...Evolution Abstract One paragraph… The discussion on the origin and fate of the universe continues to revolve around creationists and evolutionary ideas, though creationism positions arise mainly of religion and philosophy, while the evolution is postulated mainly from science. One wonders if possible convergence in these fields in the discussion, that is, if you can address both creationism and evolutionism from science, philosophy and religion. Theory of Evolution In science the theory of evolution explains the huge variety of life arising by postulating a process of transformation through changes in genes that lead to new adaptations to the environment. By studying the genetic structure of living beings is a verifiable fact that they are related to each other and, therefore, aims to have a common origin as the emergence of new species due to the accumulation of changes that do diverge and take different paths to adaptation to the environment. In the scientific world, biological evolution represents the interpretative key of the living world. Life began about 3500 makes 4000 million years in the form of single-celled organisms without nuclei and took about two billion years to produce the first eukaryotes (unicellular organisms with nuclei), so the start was given very slowly. However, in evolutionary history there are times with a high evolutionary rate as the Cambrian period (540 to 520 million years, they were many forms of multicellular life). They also appeared...
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...Gene One: Problem Solution and Defense Gene One is a privately owned biotechnology company who is attempting an initial public offering (IPO). During this transition, opportunities within Gene One‘s organizational structure have been made more eminent. This paper uses the Problem Based Learning model the concepts of transformational leadership and organizational culture will be applied to the current internal issues faced by Gene One in the areas of team dynamics, knowledge and leadership style. Gene One is lead by Don Ruiz who has surpassed expectations during its 8-year growth. Don is an intrinsic part of a 5-member team who built the Gene One out of a 2 million-dollar investment. Don’s goal is to position Gene One as an industry leader. In order to acquire large amounts of capital for advanced research and superior product development to meet consumer demand and a grow by 40% per year, Gene One board of directors have decided on an initial public offering (IPO) within a 36 month deadline. Describe the Situation Issue and Opportunity Identification Gene One has several opportunities within the organizations. These opportunities are organizational culture, teamwork, and leadership. A company’s organizational culture is “the basic pattern of shared assumption, values, and beliefs governing the way employees within an organization think about and act on problems and opportunities,” (McShane and Von Glinow, 2005). Gene One must understand how employees' attitudes, feeling, and...
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...Leadership Concepts Worksheet Sherri Vicario MMPBL 520 Transformational Leadership Steven Williams May 31, 2010 University of Phoenix Leadership Concepts Worksheet |Concept |Application of Concept in the Scenario or Simulation |Reference to Concept in Reading | | |Chief Executive Officer, Chief financial Officer, Marketing Officer, Chief |”Katzenbach and Smith define a team | |Work |Technology Officer, and Chief Human Resources Officer must work together to |as, a small number of people with | |Teams |achieve the 40 % growth, new investors, and new technology. They each |complementary skills who are | | |individually need to look at whole picture and do their part to contribute to|committed to a common purpose, | | |the success of their goals. |performance goals, and for which they| | | |hold themselves mutually | | | |accountable.” ( Kinicki & Kreitner, | | | |2003, pg 2 | | ...
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...Running head: PROBLEM SOLUTION: GENE ONE Problem Solution for Gene One University of Phoenix MBA 520 – Transformational Leadership Problem Solution for Gene One Change is inevitable in any organization; however, there are a myriad of approaches toward that change and the individuals involved. Change relates directly to organizational behavior and leadership style. This problem analysis and suggested solution will look at a scenario entitled Gene One and will explore the challenges facing the CEO and the changes facing the company and its employees. This analysis will review a number of leadership style issues in addition to organizational culture, knowledge management, emotional intelligence, and knowledge management. Situation Analysis Issue and Opportunity Identification Change is, and never has been as easy to accept, as the change agent would prefer. Niccolo Machiavelli said, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things” (Kaplan, J. ed. 1992, p. 136). Several areas related to organizational development and leadership style are evident in the scenario. Internal communication or lack thereof can make or break an organization in transition. At Gene One, the process has not been particularly effective to date creating tension not only within management but also throughout the organization. Management has a unique opportunity...
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...In this paper I will attempt to help Gene One solve their current problems that they are experiencing as a result of poor planning by management with a new IPO strategy. Although I believe that they were looking out for the company’s/employees’ best interest, the lack of a solid game plan has led us to this point where the working relationship between management has failed. While attempting to uncover the optimal solution I will look at the factors that should be considered when evaluating all options. My hopes are to bring to light why one solution is better than the next as it relates to the vision and goals of the company. This will be done by examining evidence from outside sources that have been through similar situations. This solution will be centered on transformational leadership and organizational culture. By identifying the primary causes of the failed strategy’s implementation, I will dissect and attempt to salvage the IPO strategy that Gene One will still need to carry out. In reading this scenario, one thing obvious from the onset; the senior leadership team at Gene One is not all on the same page. Anytime there is a culture change within an organization there will be resistance by some to change. In the case of Gene One they are no more immune than any other company. Evidence of this could be seen from the interactions of Teri and Michelle at the 1st leadership meeting after the board’s approval of the IPO plan. “What’s the matter, Michelle? Not finding enough...
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...Assignment# 1-“How Personal Can Ethics Get?”(Integrated cases at the end of the textbook) BUS. 520 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Jean-Francois Orsini, Ph.D. 04/24/2011 1. Discuss how personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics. Ethics are values principles that help individuals distinguish right from wrong. In the broadest sense, ethics refers to the study of moral values, principles and rules, including the determination of standards of conduct and obligations for individuals and organizations are common and comply. In fact, ethical issues involve factors that blur individual perceptions between “right and wrong.” Resulting in some employees may differ their opinions about what is ethical or unethical in various situations. It has been contended that what defines a person’s stage of moral development is not the specific ethical choice. For example, individuals may talk and think at a higher moral level, but may not always behave accordingly. Situational forces, such as threatening peer pressure or demands from higher management, may lead to behaviors that the person would not otherwise exhibit. An individual personality combines physical and mental characteristics that reflects how a person looks, thinks, acts, and feels. Heredity (genes) and environment (experiences) are the primacy sources that shape personality differences. An organizations code of ethics is derived from individual ethics, which result from the influences of heredity...
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...among African Americans Final Research Paper Peggy Hollie Epidemiology Disease Dr. Peters May 9, 2012 Diabetes Mellitus is characterized by abnormal metabolism of carbohydrate, protein, and fat, resulting in increased levels of blood sugar. The adjective mellitus (for sweet) is used with diabetes insipidus (tasteless), which is so rare that the word diabetes by itself generally refers to diabetes mellitus. The only thing that diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus have in common is polyuria, or frequent urination. There are two forms of diabetes mellitus: Type I, or insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus IDDM), and Type II, or non-insulin-dependent diabetes (NIDDM). Diabetes is one of the ten leading causes of death from disease in the United States. It is the result of an insufficient supply of insulin or an inadequate use of insulin that is supplied from the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2010), diabetes affects 25.8 million people 8.3% of the U.S. population, diagnosed 18.8 million people and undiagnosed 7.0 million people. African Americans who have diabetes are 4.9 million or 18.7% aged 20 years or older. African Americans are twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes as non-Hispanic whites. In addition, they are more likely to suffer complications from diabetes, such as end-stage renal disease and lower extremity amputations. Although...
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...Am. J. Hum. Genet. 56:993-998, 1995 Association of Attention-Deficit Disorder and the Dopamine Transporter Gene Edwin H. Cook, Jr.," 23 Mark A. Stein," 3 Matthew D. Krasowski," 2 Nancy J. Cox,4 Deborah M. Olkon,' John E. Kieffer,' and Bennett L. Leventhal" 23 3Department of Pediatrics, and 4Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, 'Laboratory of Developmental Neuroscience, Harris Center for Developmental Studies, Summary Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been shown to be familial and heritable, in previous studies. As with most psychiatric disorders, examination of pedigrees has not revealed a consistent Mendelian mode of transmission. The response of ADHD patients to medications that inhibit the dopamine transporter, including methylphenidate, amphetamine, pemoline, and bupropion, led us to consider the dopamine transporter as a primary candidate gene for ADHD. To avoid effects of population stratification and to avoid the problem of classification of relatives with other psychiatric disorders as affected or unaffected, we used the haplotype-based haplotype relative risk (HHRR) method to test for association between a VNTR polymorphism at the dopamine transporter locus (DAT1) and DSM-IR-diagnosed ADHD (N = 49) and undifferentiated attention-deficit disorder (UADD) (N = 8) in trios composed of father, mother, and affected offspring. HHRR analysis revealed significant association...
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...Generic Benchmarking University of Phoenix MMPBL/520 June 7, 2010 Generic Benchmarking Introduction Organizations and companies face many new and increasing complex challenges in today’s complicated business world. Because of the nature of our society and changes in our workforce resolving these challenges are becoming more and more difficult for today’s managers. Today, if a company is to be successful, management and the leadership groups must consider many things besides the bottom line. Management must ensure that their vision and mission statements reflect the true meaning of the company’s goals and objectives. This communication of the goals and objectives can be done in several different methods. Organizations must take a hard look at their management and leadership styles and if fits into the culture the organization. Management must also ask themselves if they are developing company loyalty from the employees and if the working environment is encouraging employees to be committed to the fulfilling the goals and objectives of the company, thus being about motivated employees for the success of the company. Management should also be willing to solicit feedback from employees, shareholder and customers to determine how they are communicating a common message of what management desires the organizational culture to be and to ensure that the vision and mission statement is clear for all to...
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...inclusion bodies (Ross and Poirier, 2004). However, recent studies have suggested that protein aggregation may not be the cause of toxicity to cells but that it may in fact be a protective mechanism. The aggregates formed in the above-mentioned diseases can be a consequence of mutations in the sequence of the protein that is related to the disease, increased amounts of a normal protein due to a genetic variation, or even the absence of genetic variations. These may be initiated by environmental stress or aging (Ross and Margolis, 2005). The aggregated proteins can build up and form inclusion bodies, which can be either intracellular or extracellular. There is an ongoing debate about the role of aggregation in the disease process even though one of the most common pathological features of neurodegenerative disorders is inclusion bodies. There is much evidence indicating that aggregation is associated with toxicity in these diseases. On the other hand, there are those studies that have suggested that the formation of inclusion bodies is not related to toxicity and that in actual fact are a protective response by the cell (Ross and Poirier, 2005). Therefore, the question still remains, are aggregates and nuclear inclusions the villains in neurodegenerative disease, or are...
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...bias identified by race can influence prosocial behaviour as in-group members are more productive for their groups benefit and less helpful to the out-groups (Stepanikova, Simpson, 2011). Prosocial behaviour is behaviour intended to solely help or benefit another (Eisenberg, 2007). Research into the relationship between prosocial behaviour and socioeconomic status has also shown that lower socio economic groups have more compassion and therefore behave more prosocially when allocating resources (Piff, Kraus, 2010). Situational factors include people being more likely to help their family members. Kin selection refers to the theory that people will choose to help people first that are related to them so that their family’s biological genes will live on. Kinship can be extended to other groups that we are familiar with, community groups that we may belong to and people that we socialise with and share common values (Hippel, Hasselton, 2007). Social learning and how we have been raised, what we have been taught, what social norms have been agreed upon within our family dynamic our society, school, work, and within the society that we live in predispose our choice to act prosocially or not. If we are taught prosocial values and incorporate them in our value and belief systems then we are more likely to be a sensitive personally involved and a socially...
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...Integrating Culture and Diversity in Decision Making: The CEO and Organizational Culture Profile xxxxxxxx yyyyyyyyyyy BUS 520 – Leadership and Organizational Behavior January 27, 2014 Provide a brief (one [1] paragraph) description of the organization you chose to research. Southwest Airlines was founded in 1971 by Herb Kelleher and Rollin King to provide frequent, low cost airline service in busy markets less than 500 miles apart. “Southwest Airlines is now America’s largest low-fare carrier, serving more Customers domestically than any other airline with a unique combination of low fares, no annoying fees, friendly Customer Service delivered by outstanding People, safe and reliable operation, and an extraordinary corporate Culture that extends to the communities it serves” (Southwest Corporate Fact Sheet, 2013, pg.1). The company has been in operation for 42 years and has returned a profit every year except for the first year (Southwest Corporate Fact Sheet, 2013). Even after September 11th, 2001, the company made a profit without layoffs or furloughs (Reingold, 2013). Examine the culture of the selected organization. As stated in Southwest Airline 2009 Corporate Report, “Our unique airline Culture enables our Family of Employees to provide the highest quality Customer Service. Our valued Customers return to Southwest Airlines because of our People. Our People listen to the Customer’ suggestions create innovative programs that make their lives easier, and...
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...illnesses in the country, monitored for a five-year period were caused by water-borne pathogens. In the agriculture sector, application of agrochemicals (i.e. fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides) remains a common practice among farmers in rural areas. Intensive use of agrochemicals has been known to create and result to both environmental problems and diseases. The hazards accompanying this practice, especially those associated with persistent organic pollutants or POPs have been known for years and the knowledge of the extent of harm they cause has increased. According to a study by Dr. N. Maramba (1996), most farmers may be aware that pesticides are hazardous but there is a lack of awareness of exposure risks. Pesticide handlers are the ones most heavily exposed. In addition, exposure of households in farming communities may occur due to spray drift from nearby fields. This exposure is further enhanced by farmers’ practice of washing their sprayers near, or in, irrigation canals, which may then become part of agricultural runoff. They also use this water source for washing of hands and feet, clothes, and to some extent, for taking a bath. Several cases were cited in the study concerning organochlorine poisonings, aplastic anemia, eye, skin, nail, pulmonary, renal, and...
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...Hindawi Publishing Corporation Obstetrics and Gynecology International Volume 2013, Article ID 173184, 11 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/173184 Review Article Uterine Fibroids: Pathogenesis and Interactions with Endometrium and Endomyometrial Junction Andrea Ciavattini,1 Jacopo Di Giuseppe,1 Piergiorgio Stortoni,1 Nina Montik,1 Stefano R. Giannubilo,1 Pietro Litta,2 Md. Soriful Islam,3 Andrea L. Tranquilli,1 Fernando M. Reis,4 and Pasquapina Ciarmela3 1 Woman’s Health Sciences Department, Faculty of Medicine, Polytechnic University of Marche, Via Corridoni 11, 60123 Ancona, Italy Department of Gynaecological Sciences and Human Reproduction, University of Padova, Via Giustiniani 3, 35128 Padova, Italy 3 Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Polytechnic University of Marche, Via Tronto 10/a, 60126 Ancona, Italy 4 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Federal University of Minas Gerais and National Institute of Hormones and Women’s Health, 30130-100 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil 2 Correspondence should be addressed to Andrea Ciavattini; ciavattini.a@libero.it Received 28 February 2013; Revised 10 June 2013; Accepted 13 August 2013 Academic Editor: Hilary Critchley Copyright © 2013 Andrea Ciavattini et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Uterine leiomyomas (fibroids...
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...Assignment 3: Motivation, Stress, and Communication Audrey M. Wells Dr. Christopher Hase BUS 520- Leadership and Organizational Behavior Strayer University May 13, 2012 1. Create a brief job description for a position within the company you research that you would like to fill. Unilever USA is a hugely successful business, which provides product brands and services throughout the world. Currently, products are widely sold all over the world, with billions of consumers using Unilever products daily. Unilever’s many brands fall into 4 major categories: Personal Care Products, Home Care Products, Foods, and Refreshments. Personal Care Products, specifically, Multi-Cultural Hair Care Product Brands is the division that I have worked in for the last 29 years. Having experienced major success in Sales, Education, Marketing, and Consulting via Trade Shows, Seminars, Road Shows, Presentations, and Internet Website Expert (Ask the Expert), moving to the next level is my goal. I would love to fill the position of Sales Manager, Domestic and Canadian Sales, OTC Channel. The Sales Manager, Domestic and Canadian Sales, OTC Channel will contribute to the growth of sales and profits by effectively coordinating and managing the movement of Unilever’s Multi-Cultural Hair Care Brands through OTC Distributors and Retailers to consumers and salon operators. Essential duties are: * Consult with Senior Management and identify ongoing goals and objectives ...
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