using the neuro surgery method will require a living subject to operate on the get reliable results. These results cannot be simulated and generally with require an animal subject to test out initial theories. There are many psychological disorders that researchers have pondered that can have a biological explanation like memory or depression that is not initially test on humans. Small animals like dogs, cat, mice and monkeys are used as substitutes for humans while doing surgery. There are theories that removing parts of the brain can lead to decreased signs and symptoms of depression, but is too dangerous for humans initially to test. I generally think that it is unethical to do research on animals for most reasons. A big tenant for do a research study using human subjects is the fact that consent needs to be given or the study cannot be conducted. Animals are unable to give consent to participate in research studies and therefore should not be the subjects. I find it to be cruel to subject innocent animals to the whims of researchers and they have no choice in the matter. If the experiment is too dangerous for other living beings like humans, it should not be considered on helpless animals. If the study requires a living subject, consent should be gained from a person who is aware of all of the consequences and is capable of making the decision.