1.  Identify three new technologies used for training. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each in regard to learning.

Your response must be at least 200 words in length. 

2. What are the three traditional training methods? Detail the advantages and disadvantages of each in regard to learning.

Your response must be at least 200 words in length 

Please keep them #

 Probability and nonprobability are the two general categories of sampling. Probability sampling uses random selection, whereas nonprobability sampling does not. For example, if you wanted to study the effects of divorce on the psychological development of adolescents, you could gather a population of a certain number of adolescents whose parents were divorced. 

There is also two parts to this discussion. I know that these discussions can be tedious to write but the knowledge gained from this is invaluable. Plus, there is a lot of information to cover within the weekly topics.

Part 1: Scientific and Non-Scientific Resources

Last week you looked at the web resources and the quality of the information that you can find on the web. This week, it is important to continue the lessons that you learned last week by comparing scientific and non-scientific sources of information and asking whether the information in those sources is scientifically sound. Meaning do they have a solid scientific foundation. You can use the article/site you found last week as one of your articles/sites, or you can find two new articles/sites. One should be from a scientific source such as: a scientific journal (e.g.; Science; Popular Science; Nature); a government web site (e.g.: National Cancer Institute; FDA; CDC); or a recognized national organization (e.g.; Cancer Research Foundation; Susan G. Komen Foundation; etc.). The non-scientific source and be from any non-scientific source… they should be easy to find, usually they are trying to sell you something at the end of their article.

Compare them. Think about the sources of their information. Are their sources of information credible? Did they employ the scientific method? Is their scientific foundation to be trusted?

For this week’s discussion you can either post the web links to your papers/sites or the PDFs of your papers/sites.

State the scientific question the two papers/sites are trying to answer.

State the methods the papers/sites showed to get to their conclusions.

State whether you believe the articles have a solid scientific foundation. Why? Why not?

Also, as an aside, just because information is from a non-scientific source doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have a scientific foundation… they sometimes do. Critically evaluate both resources.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Part 2: Genetics

The sequence of nucleotides in genes determine the sequence of amino acids in proteins. Alterations in DNA sequence can lead to changes in amino acids which can have strong effects on protein structure and its function. For example, a single substitution of a nucleotide (or point mutation) in DNA results in drastic changes in protein function e.g. as seen in sickle cell anemia. Please respond to the following questions:  

1. Consider the examples of sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis and explain how gene modification leads to change in protein function. (Note: provide the name of the affected gene for each disease and explain the effect of nucleotide changes. You can use your book or references from previous discussions – week#4)  
2. Efforts to correct errors in gene function have been tried for the past few decades but most have not shown consistent positive outcomes in clinical applications. However, in the past 10 years, the discovery of CRISPR-CAS9 system appears to introduce new exciting ways to correct errors in genes and paves the way for new approaches in gene editing. For medical applications, provide a guide on how the CRISPR-Cas9 can be used to fix gene errors in cystic fibrosis or any other genetic disorders. You can use this reference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4403038/

Rubrics

• Discussion Rubric

With a divorce rate of 49% in the U.S., financial planners are called upon to offer advice on financial concerns related to divorce. In this scenario, Anne Smith, comes to you for financial advice on how to ensure support for herself and the kids before and after the divorce. She has hired an attorney but they have just gotten started. She is a woman 55 years of age who has just learned her husband of 30 years wants a divorce. When the couple decided to have children, she and her spouse decided that she would give up her marketing career and stay at home with the children. The husband is an executive in a company making a comfortable salary of $100,000 a year and has decided he wants a divorce. The couple has a moderate portfolio of investments of $50,000, a home with a current value of $250,000. The husband has a retirement 401(k) portfolio of $400,000 and the wife has an IRA of $150,000. Research a scholarly (peer reviewed) journal article pertaining to divorce planning from the Columbia College Library: (http://library.ccis.edu/home).

In 4-5 short paragraphs, provide recommendations for divorce planning and explain how the article supports your recommendations.

As the Team Leader managing the export strategy for your product or service, research your selected foreign region and share a brief synopsis of your research with the following highlights. Note that this research may be applicable to your final paper:

· What are the unique characteristics of the four P’s (product, price, place, promotion) in your selected foreign target market?

· Does your target market have niche markets inside of the target market that will provide additional marketing opportunities?

· Share examples of marketing of a similar product or service in your selected foreign market and describe the four P’s.

· Find and share an example of a marketing error in your foreign market and describe how you will ensure your team does not face similar challenges.

· Find and share an example of a global or international marketing campaign that utilizes corporate social responsibility (CSR) to promote the global image of the global firm.

Your initial response should be a minimum of 200 words. Students learn to assess the perspectives of several scholars.

Use the information below to assist in your response.