The Impact of Numbers on Contingent Valuation

 
I want to have a reaction paper were the opinions are strongly supported by evidence. The reaction paper should be based on whether you agree,disagree, or an open ended opinion on a statement in the paper.
The paper should start with two to three sentences introduction on the topic addressed. Then an opinion on whether a statement in the paper is agreed/ disagreed on.
Finally, a conclusion should end the paper.

Stereotypes in the Median

 

Directions

This week you are going to examine the use of stereotypes in the media; specifically, you will evaluate ten television commercials paying particular attention to the role of the primary figures. Select commercials that have only two central figures and complete the following rating sheet (click here (Links to an external site.) for a downloadable version of the tally sheet):

Commerical Number
Name of Product
Time of Commercial
Location of Scene
Type of Product
Figure Number
Gender of Figure
Role of Figure
Type of Argument
Focus of Figure

(morning, afternoon, primetime, late night) (home, office, store, other) (home, food, body, other)
(male, female) (spouse, parent, homemaker, boyfriend, girlfriend, worker, celebrity, professional, other) (scientific – facts, research, nonscientific – testimonials, opinions, none) (narrator, product user, authority, other)

At the conclusion of your observations, tally your results according to gender. Submit your tally sheet and your answers to the following questions:

Which gender was more likely to be depicted as the product users?
Which gender was more likely to be depicted as homemakers?
Which gender was more likely to be seen in homes?
Which gender was more likely to be seen in an office?
Which gender was more likely to use scientific arguments?
Which gender was more likely to be a narrator?
Which gender was more likely to be depicted as an authority?
Based on your results, what type of message are we receiving from the media concerning gender roles?
If previous patterns hold, women should be more likely to play the roles of product users, spouses, parents, and homemakers. Women depicted in commercials tend to be seen in the home or in stores and they tend to make nonscientific arguments. Men tend to be depicted in commercials as narrators, authority figures, workers, and professionals. They tend to be seen in offices and they are more likely to make scientific arguments. Did your findings support these conclusions? Explain.

After School Programs And Education For The Boys And Girls Club

 

Field Study 195
Boys & Girls Club of America is a national organization that serves Independent, or “Local Boys & Girls Clubs.” Each Boys & Girls club controls its own affairs and is not considered to be of any liability to the national Boys & Girls Clubs of America; It is a separate legal entity and governed by independent board of directors, executive committee or other governing body and is solely responsible for its own affairs, including but not limited to matters of safety; compliance with federal, state, and local laws; physical facilities; uses of technology, finances; policies and programs and personnel policies and decisions. Accordingly, each Local Boys & Girls Club controls its own affairs and Boys & Girls Clubs of America does not hold any liability for the actions of Local Boys & Girls Clubs.
Local Boys & Girls Club may offer: Education & Career Programs, Character &, Leadership Programs, Health & Life Skills, The Arts Programs, Sports, Fitness, & Recreation, and Specialized Programs. The Boys and girls club is dedicated to promoting the health, social, educational, vocational and character development of youth throughout the United States of America.
The policy I would like to address at the EastBluff Boys & Girls Club is the focus on Education & Career Programs. The articles I will address these policies are:

1. Teachers’ Developing Ideas And Practices About Mathematics Performance Assessment: Successes, Stumbling Blocks, And Implications For Professional Development
2. School Reform And Standards-Based Education: A Model for English-Language Learners and
3. Integrating Technology Into K-12 Teaching And Learning: Current Knowledge Gaps And Recommendations For Future Research
4. Outcomes Linked to High-Quality Afterschool Programs: Longitudinal Findings from the Study of Promising Afterschool Programs
5. The Impact of After-School Programs that Promote Personal and Social Skills
6. Critical Hours: Afterschool Programs and Educational Success

Assessing Community Needs for Health Education week 10 Project part 3

 
Project Part 3
This week you submit your Final Project.
Accurate data analysis methods will result in successful community engagement and mobilization. After a thorough analysis of methods, communicating the findings will allow health educators to work hand-in-hand with community members to create positive changes in health behavior. Understanding the importance of data collection findings may result in the community’s engagement and utilization in improving their built environment.
Dr. Brian Smedley, Director of the Health Policy Institute at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies said:
“I’m persuaded that when we talk about disparities, people assume that we’re simply talking about simple numeric differences; that Group A has less access than Group B; Group C has lower quality than Group D. Instead, we use the term ‘inequities’ because it communicates that these differences are unjust and unfair, and we can do something about them. So rather than just disparities in education, we have inequities, in that so many of our kids of color are assigned to failing K–12 schools. Using the term inequities means there are health gaps brought about by policies and practices in communities. They can be undone, because they are policies and practices that human beings put into place. Human beings can undo them as well. (Barnett, 2012, p. 33)
For Part 3 of the Final Project, review and finalize Parts 1 and 2 based on Instructor feedback. Then, review the resources from Week 4 concerning secondary data methods. Select a community health needs assessment dataset from the resources in Week 4 or through Internet research. Also, review the resource Developing a Plan for Increasing Participation in Community Action.
Final Project Part 3 (3–4 pages excluding APA citations)
You will address the following two areas this week for Part 3 of the Final Project:
Provide data analysis methods:
Based on the data collection methods you chose in Part 2 of the Final Project and on the dataset you chose for this part of the project, provide an explanation of how you might analyze these data from the dataset. Also, address the following in this section:

In the Part 2 of the Final Project, you selected a few data collection methods for your community health needs assessment plan. Given what you have learned from this project until this point, if you could go back, would you choose the same data collection methods? Or, would you choose different methods? Justify your rationale.
Explain how you will communicate the results of needs assessment:
Explain how to communicate your community health needs assessment findings in order to engage and mobilize community members toward building a healthier environment. Support your explanation by using resources from this week.

Application: PowerPoint®Research Proposal

 
• Application: PowerPoint®Research Proposal

To complete this Application Assignment:

Design a 9- to 12-slide presentation of your research proposal including the following information:

• Title of your research

• The research problem

• The purpose of your research

• The research design

• The population and sample

• Data collection strategies

• Analysis procedure

• Possible areas for dissemination

• References
• If you are unable to complete a PowerPoint® presentation, you may provide the information in a Word document.

Your written assignments must follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Refer to the Pocket Guide to APA Style to ensure your in-text citations and reference list are correct.
• Learning Resources

Seminar 3 – Exchange Rates

 

Objective

Preparation for and activities during this seminar will help you to develop and deepen your understanding of:
exchange rate exposures/risks; and
the effects (especially strategic effects) that XR movements can have on companies that engage in cross-border collaborations.
This will directly contribute to your ability to address Q4 in the assignment.Preparation for and activities during this seminar will help you to develop and deepen your understanding of:

exchange rate exposures/risks; and
the effects (especially strategic effects) that XR movements can have on companies that engage in cross-border collaborations.
This will directly contribute to your ability to address Q4 in the assignment.
Preparation
1. Attend the lectures on Raising Finance and Multinational Tax and Risk
2. Revise the slides and recommended reading from the lectures
3. Read the following material:

a. Dhanani, A. (2003) ‘Foreign exchange risk management: a case in the mining industry’, The British Accounting Review, 35(1), pp. 35-63. (You are only required to read the followingsections: ‘Introduction’, ‘Prior Literature’ and ‘The case: ABC plc’)
b. Pan, Y. (2002) ‘Equity Ownership in International Joint Ventures: The Impact of Source Country Factors’, Journal of International Business Studies, 33(2), pp. 375-384.
NB: Use NORA and/or google scholar to find these academic papers!
4. Familiarise yourself with any terminology that is still unclear
5. Start collecting information from assessment case and academic literature relating to XRs.

6. Download and print the attached case study/seminar brief and bring it to the seminar (you are not expected to complete it before the seminar!).
You are given a short case study relating to XR exposure, risk and movements. In small groups (your seminar tutor will allocate you), you will work through a variety of tasks, making calculations and particularly discussing strategic implications of XR movements. After every task, there will be a short plenary session/discussion and the tutor will present the results of calculations and summarise the key points from the discussions.

Following this case study, you will be able to apply your learning to the context of cross-country collaborations (such as M&A, JV or others): you will remain in your groups and identify possible ways, in which XR movements affect cross-country collaborations.
This will also be followed by a tutor-facilitated plenary discussion. Your tutor will then indicate further suggested reading useful for Q4 of the assignment.

The effect of treadmill on adolescent cerebral palsy gait compared to ground walking

 
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clear, concise summary of the critical thinking project
The abstract/summary includes all of the necessary elements. The clarity of each element is outstanding. The abstract is concise and the structure is outstanding. The abstract/summary is an outstanding representation of the study proposed.
*Background
The context and purpose of the study is clear
Critical discussion of the context of the research problem including background information has outstanding clarity. There is outstanding justification (critical judgements) for the study proposed
*Research Q
The research question aims */objectives */hypotheses * (as appropriate) are wholly correct and explicitly linked to the literature reviewed.
The research question is outstanding. It is clear, concise, informative to the reader and is focused on the literature review. Research aims*, objectives*, hypotheses* (*as appropriate) have outstanding clarity and wholly reflect the question set
*Design
The proposed research design is appropriate and justified
There is an outstanding critical discussion and/or justification of the research design in relation to the study aim*, objectives*, hypotheses* (*as appropriate).
*Participants
The proposed sampling strategy and proposed number of participants is justified
There is outstanding justification of sampling strategy including how and from where the sample will be obtained. Outstanding justification for sample size. Details and justification of inclusion/exclusion are very extensive
*Outcomes
The outcome measures/data collection method is justified
There is an outstanding critical discussion of the outcomes used to collect and record data for the study proposed. Justification for the use of outcomes, including details of their psychometric properties is extensive
*Procedure
The data collection procedure is feasible, detailed and has a low risk of bias
Detail of the procedure (including pilot study) is outstanding, allowing the study to be accurately reproduced. There is a very logical approach resulting in a low risk of bias
*Ethics
The ethical issues pertinent to the proposed study have been critically discussed and systems have been proposed to ensure the wellbeing of the participants
There is outstanding critical discussion of the ethical issues and where issues have been identified these have been very highly pertinent to the study proposed. There is outstanding evidence that the participants will be treated ethically. The plan for seeking ethical review has outstanding clarity.
*Data analysis
The proposed methods for data analysis and presentation are appropriate and justified.
There is outstanding critical discussion of how the data collected will be analysed. Justification for the choice of methods of summarising and presenting, describing and analysing the data (including statistical tests to be used where appropriate) has outstanding detail and is entirely correct.
this is the things should be included in the proposal in details and critical please.
for the references I already have 5 references and I’ll upload it , so use the articles that I give.

***you want the article by email?

I need research proposal, with
introduction of the cerebral palsy and physiotherapy, and specifying the search strategy with the inclusion and exclusion criteria to the article that I choose which I use recent article, with high rate in PEDro website.
Next, literature review , critical appraisal for each article, then specify the gap (rationale) for the paper is to focus on adolescent age and effect of treadmill on this age compared to ground walking.
Then, The Methodology in this part talk about the sample size and specify how you choose it by power sampling.
The inclusion criteria: the patient age from 13-18, ambulatory with or without assistive device,
The exclusion criteria: receive Botulinum toxin injection the last 6 months, had and orthopedic problem or surgery, absence of cognitive or visual impairment.
Result: use the statistic with SPSS.

please read this article: Body Image: Gender, Ethnic, and Age Differences. by Jack demarest, Rita Allen. department of psychology. Monmouth University

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Experimental Write up for Introduction to Psychology
Psychological researchers investigate topics of interest through literature searches and their own
psychological studies. It is also important that they communicate their findings to the general public and
other researchers through journal articles, popular media, and conference presentations.
The current assignment is to write a review paper which provides you with an opportunity to develop two
important skills of a researcher: critical thinking and written communication skills.
INSTRUCTIONS:
For this assignment, your task will be to read the journal article that is posted on the course site and
to summarize and discuss the limitations of the study.
 Create an APA formatted title page
 Clearly summarize the purpose of the study (approx. a few sentences)
 Clearly summarize the methodology such as number and type of participants, variables
examined/manipulated etc. (approx. 1/2 -1 page)
 Clearly summarize the results of the study (approx. 1/2 page)
 Write your paper clearly, succinctly keep it organized and comprehensible.
 Include a discussion of the results (approx. 1/2 – 1 page)
 Clearly discuss how the findings contribute to society at large (approx. ½ – 1 page)
 Create an APA formatted reference list
 Write your paper clearly, keep it organized and comprehensible.
 The entire assignment should be no more than 5 pages (double-spaced, typed, 12-point font) not
including title page and reference page. Please staple your pages together.
Please note that it is strongly encouraged that students complete and submit their assignment.
Note: Please staple a copy of your Plagiarism Certificate to the back of the paper
Failure to submit the assignment may result in a final course letter grade of an “F”.
The Assignment must be submitted in hard copy (paper) at the beginning of the class period on the day it is
due; a soft copy must also be deposited in the drop box of the course site. Late submissions will lose 4%
per business day; the clock stops when I receive the paper. A business day ends at 4:30 pm. So, for
example, if a student does not submit the assignment on the day that it is due at the beginning of class, then
4% has been lost. Further, if the assignment is handed in after 4:30 the next day, another 4% is lost. If I am
not in my office, please try to find another instructor and have them date, time, and sign your assignment
before you put it under my door. If I find your paper after 4:30 then 4% has been lost.

Rubric

Title Page (Title no more than 12 words
Title clearly relate to the research topic of the article?
Properly formatted?
Was the purpose of the study clearly identified
Was the hypothesis stated
Correctly identify participant information, (who, number, age)
Correctly and clearly identify relevant measures
Logical, clear description of the procedure and describe the key elements
Well organized, clear, and comprehensive
Were the results accurately reported
Report of the results clear
Student states whether the hypothesis was supported or not
Implications for the community included? (Example: Why findings are important; how could they be used to benefit the population?)
Problems/limitations of the study, which are not mentioned in the article
Clear? Well organized? Logical?
Journal article included in reference list
Was proper formatting used? Was the appropriate header used?
Well organized, comprehensible, clear? Correct in-text citations

Achieving Academics Success With Completion of Master of Nursing Degree Program

 
This is for an IVY league admission board. I already have a master and doctorate in health administration. I need to complete my Master in Nursing to be considered for the top Executive Nurse Administrative positions. I ask that you please include a small but impressive statistical proof that will help support my reason for persuing the Master of Science in NUrsing (MSN)

Critical Evaluation of an Psychological Research Article

 
The aim of this review is to perform a critical appraisal on a reasearch paper using the following:

Evaluate the article on it’s ethical grounds, see if all the correct ethical procedures have been upheld and critically appraise it by answering the following questions for each section:
Introduction:
Does the author clearly define a research problem or topic? Is its significance explained?
Are core issues or research variables identified? Is specialized terminology usefully defined?
Does the author provide an adequate literature review? Does it discuss current research on the problem, and help to situate the author’s own research?
Are the research objectives clearly stated? Are hypotheses or specific research questions identified?

Methodology:
Does the author clearly identify the research methodology and any associated limitations of the research design?
Are participants described, including the method of sample selection if appropriate?
Are instruments adequately described, including issues of appropriateness, validity and reliability?
Do any evident biases or ethical considerations arise in relation to the methodology?
Are the methods for measuring results clearly explained and appropriate?

Results:
Are the author’s major findings clearly presented?
Do they adequately address the stated research objectives?
Are supporting data presented?
Are tables, graphs or figures helpful and well integrated with the text?

Discussion:
Do the research results validate the author’s conclusions and/or recommendations?
Are alternative conclusions and/or limitations of the research considered?
Is there discussion of any variance between the author’s research and prior research findings?
Does the author’s research suggest any direction for further research?
Is the practical or theoretical significance of the research emphasized?
Does the author recommend the revision of theory or practice in the field?

Discussions:
Is the research timely and worthwhile?
Is the research design appropriately inclusive and/or sensitive to the cultural context?
Are you aware of any significant omissions or errors that might affect the validity or reliability of the research?
Are the results original and significant?
Does the author provide fresh insight or stimulate needed discussion in the field? Is the article well structured?
Are the sections of appropriate length?
Do the author’s style and language maintain interest and clarity?
Is the presentation unbiased, objective and reasonable?
Is the author respectful of participants and the work of other researchers?

Make sure to also point out the audience and impact this reasearch may have.

Use FULL APA Style. CORRECT FORMATTING. First page must have the Running Head in the header but nowhere else, INCLUDE ABSTRACT and do NOT put any references in the abstract. Use proper and scientific language and correct grammar and syntax. Do not use casual expressions or first person in the text and make sure to use politically correct and non-offensive terminology. This is supposed to be platinum quality. DO NOT USE FIRST PERSON. Always refer to the author in third person. Use sources to relate to everything that you say. Use sources that are from the year 2000 and on. The more recent the better. Make sure all references are cited in the textless