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    called the Apgar Score. The Apgar Score was created by Virginia Apgar, who lived 1909 to 1974. The Apgar Score has saved countless lives. The Virginia Apgar created a quick health check that happens the first minute after birth and the fifth minute after birth. It allows the doctor know if the newborn needs medical attention. Apgar was also the first female professor. Virginia Apgar Developed the Apgar Score. The Apgar Score is a test that tests a newborn baby's health. According to Medlineplus, “Apgar is a quick test performed on a baby at 1 and 5 minutes after birth. The 1-minute score determines how well the baby tolerated the birthing…

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    APGAR is a quick test perform on a baby 1 and 5 minutes after birth. The 1-minute score determines how well the baby tolerated the birth process, and the 5-minutes score tells the doctor how well the baby is doing outside the mother’s womb. The APGAR is to determine whether a newborn needs breathing or is having heart trouble, to make sure that the baby is healthy, the score has to be of 7, 8, 9, these means that the baby is in good health. Any score lower than 7is a sign that the baby need…

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    The Apgar score is a quick test performed on a baby after 1-5 minuets of the time they are born. The 1 minuet score determined how well the baby tolerated the birthing process. The 5 minuet score shows the doctor how well the baby is handling itself outside of the mothers womb. The doctor, midwife or the nurse performs the test. They check 5 things that are the breathing effort, heart rate, muscle tone, reflexes and the skin color. Each category gets scored with a 0, 1 or 2 depending the…

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    Phoenix is a female baby born on March 18, 2015 and weighed 6 pounds. She was assessed on September 24, 2015 at 10:00 am. She resides in Tallahassee, Florida with her mom, dad, and brother. She was born at 38.4 weeks gestation age. She was diagnosed with mild jaundice at birth. She is now 6 months, 6 days old. She stays at home with her father five days a week. She does not receive weekly therapy. She sees a Physician every two months. She had the 4 months required shots and scheduled to get 6…

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    She was focused and direct. The most memorable answer was to eyelash: “Ohhh… the hairs above your eye…I am pretty sure they are hairs.” It was priceless to see her face when I said “eyelash.” On “credible” she commented we just learned this. She gave examples, but did not know a concrete definition. This section is a little harder for me to grade. The subjectivity of the answers causes me to pause and question my score. Based upon her non-verbal routing score she needed to begin on the Nonverbal…

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    Something that is not considered in a PVAAS score is the demographics of the clientele. Students with a low socio economic status are historically shown to receive lower scores due to lack of resources and other factors. Students in special education also do not perform as well because of their learning disabilities. ESL students are also at a disadvantage because understanding material in English is difficult for them. These students are not taken into as much consideration when evaluating a…

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    student was required to fill out a variety of personality tests. After each student completed the personality test, he or she would then give the test to someone who knows him or her well enough to answer the questions while pretending to be the student. The person who takes the quiz as if they are the student is called the informant. After the student and the informant take the tests, the student records the scores into a spreadsheet. After all the tests are complete, a statistical correlation…

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    and questions whose answers were 5 are scored 1. In addition, scoring has two sections; family perception scores are in section A, and the clinician perception scores are in Section B. Add the scores from Part I of Section I (questions 1 – 25), and record the total numerical score ascertained. Ratings range from 1 – to 5, 1 being the most positive, and 5 being the most negative. Delete the zero responses (not applicable) from the calculations. The overall scores range from 25-125; divide the…

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    Efficiency In The NFL

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    points to the fact that they only faced two of the NFL’s top 10 defenses. His argument is that the Panther’s offense slows down against formidable defenses. Mahoney’s is summarized when he writes “The Panthers offense only faced two elite defenses during the regular season and they faced them both when they were "weakened." Their offense is good - they had 26 touchdown drives of 75 yards or more this regular season. Their offense did score 24 in their playoff rematch against the Seahawks, but…

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    My score was an eight from a zero to nine scale, which falls to the high range. The report said, “People with high scores on this dimension have a strong tendency to actively organize the speaker's ideas into meaningful categories” (McShane, 2009.). The final area in the report was Showing Interest; my score was an eight from a zero to nine scale, which falls to the high range. The provide feedback stated, “People with high scores on this dimension have a strong tendency to use…

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