Prompt: It is common knowledge that staying hydrated is beneficial and that electrolytes replenish the body after exercise. But did you know that it too much water or water containing the wrong substances can be harmful? Apply what you have learned about osmosis and diffusion in Hands On Lab: Cells and Membrane Transport to consider the following scenario:

You are stranded on a desert island. A boat will not be by this area again for 7 days so you need to make smart choices to survive. This sunny island, Puerto Golgi, with an average daily temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit, receives only a few inches of rain per year, so there is very little fresh water available for you to drink.

You have 3 options to choose from and you may only choose one:

1. Drinking all the freshwater from a midweek rainstorm in 1 hour before it evaporates (4 Liters).

2. Drink a small amount of saltwater each of the 7 days

3. Crack open the available coconuts to drink 2L of coconut water each day

Which option will you choose to survive until the boat arrives at the end of day 7 to find you and take you back to the mainland? Each option has beneficial and harmful aspects; there is no perfect choice available.

Through this 2 part discussion with your classmates, you will state your choice, explain how your choice would affect the blood and cells of the body using appropriate and sufficient evidence, and then respond to your classmates posts to convince them why that choice is the optimal one for survival. In other words, you need to know why your choice is the most optimal for the human body and why the other choices would not be.

Remember, no answer is one hundred percent correct so you are not saying that others are wrong, but instead why your choice is more optimal based on evidence. We all want to survive and get each other safely to the mainland.

Part 1: Initial Post (Worth up to 50 points)

• Length: 250-500 words
• State and explain your choice. When stating the evidence, consider the challenges that others may have to your evidence and how you could counter those respectful challenges.
• You will need to use at least 3 reputable scientific references to support your post (not including your textbook). Reputable sources= peer reviewed scientific journal articles, accredited websites, or books. Google, Wikipedia, etc. are not acceptable sources.

6.2        Radical Rewrite: Instruction E-Mail—Tips for Avoiding Hackers

Your Task. Analyze the following e-mail to be sent by the CEO to all employees.

• Step 1: Identify five or more weaknesses describing why each is a weakness.
• Step 2: Revise this e-mail so that it reflects writing techniques you learned in this and previous chapters.

To:           Staff Members

From:          G. B. Goldman <[email protected]>

Subject: Hackers!                

Staff Members:

This is to inform you that, like other banks, we are afraid of hackers. We fear that employees will expose valuable information to hackers without realizing what they are doing. Because of our fear, we have consulted cybersecurity experts, and they gave us much good advice with new procedures to be followed. Here are the procedures suggested by experts:

1. We don’t want you to leave out-of-office messages. These voice mail or e-mails might explain when you will be away. Such messages are a red flag to hackers telling them that your computer is vacant and not being monitored.

2. Because smartphones can be lost or stolen, don’t snap photos of company documents. Phones may be lost or stolen, and our data might be compromised.

3. Although small memory devices (thumb drives) are handy and easy to use, you may be inclined to store company files or information on these drives. Don’t do it. They can easily be lost, thus exposing our company information.

4. Using work e-mail addresses for social media is another problem area. When you post details about your job, hackers can figure out an organization’s best target.

5. Phishing links are the worst problem. Any request for password information or any requests to click links should be viewed with suspicion. Never click them. Even messages that seem to be from high-level officials or the human resources department within our own company can be sophisticated, realistic fakes. Examples include a request to click a link to receive a package or to download a form from within the company.

We want to let you all know that within the next two months, we plan to begin implementing a program that will educate and train employees with regard to what to avoid. The program will include fake phishing messages. The program will be explained and you will learn more from your managers in training workshops that are scheduled to begin September 1.

G. B. Goldman, CEO
First Federal Savings and Loan | [email protected] | 678-405-3302

You may need to use the appropriate technology to answer this question.

A Deloitte employment survey asked a sample of human resource executives how their company planned to change its workforce over the next 12 months. A categorical response variable showed three options: the company plans to hire and add to the number of employees, the company plans no change in the number of employees, or the company plans to lay off and reduce the number of employees. Another categorical variable indicated if the company was private or public. Sample data for 180 companies are summarized as follows.

(a)

Conduct a test of independence to determine if the employment plan for the next 12 months is independent of the type of company.

State the null and alternative hypotheses.

H₀: Employment plan is mutually exclusive from the type of company.
H_a: Employment plan is not mutually exclusive from the type of company.H₀: Employment plan is not independent of the type of company.
H_a: Employment plan is independent of the type of company.     H₀: Employment plan is not mutually exclusive from the type of company.
H_a: Employment plan is mutually exclusive from the type of company.H₀: Employment plan is independent of the type of company.
H_a: Employment plan is not independent of the type of company.

Find the value of the test statistic. (Round your answer to three decimal places.)

Find the p-value. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)

p-value =

At a 0.05 level of significance, what is your conclusion?

Do not reject H₀. We cannot conclude that the employment plan and the type of company are not independent.Reject H₀. We conclude that the employment plan is not independent of the type of company.     Reject H₀. We conclude that the employment plan is independent of the type of company.Do not reject H₀. We cannot conclude that the employment plan and the type of company are independent.

(b)

Discuss any differences in the employment plans for private and public companies over the next 12 months. (Round your numeric answers to two decimal places.)

Employment opportunities look to be much better for public companies, while private companies have the greater proportions of "no change" and "lay off employees" planned.Employment opportunities look to be much better for private companies, while public companies have the greater proportions of "no change" and "lay off employees" planned.     Employment opportunities look to be about the same for both public and private companies, with high proportions of "no change" and "lay off employees" planned for both.Employment opportunities look to be about the same for both public and private companies, with high proportions of "add employees" planned for both.

The case of the Keystone XL pipeline is an example of the emotional aspect of many environmental disputes, as our nation tries to come to grips with sustainability issues. Local and national opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry crude oil from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast, have protested for years to stop its construction (Figure 4.10). These efforts accelerated after President Trump approved the pipeline in March 2017, reversing President Obama’s decision to reject it on environmental grounds. It appears that the pipeline is likely to be completed, pending legal action still unresolved in Nebraska. (See figure 4.10 in the textbook) To fight the pipeline, some opponents have used legal strategies such as court challenges in Nebraska,where regulators have not yet approved its route through the state. Other methods include tactics learned in the fight against the Dakota Access pipeline, in which protestors blocked equipment, occupied construction sites, and fought company employees and law enforcement officers. Protestors have vowed to use the same tactics against the Keystone XL. As Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the IndigenousEnvironmental Network, told reporters, “Our dedication to stop this pipeline isn’t just for the future determination of our lives as human beings but also for the future of all generations of life, and that we stay true to the understandings of protecting mother earth to the fullest degree and do it in a prayerful way.”

Opponents of projects such as Keystone XL are not always divided along political party lines, geography,age, or other demographics. Bret Clanton is a rancher and a registered Republican who doesn’t fit the standard profile of an environmentalist. The TransCanada Oil Company told him it planned to dig up three miles of his land to lay a section of the Keystone XL pipeline and bulldoze another two and half miles for an access road. “I’ve lived here all my life and this ground is pretty much as God, or whoever,made it, and I just want it to stay that way,” Clanton said. He fought the pipeline from the beginning and lobbied the state government for several years, but he and the others may lose their legal challenges.

Environmentalists now face a conundrum. Should they accept the pipeline and its potential for harm? Or should they advance to more aggressive tactics such as destroying property to forestall it and hope that a candidate friendlier to environmentalists is elected in 2020? Is nonlethal violence justified in the pursuit of environmental justice?

• How should society and governments react to aggressive environmental protest?

• How would you balance a protestor’s First Amendment right of free speech, expression, and assembly with concern for public safety and protection of property?

Chapter 20 – Developing a Service Plan at the Case

Fundamentals of Case Management Practice, skills for the human services - 5th ed by Nancy Summers

Please read the following case study and answer the questions to the best of your ability.

Case 20.1: Developing Dave's Service Plan

Dave is a 49-year-old bartender who is currently going through a divorce initiated by his wife. Dave and his wife have two children: a boy, aged 6 and a girl, aged 9. Dave states that he and his wife decided to separate and then divorce after his wife complained on numerous occasions about his work responsibilities. He states that his wife told him that his work hours and the social contacts he made as a result of his job at the bar were incompatible with the kind of family life she wanted for herself and her children. Dave co-owns his home with his wife and is letting her have the house for the sake of the children. He has taken up with a woman who frequents his bar and recently moved in with her in a different part of the town, "giving me a place to put my things."

Dave is requesting help in restoring his marriage and is looking for marriage counseling. He is not sure his wife will agree. Additionally, Dave wants help in considering alternative training or education so that he is no longer dependent on his skills as a bartender for his income.

Dave has a high school diploma and has completed four college courses, all of them general education courses. Dave has a close relationship with his sister who lives in the same part of the town where he is currently living. "She gives me a lot of support." He is a member of the St. Paul's Methodist church but has not been to church in over a year. Dave indicates that he joined the church in order to please his wife but never got much out of going there, though he likes the minister at the church. Dave describes his relationship with his daughter as close. Since he left, his daughter calls him every night to go over homework. Unfortunately, his work schedule often cuts these calls short or he is not able to take the calls.

Dave is willing to begin seeing a counselor on his own in the hope that his wife will join him at some point.

1. Describe Dave's presenting needs and concerns.

2. Describe the strengths and supports that Dave has.

3. Describe the weaknesses and/or obstacles that Dave is facing.

McDonald’s latest move sums up its wretched cultural imperialism Fast food restaurant McDonald’s has long come under attack from anti-globalisation campaigners for its homogenizing effect on global food systems, cityscapes, and local cultures. The marketing of its unhealthy and potentially addictive foods – especially to children – has also been criticised by public health advocates at a global level. Its negative impact on diet and health has created a lifestyle disease.

The company’s destructive and homogenising characteristics have been well documented. McDonald’s has had a profound impact on businesses. Multinational companies like McDonald’s deploy similar technologies and production methods worldwide to achieve more uniform operating methods and outputs, leading to the loss of local business values and initiatives. Workers and trade unionists have testified in hearings of human rights against McDonald’s over low pay and poor working conditions for its operations in developing countries like Brazil. Instead of driving a global race to the bottom by exploiting them for lower labour costs, McDonald’s can use its power and influence to help improve the lives of workers around the world.

In addition, its marketing techniques are increasingly viewed as overly manipulative and in part destroying local cultures. On 6 June, McDonald’s in the U.S. unveiled its new ‘International Currency Exchange’. Customers will be able to use foreign currency to purchase four new items on its so-called ‘Worldwide Favourites’ menu at participating U.S. McDonald’s stores. This new menu includes the Dutch delicacy ‘Stroopwaffel McFlurry’ and a Spanish dish named the ‘Grand Extreme Bacon Burger’.

Fast food is not just culturally, environmentally, and nutritionally destructive, it is also a symbol and tangible manifestation of U.S. imperial power. It represents the conquering of the world by the U.S. ‘values’ of so-called “free” markets, corporatisation, and cultural imperialism. (Source: http://thecanary.co published 13 June 2019) Questions:

(a) There are many aspects of globalisation that need to be dealt with. Discuss the THREE aspects of globalisation which need to be dealt resulted from the fast food business developments. Illustrate each aspect with an example from the above case.

(b) Discuss the other FIVE issues that need to be addressed when dealing with cultural globalisation. Provide one example for each issue from the above case.

(c) Suggest TWO ways for multinational companies such as McDonald’s and governments to deal with the issue of “racing to the bottom”.

Read the "Home Care Scenario: Quality Improvement Through Risk Management," located in the Allied Health Community. Be sure to review the Instructions and Legend information.

In a total of 250-500 words, respond to the questions located in the Home Care Scenario.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

HOME CARE SCENARIO: Quality Improvement through Risk Management

Scenario

The long-term care center has 225 beds and provides the highest level of patient care, according to ongoing Department of Health Services annual surveys. The Director of the long-term center has the overall responsibility of ensuring the continuing high level of quality outcomes while also concurrently keeping the facility as risk free as practical. You and the Director have just returned from an annual Long-Term Care Association symposium where you were both introduced to some new groundbreaking initiatives regarding the differences between risk management and quality improvement.

Earlier in the week, the Director called for a meeting of the center’s department managers, including the Quality Assurance Nurse and the Manager of Risk Management. After briefing them on the symposium talking points, your Director asks you to come up with a working plan and strategy for how the facility will use both of the concepts you have introduced to arrive at a more centralized and standardized approach. Overall, the desired outcomes focus on adopting a new approach to higher quality with fewer risk factors for the organization.

Later that week, the Manager of Risk Management, the Manager of Nursing Quality Assurance, and a representative from Human Resources met to formulate a new plan to reduce the litigation exposure while concurrently increasing the quality of patient outcomes. They set about the complex set of tasks with the expectation that you, as the Director’s designated facilitator, will be closely reviewing their final recommendations.

Provide a 250-word executive summary of the research project and recommended plan of action that you will provide to the Director.

Address the following:

Questions:

1.What is the necessary background information needed to complete your executive summary?Who are the stakeholders?

2. How do the facility’s current Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) outcomes correspond with the current litigation prevention systems?

3.What factors within the nursing units are the most critical to consider when examining higher quality outcomes?

4.What factors within the nursing units are the most critical to consider when examining lower litigation adverse actions and operational impact?

5.What future steps must be taken to accomplish this directive?

Read the PROBLEM SOLVING Case “Wanted by Honda: Engineers Who Love Small-Town Living”

Although the U.S.-based Big Three automakers General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler have announced cutbacks and layoffs recently, some auto companies are still hiring. Toyota, Nissan, Honda, and other companies have set up opera- tions in the United States. While they employ far fewer in the United States than the Big Three, their ranks are growing. Nearly one out of four jobs with auto companies in the United States are with companies other than the Big Three. Honda R&D Americas recently told a reporter that it was adding about 100 employees a year and had 50 positions it was trying to fill with engineers.
To staff those positions, Honda faces a chal- lenge: its location. The Honda research and development facility is located in an out-of-the- way spot in Ohio, the town of Raymond, located about 60 miles northwest of Columbus. Most automotive research facilities in the United States are located near Detroit, because so much of the industry talent lives and works in that area. The Honda plant sits on an 8,000- acre plot of land along with the company’s Transportation Research Center, and Honda operates two assembly plants in nearby Marysville and East Liberty. Surrounding this complex are cornfields.
Because of its location, Honda does not seek most of its recruits from other auto companies. It hires local residents to fill manufacturing jobs, and for engineers, it turns to schools in the region to find recent graduates. Carol Hadden, who
manages human resources, says one good source of engineering recruits has been Ohio State University.
Knowing that small-town life does not appeal to many recent grads, Honda requires applicants to visit the Raymond site for their first interview. Allen explains, “We make them come here to make sure they know where we are.” Those who look around and like the location have a better chance of being enthusiastic about a career at Honda R&D.

Questions –

Suggest three ways Honda R&D Americas could recruit engineers to fill jobs at its research and development facility in Raymond, Ohio.

If you were interviewing a candidate for a job at this facility, what would you ask to determine whether the candidate would be satisfied to stay at Honda?

How would Honda R&D’s emphasis on recruiting recent graduates, rather than experienced automotive engineers, affect your job if you were the supervisor of these employees? Would you want Honda to change its recruiting strategy? Why or why not?

1. The earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 may be illustrated by

A aggregate demand curve shifts rightward.

B. a rightward shift in LRAS and an upward shift in the AS curves

C. a leftward shift in LRAS and an upward shift in the AS curves

real wage rate falls.

2. Which of the following shifts the AS curve for the Turkish economy to the right? A.productivity increase of 3% in Turkish manufacturing industry, B.30% increase in the minimum wage, C. fall in world oil prices

A and B

C only

A only

A and C

A, B, and B

3. ________ increases the natural rate of output.

A. A recession

B. An increase in the amount of human capital

C. A decrease in the money wage rate

D. A recessionary gap

E. An increase in aggregate demand

4. Real GDP definitely increases if:

A. the AS curve shifts leftward and the AD curve does not shift.

B. both the AD curve and the AS curve shift rightward.

C. the AD curve shifts leftward and the AS curve shifts rightward.

D. both the AD curve and AS curve shift leftward.

E. potential GDP decreases so that real GDP exceeds potential GDP.

5. When a person’s income was $50 per month, the person spent $48. When the person’s income rises to $60 per month, the person’s spending rises to $55. The person’s marginal propensity to consume is:

A. 0.7

B. between 0.81 and 0.88.

C. 0.88

D. 0.845

E. 0.96 when income was $50/month, and 0.92 when income is $60/month.

6. The MPC is 0.90 . If government expenditures on goods and services increases by $2.0 billion, after the multiplier effect works out, aggregate expenditure increases by

A. $10 billion.

B. $20 billion.

C. $2.22 billion.

D. $1.8 billion.

E. $2.0 billion.

7. In the money market, if the quantity of money supplied exceeds the quantity of money demanded, the nominal interest rate will ________ and the prices of assets will ________.

A. rise; increase

B. fall; not change

C. rise; decrease

D. fall; decrease

E. fall; increase

8. In the short run, when the central bank increases the quantity of money, the

A. quantity demanded of money decreases.

B. nominal interest rate falls.

C. demand for money increases.

D. price level decreases.

E. demand for money decreases.

9. If the quantity of money supplied ________ the quantity demanded, in the long run the value of money ________.

A. exceeds; falls as people spend their surplus money

B. exceeds; rises as people buy bonds

C. is less than; falls as people spend their surplus money

D. is less than; does not change unless the Fed increases the money supply

equals; equals zero