Project Management-Where to focus?

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Project Managers need to balance several competing variables to deliver a successful project.

Please respond to the following, prompt, and comment on a couple of responses from your fellow students.

– Schedule, Scope, Budget, and Quality are all important. Please describe a situation (or type or project) where one of these items would be MORE important than the others, Why would the item selected be more important? What impact would focusing on that one have on the others? Could a project be successful if it delivered on the most important constraint but missed the others? Would it matter how much it missed on the others? Who determines what to optimize for and if a project is successful?

Digesting the Material

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Digesting scholarly sources, such as research articles, can be very challenging. The tables provided in this week’s Books and Resources are great tools to help you learn this skill. The more resources you read, the harder it might become to remember key information. A table can act as a quick reference. In addition, as you fill out each box for each resource, you begin to visualize and internalize the patterns of systematic research efforts. You may see certain links between concepts, gaps in terms of methodology, or recommendations for future research efforts that might suggest a feasible and worthy topic area for your study.

This assignment will help you learn how to read scholarly sources and pull out relevant information. In addition, the readings this week expand on how to best search the literature and store all of your collected resources. You will quickly find that organization is key as you delve further into the literature.

Note: Within the weekly Books and Resources, you will find a Word version and Excel version of the table to use to complete your assignment. Begin by downloading whichever file is easier for you to use.

Last week, you identified 2 to 3 potential topics of interests related to your degree field and type. This week, you will narrow that down to only 2 potential topics (if you haven’t already).

For this assignment, find and read 3 to 5 scholarly sources for each topic. As you read the sources, fill in the related table sections. If you find you are having trouble completing any section of the table, remember, your faculty member is available to help!

The downloaded file from this week’s Books and Resources must be completed and submitted as your assignment.

Length: Completed Word or Excel table with 3-5 sources for each of your two potential topics, plus title and reference pages.

Presentation – Must be ORIGINAL

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Coding and Reimbursement Presentation (350 Points)

Scenario: You have been an employee at Healing Haven Hospital in the health information management (HIM) department for the past two years. Each month, during the new employee orientation, the medical billing specialist from the billing department does a presentation on coding and reimbursement. This year, the specialist is at a conference. Because your supervisor knows you are taking this class, she has asked you to do the presentation.

Prepare a PowerPoint (PPT) presentation that follows the criteria below. Ensure it adheres to the appropriate guidelines for a PPT as provided in the CSU Global Library. Remember to limit the amount of information on each slide to the key points, and use the note section for additional information and explanations. You should also include information from a minimum of five resources, making sure that these resources are cited in your presentation. Your presentation should include, but is not limited to, the following sections:

  • History and background of diagnostic (ICD) and procedural (CPT) coding
  • Purpose of ICD and CPT coding
  • Differences between ICD-10-CM and ICD-9-CM coding
  • Related technology to assist in the coding and reimbursement process
  • Maintaining coding accuracy and minimizing errors.

Your presentation should contain a minimum of 20 slides, including your cover slide and reference slide. Ensure each source is cited per CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements.

The Romantics

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Your paper should be typed, double-spaced (no extra spacing between paragraphs), and at least 500 words long. You have to use at least one academic secondary source in addition to your primary source. This means a legit, scholarly article, NOT dictionary.com or Wikipedia and for the love of all that’s holy, not Sparknotes. Opinion pieces, blogs, and non-scholarly websites do not count as academic sources. Use academic journal articles (see “databases” on the library website), books or book chapters, legitimate academic sites, etc.

Use brief quotes from both primary and secondary sources to support your thesis. You must document your sources in the MLA style. You may not recycle works submitted in other classes. You may not use any fact, quotation, or idea from any other source without EXPLICITLY documenting it. Failure to properly document sources is plagiarism.

Present an assertive thesis that proves a relevant point about the text. Make sure you don’t just summarize the work. Avoid arguing the obvious (eg, “Jaws is about a shark”). Instead, think “This is what the shark represents”. The contents of the paper should all work towards proving this thesis. Use quotes and examples from the texts to help prove your point, but avoid extensive paraphrasing of the text. Do not summarize the text you are discussing; assume your audience has read the texts in question. Demonstrate throughout the paper why your point is relevant and how it helps us reach a greater understanding of the work in question. In any case, your paper needs to include one of the texts we’ve discussed and your secondary source in a relevant manner.

Possible paper 1 topics include but are NOT limited to:

The Romantics’ reaction to the Enlightenment

The Romantics’ “spirit of the age”

Wordsworth’s “two consciousnesses”

Wordsworth’s celebration of the common

Keat’s use of the ode

Coleridge’s use of magic and the supernatural

P. Shelley’s Romanticism

Blake’s social reform poetry

Blake’s religious imagery

Compare/contrast two or more Romantics

Austen’s satire of society/ Romantic conventions

The idea of the foreign in the Gothic

Conventions of the Gothic

The Radcliffian heroine

Female Gothic/ Male Gothic

Orientalism in Beckford

Family dynamics in Frankenstein

What genre is Frankenstein?

Business fund of management project

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Base on the file that I gave u to finish the assignment below!!!!!

Please finish it ASAP!!!

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Individual Differences: Personality and Ability

Scenario: You and your partners, having recently decided to start your business, now must hire 50 new employees to get your business up and running. You have done a very good job of recruiting applicants, and now must review the top five resumes for the first position that you have decided to fill. All of the candidates have met your requirements for educational background; therefore, you are now ready to review their experience and the notes taken by the person who conducted an initial interview.

Instructions: Decide which job in your new company must be filled first.

Write that job title here:________________________.

Now, work together to review the five resumes, and then answer the questions below. Your answers to these questions should lead you to choose the best candidate for the job.

  1. Identify the most prominent of the Big Five (p36) personality traits of each of the five candidates.

Emily –

Jacob –

Christopher –

Ceecee –

Margarita –

  1. Describe one or more of the other personality traits that seem to fit each of the five candidates.

Emily –

Jacob –

Christopher –

Ceecee –

Margarita –

3. Describe the different kinds of abilities the ideal candidate for this job will have.

4. Based on your answers to questions 1, 2, and 3, which candidate will you hire to fill this position? Why did you choose this person?

5. What additional training, if any, will this person need once he/she has been hired?

Human population

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Human Population and Toxins Resource

There are different perspectives on human population growth and the dynamics associated with population change. Go to CIA World Factbook website (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html) and choose one developed (not the United States) and one developing country and compare the following and answer the questions:

Developed country

(Developed country is a country which has an effective rate of industrialization and individual income)

Developing country

(Developing country is a country which has slow rate of industrialization and low per capita income)

Population growth rate

Birth rate

Death rate

Net migration rate

Each question should be answered in a minimum of 200 words.

  1. Why do you think the population is increasing or decreasing for that country? Try to explain at least two reasons as to why this is happening? (Please refer to your textbook)
  2. How do diseases affect the population? Can you think about any diseases that has affected the human population? (Please use peer reviewed sources to support your answer).
  3. Looking at the countries you compared, what are the toxins present in the environment that impact human health? Provide one example for each country.

Work Breakdown Structure for Integrated Cost and Schedule Control course

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Work Breakdown Structure

See page 33 of the text for a graphic example of a work breakdown structure (WBS) hierarchy. Create a three level product-based WBS from a project you have managed or have experience with as a team member and present a graphic representation of your WBS hierarchy. A description of the following components and how each relates to the WBS must be included:

  • Three main deliverables,
  • A unique numbering scheme, and
  • Three work packages.

Lastly, provide a one- to three-sentence project objective to describe the focus of this WBS.

The assignment must be submitted in Microsoft Excel for ease of organization; APA formatting rules will not need to be followed if an Excel spreadsheet is used.

(Included pages 33-41 of text on work breakdown structure)

Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement, business and finance homework help

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The purpose of this assignment is for students to initiate and complete a comprehensive financial plan. The ultimate result will be a set of pro forma financial statements including an Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement. The student will develop requisite assumptions about the dollar values to be budgeted.

Assignment Steps

Create a 350-word balance sheet for Ford addressing the following:

  • Review the revenue and expense items based on information suggested by the instructor to best estimate realistic values for these.
  • Review the budget, income statement, and cash flow items, along with feedback provided by the instructor from the previous week(s).

Reaction paper

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Reaction Paper II Prompt

This paper is an opportunity to establish a relationship between three major sources of institutional inequality: education, the media, and the economy. It will also encourage you to draw personal connections to social issues through your sociological imaginations!

Write your papers using one-inch margins, double-spaced, and 12-point font. The entire paper should be at least 5-6 pages in length (it may be even longer). REMEMBER TO UPLOAD YOUR PAPER AS A WORD DOCUMENT ONLY! Make sure to complete all four steps of this assignment:

Step I:

Click on the link below to watch a twenty-minute TED TALK video called “Jimmy Wales: The Birth of Wikipedia.”

http://www.ted.com/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia?utm_source=tedcomshare&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tedspread (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Then, address the following questions (feel free to number your responses but I prefer you write them in paragraphs with complete sentences).

  1. Who owns Wikipedia?
  2. What is the goal of the Wikimedia Foundation?
  3. Who writes the content$WIKI_REFERENCE$/pages/ for Wikipedia? How much money do they make? Who is in charge of Wikipedia, and how much money does it take to run Wikipedia?
  4. What is the free licensing model and why is it revolutionary?
  5. Why does Jimmy Wales state that Wikipedia is more popular than the New York Times website? Why do YOU think Wikipedia is more popular than the New York Times website?
  6. What is a quality test? Who is responsible for one?
  7. What does “vandalism” on Wikipedia look like? How is vandalism handled? Who might (and why) someone vandalize a Wikipedia page?
  8. What is a “neutral point of view policy” and why is it important for Wikipedia?
  9. Why is Google essential for Wikipedia?
  10. Why would professors encourage the use of Wikipedia? Why might they discourage it?
  11. Why do you use Wikipedia (BE HONEST!)? If you have never used it before, why not?
  12. According to Jimmy Wales, what is the next big think in education? Why is his idea important, especially given the textbook’s concerns regarding education, the media, and the economy?

Step II:

Next, log onto www.wikipedia.org (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and type “social problems” into the search engine.

Then, address the following questions regarding the “social problems” page (feel free to number your responses but I prefer you write them in paragraphs with complete sentences):

  1. What are the “multiple issues” currently with this particular Wikipedia page (what needs help/fixing)?
  2. Why does the page use the term “issue” rather than “problem”?
  3. What are the main “generic types” of social issues listed on the page? What do you notice about the social issues listed? Spend some time scrolling through them.
  4. Choose one of the “generic types” of social issues to click on. What did you choose, what additional information were you able to learn from the page, and where did the additional links for that particular social issue take you? How do you trust that the information you are reading is accurate?
  5. Near the bottom of the page, there is a link under “See Also” for “Social Problems.” Click on this link.
    1. Spend some time perusing this site. It is for the journal called Social Problems. In a few sentences, discuss the journal’s purpose, relationship to Sociology, and importance for students.
  6. Near the bottom of the page, there is a link under “See Also” for “The Society for the Study of Social Problems.” Click on this link.
    1. Spend some time perusing this site. It is for an organization called SSSP. What are the particulars of the organization (what is it for, who is responsible for it, why does it exist), its relationship to Sociology, and its importance for students?
  7. How might you benefit from using this Wikipedia page on social problems for our class?

Step III:

Click on the link below to watch a twelve-minute TED TALK video called “Sajay Samuel: How College Loans Exploit Students for Profit.”

https://www.ted.com/talks/sajay_samuel_how_college_loans_exploit_students_for_profit?utm_source=tedcomshare&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tedspread (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Then, address the following questions (feel free to number your responses but I prefer you write them in paragraphs with complete sentences).

  1. Samuel frames his talk around three key points. Identify each key point, and discuss in a few sentences the particulars of each point.
  2. What is Dr. Samuel’s solution for combating student loan exploitation for profit? What are the three main particulars of his solution?
  3. Do you agree or disagree with his proposed solution (and why)?

Step IV:

This final step helps to connect the dots from steps I, II, and III. Again, address the following questions (feel free to number your responses but I prefer you write them in paragraphs with complete sentences).

  1. Why are you currently attending El Camino College (be completely honest with your answer!)? What are your future educational plans? What are your intentions in terms of a career, and why do you want to have it? How much money do you expect/want to make with your career?
  2. What is your position on establishing a policy that provides free community college tuition to anyone in the United States? Discuss the costs and benefits of such a policy.
  3. TED Talks and Wikipedia are part of the institution we call “Media.” What is the importance of the media in today’s society, and how do resources like TED Talk videos and Wikipedia pages relate to C. Wright Mills’ concept of the Sociological Imagination? What might he say about Wikipedia? What might he say about TED Talks? And finally, what might he say about offering free college tuition, free books, and providing ubiquitous access to knowledge?

Understanding working Memory, philosophy homework help

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The goal of this discussion forum is to deepen your understanding of how working memory operates. For your initial post, watch the Models of Memory 1 Atkins+ Shiffrons Multi Store Model video. Then complete the following experiments:

Keep in mind that each experiment illustrates a procedure or task that is used by scientists to understand how working (short-term) memory functions. Consider what your performance on the selected task tells you about working memory and its strengths and weaknesses. Also, consider the extent to which the results of the selected experiment apply to real-life experiences and settings. Support your points with evidence from at least one peer-reviewed research article. Your initial post must be a minimum of 300 words.