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Description Compare and contrast the use of visual aids in the videos for this week. What is one example of an effective and another example of an ineffective use? What makes them effective and ineffective? How would the ineffective example you chose become more effective? And, finally, review the video on introductions & conclusions. What is one takeaway that you’d like to implement in your next speech? Connect what you see with what you read in the textbook. 

Description MY TOPIC IS BELOW: Health Issue: Substance use is a public health crisis in our nation and rates of substance use are particularly high among sexual and gender minorities. In 2018, among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adults aged 18 or older, 16.5% or 2.1 million had a substance abuse disorder involving illicit drugs or alcohol.1 The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) data from 2018 reported higher substance usage among sexual and gender minorities compared to heterosexual adults. Higher usage patterns were seen in marijuana, opioids, and alcohol. A) First, read through each team members’ individual assignments #1 in full. Pay particular attention to the quality of the evidence for each source. Discuss the “best” data sources among your group and determine which ones to include in your group project. B) Discuss the cultural values and practices that each group member identified in their individual assignments. Discuss how these factors will influence your community assessments and eventual intervention design. For the written part of the assignment:  1) Describe your target population. Define the needs, assets and capacities influencing the health issue described in your case study. Needs: These refer to the requirements, challenges, or deficiencies experienced by your target population concerning the specific health issue. Needs can encompass various dimensions such as physical, psychological, social, and environmental factors.  Assets: Assets represent the strengths, resources, and positive attributes within the target population and its surrounding community. These assets can include individual skills, community organizations, social networks, cultural practices, and financial resources. Recognizing and leveraging these assets can enhance the effectiveness and sustainability of health interventions by building upon existing strengths within the community. Capacities: Capacities refer to the abilities, capabilities, and potentialities of the target population to engage in health-promoting behaviors and activities. This includes factors such as knowledge, skills, attitudes, access to healthcare services, social support systems, and leadership structures. Understanding the capacities of the target population is essential for tailoring interventions that empower individuals and communities to take ownership of their health and well-being. Explain at least 2 relevant cultural values or practices that you will likely incorporate into your intervention design. This section should be ~700 words 2) Briefly describe the key secondary literature/data sources that you used in Part 1 case study assignment and justify why they are useful sources of information. Please refer to specific indicators, data collection procedures, or deliverables from your data sources in your justification, and how this information aligns with your intervention  Identify gaps in information about needs, assets and capacities that were not covered by the existing secondary data sources. This section should be ~400 words   3) Community assessment: Propose at least one data collection activity (qualitative and/or quantitative data) that you would conduct to inform the design of the intervention in this community.  Describe the focus and methods of this community assessment.  Please address the following questions: What gaps in the existing literature are you planning to address?  What types of information to you plan to collect? From whom would you collect this information?  How will you collect this information?.  Examples of community assessment methods include: conducting a needs assessment, asset mapping, capacities analysis  Refer to the information and resources provided in Module 2 and 3.  The Community Toolkit may also be useful: https://ctb.ku.edu/enLinks to an external site.  This section should be ~300 words 4) Finally, put forth an idea for your initial intervention description. This will likely change over the course of the quarter as you develop your proposal.   Articulate a concise problem statement and your intervention goals to address this problem Describe your proposed intervention Envision a project to be implemented on a 2 to 3-year time horizon. Discuss what you plan to do, what level(s) of determinants of health the intervention seeks to change, what theory(ies) inform your intervention design, who will receive the intervention, what specific setting within your case your intervention will be implemented (e.g. geographic sub-region), and what the intervention is intended to change.  Describe how your intervention will consider the cultural values and practices that you have identified in this population Specify the short- and/or long-term health outcome your intervention aims to change This section should be ~400 words TIPS Set Realistic Goals: While it’s important to aim for meaningful impact, it’s equally important to set realistic and achievable goals. Consider factors such as time (2-3 years), resources, and feasibility when setting your goals.  Establish Boundaries: Clearly define the scope of your intervention and identify what it will and will not address. This will help prevent 'scope creep' and keep your intervention focused on its intended objectives. Be prepared to make decisions about what aspects of the problem you can realistically tackle. Focus your Intervention: Be careful to avoid combining too many components and levels Use section headers to help your reader follow your writing

Description Instructions The goal of this paper is for you to write your opinion on Critical Infrastructure Protection without using first or second person. In this paper, you get the opportunity to write your point of view on the material reviewed during the week – and the best part is that there is no wrong answer! This paper is your opinion, and as such, it is your job to express your thoughts in a manner that is comprehensible and clear for any and all readers. Feel free to write your thoughts freely, without any constraints.   After you finished the readings you selected for the week, it is time to brainstorm. Some simple brainstorming techniques for writing reflection papers can involve you answering some of the basic questions below: How did the material on Critical Infrastructure Protection affect you? Did your learning about the material on Critical Infrastructure Protection change your mind about something? If so, how. Has the material on Critical Infrastructure Protection left you with any questions? If so, what are they? Were there any unaddressed critical issues not covered by the material on Critical Infrastructure Protection? How will the material on Critical Infrastructure Protection impact your future in Homeland Security?   Components of the Reflection Paper Introduction - specifies what you are reflecting upon. Body Paragraphs – examine the ideas and experiences you have had in context to your topic. Be sure that each new body paragraph starts with a topic sentence. Remember that your paper must be at least 2 pages long and no more than 2½ pages so clear and concise writing is critical. Conclusion – summarize what you have learned from the material. Tell the reader how this knowledge affected your overall understanding of the subject. Describe the feeling and overall lesson that you had from the material on Critical Infrastructure Protection.  

Description The purpose of this paper is to continue to develop your ability to make inductive, discourse analytic claims. Use the following guidelines to format your paper, including these same sections and headings. Sections, with headers in bold, centered: Introduction Context Description Identifying & Interpreting Discourse Practices Reflection Introduction.  (1 paragraph) This section can be written after you have completed all of the others and know what you are saying in the paper. In a brief paragraph, explain to the reader the main purpose, organization, and findings of your paper. Ideally, you’ll also tell them why this work is interesting or important to have done. Set the reader up to know what they’re looking at. Write this section after you've completed the rest of the paper so you can actually introduce what you've written! Context description. (1-2 paragraphs) Briefly introduce the exchange by describing (1) the circumstances that prompted the emails exchanged; (2) what is going on in the exchange; (3) and who the participants are, including identities that may be particularly relevant to understanding their relationship in this exchange. You can change names to protect participants, although one of the participants should be you. The context description should set the stage for your analysis by identifying the face threat that you will be analyzing. Remember, this means taking into account the interactional level of meaning happening across the utterances, not only the content. Whether something "counts" as a face threat depends on your existing relationship and previous interactions with a person, which shape how you understand what is happening in this interaction.  Identifying & interpreting discourse practices.  (3-4 paragraphs) Select at least 3 clear discourse practices that you think are the most interesting and consequential for making an argument about how the participants manage the face threat within the interaction. This means that you will not discuss every single discourse practice you can identify. Instead, you will discuss three that seem particularly consequential for interpreting this interaction directly related to the face-threat. When you use a term from class materials, you need to explain it and cite it. Make an analytic claim connecting the discourse practices you identified as managing face concerns and makes an argument about what they mean for how the participants construct, challenge, or present identities in interaction (i.e., identities contribute to upholding different aspects of face). Therefore, your interpretation may include claims about how these specific discourse practices do identity work to establish or challenge a particular personal, relational, or master identity. Your paper will present the discourse practices that the participants use to manage the face threat using course terminology of solidarity, competency, and autonomy faces. In your paper you should bring in specific quotes from the email exchange (that is, present discursive evidence) and then use course concepts to label them as practices. Again, you should discuss at least three different specific discourse practices. REFLECTION (2-3 PARAGRAPHS) After analyzing your discourse, adopt a rhetorical perspective and reflect on your choices in this exchange, your goals for future interactions with this person or similar situations, and what discourse practices you might use in order to accomplish these goals. To do this, propose 1-2 other options for communication actions that you could have pursued to address this situation and argue for which option you would now select.  If you had to do it again, would you make the same choices? Did your discourse practices accomplish your desired identity goals? Did you have multiple goals that you were trying to manage? Analyze your exchange:  begin by identifying discourse practices within the interaction, including: specific speech acts (complaint, criticism, account, etc.), membership terms, forms of personal address, frame, and more. This identification should also consider what cultural practices are active within the interaction, including interpersonal ideologies and cultural norms for personal address, the email genre, and more.  Then think about the language of identity-work including: solidarity face, competency face, autonomy face, self-presentation, and altercasting. WHEN YOU USE A TERM FROM CLASS MATERIALS, YOU NEED TO EXPLAIN IT AND CITE IT. Just to get you thinking, here are some questions to consider as you look for discourse practices: Is there a greeting? Are first names, last names or titles involved? Nicknames? Is the language formal? Punctuated correctly? Is there slang used? Does the message solicit a response? Why or why not? In what ways does the e-mail attempt to clarify meaning by the use of symbols (i.e., emojis, CAPS, emoticons)? WHAT ARE THE CULTURAL OR VALUE ASSUMPTIONS AT WORK? THAT IS, WHAT IS UNSPOKEN BUT ASSUMED? Are there inside jokes or other references that can only be understood by members in a particular speech community? How do you notice face as a joint interactional accomplishment? Remember: This paper is all about managing face threat. So you need to identify what about the talk is potentially face threatening and how it is managed (for example, repaired). The discourse practices you bring in are things that caused the face threat and/or tools you used to mitigate (repair) the face threat Background information: This is a conversation between me and my ex-girlfriend. A couple of days before this she was spam-calling me and texting me about how I did not text her 'Sorry' because it was her brother's birthday who passed away. These messages included her being rude to me. The messages in the attached file are her saying sorry and trying to make amends.

Description What are the differences between a group and a team? Make a list of groups of which you are a member. Make a list of teams of which you are a member. How do your roles and the rules, goals and  procedures differ between the groups and teams?

Description Case study essay  utline the impact of digital convergence on one of the following industry sectors: music, cinema, television, gaming. Your analysis should examine changes to industry structure, revenue models, forms of cultural production and practices of consumption. You should draw on literature offering relevant conceptual frameworks, combined with selected examples to construct your case study. ?

Description Now that you have analyzed your data, you will need to interpret the output that you obtained from your data analysis. Specifically, you need to discuss what the data analysis findings mean in relation to your research questions and hypotheses, and what actions should be taken as a result. For this assignment, you must provide a narrative that discusses the key insights from your data analysis findings and highlights the limitations of your analysis. Limitations should pertain to weaknesses in your design and limits on your ability to make conclusions. For example, if you are not able to determine cause and effect, that would be a limitation. If your dataset is small, that would be another limitation. Length: 5-7 pages, not including title and reference pages References: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly resources. The completed assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. The content should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards

Description MAT 152 Signature Assignment The purposes of the project are to distinguish between quantitative and qualitative data, to demonstrate both an understanding of the appropriate means of displaying, analyzing and interpreting statistics on each type, and the appropriate use of technology to produce a report of the findings. Project Outline 1. Pick a meaningful survey topic that can be investigated by asking people in your surroundings (students, coworkers, neighbors, etc.). Identify and explain how the sample was selected. You must survey at least 30 people. 2. Your survey must contain 3 questions: a. 1 question that has a qualitative (word) response. The question needs to have at least 4 responses. Yes/no questions are not accepted. b. 2 questions that give a quantitative (numeric) response that you think may have a relationship. 3. You must get your instructor to approve the survey. 4. Collect and compile the data. The report you submit must include the following: 5. An introduction, explaining what topic is being investigated and how the survey was conducted. Identify and explain how the sample was selected. Is it biased?? If so, why? How could you have taken a better survey? 6. Important: Using SPSS, (Strongly suggest printing labs 2 through 6 for guidance.) a. For the qualitative data 1. Create a frequency table 2. Create a pie chart and a Pareto chart 3. Write a conclusion. This should include but is not limited to discussing the qualitative data charts and graphs, stating the mode, and any interesting finds in your data. b. For the quantitative data. Pick one of your quantitative data questions and create the following tables/graphs. 1. Calculate the mean, median, mode, range, standard deviation, and five number summary. 2. Create a dot plot. 3. Create a box plot. 4. Identify any outliers. 5. Create a histogram using between 5 and 10 classes(Visual Binning). 6. Write a conclusion for this section of your data. This should include answering the following. What is your mean and median? Based on this information is your graph skewed? Do you have any outliers, state the value of the outliers or state that no outliers were noted, and state if you were surprised by the outliers? What other outcomes did you find interesting from your graphs/charts. c. Using both of your quantitative questions, (using lab 6 as your guide), create/answer the following: 1. Determine which one you believe to be the explanatory variable and which is the response variable. 2. Construct a scatterplot 3. Graph the best fit line on the scatterplot(If you are unable to get a best fit line, you need to go back to lab 2 and fix the measurements for your quantitative variables. If the variable is quantitative remember it must be set to scale. If this happens you may have to start this section over again.) 4. Find the correlation coefficient 5. Determine the regression equation of the best fit line 6. Write a conclusion. This should include but is not limited to stating the explanatory and response variables, stating whether there is a linear correlation and what that r value is, and whether that is what you expected. Also state what the least squares regression line is and explain the meaning of the slope and y-intercept mean in this situation. Also interpret the y-intercept or explain why it could not be possible. State other things that you found interesting from the results of your two quantitative questions. Make a prediction about what you expect to happen in the future based on your results. Lastly, if you were to do this project over again, would you do anything differently? How to Submit Your Signature Assignment: 1.Once you have completed all the tables and graphs for your data, you need to copy and paste the required tables and graphs to a word document. 2.To do this, go to the output screen. Right click on the desired table and choose “copy”. Then, open a word document within the cloud. Right click in the word document and choose “paste”. Repeat for all desired tables and graphs. (Note: it will not work if you try to paste to a document on your desktop or local disk – it must be in the cloud). 3.Add your introduction and conclusions in the word document. Make sure your order matches what is listed on this assignment. You can look at the grading rubric on the next page to know exactly what must be in the document. 4.Submit your signature assignment as one document on blackboard. Due date: End of the day on March 20th by 11:59pm.

Description Sample Size and Statistical Assumptions Certain basic assumptions are necessary to allow for the statistical analysis of public health data. However, the validity of these assumptions can be affected by the sample size being analyzed. The purpose of this assignment is to refresh your knowledge of the basic assumptions underlying the biostatistical analysis and to consider how these assumptions are affected by the sample size being analyzed. Using the School's Online Library, the Internet, and your text readings, research the following statistical topics: Statistical power Central limit theorem (CLT) On the basis of your research and understanding, respond to the following: Find and state the definition of statistical power that you identify with. State the definition of statistical power in your own words. Compare and contrast type I and type II errors. Explain how power is affected by sample size. Find and state the definition of CLT that you identify with. State the definition of CLT in your own words. Summarize the basic assumptions underlying hypothesis testing and confidence interval methods. Explain how these assumptions are affected by sample size. Explain the relation of a sample size to the basic assumptions underlying biostatistical analysis. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format. **** Do not use AI it will be checked

Description Coefficient of Determination The purpose of this assignment is to learn about the coefficient of determination (R2) statistic as a measure of the fit of a regression line. R2 is a statistical measure of how close the data are to a fitted regression line. In general, the higher the R2, the better the model fits your data. However, while R2 measures goodness of fit, it does not indicate whether a regression model is adequate. You can have a low R2 value for a good model or a high R2 value for a model that does not fit the data. Using the University Online Library, the Internet, and your text readings, research about R2. Based on your research and your involvement in public health functions, respond to the following: Find and state a definition of R2 that you feel is easy to understand. In your own words, provide a substantive explanation of what R2 represents. Explain what the statistic R2 is used for in regression analysis. Explain how R2 is affected by sample size. Describe whether a large R2 value means that a regression is significant. Provide reasons for your answer. Describe how you would substantively interpret R2