...established not-for-profit, community-based organization provider that offers high-quality educational, vocational, and training services to various segments of the local population. In response to the increasing dropout rate of high school students in the local community and a worsening financial situation at the local school district, the organization is considering the opportunity to offer basic skills and vocational training programs in the community. The purpose of this new program is to equip high school dropouts with necessary skills needed to gain potential employment opportunities. As an executive director, justify the reasoning behind this new program and develop a complete launch plan, including a budget and consideration of environmental factors. You must determine how data will be used to support the new program and consider human resources issues affecting this new program. The organization has these issues to consider: • The local economy situation is depressed due to steady job losses resulting from employers relocating to other cities and communities that offer better economic incentives to employers. As a result, local property taxes that support funding of high school programs have declined singifantly in recent years. The reduction has caused the local school district to lose significant financial resources to retain good teachers or fill vacant teachers’ positions. • In the last two years the high school dropout rate had climbed to 15% from 5%. The local...
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...| Syllabus College of Natural Science BIO/100 Version 2 Introduction to Life Science with Lab | Copyright © 2009, 2007 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course applies a broad, conceptual understanding of biology. Students are introduced to scientific ideologies and concepts that not only shape the biological world, but also shape humans. Students examine the scientific method, evolution and biodiversity, the biology of cells, physiology, the dynamics of inheritance, and the effect humans have on the environment. The text emphasizes methods and the theoretical foundations of ideas, while minimizing isolated facts. It stresses the integration of ideas, making connections that form an understanding of the living world. The weekly online labs add a practical component to the class. The labs build upon the concepts in the text and offer a chance to interact with the material and further their understanding. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have...
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...Week Two: Checkpoint – Environmental Factors In order for an organization to achieve optimal function, they want to make the most of their surrounds and environments. Four external environmental factors are the economy, the government, the legal aspects and technological advances that are being made. The six internal environmental factors are the employees, distributors, shareholders, suppliers, partners and labor supply. All of these factors complement each other into a “well oiled machine” or a successful function of an organization. Obviously, the external factors can be either negative or positive on the organization’s functionality. The economy seems to be a major factor today. Because of the current economic problems, many organizations are having difficulty succeeding. This is when you must rely on every other environmental factors, internal and external, to make up for it. The government can help with this because of their control of the political climates. This in turn, brings us to the legal side of things. The laws that are in place can prevent businesses and companies from doing certain things. Technology, of course, is vital to the organization’s success and optimal function. It is something that is continually changing and organizations must be in constant competition with other organizations around them. The internal environmental factors can make or break a company. If you have all the external factors going for you, but don’t have the right customer...
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...CJS 250 Full Course - Introduction to Security http://www.learnyourcourse.com/cjs-250/83-cjs-250-full-course.html CJS 250 Full Course - WEEK 1 CJS 250 Week 1 CheckPoint - Historical Laws and Security CJS 250 Week 1 Assignment - Allan Pinkerton CJS 250 Full Course - WEEK 2 CJS 250 Week 2 DQ: - 1 - Security gaps analysis for real-life locations CJS 250 Week 2 DQ: - 2 - Consider the definition of security given on pp. 71-72 of the text. Can any target environment ever be 100% stable or 100% predictable? Why or why not? Why does the author stress that security efforts for any target environment will be a “never-ending process” and that security objectives will change over time? How can complacency pose a problem for security professionals? CJS 250 Week 2 Appendix B - Threat and Risk Assessment CJS 250 Full Course - WEEK 3 CJS 250 Week 3 CheckPoint [Appendix C] - Risk Management CJS 250 Week 3 Assignment - Security Objective Components CJS 250 Full Course - WEEK 4 CJS 250 Week 4 DQ: - 1 - While it may be ideal for security planners to utilize or install the latest technology, it may not always be practical. How do you think a security professional can balance the limitations, such as budget or space, of a particular environment with the need for keeping abreast of the latest industry technology and trends? How much knowledge of technology do you think security professionals should have? How broad or detailed should that knowledge be? CJS 250 Week 4 DQ: -...
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...Checkpoint: Heredity and Hormones Elizabeth L. Saylor BEH 225 November 3, 2011 Axia University of Phoenix Checkpoint: Heredity and Hormones Heredity and hormones can make or break a person. To compare and contrast the influence of heredity and hormones on human behavior we must first understand what each is and what role it plays. Hormones are chemical substance that is released into the bloodstream to guide the processes of sexual development, metabolism, and growth (Morris & Maisto, 2005). Hormones have different effects on the different genders. With women hormones cause mood swings, people always assume that when a female in menstruating she is automatically in a bad mood that is not the case what happens are the women’s hormones are out of balance and this causes the “mood swings”. Thank goodness there are medications both over the counter and Doctor prescribed to help balance out the hormones. Hormones organize the entire nervous system during puberty. Hormones are responsible for behaviors because they affect alertness, excitability, sexual behavior, concentration, aggressiveness, and how one reacts to stress (Morris & Maisto, 2005). The hormones estrogen and androgen cause acne flare-ups when they are out of balance. The endocrine glands are the main glands that regulate our hormones. Endocrine glands are pituitary gland, gonads, thyroid gland, and the pineal gland (Morris & Maisto, 2005). Heredity is when genes and personal traits are passed...
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...January 30, 2014 Checkpoint; Environmental Factors Technological factors, economic factors, political and professional factors, and social factors are the four external, environmental factors. Technological factors are affected by new technology and the need to stay up to date as well as keeping track of new ways to help treat people. Sociological factors are affected by the target population. What are the groups do you focus on? Is your target level more likely children, teenagers, or adults? Political and professional factors are things like laws and other businesses that are competitors or who can work with you. Lastly, economic factors are things like income and funding, and of course not forgetting the competitors. Vision, mission, goals, culture, beliefs, and products make up the six internal factors. Beliefs are the values that your organization holds, which motivates you to take some action. A mission statement is outlining who your company is and what they can do for their customers. Visions allow you to make goals and remember past accomplishments, and keep your company focused on the future. Culture has to do with the people that you work with and how they are connected to your company. Goals can also motivate people, and good goals require planning. They are powerful motivators to get your allies and employees to work harder. Lastly, your product is a final factor that, hopefully, meets all of the above needs. As far as I'm concerned, sociological factors and goals are...
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...Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide as it can develop in almost any organ or tissue. Significant advances in understanding the cellular basis of cancer and the underlying biological mechanisms of tumour has been vastly improved in the recent years (Jiang et al. 1994). Cancer is a genetic disease which requires a series of mutation during mitosis to develop, its characteristics can be associated with their ability to grow and divide abnormal cells uncontrollable while in the mean time invade and cause nearby blood vessels to serve its need. Even though many people are affected by cancer today, the abilities which cancer cells have make it hard to find a single effective treatment for cancer. The focus of research now lies in developing drugs which target cancer cells in the hope to cure cancer once and for all. There have been extraordinary progresses in identifying cancer at the cellular level and the question of how cancer cells develop are no longer a secret. Although there is many different types of cancer and almost every tissue can turn into malignancies, the basic processes of how cancer arises are very similar. While normal body cells follow the orderly path of cell cycle and only reproduce when instructed to do so, cancer cells violate the schedule and ignore instructions, it fails to follow the orderly enzymatic reaction which is responsible for the deletion of cells with damaged DNA (Kerr et al. 1994). Cancer cells enter the cell cycle repeatedly...
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...------------------------------------------------- Course Syllabus AAGI0MZ6M0 Child Development Course Start Date: 12/04/2012 Course End Date: 02/24/2013 Please print a copy of this syllabus for handy reference. Whenever there is a question about what assignments are due, please remember this syllabus is considered the ruling document. Copyright Copyright ©2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. University of Phoenix© is a registered trademark of Apollo Group, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft©, Windows©, and Windows NT© are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Use of these marks is not intended to imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation. Edited in accordance with University of Phoenix© editorial standards and practices. Facilitator Information Stephanie Jacobs Holder swjacobs@email.phoenix.edu (University of Phoenix) Bailiquinc@aol.com (Personal) 602-738-2059 (MST) Facilitator Availability I am available from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Central Time on most days, but I attempt to reserve Sunday for my family. During the week, I am online most of the time during that 9 a.m.-9 p.m. time frame. On Saturdays, I tend to be...
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...Checkpoint: Population Size There are four factors which create changes in population sizes on a global scale; the birth rate, the death rate, migration, changes in environment. Any changes which create a global scare normally pertain to birth and death rates throughout the world. The factors which can affect the birth rate scale are family planning (including contraception), education, as well as religious and cultural views interfering with the amount of births a single family is allowed to have (such as China). The factors which can affect the death rate are a lack of education (inability to adapt and survive), diseases (with lack of medical care), and crime (murder, suicide, and accidents). Migration can be due to many different reasons ranging from unstable environments politically, economically, or within the environment in general. And each of those factors can have factors of their own, whether it’s a personal at home situation or a more wide spread situation with the surrounding area. Typically birth rates rise faster than death rates. Honestly this can be attributed to modern science, our innate ability to adapt to changing environmental situations, and that we are typically living longer than our ancestors have. However, when pertaining to the nutria, their population increases dramatically because their birth rate sky rockets compared to their death rate. According to the video, they are extremely over populated. The nutria’s increasing population can be...
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...commitment is an important factor in case of the establishment of risk related factors. The risk management is identified from the performance and the helps to lead through the advantage. The existing information controls includes strengths of system. There is high level of dependence in the business that is the major weakness of the business. (Qgcio.qld.gov.au, 2002) The scope for risk management process that will conduct for the risk is as follows– To understand the framework of the risk management, the scope will be to define and to identify the objectives of risk management processes and activities. This establishes the proper scope of the project and also it helps to include the specific activities. (Enisa.europa.eu, 2012) The impact that each of the following has on the organization’s approach to risk management: Political environment: The political environment includes the risk with the perspectives of governmental laws, rules and regulations. The funding related issues also create the approach to risk management. Economic climate: The economic factors include employment, income, inflation, interest rates, wealth and productivity, the buying behavior of the consumers and also the institutions creates the economic factors. This is the risk related approach to the management. Social factors: The factors include cultural aspects, health and safety related consciousness, population growth rate and demographics profile. Legal factors: This factor includes the rules and...
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...population entering the mountain, which then would pickup rubbish along the mountain until the bag reaches full capacity. Upon returning to the base of the mountain with a full bag, a rebate would be offered for their contribution in collecting waste. The idea is that the population would be paid for their efforts in assisting to the mountains health and waste collection. Coupled with extra signage, installing of a compost factory, recycling plant and collaboration with the local shops to ensure they are offering recyclable products would overall see an improvement in the health of the mountain and its stability for years to come, using the simple method of people power. Table of Contents * Introduction * Client Brief + factors * Design Concept and Criteria * Theory/Model *...
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...media and language are used 12 1D State clear expectations and address them in a way that builds commitment 16 1E Investigate incidents promptly and communicate results 21 Summary26 Learning checkpoint 1: Communicate organisational mission and goals 27 Topic 2: Influence groups and individuals 31 2A Build others’ trust, confidence and respect 32 2B Embrace, resource and effectively implement improvements to workplace culture 43 2C Demonstrate understanding of the global environment and new technology 47 2D Ensure actions convey flexibility and adaptability to change and accessibility 51 2E Ensure collaborative and effective decision-making 57 2F Ensure the organisation is positively represented 62 Summary64 Learning checkpoint 2: Influence groups and individuals 65 Topic 3: Build and support teams 69 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E Assign accountabilities and responsibilities to teams 70 Ensure teams are resourced to allow them to achieve their objectives 75 Empower teams and individuals through effective delegation and support 78 Create and maintain a positive work environment 83 Encourage teams and individuals to develop innovative approaches to work performance 86 Summary89 Learning checkpoint 3: Build and support teams 90 Unit release 1 (Aspire Version 1.1) © Aspire Training & Consulting v BSBMGT605 Provide leadership across the organisation Topic 4: Demonstrate personal and...
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...documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Macionis, J. J. (2011). Society: The basics (11th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. Recommended Websites: The following are suggested websites that can be used as additional resources for researching information for your CheckPoints and Assignments. U.S. Census Bureau at http://www.census.gov World Population Information at http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/worldpopinfo.html Population Connection at http://www.populationconnection.org The World Factbook at http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html Bureau of Labor Statistics at http://www.bls.gov The World Bank at http://www.worldbank.org/data National Center for Children in...
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...Oxygen consumption is an example of a largely physiological variable that is not dependent solely on temperature. Vernberg (1959) describes that oxygen consumption rates also are subjected to factors that can affect it such as age, size, and altitude. The size of the crayfish is proportional to the requirement of oxygen. However with an increase in age and latitude, there is a decreased requirement for oxygen. The size variability factor also is, largely in part, the reasoning as to why the oxygen consumption values are expressed in mass, mass effects metabolism greatly. Variation can also take form in the experimental results that are produced in the lab. For example, human error could be one of the factors that causes a slight variation in the direct results obtained. This could have been a result of improper recording or miscalculation with one of the equations provided in the laboratory experiment. Experimental error is also likely. This includes physical error, oxygen escaping from jars, and skewing the actual oxygen level results...
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...Week Eight Checkpoint Energy Resource Challenges SCI/275 Cindy Walker Conserving energy is a key factor in the improvement of the planet in which we live. I practice conserving energy by doing little things such as turning lights off when I leave the room and turning the heat or the air conditioner down a little lower than I normally would. I believe if everyone in the world would take these little steps we can make a momentous impact on the environment. Natural gas and oil are the most common natural resources used to run our homes efficiently. Consequently, these natural resources can and will run out in the future if we do not begin to conserve today. I have challenged myself to reduce the size of the ecological footprint which I put on the earth. I am proud to say that I am a recovering shopaholic. You see, I am a mother of three little girls and love for them to look their best at all times. So, I would go out and buy them new clothes for just about every occasion. During this time I thought I was being resourceful by purchasing cheap trendy clothes for them to wear instead of the more expensive higher quality clothing. However, after completing an environmental science course, I realized I wasn’t being resourceful; instead I was being quite wasteful. I realized that buying a large amount of cheap trendy clothes was costing me more money and creating more trash than buying higher quality clothing. I noticed that the cheap clothes could only be worn a couple...
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