By using the data (up to the year 2018) your textbook, LIRN-based research, a general reference list in international Economics, such as: Specialized Journals (p.12); General Journals (p.13); Sources of International Data (p.13); General Current information p.14) and the Internet Sources (p. 14), for Euro zone countries (excluding Malta and Cyprus) discuss the impact of the following factors in bringing about the Euro crises:

1- Budget deficits and national debt 

2- Balance of payments 

3- Social expenditures 

Using graphs compare the above factors for the countries in trouble, PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) vs. other countries in the Euro zone like Germany and France that fared well and contrast which of the above factors may have contributed to the crisis.

The fact that all these countries were using a single currency and did not have the power to devalue their own currency could be another factor you need to consider when analyzing this issue.

Assignment 2: Analysis on Food Security

Due Week 7 and worth 110 points

The members of the United Nations found great value in the analysis you provided on the effects of global warming that result from population growth.  They are now asking you write an additional analysis to include further  issues related to population growth. Here is the issue they have asked  you to consider:

The  member states of the United Nations seek to build food systems that can  provide global food security which will feed everyone, everywhere,  every day by improving food quality though the promotion of effective  and nutritional agricultural practices. The  crucial issue is not the lack of food in the world but the access to  that food. In many developing countries, food shortages are due to  governmental control over food distribution. These governments maintain  control of the population and their power by limiting access to  nutritious food to certain groups. In this practice, they thereby  “weaponize” food. 

Your  second project as a consultant for the United Nations is to develop an  analysis that addresses three issues related to global food insecurity  caused by global population growth and poverty, and to explore these  issues in a developing country of your choosing. 

The UN has given you the following guidelines.

Content

The  UN has asked that your paper contain three sections. Each section  should be one page (or approximately 300 words) in length and answer  specific questions, identified in the outline below. It also asks that  you use examples from your developing country when answering the  questions. 

Introduction

Provide an introduction of half a page minimum that addresses points a-e below.

1. Explains the problem the UN has asked you to address in your own words;
2. Identifies the three sections your paper will cover;
3. Identifies the developing country you will consider;
4. Tells the UN the causes of food insecurity; and
5. Provides a one-sentence statement of your solutions at the end of your introduction paragraph.

Section I. Background

1. What is food insecurity?
2. What role does population growth play in food security?

Section II. Technologies That Can Reduce Hunger and Improve Food Security

1. What forms of technology can be used to reduce hunger and improve food security?
2. How would these technological solutions work?
3. What causes of food insecurity do these technologies address?

Section III. Specific Factors in Chosen Developing Country

1. Considering  the causes of food insecurity, what factors interrupt the flow of food  from the source to the people in the developing country you selected? 

            Conclusion

• Provide  a conclusion of half a page minimum that includes a summary of your  findings that the United Nations can use to inform future policy  decisions.

Success Tips

• In answering each question, use examples from your developing country to illustrate your points. 
• The  UN needs facts and objective analysis on which to base future policy  decisions; avoid personal opinion and make sure your answers are based  on information you find through research. 

Formatting Requirements

• Make sure your paper consists of four to six pages of content (or 1,200 words minimum, not including the cover or reference pages).
• Create headings for each section of your paper as follows:  
  • Section I. Background
  • Section II. Technologies That Can Reduce Hunger and Improve Food Security
  • Section III. Specific Factors in Chosen Developing Country
• Use and cite at least five credible sources in your research. A list of potential resources is available below.
• Make sure your paper contains both in-text citations and a source list, per SWS guidelines: Refer to the Strayer Writing Standards (SWS) document for reference. 
• Include a cover page with your name, the country you selected, the date you submitted the paper, and your instructor’s name.

Potential Sources

1. Peter Timmer. May/June 2015. Food Security and Scarcity: Why Ending Hunger Is So Hard. Foreign Affairs. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/food-security-and-scarcity-why-ending-hunger-so-hard
2. The United Nations Population Division. 2017. World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision. https://www.un.org/development/desa/publications/world-population-prospects-the-2017-revision.html
3. Will Martin. November 5, 2010. Food Security and Poverty: A Precarious Balance. Let’s Talk Development blog by The World Bank. http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/food-security-and-poverty-a-precarious-balance

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is as follows:

• Propose  a plan to address the issue of global food security in underdeveloped  countries that considers the impact of prior solutions. 

Describe your instructional strategies. Address how you will introduce the lesson, teach the main material, wrap up the lesson, and transition into the assessment. Explain why you chose each strategy and why you think each one is effective for each part of your lesson. Some lessons might have one overall instructional strategy. Some lessons might combine a few different instructional strategies.Respond to at least one of your classmates. Do you think the instructional strategies they listed were adequately addressed in the lesson content, student demographics, class time, and assessment?

Produce the Essay Question submission in a single Microsoft Word or Open Office document containing your answer. Be sure to cite your sources, use APA style as required, and check your spelling. I have attached the information needed for this assignment. Minimum of 600 words for entire assignment. 

1. Diverse Employees Contribute to GE Lighting’s Bright Future Case. This case introduces chapter 3. After reviewing the case, respond to the following three questions:

• How important is it to GE Lighting to have a diverse workforce? Discuss fully.
• How would you control diversity activities at GE Lighting if you were top management?
• What are the potential negative consequences if GE had very low levels of diversity in their workforce? (Note that this question is not shown in the textbook)

2. Building Your Management Skills Portfolio (page 101): this assignment is structured around the context of managing a business in Japan. Using the template framework shown in the book, respond to the questions asked in both exercise one and exercise two. You may need to do a bit of Internet research to enrich your answer.

The original question is the first paragraph. The response is needed from the students post below. 

course text and lesson for this unit discusses strategies that local governments and cities employ to promote economic development. Prominent strategies include the courting of professional sports franchises and the financing of new sports facilities (stadiums, arenas, etc.). Do you think that building new sports facilities is a good strategy for promoting economic development? Should taxpayers be responsible for paying for the construction costs, for example, tax increases that are earmarked for facility construction? Why, or why not?
 

Response to this students post. 

Overall, I do not think constructing new sports facilities is the answer for promoting economic development. For one, I think this strategy is geared more towards larger metropolitan cities. These cities are well-known and can offer more than just a sport. For instance, the City of Miami – they are a metropolitan city which offers many tourist attractions such as beaches, museums, parks, zoos, and so much more. So adding another attraction for tourists such as a sports facility makes sense. The facility will drive tourist to the location, but it will further drive tourists in conjunction with all the other attractions they have to offer. These facilities are in areas that are surrounded by local population as well as tourist populations which will equally contribute to its success through attending various sporting events. If you consider using this strategy in a smaller city that is surrounded by other smaller cities you will have a small population of people attending sporting events that live locally. Additionally, if these smaller cities don’t have as much to offer for tourists, they are less desirable for travelers to come out to the area. Therefore, in smaller cities, they are more likely to fail than succeed in the sporting industry.

Should taxpayers be the ones responsible for the costs associated with construction of the facilities through increased taxes? In my personal opinion, I do not see how this is a fair option without being voted on by the taxpaying community. Additionally, if this route is sought after, there should be substantial surveys and studies done that can contribute to ensuring the success of the establishment. I think the proper way of paying for the construction costs is through the utilization of investing funds and/or guaranteed loans from the local agency. Or better yet, maybe a combination of these funding strategies. However, the most important conclusion is that any surtax from citizens should be by referendum.

SOCI 332 – Statistics for Social Sciences

Final Portfolio Assignment (Due Week 7)

TOPIC:  Have men contributed to gender inequality? 

Overview

One of the most crucial components of this course is developing a research project from conceptualizing a research problem and developing a number of measurement and statistical analysis approaches to bring evidence to bear on the problem.  Throughout the class, you created a research study based on publicly available data from the General Social Survey (GSS).  You chose data which were representative of your interests and satisfied your research question and hypotheses.  

This Assignment meets these course objectives:

1. Describe and apply the concepts and logic of elementary statistics.

2. Conduct statistical analysis in SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences).

3. Compare and contrast different types of data and the statistics that can be used to analyze them

4. Examine the differences between descriptive and inferential statistics and their use in the social sciences.

5. Form critical interpretations of quantitative research literature in sociology and other social sciences.

6. Complete and interpret descriptive and inferential statistical data analysis

7. Critically evaluate the quality of research design and evidence in published social research.

Instructions

The Final Portfolio Assignment is where you pull together the research you’ve been working on the first seven weeks of class.  Using your weekly Forum posts, and the feedback from your classmates and instructor on your posts, construct a 6-8 page paper that fully explores your research topic in a way that provides the context and explanation surrounding the analyses provided in the paper.  Your project should display you understand what you are writing about holistically, not simply going through the motions.  

Citing literature about your research topic, be sure to set the stage for the data and analyses that you present.  Briefly describe the General Social Survey as your survey instrument.  Provide the questions, verbatim, that were asked in the survey which became the variable which you chose to use.  You will also need to include the answer choices for each of them.  This portion can be a table if you choose.  Share and explain frequency table(s) an histograms or graphs to describe your data.  Using the statistical tests you ran each week in class (crosstabs, tests of significance, measures of association), present the tests and your findings.  Clearly identify and explain your hypothesis and the five steps of hypothesis testing as they apply to your paper. Explain the results of the statistical tests and pull in some literature to provide context, demonstrating how your results and research fit into the larger body of literature on this topic.  Be sure to use proper APA formatting for citations and references. However, you do not need to include an abstract or table of contents.  You can find guidance in APA by clicking here to access the Purdue Online Writing Lab.

Because the project is a formal, you should include a title page and reference page. You may organize the paper based on the following headings:

Introduction – Introduce the topic based in current literature (briefly – show why it is important to study). Discuss why you chose the topic and what the purpose of the paper is. Give a brief overview of what you will cover.

Literature Review – Review 3-4 peer-reviewed sources that provide a background on your topic. These sources don’t have to specifically address the relationship between your IV and DV, but should address the topic and be somewhat related to your variables.

Methods – Briefly discuss the GSS (information you included in Assignment 1) as your data source. Identify and describe your specific variables, including the name, question, and responses (categories). You may state your hypothesis here, but do not go through the hypothesis testing steps until the next section.

Findings – Begin with a discussion of each variable individually, utilizing your frequency tables and charts/graphs. Then discuss your other analyses in logical order. Crosstabs are your first look at a potential relationship. Next, discuss the steps of hypothesis testing. Include the table of your significance test. Last, discuss the strength and direction of the relationship using measures of association.

Discussion – Discussion what you learned from the various analyses and draw any conclusions you found. Talk about any further research you think may be needed on your topic.

Write a 750-800 word essay from one of the topic listed below. The first 250 words page, explain your topic for the project.  Explain how it is relevant to network security.  Be as clear as you can in explaining your topic by using examples, software, hardware, etc

1. Is Biometric System More Secure?

2. Can Quantum Computer Become a Reality and Offer Better Network Security?

3. Is Apple Really Virus Proof?

4. Reasons Behind Increasing Cyber Crimes

5. Why Poor Cyber Security for Mobile Environments Is Threatening on a Global Level

6. How Can Poor Network Security Be Responsible for Terrorism?

7. How Changing Network Security Plans More Often Contribute Towards a Safer Connection

8. What Role Has NASA Played in Providing Future Research Ideas Related to Privacy and Security?

9. A Research Paper on Why Cyber Criminals Attack Government Organizations

10. How did Snowden Revolutionize the World of Security by Leaking NSA’s Information?

11. Is There a Need to Worry About Network Security?

12. Is Ethical Hacking a Danger For Us?

13. What Punishments Are Available to Cyber Criminals

14. Is Your Data Secure in the Cloud?

15. Are Some Countries More Secure Than Others?

16. Impact of Cyber Security Vulnerability on Organizations

17. How Businesses Are Protecting Against Cyber Criminals

18. Do All Cyber Criminals Want Money?

19. Should Banks be Provided More Network Security than Organizations?

20. Would the World Be a Better Place If Every Individual Is Granted a Right to Privacy?

Why is Informatics important to a Practice Nurse? Well, if you have noticed, you can’t walk into a health care facility anymore without seeing computers on the desk, in the hallways and at the bedside. Informatics is defined as the use of information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making. We use informatics every time we send an email or document in a medical record. We use informatics when we search the literature for the best evidence to solve a problem in health care. And, we use informatics to protect our patients by having electronic tools that help us to prevent errors. As you might imagine, informatics is a prevalent and vital component in the health care setting today.

These are the informatics knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for today’s healthcare providers:

INFORMATICS

Definition: Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making.

Knowledge

Skills

Attitudes

Explain why information and technology skills are essential for safe patient care

Seek education about how information is managed in care settings before providing care. Apply technology and information management tools to support safe processes of care

Appreciate the necessity for all health professionals to seek lifelong, continuous learning of information technology skills

Identify essential information that must be available in a common database to support patient care. Contrast benefits and limitations of different communication technologies and their impact on safety and quality

Navigate the electronic health record. Document and plan patient care in an electronic health record

Employ communication technologies to coordinate care for patients

Value technologies that support clinical decision-making, error prevention, and care coordination. Protect confidentiality of protected health information in electronic health records

Describe examples of how technology and information management are related to the quality and safety of patient care. Recognize the time, effort, and skill required for computers, databases and other technologies to become reliable and effective tools for patient care

Respond appropriately to clinical decision-making supports and alerts. Use information management tools to monitor outcomes of care processes

Use high quality electronic sources of healthcare information

Value nurses’ involvement in design, selection, implementation, and evaluation of information technologies to support patient care