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Hurricane Crisis

 
Don’t write an introduction for this paper! Also, you have to answer the following scenarios from a crisis communication manager. Make sure all the information or recommendations sound realistic!

Consider the following scenario. List the members of your crisis team and their respective roles; list key stakeholders; draft a statement that includes your key message points; and, draft potential questions with model answers addressing each of your key stakeholders. Also include information about how best to get messages out to each audience.

1) A university in Florida
2) Category 5 hurricane headed towards your location
3) Public officials are preparing for a possible evacuation
4) First year students have just arrived for orientation
5) During the next several days, when the storm is expected to hit, returning students are expected to arrive on campus
6) Concerned parents have begun calling the university

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Is there an association between mortality in asthmatic patients and chronic treatment with beta agonists?

 
This is a NARRATIVE research.

Here are the requirements and instructions of the NARRATIVE research:

Proposed a topic for research related to pharmacy practice. My topic is: Is there an association between mortality in asthmatic patients and chronic treatment with beta agonists?

Find EIGHT PRIMARY research ARTICLES, ORIGINAL ARTICLES. Use PUBMED to find the articles. The articles should be FULL ARTICLES, when you go to PUBMED see the WHOLE article, not the abstract. Also, the eight articles need to have their bibliographies IN AMA style. They should be in ALPHABETICAL order by first author. Font should be 12 of 11 point Arial or Times New Roman. No length requirement for annotations. You want to be concise, precise and grammatical.

Hints and Requirements for Annotated Bibliography:

Be sure to check the AMA manual of style so you use the correct citation format and include the correct element in your citations. Remember there is a difference in citing articles that only appear in electronic format and those that also appear in print. Also that where a DOI (digital object identifier) exists it should be used instead of he URL.

The format should be:

Citation in AMA format – with a hanging indent

A line space

Then your annotation block indented.

 

This article is essentially a think piece that describes the many steps taken to be prepared for biological terrorism and how they can be applied to prevent large outbreaks of pertussis. The data used is from white papers and the conclusions based on logical suppositions rather than any experiment.

1- Search strategy should be on a separate sheet of paper. If you used more than one resource or more than one strategy, each should be listed. Each search strategy should be detailed enough so that if the professor use the same strategy in the same resource he would be able to get the same results.

2- Annotated bibliography MUST be in AMA format. The citation paragraphs must utilize a hanging indent. The annotation must be block indented 1/2 inch.

While there are many ways to create a hanging indent in Word on a PC usually the keyboard command Control+t. For a block indent you can use the indentation icon or the keyboard command Control+m. For Apple use help. Points will be deducted for failing to use the correct format. Annotations that merely summarize and article without any analysis will generally receive a lower grade than those that include some useful analytical components.

Based on the articles in the annotated bibliography and any other articles retrieved students will write a narrative review of their research topic. This review must follow AMA format.

GRADING:
20% – Clarity of the question and search strategy.
20% – Adherence to AMA style.
20% – Relevance of the articles selected for the bibliography and review (based on date and type).
10% – Clarity of the writing, and lack of mistakes in grammar, punctuation and usage in the narrative review
30% – The critical thinking and analysis exhibited in the review paper.
5% of the grade will be deducted for any part of the assignment handed in late.

Students who copy or plagiarize any part of this assignment will receive a zero.
Since AMA does not provide much guidance for course papers as opposed to those being submitted for publication here is what is expected.

All papers should be in 12 point font, either Arial or Times New Roman

A cover page with your name, research topic, course and date each centered on a separate line – these should be in the vertical center of the page

There should be a running head with a short version of your title/question and the page number on all pages

The abstract may be either on a separate page or on the first page of your review. – The running head should be on all pages.

All in-text citations should follow AMA format of super-scripted numbers.

The Bibliography of all works cited in the review should be on a separate page. The references should be numbered and appear in the order cited in the paper.

These are just highlights of preparing a paper in AMA style. Please be sure to consult the AMA manual if you are unsure of how to proceed.

It is better to write clearly and concisely than at greater length.

Remember that it should be AMA style!!! The search strategy of the eight bibliographies should be included below each bibliography.

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An economy to benefit producers rather that the consumers: China National Tobacco Corp. (monopoly)

 
I have a brief idea of what to write and a big topic which needs to be narrowed down into a more specific question.

This is the rough proposal:

Title: An economy to benefit producers rather that the consumers: China National Tobacco Corp. (monopoly)

Introduction:
Briefly summarize the change of consumption pattern and change in market share in the last 50 years

The current situation:
In terms of market share, China National is bigger than its next five competitors combined; its growing sales have accounted for a net increase in global production, even as volume at its competitors has fallen. While Marlboro remains the most popular cigarette in the world, China National boasts 7 of the top 10 brands, including Red Pagoda Mountain and Double Happiness. In all, the company made 43 out of every 100 cigarettes in the world last year, according to Euromonitor International. Despite its size, China National is little known outside of China: Almost all its cigarettes are sold in the country, where it has no real competition.

“China now endeavors to build a service-oriented government and amplify its medical and healthcare reform on the purpose of an escalated national health standard. China also conforms to WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Out of dual necessities of tobacco industry reform and tobacco control, breaking tobacco monopoly is top priority.”
Aims and objectives:
To investigate monopoly power of the Chinese Government in the tobacco market and the outcomes of it i.e. the pros and cons

Academic Background: Theory of Monopoly (rational addiction to tobacco), Market failure, Tax and revenue, (institutional economics)

Literature review:
…..
Please decide on a good specific topic and state the question that this essay is going to answer and write a Literature review on that topic.

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Research in Motion specifically with an eye toward technology product development

 
Research the history of RIM, specifically with an eye toward technology product development.

Your research should lead to answers to the following questions.

1. What were some of the challenges that RIM faced to protect its intellectual property, and how did RIM handle those challenges?
2. What were some of the industry factors that influenced RIM?
3. Apply as many TCOs as you can to the RIM (below).

TCOs are terminal course objectives and they are as follows:

TCO A Given a company situation be able to describe the industry dynamics of technological innovation

TCO B Given a company situation be able to determine whether and how to protect its technological innovations.

TCO C Given an organizational and industry context, identify the core technological competencies of the organization.

TCO D Given an organizational context, develop a plan to increase the innovative capabilities of the organization both through collaboration strategies and internal innovation.

TCO E Given information about a company’s industry and organization, formulate a technological innovation strategy through its

new product development strategy.
TCO F Given an organizational and industry context, identify and suggest a deployment strategy that will facilitate the success
of a technologically driven organization.

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Leading the Way Through Conflict

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After reviewing the Chapter 9 Video in Lesson 5 , post your response to the following question: The video will direct you to a website and determine your conflict style and afterwards learn about what it means. After watching the video and determining your conflict style, post what it is, how accurate you believe it is, and give some examples of it in your life. Then tell us what you learned from this process and what it means to you about things you might want to change to become a better leader. This post should be approximately 250 words in length.

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Monetary Policy

 
investigates details of an aspect of recent developments in european central bank recent monetary policy; with historic data

According to Oct22nd press conference, Governing Council decided to keep the key ECB interest rates unchanged and asset purchase program stays unchanged. President also said that, the degree of monetary policy accommodation will need to be re-examined at their December monetary policy meeting. Governing Council will continue to fully implement the monthly asset purchases of 60 billion. These purchases are intended to run at least until the end of September 2016, until they see a sustained inflation path below 2%.
ECB expanded asset purchased programs(APP) on January 22nd 2015: monthly purchases in public and private sector securities amount to 60Billion. ECB also lower interest rate below zero bound in January. Although after releasing QE on January, the inflation of Euro has raised. However, with the weakness of monetary policy accommodation make the situation goes back. President also stated that, the Governing Council is willing and able to act by using all the instruments available within its mandate if warranted in order to maintain an appropriate degree of monetary accommodation.
Refernce：European Central Bank Introductory Statement

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Media analysis

3. Media Analysis. The purpose of this paper (4pages) is to explore how the mediarepresents the fashion and/or the fashion industry. watching Confessions of a Shopaholic(film, 2009), Analyze themedia and consider the following questions: How does the film conceive of gender, sexuality, and/or race and fashion? What theories of fashion that we have explored can you apply to this film? You need at least 4 sources—1 of which must be academic in nature (such as a book or journal article). i will send you some sources that you must read so you know what we have discussed in my class

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English Literature

 
Write a paper with a clear and unified compelling literary argument about Charlotte Perkins Gilman‘s The Yellow Wallpaper (1892). For this paper, the main goal is to exercise close reading as evidence for an overall argument about the novel. Must use textual evidence to support the argument.

Formulate your own argument. Make sure that the paper has a singular focused argument, that answers what, how, and why. What is the argument, how is the manner by which the text is supporting this argument, and why is the importance of the argument.
Please write as deep as possible and develop as much as possible. Don’t just provide several points and move on to next. Rather than merely an account of various interesting things in the text, let your paper focus in on a primary argument. Avoid needless summary or book report style papers.

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Benchmark assignment-Heritage Assessment

 
The learning activity and corresponding assignment in this topic requires students to perform a heritage assessment with families selected by the student from their local community.
Interview three families from different cultures. One family can be your own. Compare the differences in health traditions between these cultures.

Assess three families using the “Heritage Assessment Tool.” In 1,000-1,500 words discuss the usefulness of applying a heritage assessment to evaluate the needs of families and develop plans for health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. Include the following:

Perform a heritage assessment on three families.
Complete the “Heritage Assessment Tool” for each of the three families interviewed. These must be included with your submission to LoudCloud.
Identify common health traditions based on cultural heritage. Evaluate and discuss how the families subscribe to these traditions and practices. Address health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration as they relate to your assessment.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is not required.