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Policy Analysis Paper
According to the CDC, an approximated 1.6% of the US population is LGBTIQ by sexual orientation. Given that the US populat ...
Policy Analysis Paper
According to the CDC, an approximated 1.6% of the US population is LGBTIQ by sexual orientation. Given that the US population is about 327.2 million ...
TAMIU Integrated Health Management Program Recommendations Letter
You are the Director of Environment, Safety and Health (ES&H) at US Jets, a mid-sized business organization that designs, ...
TAMIU Integrated Health Management Program Recommendations Letter
You are the Director of Environment, Safety and Health (ES&H) at US Jets, a mid-sized business organization that designs, manufactures, and sells business jet aircraft. Your business is headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida. Over the past few years, you have seen an increase in health insurance claims and workers’ compensation claims. In addition, it has been determined that employees that suffered injuries at work have been out of work longer and have taken longer to rehabilitate. You and the human resources director determine that much of this is due to increasing cases of diabetes in the workplace and a higher percentage of workers that are overweight or obese. Your organization does not currently have a wellness program, nor does the company offer any incentives for wellness. Further, it appears that the organization has few initiatives in place to promote healthy eating, exercise, or well-being.Based on the above information complete the following:Draft a business letter to John Johnson, Chief Operating Officer (your supervisor), that effectively communicates to him the need to establish an integrated health protection and health promotion program focused on Total Worker Health. Discuss how this program will aid in controlling workers’ compensation costs, health care costs, and assist with improving return-to-work initiatives. In the letter, be sure to describe what is meant by Total Worker Health and the integration of health protection and health promotion. Be sure to describe the program you want to implement and describe the essential elements that will be needed to make the program effective. Also, you need to argue the merits of this initiative which integrates health protection and health promotion. Be sure to provide a justification for this initiative. In other words, argue the merits of such a program and show how this program will be beneficial to the organization. This may require additional research of the literature, especially in the areas related to diabetes costs, costs associated with overweight/obesity, impact of diabetes/overweight/obesity on both health and injury outcomes, and the impact of these factors on return-to-work and disability management.Write your letter using block format. Use citations and include references in APA format.
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Skill Check Meiosis Reproduction
What is the underlying cause of the syndrome? There is an extra chromosome at Describe the symptoms that will show in the ...
Skill Check Meiosis Reproduction
What is the underlying cause of the syndrome? There is an extra chromosome at Describe the symptoms that will show in the individual with the ...
Preventing AIDS A drug called money
Based on the Introduction section and Discussion section of the journal article, write a one paragraph concise overview - ...
Preventing AIDS A drug called money
Based on the Introduction section and Discussion section of the journal article, write a one paragraph concise overview - in your own words - of what "cash transfer" means and what the study showed. Insert the text directly in the text toolbar section of the assignment (not comments to professor/instructor section).Preventing AIDS A drug called moneyCash payments to schoolgirls cut HIV infection rateFeb 15th 2012by G.C.HALFWAY between marriage and prostitution lies the sugar daddy. Not quite a husband, not quite a John, he looks after his girl and expects her to be loyal to him—a loyalty that is frequently unreciprocated. But if you are a poor African teenager, having a sugar daddy is not such a bad deal. Eventually, Mr Right may come along and in the meantime life is, as the term suggests, a lot sweeter than it might otherwise be. Except for one thing. In many parts of Africa, relationships between older men and younger women are one of the main transmitters of HIV.With that in mind, it has often been hypothesised that if teenage girls were given an alternative income—one that might, for instance, allow them to stay on at school—they would be less likely to get infected. It is a plausible hypothesis but one that has not, until now, actually been tested.That lack has just been remedied by Berk Özler, of the World Bank, and his colleagues. In a paper just published by the Lancet, they describe how they conducted a randomised clinical trial of the idea that money, and money alone, can stop the spread of HIV.They carried out their experiment in the Zomba district of Malawi, recruiting nearly 1,300 never-married women between the ages of 13 and 22. They divided Zomba into 176 areas, and each participant in a given area was treated in the same way. That area-wide treatment was, however, decided at random by a computer. In some areas, which acted as controls, the women were simply monitored. In some they and their parents were given small amounts of money each month (between $1 and $5 for the women, and between $4 and $10 for the parents), again decided at random by the computer. In a third set of areas money was doled out in a similar way, but only in exchange for a promise by the woman to attend school. If she failed to do so, no money was forthcoming.When the results were in, the team found that the unpaid women had suffered more than twice the HIV infection rate experienced by the paid women over the course of the 18 months of the experiment, and four times the infection rate of genital herpes. Intriguingly, there was no difference between the infection rate suffered by those required to go to school and those who received the money unconditionally. Whether the actual amount of money mattered was not clear. For that to emerge a larger sample would be needed.What is abundantly clear, however, was that the money did make women behave differently. They had younger boyfriends than those in the control group, and had sex less frequently. Liberated from the need to find a sugar daddy, they could behave in a safer way. Those attempting to stop the spread of AIDS have, in the past, tried many ways of getting people to change their behaviour in order to reduce the risk of infection. They have extolled, exhorted and even threatened, all to little avail. They have not, though, previously, resorted to bribery. But it seems to work.
BIO 011 Pasadena City College The Trees in Your Neighborhood Paper
Overview & Background
So far this week, you've been learning about climate change, photosynthesis, and the benefits pr ...
BIO 011 Pasadena City College The Trees in Your Neighborhood Paper
Overview & Background
So far this week, you've been learning about climate change, photosynthesis, and the benefits provided by urban trees. For this assignment, you will be focusing on the trees in your neighborhood and their ability to sequester carbon.
Assignment Requirements
Step 1: Count the number of trees on your block
Walk along one block in your neighborhood and count the number of trees along the street and in front yards. Record this number.
Step 2: Document and measure the diameter of five trees
Find five trees that you have access to. (You need to be able to get close enough to touch the trunks of the trees.)
For each tree, you will need to take a picture of the tree and measure its diameter. (If you are unable to take a picture, you can sketch the tree instead.) Diameter at breast height (DBH) is the standard way to measure the size of a tree. DBH is the diameter of the tree at approximately 4.5 feet above the ground.
You can measure the diameter of the trees by using a fabric tape measure (Links to an external site.) or a free measuring app (Measure app for iOs (Links to an external site.) or Measure app for Android (Links to an external site.)). Note that these measuring apps can be a bit finicky and you will need to stand quite close to the tree to obtain accurate measurements. For this assignment, you will need to know the DBH in inches.
If you are using a fabric tape measure:
Measure 4.5 feet above the ground.
Wrap the tape measure around the tree at this point. Write down the measurement; this is the circumference.
Divide the circumference by 3.14. This will give you the diameter of the tree.
Record the diameter of the tree and repeat this process for all trees in your area.
If you are using an app:
Measure 4.5 feet above the ground.
Use the app to measure the diameter (width) of the tree.
Record the diameter of the tree and repeat this process for all trees in your area.
Make sure that you complete this assignment during the day; the app won't work well if the tree isn't well lit. If you get stuck when using an app, use the information below to help you troubleshoot:
Use the Measure app on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch (Links to an external site.)
Use the Measure app on Android Devices (Links to an external site.)
Malone, Thomas; Liang, Jingjing; Packee, Edmond C. 2009. Cooperative Alaska Forest Inventory. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-785. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 42 p. This article was written and prepared by U.S. Government employees on official time, and is therefore in the public domain.
Step 3: Estimate the total amount of carbon sequestered on your block
Use the table below to help you determine the total amount of carbon sequestered by all the trees in your area. The values in the table can be interpreted according to the following definitions:
Carbon sequestration (lbs/year) - estimated amount of carbon removed annually by trees
Carbon sequestration (miles) - the number of automobile miles driven that produces emissions equivalent to the effect of the tree
Average amount of carbon sequestered by tree diameterDBH (inches)Carbon sequestrationlbs/yearmiles1-32.593-67.6286-914.0519-1219.97312-1527.09915-1850.018318-2159.721921-2486.731724-2790.633227-30111.640930+155.5570
Nowak, David J.; Hoehn, Robert E. III; Crane, Daniel E.; Weller, Lorraine; Davila, Antonio. 2011. Assessing urban forest effects and values, Los Angeles’ urban forest. Resour. Bull. NRS-47. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 30 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-RB-47 (Links to an external site.).
Calculate the average amount of carbon sequestered for all the trees that you measured by adding together the amounts for each tree and dividing the total by 5. Estimate the amount of carbon sequestered by all of street trees on your block by multiplying the average amount of carbon by the total number of trees you counted.
Step 4: Determine tree canopy cover for your neighborhood
You will use the Healthy Places Index (HPI) map to determine what the tree canopy cover is in your neighborhood and see how it compares to other neighborhoods.
Go to the Healthy Places Index (Links to an external site.) map.
Search for your neighborhood in the search box at the top of the page.
Click 'View Indicators' and then select 'Neighborhood.' Choose to view 'Tree Canopy' on the map. This variable is a measure of the percentage of land with tree canopy (weighted by number of people per acre). When you click on a census tract, you will be able to see what the tree canopy cover is for that census tract and how it compares to how that census tract compares to other census tracts in California. In the image below, see an example of tree canopy cover data for the census tract containing Pasadena City College. Note that in the pop-up box, the first value is the percentile, which indicates how this census tract compares to other census tracts, and the number in the parenthesis is the percent canopy cover.
The following screencast provides an overview of how to get the tree canopy cover data for your neighborhood from the Healthy Places Index Map:
Submission Guidelines
Now that you've collected data about the trees in your neighborhood and calculated the total amount of carbon sequestered, include the following in a file (Word doc or pdf):
The number of trees on one block in your neighborhood.
Pictures of the trees that you measured and the DBH and amount of carbon sequestered for each
Total amount of carbon sequestered by all of the trees on your block.
Your neighborhood’s canopy cover values from HPI and that of a three comparison neighborhoods. Comparing the canopy cover in your neighborhood to others in Los Angeles County, should your neighborhood be a priority for urban tree planting efforts? If not, identify another neighborhood that should be a priority. Explain how the data from the HPI map supports your recommendation.
In addition to carbon sequestration, what would be 2 potential benefits for the neighborhood if additional trees are planted?
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TAMIU Integrated Health Management Program Recommendations Letter
You are the Director of Environment, Safety and Health (ES&H) at US Jets, a mid-sized business organization that designs, ...
TAMIU Integrated Health Management Program Recommendations Letter
You are the Director of Environment, Safety and Health (ES&H) at US Jets, a mid-sized business organization that designs, manufactures, and sells business jet aircraft. Your business is headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida. Over the past few years, you have seen an increase in health insurance claims and workers’ compensation claims. In addition, it has been determined that employees that suffered injuries at work have been out of work longer and have taken longer to rehabilitate. You and the human resources director determine that much of this is due to increasing cases of diabetes in the workplace and a higher percentage of workers that are overweight or obese. Your organization does not currently have a wellness program, nor does the company offer any incentives for wellness. Further, it appears that the organization has few initiatives in place to promote healthy eating, exercise, or well-being.Based on the above information complete the following:Draft a business letter to John Johnson, Chief Operating Officer (your supervisor), that effectively communicates to him the need to establish an integrated health protection and health promotion program focused on Total Worker Health. Discuss how this program will aid in controlling workers’ compensation costs, health care costs, and assist with improving return-to-work initiatives. In the letter, be sure to describe what is meant by Total Worker Health and the integration of health protection and health promotion. Be sure to describe the program you want to implement and describe the essential elements that will be needed to make the program effective. Also, you need to argue the merits of this initiative which integrates health protection and health promotion. Be sure to provide a justification for this initiative. In other words, argue the merits of such a program and show how this program will be beneficial to the organization. This may require additional research of the literature, especially in the areas related to diabetes costs, costs associated with overweight/obesity, impact of diabetes/overweight/obesity on both health and injury outcomes, and the impact of these factors on return-to-work and disability management.Write your letter using block format. Use citations and include references in APA format.
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Skill Check Meiosis Reproduction
What is the underlying cause of the syndrome? There is an extra chromosome at Describe the symptoms that will show in the ...
Skill Check Meiosis Reproduction
What is the underlying cause of the syndrome? There is an extra chromosome at Describe the symptoms that will show in the individual with the ...
Preventing AIDS A drug called money
Based on the Introduction section and Discussion section of the journal article, write a one paragraph concise overview - ...
Preventing AIDS A drug called money
Based on the Introduction section and Discussion section of the journal article, write a one paragraph concise overview - in your own words - of what "cash transfer" means and what the study showed. Insert the text directly in the text toolbar section of the assignment (not comments to professor/instructor section).Preventing AIDS A drug called moneyCash payments to schoolgirls cut HIV infection rateFeb 15th 2012by G.C.HALFWAY between marriage and prostitution lies the sugar daddy. Not quite a husband, not quite a John, he looks after his girl and expects her to be loyal to him—a loyalty that is frequently unreciprocated. But if you are a poor African teenager, having a sugar daddy is not such a bad deal. Eventually, Mr Right may come along and in the meantime life is, as the term suggests, a lot sweeter than it might otherwise be. Except for one thing. In many parts of Africa, relationships between older men and younger women are one of the main transmitters of HIV.With that in mind, it has often been hypothesised that if teenage girls were given an alternative income—one that might, for instance, allow them to stay on at school—they would be less likely to get infected. It is a plausible hypothesis but one that has not, until now, actually been tested.That lack has just been remedied by Berk Özler, of the World Bank, and his colleagues. In a paper just published by the Lancet, they describe how they conducted a randomised clinical trial of the idea that money, and money alone, can stop the spread of HIV.They carried out their experiment in the Zomba district of Malawi, recruiting nearly 1,300 never-married women between the ages of 13 and 22. They divided Zomba into 176 areas, and each participant in a given area was treated in the same way. That area-wide treatment was, however, decided at random by a computer. In some areas, which acted as controls, the women were simply monitored. In some they and their parents were given small amounts of money each month (between $1 and $5 for the women, and between $4 and $10 for the parents), again decided at random by the computer. In a third set of areas money was doled out in a similar way, but only in exchange for a promise by the woman to attend school. If she failed to do so, no money was forthcoming.When the results were in, the team found that the unpaid women had suffered more than twice the HIV infection rate experienced by the paid women over the course of the 18 months of the experiment, and four times the infection rate of genital herpes. Intriguingly, there was no difference between the infection rate suffered by those required to go to school and those who received the money unconditionally. Whether the actual amount of money mattered was not clear. For that to emerge a larger sample would be needed.What is abundantly clear, however, was that the money did make women behave differently. They had younger boyfriends than those in the control group, and had sex less frequently. Liberated from the need to find a sugar daddy, they could behave in a safer way. Those attempting to stop the spread of AIDS have, in the past, tried many ways of getting people to change their behaviour in order to reduce the risk of infection. They have extolled, exhorted and even threatened, all to little avail. They have not, though, previously, resorted to bribery. But it seems to work.
BIO 011 Pasadena City College The Trees in Your Neighborhood Paper
Overview & Background
So far this week, you've been learning about climate change, photosynthesis, and the benefits pr ...
BIO 011 Pasadena City College The Trees in Your Neighborhood Paper
Overview & Background
So far this week, you've been learning about climate change, photosynthesis, and the benefits provided by urban trees. For this assignment, you will be focusing on the trees in your neighborhood and their ability to sequester carbon.
Assignment Requirements
Step 1: Count the number of trees on your block
Walk along one block in your neighborhood and count the number of trees along the street and in front yards. Record this number.
Step 2: Document and measure the diameter of five trees
Find five trees that you have access to. (You need to be able to get close enough to touch the trunks of the trees.)
For each tree, you will need to take a picture of the tree and measure its diameter. (If you are unable to take a picture, you can sketch the tree instead.) Diameter at breast height (DBH) is the standard way to measure the size of a tree. DBH is the diameter of the tree at approximately 4.5 feet above the ground.
You can measure the diameter of the trees by using a fabric tape measure (Links to an external site.) or a free measuring app (Measure app for iOs (Links to an external site.) or Measure app for Android (Links to an external site.)). Note that these measuring apps can be a bit finicky and you will need to stand quite close to the tree to obtain accurate measurements. For this assignment, you will need to know the DBH in inches.
If you are using a fabric tape measure:
Measure 4.5 feet above the ground.
Wrap the tape measure around the tree at this point. Write down the measurement; this is the circumference.
Divide the circumference by 3.14. This will give you the diameter of the tree.
Record the diameter of the tree and repeat this process for all trees in your area.
If you are using an app:
Measure 4.5 feet above the ground.
Use the app to measure the diameter (width) of the tree.
Record the diameter of the tree and repeat this process for all trees in your area.
Make sure that you complete this assignment during the day; the app won't work well if the tree isn't well lit. If you get stuck when using an app, use the information below to help you troubleshoot:
Use the Measure app on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch (Links to an external site.)
Use the Measure app on Android Devices (Links to an external site.)
Malone, Thomas; Liang, Jingjing; Packee, Edmond C. 2009. Cooperative Alaska Forest Inventory. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-785. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 42 p. This article was written and prepared by U.S. Government employees on official time, and is therefore in the public domain.
Step 3: Estimate the total amount of carbon sequestered on your block
Use the table below to help you determine the total amount of carbon sequestered by all the trees in your area. The values in the table can be interpreted according to the following definitions:
Carbon sequestration (lbs/year) - estimated amount of carbon removed annually by trees
Carbon sequestration (miles) - the number of automobile miles driven that produces emissions equivalent to the effect of the tree
Average amount of carbon sequestered by tree diameterDBH (inches)Carbon sequestrationlbs/yearmiles1-32.593-67.6286-914.0519-1219.97312-1527.09915-1850.018318-2159.721921-2486.731724-2790.633227-30111.640930+155.5570
Nowak, David J.; Hoehn, Robert E. III; Crane, Daniel E.; Weller, Lorraine; Davila, Antonio. 2011. Assessing urban forest effects and values, Los Angeles’ urban forest. Resour. Bull. NRS-47. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 30 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-RB-47 (Links to an external site.).
Calculate the average amount of carbon sequestered for all the trees that you measured by adding together the amounts for each tree and dividing the total by 5. Estimate the amount of carbon sequestered by all of street trees on your block by multiplying the average amount of carbon by the total number of trees you counted.
Step 4: Determine tree canopy cover for your neighborhood
You will use the Healthy Places Index (HPI) map to determine what the tree canopy cover is in your neighborhood and see how it compares to other neighborhoods.
Go to the Healthy Places Index (Links to an external site.) map.
Search for your neighborhood in the search box at the top of the page.
Click 'View Indicators' and then select 'Neighborhood.' Choose to view 'Tree Canopy' on the map. This variable is a measure of the percentage of land with tree canopy (weighted by number of people per acre). When you click on a census tract, you will be able to see what the tree canopy cover is for that census tract and how it compares to how that census tract compares to other census tracts in California. In the image below, see an example of tree canopy cover data for the census tract containing Pasadena City College. Note that in the pop-up box, the first value is the percentile, which indicates how this census tract compares to other census tracts, and the number in the parenthesis is the percent canopy cover.
The following screencast provides an overview of how to get the tree canopy cover data for your neighborhood from the Healthy Places Index Map:
Submission Guidelines
Now that you've collected data about the trees in your neighborhood and calculated the total amount of carbon sequestered, include the following in a file (Word doc or pdf):
The number of trees on one block in your neighborhood.
Pictures of the trees that you measured and the DBH and amount of carbon sequestered for each
Total amount of carbon sequestered by all of the trees on your block.
Your neighborhood’s canopy cover values from HPI and that of a three comparison neighborhoods. Comparing the canopy cover in your neighborhood to others in Los Angeles County, should your neighborhood be a priority for urban tree planting efforts? If not, identify another neighborhood that should be a priority. Explain how the data from the HPI map supports your recommendation.
In addition to carbon sequestration, what would be 2 potential benefits for the neighborhood if additional trees are planted?
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