Baxter Neal

BackgroundWhen do psychosocial factors become an excuse for continued substance use? While this section is not to dismiss the importance of psychosocial forces in shaping the individual’s substance use behavior, can psychosocial factors just become an excuse for continued substance use?  Consider the following hypothetical interview between a substance abuse rehabilitation counselor and an alcohol-dependent person in treatment for the 4th time: Counselor: We are meeting today to t...

TaskIn this module’s assignment, you will locate and install SQL Server, attach databases to the SQL Server installation, manipulate the data in the attached databases, and create a database and tables to populate with data. Put your name, course, module number, and date at the beginning of your assignment in your Microsoft® Word® document. Put the header "Part 1" in your assignment Word document. Install SQL Server. You can download SQL Sequel Express from the Microsoft we...

Yorkshire General HospitalProfessor Nkiru Nelis became the CEO of Yorkshire General Hospital in July 2017. It was a challenging time in the health care industry and particularly in the suburbs of Atlanta. The challenges were also exciting, and the leadership team was willing and able to analyse the situation and create a direction for the hospital. But where and how? The leadership team faced various challenges and were not immediately sure how they might be solved. The changes necessary to...

TaskPrepare a design appraisal with appropriate sketches indicating between three to four distinct and viable structural options for the proposed building structure. The design options should include two structural grids (shown in Figures 1 and 2) for positions of columns and primary beams and justifiable flooring layouts (e.g. 1 and 2.5 m joist spacing). Alternate joist orientation may be adopted so that the distribution of the gravity loading to the primary beams takes place in a uniform ...

Calculate the yield to maturity of a 7-year $1,000 par value bond with a fixed annual coupon rate of 6.5250% and a current price of $950.00. Provide the solutionsfor both annual and semi-annual payments of  Comment on the relationship between the yield to maturity and the frequency of interest payments, providing an appropriate table or graph.  Assume that you are a risk-averse investor. For each of the two assets rep...

How did you project your sales numbers?1. Sales Schedules Projection for over 5 years Describe sales projections over the first 5 years and answer the following questions: How did you project your sales numbers? (cite research, describe assumptions) How do these projections relate to your market analysis (demand) and operating capacity? At what percentage (%) of your capacity are you projecting sales? How will this change over time? Below the description, include a table (or tables) show...

BackgroundIn October, a young German missionary priest Fr. Peter Schneider, was appointed to be the first parish priest of the newly created St Mary’s parish, Amaudara, Nigeria. On the day of his arrival, he was welcomed with pomp and pageantry, first in the village square with the village chief and his cabinet at the head, and then he was led amidst dances and acclamations to the parish house . Two months later he decided to form the parish council. He consulted the local catechist to as...

Part One: Trademark Protection for 'Have A Ball'You are an attorney practicing law in Chicago, Illinois. One day a new client, May, walks into your office. May is the owner of a small business called “Have A Ball”1, which provides party planning and services for clients in the northern Chicago suburbs. May has run the business out of her home in Highland Park, Illinois since 2007, and over time the business has grown and become very successful. ...

Chapter 9 QuestionsThis assignment covers chapter nine, Corporate-Level Strategy: Horizontal Integration, Vertical Integration, and Strategic Outsourcing, and chapter ten, Corporate-Level Strategy: Related and Unrelated Diversification. Chapter 9 Questions Who makes strategies at the corporate level, and how this strategy  is made? How would an organization with a multi-business model form their strategies? What would they target? Why would a company leverage horizontal inte...

Question 1Question 1Gas-solid fluidised beds are usually modelled as a two-phase system, using the Eulerian Multiphase flow equations. (a) Outline the main physical processes involved (without the equations) in such a system and discuss which processes can be ignored when flow conditions are laminar. You may assume that gas is the continuous phase, and particles are the dispersed phase. [8 marks](b) Considering a gas-fluidised bed is made of spherical particles of diameter 0.0005m, and d...