HLS 470 DB2

Students will be expected to post their first initial discussion board posting by Friday of each week. Discussion posts will be graded and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.
Students are expected to post their responses to peers by Tuesday. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Complete the following for this assignment:

  • Select 2 levels of government (Federal, State, Local, Territorial, or Tribal (SLTT)) and compare and contrast the recommended roles, functions, and responsibilities of each.
    • Conduct a review of the information provided in the National Response Framework (NRF), the Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) Annex, and the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP).
    • For which of your selected levels of government does your analysis indicate that the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) guidance is better developed? Explain your response.
  • Based upon your subjective analysis from the above listed levels of government, which level requires the most improvement in terms of CIP guidance and direction? Why?
  • How would you improve the direction and guidance for that level? Explain your response.

GeeWK1DQ

Instructions: Each question has to be; coherent and cohesive, a minimum of 200 word answer for each question and you have to cite one sources. Make sure your number each answer that goes with the question.  This is a Project Quality Management Class.

  1. Should scope changes proposed      by a sponsor be treated differently than scope changes from a team member      or other stakeholder? Why or why not?
  2. As a project manager, explain      how you would maintain the quality of the project while appeasing sponsors      or stakeholders.
  3. What would you think about      proposed changes being treated the same whether they originated with the      sponsor, team members, or stakeholders?  Does anyone actually believe      that to be the case?
  4. If the scope increases, the      budget must to increase to include the changes. Is the preceding statement      always true? Explain your answer.
  5. What other factors might      affect the budget besides scope? How might these changes affect the      quality management of the project?
  6. Why is it important to      identify the relationship between tasks in a project plan? Provide an      example of when you would create a project schedule with some slack and      explain why.
  7. When is project slack not      beneficial for the project?
  8. How does the relationship between tasks affect the quality management of a project

Healing Essay-Psychology

Consider how the paradigm of a healing hospital might influence your philosophy of caregiving and write an essay of 750-1,000 words that addresses the following:

  1. Describe the components of a healing hospital and their relationship to spirituality.
  2. What are the challenges of creating a healing environment in light of the barriers and complexities of the hospital environment?
  3. Include biblical aspects that support the concept of a healing hospital.

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines

The Helping Process Essay-SWK102

ASSESSMENT 3

Description/Focus: The Helping Process Essay
Value: 40%
Length: 1,500 words (use 3rd person context)
Task: Write an essay that :
1. Describe the stages of the helping process.
2. Integrate the communication skills that are important at each stage of the helping process.
3. Identify barriers to communication that may impact the engagement process.
4. Discuss how the potential barriers to communication might be addressed.
Presentation: The essay must be prepared in electronic format and submitted via the Assessment 3 submission point in Learnline
Assessment criteria: The essay will be assessed according to the following criteria:
· Ability to describe the stages of the helping process. (25%)
· Ability to identify and integrate communication skills within the helping process. (30%)
· Ability to Identify and discuss barriers to communication and appropriate strategies to address them. (25%)
· Evidence of wide reading (use of no less than 8 academic references) and adherence to referencing standards (APA). (10%)
· Adherence to essay writing standards in relation (e.g. flow, logic, punctuation, grammar and spelling). (10%)

Please use the marking criteria and use the learning material (power point slides ) in order to finish the assignment and proper referencing is also needed .

Employment

Go to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website and review an EEOC case from within the past three (3) years. Assess the main problem or issue from the case, then create a brief intervention summary for the organization in the case you chose. Include in your intervention summary any necessary staff training for the organization. Explain at least one (1) method you will use to ensure effective communication of the summary to a diverse (deep-level) group of staff.

  • Hint: Deep-Level Diversity (e.g., Personality, Work Preference, Values, etc.)

Project Management- Discussion 4

4.3 – Discussion: Just-In-Time Training Project Team


Give your opinion after reviewing the scope planning and WBS documents prepared by the Just-In-Time Training project team. Do these examples seem too broad or too detailed in certain areas? Would you have developed the documents differently?
 
Post and Engage

Discuss in detail (200-300 words) your opinion and how you would have done it differently in your response. When responding, use terminology from the module materials and provide appropriate and adequate details in all responses.

4.3

Discussion: Just

In

Time Training Project Team
Give your opinion after reviewing the scope planning and WBS documents prepared by the Just

In

Time Training project team. Do these examples seem too broad or too detailed in certain
areas? Would
you have developed the documents differently?
Post and Engage
Discuss in detail (200

300 words) your opinion and how you would have done it differently in
your response. When respond
ing, use terminology from the module materials and provide
appropriate and adequate details in all responses.
4.3 – Discussion: Just-In-Time Training Project Team
Give your opinion after reviewing the scope planning and WBS documents prepared by the Just-
In-Time Training project team. Do these examples seem too broad or too detailed in certain
areas? Would you have developed the documents differently?
Post and Engage
Discuss in detail (200-300 words) your opinion and how you would have done it differently in
your response. When responding, use terminology from the module materials and provide
appropriate and adequate details in all responses.

Human Cognitive-Psychology

This exercise focuses on the issues of spatial information and representation.
Questions are presented first to get you thinking about the issues.
Answer each question first then come back and answer again after the videos. Please designate and separate your answers for each instance.   
Information for two videos is then provided. Viewing these videos will provide an opportunity to challenge the notions that you have of what is need to move through an environment and what information is represented.
General questions:

  • What information is essential for navigating in ones environment?
  • What form might this spatial information take?
  • What information would a robot need to navigate in an environment and would this differ from what a human would need?
  • After viewing the video ask yourlsef the above questions again. 
  • Then refer back to the spatial abilities of various animals discussed in the textbook (rats, bees, and pigeons) and discuss. 

1. Simulation of behavior in a spatial environment:
The website http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/  orhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooFp9oy4mMw  provides a video of boids (the word birds said in an odd manner). You will want to scroll down the page until you see a picture with the caption “simulated boid flock avoiding cylindrical obstacles (1986)” followed by the line “(early motion tests, 20 second clip, QuickTime, 10 MB)”
This video is an example of emergent behavior in which complex behavior comes from simples rules. The rules for the flock of birds is real simple. The rules, in order of importance are: 1) avoid collision with nearby objects (including fellow birds), 2) match the velocity of birds that are nearby, and 3) flock centering, in which one stay close to birds that are nearby.
2. Robots that move within an environment:
MIT has little robots called ants. The website is http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/ants/
First select “social behavior” and then under the section “tag” select one of the videos to show.
There is also a description of how the “ants” function.