psy 630 power point topic: Schiznophrenia

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Taking on the role of the expert in the treatment of schizophrenia or depression, you will prepare a presentation for a group of physicians who are seeking your opinion on the treatment of patients with these disorders. For this interactive assignment you will create and upload a 5- to10-slide PowerPoint presentation as well as a five-minute screencast of the presentation to share with your peers.  Note you are also asked to provide a transcript of your presentation.For this presentation, select either schizophrenia or depression as the basis for your presentation. Begin by creating your PowerPoint presentation. In the presentation, include information which explains the neurotransmitter theory behind the disorder and how the drugs used to treat the disorder affect those neurotransmitter systems.  Evaluate the risk and benefits of treating a patient with the most common type of medication and of not using drugs to treat the patient. In your evaluation, examine issues such as the rate of success with the most common drugs used as well as the incidence of side effects with these same drugs, including mortality associated with drug use. Then consider not using medications to treat the disorder. Take into account the natural course of the illness, the rate of spontaneous recovery, and the rate of mortality when untreated. You may also incorporate the use of other modes of treatment into your evaluation.Your PowerPoint must include your presenter notes in the notes field to indicate what you intend to say during the screencast and well-chosen images to enhance the understanding of your audience. Remember that your screencast will be a maximum of five-minutes, and use your speaker notes to ensure that you will be able to present your materials within this time limit. (You may access Garr Reynolds’s Top Ten Slide Tips (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for additional assistance in creating an effective visual presentation.) Once you have created your PowerPoint you will create a screencast presentation of up to 5 minutes in length using any screencasting software you choose. (Quick-Start Guides are available for Screencast-O-Matic (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for your convenience.) Attach your PowerPoint file to your intial post and include the URL for your screencast in the body of the post before submitting it.Note to Students: This assignment requires that you produce a visual presentation, supply a spoken audio narrative, and to listen the audio narrative of others.  Note you are also asked to provide a transcript of your presentation.

Business Ethics, Mod 3 Case Assignment.

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Need help with my writing homework on ETH501, Business Ethics, Mod 3 Case Assignment. Write a 1250 word paper answering; This means that workers will not be treated according to their skills or their performance but on the basis of the genes that they are bestowed with. This kind of practice is unethical as it does not treat workers according to the merit but on the basis of the factors over which the workers have no control. It may ultimately lead unrest among the work place and workplace violence may increase as a result of genetic testing. By knowing their genetic capabilities, people will pair them with those who have similar genetic system and will feel angered and aggravated towards people who have different set of genes. This is again unethical because people will be hired, fired and promoted on the basis of their genes and not on the basis of their performance or merit. If we look at it in a broader perspective, we can conclude that since people will be hired on the basis of their genes and not on the basis of their aptitude, their work is less likely to be as efficient as those selected on merit. Now, we can link it with the ethics of efficient resource usage and can easily conclude that due to incompetent people being hired due to discrimination on the basis of genes, the output of the firm using the specified amount of resources will be less than if people would have been hired on the basis of their competencies and merit. As a result, the firm will make a lesser profit than they should make, the world will get a lesser output than what it should have and in general the whole will suffer as a result of discriminatory practices. This discrimination can also be linked to another very important ethical framework of deontology to conclude that workplace discrimination is bad in all cases. Deontology principle states that regardless of the outcomes, the wrong thing is always wrong. This means that if we commit wrong deed but the reward of these deeds is positive, even in such cases, the wrong actions should not be undertake.

What is the Liberal International Economic Order (LIEO)?

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DISCUSSION
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  1. What is free trade, why has it grown so much since WW II, why does it often lower costs and increase efficiencies in the long term (while losing some jobs and lowering some wages in the short term), why do most liberals push it while some realists fear it and often Marxists and feminists condemn it, and why is it again under attack?

ESSAY

  1. What is the Liberal International Economic Order (LIEO), how did the creation of the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/World Trade Organization (WTO) all aid it, and how did it all reduce economic nationalism, which created massive economic growth and wealth but also economic insecurity and local job losses?

If asked to describe the types of people who do science, chances are you may think of someone from a textbook, television shows and movies, to websi

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If asked to describe the types of people who do science, chances are you may think of someone from a textbook, television shows and movies, to websites, news articles, and advertisements, among other information the media conveys about scientists. Often, these depictions are not wholly representative of those who actually practice science.

As such, we would like to give you an opportunity to explore the lives and works of real scientists to better understand who they are and how they contribute to our communities. In this series of “Get to Know a Scientist” assignments, we will feature scientists that perform work related to what you are learning in the course.

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Hernandez_R.jpgThis week, you have explored some solutions to climate change. Solar energy is one of these solutions; however, there may be some unintended effects. In the first “Get to Know a Scientist” assignment, you’ll be exploring the work of Rebecca R. Hernandez. Her work is focused on examining energy sustainability and biodiversity.

Dr. Hernandez is a first-generation college student who started her academic career as part of the California Community College system at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, CA. She then went on to earn a Bachelor’s from UCLA, a Master’s from Cal State Fullerton before completing her Ph.D. in Earth Systems Science at Stanford.

Dr. Hernandez now leads a team of researchers (Links to an external site.) at UC Davis toward finding sustainable energy solutions in the face of a globally changing environment. One of the biggest goals of Dr. Hernandez’s research is to support energy alternatives that minimize the negative impact on the local environment. This requires both a dedication to environmental research projects and encouraging changes in regional and local energy policies so that the most sustainable path can be taken. In the sections below, you will find examples of how Dr. Hernandez works toward changing environmental policies through her research and public outreach.  Pick any two of the resources below to learn more about Dr. Hernandez’s work and then complete the reflection. 

  1. Read this short article For The Love of Wild Things (Links to an external site.) about Dr. Hernandez and the work her lab is doing. 
  2. Read this summary (Links to an external site.) of a collaborative project from 2017 involving labs from UC Riverside, UC Berkley, and Dr. Hernandez’s lab at UC Davis. The full research article can be found here (Links to an external site.) as well, but you are only required to read the summary.
  3. Listen to this short interview with Dr. Hernandez and read the short article (Links to an external site.) on solar panels and their impact on Scientific American.
  4. Listen to this four-minute (Links to an external site.) interview where Dr. Hernandez speaks about the importance of encouraging new policies related to building sustainable energy resources. To hear the interview, go to the website in the link and click on the blue play arrow in the upper left-hand corner of the webpage. There is a written article below the interview recording, but you are not required to read the article for this assignment. 

Assignment Details

After reviewing the videos and articles, write a 300 word or more reflection with your responses to what you saw. Some topics you might wish to discuss include but are not limited to:

  • What was most interesting to you in reviewing these resources?
  • What are some of the strategies researchers are using to help maintain healthy populations in arid environments?
  • What new questions do you have after reviewing these resources?
  • What do these resources tell you about the types of people that do science?

Grading

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