CRM 2303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sample Size Determination, Literature Review, Research Question

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1 May 2016

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Components of a research proposal: objective, literature review, research question, method. Sampling technique your project or the secondary data source: analysis, threats to validity, ethical considerations, references. Why have you chosen this topic and what will it add to the research literature. How you plan to conduct the research. Who or what you will be studying. Where and when this will take place: objective. Policy responses to crime, or theory, or methods. Does it have practical significance: literature review. Summarize and synthesize the arguments and ideas of others (5-10 sources) Not just a descriptive list of the material, or a set of summaries (annotated bibliography) Be organized around and related directly to your research question. Synthesize results into a summary of what others have said, what is and is not known. Identify areas of controversy in the literature, disagreements in what others have found. Organize note, synthesize and write the review.

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QUESTION I

Project Background You have just completed a postgraduatediploma in project management and are currently registered for amasterâs degree where you have to carry out a mini research oncustomer care in your organization. Develop a project proposal onthe planning, execution, analysis and reporting of the research.All processes planned for should be finalized within 6 months fromthe 4th august 2018.

GENERAL PROJECT TASK
The following needs to be done:

You know:
ï· How to conduct research according to the study-guide
ï· Sample of respondents should be at least 100
ï· Pilot study to be carried out

You have:
You have constituted a good team, and have decided to pay asfollows:

Field Worker / Data Collector	$100 per day
Statistician	$3800
Language Editor	$200 per hour
Printer and Binder	$400

Note: Assign resources as much as you can to accomplish all youridentified tasks

State the objective i.e. why your help is needed. State theproject goal, plus any constraints or conditions. Break down thegoal into several objectives that will be researched, and the valuethat each objective offers to the research study.

List all resources that will be needed, including your researchprofessionals like a statistician. Discuss assumed resources,including research requirements. Especially note external resourcesand requirements, e.g. does the study need an externalreviewer?

Present the specific tasks you will do as a WBS, and give costestimates, with sub-totals at each level and total estimated cost.Briefly discuss the estimates, where the costs mainly go, andefforts made to save costs.

Discuss the project dependencies and list the tasks on thecritical path. Discuss the critical path tasks, and methods used toshorten the critical path.

List and discuss the milestones and the deliverables for each.Be very specific about each milestone, including the project finishmilestone.

Explain the general strategy that will be used to manage theproject to completion. Project must have at least two phases.Discuss how they connect to each other, and the milestones. Explainwhy you took this strategy. Summarise 10 most important projectrisks, and how they will be dealt with if they occur.

Briefly summarise, giving the overall project cost, the projectbenefits as bullet points, and the general strategy. Provide a listof meetings with research specialists and others involved in theresearch process, with details like who, when and where andestimated times, and desired deliverable.

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Select two types of measurement validity

Compare and contrast the two types of validity you have chosen.

Explain the pros and cons of each type.

Now that you have examined validity, letâs focus on reliability.

Select two of the ways to determine measurement reliability.

Define and explain how each type can be applied to a research plan.

Understanding both validity and reliability provides a foundation for apply to research.

From the remaining two ways of determining validity, select which one (or two) you could apply to your own research.

Explain why you think this is the best way (or ways) of determining validity in your research. Include the reliability factor, as well.

Bakground on my study:

Purpose: Single subject research was designed to be able to study a single individual or a number of individuals as whole. It is considered scientifically valid research that works though using the scientific method. As in any research, it is used to define effectiveness of an intervention and understand supporting clinical change.

Variables: In a study were an autistic child could be monitored at home, while have tantrums. These emotional outbursts could be measured by the time that it takes for the tantrums to be over and how the intensity of these outbursts by using at least a 5 data point level.

Plan: Through using the ABAB design with A design being the baseline of the tantrums and B design showing the intervention with a phase out or ramp up phase. This happens during change in conditions. Once the intervention is being removed and another baseline is obtained, a second intervention can be used. This will help further evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention. The pros are that this data can be put onto a graph, so that progress can be easily monitored and evaluated. The cons are to remember that these are people that we are dealing with and not just the results of an experiment.

Data Collection: Involve caretakers, teachers and parents in the behavioral plan. The staff assisting could record the time of tantrums, the duration by minutes. The intensity should be recorded by using a rating system of 0 being no intensity, at all and 10 being the worst that one could imagine.

Implementing and intervention would include playing soothing music during the childâs behavior. The music should reduce the stress felt by the child and soothe and lessen the outburst of the child. Also, teaching the child how to stop and breath would be another intervention that could be brought into play.

Pros and Cons: The pros are that hopefully we can find a way to reduce the intensity or the number of tantrums that are exhibited by the child. The cons are that the intervention itself, does not tell us what is the cause of the emotional outbursts.

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For this assignment, Part One of your course project, assume the role of Dr. Madness. Your rogue nation seeks global domination. With a bare bones laboratory and your exhaustive microbiological and epidemiological knowledge, you (Dr. Madness) decide that the best way to rule the world is to create and disseminate the perfect biological weapon.

For this part of the assignment, you will develop your weapon from the ground up. Discuss nearly all of the epidemiological criteria related to it, and justify and discuss why it is used and how effective it is. This agent could be a hybrid of other biological pathogens or an entirely new one. If the agent is newly created, there must be some basis and epidemiological support of a similar agent by which you can base your justification. In other words, it will be unrealistic to create an airborne virus that inoculates and kills within one hour. There must be a realistic exposure and incubation time and must be supported through current agent biology or biochemistry (for example, influenza exposure and incubation takes 1â4 days).

Name of Agent: Explain why you chose the name. If it is a biological agent, be sure to provide a taxonomic name

Etiology: This will talk about the genesis of your agent. Where was it discovered? How was it made? How long has it been around? Why was this agent created? What were the social and economic factors of your rogue nation that made Dr. Madness focus on this element of the agent? What are the environmental precursors to this agent? Discuss the interaction among agent, host, and environment.

Identification: This will describe the basics of the agent. Is it a bacteria, virus, toxin, parasite, hybrid, or something else? Discuss how your agent presents within the human population. What are the symptoms in humans? What are the (zoonotic) symptoms in animals? How does the disease progress? Are there stages? Discuss the various stages including length of infection, severity, and the like. What are the diagnostic indicators? How would a doctor be able to identify this agent in a clinic or emergency room?

Laboratory Analysis: How will the agent be identified? Can it be grown in media? What type of laboratory methods can be used to identify the agent (microscopy, chromatography, PCR, and so on)?

Occurrence: This is the epi: who, what, when, where, how, and why of the disease. Where does it happen? When can it be found? Who is most and least susceptible to the agent (risk factors). More exotic and hard to find agents are harder to prevent and control but are also more difficult to initiate an epidemic or pandemic, whereas more generalized and known agents may be easier to cure, but have a much wider swath of causing pandemics. How do socioeconomic factors foster or inhibit the spread of disease?

Reservoir: What is the natural reservoir of the agent? Are there other organisms where this agent can reside without causing disease? Increasing the reservoir can enhance transmission but can also allow for easier identification and treatment in response to it.

Mode of Transmission: Consider inhalation, absorption, digestion, contact, and so forth. If you use multiple modes, justify your selections.

Incubation Period: Provide the range with an average (median) day of disease onset. Does the period change in different socioeconomic status identifiers (sex, age, race, creed, and so on)? Why or why not?

Period of communicability: How long is a person with this agent contagious? Increasing this period also increases the opportunity for study and thus treatment and control.

Susceptibility: Is the agent susceptible to reinfection of the same person? Allowing for this increases morbidity but usually mortality wanes in subsequent infections.

Taking on the role of Dr. Madness, generate your superweapon and describe the weapon using the above mentioned criteria. Remember, the focus in on creating something that becomes difficult to identify, monitor, or treat with prophylaxis. You will write out the proposal as Dr. Madness submitting this to his lead researcher to develop. This proposal should be approximately 6â8 pages in length, but some submissions may be longer.

Submit your Bioweapons and Epidemiology Part One proposal in the assignment area.

Please be sure to review the Bioweapons and Epidemiology Part One Scoring Guide for information on how this assignment is graded.

Project Requirements

To achieve a successful project experience and outcome, you are expected to meet the following requirements.

Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.

APA formatting: Resources and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting.

Resources: Include all literature cited in the project.

Length of paper: 6â8 typed, single-spaced pages, not including cover page and resource list.

Font and font size: Arial, 10 point.

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