M5D1 Steroids for Recreation

 

After viewing the video “Steroid use: How much is too much,” reviewing the NIDA Fact Sheet on Anabolic Steroids and reading chapter 11 of textbook, discuss the following:

We’ve seen a recent increase in attention to steroid use by the media, sports authorities, public health officials and even the U.S. Congress. Given this attention, do you think that youth involved in sports today will be deterred or more likely to use steroids if given the opportunity? Explain and support your position.

M5D2: The Dangers of Medicine Cabinets

The drugs discussed in Chapter 11 are the primary targets of medicine cabinet raiding. Medicine cabinet raiding refers to people looking through medicine cabinets and drawers in bathrooms to steal pills; often from people they know (parents, relatives, parents of friends, etc.). How much of a problem do you think medicine cabinet raiding is and how might it easily be prevented?

 

SCM is a cornerstone of modern world commerce. For that reason, interest in the subject is well-nigh universal, among both practitioners and academics, and in private, public, not-for-profit, and governmental organizations.

 

Please begin this case by carefully reading two papers; Chenowith et al. (2012) and Blanchard (2009). Here’s an overview of them.

 

Chenowith and her coauthors (2012) are organizational scientists at the not-for-profit RAND corporation, a “think tank” that began life as a quasi-governmental agency. Their paper examines initiatives in supplier relationship management undertaken by the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command.

 

Blanchard (2009) is a business journalist writing for Industry Week, a civilian website. His paper provides a good, concise summary of SCM from a non-military (or at least, not specifically military) point of view.

 

 

The assignment for this is to carefully compare and contrast these two papers. What points do both of them make? What points does one emphasize, the other not? Explain. (Hint: Tables with side-by-side comparisons would be helpful.)

Please continue the analysis of Maersk Logistics Company.

Pick one example of good supplier management, as practiced by that organization. Explain in detail.

 

If it happens that your organization is notably lacking in good supplier management, please explain why. What could they do better? In your discussion, try to identify the “low-hanging fruit;” that is, the supply management initiative that would achieve the most good, in the least time, at the lowest cost. Again, you should explain in detail.

 

Don’t write in checklist form. Integrate the information you find into a well-constructed essay.

You may not find specific information relating to this assignment. In that case, you will need to “fill in the gaps,” using your understanding of the company you’re analyzing, plus the sources listed on the Background Info page.

 

You will be writing about an organization you currently work for or have worked for in the past and applying the background materials to your own experience.  So the first step in this assignment is to choose an organization that you have worked for that you want to write about.

 

Think about your own experiences at this organization, and how motivated you were and what factors increased or decreased your motivation.  Then write a three to four page paper covering the following issues:

 

1. What steps did management at your organization do to motivate workers?

2. Did management seem to apply Theory X or Theory Y for their motivation strategies?  Or did they use elements of both?

3. What needs in Maslow’s hierarchy does management at your organization try to address?

read these articles and answer the questions that follow each to complete this Case Assignment:

 

Abstract only Bioessays Cavicchioli et al. 2003.

Answer this question:

What does this abstract report about archaea?

 

Hoffman, C et al.  Archaea and Fungi of the Human Gut Microbiome: Correlations with Diet and Bacterial Residents.  PLOS. 2013:8:e66019.

 

Answer the following questions:

In the abstract of this peer-reviewed scientific study,

 

1. What do the authors say about the influence of diet on health?  What groups of microbes does this study focus on?  How were these groups characterized?

2. Which type of archaea were most abundant?  Which fungal phyla were most abundant?

3. What components of diet were associated with the abundance of these microbes?  Describe the relationship (negative/positive) by reviewing page 6 for more detail.

 

In the first paragraph of the Introduction of this study, there are four things listed that could affect the abundance of microbes at different body sites.  What are they?

Viruses are typically not classified as true living organisms by biologists. Viruses have DNA or RNA and protein but are not able to replicate until they infect a host cell. Within the cell they must use the enzymes and molecular building blocks the host cell provides to replicate. Viruses cause disease in all living organisms and they are able to persist outside the cell for extended periods until they can once again infect a suitable host cell.

 

1. How viruses differ from true living organisms such as bacteria and fungi. They infect the same as any other pathogen that causes disease. Live and obtain the necessary nutrients they need from their hosts but still are not classified as true living organisms and why you believe this is true. Contrast the differences and similarities that viruses have with living organisms such as bacteria and fungi.

 

2. While we are on the subjects of “unusual” organisms, also comment on prions. How do they compare with viruses and other microbial organisms? What diseases are they thought to cause?