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Explain the main stages of human development and describe what you think may be the important hallmarks of each stage. Remember to utilize your course and relevant outside readings to support your assumptions.

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Week 1 Discussion

We began the study of human development by understanding that human development is more than just going from child to adult. Human development continues through the life-span, hence the term life-span development. Even though we look at human development across the life-span, there are still hallmarks or stages of human development that are considered distinct, especially in terms of psychosocial and physiological development.

Explain the main stages of human development and describe what you think may be the important hallmarks of each stage. Remember to utilize your course and relevant outside readings to support your assumptions.

Justify your answers with appropriate reasoning and research from your text and course readings.

HINT: It is very important to use proper APA formatting for this and all assignments. This includes citations and references for the sources you used to complete the assignment.

Be certain to use only peer-reviewed journal articles or scholarly books to answer the assignment questions.

How does access to conception play a role in abortion? What are some reasons abortion is justified? What is the supreme decision on abortions and what is the name of the case of prompted this decision? What are some reasons abortion is justified? Do you think abortion is murder? Explain why? What is the supreme decision on abortions and what is the name of the case of prompted this decision?

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Abortion

You were just elected as the state Senator for Alabama where the state supreme court banned abortion at any stage/term of pregnancy.

Your argument should include but not be limited to:

For Abortion: How does access to conception play a role in abortion? What are some reasons abortion is justified? What is the supreme decision on abortions and what is the name of the case of prompted this decision?

AGAINST Abortion: What are some reasons abortion is justified? Do you think abortion is murder? Explain why? What is the supreme decision on abortions and what is the name of the case of prompted this decision?

In your statement to your fellow legislators, you should include terms used in the course presentation to support your argument. Feel free to use outside resources to create your argument. No plagiarism! There are consequences for plagiarism.

Create your argument about why your state should or should not adopt a full-term abortion policy. Your argument should be two paragraphs (25 sentences). Ensure that you also define the terms at the beginning of your argument. Persons with last name ranges from A – M will argue AGAINST while N- Z will argue FOR abortion.

Choose one area of interest within psychological therapies and critically. Discuss it in the context of one or more paradigms and systems covered in the module.

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The effectivness of Cognitive Analytic Therapy in the treatment of those with depression and/or anxiety.

Choose one area of interest within psychological therapies and critically. Discuss it in the context of one or more paradigms and systems covered in the module.

Your critical essay should focus on your evaluation of one specific claim/problem/question; this should be explicitly stated in the introduction of your essay.

– The essay is about your evaluation of the issue, and the inferences you draw from the evaluation, rather than a summary of the issue itself.

Focus on presenting your analysis, aiming to be coherent and persuasive in the arguments you present.

Select two examples, and explain what types of firms they are based on the designations above. Discuss how their missions and activities supports each of these identities and who their beneficiaries are. Discuss the various challenges they might face in building an economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable business model and market.

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Enterprise & Society Assignment- DRAFT

Increasingly we are seeing firms adopting many different socially ‘responsible’ identities (e.g. B Corp, social enterprise, hybrid, fairtrade). In this essay you will explore those organisations that hold two or more of these designations at the same time. Using examples to illustrate your discussion address these five aspects

(i) Select two examples, and explain what types of firms they are based on the designations above.

(ii) Discuss how their missions and activities supports each of these identities and who their beneficiaries are.

(iii) Discuss the various challenges they might face in building an economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable business model and market.

(iv) Discuss how we might capture and/or measure the value they create amongst different beneficiaries and what challenges this might pose.

(v) Conclude by discussing to what extent such firms should be responsible for addressing the social and environmental issues facing society.

This assignment will be assessed using the level 5 LUBS assessment criteria. You are expected to draw on suitable literature (for instance journal articles) to support your discussions and reflections. You are also expected to illustrate with the organisational examples and reflect on these in your discussions. All materials should be suitably referenced in a consistent style

What did your nursing quantitative research article add to your knowledge on this topic?  Using the skills you have learned in your critique of a research article, describe two strengths or two weaknesses that you found as you read this article.

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Module 4 – finding the evidence

Instructions for Completing Your Assignment
  • Step one: Using the topic list from module 2, identify a nursing clinical practice topic that you would like to explore.

 

  • Step two: Use the PICO(T) question in the final form approved by your instructor or coach. If your question was not approved in module 2, you may continue to dialogue with your coach or instructor up until Wednesday of week 4. If you still have not had a question approved by that time read the instructions for developing a PICO(T) question carefully and be sure to follow them. Coaches and instructors will not advise you regarding PICO(T) questions after Wednesday of week 4.

 

  • Step three: Search for a nursing quantitative research article that relates to your PICO question using Academic Search Complete, CINHAL, Pubmed, Google Scholar, or any other database that contains nursing research articles.  Please note: you can use the article that you submitted in Module Two to meet this requirement so long as it was approved.
  • The article you will find must meet the following mandatory requirements:
    • It must be based on the approved topic list unless other arrangements were made with your instructor or coach.
    • It must be from a nursing research journal or have a nurse as an author.
    • It must be no more than 5 years old from the current publication year.
    • It must include implications and / or interventions that are applicable to nursing practice.
    • It may not be a qualitative article, systematic review, meta-synthesis, meta-analysis, meta-summary, integrative review, retrospective study, evidence based practice project, or quality improvement article. For more information on how to recognize these types of article see Grove & Gray (2019) pp. 21-23.
    • It may not be a clinical information article or “how-to” article.

 

  • Step Four: Collecting More Evidence (Do the research)
    • Find a credible scholarly or government resource published within the past 5 years that provides you with at least two facts (ex. costs, morbidity, mortality, safety, or other related statistics) for why your clinical problem is important (provide statistics). (The internet is a great place to get this information…just don’t forget to cite this information and add it to your reference page).
    • Find a clinical practice guideline that relates to your question. It must have information that relates to the role of the nurse.  The guideline must be the most recent version or published within the past five years. (It is true that guidelines are not always updated within 5 years so you will need to discuss this.) There are several websites listed in your textbook that can help with searching for guidelines. The UTA library also has resources for clinical practice guidelines. If the source you use is not actually a clinical practice guideline you will lose a substantial amount of points on your paper.
    • Find a clinical “how-to” article, a nursing professional practice website, a systematic literature review, a meta-analysis, or some other credible academic resource published within the past 5 years that relates to your practice question.
    • Hint: Did you notice that you will be finding a total of four different sources of information for your PICO question? To re-cap, these four sources are:
      • Statistics you are reporting in paragraph one.
      • Nursing quantitative research article for paragraphs 2, 3, and 4
      • Clinical Practice Guideline (paragraph 5)
      • A source of your choosing (paragraph 6)

 

  • Step Five: Write up your findings in APA format and submit them to assignment portal by the due date and time listed in your syllabus. Here’s how to write up your findings:
    • Start with a 7th edition APA cover page. An example is provided by the instructor. The paper itself (not including cover page and references should be six pages or less)
    • Paragraph #1: This is your opening paragraph. Start with an introduction statement. What is your PICO question? Describe why was it important (share the dollars, morbidity / mortality, statistics, safety stats you found with citation)? Paragraph #1 does not have a heading. You should put the title of your whole paper in the center in bold font where a heading would go. For the rest of the paragraphs, use the following headings: Summary of Research Article, Major Variables, Strengths and Weaknesses, Practice Guideline, Fourth Resource, Conclusion.
    • Paragraph #2: What did your nursing quantitative research article add to your knowledge on this topic?  State the design. Researchers use all sorts of different terms to describe designs, but you should use one of the broad terms mentioned in our textbook (descriptive, correlational, predictive correlational, experimental, or quasi-experimental). State the sampling method (also using one of the sampling method terms discussed in your textbook), and setting of the study (this should only take one sentence: e.g. “Smith and Johnson conducted a predictive correlational study using a convenience sample from a psychiatric outpatient clinic.”). State the major findings of the study (maximum 3 findings). The findings you share should come from the results or discussion settings and should be relevant to your PICO question and your practice as a nurse.
    • Paragraph #3. Mention the major research variables in your article. Do not include demographic variables unless they are important to the results of the study. For each major variable, give a conceptual and operational definition (if the authors did not give a conceptual definition you can say “not given”). However, you can always say something about the operational definitions for variables because the authors must discuss the way in which variables are measured. Give the level of measurement for each variable (nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio).

 

  • Paragraph #4: Using the skills you have learned in your critique of a research article, describe two strengths or two weaknesses (or one strength and one weakness) that you found as you read this article. Go back to what you learned in your article critique about sampling methods, measurement methods (ex. questionnaires), and data collection (how did they collect the data to make sure you are being thorough in your assessment. Be specific, so that your instructor, if reading the article, can find them too.  Do not re-state the limitations provided by the authors of your study unless they have to do with the study’s sampling, measurement methods, or data collection.  Do not discuss the research design or the descriptive or inferential statistics used by the authors as a strength or weakness of the study, as this is not related to with the study’s sampling, measurement methods, or data collection.
  • Paragraph #5: What is the name and of the clinical practice guideline that you found?  Give a weblink and an APA citation for the guideline. Share at least three facts that you found within the guideline that is relevant to the PICO question and your practice as a BSN nurse and cite the guideline appropriately. Make sure the source you cite is actually a clinical practice guideline with advice directed toward healthcare professionals.
  • Paragraph #6: Identify the fourth resource you found (clinical “how-to” article, a nursing professional practice website, a systematic literature review, or a meta-analysis) that relates to your practice question. Share at least three facts that you found within this source that is relevant to the PICO question and your practice as a nurse, and cite appropriately.
  • Paragraph #7 (and #8 if needed): re-state your PICO question and briefly summarize what you have learned through your search. Include information from each of your sources, and be sure to cite them all. Then, give specific recommendations for nursing practice. What would you recommend, if anything, as a change in practice for nurses? Why?  Remember, this is your closing paragraph(s).
  • Note to students about writing up your findings:

 

Give a brief overview of the company, its background and how the logo express key meaning of your business. Critically analyse the characteristics of its past and present internal resources used to assess the market, competitors and internal capabilities.

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New Venture Creation- Individual Report New Venture

Students will complete a written report and carry out an ‘Business Model Evaluation’ by writing an individual report. The report should draw on theory to critically appraise the business plan, and the first 12 months of operations

The report should have headings and numbers to structure sections and some artefacts (Name, logo and sketches) There is not set formula for constructing your business plan because each business plan is unique and it depends on the nature of the idea/nature of the data collected.

Hints and Tips:

 Give a brief overview of the company, its background and how the logo express key meaning of your business.

 Critically analyse the characteristics of its past and present internal resources used to assess the market, competitors and internal capabilities.

 Map the Business Model Canvas of your Venture,

 In researching and writing your report you will be expected to approach the theory and the practice of an organisation,

 Conclude with recommendations and action plans for the company identifying any gaps you have found.

Describe your target community and provide the rational for the development of a community health promotion program. Evaluate two selected health promotion approaches. Include rational for incorporating these approaches and provide an overview of each approach in the assessment, planning and evaluation phases of the planned health promotion program.

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Development of a Community Health Promotion Program

Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to provide you with an opportunity to develop a health promotion program. Your program will address the community health diagnosis you identified in Assignment 3. The program must incorporate two health promotion approaches and will demonstrate an understanding of community planning, implementation, evaluation and the role of the community health nurse. Please note you are not expected to carry out the health promotion program that you develop.

Assignment Guidelines
Describe your target community and provide the rational for the development of a community health promotion program.

Based on your community diagnosis from Assignment 3, outline a plan for a health promotion program that incorporates two health promotion approaches. These health promotion approaches can include but are not limited to community social action, community development, social planning, community organizing, service extension (see Planning a Community Health Program chapter in your text).

Formulate an overarching goal and 3-4 specific objectives related to the planned health promotion program. It should include a rational for the goals and objectives as well as outcome measures necessary in the evaluation of the program.

Hint: Consider using a program logic model or similarly structured overview (as an appendix) to present the program goals, objectives and outcome data in detail.

Evaluate two selected health promotion approaches. Include rational for incorporating these approaches and provide an overview of each approach in the assessment, planning and evaluation phases of the planned health promotion program.

Summarize the strengths and limitations of these two approaches in relation to your health promotion program.

Explain the role of the community health nurse within the planned health promotion program

Should women how suffer from premenstrual syndrome be encouraged to take zinc supplements to help manage symptoms?

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Research proposal

Research proposal question

Should women how suffer from premenstrual syndrome be encouraged to take zinc supplements to help manage symptoms?

Complete methodology section under relevant headings

  • sample size (calculate sample size and explain)
  • Statistical Analysis = perform and explain
  • Participants and recruitment procedure
  • Randomisation
  • Study protocol
  • Masking and blinding
  • Outcome measures
  • Data collection
  • Budget
  • Ethical considerations
  • Expected outcomes

What is the paradox in the poem you are analyzing? How does that paradox contribute to the overall meaning of the poem? Why is it important/helpful/necessary/beneficial to express this meaning through paradox? Or, to use Brooks’s language: why is the paradox in the poem you’re looking at “the only way by which the poet could say what [he/or she] says”? Why would saying what the poet says without paradox “enfeeble and distort what is to be said”?

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Thesis paradox in poems

The following were the instructions to start the essay:

HOW DOES THE CONCEPT OF PARADOX CONTRIBUTE TO THE MEANING OF ONE OF THE POEMS WE READ IN THIS MODULE (excluding “The Canonization,” which Brooks has already analyzed).

Use Cleanth Brooks’s concept of paradox to support your thesis. What is the paradox in the poem you are analyzing? How does that paradox contribute to the overall meaning of the poem? Why is it important/helpful/necessary/beneficial to express this meaning through paradox? Or, to use Brooks’s language: why is the paradox in the poem you’re looking at “the only way by which the poet could say what [he/or she] says” (3)? Why would saying what the poet says without paradox “enfeeble and distort what is to be said” (4)?

Include at least one quote from the Brooks essay and at least one quote from the poem you are analyzing.
Do not include any definitions of paradox that come from a dictionary. You are encouraged to define your terms, but your definition of paradox should come from the Brooks essay or from an essay about Brooks (the Nasrullah Mambrol essay, for example).

What is the role of the Golgi Tendon Organs? How doe they related to “myofascial release.” How do all forms of muscular activity tend to cause an individual muscle fiber to change? Discuss training strategies to increase muscle mass & strength and the evidence to support these. Describe the flexor withdrawal and cross-extensor reflex.

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The Contribution of Energy Systems in Repeated-Sprint Protocols: The Effect of Distance, Rest, and Repetition

Research Paper Summaries
1. Select a peer-reviewed scientific paper from the last 5 years relating to skeletal muscle or biochemistry & metabolism.
2. Read the paper (see infographic attached) and take the time to comprehend the research and conclusions thoroughly.
3. Write a summary of the research article in 2-3 pages using the following components:

  • 1. State the research question and explain why it is interesting.
  • 2. State the hypotheses tested.

3. Briefly describe the methods (design, participants, materials, procedure, what was manipulated [independent variables], what was measured [dependent variables], how data were analyzed.
4. Describe the results and the the key implications.
5. Summarize and interpret the results as related to the hypothesis.
4. Highlight, or bold, components of the paper summary derived from content you learned in this class.

The KIN department has a strict policy against retroactive extra credit. So, for example, if you have a C in the course there is nothing you can “do to pull up you grade.” Exams and quizzes are curved. A request to “do extra credit to pull up” your grade can result in removal of the curve from your quizzes and exams.
Grading Schema

  • Grade Range %
  • A+ 97%+
  • A 90-96%
  • B+ 87-89%
  • B 80-86%
  • C+ 77-80%
  • C 70-76%
  • D 60-69%
  • F 0-59%

EXAM 1
1. Know the gross structure and levels of organization of skeletal muscle.
2. Be able to describe what a skeletal muscle consists of and the amount of protein that is insoluble versus soluble.
3. Know the anatomy of the sarcomere.
4. Be able to describe the advantages and disadvantages of muscle fiber arrangement (pennation vs. fusiform).
5. What are satellite cells and explain their function during muscle adaptation and regeneration after injury,
6. Know the order of the events of excitation =-contraction coupling; be able to explain it in essay form.
7. Know the steps of the cross bridge cycle and be able to describe the role of ATP, calcium, troponin, tropomyosin, actin and myosin.
8. Describe the reflex associated with the two types of muscle spindles.
9. Define the different afferent neurons associated with the muscle spindles
10. How does the stretch reflex relate to muscle tone and muscle force production regarding muscle length?
11. Understand, in detail, the key differences in the three major muscle fiber types (metabolic and physiological differences).
12. In muscle fiber typing, how is electrophoresis different than immunohistochemistry?
13. How does resistance training increase myofibrillar protein?
14. Be able to describe, in essay form, the process of myofibrillar hypertrophy and the role of AKT/mTOR.
15. Be able to describe, in essay form, the process of sarcoplasmic hypertrophy and the role of AMPK and the influence on PG1C-alpha, FOX-0 and NFAT.
16. Describe the role of the Renshaw cell, and differentiate between EPSPs and IPSPs.
17. Know the AMPK influence on GLUT-4, fatty acid uptake, metabolism, and angiogenesis.
18. What is the role of the Golgi Tendon Organs? How doe they related to “myofascial release.”
19. How do all forms of muscular activity tend to cause an individual muscle fiber to change?
20. Discuss training strategies to increase muscle mass & strength and the evidence to support these.
21. Describe the flexor withdrawal and cross-extensor reflex.
22. Know the difference between qualitative versus quantitative changes in fiber type.
23. Sprint-type training causes a fast-slow muscle fiber type shift; sprint-type training causes a slow-fast muscle fiber type shift. How are both of these statements correct?
24. Predict the immunohistochemical differences in muscle fiber type among a couch potato, sprinter, SCI patient, and marathon runner.
25. Explain molecular mechanisms that regulate the identity of satellite cells and their differentiation into muscle fibers.
26. How does increased training usually influence fiber phenotype? What about detraining, disuse, or denervation?

EXAM 2:
27. What is energy?
28. What are the first two laws of thermodynamics?
29. Be able to differentiate between exergonic and endergonic reactions and give two, common, cellular examples of both.
30. Define oxidation and reduction.
31. Describe the relationship between photosynthesis and aerobic respiration.
32. What is the Q10 relationship related to enzyme activity and temperature?
33. What enzyme acts as an intracellular energy sensor?
34. Why is the ATP/AMP ratio the major adenine nucleotide relationship that indicates cellular metabolism?
35. Why is maximal power sustained, typically, for less than 20 seconds?
36. Be able to show the coupled reaction performed by creatine kinase.
37. Be able to write out the TCA cycle (enzymes, substrates, and products) and the electron transport chain (oxidative phosphorylation).
38. How many grams of glucose and glycogen exist in the typical person?
39. Be able to describe how insulin-mediated glucose uptake occurs.
40. How does glucose uptake occur in skeletal muscle during exercise when insulin release is attenuated?
41. Know the basic steps of glycogen synthesis.
42. How are liver and muscle glycogen different?
43. Be able to write out glycolysis.
44. How many net ATPs are generated by glucose and glycogen during fast and slow glycolysis?
45. How many ATPs can be made from lactate?
46. Where is lactate metabolized?
47. What is the difference, as described in class, between lactate threshold and anaerobic threshold? At what intensities do they usually occur in trained individuals?
48. Why is lactate formed and why, if lactate wasn’t produced, would fatigue occur sooner?
49. What three substrates can be used for gluconeogenesis and where does it occur?
50. What are the enzymes that are different in gluconeogenesis from glycolysis?
51. Be able to describe, both, the glucose-alanine cycle and the Cori Cycle.
52. What is lipolysis and be able to describe the activation of hormone sensitive lipase by epinephrine?
53. How does fat get oxidized, from the adipocyte to the muscle?
54. Be able to describe how many ATPs are generated from the oxidation of fatty acids and explain beta oxidation.
55. How is glucose turned to fat and what type of fat is made each time?
56. Where does fatty acid synthesis occur (mainly)?