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State Health Policy Review
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You will utilize the following websites for this assignment:
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/
All the information is available in the Surveys and Data
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/interactives-and-data/chart-cart
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/interactives-and-data/maps-and-data
The Kaiser Family link still works but you will need to dig around a little
http://kff.org/statedata/
You are tasked to review the information on your current state of residency and compare your state healthcare with one ranked higher and one ranked lower by the commonwealth Fund website. You should look at least at total expenditure, total insured, federal Medicaid/ Medicare expenditure, Average cost per resident, State matching rate for federal dollars, etc. 
After your comparison, reflect upon the differences in healthcare between your state and the two comparative states, and how we as a nation can provide equal, accessible, and affordable healthcare for all citizens. There is no length requirement and all papers will be graded on thoroughness of the comparison and the reflective thought.
Please see the attached instructions and rubric for further details.
Please try for a 500-750 Word Paper. Not Less
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Myeloperoxidase

Biophys Tools Hist Med Rsrch

A quick tour of the PDB, looking at Zinc Fingers and Myeloperoxidase, or MPO→ MPO is that enzyme that can help kill bacteria by leading to the production of HOCl, hypochlorous acid. But MPO may also have effects on HDL, the “good cholesterol ” (or sometimes good). And the HOCl may contribute to plaque rupture.

Science in progress

Part 1: Pulling up an image Part 2: Changing image, looking for SS bonds, making measurements (p. 12 +) ↑ sulfur-sulfur

Physics 3750. How-to material for part of Assignment 2 Due February 20, 2018

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Part 1. Pulling up an image of a protein you want to measure. First, search for “About Molecule of the Month pdb”

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Actually this image is from January, 2013

Last month would have been JR’s 99th birthday

But the following material has been updated

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Here it is :

Or …You can get there directly through this link: http://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/motm-about

Now Click on By Date … or By Category or By Title

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Clicking By Date brings us to a collection of molecules arranged by year and month

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Look through the collection, click on a few molecules if you’d like, and choose one that interests you. Then, if no one has taken it first, sign up for it on Blackboard

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For instance, I chose Zinc Fingers, from March, 2007.

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Clicking on a protein should take you to a page that at the top might look like this. Now look down the page for a link, at the words “PDB entry —-”

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Here, for example, there are three links, way down in the Sticky Fingers section:

PDB entry 2hgh, PDB entry 1un6, and PDB entry 1tf6

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You can use Find PDB entry to locate these

Now if we click on the PDB entry link, 1tf6 . . .

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… That takes us to a page that looks like this. (End of part 1)

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Part II Go to the page of the protein that you want to investigate. (This time I chose myeloperoxidase 1MHL. MPO is that enzyme that helps kill bacteria by producing HOCl ↑). Note that Molecular Weight (‘Total Structure Weight’) is down under Resolution is under ‘Experimental Data Snapshot’

Macromolecule Content

Macromolecule content

Hypo- chlorous

Acid

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Part II The next step is to Click on 3D View Structure, over here

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An image of the protein appears. Now switch from NGL to JSmol (This image ↓ is interesting, but distances can’t be measured on it)

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Switching just means clicking on “Select a different viewer” to go from NGL to JSmol

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Another image of the protein appears. This image can be rotated, enlarged, etc.

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Here is a view obtained by rotating the image. Now, if you’d like to, you might try changing Secondary Structures to Amino Acids. The different colors show all the amino acids that make up this particular protein

Unfortunately this part is not

always working

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When it does work, clicking on By Amino Acid gives an image colored like this.

Key to the colors of a few of the amino acids in ↑ MPO Lys & Arg (positive) Asp & Glu (negative) Val (neutral)

Cys (neutral)

By Amino Acid

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disulfide

To see the bonds between sulfur atoms that help shape the molecule, click on SS bonds

Also called disulfide bonds or disulfide bridges

Sulfur- Sulfur Bonds

By Amino Acid

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■ NOTES ON SULFUR BONDS

Clicking on SS Bonds gives us a page like this. Look for some tiny golden lines. They are between amino acids* that contain sulfur. These “SS bonds” help bend the molecule around.

* Sulfur is contained in the amino acid cysteine This part is not

always working either

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A second example: sulfur bonds, or disulfide bonds in

Albumin (Human Serum Albumin, HSA)

HSA transports fats (specifically, free fatty acids) through the bloodstream. The sulfur bonds in albumin help shape the molecule to allow it to transport fats. (Also important is the way other amino acids interact with water: are they hydrophilic or hydrophobic?)

Here is a picture of HSA ▼ carrying fats. And here are a few locations of cysteine, an amino acid with sulfur in it (yellow areas):

Cys

Cys

Cys

Cys

Cys

↑ General image of sulfur bonds helping to shape a protein Source: Wiki, Ju

Both images from Protein Data Bank ( Cys added)

Cys

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Finally, rest the cursor on one point in the molecule. Double click. Move the cursor to another point. Double click. A distance number should appear.

So the measurement part is mostly done! Except that sometimes …

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■ NOTES ON MEASURING THE PROTEIN

Sometimes the mechanism doesn’t seem to work. In such a case, you might try putting the cursor carefully on some part of the protein molecule, and letting it rest there a moment .

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A name of an amino acid should appear. In this case, it’s ALA, for Alanine.

Double click. The cursor should change to a large + sign. Next, move the + to some other part of the molecule.

←ALA: alanine

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A faint pink line should follow the as you move it

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Then rest the carefully on some other part of the molecule. It should again tell you the amino acid you have reached. Double click.

←PRO: proline

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The line should go black (or white, if you’re on a black background.) The distance number, 52.5 Ångstroms in this case, should go black too. And now, the measurement of one part of this protein is done. . . .

52.52 Å = 5.25 nm

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… Except that sometimes, on some computers , it seems that the mechanism can still be cranky. For example, on one old computer , I could not obtain distances until I right-clicked, then clicked on Measurements, and then clicked on Click for distance measurements

After that, the distance-measuring went according to plan. (I was skeptical, but tried this way 4 times, and 4 times the normal way. Only this way worked. Aggravating machine.)

Fortunately, the computers in the computer lab all seem to be up-to-date. So please remember to give yourself a little extra time, in case of cranky machinery (possibly requiring you to use other equipment) or difficulties at site.

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52.52 Å

Export 3D 33 Image Remember, your image has to have measurements printed out

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■ NOTES ON DOWNLOADING THE IMAGE of the molecule and measurements

To download, begin by right-clicking somewhere on the page

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Click on File, then on Export and finally on Export PNG Image The menu boxes below appear.

NOTES ON DOWNLOADING THE IMAGE

Give your image a name,

then click OK on the Save Image box

NOTES ON DOWNLOADING THE IMAGE

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Click on “Open with” and then click on OK.

NOTES ON DOWNLOADING THE IMAGE

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Then click on File

NOTES ON DOWNLOADING THE IMAGE

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Then click on Make a Copy

NOTES ON DOWNLOADING THE IMAGE

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And save it to wherever is convenient for you

NOTES ON DOWNLOADING THE IMAGE

And this part is all done

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And four last OPTIONAL pages:

If you want another view of what a protein attaches to, in the Style box switch ”Backbone” to “Ligands”

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Human Serum Albumin

This Human Serum Albumin is transporting free fatty acids including arachidonic acid→ (a fatty acid found in peanuts)

Switching to Ligands shows that …

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Another example:

This is 2CEO from the PDB, representing TBG,

Thyroxin Binding Globulin.

The protein TBG carries thyroxin, or thyroid hormone,

through the bloodstream. (Albumin can carry some too.)

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Here is the T4 that the TBG, Thyroxine

Binding Globulin, was transporting

Iodine atoms

And that’s all for now.

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Explain the effects of a semipermeable membrane

Osmosis
Objectives:
Students should learn to:
1. Distinguish diffusion and osmosis. 2. Explain the effects of a semipermeable membrane like the cell membrane on movement by
solutes and water. 3. Define the terms isotonic, hypertonic and hypotonic. 4. Predict and explain the movement of starch, protein, sulfate ions and chloride ions across the
semipermeable pores of a dialysis tubing.
Diffusion is the movement of substances from a high concentration to a low concentration. It comes about because the molecules of the substance move anyway randomly in all directions all the time. For example, perfume molecules in air move randomly in all directions all the time. Therefore, if more perfume molecules are present in one area, more will move randomly to the other area with less perfume molecules than the other way around. Osmosis is the movement of substances by diffusion when it occurs through a semipermeable barrier. A barrier is semipermeable, when it lets some substances pass but others not. A semipermeable barrier might let water pass but not the other substances that are dissolved in water. The substances that are dissolved in water are called the solutes, whereas water is then called the solvent. In osmosis when only water can pass the semipermeable barrier, just like in general diffusion, more molecules of water will pass through the barrier to the side where its concentration is lower than the other way around. The concentration of water is lower, where it contains more solutes. Note that movement of water by osmosis is a spontaneous movement that requires no energy. It happens “on its own.” The rate at which this movement occurs depends on many factors, including the relative concentration of water on each side, and temperature, among others. In biology, we are generally concerned with osmotic movement of water in and out of cells across cell membranes. Cell membranes are the semipermeable barriers around our cells that allow water to pass unhindered but that prevent many of the solutes dissolved in water from passing. Cell membranes though can be permeable to some important other molecules than water.
In lab, we will investigate how a semipermeable membrane functions by using a dialysis tubing as our example. A dialysis tubing has tiny holes that let small molecules pass but not large ones. We will investigate whether starch, protein, sulfate ions and chloride ions pass the holes in the dialysis tubing. Do you know the relative sizes of these four compounds? Can you formulate a hypothesis as to which of them you expect to pass the dialysis tubing and which not? Write down your hypothesis: (1 pt)
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The procedure is as follows:
1. Add approximately 100mL starch/sodium sulfate (Na2SO4) solution to a beaker.
2. Take a piece of dialysis tubing from its water bath and tie one end tightly with string so that it does not leak.
3. Using a graduated cylinder and a funnel, add 10mL protein/sodium chloride (NaCl) solution to the dialysis tubing bag, leaving a small amount of air space at the top of the bag. Tie the other end as before, ensuring it does not leak.
4. Place the filled dialysis tubing bag in the beaker solution. Make sure it is fully submerged.
5. Wait for 20 min, swirling the beaker occasionally.
6. Remove the dialysis tubing bag, blot it with a paper towel to remove excess solution, and then empty its contents into a clean beaker.
7. Distribute the dialysis solution about evenly into 4 test tubes.
8. Perform the 4 tests described in the table below with the 4 test tubes. Use 2-3 drops of each reagent. Enter the results in the data table below. (3 pts) Attention: Solutions tested with silver nitrate and Biuret must be discarded in the hazardous waste bottle for Silver & Biuret!
9. Repeat steps 7-8 with the beaker solution (the one the bag was submerged in for 20 min.)
10. Clean test tubes, beakers and graduated cylinder with soap water, then rinse with DI water.
Test Positive result Negative result IKI test for starch dark purple/blue/black color no color change or amber color
Barium chloride (BaCl2) test for sulfate ions cloudy white precipitate no color change or precipitate
Silver nitrate (AgNO3) test for chloride ions cloudy white precipitate no color change or precipitate
Biuret test for protein light purple color no color change or light blue color
Substances in BAG
Before Dialysis After Dialysis Starch Sulfate ions Chloride ions Protein
Substances in BEAKER
Before Dialysis After Dialysis Starch Sulfate ions Chloride ions Protein
Study questions (1 pt each)
1. Which substances was the dialysis tubing permeable to?
2. Which substances was the dialysis tubing impermeable to?
3. Do your results support your hypothesis? Or do you have to reject your hypothesis?
Applications in everyday life:
When we use perfume, we rely on diffusion to move the perfume molecules through the air to the noses of other people so they can smell them. Similarly, when we put a tea bag into a cup of hot water, we rely on diffusion to move the tea molecules from the bag, the area of high concentration, to the surrounding hot water, the area of low concentration.
Reverse osmosis can be used to produce pure, drinkable water from contaminated water or from salt water. Normally, when pure water and salt water are separated by a semipermeable membrane that only allows water molecules to pass, osmosis will happen. Water molecules will move from the pure water to the salt water, because where there is salt, the water concentration is lower. For reverse osmosis to occur, pressure must be applied that will force the water molecules through the semipermeable membrane in reverse of the flow that would otherwise occur.
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Retrotransposon and how the Ames test is performed and the purpose of the Ames test

1/ Briefly explain how the Ames test is performed and the purpose of the Ames test?
2/ Briefly explain the following and their significance:
(A) Retrotransposon:
(B) Tm-
(C) Glycosylase:
3/ You have just been hired by a new pharmaceutical company, Double Helix, as their quality control scientist. The company has seen an increase in the number of laboratory mistakes lately and it is your job to solve these problems. Explain how the following procedures should or should not affect the experimental results.  Explain the reasoning for your answer. (A) a) In performing a DNA fingerprinting experiment, the researcher doesn’t denature the DNA. (B) The researcher uses two primers in the same di- deoxy (Sanger)sequencing reaction. (C) In performing a yeast knockout, the cells are grown in the absence of Uracil. (D) When performing a P element insertion in Drosophila, the researcher forgets to add the marker gene on one of the plasmids.
5/ Answer the following questions regarding PCR. Briefly explain how parent First and Second generation DNA strands differ in a PCR reaction (that is the template DNA, the First product of the PCR reaction and the Second product derived from the First).

6/ After working in the lab for some time, you have developed a series of inhibitors that block specific enzymes and proteins from functioning properly (both in bacteria and in mammalian cells depending on the protein). These inhibitors work immediately and completely (the protein does not function) upon addition to cells in culture. Given inhibitors for the proteins shown below, what will happen to the cells on the treated plates? Determine if the affect on cell function will be immediate, slow or unnoticeable and explain your answers. (A) DNA (bacteria)- (B) Primase (bacteria)- (C) Telomerase (mammalian cells)-
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Assignment 1: Discussion—Religion in the Workplace 

Assignment 1: Discussion—Religion in the Workplace 


This assignment has two parts.
Part 1: Prepare a response to Matthew, include the following:

Part 2: Draft a written communication to the employee on the issue. Be sure to include evidence, with references, in your response.
Make sure to include both parts in your 2-3 paragraph response. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. By the due date assigned, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through the end of the module, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses.
In your response, consider the following:

  • What reaction do you believe the employee will have to the communication your fellow students developed?
  • What changes, if any, do you suggest for the communication?
  • What important points developed by your classmates would you integrate into your own response?

Grading Criteria  Maximum Points    Quality of initial posting, including fulfillment of assignment instructions  16    Quality of responses to classmates  12    Frequency of responses to classmates  4    Reference to supporting readings and other materials  4    Language and grammar  4    Total:  40

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Ford motors

Plz answer the following two questions in the analysis:

1. What is the position of Ford in the auto-manufacturing industry and how has it been change so far? 2. What internal resources and assets does Ford have that may give it a competitive advantage?

must be at least 400 words, EXCLUDING any title or questions.Plz answer the following two questions in the analysis:

1. What is the position of Ford in the auto-manufacturing industry and how has it been change so far? 2. What internal resources and assets does Ford have that may give it a competitive advantage?

must be at least 400 words, EXCLUDING any title or questions.

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Useful diagnostic tools

This is Biology class this is due February 12, 2018 before 11:59 pm central time, and please list your references on page and no plagiarism.. basically due today..
(1. leukemia 2. prostate cancer 3. Kaposi sarcoma  4. osteosarcoma 5. breast cancer)
Choose  5 diseases from Chapter 4  and create a condition table. For this  activity you may use your book as your main source of information. If  you use additional sources, you need to mention the sources you used.
You must include:

  • A brief description including the etiology of the disease
  • Signs and symptoms associated with the disease
  • Useful diagnostic tools
  • Treatment options
  • Prevention
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describe how membership to the committee would be determined-management of Healthcare Organizations

Suppose a local, private hospital established a goal of reducing its carbon footprint by 25 percent in three years. As a healthcare administrator at the facility, you are asked to help create a new Cut Carbon committee. Draft a statement of the purpose for the committee, describe how membership to the committee would be determined, who would be accountable for the progress of the committee, and to whom the committee would report. (Adapted from p. 122 of Management of Healthcare Organizations.)
Write one page in APA style
Use intext citation of 4 recent studies (within 5 years)
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MIDCOURSE DISSERTATION PROPOSAL

MIDCOURSE DISSERTATION PROPOSAL (400 points– through the Assignment Tool)
This Midcourse Reflective Exercise involves writing a first draft of your ministry project proposal
(Chapter 1). Many students are undecided on dissertation topics. This exercise is designed to force this
issue. Make a decision. Learn the process. Change later, if necessary. Students should obtain a copy of
Kate Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (8th Ed.). Write the draft
proposal along the guidelines found in Turabian as well as the sample pages and information conveyed
in the DCOR 700 Course Modules in Blackboard. Use the proposal template supplied in Module 2 in
Blackboard. It contains the latest Turabian formatting, and Regent D.Min. program approved front
matter, dissertation body sections, and other formatting features. Suggestions: A good way to begin
thinking of this assignment is to identify issues, needs and problems in your context of ministry that
need improvement, solutions, and so on. What area are you most passionate about, or bothers you the
most in ministry, that is in need of change? Expand the selected topic into a workable ministry project
or action plan.
▪ Dissertation Topic: Select a topic of interest that seems to be a reoccurring theme in your life,
and or ministry for the dissertation topic:
o Psalm 139 describes the level of detail that God knows about our life. He has
sovereignly sent people, circumstances, experiences, learning opportunities and
countless other things your way throughout your lifetime. What themes or threads run
through your life that may indicate your life focus?
o Isa 46:9, 10 clearly says that God, like a master architect, knows “the end from the
beginning.” He can look ahead to the end of your life, and execute a master plan for
you to be who He wants you to be on the last day of your life. What do you look like
then? What have you accomplished? Where was your life heading all these years?
What themes or streams seem to carry your toward that destination? How is God
directing the flow of this dissertation work and the Doctor of Ministry experience?
o What things in ministry give you the most joy? The most sorrow? What things “push
your buttons,” igniting a passion for you to consider in ministry? Are there themes that
have existed throughout your life? Is life’s direction pointing a certain way right now?
o What problem seems to be a theme in your life and/or ministry, that needs to be
solved? Keys to this theme’s identity are joys, pains, sorrows, past ministry
involvement, areas of passion.
o Narrow the subject down significantly! You will be spending considerable time on this
topic and living with it for several years! Be careful to avoid general topics – select a
particular geographical location, limit it to a particular group in a particular place.
Narrow the subject you chose down as far as you can – this will be an ongoing process
throughout your dissertation work!
▪ Dissertation Proposal: Access the Dissertation templates in Module 2, Blackboard. Pay close
attention to the reading and the lecture associated with this module. Construct a proposal for
Chapter One, according to the pattern you see in Module 4.
o Construct Front Matter for your proposal, according to the pattern laid out in Module 2,
such as a Title page, Copyright page, Signature page, Epitaph page, Acknowledgement
page, etc.
o Construct an Abstract in the Front Matter of your proposal that summarizes the
Statement of the Problem in a one-sentence question (see below), the reason your are
doing the project, the theory that informs your project, the expected results and
contribution from you project
o Construct a Table of Contents in the Front Matter of your proposal with suggested
outline and headings/subheadings, without page numbers.
o Write a clear Overview section that introduces the reader to the context of your
dissertation project and describes in summary form what the reader should expect to
encounter as they read through your proposal.
o Write a clear and concise Statement of the Problem you are addressing in the proposal
for your dissertation, which clearly identifies in a one-sentence question what problem
you are attempting to address.
o Write a clear and concise Rationale for Doing the Project section that lays out the
reasons that compel you to solve this particular problem. This can have a body of text
and possibly a numbered summary afterwards.
o Narrow down your chosen research topic as far as possible, considering a particular
group, location, or paradigm for the study. Write a Limitations and Assumptions
section that highlights these limits and attempts to tell the reader what you are NOT
intending to address in the dissertation. Narrow, Narrow, Narrow!
o Construct a section entitled “Summary of the Literature” that includes some clearly
identified sources that you might use to solve the problem that your dissertation is
focused on. Every dissertation must be based on literature-based research that lays
down a theoretical approach to solving the problem you are focusing on. Aims to
identify the top sources in your field of focus, and distill the key elements they convey
that you will use to construct your intervention.
o Write a section entitled “Biblical, Theological and Historical Foundations” which
outlines the major biblical, theological, and historical themes and facts that support
your dissertation proposal. This section should detail the most important biblical
passages and data that you intend to use to support your project and intervention, It
should also indicate what theological aspects apply to the themes, principles,
paradigms, and models that support your intervention. Finally, introduce any historical
data that you might use to support your dissertation.
o Consider the methods you may use to measure the results of the ministry project. You
will do the literature review, and already have certain theories, themes, or paradigms in
mind that you feel may address the problem. Write a Methods of Analyzing the
Problem section that describes how you will measure the level of a certain factor,
quantity, or aspect of the project before your intervention, and after, so as to produce a
qualitative and or quantitative result.
o Write a concise Plan for Evaluating the Project section that describes how you might
determine what change your ministry project intervention caused. How will we know
when it is finished? How will we interpret your results? What methodology will you
employ to produce your final conclusions and results for the ministry project?? Include
assessments, personal interviews, and any other evaluation tool used in the project
phase of your work.
o Write a section on Results and Conclusions that you expect to see from your ministry
project. Place them in hypothetical terms, as you would expect to see the results.
o Include a “Summary” section that tells the reader in summary form where your project
is going based on the previous section, summarizing their contents. You are in essence
telling the reader what they just read in summary form.
o Construct an Annotated Bibliography of the sources that you expect to use in your
research on the topics most relevant to your ministry project. Use this area to list the
sources you might use, under certain headings that are important to your dissertation.
These headings might involve the biblical, theological or historical factors that support
your dissertation topic, which will later be part of Chapter Three. They may be the
literature resources that support the key paradigms, principles, theories, or models that
shape your chosen intervention for the ministry project. Please note: Case Studies that
you might intend to include in your dissertation, should be treated as “living references”
and described in this section. Be sure to use a variety of book, journal, periodical,
dissertation, interview, and other sources when informing your dissertation!
o Construct an approximate Dissertation Timeline, using the timeline information
available in the D.Min. Handbook and D.Min. Dissertation Guide (posted under Module
3, Blackboard). This timeline should propose a time for taking your Integrative Exam,
timeline for the literature research and review, project and data collection, results
correlation, writing of the first draft of your dissertation, and submission of first, second,
and third drafts of the dissertation.
▪ Turn in your written assignment through Blackboard. Be ready to consult with me at ANY TIME
during this process. This assignment is a synthetic assignment, and pulls together much of the
material we will be covering this term. It is designed to get you to think about the focus of your
doctoral studies at the earliest stages of your educational experience.