...healthy people living longer lives, but the terminally ill patients are living longer (Coombs, 2017). For example, 30-year-old, Brittany Maynard, developed a brain cancer. She swore in the beginning to fight the disease and went through surgery’s and treatments to beat it. Unfortunately, the cancer returned, causing debilitating pain and headaches. She decided she wanted to have an assisted suicide, but the state of California had laws that...
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...Maynard became the face of Assisted Suicide. She was praised of social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter. People respected her for he want to “die with dignity”. This showed people that you should be in control of your life and death. It is almost inspirational. Her story also initiated action from states such as New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, California and Nevada. All of these states are working on passing a “Death with Dignity” policy. As stated above, New Jersey is coming closer and closer to adopting this policy. (Sandeen,...
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...TITLE: Maynard Company Case 3-1 BACKGROUND: Upon seeing the balance sheet in Case 2-1, Diane Meynard was surprised that cash increased by $31,677 but net income was only S19,635. Her friend will prepare an income statement to find out why and her friend found a record of cash receipts and disbursements. She also learned that all accounts payable were to vendors for purchase of merchandise inventory and the cost of sales was $39,345 in June. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The cash increased by $31,677 but net income was only $19,635. ALTERNATIVE COURSES OF ACTION a. To check transactions that affected the income statement but not cash. b. To find out whether Maynard Company uses accrual method or cash basis accounting RECOMMENDATION The change in cash balance was greater than net income as there are certain transactions in the income statement that do not affect cash balance/ the balance sheet, and vice versa. The transactions that affected the income statement but did not affect cash are the following: revenues recognized from credit sales, depreciation, amortization of prepaid insurance, and accrual of wages and taxes. On the other hand, the transactions that affected cash/ the balance sheet but did not affect net income are the following: availment of bank loans, declaration of dividends, payment of Diane Maynard’s loans to the company, purchase of equipment and other assets, and accounts payable. CONCLUSION a) $14,715 represents only the amount of merchandise purchased...
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...A. Imagine you are a young vibrant newlywed trying to start a family, when after a couple months of severe headaches you find out it is not just headaches; it’s a malignant brain tumor. B. I’d like to talk to you about a person’s right to die. If you watched the news this fall you have likely heard this story. After two surgeries to stop the growth of the tumor, Brittany Maynard found out she had less than six months to live and that any treatment they could offer to try to prolong her life had brutal side effects. A Gallup Poll from May 2006 asking "When a person has a disease that cannot be cured, do you think doctors should be allowed by law to end the patient's life by some painless means if the patient and his family request it?" the poll found that 69% of Americans answered yes to the question. C. I have been interested in this topic since the Terri Schiavo case from 2005. Terri had cardio-respiratory arrest in 1990 which caused her brain to be oxygen deprived for a long period of time. After a brief time on a ventilator to help her breathe she was able to breathe on her own but doctors declared her as being in a persistent vegetative state, which is an ongoing state of severely impaired consciousness in which the patient is incapable of voluntary motion. She was placed on a feeding tube as the only way to get proper hydration and nourishment. This was the only thing keeping her alive in her persistent vegetative state for 15 years. D. I will discuss three main points:...
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...What is the bond’s yield to maturity (expressed as an APR with semiannual compounding)? CPN = PMT = $40 = 1000/2*0.08 P = $1034, 74 N = 20 FV = $1000 Using Therefore y = 3,75 And APR = 7.5% b. If the bond’s yield to maturity changes to 9% APR, what will the bond’s price be? Using the formula above with y=4,5 P= $934,96 I don’t see the need of including the excel file as it is simple calculations 2. FastTrack Bikes, Inc. is thinking of developing a new composite road bike. Development will take six years and the cost is $200,000 per year. Once in production, the bike is expected to make $300,000 per year for 10 years. Assume the cost of capital is 10%. (10 Marks) a. Calculate the NPV of this investment opportunity, assuming all cash flows occur at the end of each year. Should the company make the investment? As the cash flows occur at the end of the year, being t the year we are calculation for the cash flow (R), when t=0 R=0. From t=1 to t=6, R=-200000$. After that, from t=7 to t=16, R=+300000$. Cost of capital, I, is 10% We need to use the Net Present Value decision rule. Using that formula in excel, NPV = $169482 As it is positive, the company should enter the investment. It would be like having an extra $170K in their cash today. b. By how much must the cost of capital estimate deviate to change the decision? (Hint: financial calculator to calculate IRR.) As the cost of capital change, the profitability of the investment varies. We...
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...NRSBN 3004 Nursing in a Changing Society Module Leader: Sue Bailey Word Count: 3159 Critically Discuss the Issue of Priority Setting Within the NHS It is no surprise that the role of the nurse has had to change over the last few decades; nurses are dynamic, vital members of a successful health care team. RCN (2009) The role they play is crucial in order to provide a consistent and quality service from health promotion and prevention strategies to clinical treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care. (NHS,2008). Nurses contribute greatly to a modern health care system hence the emergence of many specialist nurse practitioners who have undertaken additional specialist education in order to provide advanced nursing care and nurse prescribing services. RCN (2009) However in order for nurses to uphold the pledge of lifelong learning (NMC, 2008), it is imperative that they improve both clinically and academically and have an understanding of some of the important and current issues within the NHS. One such issue apparent over the last decade, and the cause of much recent debate has revolved around ‘priority setting’ within the NHS. Therefore the focus of this essay will be to critically analyse the subject of priority setting in relation to rationing and funding in the healthcare setting. “It is a matter of fact that rationing exists. It existed under the previous Government, and it exists now. Only when we recognise that rationing is a natural part...
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...WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY Mary Powell Dr. Sandra M. Tomkowicz BLA 201-Legal Environment of Business Alyssa Straiton Spring 2016 Sections 01, 02 & 03 Section 03 Assignment - Constitutional Law, Administrative Agencies, Intentional Torts & Intellectual Property ** You may complete the assignment with one or two partners from any of my three (3) sections of BLA 201. Each student will receive the same grade. PLEASE TYPE YOUR RESPONSES ON THIS DOCUMENT. DUE DATE: Friday, April 22, 2016 ** Read the story FDA Warns Tobacco Companies Advertising “Natural” Cigarettes, located at http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/08/27/435235804/fda-warns-tobacco-companies-advertising-natural-cigarettes and answer the following questions: 1. What type of speech is at issue? False or misleading speech 2. If the tobacco companies challenge the FDA’s order as violating their First Amendment free speech rights, will the companies win? Explain why or why not. The tobacco companies will not win because false or misleading speech is not protected under the First Amendment, so therefore none of their rights are being violated. If the tobacco were able to scientifically prove their claims, then they would win because then their First Amendment rights would be violated. ** Read the following stories (in chronological order): In Fighting FBI, Apple Says Free Speech Rights Mean No Forced Coding, located at http://www.npr.org/section...
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...Are Imprinted Genes Adaptive or Maladaptive? Epigenetics is referred to be the study of heritable changes other than those in the DNA sequence that encompass two major modifications of DNA or chromatin: DNA Methylation, the covalent modifications of cytosine, and post-translation modification of histones including methylation that is a highly intricate process that occurs within each cell as well as supplying fluid in the brain and within the liver, acetylation , phosphorylation and sumoylation (Callinan and Feinberg 2006) which is the is a post-translational modification involved in various cellular processes, such as nuclear-cytosolic transport, transcriptional regulation, apoptosis, protein stability, response to stress, and progression through the cell cycle . Epigenetics is the mechanism that leads to parent-of-origin effects via imbalanced expression of maternally and paternally inherited copies of a gene. It plays a role in several Mendelian diseases and there is growing evidence for its role in common diseases as well as cancer. It is a dynamic mechanism with varying degrees of monoallelic expression between tissues and developmental stages (Wolf et al. 2008; Kong et al. 2009; Skaar et al. 2012; Lawson et al. 2013; Peters 2014). In addition, recent evidence suggests that noncoding RNAs predominantly microRNA contribute to the stock of epigenetic mechanisms that are found in major diseases and that can occur at critical developmental times (Esteller 2011)...
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...The Right to Death: Advocating for the Patient’s Right Kristine Bisceglia N176 Saddleback College The Right to Death: Advocating for the Patient’s Right As new graduate nurses we are going to be presented with many new challenges while working in the hospital and as we transition into this role of “nurse” instead of “student nurse”, we will be actively learning how to manage our time, our patient load and what it truly means to be an advocate for our patient’s rights. One challenge that we all are going to face for the first time is learning how to accommodate a dying patient and their wishes. The challenge isn’t just about providing care but also how to handle the patient’s family and even our own possible opposing beliefs. First, we are going to have to understand difference and what our ethical obligations are when we are faced with questions and situations pertaining to end of life decisions. An advance directive allows a competent adult to make the decision about their end of life care and this is acknowledged in a formal document known as a living will. The document will include; an individual the patient has chosen to make decisions for them if they become incompetent or incapacitated to make decisions on their own, stipulations on what is acceptable care and treatments and procedures that are not to be implemented as well as authorization for the patient’s physician to withhold or discontinue certain life-sustaining procedures under specific conditions (Cherry...
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...connectivity. It provides countless of applications and benefits that enhances organizations’ performance and individuals’ lifestyle. This paper discusses general knowledge about IoT technology, applications, and challenges. Definition IoT is one of the fastest growing technologies in computing. It is an environment where people, animals, or objects are presented with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network (Rouse, 2014). It has emerged from combining wireless technologies, micro-electromechanical systems, and the internet (Rouse, 2014). See Figure 1. These wireless technologies are equipped with, or connected to a smart device allowing data collection and communication through the internet (Caron, Bosua, Maynard, & Ahmad, 2016). Figure 1. IoT Ecosystem (Medici, 2015) Benefits * Tracking behavior for real-time marketing (Borne, 2014). * Enhanced situational awareness (Borne, 2014). * Sensor-driven decision analytics (Borne, 2014). * Process optimization (Borne, 2014). * Optimized resource consumption (Borne, 2014). * Instantaneous control and response in complex autonomous systems (Borne, 2014). * Increase operational efficiency, power new business models, and improve quality of life (Harrell, 2015). * Provide an accurate analysis of customer data (Medici, 2015). Some Applications of IoF Business intelligence (BI). “The BI application ensures the analysis and measurement of the consumer’s thoughts, behaviors...
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...appeals court, what errors were made by the judge at trial? First off, the judge was wrong by allowing the jury to even deliver a verdict on discrimination claims against Thiesing for 2,200,000 dollars. Thiesing was the prosecutor and this case was not about what Thiesing did as he was the prosecutor and brought the case to court not the defendant. I feel as though the judge should have kept the jury on track by not allowing other issues not relevant to the case at hand to be admissible. On the other hand the judge also did not allow the jury to look at the evidence of the case with a clear mind due to the plaintiff’s counsel only desire was to ignite the passion in the jury emotionally instead of on the evidence. The judge should have never allowed the jury’s feelings to get so emotional that a verdict and awards would have been as high and harsh as they were for this type of hearing. It went too far and the judge never intervened. 7. (part a) Would the police violate a suspect’s Fourth Amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure by secretly placing a GPS tracking device on the suspect’s car for an extended time without first securing a warrant to do so? Explain. See, for example, United States of America v. Lawrence Maynard, 615 F.3d 544 (D.C. Cir. 2010); petition for rehearing en bane denied, United States of America v. Antoine Jones, 625 F.3d 766 (D.C. Cir. 2010). Justices who commenced to talk about the 4th Amendment concluded that when you go and put a...
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...General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: After listening to my speech, my audience will know more about doctor assisted suicide Introduction 1. In recent years the government has considered the use of doctor assisted suicide more than a it has ever before 1. Doctor assisted suicide is a very highly debated topic B. “There is no treatment that would save my life, and the recommended treatments would have destroyed the time I have left” is a quote by Brittany Maynard who is one of the most famous patients to use the death with dignity act C. She chose to use a pill that would end her life by November 1st II. Thesis: Patients around the world have wanted this act to be passed and they are starting to see their wish come true Body 1. The current debate of whether or not the death with dignity act should be passed across the U.S. is one that is highly debated ethically 1. “We must find a solution to the unbearable suffering of patients whose needs cannot be met by palliative care."- Lord Joffe 2. There is ways to help reduce the pain but in some cases even this methods don’t help and patients are forced to be in a hospital as they wither away and suffer. Transition: Now that you understand where I am coming from on this sensitive topic here are some more ideas that we must consider. 2. The Debate 3. Religious side 1. “Severely undermining respect for life” is the reason most people oppose the right...
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...Chapter 3 BASIC ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS: THE INCOME STATEMENT Changes from Tenth Edition The chapter has been updated. Additional topics include proforma earnings, EBITDA and SEC financial report certification and affirmation requirements for CEO’s and CFO’s. Approach Undoubtedly, the accrual idea is the most difficult of all basic accounting matters for the student to grasp. As a matter of fact, we sometimes say that the proper recognition of revenue and expense is the only important accounting problem. Although this is an exaggeration, it is not far from the truth. The text and cases in this chapter constitute only a beginning in understanding and it is to be expected that students will understand the matter thoroughly only after they have attacked it from several different angles. Sometimes we ask the class “Suppose a company received a lawyer’s bill for $1,000. Explain all the different ways in which this bill could be recorded in the accounts.” The answer is that if the bill relates to services rendered in a prior year (or accounting period) but not recorded in that time, it is nevertheless an expense of the current year; if it represents a charge for a previous year that was recorded in that year, the payment of the bill merely represents a decrease in a liability; if it represents a charge in the current year, it is recorded as an expense; and if it represents a retainer for services to be rendered in the following year it is recorded as an asset, prepaid...
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...Death with Dignity Act Esther Harris November 29, 2015 Business Law – BA3310 Death with Dignity is a very controversial subject that has spanned many decades and continues to spark great debate from both sides of the subject. Death is a very personal matter, and those who support that law believe that a person should be able to die with dignity if he or she chooses to do so. Those who oppose the law believe that there should not be any human intervention into the process of dying. There are two distinct sides of the debate, but people should have the choice if he or she chooses to do so. Death with Dignity should become a legalized process throughout the United States. HISTORY Death with Dignity laws in several states allow mentally competent, terminally-ill adult residents to voluntarily request and receive a prescription medication, from a physician, so they can die in a peaceful, humane manner in a place and time of their choosing (Death with Dignity, 2015.) In layman’s terms, a person who is eighteen years or older and has received a terminal medical diagnosis, with less than six months to live, can request for a physician to provide him or her with a prescription of pentobarbital, which can be used at the patient’s discretion to end his or her life. Some states require that the patient request the medications in writing and then again verbally, while others only require the patient to make a verbal request. The patient’s primary diagnosis must be validated...
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...identifiable, and sensitive information to many people rapidly. In this era of revelation—dominated by portable electronics, intemet social media, reality television, and traditional talk radio—^many of us are losing our sense of privacy, our taste for privacy, and our willingness to respect privacy. Is this set of losses a bad thing? If it is a bad thing, what can be done about it? My refiections on these questions begin with a series of diverse examples from the past several years. The examples illustrate the emergent ethos of our revelatory era. The first and second examples portray voluntary self-revelation for amusement and monetary gain; a third and fourth example depict revelations conceming others, motivated by a desire for amusement in one case and geopolitical justice in another. Former Congressman Anthony Weiner was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives elected by the people of New Anita L. Allen, J.D., Ph.D.,...
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