g., demented vs. nondemented) were evaluated using the Pearson ?2 test. Levels of tHcy, vitamin B12, and folate were log-transformed to fit normal distributions. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated using two logistic regression models."
Chance: Low, given the long-term screening of subjects for AD in larger Maracaibo Aging Study

Generalizability

Eligible population: Patients with a strong genetic predisposition for AD

Source population: Uncertain, given the diverse range of factors that could still affect the health of the source population, although many common risk factors were accounted for in the statistical analyses performed

Other population: Generalizability between the Maracaibo population and the AD population as a whole is still being determined.

Study 3:

Bowirrat A; R.P. Friedland; L. Farrer, C. Baldwin, A. Korczyn. (2002). Genetic and environmental risk factors for Alzheimer's disease in Israeli Arabs.

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 19(1-2):239-45.

Causality Criteria

Description: An assessment of genetic and environmental risk factors and prevalence, and incidence of…...

Nusing
Couse Poject Milestone #3: Pee Review Fom

To complete a pee eview on anothe students daft fo change capstone poject, identifying stengths and weakness with ecommendations fo impovement.

Diections: Complete the pee eview fom below with infomation obtained fom one of you pees daft fo change capstone poject.

Title of Pee's Change Poject:

Intoduction of the Change Poject

Identify and descibe the stengths of the change poject. Identify and descibe aeas in which the plan and/o intoduction can be impoved.

The stength of this poject is that it focuses on encouaging the patients to cease tobacco smoking, a subject that is vey aely taken up by ehab houses. Since thee ae a numbe of diseases including HIV and Tubeculosis that have been linked with the use of tobacco and nicotine, encouaging the patients to give up smoking will do geat benefit to the society and the health cae depatment. As studies have concluded, this would…...

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references on the reference page are according to the APA format and are moderately recent, on average.

NR451_Milestone3_Peer_Review_Form.docx 9/28/11 jmp

Nursing
Course Project Milestone #1:PICOT & Literature Review Worksheet

PICOT Worksheet

To identify a problem or concern that nursing can change and select key words for a literature search.

Directions:Use the form below to complete the PICOT assignment in Milestone #1. This includes filling in the table with information about your research question and your PICO (T) elements, as well as answering the Search Technique questions.

Identify the Problem.The nurses have problem communicating with the patient and the doctors.

Identify a potential solution. There can be training and motivation programs for nurses to help them interact and communicate with patients with confidence.

Step 3:Create your research question.Why nurses lack confidence in communication with subjects i.e. The patients and their families and bosses i.e. The doctors dealing the case?

Step 4:Select the key PICOT terms for searching the evidence.The issue of developing communication confidence in nurses can be based on PICOT search terms:

P = Patient or Subject. In…...

This intervention is also primary in nature, given that it underlines the need for social changes, such as improved diet and education amongst the poor, to reduce the prevalence of the disorder.
ource:

Israeli-Korn, .D.; M. Masarwa; E. chechtman; A. Abuful; R. trugatsky; . Avni;

L.A. Farrer; R.P. Friedland; R. Inzelberg. (2010). Hypertension increases the probability of Alzheimer's disease and of mild cognitive impairment in an Arab community in northern Israel. Neuroepidemiology, 34(2):99-105.

Behavioral

Recent studies, according to PubMed, show a mild improvement in AD patients using the herbal supplement ginkgo. One literature review studied seven trials involving 1,800 participants, all using a specific ginkgo preparation based on the extract EGb 761. The supplement trials were conducted for periods of varying duration. Patients taking a higher dose of the ginkgo extract (240 mg per day) improved in their daily functioning to a moderate degree in acts of self-care. This suggests a tertiary intervention --…...

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Source:

German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG). (2008). Ginkgo in Alzheimer's disease. Final report A05-19B. Version 1.0. Cologne: IQWiG. Accessed

Through PubMed October 10, 2011 at  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0005095/

Computer for PM Course
Project Selection (Project Cost Management) Well structured report table context required requirement details emailed placing order

The project involves purchase of a computer for the University's project management (PM) course. The computer to be purchased should be able to serve different purposes. First is that it should be capable to create, read and manipulate word, spreadsheet and PDF documents. Secondly, it should be able to handle statistical programs such as SPSS. Third, it should be able to handle internet and email communication and to provide access to the University systems such as Blackboard and Turnitin. Lastly, it should have sufficient processing capabilities and data storage space to handle and store large and complex data.

Options identified

Three computer options selected for this evaluation are the MacBook Air, HP Compaq Pro 6300 PC and Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. These three options are chosen because they are distinct in nature --…...

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References

  Inc. 2013. MacBook Air 2013 [cited December 3rd 2013]. Available from .http://www.apple.com/macbook-air/Apple 

Barzilai, J. 1997. "Deriving Weights from Pairwise Comparison Matrices." The Journal of the Operational Research Society no. 48 (12):1226-1232. doi: 10.2307/3010752.

Hewlett-Packard Development Company. 2013. HP Compaq Pro 6300 Small Form Factor PC 2013 [cited December 3rd 2013]. Available from  http://shopping1.hp.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/WW-USSMBPublicStore-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductUUID=1fIQ7EN52LoAAAE9EuoHDyAR&CatalogCategoryID= .

IBM. 2013. SPSS Statistics Desktop 2013 [cited December 3rd 2013]. Available from  https://www14.software.ibm.com/download/data/web/en_US/trialprograms/W110742E06714B29.html .

Self-Assessment
Assessment of final course project:

Final self-reflective assessment for students on the process of learning

The assessment instrument I will use is a combination of a checklist and a short essay section which will enable the learner to assess his or her effort and competencies over the course of the semester. The assessment will involve a Likert scale from 1 to 5 with 1 being 'not much at all' to five being 'very much.' Questions will include self-reflective assessments such as: "I put forth a great deal of effort in this class" and "I devoted enough time to research all of my assignments adequately." To encourage accurate reflection, there will also be questions about hours spent studying every week and the number of times the student missed class.

As well as a scored questionnaire, students will also have the opportunity to write a short essay on the topic "what I would suggest I…...

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References

Assessment. (2014). Scholastic. Retrieved from:

 http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/self-assessment/checklist/assessment.pdf 

Loacke, G. (2004). Taking self-assessment seriously. Essays on Teaching Excellence

Toward the Best in the Academy, 15 (2). Retrieved from:

Journalistic news media tend to present themselves as objective entities within out democratic society that ensure that citizens remain informed of important public issues and events, however, also as guardians who keep public officials honest. Ideals integrity, objectivity, and truthfulness are often cited as standards that govern how journalists, with respect to news stories, do their job. However, editorials are a whole different story. There is no claim of fairness or impartiality here. Instead of a reporting of substantiated facts, figures, and events, editorials are predominantly the opinions of writers (with the political slant of the publisher determining much of the content of what appears in editorial pages). This is not to say that editorials have no positive qualities. Editorials are often entertaining, and many individuals tend to favour a particular editorialist or editorial page that reflects their own beliefs, principles, etc. However, editorials are often characterized by the presentation…...

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References

Colin Allen and Michael Hand, Logic Primer (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992)

Altman et al. v. Bedford Central School District 45 F.Supp. 2d 368 (S.D.N.Y. 1999)

Stephen Barker, The Elements of Logic, fifth edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989)

George F. Will, 'Judicial Silliness,' Washington Post, Thursday, June 3, 1999; page A27

How important is the PMO at shaping the culture of the project management teams? Should culture be left up to the project manager instead?The project management office (PMO) cannot be separated from the overall culture of the team and organization. There is only so much a single manager can do to set the cultural tone for the team. The organization invests power within the manager, sets the timetable based upon external pressures, and also is responsible for budgeting and other areas that the manager does not have complete control over, even as a leader. The organization itself also is responsible for how it rewards different behaviors. For example, if an organization places a heavy emphasis on competition and rewards individuals based upon individual efforts, through bonuses and promotions, promoting teamwork will be an uphill struggle for the manager. Similarly, if the organization has a number of layers of bureaucracy that…...

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ReferencesBanister-Hazama, D. & Hazama, C. (2014). Culture is as culture does: The impact of corporateculture on portfolio, program, and project management. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2014—North America, Phoenix, AZ. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute.

Project Management
Elements of Business: Project Management

Postings to the Discussion Board

The Critical Path of PET charts

Successful realization of business goals of any organization, there has to be an efficient project management in control. Most performing organizations bare witness of how the good managerial functions and change has brought to them. The critical path will always entail the sequencing of duties and events, to ensure that a project is not delayed. The critical paths of most projects are designed in search a manner that the delay or acceleration of the entire project is determined by one activity. Once one activity is altered, it leads to the entire change of project timeline. The process of creating the critical path in most cases requires activity sequencing (Sawyer, 2009).

Prioritizing the correction of existing projects

In cases where the project has steps that follow a certain sequence, a certain task must be completed for the next one…...

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References

Adams, T. & Means, J. (2005) Facilitating the Project Lifestyle: Skills and Tools to Accelerate Progress for Project Managers, Facilitators and Six Sigma Project Teams: New York, John Wiley and Sons.

Haynes, M.E. (2002) Project Management: Practical Tools for Success: New York, Cengage Learning.

Jones, R. (2007) Project Management Survival: A Practical Guide to Leading Managing and Delivering Challenging Projects: New York, Kogan Page Publishers.

Paula, M. & Humphrey, C.J. (1996) Orientation to Home Nursing: New York, Jones and Bartlett Learning publishers.

Project isk Management
isks associated with projects successful completion

A project is an undertaking of human beings towards satisfying world needs. Projects are endeavors with a defined beginning and an end. Projects suffer from scope, time, cost and quality constraints. It is necessary for project managers to manage the risk of developing weak scope. Scope of a project incorporates the objectives of a project, the target population, the output and impact of that endeavor. Therefore, managers of project need to do a problem analysis, stakeholder analysis, environment analysis to know if the project is sustainable (Cleland & King, 1988). On the risk of time, managers need skills on time management. Management of projects requires one to be well versed in developing schedules. Time management involves developing systems that has a specific time of completion and start time.

Scheduling of projects includes hiring of individuals for the accomplishment of projects. There is a need…...

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References

King, W.R. (Eds.) & Cleland, D.I., & (1988). Project management handbook (Vol. 2). New

York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

Anbari, F. T & Kwak, Y.H., (2009). Analyzing project management research: Perspectives from top management journals. International Journal of Project Management, 27(5),

435-446.

Project Management Email esponse
Choosing a Project

In order to determine which of the three projects is best, it is important to conduct a feasibility study. That is done to take a careful look at each one of the projects offered and examine what they provide to the company in the future. Of course, it is not possible to know exactly what will happen, and there are only projections and assumptions that can be made with any new product launch or adjustment (Farris et al., 2010). Still, the best way to make these is through studying the feasibility of the different options provided in order to make the best and most educated plan for the future (Farris et al., 2010; Levy, 2002). This study shows that the Palomino project is going to be the recommended option between the three choices available, because it provides the most balance. There are a number of…...

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References

Farris, P.W., Bendle, N.T., Pfeifer, P.E. & Reibstein, D.J. (2010). Marketing metrics: The definitive guide to measuring marketing performance. NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.

Levy, D.M. (2002). Research and development. In David R. Henderson (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (1st ed.). NY: Library of Economics and Liberty: OCLC

It is essential to determine the critical path and shortest and long paths based on the allocated time.
The network diagram for the wedding planning project also provides an understanding about the activities in the sequence they are required to be performed. It is observed that family task is preceded with invitations Lists and on the basis of this activity invitations are posted. The booking of the ceremony is also completed after this activity. On the other hand the wedding activity has two preceding activities including place finalizations and dress selection and rings, which is followed by the floral and decor as well as honeymoon. The finalization of place leads to appointment for ceremony and venue selection, leading towards the final weeding as finish of the activities.

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Conclusion:

The project management approach plays a significant role in small to large and…...

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Works Cited:

Rosenau, Milton D., and Gregory D. Githens. Successful project management: a step-by-step approach with practical examples. Wiley, 2011. Print.

Schwalbe, Kathy. Information Technology: Project Management. Course Technology Ptr, 2010. Print.

Project Management
Project Libra: To Terminate or Not to Terminate

Visit www.itweek.co.uk/News/11329438 to see the string of news stories related to Project Libra. Identify some of the sources of the problems the project faces.

Project Libra exemplifies several attributes of failed projects the most notable of which is the breakdown in project team, Fujitsu Services (ICL) system integrator and enterprise software vendors. Most evident of a filed project management structure is the ballooning size of payments made during the project with literally nothing to show for it.

These are the most significant lessons learned from the failure of Project Libra. First, the British government should have had a series of measurable goals and objectives in place first and required monthly updates on project status and delays. This would have drastically reduced the confusion over just what the status of the project was, as is evident from background readings on this topic. It would have…...

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References

Frame, J.D. (2008). Reinventing project management: The diamond approach to successful growth and innovation. Project Management Journal, 39(1), 96-96.

Gardner, D.J. (2000). How to avoid IT project failures. Consulting to Management, 11(1), 21-23.

Sutterfield, J.S., Friday-Stroud, S., & Shivers-Blackwell, S. (2006). A case study of project and stakeholder management failures: Lessons learned. Project Management Journal, 37(5), 26-35.

Tsoukakas, J. (2001). Stop IT project failures through risk management. Interfaces, 31(6), 133-135.

Project Management
Project Schedule

To develop a schedule for a project, we will use the concept of a project network, which shows work activities taken from the work breakdown structure and organized according to the logical flow in time and relationships governing when the work will be performed.

Combining this network of work activities with estimates of the time duration for performing each of the activities, create a schedule for the project work.

When planning a project, one of the key steps is to develop a work breakdown structure for the project. This lets the project team know all the steps necessary to complete the project. Each activity can be broken down into a time estimate and then these can be compiled in an overall project schedule. Some of the activities can be completed at the same time while others will have to be finished before the next activity can begin. For example, in…...

Project Management
Review the "Lessons Learned" section of the project risk diagram. Describe how the Lessons Learned activity helps you become a stronger project manager, who else it helps in the project team and also describe how it helps PMO. 200 words

Documenting the lessons learned is one of the most important aspects of the closure phase of the project. It is important to an individual project manager because they can reflect on their performance and find areas for improvement. A project manager, with the assistance of their team and supervisors, can find areas in their management capacity in which they can work on for future improvements. They can also make note of things that went right so that they can recreate those items in the future. For instance, if a change management procedure or a communication medium worked well then the project manager will know to use these in the future.

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Works Cited

Anderson, P., & Tushman, M. (1991). Managing through Cycles of Technological Change. Research Technology Management, 26-31.

Rettich, K. (2011). Using the Wiki to Deliver Paperless Software Documentation. IPCC, Professional Communication Conference (IPCC), 2011 IEEE International, 1-8.

Sarin, K. (2010, April 19). Nature of Training and Development. Retrieved October 15, 2011, from HRM Training and Development:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/10041934/HRM-Training-Development 

Shtub, E. (2004). Project Management: Processes, Methodologies, and Economics. London: Prentice-Hall.