Read the article “Cognitive Effects of Risperidone in Children with Autism and Irritable Behavior”, and identify the research questions and/or hypotheses as they are stated. Consider the following questions: What are the variables (sample sizes, population, treatments, etc.)? How was the analysis of variance used in this article (and what type of ANOVA was used)?

Write a two- to three-page paper presenting the information listed below.  In addition, provide a title page and reference page in APA style.  Cite any references made to the article within the body of the paper in APA style. Your paper should begin with an introductory paragraph (including a thesis statement) and end with a concluding paragraph summarizing the major points made in the body of the paper and reaffirming the thesis.

The body of your paper must:

1. Determine what question(s) the authors are trying to answer by doing this research.
2. Determine the hypothesis being tested and the concepts that were applied in this process.
3. Evaluate the article and critique the statistical analysis employed in the study.  Would you have included more and/or different variables?  Explain your answer.
4. Examine the assumptions and limitations of the statistical study.  What would you have done differently in this case?  Explain your answer.
5. Identify how the authors applied statistical testing to the problem.
6. Interpret the findings of the author(s) using statistical concepts. 
7. Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (excluding title and reference pages), and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
8. Must include a title page with the following:
   1. Title of paper
   2. Student’s name
   3. Course name and number
   4. Instructor’s name
   5. Date submitted
9. Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
10. Must include a separate reference page formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

In this Assignment, you will culminate one course outcome based on the development of an implementation plan for your organizational strategy: 

MT460-5: Design a plan to implement a business strategy throughout an organization. 

Designing and developing a business report has become an essential skill for professionals to master. In this Assignment, your business report will contain a company analysis of resources to aid in the implementation and execution of strategy. Your research, organization, planning, and critical thinking abilities will be critical in the development of your business report and execution of the Assignment requirements.

Strategists must master the art and science of decision-making. In this Assignment, you are given three options to choose from in order to analyze and develop your business report:

• Option 1: To complete this Assignment, you may choose to analyze one of the following case studies from your textbook: Case Study 3, Case Study 25, or Case Study 26. You can find a list of videos that may accompany your chosen case study in the supplemental resources spreadsheet.
• Option 2: You may choose an award winning company from the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program website to study. You will evaluate the “Award Application Summary” of your chosen award winning company as a business case.
• Option 3: You may also choose to analyze your current employer instead of the business case studies based on the criteria below. You must have access to study all topics listed below. If you do not have access to the necessary information in your company, you must choose a case study or a Baldrige award-winning company as indicated above. Please seek approval from your professor if you wish to conduct this analysis based on your employer to ensure you are able to cover all requirements sufficiently.

You will find the following resource to be a helpful guide in the analysis of your chosen case study: Guide to Case Analysis.

Step 1: Explore the templates within MS Word that can be used to develop your Assignment (search for business report templates). You may choose to design your own business report without a template if you wish. Additional business report templates can be found in the supplemental resources spreadsheet to aid you in the design elements of this project. Use desktop publishing skills to professionally design your business report.

Step 2: Provide a brief synopsis of the company from your chosen case study or your employer (if approved by your professor). Include the company name, industry sector, products, target market, and any other pertinent background information.

Step 3: Identify and explain at least three of the company’s strategic priorities as indicated in business documentation. If none exist, you must create them by analyzing the business situation and using strategic management and leadership abilities.

• Write a broad statement of what is to be accomplished in relation to each identified strategic priority. Be specific.
• Indicate how the accomplishment of each strategic initiative is monitored and measured.
• Identify by job title, the people that are accountable for the success of the strategic priorities that provide direction for the work that needs to be done, and who monitors progress and how progress is monitored. 

Step 4: Analyze and explain the allocation of resources (financial, labor, capital assets, time, supplies, etc.) within the company based on strategic priorities. Conduct research on the company to learn more about the allocation of resources as necessary.

• Using the 5-W’s and 1-H analysis technique, explain the proper allocation of resources that will help the company reach the identified strategic priorities.
• Explain how successful resource allocation is measured to ensure progress is being made. State specific performance and time measurements to determine success.
• Identify by job title, the people that are accountable for the success of the allocation of resources that provide direction for the work that needs to be done, and who monitors progress and how progress is monitored. 

Step 5: Analyze and explain the value chain activities of the company.

• Identify and explain the best practices and process management tools that drive continuous improvement in the performance of value chain activities.
• Explain how the company value chain activities help reach the identified strategic priorities.
• Indicate how the achievements of value chain activities is monitored and measured.
• Identify by job title, the people accountable for the success of the value chain activities that provide direction for the work that needs to be done, and who monitors progress and how progress is monitored. 

Step 6: Analyze information and operating systems that enable company personnel to carry out their strategic roles proficiently. Conduct research to identify and make recommendations on information and operating systems that may improve the company’s execution of strategy.

• Explain how your recommendations improve efficiencies to reach the identified strategic priorities.
• Indicate how the effectiveness and efficiencies of information and operating systems are monitored and measured.
• Identify by job title, the people accountable for the success of the information and operating systems that provide direction for the work that needs to be done, and who monitors progress and how progress is monitored. 

Step 7: The goal of this implementation plan is to demonstrate your ability to apply effective managerial leadership in achieving superior strategy execution. Aspects of the culture of a company can be fragile and must be monitored at all times to ensure alignment with strategic priorities.

• Analyze and explain the key features of the company’s corporate culture.
• Analyze and explain the role of the company’s core values and ethical standards in building its culture and why they are important to reaching the identified strategic priorities.
• Analyze and explain how the company’s culture drives proficient strategy execution.
• Identify explain the use of incentives and rewards that encourage superior performance in reaching the identified strategic priorities.
• Indicate how the effectiveness of the company culture is monitored and measured.
• Identify by job title, the people accountable for the success of the company culture that will provide direction for the work that needs to be done, and who monitors progress and how progress is monitored. 

Step 8: Meet the following format requirements in this Assignment:

• Use as many concepts from Chapters 10, 11, and 12 in your textbook to complete this Assignment as possible.
• Use a minimum of three academic research resources (including your textbook) to substantiate your thoughts, ideas, opinions, etc.
• Outline your business report with headings and subheadings to ensure you include all required topics, and to control the flow of ideas for your reader.
• You are the professional and will need to determine how long the business report should be to meet the requirements of this Assignment. You are capable of making such decisions at this level of your degree program. Take the initiative to be the problem solver and strategic decision-maker.
• Your business report should be professionally designed using desktop publishing skills.

Here is the Unit 10 Assignment grading rubric. 

Directions for Submitting Your Assignment

• Before you submit your Assignment, you should save your work on your computer in a location and with a name that you will remember.
• Make sure your Assignment files are saved in the correct format (Microsoft Word .doc or .docx).
• Submit your completed document to the Unit 10 Assignment Dropbox.

The Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR Q) is a screening  tool to determine if a person should check with his or her doctor prior  to completing an exercise program. To begin, take the PAR Q assessment  in the textbook on page 33. If you are not cleared to take the  assessment, recruit another willing adult to take the PAR Q assessment  for you. If cleared by the PARQ, have this adult take the physical  fitness assessment for you. Use these results to complete the  assignment.

If you are cleared to complete an exercise activity, you are going to assess your cardiovascular endurance by completing the Measuring Cardiorespiratory Fitness  Laboratory Assessment 3.1A: The 1.5 Mile Run Test or Laboratory  Assessment 3.1B: The 1 Mile Walk Test located on pages 76-77 of your  course textbook. Look at the results charts in your textbook and  determine your fitness level. Continue with your journal by addressing  the following bulleted items:

• Discuss why it is important to complete a PAR Q readiness assessment prior to starting an exercise program.
• Explain the importance of assessing your beginning fitness level.
• Expound on your results. Provide details such as duration and  beginning and ending heart rate. If you are unsure of how to take your  heart rate, refer to Figure 3.2 on page 56 in the course text.
• Analyze how your results compare to other individuals within your age range based on the chart in the textbook.
• Explain whether you were happy with these results. Why or why not?
• Whether you were happy with your results or not, identify two ways you could improve your results.
• Explain how the lifestyle factor of physical fitness affects overall health and wellness.
• Discuss how these results relate back to your physical wellness results from Week 1.
• Express which other dimensions of wellness are affected by physical wellness and how.

For the journal assignment, write out each question and then answer  it. Your journal should be a minimum of one page in length (not  including the title page or reference page). As a minimum, include the  course textbook as a reference in your response to this lab activity.  Include an APA formatted title page and reference page. See the Introduction to APA (Links to an external site.) web page for 

Instructions

You have recently been promoted to Health Services Manager at Three Mountains Regional Hospital, a small hospital located in a mid-size city in the Mid-West. Three Mountains is a general medical and surgical facility with 400 beds. Last year there were approximately 62,000 emergency visits and 15,000 admissions. More than 6,000 outpatient and 10,000 inpatient surgeries were performed.

As a means to build trust between the organization and the patients, you have been tasked with the drafting of a memorandum (memo) to all employees that perform patient intake functions. The focus of this Memo is to highlight the necessary forms that need to be completed during the intake/admissions process and an explanation as to why they are necessary. Often patients are handed a form to fill out, but do not receive a proper explanation as to why it is necessary for them to provide the required information. Without the proper information, patients, more now than ever, are hesitant to provide all of the necessary information. You will need to address the following components in your memo:

1. Introduction: Explain why you are sending this memo. Provide an overview of the patient trust issues and why it is important for the employees to be able to discuss each of the forms with the patients during the intake process.
2. List of the Required Forms: List and describe each of the required forms at admission.
3. Importance of each form to the organization: For each form you list, you will need to add why that form is important to the organization and necessary for the patient to complete.
4. Conclusion: In this part, you will wrap up the memo and provide additional resources available to the employees if they have further questions.
5. Proper Memo Formatting:  This a professional document and needs to be structured as a memo and not as an essay. You will still need to supply both in text and full citations for the sources of your information. If you need further assistance with how to structure a memo, click on this link.

Biomedical Ethics: Assignment Week 6

Discussion Exercise: Chapters 21, 22, 23

Objective: The students will complete a Virtual Classroom Discussion Exercise that will Extend your knowledge beyond the core required materials for this class, Engage in collaborative learning with other students to improve the quality of the learning experience for all students and Apply the higher cognitive skills associated with critical thinking to your academic and professional work.

ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES (10%):

Students will judgmentally amount the readings from Chapters 21, 22, 23 on your textbook. This assignment is prearranged to help you to learning in all disciplines because it helps student’s process information rather than simply receive it.
You need to read the PowerPoint Presentation assigned for week 6 and develop a 2-3 page paper replicating your appreciative and competence to apply the readings to your ethics knowledge. Each paper must be typewritten with 12-point font and double-spaced with standard margins. Follow APA format when referring to the selected articles and include a reference page.

EACH   PAPER SHOULD INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

1. Introduction (25%) Provide a brief synopsis of the meaning (not a description) of each Chapter and articles you read, in your own words that will apply to the case study presented. 

2.  Discussion Challenge (65%)

Imagine an event of catastrophic proportion involving mass casualties, disrupted or non-existent services (power, transportation, and communications), scarce food and water, limited emergency personnel and medical supplies, overwhelmed hospitals, perhaps contamination from biohazard materials or nuclear fallout, etc.

Now imagine that a new set of rules has been established to guide first responders in the field whenever a “catastrophe” occurs. A system of “response triage” is required, whereby precious and limited resources will be directed to those who could most probably contribute to continued survival and eventual recovery of the community. Those who would require a disproportionate share of resources to live, and those who will most likely not survive the event, are given lower priority for distribution of assistance, including food supplies and medical treatment. 

Without any formal discussion of what ethics are and how ethical decisions might be made in the field, we can see that the ethical problems are endless, but are basically summed up by asking:

1. IS EVERY HUMAN LIFE OF THE SAME VALUE AS OTHERS?

IS EVERY HUMAN LIFE OF THE SAME VALUE AS OTHERS?

· If decision-makers were to set criteria for determining the “fittest” for survival, upon what criteria would those decisions be based?

o The richest and most powerful men?

o Young men and women with the highest sperm and ova counts?

o Mature thinkers who might carry forward lessons that are likely to help humans survive in changing circumstances?

· How would these criteria be measured?

o How would we “value” people who work in health care, education and food production, as opposed to sanitation workers, truck drivers and musicians?

o How would we account for discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, etc.?

o How would we deal with the sick, aged, institutionalized, and immobilized? The poor? Illegal immigrants? Orphans? AIDS patients? Others?

Would we leave these more vulnerable segments of society behind, so to speak, instead of giving them preferential treatment? Is this approach “ethical”? Is this approach “moral”? Is this approach legal?

The American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart  Association recommend adults get 150 minutes of moderate-intensity  exercise each week. Regular exercise has been proven to reduce risk  factors for diseases such as cancer, heart disease, Type 2 Diabetes, and  stroke (Schmidt, 2016).

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review this week’s required resources, including the Quantity  and Quality of Exercise for Developing and Maintaining  Cardiorespiratory, Musculoskeletal, and Neuromotor Fitness in Apparently  Healthy Adults (Links to an external site.) article. Examine the effects of exercise on health by addressing the following items in your assignment:

• Describe the physical and mental health benefits of participating in a regular exercise program.
• Identify the chronic physiological responses that occur from a regular exercise program.
• Describe the importance of the warm up and cool down before and after exercise.
• Determine the importance of including flexibility in an exercise program.
• Explain the benefits of resistance training.
• Analyze the health consequences of a sedentary lifestyle.

 From this week’s assigned readings, you have learned about how a police department under consent decree differs from that of a police department addressing standard training needs. Compare and contrast these two training styles. What are the objectives and training design for each of these two types of training styles? What are the foci and restrictions of a police department under consent decree? Who, when, and under what circumstances is it appropriate to issue consent decree? Do you believe consent decree is effective at addressing training deficiencies in an organization? Why or why not? 

This week’s assigned readings focus on how individual departments or organizations designed their training programs to meet regulated training standards. Conduct research on federal and state training standards through the Internet and the Ashford Online Library. Then, based upon the assigned readings and your own research, discuss the following:

• How do state and federal training standards differ?
• How are law enforcement training standards evaluated and maintained?
• Who governs the review of training at the state and federal levels?  
• Is there a federal authority assigned to maintain training standards for law enforcement from state-to-state?
• What impact do this authority and training standards have on law enforcement officers?

In a 3-4 page paper, compare and contrast two of the following benefits: FMLA, EEOC, ERISA and Workers Compensation.

Gather your research from at least 2 sources. Cite your sources using APA guidelines. All submitted work should be free of grammatical errors.