Day: February 15, 2021

Big Business

February 15, 2021 Leave a comment MLA, Other

This are the questions:

1. From a business standpoint, do you think businesses like Home Depot, Walmart, and Amazon help or hurt our economy?  Explain.

2. From a consumers standpoint, are these corporations good for your pocketbook?  Explain.

3. Is a company’s implementation of loss leaders a good marketing approach.  Or, is it unethical?

4. Do you feel like the government should intervene when companies like these get too big?

5. As you may have noticed, Amazon continues to expand into many other new business areas such as healthcare, shipping, etc… What is their motivation to expand into some of these other businesses?

Philosophical Argument

February 15, 2021 Leave a comment Philosophy, Undergraduate

Oxsana is now 30 years of age and works at Deutsche Bank.  As a young woman, Oxsana pursued a BA in philosophy at the Freie Universitt Berlin, during which time she was actively engaged in the Green political movement, marching, protesting and working in Green party campaigns to elect Green candidates to the Bundestag (the German parliament).  Based on this data, rank the following options about Oxanas career in terms of their probability and explain that ranking:

a)  Oxana is a bank teller for Deutsche Bank in Berlin.
b)  Oxana is head of the industrial lending desk for Deutsche Bank in their Berlin based home office.
c)  Oxana is a bank teller for Deutsche Bank in Berlin, but spends her spare time working for Green causes like restrictions on industrial emissions of air and  water pollutants.
d)  Oxana has become a conservative economist in the CDU (the largest right-wing party in Germany) and consults for Deutsche Bank in their Berlin home office.

NOTE:  This assignment is designed to apply an epistemological deduction.

Catch Me If You Can

February 15, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Law

Video/Movie Analysis – On Catch Me If You Can

This assignment is designed to assess students ability to incorporate material from the module readings and apply them to assigned video or pop culture movie depictions about white-collar crime.

Each paper will be roughly two pages, demonstrating how specific elements of the media source can be used to illustrate concepts from any of the module readings of white collar crime.  Each paper should incorporate at least three concepts from the required module readings, using and citing at least two of the required course readings in each module.

The paper should include:
A minimum of 5 paragraphs, an introduction, 3 paragraphs in the body (one paragraph for each concept), and a conclusion. 
The introduction should include an attention grabber, a thesis statement, and a clear preview statement.
The body of the paragraph should allow you to introduce the course concept, explain the concept, demonstrate your understanding of the concept, and illustrate and analyze how the required video/movie relates to the concept.  Please use ONE body paragraph for each of the concepts (one main idea per paragraph).
A conclusion that summarizes the key ideas from the body of the paper.
The paper should include a properly formatted title and reference page.

This is not a critique of the video/film, but rather an opportunity for you to you utilize the content from the media source in order to help you engage with the main points from the module. 
You may choose any key concepts or main ideas from the required readings that you determine are most relevant or can be effectively applied to the individuals, scenes, and major themes conveyed in the video/film.

Please be sure to use APA formatting for the title page, in-text citations, and your reference. These pages are not included in the page count.

Read instructions

February 15, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 7"), Health Care and Life Sciences

This is a discussion :
Overview

As in Module 1, we will begin by acknowledging some key observations about our patient’s case. We will start by establishing our own understanding of several conditions that affect our patient. Remember, cardiovascular and respiratory disorders are two of the most prevalent disorders you will encounter in the medical field, so you probably already have a good understanding of these conditions. For this assignment, answer these questions based on your own current understanding. You do not need to do any research prior to completing this assignment.

You should spend approximately 2 hours on this assignment.

Instructions

In a post that is a minimum of 150 words, respond to the following:

1. What are your initial reactions related to the case?

2. What is a heart attack?

3. Considering Mrs. Johnsons case, why does she have an increased risk of having a heart attack?

4. What is tissue perfusion? Which of the patients conditions can alter tissue perfusion? How?

5. What is hypertension? How does hypertension alter tissue perfusion?

6. Describe pneumonia. What risk factors does the patient have for pneumonia?

Computer model can determine whether you’ll die from COVID-19.

February 15, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), English and Literature

Just need a 1/2 page of the summary.

Computer model can determine whether you’ll die from COVID-19 by University of Copenhagen.

Artificial intelligence is able to predict who is most likely to die from the coronavirus. In doing so, it can also help decide who should be at the front of the line for the precious vaccines now being administered across Denmark.

The result is from a newly published study by researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Computer Science. Since the COVID-19 pandemic’s first wave, researchers have been working to develop computer models that can predict, based on disease history and health data, how badly people will be affected by COVID-19.

Based on patient data from the Capital Region of Denmark and Region Zealand, the results of the study demonstrate that artificial intelligence can, with up to 90 percent certainty, determine whether an uninfected person who is not yet infected will die of COVID-19 or not if they are unfortunate enough to become infected. Once admitted to the hospital with COVID-19, the computer can predict with 80 percent accuracy whether the person will need a respirator.

“We began working on the models to assist hospitals, as during the first wave, they feared that they did not have enough respirators for intensive care patients. Our new findings could also be used to carefully identify who needs a vaccine,” explains Professor Mads Nielsen of the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Computer Science.

Older men with high blood pressure are highest at risk

The researchers fed a computer program with health data from 3,944 Danish COVID-19 patients. This trained the computer to recognize patterns and correlations in both patients’ prior illnesses and in their bouts against COVID-19.

“Our results demonstrate, unsurprisingly, that age and BMI are the most decisive parameters for how severely a person will be affected by COVID-19. But the likelihood of dying or ending up on a respirator is also heightened if you are male, have high blood pressure or a neurological disease,” explains Mads Nielsen.

The diseases and health factors that, according to the study, have the most influence on whether a patient ends up on a respirator after being infected with COVID-19 are in order of priority: BMI, age, high blood pressure, being male, neurological diseases, COPD, asthma, diabetes and heart disease.

“For those affected by one or more of these parameters, we have found that it may make sense to move them up in the vaccine queue, to avoid any risk of them becoming inflected and eventually ending up on a respirator,” says Nielsen.

Predicting respiratory needs is a must

Researchers are currently working with the Capital Region of Denmark to take advantage of this fresh batch of results in practice. They hope that artificial intelligence will soon be able to help the country’s hospitals by continuously predicting the need for respirators.

“We are working towards a goal that we should be able to predict the need for respirators five days ahead by giving the computer access to health data on all COVID positives in the region,” says Mads Nielsen, adding:

“The computer will never be able to replace a doctor’s assessment, but it can help doctors and hospitals see many COVID-19 infected patients at once and set ongoing priorities.”

However, technical work is still pending to make health data from the region available for the computer and thereafter to calculate the risk to the infected patients. The research was carried out in collaboration with Rigshospitalet and Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital.

Usability

February 15, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Computer Science

Watch videos of 3 participants in a usability study and take notes about:

whether or not the participants are successful
how much time they take to complete a task
what problems they have when completing the task
Write a brief report of the results of the study, usability findings, and recommendations for re-design on the discussion board. Respond to the findings from 2 other classmates, did you find the same things, would you add anything to their findings and recommendations?

Participant videos: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10pkfJfMfAv3cnpVdx-L8snZrCd1vueq0iWCiad0-tBY/edit?

How well do science museums really teach science?

February 15, 2021 Leave a comment MLA, Natural science

“Write an essay (with introduction and conclusion) on the suggested topic.
Your introduction should include the thesis statement – main idea of the paper (here is more detailed explanation – https://essayshark.com/blog/how-to-write-a-thesis-statement-to-make-it-clear/). Don’t include any new information in the conclusion. It should  restate the thesis statement of the paper.
Support your ideas with relevant arguments and examples (in-text citations). List 2-3 sources in the references. Make sure you stick to a required formatting style. Get benefits of these sources citationmachine.net and easybib.com.
MLA format – https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html”

Who Is to Blame for Today’s Beauty Standarts?

February 15, 2021 Leave a comment English and Literature, MLA

“Write an essay (with introduction and conclusion) on the suggested topic.
Your introduction should include the thesis statement – main idea of the paper (here is more detailed explanation – https://essayshark.com/blog/how-to-write-a-thesis-statement-to-make-it-clear/). Don’t include any new information in the conclusion. It should  restate the thesis statement of the paper.
Support your ideas with relevant arguments and examples (in-text citations). List 2-3 sources in the references. Make sure you stick to a required formatting style. Get benefits of these sources citationmachine.net and easybib.com.
MLA format – https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html”