Considerations Impacting Research Efforts

Charles Draper, Centervale’s Chief of Police, must introduce policies that positively impact the control and management of illegal immigration in his city. He is without the knowledge base needed to develop policy and has turned to you for assistance with research in one of the following areas:

  • Surveillance techniques: Chief Draper is aware of many surveillance techniques that can be utilized in tracking and controlling illegal immigrants in his city. The Chief would like information regarding the most successful surveillance techniques as demonstrated in published research. Specifically, you are to research and address, but are not limited to, the following surveillance technique examples: vehicle tracking, cell phone, e-mail, background checks, and computer and surveillance techniques.
  • Crime mapping: Chief Draper knows that many law enforcement agencies use crime-data mapping generated from within their own communities to allocate resources, as indicated by the data. In particular, the Chief would like to know how the data are generated and then how the data are applied to police tactics. Your research should include but is not limited to the following crime mapping areas: geographic information systems, census demographics, geographical profiles, and community and other crime mapping techniques.
  • Staffing needs: Draper believes that the problems associated with illegal immigration require quick response times, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He’s not sure that his staff is properly allocated for optimal response times. What types of research data and studies can the Chief consult? Where can he find the best resources to support the various shift and staffing patterns if and when the Chief decides to reallocate his staff? Specifically, you are to explore asset mapping which is a technique for determining what assets (human, organizational and fiscal) are available in the police department to address the key issue of illegal immigration used to provide the background information needed to conduct the staffing review and suggest appropriate changes to the existing policy.

Here’s What You Need To Do . . .

You are to specifically cite and reference the various resources available to address these critical areas so that the Chief has the appropriate research to make policy recommendations based on what you have presented.

In reference to this assignment, please be as comprehensive as possible in analyzing, evaluating and presenting your objective findings that potentially will have current and future policy implications. Your interpretation should be based on the findings, as well as, evaluating the current situation and applying research findings to support and/or reject the Chief’s request for information in these respective critical areas.

Based on the media-based research data matrix you created in Module 2, select one of the research areas identified above and prepare a 5–6 page memo to Chief Draper that addresses the Chief’s concerns. In your memo you must:

  • Recommend research approaches or options that could fulfill the Chief’s information needs.
  • Provide a comparison of the two types of research designs that seem most appropriate for the Chief’s information needs supported by data from your media-based research data matrix.
  • Recommend good/reliable data sources.

Given the sensitive and possible controversial nature of the policy, provide advice on cultural, ethical, or other considerations that could impact research efforts and results. The following databases are available to support your research.

  1. American Academy of Forensic Sciences
  2. International Association for Identification
  3. Law Enforcement National Data Exchange
  4. National Criminal Justice Reference Service
  5. National Institute of Justice

Yale University Simple Meter System Half & Whole Steps in Music Questions

Answer the following 3 questions using 3-4 sentences EACH. Please do not plagiarize.

1. Name and explain the parts of the simple meter system. What do the upper and lower parts of a meter signature represent in simple meters?

2. What are the steps you take to determine half and whole steps in music?

3. What methods do you use for identifying flat and sharp major keys from their keys signatures? (By sight, not by ear.)

Need your opinion

Read each paragraph and give me your opinion if you agree or disagree with it

1.

When it comes to leadership there are some values that one must adhere to, to play the role of an efficient leader. Every situation is different and must react accordingly. The values involve communication amongst others. You must respect each other and work together as a team. Leadership isn’t a one-way communication, you listen to others, and you encourage your team and community.

Possible challenges could be that individuals do not follow policy or do not understand core values. When it comes to communication, depending on how everything goes, body language, tone, how one handles a given scenario, ends with various results. Communication is the key to everything in a leadership role, as well as how one handles the situation.

Kouzes talks about various elements of leadership in its basic form. These are modeling ways, inspiring visions, challenging processes, enabling and encouraging others to act. One can’t lead on their own. The must encourage their team and take care of their team, so they both support each other. Being able to get over obstacles requires blueprints of what to do. acknowledgment of a problem and coming up with ideas to overcome the issues present, start with the individuals you are working with.

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Leaders are balancing the changing work environment by putting emphasis on the core values within the criminal justice system while being able relate to what their subordinates are experiencing and going through. For instance, I work in regional jail, and in my facility, we preach being firm, fair, and consistent. We hear this throughout our entire career. We emphasize this in every situation. Whether it is disciplining and inmate or discipling a staff member. Basically, being firm is not wavering in your decision, be fair when making your decision, and be consistent meaning you should ensure you are same person every day; not a nice guy today, and then a total jerk the next day. As leaders at the facility we can actually give real world examples of being firm, fair, and consistent, therefore we are able to relate to our subordinates and they can relate to us.

The challenges that we are being faced with is when the staff decides not to practice all three and decide they want to pick and choose when to be fair, firm, or consistent. I’m not sure how to overcome this challenge, because we cannot control what an individual chooses to do, we can only address the behavior. According to Kouzes and Posner (2017), individuals want a leader who can see passed the current problems and have a vision for better future. Overall I think the challenges that face the criminal justice system can be overcome by having new and innovative ideas that this new generation can relate to.

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Communication is key in everything being successful. If a leader has a vision and that person does not share that vison with their constituents, then it is merely just an idea. There will be nothing to come of that idea if it is not brought up, which would be marked as a failure.

Sharing one’s idea would be ideal because that way, others can intake the idea or vision and think about this cognitively. Then, they may or may not give their input on the targeted idea. If nothing is said, then no communication can occur and there would be nothing being done to make the vision a realistic thing.

Communication is a two-way road. An idea is given, in return, there needs to be input given back. How can we improve this currently and will this work? If not, what will work? And what do we need to do, to make this happen? The exchange of ideas and everybody coming together to help as a group is how effective communication works. A leader needs to take his groups ideas and perspectives and work together as a team to accomplish the task at hand. When paving a new path, stating that your way is the only way, is not effective and will hinder individuals from speaking up and this will close off communication connections.

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  • Interpret what Kouzes and Posner were referring to regarding leadership visions for organizations being inadequate if not shared with constituents.

When leadership visions are not shared with constituents the visions will not be properly followed, which withholding the information regarding leadership visions impacts the ability of constituents to succeed as a leader in the organization in the future. The five practices of exemplary leadership include modeling the way, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process, enabling others to act, and encourage the heart (Kouzes & Posner 2017, pg. 11). Leaders and managers must be direct about values as well as expectations in order to instruct others to follow. Inspiring a shared vision is necessary in order to lead a successful group of people and programs. Leadership visions for organizations are inadequate due to the lack of direction for the constituents. Success will also be achieved when a leader inspires others to follow and engage in a shared vision.

  • Analyze the implications associated with sharing, or not sharing, a vision with constituents in a criminal justice organization context.

Sharing a vision in criminal justice organizations ensures that criminal justice professionals practice similar values and follow specific guidelines in the field. The visions will be practiced and shared with federal, state, and local criminal justice agencies, which the consistency in the criminal justice system will provide security to the community. Consistency is a necessary element in the criminal justice system due to the amount of disorganization in society. Consistency is necessary for laws and punishment in order to remain within the guidelines from the constitution. Mandatory sentencing remains consistent for all people and punishment for offenders is relatively similar, which when the criminal justice system demonstrates an inconsistency the community questions the decisions of criminal justice professionals. A shared vision holds all criminal justice professionals to the same standards and expectations regardless of their level of placement in the government or power, they must all practice the same values.

  • Explain how communication skills impact communication of a vision in a criminal justice application-based context.

Communication is an important element when managing an organization and constituents, especially when large amounts of people involved. The vision must be communicated to the constituents with various methods and overtime to ensure that the vision is reintroduced when new members enter the organization. Changes and future developments, such as new laws, are important for leaders to communicate with constituents. Newly developed policies must be communicated to all levels of law enforcement and criminal justice professionals in order for the policies to be effectively and efficiently enforced.

BIO100 Moraine Valley Community College Habits for Strong Skeleton Research

Develop a one page paper (250 words) addressing all of the points below. Make sure that your paper is double spaced, saved as a Word document, and is between 10 -12 pt font size. If you have any questions about this assignment please let me know. Make sure you cite a reliable scientific website to back up your work (think National Geographic, PBS, Discovery, Smithsonian, New Scientist, Nature, Scientific American, Science Daily, New Science, The Guardian, Science News, Biology News, Popular Science, The New York Times Science Section, The Scientist). Do not quote from a website/source or you will lose points. You need to synthesize what you are reading and then answer the question in your own words.

As living organs, bones hum with activity, Inside them, bone marrow creates blood cells. Outside, competing cells continually build and break down bone in a process known as remodeling. Calcium from old bone cells is released into the blood, where it can be used again to make new bone. Starting at about age 30, the body loses bone more quickly than it make bone. To keep your skeleton strong into old age, do some research to determine and detail three basic habits you can adopt. Write at least a paragraph for each habit and provide a reliable scientific website to back up your research.

Write a paper on Hessar (1977) by Hossein Alizadeh (Hessar I, Hesar II, Hesar III)

write a four page, 1000 words analysis paper

link to the three pieces:
Hessar I https://open.spotify.com/track/0zJigOcn11gexKr7oXw…

Hesar II https://open.spotify.com/track/29keWOES0CY109igbXF…

Hesar III https://open.spotify.com/track/090tqYSR0Lpc2Iph56d…

Aspen University Concept and Theories in Nursing Discussion

Your assignment this week will be an APA paper to include title page, level headings, and a reference page.

Case study #1

Mrs. Franklin-Jones was admitted from the Emergency Room to Cardiac Intensive Care one week ago with a diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. She has recovered as expected and is moving to the cardiac step down unit today. She is talking with Nurse Julie Hernandez, as she gets settled in her new room, “I was really surprised when I got that bad pain in my chest! I knew I had high pressure but I just didn’t think it was that bad. I try to take my medicine like they told me to in the clinic but sometimes I forget. I guess that I need to study those papers they gave me about what foods I should eat and not eat. I better take care of myself! Momma had bad pressure and it killed her! Who knows—I may even have to learn to cook different than I was taught in Jamaica! I may have to let Tomas do the cooking. He’s got more time at home now than I do since he lost his job. There isn’t too much time between my shifts at the school cafeteria and my new housecleaning job. You know my sister is coming up from Jamaica to see me. I think she is bringing me some bush tea. That’ll set me right!”

  • Using Leininger’s Culture Care Model, what factors in the story shared by Mrs. Franklin-Jones should be considered by Nurse Hernandez when planning for the patient’s discharge?
  • Why is the theory of Culture Care Diversity important in the delivery of nursing care for all patients?
  • Using Leininger’s Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality, develop a plan of care for Mrs. Franklin-Jones.
  • Discuss the strengths and limits to Leininger’s Theory.

Case Study #2

Claude Jean-Baptiste is recovering from post-hip replacement surgery and has been transferred to the Rehabilitation Institute adjacent to the hospital. When he enters the unit, he sees welcoming signs written in several languages including his own, Creole. Since there are no nurses on that shift that speak Creole, they use a language line to ask for translation services. During this initial nursing assessment, the translator informs Mr. Jean-Baptiste that the nurses invite him to have a relative at his side so that they can be sure to understand and meet his needs. He is asked about Haitian customs and beliefs that they might honor. Mr. Jean-Baptiste is encouraged to bring food and spiritual care items, and to share the warmth of his culture with the nursing staff.

  • Discuss assumptions of the Transpersonal Caring relationship. What is the nurse’s role?
  • How is love, as defined by Watson, evident in this caring moment?
  • How can the nurse creatively use self to create a healing environment?
  • Discuss the strengths and limits to Watson’s Theory.

This paper should include 2 outside references and your book. The essay should be between 1500 and 1750 words in length.

Active vs Passive, Personal vs Impersonal Writing

Rewrite the following paragraph to be Impersonal and more direct.

The team was asked to determine the RMS and peak-to-peak voltages. We were uncertain at first how to measure these voltages, but after discussion with our teaching assistant, we decided to measure these voltages directly from the oscilloscope screen. We decided to conduct this part of the experiment with the frequency set to 1 kHz on the signal generator, and we measured a peak voltage of 0.84 volts. Then we found the RMS value to be 0.29 volts.

UON Implementing Enterprise Risk Management Annotated Bibliography

Question: This paper will be an annotated bibliography, specifically focusing on implementing Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) in health care industry.

Instructions:

stock journal

Please note that this assignment is based on a pretend scenario and fictitious money. However, the assignment is based on actual stock pricing in real time situations. Do not invest your personal money for this assignment.

This is the week you have been waiting for – to see if you are walking home a ‘pretend’ millionaire, or whether you would be finding a side job to recoup your losses.

For Week 10, review your investment for the last time. You must:

  1. Record the current price of the stock for each company you selected in Week 3’s Stock Journal. You may use any price during this week (e.g., day one price, the opening, the low, the high, the close, or any price you find when you check it during the day). Using a MS Excel spreadsheet or MS Word document, put your Week 8 and Week 10 stock prices side-by-side, to show the comparison.
  2. Determine the total value of your investment.
  3. Provide your final opinion / assessment of your investments. Did you make money or lose money? Discuss your results and, based on hindsight, describe what you would do differently.
  4. Discuss what you learned from this assignment. Do you believe this assignment will help you in the future in any way?

WEEK 3 AND WEEK 8 JOURNAL ENTRIES ARE ATTACHED BELOW

Concordia University African American and Ethnic American Poetries Paper

This forum covers the following texts:

Suggested topics for reading and writing are provided. Choose between these subjects:

For Soul Choj Vang, “The Last Drops”

Who are the “old men” featured in the text, and what is their significance?

What is the symbolism of “The Last Drops”?

Discuss one or more allusions in the poem (to the “Old World” culture and/or the “New World” American setting).

A common theme of immigrant literature is loss of culture and/or heritage; how may this poem be seen to portray that idea?

For Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

Explain one or more of the allusions to Negro (world) history and culture—including but not limited to the various rivers—featured in the poem; you might also consider how these allusions combine to make a larger statement about the Negro race/peoples in the poem.

The poem is rich in imagery: analyze one or more of your favorite images.

Consider the poem in light of the Harlem Renaissance movement—of which Hughes was one of the leading artists—particularly the portrayal and experience of race and “Negro” identity. For example, how does Hughes feel about his identity or place as an African-American? How does he discuss race (literally and figuratively) in the text? How may his texts and ideas be seen as a reflection of the Harlem Renaissance and its elevation of black culture, especially as he was a key founder of the movement?

In your post, identify your featured text(s) by title (or a shortened version thereof) in the subject line: e.g. “Pocahontas to Her English Husband….” Please be sure to provide concrete textual evidence (line numbers for in-text poetry citations in MLA style).

Some poetic elements to consider: the speaker of the poem; the action of the poem; setting; form/structure (most of these modern poems are free verse or open-form poetry); repetition and parallelism; tone and/or diction (style); rhyme; rhythm/meter; sound and rhythm devices like alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, etc.; syntax/word order and punctuation; imagery; and types of figurative language: imagery, allusion, metaphor/simile, symbolism, personification, irony, hyperbole, synecdoche, and so on.

Since this is our first foray into reading and writing about poetry, please review “Poetry Terminology” and “Analyzing Poetry” under the Handouts and Resources Module.(Attached Below)

Cover at least each poem for a minimum of 2 post in this forum and reply to one of your fellow classmates post ( Attached below)