What is your hypothesis (both null and alternate)?

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Assignment 3: Research Design Questions

Suppose you were going to create your own study to examine what course-delivery format (online, blended, or face-to-face) leads to the best performance in a psychological statistics class. In a paper identify the following for your study:

  • What is your research question?
  • What is your hypothesis (both null and alternate)?
  • Is this a qualitative or quantitative design (based on type of variable collected) and why?
  • Is this a descriptive, correlational or experimental design and why?
  • What would be an example of a variable for this study that could be measured on a nominal scale? Ordinal scale? Interval scale? Ratio scale?
  • Once you have collected your data, would you use inferential or descriptive statistics and why?
  • Create a sample frequency distribution for one of the variables. Choose either a simple or grouped frequency distribution and explain your choice

How would you demonstrate that you are a credible speaker on this subject?

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TOPIC—DROP OUT RATES IN TODAYS SOCIETY

 

Assignment 2: Building a Foundation for the Persuasive Speech

Develop a planning strategy for your persuasive speech based on the following five criteria for an effective speech:

  1. need for credibility
  2. need for intellectual stimulation
  3. need for creativity
  4. need for relevance
  5. need for emphasis

Use these criteria to answer the following questions about your own speech:

  • How would you demonstrate that you are a credible speaker on this subject?
  • How would you keep the audience thinking and learning about your topic?
  • How would you make the speech creative?
  • How would you demonstrate that this topic is relevant to the audience’s needs and interests?
  • How would you emphasize your main points so that the audience will remember those points after the speech?

submit your 2–3-page document to the W5: Assignment 2 Dropbox. Give the file the following name: SU_SPC1026_W5_A2_LastName_FirstInitial. Cite any sources you use in the APA format on a separate page.

Competition In Health Care

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Competition in Health Care

One of the trends marking the continuing transformation of the U.S. health care industry is the dramatic increase in the pace of competition.  The heightened competition is taking place among hospitals, among health plans, among physician groups, among drug companies, between physicians and hospitals, and between hospitals and health plans.

Prepare a three- to five-page paper that includes the following:

  • Description of the different forms of competition that take place in health care amongst the various types of health care organizations.
  • Evaluation of the benefits and pitfalls of competition in health care and suggest alternatives if competition were not the prime drivers of operations in the U.S. health care system.
  • Explanation of the essence of successful competition and the use of competitive intelligence.
  • Description of the influence competition has on the services offered by health care organizations and the choices patients have.

Your paper must be three to five double-spaced pages (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Utilize a minimum of two scholarly and/or peer-reviewed sources that were published within the last five years. One source must be obtained from the Ashford Library and focus on competition health care.  All sources must be documented in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

What brain region provides the source of depolarization to thalamic neurons that triggers a series of spindles or slow-waves within non-REM sleep?

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What thalamic sub-region is responsible for organizing temporally coherent spiking activity among thalamic neurons? LGN?

What brain region provides the source of depolarization to thalamic neurons that triggers a series of spindles or slow-waves within non-REM sleep?

 

Cortical EEG is a powerful tool used to define sleep/wake states, yet the primary driver of the changes in cortical EEG across sleep/wake states is the changes in properties of neurons in the thalamus.  Discuss the changes in membrane potential of thalamic neurons that accompany the waking state, non-REM stage 2 sleep, and non-REM stage 3/4 sleep.  Name two determinants of the change in membrane potential.  Discuss the action potential firing patterns associated with depolarization of thalamic neurons from these different resting membrane potentials.  (answer about ½ a page)