Research Proposal word count at least 900 Overview: This project will require you to read at least three journal articles, develop an experimental hypothesis based on those articles, devise a hypothetical experiment for testing the hypothesis, propose an appropriate statistical analysis for hypothetical data, and discuss your predicted results. This will culminate in a final proposal paper in APA format. The paper will include a description of the previous research leading up to your experimental hypothesis, the procedures you chose to test your hypothesis, and the proposed analysis and interpretation of your data related to your proposed experiment. You will not actually be conducting an experiment; you are simply writing about what you would do if you were to conduct an experiment.Details: You will write a paper about your research proposal of a psychological experiment. Using the psychology literature you will develop an understanding of some psychological problem or question and design a hypothetical experiment that will shed light on the problem/question. You must have a minimum of three peer-reviewed scholarly research articles or chapters from edited books for your literature review. Although you may use articles/chapters that are available on the web, web sites are generally not scholarly sources. Nevertheless, there may be documents available through a research institute or academic institution available on the web that have not been published in a peer-reviewed journal. If you think there is a source on the web that you would like to use, you need to have it approved by me prior to using it as an additional source for your paper. The proposal should be in APA format using one-inch margins and 12-point font. Tips on APA guidelines will be presented for the class.The paper will include the following:a)Title & Abstract: Title no longer than 12 words; abstract will be 120-250 words, summarizing your entire paper and project.b)Introduction: Your opening paragraphs will describe the proposal topic and explain why it is important and any questions or problems involved. A well-written thesis statement will help guide your paper.c)Literature Review: Describe the three research studies about your topic. What were their findings? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the research conducted? How will your study answer a new question or fill an important gap based on this research?d)Hypothesis or Hypotheses: What do you propose will happen in your hypothetical experiment? What information will you find out? What do you predict will happen?e)Methods: Includes a detailed description of your hypothetical participants, procedures (including population and sampling procedures), and materials. Remember to operationalize your variables and explain how you will control for extraneous factors and sampling errors. You will also need to include your proposed data analysis, describing what statistical method you will use to analyze your data.f)Results: Describe the predicted results of your study based on the statistical method you selected.g)Discussion: Briefly summarize your hypothetical findings. Include the strengths and limitations of your study. What are the research or practical implications of your findings? What are the practical applications of the research you discovered? Can you recommend anything for people working with your constructs based on the research you discovered? What biases might have been involved?h)References: List all your references in APA format.

Instructions: Read the following case study and answer the reflective questions. Please provide
rationales for your answers. Make sure to provide a citation for your answers. CASE STUDY: An Older Immigrant Couple: Mr. and Mrs. Arahan
Mr. and Mrs. Arahan, an older couple in their seventies, have been living with their oldest daughter,
her husband of 15 years, and their two children, ages 12 and 14. They all live in a middle-income
neighborhood in a suburb of a metropolitan city. Mr. and Mrs. Arahan are both college educated and
worked full-time while they were in their native country. In addition, Mr. Arahan, the only offspring
of wealthy parents, inherited a substantial amount of money and real estate. Their daughter came to
the United States as a registered nurse and met her husband, a drug company representative. The
older couple moved to the United States when their daughter became a U.S. citizen and petitioned
them as immigrants. Since the couple was facing retirement, they welcomed the opportunity to come
to the United States.
The Arahans found life in the United States different from that in their home country, but their
adjustment was not as difficult because both were healthy and spoke English fluently. Most of their
time was spent taking care of their two grandchildren and the house. As the grandchildren grew older,
the older couple found that they had more spare time. The daughter and her husband advanced in
their careers and spent a great deal more time at their jobs. There were few family dinners during
the week. On weekends, the daughter, her husband, and their children socialized with their own
friends. The couple began to feel isolated and longed for a more active life.
Mr. and Mrs. Arahan began to think that perhaps they should return to the home country, where
they still had relatives and friends. However, political and economic issues would have made it
difficult for them to live there. Besides, they had become accustomed to the way of life in the United
States with all the modern conveniences and abundance of goods that were difficult to obtain in their
country. However, they also became concerned that they might not be able to tolerate the winter
months and that minor health problems might worsen as they aged. They wondered who would take
care of them if they became very frail and where they would live, knowing that their daughter had
only saved money for their grandchildren’s college education. They expressed their sentiments to
their daughter, who became very concerned about how her parents were feeling.
This older couple had been attending church on a regular basis, but had never been active in other
church-related activities. The church bulletin announced the establishment of parish nursing with
two retired registered nurses as volunteers. The couple attended the first opening of the parish clinic.
Here, they met one of the registered nurses, who had a short discussion with them about the services
offered. The registered nurse had spent a great deal of her working years as a community health
nurse. She informed Mr. and Mrs. Arahan of her availability to help them resolve any health-related
issues.
Reflective Questions
1. What strategies could be suggested for this older adult couple to enhance their quality of life?
2. What community resources can they utilize?
3. What can the daughter and her family do to address the feelings of isolation of the older couple?
4. What health promotion activities can ensure a healthy lifestyle for them?

Instructions:Within your Persuasive Speech, you will be required to advocate for a community issue that you are passionate about. In order to prepare for that assignment, you will be analyzing a video for the community issue of your choice. (Local area is the state of Florida).Find a public advocacy video for a specific campus, local, or state nonprofit, organization, movement, or cause you would like to support. After you find your cause, you will post to this discussion board answering the questions provided and using citations in APA format. See specific requirements for each part of this assignment listed below.Find a Cause to SupportIt may be a nonprofit organization, social cause, or political movement, but it should work primarily on the campus, local, or state level(not a national or international organization or cause).For charities in other areas, check out Charity Navigator (Links to an external site.). You can find smaller social causes and campaigns at GoFundMe (Links to an external site.).If you have social or political causes you care about, you can search those sites for projects related to those causes (such as education, clean water, solar power, food banks, or domestic violence. Find a Video to AnalyzeYou are looking for one video that attempts to persuade the viewer to take individual action or change their own behavior.Often videos will ask viewers to donate money, but they may also ask for people to volunteer time or change their personal behaviors (such as boycott a company or product or vote for a ballot measure or candidate).The video you analyze must have a person on screen, talking to the camera, for at least a third of the total video.Please select a video that is less than 10 minutes in total length.Watch the advocacy video and apply the principles of emotion as explained in your textbook. The objective is to identify and assess the emotional appeals. The purpose is not to assess the whole website, text, etc., but only the video.Important: Remember that for this assignment, you should choose a video that has some visuals and motion– not audio with only still images.Prompt :For the purpose of this discussion please answer the following questions:How does the video define persuasion?Who is the target audience for this video?What pattern of organization is used within this persuasive video?What evidence does the speaker use? What four tips for using evidence does the speaker use?Based on this video, what can you do to enhance your credibility as a speaker?Requirements:The posting is designed to give you practice in writing in the first person. This is allowed on the discussion boards and in your speech-writing. Speech writing in the form of an outline plus the discussion board entries in this class are less formal than research writing; however, you must add credible research in your initial posting. This mirrors what you do in your speeches, where you must add oral citations of your sources.Consult the 7th edition of APA as a guide for your citations.You must write 500 words for maximum credit.You must cite and use our textbook at least once in the initial post using APA format.You must cite at least one outside scholarly source using APA format.You must include a citation for the advocacy video. Cite this in APA format.You will add complete written citations for the textbook and outside source at the bottom of your post.Be sure to add a word count and link to the video. The book is “The art of public speaking” by Stephen E. Lucas

References with the articles attached:
PATÓ, B. S. G. (2013). The seven Most Important Criterions of Job Descriptions. International Journal of Business Insights & Transformation, 7(1), 68–73.
Kristof-Brown, A. L. (2000). Perceived Applicant Fit: Distinguishing between Recruiters’ Perceptions of Person-Job and person-organization Fit. Personnel Psychology, 53(3), 643–671. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6570.2000.tb00217.x
Dayal, I. (1969). Role Analysis Technique in Job Descriptions. California Management Review, 11(4), 47–50. https://doi.org/10.2307/41164190
Textbook – Snell, S. A., Morris, S. S., & Bohlander, G. W. (2019). Managing human resources (18th ed.).
Cengage Learning
Discussion Question Below:
The questions below are intended to give you an opportunity to relate the Unit 3 readings to your own personal work experiences. It is recommended that you answer the questions below, after you have completed the Read assignment for Unit 3 which covers chapters 4, 5, and 6 in the course e-book, Managing human resources (18th ed.) authored by Snell et al. (2019). You may also wish to make use of any resources provided in the Unit 3 Course Materials link. If you wish to hide the identity of your employer, you may use a pseudonym or simply not mention the company name.
(a) Does your employer have job descriptions and job specifications for each job in the organization? Find your answers here https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/?bid=6936
(b) Is there a job description for your job where you work? Does the job description accurately reflect your duties, tasks, and responsibilities? If there isn’t a job description, should one be created? Why or why not? https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/?bid=6936
(c) Is there a job specification for your job where you work? Does the job specification accurately reflect the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other traits that you need to perform your job? If there isn’t a job specification, should one be created? Why or why not? https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/?bid=6936
(d) Was a job analysis used to prepare the job description and job specification for your job where you work? The job description defines the role, responsibilities, and duties to be performed in a job position. Whereas, job specification is a particular set of skills or attributes required in a candidate to perform that job. The need for preparing a job description arises when the job analysis is done. The answer is yes
2. (a) How does your employer recruit people for vacant positions? The recruitment phase of a hiring process takes place when companies try to reach a pool of candidates: Companies use job postings on company and external websites, job referrals, and help wanted advertisements, as well as resources on college campuses and social media to reach potential applicants.
   (b) To what extent do you feel your employer’s recruitment methods are effective in attracting qualified applicants? https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/?bid=6936 
3. (a) Briefly describe your employer’s selection process. HCA Healthcare Hiring Process: Job Application, Interview, and Employment. Completing the Company’s hiring process. The HCA Healthcare hiring process involves various stages, including the job application and interview, that you will be expected to complete successfully to be employed
   (b) To what extent do you feel your employer’s selection methods help to hire the best candidates for the vacant position? https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/?bid=6936 

Learning Outcomes
1. Use monitoring and control techniques to ensure the regulation of expenditure and realization of appropriate profits in all phases of the work
2. Apply a range of numerical techniques relevant to the processes of building design and construction leading to the investigation, analysis and solution of construction problems
Assignment Objective
This is an individual assignment concentrated is to develop the student’s understanding of the estimation of budgets of costs in the design, tender and construction phases of major building projects. This will include developing knowledge of the importance of setting budgets of design costs in order to price building works. This will assist quantity surveying and construction management students to carry out more accurate estimating and efficient management in construction work.
Task:
In your submittal, please discuss clearly the following:
1. The attached “Cost and Quantitative Management (CIVL 0029.1)-Coursework-Data” in Excel sheet shows the details of decision variables, objective function and constraints of the mathematical model details taken up by a contractor of his daily production that can be assigned to his production line Determine the optimum solution in order to maximize profit by applying simplex method and graphical method showing the feasible region and in all the cases the value of X1 , X2 ,X3 and X4 ? 0 .
a. Represent the initial solution table
b. Illustrate graphical interpretation with optimum solution
c. Show the detailed calculations of all the iterations involved
2. Five shipping companies S1, S2 , S3 and S4 are supplied by four factories F1, F2, F3, F4 and F5. The supply available from each factory (F), the demand at each shipping companies (S) and the cost per unit of transporting goods from the factories to the shipping are summarized in the attached “Cost and Quantitative Management (CIVL 0029.1)-Coursework-Data” in Excel sheet.
a. For the given table according to your excel data sheet draw the network representation
b. Solve by transportation problem to maximize profit choosing the method North West method / Least cost method /Vogel’s approximation method as per your data sheet. Find the optimal solution of this problem, i.e. the solution that minimizes the transportation costs, clearly showing and explaining your working
3. Company al MAHAR has developed a new line of products. Top management is attempting to decide on the appropriate marketing and production strategy. Three strategies are being considered, which we will simply refer to as A (aggressive), B (basic) and C (cautious). The market conditions under study are denoted by Poor, Moderate or High. Management’s best estimate of the net profits (in millions of OMR) in each case is given in the given tree. Management’s best estimates of the probabilities of a strong or a weak market are given in the table. Draw a decision tree based on the attached “Cost and Quantitative Management (CIVL 0029.1)-Coursework-Data” in Excel sheet Which strategy should be chosen under Earned Value Management (EMV).
4. Elaborate on any two-cost monitoring and cost controlling measures taken in the construction project to ensure the regulation of expenditure and realization of appropriate profits in all phases of the work
5. Pre class and post class activities
Each student is expected to complete the pre class and post class activities on weekly basis. The details topics, mode of weekly activities is given in MIG session 8.