What about the specific case summaries described by the Office of Research Integrity? • What about medical ghostwriting?

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Please use the case study to answer the following questions below and visit the following websites to read more about scientific misconduct. After navigating through these websites and reading about examples of scientific misconduct, agencies that monitor scientific misconduct, and the consequences of specific cases, go to the Scientific Misconduct Discussion Board and post a reflection about what you have read. • Do you feel that sufficient controls are in place to monitor scientific misconduct? • What about the specific case summaries described by the Office of Research Integrity? • What about medical ghostwriting? • What do you as a healthcare professional and a consumer of research think about this? • What ethical principles are being violated? http://ori.dhhs.gov/misconduct/whistleblowers.shtml http://www.legalexaminer.com/

What is the time sequence of the disease (length of incubation, prodrome, illness, decline, and convalescence)?

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The paper should contain the following information:

A. What is the causative agent of the disease? Is it a bacterium, a virus, a prion, or a eukaryote?

1. If it is a bacterium, what are the characteristics of the cell (Gram-reaction, cell shape and arrangement? metabolic capabilities?).

2. If it is a virus, what are its characteristics (DNA, positive-strand RNA, negative-strand RNA, or retrovirus? enveloped or naked? how large is it? does it form a provirus? Any unique characteristics of its multiplication cycle?).

3. If it is a prion, what is a prion? Wherein the body does it occur? What is the function of the normal-type protein?

4. If it is eukaryote, is it a fungus, an alga, a protozoan, a platyhelminth, or a nematode? Is it multicellular or unicellular? What is its life cycle?

B. History: How long have we known about this disease?

1. Describe the changes in our knowledge and attitudes toward this disease throughout history.

C. Epidemiology: Describe the prevalence and transmission of this disease.

1. Where (in the world) is the disease prevalent? How many people are currently infected? What is the rate of new infections? What are the rates of morbidity and mortality?

2. What is (are) the reservoir(s) of the pathogen? What is (are) the mode(s) of transmission?

D. Pathology: Describe the pathogenic effects on cells, tissues, and organ systems.

1. Where in the body (what tissues/organs/cells) does the pathogen affect?

2. What damage does the pathogen inflict? How is this damage inflicted (is there direct mechanical damage? is it a toxin produced? does the immune response cause damage?)?

3. What is the time sequence of the disease (length of incubation, prodrome, illness, decline, and convalescence)?

4. What are the major signs and symptoms?

E. Response and Treatment

1. Describe the activity of our immune system against the pathogen.

2. What types of medical treatments exist? Describe how these treatments affect the progression of the disease.

3. Describe prophylactic measures that can be taken to limit the risk of infection.

F. Socio-politico-economic

1. Describe any historic or present day social, economic, or political issues that either help or hinder us in limiting the spread of the disease.

2. Suggest policies and practices that can be employed to help with limiting the spread of the disease. For each policy and practice, describe what will be needed (what we have to sacrifice) in order to properly implement the proposal.

Stress is mentioned throughout this case study. How does this stress occur? What stress outcomes occur for people in these types of jobs? How can these people try to minimize high levels of stress?

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You have been hired by the Board of Directors of RollinOn, Inc as the new IT Security Manager. RollinOn is a designer of premade and custom designed skates and skateboards.  RollinOn has had some extreme growth in the area of e-Commerce over the past couple of years due to the addition of their custom design tools on their website. However, RollinOn has had some internal security issues.  RollinOn hs had some very lax policies allowing employees to bring their own tablets and laptops, also known as bring your own device or BYOD, and access social media on the intranet. The Web application development team has increased in size and is also in need of sound security practices. There have been several instances of downloaded malware and the company website has been hacked on at least one (1) occasion.

Your main objective is to create an outline of a new IT security policy regarding the company’s web presence and lack of access control. Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Part I: Written Section

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

Briefly explain the current state of Web application security to the Board of Directors.

Describe the major potential security risks associated with maintaining the organization’s Web presence, protecting its assets, and promoting e-Commerce.

Assess any techniques and technologies that you may need to use to mitigate those potential security risks.

Create an outline of your new IT security policies for RollinOn. Be sure to relate your policies to the potential risks.

Speculate on the most common types of resistance that you might encounter from employees when implementing your new IT policy.

Use at least four (4) quality references in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality references.

Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:

Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.

Unit II Case Study

Emotions are a constant component of organizational behavior. Read Case Study 4.2 on pp. 123-124 of your textbook, and write an essay answering one the following questions:

  1. To what extent do the three people featured in this case study manage their own emotions on the job? How would they accomplish this? To what extent do you think they effectively manage emotions under these circumstances?
  2. This case study states that nurses and other medical staff need to manage the emotions of their patients. Why is emotions management important in this job? In what ways do medical staff alter the emotions of their patients?
  3. Stress is mentioned throughout this case study. How does this stress occur? What stress outcomes occur for people in these types of jobs? How can these people try to minimize high levels of stress?

You will need to identify your own thoughts and cite specific passages from the case study to support your point of view. Your essay should be written in standard essay form with a minimum of 300 words.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using ethnographic methods.

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Please review the following short answer options and select which ones you would like to address. Each short answer response must be at least 2-3 sentences long. Be mindful of spelling, grammar, and punctuation. 

Select ONE of the following from Chapter 2:

1)    Each method of social research comes with its own advantages and disadvantages. This means that there is not necessarily a “right” answer to the question of which method should be used for a project. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using ethnographic methods.

2)    Every discipline that does research on humans needs a code of ethics in order to protect its research subjects. While it’s easy to see that medical research could harm people if not carried out ethically, the risks associated with sociological research may seem more subtle. Describe these risks.

3)    In everyday life, it is assumed that science provides access to objective truths that will never change. However, the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn argues that truth is relative and dependent upon the paradigm through which you see the world. Explain what a paradigm is and how the scientific method can lead to paradigm shifts.