Author: chris

Due Tomorrow 12/07/15 by 11:30 AM USA Central Time No excuses Please!! Any questions ask..

To prepare for this assignment:

• Review the article “Clinical Versus Actuarial Judgment.” Pay particular attention to the cases involving each type of judgment.
•  Focus on clinical versus actuarial judgment.
• Think about a decision you made using clinical judgment. Consider whether actuarial judgment would have helped you make a better decision.
• Think about a decision you made using actuarial judgment. Consider whether clinical judgment would have helped you make a better decision.
• Consider in what circumstances actuarial judgment is more helpful to you and in what circumstances clinical judgment is more helpful to you.

The assignment (1–2 pages): (Not including Title or Refernce Page) APA Format

• Briefly explain the difference between clinical and actuarial judgment.
• Describe a decision you made using clinical judgment and explain why you used this type of judgment. Then explain how actuarial judgment may or may not have helped you make a better decision. Be specific.
• Describe a decision you made using actuarial judgment, and explain why you used this type of judgment. Then explain how clinical judgment may or may not have helped you make a better decision. Be specific.
• Briefly explain your position regarding which approach to judgment (climical or actuarial) seems to be most helpful for you, in what circumstances is is most helpful, and why the judgment you chose is most helpful

Article Reference

 

• Article: Dawes, R. M., Faust, D., & Meehl, P. E. (1989). Clinical versus actuarial judgment

Write a 700- to 1,050-word essay explaining the content of the video based on your assigned sociological theoretical approach.

• Prepare an introduction that identifies the major social institutions in society and why they are important.
• Describe each video and the social institutions they address.
• Explain the functionalist, conflict, and interactionist perspectives on the family, religion and education. Which perspective does each film use to discuss the institution? Explain specific examples from the videos from the viewpoint of the designated theoretical approach.
• Provide a conclusion that summarizes the main ideas of the essay and describes how these institutions have influenced you.

Article Review

Review the following article from ProQuest: Avery, S. (2009, February). MRO sourcing goes global. Purchasing, 138(2), 48-52. Retrieved from ProQuest Database.

 

In a two-to-three page paper (not including the title and reference pages), identify how your organization or an organization you are familiar with, can improve in the following best practice areas represented in the article:

 

• Identification of spend types in your purchasing.
• Identify suppliers with capabilities for global business.
• Strategy of integrated supply approach with distributors.
• Processes to track performance of suppliers including cost of ownership and outsourcing.

Submit to your instructor your two-to-three page Word document (not including the title and reference pages). Your paper should be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide, and should cite at least two scholarly sources in addition to the textbook

Assignment 3: The Implications of Managed Care on the U.S. Healthcare System

Due Week 10 and worth 300 points

Managed health care emerged in the early 19th century in response to the growing cost of medical services in the United States. It is an ever-evolving approach to combining the financing and delivery of health care that seeks to manage costs, increase access, and ensure or improve quality of care through a variety of methods, including provider network management, utilization management, and quality assurance.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. Describe the evolution of managed care and the forces that have driven its evolution.
2. Explain how managed care influences access to and utilization of healthcare services within the current healthcare system.
3. Evaluate the efficacy of managed care plans in containing healthcare costs.
4. Differentiate and compare at least three (3) models of managed care organizations.
5. Summarize at least one (1) managed care trend (i.e., evolving mixed models, managed Medicaid, managed Medicare) and appraise how this trend will affect managed care’s overall goal of managing costs, increasing access, and ensuring quality in the delivery of healthcare.
6. Use at least three (3) recent (i.e., last five [5] years), quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Use at least three (3) recent (i.e., last five [5] years), quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Evaluate the shifts in multi-provider healthcare systems and its impact on market segments.
• Assess how changes in the economic and commercial environments have affected the health sector.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in Health Care Operations Management.
• Write clearly and concisely about Health Care Operations Management using proper writing mechanics.

Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you examine social psychology. Address the following items:

• Define social psychology.
• Discuss how social psychology differs from other disciplines, such as clinical psychology, general psychology, and sociology.
• Explain the role of research in social psychology.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

Submit your 1-2 page (500-1000 words) reflective on this course and include the following:

Identify and predict how you might use an insight from this topic in your future, personally or professionally. Specifically think about how this area might provide career opportunities? This is intended to make you think how managerial accounting can be of help to you to advance your career in your future.
This exercise has two purposes:

1) This exercise provides some insights for me in what you considered most useful.

2) This provides an opportunity for you to give your career some thought and to formulate career goals. Hopefully your plans work out (as long as they are legal and morally ok) and you become famous.
Your answer should be organized and written succinctly using proper grammar, capitalization and punctuation. Also, you should not cut and past your answers from web pages.
This assignment is due December 8th. Please send your write up to drexelacct116@gmail.com. Please name the file putting your family name first followed by whatever you want to call your write up. If you do not follow the naming convention I will take 5 points of your grade!

Worth 220 points

HINT: See Chapters 29 and 30 of the text to help understand some of the legal issues covered in this assignment.

Larry Landlord has recently renovated an apartment and has put it on the market to be rented for $800.00 a month. Larry Landlord has been in business for approximately five (5) years and has had both positive and negative experiences with tenants. Larry Landlord is hoping to find a good, long-term tenant for his apartment. Roger Renter saw Larry’s sign for the apartment for rent and thought the location and the apartment would be perfect. Roger met Larry to look at the apartment and Roger fell in love with it. All of the interior fixtures had been replaced and the unit had a nice large closet. Roger noticed that although newly painted, the exterior of the apartment did show a little bit of wear. Because of the condition of the exterior of the building, Roger asked Larry about any roof leaks. Larry stated that he had never had a leak and was not aware of any leaks.

Roger and Larry entered into a valid contract for the rental of the apartment. (Note: The issue of whether or not a contract exists is NOT part of this question. For purposes of this question assume the contract is valid and there are no issues with the contract.)

Roger Renter was very happy in his new location; the apartment was quiet and the neighbors were friendly. Larry Landlord was also very happy because Roger Renter was a model tenant. Roger Renter paid on time and was quiet and respectful to other tenants.

The part of the country where Roger rented was rainy in the summertime. Roger rented and moved into the apartment in October. In June, a tremendous rainstorm occurred and Roger’s roof began to leak. The leak was minor at first and Roger merely put a trash can under the leak and had no other issues that month. When handing over his monthly rent check, Roger told Larry about the small leak. Larry thanked Roger for letting him know about the leak and told Roger he would have it fixed.

The next month the rains came again and the leak grew larger in Roger’s apartment. Roger was not home at the time of the rain and therefore the leak damaged some of Roger’s furniture. Roger called Larry to let him know that there was a leak and asked when it might be fixed. Roger also stated that he thought Larry had fixed the roof. Larry curtly stated, “When it rains, sometimes it pours. When it pours, sometimes it leaks.” Roger did not like Larry’s tone or response and called back to ask when the roof might be fixed. Larry stated, “When I get to it.” The following day, Roger sent Larry a note about the roof leak and asked Larry to please address the issue.

The week before the rent was due, another rainstorm occurred and the leak was even larger. This time the leak damaged Roger’s clothing, furniture, and some precious items he had inherited from family members. Roger called Larry and asked Larry to fix roof immediately. Larry responded in a similar and condescending manner. Roger hung up the phone and threw his baseball bat against the wall, damaging the drywall and knocking out an electrical socket.

Since it was the rainy season, Roger knew it would rain again and therefore simply moved his items away from the leak and did nothing to help mitigate the damage from the leaking roof.

Larry came into the apartment to investigate the leak and found damage from not only the leak but also from the thrown baseball bat. Roger states that the baseball bat damage was a direct result of Larry’s inability to fix the leak based on his anger from Larry’s curt response.

Suppose you are a mediator. In five to seven (5-7) pages discuss the rights and responsibilities of the landlord and the tenant in which you:

1. Explore the legal rights and responsibilities of the tenant and the landlord.
2. Decide whether or not the landlord and / or the tenant had a legal duty to mitigate damages.
3. Determine whether or not Larry has legal grounds to evict Roger. Explain why or why not.
4. Describe whether or not Roger has a legal obligation to pay for the damage he caused and determine whether or not Larry would be liable for any direct damage.
5. Support each response with facts presented in the scenario.
6. Use proper legal terminology throughout your responses.
7. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.
8. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
   • Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
   • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
   • Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

Select a movie from AFI’s 10 Top 10 lists and explain how three cinematic techniques and/or design elements have helped establish a major theme in that film. Note: While you are allowed to choose a film that does not come from the AFI lists, you are strongly encouraged to email your professor to receive approval before doing so.

 

In 800 to 1200 words

 

• Describe a major theme of the movie you have selected using evidence from the movie itself as well as course resources and other scholarly sources to support your position.
• Identify at least three techniques (cinematography, lighting, acting style, or direction) and/or design elements (set design, costuming, or hair and makeup), and explain how these techniques and/or design elements contribute to the establishment of the theme. Reference particular scenes or sequences in your explanations.
• State your opinion regarding the mise en scène, including
• How the elements work together.
• How congruent the design elements are with the theme of the movie.
• Whether or not other techniques would be as effective (Explain your reasoning).

 

Note: Remember that a theme is an overarching idea that recurs throughout the plot of a film. It is the distilled essence of what the film is about, the main design which the specific scenes and actions lead a viewer to understand.

 

Your paper should be organized around a thesis statement that focuses on how the elements of your chosen feature-length film both establish and maintain one of its major themes.

 

The paper must be 800 to 1200 words in length and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

 

You must use at least two scholarly sources other than the textbook to support your claims. Refer to the ENG225 Research Guide in the Ashford University Library for guidance and to locate your sources. Cite your sources (including the feature-length film) within the text of your paper and on the reference page. For information regarding APA, including samples and tutorials, visit the Ashford Writing Center.

 

Please note that if you opt to write about the same film in your Final Film Critique, applicable pieces of this assignment can be used to write that assignment. Please also note that you should reflect on and revise this assignment based on the instructor’s feedback before you incorporate it into the Final Film Critique.

 

This assignment contains two (2) deliverables: a summary document to be delivered in a word processor document format and a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to be delivered in a project file.

Overview:

Imagine that you work as the project manager for an IT department. Your organization has recently approved the development of a mobile application. As the project manager, you will manage the development of the project. The project will include user experience (UX) design by a consultant, graphic design by a team of two contracted designers, and in-house application development by a team of three (3) programmers and a database developer.

Deliverable 1: Summary (MS Word or open source equivalent)

1. Write a one to two (1-2) page summary document in which you:
   1. Summarize the project requirements and other assumptions (i.e., budget, human resources, workload, environmental dependencies, etc.).
   2. Define a work breakdown structure and describe the methodology behind constructing one.

Deliverable 2: WBS (MS Project or open source equivalent)

1. Use Microsoft Project or an open source equivalent to create a WBS which addresses the following:
   1. Contain at least five (5) main tasks, one (1) for each of the PMBOK® process areas.
   2. Contain at least thirty (30) line items distributed in five (5) or more work packages.
   3. Contain Work Breakdown Structure Code for each task.
   4. Present duration estimates for each task that results in a duration estimate for the project not to exceed the requirements described in the overview.

Deliverable one (1) of your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length

 

• Mobile App Part 2 (Gantt and PERT Charts)
• Update the Microsoft Project file you created in Assignment 4: Mobile App Part 1 (Work Breakdown Structure) with the following changes:
  • Set progress in at least ten (10) of the line items.
  • Set the properties so that at least one (1) of the main tasks is behind schedule.
  • Create a Gantt chart for the project.
  • Take a screenshot of the Gantt chart which can later be inserted into your written paper.
  • Create a PERT diagram that identifies the critical path.
  • Take a screenshot of the PERT chart which can later be inserted into your written paper.

  Note: If you need a tutorial on taking a screen shot, visit one of the following locations: PC Users        Mac Users

  Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Compare and contrast the information that one receives from a Gantt chart, versus that of a PERT diagram.
2. Examine the advantages of using a Gantt chart over a PERT chart and vice versa. Determine when it is appropriate to use one over the other. Justify your response.
3. Explain the importance of the critical path in project management.
4. Insert the screenshots of the Gantt and PERT charts you created based on the provided criteria. Elaborate on the status of the mobile application development project based on the updated information. Note: The graphical representations do not count toward the overall page requirement.
5. Use at least one (1) quality resource in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Mobile App Part 3 (Risk)

Due Week 8 and worth 85 points

Reference the Microsoft Project file you created in Assignment 5: Mobile App Part 2 (Gantt and PERT Charts) for the completion of this assignment.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Document at least ten (10) total risks (two [2] risks for each phase of IT projects) of the mobile application development project.
2. Assess the likelihood of occurrence for each risk.
3. Assess the impact of each risk on the success of the project.
4. Identify an owner for each risk.
5. Recommend a strategy to manage each risk.

iscussion 1 500 words;

1.    Aristotle says that the virtues are necessary for humans to attain happiness, but he means this in terms of something we might call “flourishing” or “living well”, which he considers quite different than simply feeling good.  Thus, according to Aristotle some people might feel that they are happy, but because they lack the virtues they are not truly flourishing.  However, imagine someone that is deceitful, selfish, greedy, self-indulgent, and yet enjoys great pleasure and appears to be quite happy.  Is someone like this “flourishing” or not?  Explain your answer this by referring to this week’s readings and media, and if possible provide examples from real life and/or from literature, film, TV, etc..

 

Discussion 2 500 words

2.What are 2 virtues that you believe are important to living a flourishing or successful life in either Aristotle’s sense?  Explain what goods in human life these virtues enable their possessor to fulfill.  Provide examples of characteristic behavior that manifests these virtues, and contrast that with behavior that displays a lack of virtue.  Do your examples confirm Aristotle’s view that a virtue is a mean between extremes of excess and defect?  If so, explain what those extremes are; if not, explain why.  Refer to this week’s readings and media to illustrate and support your claims.