Fred Athey

I. Your ProductIn a professional career, one may be called upon to conduct research and deliver findings in professional settings. No matter how extensive the research or accurate the conclusions, a weak presentation can undermine an argument. A presentation is a tool to help make an argument. When creating presentations, students develop skills in researching an issue, synthesizing the information, organizing data logically, and presenting findings in an effective manner. You will prepare a...

The management or business problem and its contextThis is an individual assignment in the form of a narrated presentation of no more than 10 minutes long, and no more than 8 PowerPoint slides excluding the title slide. The purpose of the assignment is to convince the listener that you have identified a management problem or issue which it is important to investigate – and that you have already made a start on that investigation, by; Really trying to hone in on what it is you want ...

Objective of this Assignment: To calculate and reflect on your own ecological footprint.This assignment relates to the following Course Learning Requirements: CLR 2 - Relate the history of environmental trends to contemporary society and to future CLR4 - Identify your day-to-day practices and their impact on the global ecosystem and, in turn, the global ecosystem's reciprocal impact on  CLR5 -&nb...

Principles of a QI ProjectYou have recently started working in a paediatric emergency department and notice there are a lot of babies presenting with feeding difficulties and being given a diagnosis of gastro-oesophageal reflux. You ask one of the Consultants what the recommended practice is and discover there is no consistent approach and no departmental guideline. He suggests you do an audit of current practice and this shows wide variance in practice across the team in the department in t...

Facts/BackgroundThis assignment is to prepare sentencing submissions that you will present in class, during a “mock” hearing, as a group. You will be provided with a synopsis of the facts of the case. Each group will consist of 5-6 students. Half the students will present on behalf of the Crown. The other half will present on behalf of the defence. Given that each student will have approximately three (3) minutes to make submissions, the topics to be covere...

InstructionsInstructions: For this term paper, you will be designing a proposal for a psychological study that addresses a question that applies to your personal life or career goals. You will not be doing the study, but you will be writing a proposal as if you were going to do the study. For this assignment, you must choose a topic, do some background research, develop one or more hypotheses, and design a study to test those hypotheses. The research proposal must meet the following crite...

Project StepsThe purpose of the class project is to help students to synthesize the topics discussed throughout the course, in the context of evaluating the literature. This will aid to underscore the importance of evaluating the evidence in advancing public health knowledge. The class project will incorporate a small-group format, whereby each group will identify and critically evaluate a published paper. Each of you has been assigned to a project group (group assignments are posted on Cours...

Learning OutcomeThis assessment addresses the following learning outcomes:Critique theories, styles, approaches and strategies of leadership in public health.Analyse the influence of diversity on leadership (gender, culture, professional discipline and community).Evaluate personal leadership strengths and areas for improvement through analysis of public health leadership frameworks. In this assignment, you will be provided a scenario (problem) involving a public health leader that you wi...

Question :The assignment for SUM107 is an opportunity to evidence your ability to analyse and evaluate in the context of the three Learning Outcomes (LOs) stated below: 1) Critically appraise key project evaluation monitoring and control and their importance in bringing projects to successful completion. 2) Critically review and creatively apply the various strategic IT led techniques, viewed as contemporary project management tools. There is a need to evidence and attempt to under...

Components of a Secure Email SystemIn your role as information security professional serving the CIO, you have been asked to create a 6–8 page e-mail security plan that will become part of the corporate knowledge base. Use the organization and characteristics described in the Case Study: Global Widgets Inc. document found in the Required Resources as the context in which to create your plan. Include the following in your professionally-formatted plan:   1.Diagr...