Linda is a 60-year-old woman with moderate mental retardation who has recently been diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Her doctor has recommended that Linda lose weight, get regular exercise, and eat low sodium, low cholesterol diet. She lives in an adult living facility. Linda works at a local shelter. She is required to bring lunch to the shelter every day and she always brings a bologna and cheese sandwich, a bag of pretzels and a chocolate chip cookie. During her morning break, she always gets a Coke and a bag of potato chips from the vending machine for a snack. Linda has eaten this same diet every day for at least 25 years and is very resistant to the idea of changing what she eats for lunch every day. After work Linda has staff that supports her in cooking dinner and she has tried a variety of foods. On the weekends her favorite thing to do is to go to Burger King for a Whopper with cheese and a large French fries. Linda has support with going grocery shopping. She is willing to pick out a variety of foods, but she always insists on buying pretzels and potato chips. She becomes very angry when staff suggest that she leave the store without the two items. Linda had had no trouble taking medication as she has staff who remind her in the morning and at night that she needs to do this. She also has support with monitoring her weight every day. She must monitor her weight to assure that she is not retaining water. Linda does not get any regular exercise. She has trouble climbing the set of stairs to her second-floor apartment. A couple of weeks ago one of the staff that supports her tried taking her for an hour walk in a near-by park. She had to turn around after 15 minutes because she was exhausted, and declared that she would never go walking again. Linda is fascinated by machines. One of the staff on weekends noted that she watched several infomercials about treadmills, rowing machines, and other types of exercise equipment. What are the behaviors that need to be changed? What health promotion actions would help? What additional supports or information might motivate Linda? Do you believe Linda can follow her doctor's recommendations? Why or why not?

What are the general strengths and limitations of the following research methodologies in studying white collar crime? • case studies • laboratory experiments • field experiments • natural experiments • surveys • observational research • secondary data analysis • event history analysis • archival data analysis • historical ethnography • content analysis

Describe the theoretical process of institutional isomorphism according to DiMaggio and Powell. How does this process potentially affect individual workers in the economy? Be sure to include examples to support your position.

So how exactly would you define wisdom?

Here's a taking off point. Let's say you are in a public place, a bar, a mall, a party, or a street, minding your own business. You look across the mall, the bar, the party, or the street and there you see your best friend's boyfriend, girlfriend, significant other with someone else, and I really mean with someone else. What would you do and why would you do it? In posting your answer, please take the following into consideration:

a. Would your friend really want to know, and would that matter?

b. What other factors would you want to take into consideration?

c. Would there be such a thing as the wisest course of action? How could that be defined?

If you have had experience with this kind of situation, you may draw on that within the limits of the topic of discussion.

REMEMBER to Stay on Topic.

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a) We all talk about media effects, how what we read, see, listen to has an impact on our lives, whether it's as simple as getting a weather alert and making decisions about how we're going to dress that day to having news stories shape our opinions about politics. Media may also affect how we perceive the world and our attitude about violence, sex, drugs and stereotypes, to name a few.

What kind of impact do you believe media has on you and others and our attitudes about those things?  Do you think the media is directly responsible for those attitudes people have? What about for people's actual actions (such as school shootings)?

b) Whether you're reading a newspaper or posting something on Instagram or watching something on Netflix, how much time do you spend with media? Is it surprising? Are you even doing it in your sleep?

If you were on the recruiting team to find a new
CEO for a company where the board mandate was to focus on embedding innovation into the DNA of the company, what attributes would you describe as being the "must-haves?"

What is social stratification? Is the U.S. society stratified? If it is, why would some people believe otherwise? If you believe it is not, explain why.

Poverty in the U.S:

Explain the viewpoint that the poor should take responsibility for poverty, and the one that holds society responsible for poverty. Which of these is closer to your view?

What is the difference between relative and absolute poverty? Does the U.S. have absolute poverty? How does the U.S. compare to other parts of the world?

What might motivate younger adults to maintain social relationships that are not emotionally positive?

Please explain it in 250 words. Thank you so much,

The subject is political science

-Analyze how the Declaration of Independence illustrates both ideas associated with Lockean (classical) liberalism and the tradition of popular democracy?

-define " natural rights" and "social content" and explain how both are embodied in the declaration of independence?

why do many psychological science research have a difficult time replicating. Why do you think trends change from study to study? What factors do you think may be involved? Is it something a researcher is doing, or is it the change in people?

In this discussion board assignment, you will critically evaluate the following scenario using the four basic critical questions. Here is the scenario:

Researchers wanted to study the relationship between pizza consumption by college freshmen and academic achievement. The researchers selected a freshmen history class with 900 students. The class lasted for 16 weeks and had weekly quizzes.

The researchers used random sampling and got two equivalent groups of participants from the class. Each group had 35 students. One group was the pizza group and one was the non-pizza group. To prepare for the experiment, the researchers compared the average quiz results of both groups for the first three weeks of the course and found no statistically significant difference between quiz scores.

In weeks 4 - 12, the researchers provided pizza dinner for everyone in the pizza group but those in the non-pizza group were told not to eat pizza 48 hours before the weekly quizzes. After week 12, the researchers compared the average quiz scores in each group and found that the non-pizza group had a statistically higher average quiz score than the pizza group. The researchers concluded that pizza consumption hinders academic performance of college freshmen.

Here are the basic 4 critical questions:

The next step to critically evaluate correlational claims is asking our four basic CRITICAL QUESTIONS applied to correlation (p. 118):

What does the claim of correlation mean? Which two variables, changing events, factors, or things co-vary? Do they exhibit a positive or negative relation?

How good is the evidence? Are two relevant groups being compared? Is the difference between the groups large enough (i.e., outside the margin of error of both samples) so that it is unlikely that these differences are the result of chance sampling variation? Were the groups being compared appropriately selected?

What other information is relevant? What is the context? Have other researchers found similar correlations? Of similar strength? Did other researchers use different types of samples and groups?

Are relevant fallacies avoided? For example, consider the fallacies of No comparison, Biased Sampling, Small Sample, Unclear Target Population, and of Significance.

These fallacies are clearly described in our textbook. Since most have been already covered in the previous chapters of our textbook, corresponding online links, and in the Keynotes, we need only introduce the new fallacy of Significance. The error of reasoning here for this fallacy is to argue that the difference between two (sample) groups, in a strict statistical or scientific sense, is important—relying on the common usage of the word “significant.” In contrast, the “[d]ifferences are said to be ‘statistically significant’ when…we can theoretically be 95% confident that the differences are not due to chance” (according to what we learned about statistical reasoning in Chapter 3 of our textbook; p. 105, emphasis added). This, therefore, merely provides a probabilistic judgement about a result that is basically not significant or important in any ordinary sense. As Mark Battersby notes, “[a] ‘statistically significant difference’ between two groups means that it’s very likely that there’s a correlation; but this says nothing about the strength of the correlation or about whether the correlation is of any human, scientific, or personal significance” (pp. 114-115, emphasis added).

16.) Which theoretical perspective on lawmaking is concerned with how laws emerge and advocates that lawmaking is generally the restatement of certain customs and norms?

a) the functionalist view.

b) the conflict perspective.

c) the moral entrepreneur theory.

d) the rationalistic model.

17.) The separation of private law from public law begins in:

a) primitive legal systems.

b) transitional legal systems.

c) modern legal systems.

18.) The separation of substantive law from procedural law begins in:

a) primitive legal systems.

b) transitional legal systems.

c) modern legal systems.

19.) A general characteristic of the human memory with regard to eyewitness identifications is :

a) stress and anxiety increase perception ability.

b) perception is limited.

c) humans are skilled at judging time.

d) we are better at identifying members of another race than our own.

20.) Which of the following is true of lobbyists in general?

a) they are unpaid volunteers.

b) ex senators or representatives can not become lobbyists.

c) lobbying is a professional undertaking.

d) their goal is to influence the public.

21.) Compensatory damages would not include:

a) medical bills as a result of the injury.

b) reimbursement for lost wages due to the injury.

c) payment for the inability to engage in routine physical activity.

d) a monetary award designed to punish the person responsible for the injury.

"Becoming homeless and without income may be, for some people, their feared self."
In two to three paragraphs, explain what this statement means.

Thank you so much.