...A1The first thing I did when making my initial decisions regarding computer brands was to look at the summary of customers’ needs provided in the simulation. There were three market segments covered by the simulation: Mercedes, Workhorse, and Traveler. My first decision was to determine which market segments I wanted to market to. I decided to focus on the Mercedes and Workhorse segments as it seemed to me that those markets would have higher sales volumes than the Traveler market. I felt that I could focus on Mercedes as the high end model and market it to higher income customers, while the Workhorse would be an everyday model that the average consumer could afford. The simulation indicated that a score of 110 or higher meant that a need was very important to that segment of the market. The Mercedes segment indicated the following needs: engineering applications; fast and powerful; can link with other computers; and easy on the eyes. The Workhorse segments indicated these needs: office applications; after-sales service and support; easy to use; and low price. I decided to name my brand ‘The Elite’ to make it sound like a top brand during advertising. I named the model I created for the Mercedes segment ‘The Premiere’, and the model for the Workhorse segment was named ‘The Student’. I wanted the names to suggest the product and sales prices hoping that The Premiere would appeal to the higher incomes customers, while The Student would be advertised as affordable, dependable, and...
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...River and the Tigris River (Hollar, 2011). Mesopotamia is recognized as the first civilization. Mesopotamia hand many geological factors that contributed to its success as a society. I believe that Mesopotamia’s location on the globe was its greatest attribution for forming a successful community. This great attribute in addition to the proximity to water sources, the fertileness of the ground and the tempered climate. The location offered for a thriving agricultural community. Farming days had longer hours and seasons lasted longer. Although this land was not perfect it had the makings for what it would take to be a self-sufficient area. Many settlers came to the area do to the large amounts of natural resources (Soomo, 2013). Prompt 2: Potatoes were a great source of diffusion between early human societies. Potatoes were first found in the in the Andes South American mountain area. When potatoes were first discovered there were only two hundred and –thirty five species. News of this new super food began to spread around the world. They were deemed just as important as the major kitchen staples rice, maize or wheat. They were easy to grow and very good for you and were considered to have many healing properties as well. This new super food made its first major debut in Europe and was then transported throughout the world by trading companies, sailors and Conquistadors. It took nearly forty years for word of the potatoes to make it around the world. This spud was...
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...SUBDOMAIN 427.1 ENTERPRISE CONTINUITY PLANNING Competency 427.1.5: Responding to Attacks and Special Circumstances The graduate identifies, evaluates, and applies network response procedures for attacks with special circumstances. Competency 427.1.7: Continued Assessments During a Disaster The graduate assesses needs, threats, and solutions prior to and during a network disaster. Scenario: An employee hacked into the human resource records system at the employee’s place of business and changed the employee’s base salary rate to obtain a pay raise. The employee did this by spoofing an IP address in order to eavesdrop on the network. Once the employee identified where the data was stored and how to modify it, the employee made the changes and received two paychecks with the new amount. Fortunately, an auditor happened to discover the error. The auditor sent an email to several individuals within the organization to let them know there was a potential problem with the employee’s paycheck. However, the employee was able to intercept the message and craft fake responses from the individuals the original email was sent to. The employee and the auditor exchanged emails back and forth until the employee was soon given access permissions for some other financial records. With this new information, the employee was able to lower the salaries of the president of the company and several other employees and then to include the salary difference in the employee’s own paycheck. The...
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...| Sole Proprietorship | Description | In a sole proprietorship, the business and single owner are one in the same. A single owner makes all decisions with regard to the business and the single owner retains all profits earned by the business. The single owner is also responsible/liable for all debts and obligations of the business on a personal level. | Two Advantages | A sole proprietorship is easy to create; there is minimal creation cost and time.The single owner has autonomy in decision making; sole owner makes all decisions related to the business and has complete ownership of business’s finances. | Two Disadvantages | It is impossible to add additional owners and to pass on business, business dies with owner. A single owner faces challenges with raising working capital and all loans made for the business are the personal responsibility of the owner. In addition, the single owner may be sued personally for the business’s liabilities. | Liability | Liability is unlimited; obligations of the business are personal obligations of the owner. The single owner is 100% personally responsible for business liabilities and debts. All of the owner’s personal assets are subject to lawsuit(s) made against the business. | Income taxes | The business itself does not file a tax return. There is no legal distinction between the owner and the business. All income earned by the business is considered personal oncome by the owner. Owner faces a higher rate of taxation because all business...
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...TAT2 Task 1: Integration Design This unit is an eight day unit on how to use the concept of historical periodization to write a claim evidence, reasoning essay about the agricultural revolution. The unit of instruction is designed for high school ninth and tenth graders in World History. Please see the various sections below for more details on my unit. Instructional Goal Given writing prompts that require content knowledge from the Ancient Civilizations unit, students will write a claim, evidence, reasoning paragraph that meets the requirements of at least a three out of four on the Social Studies/ELA rubric. Instructional Objectives The following is a list of instructional objectives used in this unit plan: Given the twenty definitions...
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...The Joint Commission has set accreditation standards in such places as General Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Behavioral Hospitals, and Labs that evaluate the safety and care provided by these institutions. The Joint Commission will come to a facility unannounced, this will help the and do a comprehensive onsite evaluation where they look at the patients experience in that facility and will focus on how that facility can improve their operational systems these improvement will help in the care and safety of the patients they are caring for. The standards that the commission have developed are based on feedback with patients as well as healthcare professionals and governmental agencies. The Joint Commission and the HIT professionals work in conjunction with one another to make a medical facility safe for the patients, as well as protect the facility. According to The Sentinel Alert Event a publication published by The Joint Commission , “As health IT adoption spreads and becomes a critical component of organizational infrastructure, the potential for health IT-related harm will likely increase unless risk-reducing measures are put into place.” The Joint Commission suggest there are three crucial areas where action need to be taken in order to reduce further harm caused by a faulty systems The first area is Safety Culture. This area focuses on the analyzing, identifying and reporting hazardous situations, errors and close calls. They also propose “Comprehensive systematic analysis”...
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...Running Head: ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS 1 Organizational Systems RTT1 Western Governors University Pam Turner Septemer29, 2014 Running Head: ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS 2 A). Nursing-sensitive indicators reflect the structure, process, and outcomes of nursing care. (Nursing-Sensitive, 2014.) The skill level of the nursing staff, the supply of nursing staff, and the education or certifications of the staff are all used to measure the structure of nursing care given to any given patient. Patient outcomes, which are improved by a greater quality of care, are said to be nursing sensitive. Some examples of these are: pressure ulcers, intravenous infiltrations, falls, nosocomial infections, restraints, the mix of RN’s, LPN’s and CNA’s, total nursing care hours provided per patient day, patient satisfaction with pain management, educational information, overall care, nursing care, and nursing saff satisfaction. (ANA, 2014.) Nurses need to know and understand these indicators in order to be able to care for their patient appropriately. For example, an elderly patient who is bed bound will be more prone to pressure ulcers than a young, mobile adult. The elderly or confused patient will also be more prone to falling than the young mobile adult. A confused patient might not notice when his IV infiltrates. In the scenario given, Mr. J. is an example...
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...MEMORANDUM ______________________________________________________________________________ TO: Prez E. Dent September 19, 2013 Chief Executive Officer (CEO) The Toy Company FROM: Elementary Division Manager Background: Memorandum in response to the recent notification that a large shipment of whistles scheduled to ship to elementary schools in South America at the end of week has failed to meet the U.S. requirements of lead limits by a slight margin. A1. Decision Alternative The primary market for the elementary toy collection is elementary schools. The metal whistles in question did not pass testing due to the small traces of lead. The amount of lead included in the whistles was slightly above the U.S. legally acceptable limits for children ages 7 and younger. The approximate cost to reproduce the product and repackage the toy collections is $100,000. There are a few more questions to pose and/or further data to collect in determining the best alternatives to pose. Are the standards for lead content changed if the market is adjusted for adults? We will assume that since we are a toy manufacturer that that loophole is not even a consideration for us regardless of the possible change in requirement. Another question would be; do we have a market in areas that do not require lead testing? For decision alternative presentation we will move forward in assuming that the answer to that question is yes. Decision Option 1: Go ahead and ship...
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...A. Summary of Situation The situation that will be evaluated in this analysis will be; is there a region of the United States in which childhood obesity tends to be more prominent? This will be done to show areas in which the Government, insurance companies and healthcare institutions should focus campaigns for healthy living to reduce future healthcare cost. The data that will be utilized to answer this business question will be the percent of children ages ten to seventeen that are overweight or obese in each of the fifty states. The states will then be categorized into their respective regions of East, South, Midwest, and West. It is important to look into the regions to see if there is a trend of obesity within a region, as this region should be the focal point of Government, insurance companies, and healthcare institutions to launch a healthy living campaign. Conducting such campaigns in a region of most need will in the long run, reduce healthcare cost because children will mature into health conscious individual with less preventable diseases. B1. Summary of Data Again the data that will be used in this analysis is the percentage of children ten to seventeen of which are overweight of obese in each of the fifty States and the District of Columbia. The States will then be put into regions to identify a region that shows more overweight or obese children. The data for this analysis will come from “The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation...
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...be leaving the hospital during the surgery to attend to a sibling matter at home. The mother left her cell phone number as the best contact number to call. This number was entered into the nurse’s personal notebook but was not entered into the patients chart. Post-surgery, the child was taken to the recovery area. The mother had not yet returned to the hospital. During the recovery period the child became more anxious without her mother at bedside. A male presented to the recovery area and identified himself as the child’s father. The patient identified the male as “daddy” and appeared to be comforted by his arrival. The father was provided discharge instructions by the post-operative nurse and was released to his care. Approximately 2 ½ hours later the mother arrived at the unit and was notified the patient had been discharged to home with her father. Mother became very upset, stating the she and the father were divorced and she was the custodial parent. At this point security was notified and a “code pink” was activated. Local law enforcement were also notified by...
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...Mandatory License Testing: Requiring skills testing for all drivers Every year automobile manufacturers make improvements to vehicles in order to reduce the risk and severity of occupant injury in the event of a crash. They have added automated driver support features such as backup cameras, and blind spot warning systems. Recently they have introduced collision avoidance systems which automatically apply the brakes in order to prevent impacts or lessen speed in impacts have been added. These improvements do help but crashes still occur and the other vehicles are caught up in traffic jams due to blocked lanes or motorists slowing to see what happened, and sometimes additional collisions occur in those traffic jams; only making traffic conditions worse. All of these systems fail to address the core issue, the drivers which control the vehicles. Research would suggest that all drivers should be required to take knowledge and road skills tests as part of license renewal, because it will take too long for all vehicles to have safety systems, the current license renewal procedures target the wrong driving population, and do not remove unsafe drivers from the road. The NHTSA has required that all vehicles less than 10,000 pounds have a backup camera as standard equipment by 2018 (Barth, 2014), and 20 automotive manufactures and the United States government agreed to make automated braking systems standard equipment in all cars by the year 2022 (Chappell, 2016). These improvements...
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...THEMES IN U.S. & WORLD HISTORY GKE1 Task 2: Individuals and Institutions as Mechanisms of Social Change Part A Martin Luther was a monk who lived in Wittenberg, Germany. The two most significant changes that he made were challenging Church policies and he sparked the Protestant Reformation, a religious movement. Both of these changes are political and social changes. Luther wrote the “Ninety-Five Theses”, in the Ninety-Five Theses” he listed the reasons why he believed the church was corrupted due to their abuse of power. Luther posted his “Ninety-Five Theses” all around the city and on the church. His “Ninety-Five Theses” reached people and the pope as well. Through this act Luther gained many followers, but he was eventually excommunicated from the church and declared an outlaw. Being excommunicated meant that you would be cut out from contact with the church. If you were declared and outlaw this meant that it was against the law to do any service for Luther. Despite Luther being declared an outlaw, his teachings and ideas lived on. Luther’s work rapidly spread because he was able to use the movable type printing press to create copies of his “Ninety-Five Theses”. As Luther’s “95 Theses” spread, more people began questioning the power of the Church and questioned its policies. This lead to the Protestant Reformation. The Protestant reformation was a time where people decided to stop following church policies and norms. Nuns left their monasteries and convicts. They...
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...Martin Luther King Jr. made a dramatic impact on the world. One of his most notable and greatest accomplishments was the push he made for desegregation. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood” (King Jr., 1963). He spoke out loudly on the issue of segregation, and helped to bring about gradual and positive change. Even after his death, large steps have been made in equality for all people regardless of race. He also was instrumental in showing that one person can stand up and make a difference in a big issue. There have always been people that stand up and defy something they may see as unjust or upsetting. However, there are not as many people that started with little to no backing. Martin Luther King Jr. built a movement that has stood the test of time with organizations like the NAACP who attempt to continue his good work. He cried out loudly against the evils he saw, and changed the world forever. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly” (King Jr., 1963). Gandhi is another great example of a man who stood for...
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...Biochemistry Task 2 Brandy McDowell 000499302 November 30, 2015 A. (Lyman, 2013) B. (Wolfe, 2000) (Wolfe, 2000) B. (Wolfe, 2000) (Wolfe, 2000) C. (Hudon-Miller, 2012) D. (Hudon-Miller, 2012) E. The four forces that stabilize a protein. * Hydrophobic interactions which are interactions by nonpolar amino acids. The weakest of the four types of bonds. * Hydrogen bond made up of interactions of polar or charged amino acids. The amino acids share their hydrogen. This is also a weak bond, but it is stronger than the hydrophobic interaction. * Ionic bonds are made up of charged amino acids. A positive charge of an amino acid attracts to a negative charge of another amino acid. This bond is a little stronger than the hydrogen bond, but not as strong as the polypeptide bond. * Disulfide bond only occurs between two cysteine amino acids. Two cysteine amino acids form a sulfa-sulfa bridge. This is a strong covalent interaction. (Borges, 2014) F1. Explain the role of prions in BSE, including each of the following: ●How prions are formed – Prions are malformed proteins. Instead of reproducing, the prions cause normal proteins to change to the malformed version. The normal prion (PrPc) is bound to the surface of neurons. PrPc can be altered and become misfolded taking on a different conformation which is then known as PrPsc. ●The connection between misfolding and aggregation – Because the misfolded prions are hydrophobic...
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...Intro to task two: The Indian Health Service (IHS): The IHS is a health care system for nearly 2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives who belong to the 566 different, federally recognized, tribes in 35 states. 1 IHS is an agency within HHS, which is the Department of Health and Human Services. 2 The Indian Health Service was established in 1955 taking over from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. It is based on Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution and the relationship developed from numerous treaties, Executive Orders, and Supreme Court decisions 3. The IHS is the primary health care provider for the American Indian people 4, and it’s dedicated to raise their health and well-being to the highest level. Health Information Exchange(s): A Health Information Exchange is the virtualization of healthcare information electronically, and access to said information exchanged between HIE members. This data spans across organizations within a community, or hospital system, or even whole regions. HIEs facilitate transmitting protected health information to other organizations and government agencies according to national standards. HIEs often include collaboration among physicians, home health, nursing homes, hospitals, and mental health facilities. 5 Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: The FEHB Program is for Federal employees present and retired as well as their survivors. Members have the widest selection of health plans in the country. With the ability to choose...
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