A 45-year-old grocery sales clerk has been suffering from bouts of severe pain in his left flank region. He blamed it on prolonged standing for 8 hours straight while working. He was taking over-the-counter pain medications for his pain. One day, he found fresh blood in his urine. He went to a doctor who performed urine tests, CT scans, and x-rays. He was diagnosed with urinary calculi.

• Discuss possible factors that may have been responsible for the development of the stone and use this case to show how the patient’s diet and water intake can help analyze the composition of the calculi.
• What would be the test results of his white blood cells, blood calcium levels, CT scan, and x-ray?
• Suggest the best treatment for the patient and a plan to prevent recurrence post-treatment.

By Saturday, February 15, 2014, submit your responses to the above questions to the Discussion Area. Your responses should clarify your understanding of the topic. They should be your own, original and free from plagiarism. Use correct medical terminology, spelling, and grammar.

MAXQDA Analysis

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Project Title/Subject: MAXQDA Analysis

Type of Service: Assignment 

Urgency: 23 to 48 hours 

No. of Pages/Wordcount:  about 7 pages

Style APA Style

Detailed Description 

Qualitative analysis software can assist with the analysis of data. In this assignment, you will use MAXQDA, a qualitative analysis software, to analyze interview and focus group transcripts by inductively coding the data and developing themes.

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

Refer to “MAXQDA Analysis Assignment Directions” in the Study Materials for this topic.

Refer to the transcripts “Sped Focus Group,” “Sped Interview,” and “TS Focus Group” in the Study Materials for this topic.

This assignment will be scored based on full completion of the preliminary steps and assignment tasks followed by submission of the required deliverable.

Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.

***PLEASE NOTE*** This assignment requires that at least two additional scholarly research sources related to this topic, and at least one in-text citation from each source be included.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

Directions:

Access the document “MAXQDA Analysis Assignment Directions” from the Study Materials for this topic.

Complete the tasks as directed in the document.

Reaction Paper 2: Humans as Primates

 For this reaction paper, you will be writing a 150-200 word response paper to either (CHOOSE ONLY ONE):

1. This weeks assigned reading by Dr. Robert Sapolsky, “The young and the reckless” OR
2. TED talk video by Dr. Susan Savage-Rumbaugh, “The gentle genius of bonobos” (http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_savage_rumbaugh_on_apes_that_write.html):

 The title of this paper will take the format of a citation (Please visit  http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html for explicit instructions on citing an article and a website). This paper is different from an abstract in that it should not only (a) summarize the content of the article or video, but also (b) include a thoughtful response about humans as primates. What are primates? What makes humans primates? Remember that a critique is not an invitation for you to say whether or not you liked something, but rather to think critically about it, and share those thoughts. Please watch this week’s lectures BEFORE completing this assignment.

Crisis of Communication

This paper will be a written assignment where you will showcase your understanding of communication theories and what you can do when there is a crisis in communication. 

 
This paper should be between 15-20 pages, at least 1.5 spaced, one inch margins and 12-point font. Additionally, you should use APA Style Formatting (here’s a great resource for this: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/). Please exercise discipline, originality and creativity. 

You can examine a past crisis and evaluate the effectiveness of the organization in dealing with the crisis and/or attempt at creating your own public relations strategy / intervention for eg Uber, Harvey Weinstein, Martha Steward, Wells Fargo, United Airlines, elementary school teachers dressing up as Mexicans and a border wall for Halloween… the list is endless.

Your task is to apply your knowledge of the communications theories and approaches discussed throughout the semester to an analysis of a real world issue or a PR disaster. You may critique the communication choices made as well as suggest alternative actions that could have been taken in the case study you selected. 

Better yet, attempt at a public relations plan you would have undertaken if you were at the helm. I do not need you to be a PR whizz but what I wish for you to do is to challenge yourself and take on creative, strategic thinking.

Your paper should be firmly based in the various tenets of communications theory, strongly supported with at least 8 references and listed in the bibliography.

 

For this Discussion Board, please share the information you provided in last week’s Individual Project Assignment with your classmates (copy and paste).

Additionally, examine your classmates’ proposed security protocols and point out any areas where you believe their intended security protocols might be vulnerable, as well as ways to improve such strategies. If there are no noted vulnerabilities, proposed strategies to enhance his or her security recommendations.

 Respond to at least 2 of your classmates’ posts with a minimum of 150 words each. You must have a minimum of 3 credible citations to support your claims or arguments. You must also have a reference list for the citations in the responses.