Author: chris

Stem Cell Research

address some of the issues raised, as well as the position assumed by President Bush in his August 2001 speech, Document your decision and what evidence helped you reach your conclusion.

NPs and the Integral Knowledge Base

Write a 5-7 page paper evaluating the necessity of a more comprehensive understanding of pathology, pharmacology, and physical assessment skills for the role NP in contrast to the role of the RN. Analyze and integrate the impact of cultural competence and ethical decision making models on clinical reasoning, health policy and practice in regard to this more comprehensive understanding in the role of the NP.

organizational study and analyze organizational phenomena

complete an indepth organizational study and present it in class. You will analyze an organizational phenomenon (activity, practices, or issue like those analyzed in Part III of the textbook) from one or more theoretical perspectives (presented in Part II of the textbook). You may analyze, for example, external and internal communication strategies, image management strategies, decision making styles, emotional labor, organizational alignment, and power relations or politics in one or more organizations where you can some do fieldwork (e.g., naturalistic/ethnographic observation and interviews) or have more intimate personal experience to gather information. Your analysis should result in a 7-to-10-page paper. Each of you will be given 3 minutes to present your project highlights in the class. Review the textbook‟s appendix for tips about studying organizational communication (pp. 315-324). A detailed guide to the paper is given separately.

CS660-Database SystemsAssignment Normalization

Database Design Project
Relational Normalization Design Component

Scenario
The CIO of DU Data Services, Inc. (CDS) has asked your team to put aside your work on the Doctors R Us (DRU) project to solve an urgent problem presented by Joan Megabucks from the Megabucks Conference Center (MCC). The initial data is posted in Class Content along with all the normalization materials. The database schema for MCC needs to be re-engineered to be a normalized relational logical schema. The database designer who created the original design has been terminated (fired) because the developers and DBA staff refused to use the design. Unless the database is redesigned, the new conference center renovation will not be completed in time for a major conference.

Your task is to use design by synthesis (bottom-up design) and produce a logical design that is normalized to Third Normal Form (3NF). To assist you in your redesign effort, Joan has provided a brief description of the company and some sample data that was used in the presentation of the rejected design.

The report for the new MCC database design must include the following items. Remember that this problem is a simplification that is not intended to be an accurate representation of the real-world. Use only the attribute/column names provided in the legacy database design. DO NOT ADD ANY NEW ATTRIBUTES TO THE DESIGN.
1.    Assumptions. List the assumptions you make about the Megabucks Company and its conference center that are not included in the description documents.
2.    Functional Dependencies (FDs)
a.    Identify the functional dependencies in the original database design.
b.    You may use the graphical format presented in slides provided on Normalization
3.    First Normal Form (1NF). Since it is obvious that the sample data obeys 1NF, identify the primary key of the 1NF design and explain why it is the primary key based upon the FDs and assumptions you made.
4.    Second Normal Form (2NF) and Third Normal Form (3NF).
a.    Decompose the 1NF design into a 2NF plus 3NF design.
b.    Assign an appropriate name to each table of the decomposition.
c.    Identify the FDs for each table of the decomposition.
d.    Identify the primary and foreign keys in the new design. Underline the primary key attributes and identify foreign key attributes with the *. You may also include color coding to help identify the primary and foreign keys.
e.    You may complete the design in two steps with 2NF first and then 3NF. Alternatively you may complete the decomposition in a single step.
5.    Verification. Explain why your design satisfies the definition of 2NF and 3NF. Note: for this exercise, we are using the definitions based upon the primary key.

Submit the results of the redesign as a Word document containing all parts listed above.

Edelman’s “The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be. How It Was.” and Bartels’s “My Problem with Her Anger

1. Edelman’s “The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be. How It Was.” (283-290)
2. Bartels’s “My Problem with Her Anger” (291-297)

This writing task requires that you present the information from these sources accurately and briefly, a skill that you practiced with the summary-critique assignment.  This time, however, you will have to manage more than one source, and you will have to explain how they relate to each other.  The sources will clearly address the same topic, but they will present divergent opinions on it.  Your task is to inform the readers of your essay about these positions without favoring a particular one.  In fact, the idea is to remain neutral in order to truly understand and not misrepresent to the readers of your essay the message of the sources under consideration.  This is an important step in the research process; neglecting it will lead to misinformation and will undermine your credibility and integrity as a researcher.

Introduction
Use a strategy to capture your reader’s attention and direct it toward the topic.  The purpose of your introduction is, naturally, to introduce your topic and, in this case, the authors and their articles (your “sources”).  Briefly summarize their divergent positions in relation to the topic, and then establish which subtopics you plan to discuss (this is your “essay map”).  The final sentence of this section may be your thesis statement, which states the reason for alerting your readers to the discussion that follows (your writing purpose).  Your thesis should not set out to prove that one article is better than the other.  Instead, you want to synthesize the material: show your readers how the two articles work together to reveal something overall. (Hint: Think about what you would lack if you had not read one of the two articles.) This should be the aim of the paper.

The Body
For each subtopic, paraphrase the authors’ views, giving each source equal time, space, and consideration.  Explain what reasoning and evidence each uses to support their view.  Remember that this is an explanatory synthesis, so your reporting should be as impartial as possible.  In other words, you’re not taking a side by suggesting one article is more effective.  Be sure to provide a clear topic sentence for each subtopic, and use transition markers to help you shift between the authors’ viewpoints and between subtopics (this will enhance your essay’s coherence).

The Conclusion
Write a conclusion that explains the significance of the topic. Use this opportunity to leave your reader with a lasting impression of your treatment of the topic and the skill with which you satisfied the task you set out for yourself in the introduction.  Avoid simply repeating your thesis and essay map, as this approach hardly communicates sophistication.