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Nurse practitioners and physician assistants have long argued that they have the ability to provide as much as 70% of the medical services provided by primary care physicians at a much lower cost. Yet government regulations limit their ability to work independently of physicians.

Prepare a 3- to 4-page paper, complying with APA guidelines and based on the following directions. Be sure to support your work with a minimum of two additional sources and provide specific citations as appropriate. Respond to the following question

After acquainting yourself with the education and training that PAs and NPs receive, do you support the view that they should work independently of physicians? Explain what would happen to the level of competition in the physician services market if all statutes limiting activities of physician assistants and nurse practitioners were eliminated.

Think about what you’ve learned this past week. (Identify various data collection tools used in performance
measurement. Compare tools used to measure and report data) Quality improvement initiatives rely upon
data from monitoring program implementation and evaluating program outcomes to determine achievement of
program objectives. The processes of developing and revising monitoring and outcome measures are used to help
determine progress toward meeting accreditation and regulatory standards.
Write a 350- to 500-word summary of what you’ve learned. It may help to ask yourself the following questions:
• What ideas, readings, discussions, or activities stood out to you? Why?
• What had the greatest impact on you?
• What were you surprised about?
• What can you use in your daily life?

Participative Budgeting

Question A

What is participative budgeting? What are its potential benefits? What are its potential disadvantages?

Question B

What is budgetary slack? What incentive do managers have to create budgetary slack?

ASSIGNMENT:

Choose an advertisement that contains at least three or four rhetorical devices or fallacies (but more would be better!), from a newspaper or a magazine (in which case you should scan the ad, save it as a PDF, and submit it AS AN ATTACHMENT in the “Comments” section of your assignment) or an online source (in which case you should include the EXACT URL with your assignment, pasted as a link with the assignment). You CANNOT use video ads for this assignment if you plan to complete the extra credit opportunity associated with this assignment (explained below). So, if you plan to do the extra credit, you must choose an ad that is an image, not a video. The advertizement must be from 1990 or later (no ads produced before 1990).
Analyze the ad for uses of rhetorical devices or fallacies. Explain which devices you see in the ad, making sure to be specific in your analysis. You must clearly identify the specific parts of the advertisement that you find rhetorical or fallacious.
In addition to identifying any rhetorical devices and fallacies, analyze the ad in terms of the following:

Who is targeted in the ad (who is the target audience?)?
What psychological effect does the ad have on the audience?
What subconscious needs or desires among the audience does the ad seem to be playing upon?

Assignment 2: Research Paper Draft On Hybrid Vehicles

Okay, you have your thoughts down on paper and have gone over your organizational structure to be sure that your argument is presented in the clearest possible way. Then you have reviewed your claims to be sure that your reasoning is sound. You may have written a first draft that contained only your own words.

Now it is time to add in the support that external sources provide. Think of your sources as a scholarly friend standing beside you when you make a claim, saying that you are right. This friend cannot be the main speaker but can offer affirmation of whatever you are saying. As you add in support, be sure to cite every idea that is not your own. Be sure to indicate with quotation marks and APA style citations precisely what material is from a direct quote, paraphrase, or summary, so as to avoid plagiarism.

The second draft should be the best you can offer without feedback from your instructor.

Here are the traits of a good second draft:

Your paper should, at this point, be 6–8 pages of text in length, not counting the title, reference, or abstract pages. (The final will be between 8–10 pages of text).
Your paper makes a single, main point, a single, argumentative claim that is not too broad, not too narrow, not a fact, and not a feeling.
All sentences in your paper directly relate to and support your single thesis statement.
You support your initial claim with the university-level evidence gathered during your research, and occasionally with personal experience, objectively, presented from the third-person point of view. .
You correctly cite, in APA style, every claim that is not your own or common knowledge and include all necessary information. Each references page entry must have at least one corresponding in-text citation.
In-text citations are correctly formed, with author’s last names and year-dates.
You give full credit for any ideas that are not your own.
Quotes are correctly formatted in either quote marks when short or extensive blockquotes when long.

Resource: The “Chef’s Tools: Nose and Tongue” section of the “Smell and Taste: Science of the Senses” video, located in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.

Write a 1,250- to 1,500-word paper that addresses the following:

How do smell and taste affect each other?
Which would you change to make a meal taste better?
If you created the most memorable meal of your life, what sensory elements must be present to emphasize the connection between the chemical senses, emotional memories, and the brain?
Describe the connection created between the chemical senses, emotional memories, and the brain.

For this assignment, you will be evaluating the different types of learning, which are indicated in the scenario for the final assignment, and then list what content you intend to include in your training, based on their needs.

Your paper must include the following:

• an explanation of Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism, and Humanism (one to two paragraphs each.)
• a description of seven areas of content (principles of learning) that you feel are the most important when teaching others about the importance of meeting leaner needs
  • Will you include information about multiple Intelligences or Emotional Intelligences?
  • Will you include how scaffolding differs from person to person?
  • What do you think is the most important?
  • Demonstrate your understanding of these principles by describing how they are important in creating effective learning.
• a description of seven strategies, based on theory, that you will include in your own training module to ensure learning success by the group of individuals you are wanting to train (will you use repetition based on Behaviorism? Will you use motivational rewards based on humanism?).
  • Analyze how learning and learning theory may affect this situation by listing seven possible strategies you might use in this training scenario and supporting their application through theoretical explanations.
  • an explanation about why you would use each strategy based on theory and each content matter based on importance (in your opinion).

To complete this successfully, also apply your research skills to this content by synthesizing supporting evidence from at least three scholarly sources  that defend these strategies as the best options for your training

Analyze County contributions to criminal justice. Analyze County Commissioners’ and City Council members’ understanding of law enforcement.

Compose an APA formatted one-two page paper about the importance of effective communication between County Commissioners and/or City Council Members and criminal justice agencies. Why is it important for Commissioners and/or City Council Members to understand and appreciate the value of forensic evidence for example? Writing Tips: The deliverable length of your homework assignment is 400-500 words, one to two double spaced pages (does not include title page or reference page). Remember to create in-text citations for every source you use to create a sentence for your paper. Every in-text citation must have a corresponding reference on the reference page of your paper. All homework assignments must be in APA format. They must have a title page, body, and reference page. Every in-text citation must have a corresponding reference on the reference page of your paper. Papers must be double spaced, using 10-12 point font, with one inch margins all the way around. Tip: Website addresses are NOT references; they are links to websites only. A reference contains four basic parts: An Author, year, title, and publisher. A website address does not contain those parts and is, therefore, not a reference. Please do not include only a website address as a “source” in your references list. For citation guidelines, please refer to the table in the APA Style section of the syllabus.

Write a 2-4 page essay (in Word or Rich Text Format, double spaced, size 12 font) on one of the following topics. (Cite all sources you use to avoid plagiarism).

1.) Explain the relationship between satyagraha and swaraj for Gandhi. How does his concept of non-violent resistance relate to his beliefs about God and punishment?

2)How widely and to what effect has Gandhi’s non-violent resistance been employed in political struggles? what are some of its advantages and disadvantages?

3.) Explain Gandhi’s contention that external independence (swaraj) depends upon internal swaraj. Do you think his reasoning is correct? why or why not?

4.) Compare and contrast Gandhi and Plato on the issue of appearance and reality.

For this component of your course project, complete the following:

Use the systems thinking approach to describe the strengths, the weaknesses, the opportunities, and the threats in the Japanese auto supply chain, as presented in the “Supply Chain Challenges in Post-Earthquake Japan” case study (pages 420–422 in your Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management textbook).
Support your identified strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats with sound reasoning and references.
Be sure to identify areas that provide a strategic advantage to Japanese auto suppliers, and those that provide a competitive threat that competitors may be able to exploit.
Update your systems map of the Japanese auto supply chain to indicate where your identified strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are located in the system.