Essays on Task Force

Genetic counselling has been described as the process by which an individual fully understands and adapts to the contribution of genetic makeup in the medical and physiological state of the individual along with its influence on the familial implications of a disease condition [1]. Genomic medicine is at an all-time high in these years of fast developing technology in medicine [2]. The traditional process of genetic medicine and counselling involves the collection of data and interpretation of the history of pathology in the familial background of the individual along with the assessment of risks, informed consent, and psychosocial analysis ...

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It is possible to sort out three major counter-productive actions that took place throughout the meeting (although there were much more). First of all, the meeting started with a formal recital of orders that were imposed on the task force, instead of democratically sharing the views of the new management on the possible review of policies with the selected professionals. Secondly, the topic of new uniform (or scrubs) turned into the public ostracism of the nurse due to her appearance, which is in fact an action punishable by law. The ad hominem accusations prevented the meeting from ...

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The mission of the Joint Task Force North (JTFN) is to streamline and implement an effective Command and Control structure and policy for military support to counter-drug efforts and fight transnational organized crime (TCO). The vision of JTFN shall be to meet the objectives set by the Northern Command Commander and add value to Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (DLEAs) in addressing the illegal activities of TCOs. The mission and vision of JTFN cannot be achieved without the support of appropriate key internal and external stakeholders. The internal stakeholders include JTFN’s staff in El Paso and its headquarters, law ...

Osteoporosis is more common in women than men and this is something that is attributed to comparatively thinner bones and the post-menopausal effects. As such, osteoporosis screening is quite important among women, notably, in their post-menopausal stage of life as a way of mapping their overall risk and subsequently, help in pursuing proactive measures (Compston et al., 2014). According to the U.S Preventive Services Task Force (2011), guidelines osteoporosis screening should be done to women who are 65 years and above without any history of fractures or pre-existing causative factors of osteoporosis. Additionally, the screening guidelines for osteoporosis among ...

Preventive health care is the provision of preventive services with the aim of identifying probable health risks and chronic ailments while at the onset phase. The basic preventive services include prescriptions, physical exams, screening, immunizations, and lab tests. The Affordable Care Act has standards which help gauge if individuals and their families qualify for free preventive services. This subject has become a subject of great debate especially following the ongoing presidential campaigns. The aspirants, particularly Hillary Clinton, are determined to reduce the escalating health costs through preventive health care (Cohen, Neumann, & Weinstein, 2008). According to researchers, preventive and primary ...

The promotion of healthy foods consumption among the children could be enhanced through raising their awareness about the importance of such foods. “According to Wang et al. (2015), different childhood obesity intervention studies conducted in schools in the United States support the evidence of effective intervention programs and involvement of the home, family, and community to make healthful food choices for childhood obesity prevention.” Cultural, social, and particular individual habits and behavior influence food-decision. Marketing, pricing, and packaging of snacks have attracted popularity among the people, which has influenced them to change to unhealthy feeding habits. However, there is ...

The United States has seen a change in its security situation over the last three decades. Before the 9/11 attack, U.S. concentrated on preventing the attack of its citizens and property by jihadists who were mostly affiliated to Muslim countries. Still, U.S. authorities tracked the footsteps of all foreign-grown movements that posed a danger to the property and U.S. citizens working out the United States. After 9/11 attack, the U.S. began focusing on a more comprehensive and robust system to protect the United States from both domestic and international terrorism attacks. At this juncture, domestic and international groups carried ...

Introduction

The learning of a phenomenon requires the exploration of a variety of sources of information. The human personnel can be a source of specific information on certain aspect. For instance, interviewing a professional can help gather information on certain key aspects of the profession or a subject matter related to the profession. The interest in this paper is in the guidelines for the screening of colorectal cancer as a policy issue. To complement the secondary sources of information, this paper benefits from information gathered from an interview performed on the sixth day of July, 2016. The interviewee was Alison ...

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The current human capital task force constitutes of an increased number of female workers. What is notable is that as much as the female workers are playing a part in the development of their countries and their selves, certain conditions in the workplace seem to weigh a toll on their family lives. In this sense, fertility issues come into play, and it is often attributed to the erratic working conditions that female workers are subjected. This is a concerning trend given that irregularities that arise from their work patterns may limit their chances of becoming parents this is as ...

Introduction

Many challenges mar the human resources function in the organizations. With the rising challenges in human resources, cases of competition have also risen between organizations. Human resources management is one way in which organizations garner a competitive advantage. While in their quest for acquiring a competitive advantage, companies are using certain activities of human resources management. Organizational capabilities for increased value purposes assure a given company of success. When dealing with matters employee engagement, improvement in productivity and management of diversity in the organization while at the same time reducing barriers, are just but examples of areas that require ...

It must be mentioned that “not everyone who works in the sex trade is a victim” (Alter & Tsai, 2015). If we focus only on those who indeed were coerced to activities that did not want to do and suffered, the Module has raised a very sensitive and complex subject of human trafficking either for sex or labor purpose (“Module 002 [TRAUMA]”, 2014). It indeed made me realize many things about this global problem and showed that many victims suffer helplessness and despair. Moreover, victims are often afraid to address some help centers as they do not feel secure. Some ...

The document that seems to get the honor on googling “the paper that started the study of computer security” is the Rand Report of 1970 by the Department of Defense. It was the final report of Task Force on Computer Security. The paper was so important particularly to the US government’s Department of Defense mainly because of the problems of computer information or resource sharing systems such as interference and prohibited access to classified military information. Due to these problems inherent in the then existing computer systems, there was need for secure computer systems that would ensure that ...

Review of ISG Assessment Tool:

The information assessment, governance-tool is a framework designed to help companies measure the extent of how they have implemented their information security governance framework at the strategic level within the organization (Corporate Governance Task Force Report, 2004). Many available tools to address issues to do with informational securities, both the operational and tactical levels, but the ISG addresses the corporate governance issue. Issues to do with information security have often been considered technical issues, but over the last few years, it has been established that there is more to be done to ensure that effective information security programs are ...

There is a lot of pressure in today’s organizations. Identification of a few of these pressures includes globalization, technology changes, competition, alliances, changes in organizational structure, methodologies of work assignments, employee priorities, capabilities, abilities and demographic factors. These factors call for the Human Resource function to help navigate the company during the transition in the organizations and the same function, finding ways of propelling the organization forward even further. The real plus the perceived value of the HR function will have to be upgraded. The HR function has been shifting from the personnel aspect to that of Human ...

SECTION I

1. Review the critical external and internal environmental factors that have strategic implications in the future for Pepsi. The implications indicate that changes in demographic tastes, and the need to improve economies of scale have forced Pepsi into scrambling to recover dominance of market share. This is demonstrated by job cuts, revving up marketing, and China R&D plant. Integration of stevia-sweetened products reflect consumer tastes for less artificial beverages. These changes for Pepsi between 2012 and 2014, give them a better chance to continue its market share – to some degree – given the factor that the diversity of its product ...

1. Introduction – Policing and representation of the community by the Police Over the years, there have been a lot of debates on the ethical role of police, especially looking at what is termed as police brutality or excesses. While in some countries certain ethnicities have accused the police of racial profiling and hatred, in other countries extreme force has been used to disperse protesters which were associated with slaughtering of college students. If anything, such incidents alienate the police force from the general community and often create a greater law and order problem throughout the nation which often result ...

This case study is meant to look into the importance of incorporating security when it comes to the issue of the governance of their enterprises. Corporate governance is defined as the set of policies and abilities to control and manage their organizations.Security is vital for enterprise on matters pertaining to risk management, for defensible management actions and to establish a control position in a manner that will show that their actions will be as per the desire of the stakeholders and the various shareholder as they act in accordance with the requirements as stipulated by the regulators. The Scott ( ...

Introduction

No doubt this nation has suffered greatly in the recent past and its staying power has been challenged to its limits, chief among them the insurgency of Boko HaramBoko Haram will soon know the strength of our will and commitment to rid this nation of terror we shall spare no effort until we defeat terrorism (Buhari cited in Associated Press, 2015b)). The above quotation is from the first speech of the newly elected President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari knew exactly what he was saying, when put tackling Boko Haram as the first issue of his agenda (Associated Press, ...

Healthcare reform

The Clinton health care plan This program is also known as the health security act. Some of its detractors gave it the name "Hillarycare." This phenomenon is reminiscent to the recent "Obamacare" bill nicknamed after President Barrack Obama. The health security act was a healthcare reform package. It got proposed by the Clinton administration under the then President Bill Clinton. The first lady got closely associated with the chair of the task force. This panel got created in January 1993. The creation process, however, appeared controversial. People became widely divided with one faction actively supporting the bill while another ...

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Evidence based practice refers to the use of best available research in clinical practice and decision making while considering the characteristics, preferences, and culture of patient (APA, n.d.). Therefore, it is considered as the integration of best available research evidence, clinical expertise, and the patient values (Buysse, Winton, Rous, Epstein, & Lim, 2012). Some researchers suggest that the information from local context is also an important element of evidence (Oliver, Innvar, Lorenc, Woodman, & Thomas, 2014). In the evidence based practice, best research evidence refers to the clinically relevant published studies showing the positive impact of an intervention ...

FBI VS Jewish Defense League

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been in operation as a major criminal investigation bureau in the US. This national crime-fighting agency of security goal is to protect America and the larger international community from criminal dangers that affect the world today (US Department of Justice, 2011). It was started in 1908 when Theodore Roosevelt was the president of the US by Robert Bonaparte (Weiner, 2013). Robert Bonaparte was the then attorney general of the US. It started as a task force of special agents, whose work was to track the major crimes that were happening in various ...

Since its independence in 1969, up to 1991 Somalia was ruled by one President, Dictator Mohammed Siad Barre (Fitzgerald, 2002). In 1991, Mohammed Siad Barre was forced out of power when rival clan militia captured Mogadishu the capital city. There emerged power struggle between two clan lords, Ali Mahdi Mohamed and Mohamed Farah Aideed, which led to mass killing of Somalia civilians. One of the two lords, Ali Mahdi Mohamed, declared himself a president. Over 300,000 Somalis died of hunger, diseases or the civil war. In 1992, the United Nations Security Council approved a military mission which was ...

Question One

The sales of the Lego’s movie themed products keyed to popular film franchises, such as Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Spiderman are performing well according to the company’s main shareholder and the Chief Executive Officer Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen who has served the company from 1979 to 2004 (Lego). The increased sales can be attributed to the increased number of alliances with Walt Disney Company and Lucas Films, which is the creator of the popular Star Wars Series. According to my opinion, I think this was the right strategy for the company to adopt considering the ...

Acute coronary syndrome is an umbrella term for a group of clinical symptoms indicative of acute myocardial ischemia. These conditions include non-ST-segment elevation myocardial ischemia (NSTEMI), unstable angina, and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). These conditions are high-risk manifestations of atherosclerosis in the coronary artery and significant causes of utilization of emergency services and hospitalization (Kumar and Cannon, 2009). STEMI causes 30% of all acute coronary syndromes in Australia (Harper and Lefkovits, 2010). This paper will describe the expected presentation, pathophysiology, ECG findings, pre-hospital management, and initial 24-hour management of STEMI in hospitals settings. These aspects will be described ...

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Diversity in the workplace is a strategic tool that has been adequately used by the IBM company for decades. The firm has developed an international reputation as one of the best when it comes to embracing diversity and providing the best working environment for different sets of characters. This tool is a crucial one because it provides the company with numerous benefits such as new perspectives in operation as well a diverse skill set that would amount to a higher rate of productivity. The paper seeks to determine the extent to which IBM’s claim to be an advocate ...

Sexual assault within the boundaries of university campuses is a subject that has drawn widespread attention from both scholars, researchers, government agencies and non-governmental organizations (Gunraj 4). It has also elicited a strong reaction from various public forums including online encyclopedia writing platforms such as Wikipedia. For example, the article “Campus sexual assault” on Wikipedia is an example of a reaction from the public in regards to the topic. The article is accessible online on the Wikipedia website through the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_sexual_assault#Explanations.Unfortunately, public opinions expressed in articles on online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia are not peer reviewed. Therefore, they ...

REPLY 1: EC

The lack of synergy amongst diverse elements within the closed system, the lack of control and the lack of output within the system may have contributed to the marginal results.

Identify and discuss instances of an aggregate mentality at work in this case.

Aggregate mentality is first witnessed amongst the subgroups recommendations within the task force whereby no new recommendations to the closed system are made. Whereas one group recommends the taking up of total quality management and another recommends a return to the basics, no effort towards the overhaul of the system is made. Would Karen today describer her school or school system as relatively open or relatively closed? Why? Classify ...

In October 2015 the United Nations faced another bribery scandal. New York federal authorities arrested John Ashe, who had been the UN General Assembly president in 2013-2014. He was charged with tax dodging and getting bribes worth $1.3 million from Ng Lap Seng, a business from China. Mr. Ng was also charged in the case. Ng Lap Seng, promoting the construction of UN Center in Macau, donated $1.5 million to the South-South Cooperation Office, the official UN body focused on evolution of the relationships between southern countries. The United States authorities recognized this transaction as suspicious, because it was ...

Through my own personal development and skills, I have worked alongside children that are in the upper-elementary age bracket. When I was younger, I served as a tutor and mentor to youth. I have also worked in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program which helped me to connect with children of all different ages and many of them were youth who could potentially be at-risk if they did not have a mentor there to help them. Through the mayor’s anti-gang task force in Houston, it has been designed to help children off of the streets and become better ...

Excessive alcohol use ranks the third leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States. Alcohol abuse acts as a primary risk factor for numerous society and health problems. The federal, state and local governments collaborate to minimize the problem by recommending task force recommendations describing interventions directed to the general population aimed at coping with the problem of excess alcohol use. Community health nurses have a big role to play in promoting the health of every person in the community by discouraging behaviors that are a risk to the public health (Nies and McEwen, 2015). Limiting the days ...

Tourism is the source of multiple economic benefits to any locality or country that attracts a steady flow of travelers. Foreign visitors can become a valuable source of foreign currency. So, a developing country should use its chance and reach its peak by boosting its revenues and getting its place in the competitive industry. Jamaica is focused on developing sustainable tourism and is ready to cope with difficulties on its way in order to get the tourism benefits and not harm its unique nature. But tourism has not only positive but also negative factors that can endanger the economy ...

Breast cancer is a kind of cancer developing from breast cells. It involves abnormal breast cells growth and, in serious stages, can invade into other parts of the body (World Health Organization 1). The majority of breast cancer cases occur in women, however men can have breast cancer as well. National Cancer Institute reports that 232 340 female breast cancers and 2 240 male breast cancers occur in the USA each year, as well as 39 620 people die from this disease annually (Nordqvist 1). Breast cancer is more common in the developed countries. As for more statistics, in ...