Choose one of the infectious diseases from the infectious disease list provided. Use the name of the disease as your subject line. You may not use a disease another student has already posted. Provide basic epidemiological information about the disease such as:
i will talk about smalpox
For this assignment, I would like you to explore your creative side and design your ideal Farmers Market booth. Conduct some background research and learn about the requirements for establishing a booth as well as what operating a booth entails. As always, if you have any questions, feel free to post them in the General Q&A Discussion thread.
Here is your Assignment #4 instructions, grading rubric, and questions: Farmers Market Planning (pdf version)
Here’s the Farm Direct FAQ resource you will need to review prior to completing this assignment.
Also, here is a quick “Need Help with Assign #4?” presentation (pdf version) that I put together with some helpful ideas for designing your Farmers Market booth. There are two YouTube videos linked within the presentation (making your display and booth set-up), which are linked below.
Follow the directions for each activity. Answer the essay questions completely using thoughtful ideas, the course text, and outside reference sources, where applicable. Proofread answers for potential writing errors.
Part A Question1) What are metatherian mammals? What are distinguishing characteristics of metatherian mammals?
Extinct mammals, they are very few living. Metatherians, which comprise marsupials and their closest fossil relatives, were one of the most dominant clades of mammals during the Cretaceous and are the most diverse clade of living mammals after Placentalia. The only living metatherian mammals are the marsupials. There were some extinct metatherians that were not marsupials, such as the Sparassodonts, but as these have gone extinct, a metatherian is now just a synonym for a marsupial Metatherians belong to a subgroup of the northern tribosphenic mammal clade or Boreosphenida. They differ from all other mammals in certain morphologies like their dental formula, which includes about five upper and four lower incisors, a canine, three premolars, and four molar. In metatherians, marsupium is present which is required for carrying the infants
Part A Question2) Describe the biogeography of metatherian mammals.
Part A Question3) Using the following websites choose one extant (currently living) metatherian (marsupial) mammal species. Conduct research about the species. Discuss and analyze the species’ anatomy, ecology, and life history. Write a species account of at least 300 words correctly citing the reference source(s) you used. Scientific names are comprised of the genus (capitalized) followed by the species name (not capitalized) and they are italicized. For example, Ornithorhynchus anatinus.
Site Name
Web Site URL/Address
Mammalogy on the Internet
http://www.mammalsociety.org/mammalogy-internet
Tree of Life Web Project
http://www.tolweb.org/Mammalia
Animal Diversity Web
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Mammalia.html
Wilson & Reeder’s Mammal Species of the World
http://www.vertebrates.si.edu/msw/mswcfapp/msw/index.cfm
American Society of Mammalogists: Mammalian Species
http://www.mammalsociety.org/publications/mammalian-species
Mammalian Species pdf Site
http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/
National Geographic Mammals
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/
Species Scientific Name:
Species Common Name:
Species Account:
Complete the table using the websites listed in Part B. Match the eutherian (placental) mammal with a similar ecological equivalent metatherian.
Scientific Name of Metatherian Mammal
Common Name
Ecological Description
Eutherian Mammal Match
Petaurus breviceps
Vombatus ursinus
Myrmecobius fasciatus
Notoryctes typhlops
Dasycercus cristicauda
Sarcophilus harrisii
Thylacinus cynocephalus
List of Eutherian Mammals to Match
Peromyscus polionotus
Talpa europaea
Glaucomys volans
Taxidea taxus
Myrmecophaga tridactyla
Canis latrans
Marmota flaviventris
Part B Essay Question: What are potential hypotheses (explanations) regarding why there are ecological equivalents between many metatherians and eutherians? Discuss your hypothesis in terms of the processes that could lead to the current ecologies and distributions of metatherians and eutherians.
Submit with similarity proof, please.
Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment:
· Distinguish Respondeat Superior from Independent Contractor Status
· Discuss the Doctrine of Apparent Agency
· Discuss the liability of managed care organizations
Course outcomes assessed/addressed in this Assignment:
HA525-1: Illustrate the legal principles and laws that affect professional and administrative decisions found in health care services.
HA525-3: Evaluate inherent limitations to the delivery of health care due to legal mandates.
HA525-5: Evaluate how the law of contract and malpractice mold health care delivery.
Instructions
In Unit 3, you are to submit a paper based on the this article: Ruling may up risk for ‘apparent authority.’ (2009). Healthcare Risk Management, 31(4), 43–44.
The article is about the Doctrine of Apparent Authority (or Apparent Agency, DAA), which is also discussed in Chapter 6 of your textbook.
After reading the article, compose a paper including, but not limited to, the following:
· Discuss apparent authority, generally.
· Include an understanding of risk management.
· Discuss the relationship between physician and hospital (or other authority/agency).
· What conclusions would you as a health administrator make about the relationship between physician and agency?
· How can health administrators help the relationship be productive for both parties?
Requirements
Your submission must be written in a scholarly, well-flowing piece that reflects Master’s level work.
Include a title page, a reference page, and 12 pt. Times New Roman font.
Your paper should be a minimum of 3 pages in length, not including the title page and references.
All formatting and references should follow APA format. You may include additional references beyond those provided within the Assignment.
Here is the information accumulated by a real livestock manager for a common scenario. What species would you suggest be utilized and why? Your thoughts on this scenario are to be posted for the class to read. After a few weeks of time to read the thoughts of others, please write your final suggestions and submit your thoughts under Finals Week for grading.
Scenario question: What grass and legume species would be best suited to the following sheep ranch located in western Oregon?
Ranch description: 10 acres of fenced pastures with available water, 30 ewes and their lambs (with no desire for larger numbers), barns for hay and supplement storage, shearing and lambing. Operation managed by husband and wife with minimal machinery and no hired labor.
Location: 54050 SW Hebo Rd, Grand Ronde OR 97347 (Yamhill County); Coordinates: 45°3′36″N lat., 123°36′33″W long.; Elevation: 344 ft (105 m)
Livestock: 30 ewes plus their lambs; 200% lamb crop
Climate: cool-temperate; wet, mild winters; warm, dry summers; annual rainfall: 52 in (1321 mm); snowfall: 10 in (25.4 cm); ave July high temp: 81 F (27.2 C); ave Jan low temp: 33 F (0.6 C); frost-free days: 140-190.
Irrigation:none. Click for maps (http://www.prism.oregonstate.edu/gallery/)
Soil (from Web Soil Survey and soil test): Cumley silty clay loam, 2-20% slope; fertility level: medium; pH: 5.6; drainage class: moderately well-drained; salinity: unspecified. Click for Web Soil Survey (http://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/)
Management level: High; careful attention to proper rotational grazing principles, liming and fertilizing, livestock healthcare; electric, predator exclusion fence.
If you want to review species that may be useful, here is an informative video –
Find a reliable, useful website that discusses the human impacts to the environment caused by this issue. No duplicate websites are permitted. [NOTE: Neither open resources nor open blogs can be used as sources of information; see ‘Researching Information’ within the class for more information on appropriate credible/reliable sources of information].
Share the website with the class by writing a full paragraph summary (150 words minimum) of what you have learned or have found particularly helpful when reviewing the website. Do not copy and paste directly from the website. This blog should be written in your own words. Also, include a link to the website (type the title, highlight it, then, click on the link icon to add the URL) so that your peers may also view it and benefit from the website you have discovered.
(1.5-3 pages, Times New Roman 12-point font size, Double-Spaced).
Complete the Influence Tactics Assessment – CLICK HERE . This self-assessment is designed to help you understand different forms of influence when working with others (coworkers, bosses, peers, subordinates etc), as well as estimate your preference for each influence tactic in this context. Complete this assessment three different times: one with your immediate boss in mind; the other with a coworker/peer in mind, and lastly with someone who reports to you/direct report in mind.
CLICK HERE for an Excel version of the Influence Tactics Assessment.
1. Which influence tactics do you use most often with your immediate boss, coworker, and direct report? Why do you tend to rely on these particular tactics? (tactics with highest scores for each of the three colleagues)
2. Which influence tactics do you tend to use less often? Why? (tactics with lowest scores for each of the three colleagues)
3. Comment on the effectiveness of the influence tactics you use with each of the three colleagues.
4. Which influence tactics do you feel you need to work on?
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Discussion 1
Initial posts should be 150 words or more.
Please discuss two outside and two internal factors that impact the operations of health organizations.
Discussion 2
The Affordable Care Act – Then and Now
Please review the Discussion Board grading rubric in the Course Syllabus.
In 200 words or more, create an initial post that fully
addresses the following.
Reforming the United States healthcare system has not been easy. Many have tried and failed. After completing the assigned reading for this week, you will find that the arduous task has been undertaken in the past, only to find that a consensus could not be reached by Congress. As such, the recent passing of this law is an incredible accomplishment, but the hard work is hardly over.
Presently, the United States government, in conjunction with both the public and private healthcare sectors, is working toward implementing the law.
For this week, please review the major provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of your textbook and formulate an initial post with the following criteria:
· In your own words, discuss the passing of the ACA. What was the intent of reforming health care at the time law passed? Provide details on the issues that this law addressed.
· Discuss the current state of the ACA. What has changed? Have the legal challenges to the ACA been successful? Why or why not? Provide specific examples of challenges that were successful and/or failed.
· Finally, what is the future of the ACA? How is our current political (Congress) addressing the issues facing you in your role as a health administrator?
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Provide an original response to the question below from the reading. Your response should be:
In section 2.3: Biological Molecules of the Concepts of Biology text, we learn about the four categories of macromolecules that form biological organisms. Address the following points in your response for this reading assessment:
Pasture Walk
Obtain permission and take a walk through a pasture. Film or take pictures of the forages, weeds, fencing, terrain, water options and difficult spots.
Write a summary of the pasture – listing good forages, weeds present, how the pasture could be better managed, possible improvements…
Submit your summary and appropriate pictures/video.