The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation reported that the topography of disease-related deaths has changed over many generations, and that different diseases, both communicable and noncommunicable, are starting to effect communities differently. Specifically, the researchers identify that the typical life expectancy has increased on a global scale, which means there are now different, previously unknown risks and causes of illness due to aging populations. Of specific interest the researchers mention that the “leading causes of death and disability have changed from communicable diseases in children to noncommunicable diseases in adults” (IME, 2013). The United States and other developed and industrialized nations have seen a stark reduction in maternal, nutritional, and premature child deaths. Third-world or underdeveloped nations, however, have seen a spike in communicable, maternal, nutritional and child related diseases. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation implemented the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study to systematically address health concerns related to a number of demographic characteristics. The GBD 2010 study found an increased life expectancy of 35 years since 1970 for many industrialized nations, but negligible improvement in life expectancy in developing nations such as sub-Saharan Africa.

As part of this exercise, check out the 2013 information at: http://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/files/policy_report/2013/ GBD_GeneratingEvidence/IHME_GBD_GeneratingEvidence_FullReport.pdf, then prepare answers to the questions that follow.

Question 1

Why is it important to research and understand the epidemiological transition of diseases across the world?

Question 2

What are some potential factors that may help explain the static nature of life expectancy in areas such as the sub-Saharan African communities?

Question 3

Identify and explain the factors related to the rise of noncommunicable diseases in industrialized nations, such as the United States.

Question 4

What could be a potentially helpful strategy for reducing deaths related to communicable diseases in poorer nations?

Retrieved from: http://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/files/policy_report/2013/ GBD_GeneratingEvidence/IHME_GBD_GeneratingEvidence_FullReport.pdf Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy. Seattle, WA: IHME.

If quicksort is so quick, why bother with anything else? If bubble sort is so bad, why even mention it? For that matter, why are there so many different sorting algorithms? Your task is to investigate these and other questions in relation to the algorithms selection sort, insertion sort, merge sort, and quicksort.

Write a set of guidelines for each algorithm to help someone decide which one would be most appropriate for a particular situation. Include in your guidelines a description of the advantages and disadvantages, together with an indication as to why those characteristics apply, and an explanation of the running cost (in Big-O notation). Your goal is to provide enough information so that someone unfamiliar with the inner workings of each algorithm would be able to decide which one is right for them.

For example, if someone was considering using counting sort to sort a collection of values then the following brief information could help them decide if it was appropriate or not.

Instructions:

Prepare a sales letter addressed to:

Dr. Jason Tanner

John A. Logan College

700 Logan College Road

Carterville, IL 62918

You should submit the assignment to me by the date indicated in the schedule for the class. No late assignments may be submitted unless prior arrangements are made with the instructor.

Background Situation:

Assume you are a marketing assistant for a large magazine publisher named Wilderness Publishing Company. You have been asked to write a sales letter trying to convince potential customers to purchase a subscription to Outdoor Life magazine. The cost of the subscription is $80 for 12 issues.

You may select the style of the letter (modified block or block style) and include the current date. Your letter should include a letterhead for Wilderness Publishing Company at 2112 Fairview Drive, Evansville, IN 47712. Your name and job title (marketing assistant) should be included in the signature section of the letter.

Grammar hint to remember: Publications are presented using italic print; therefore, remember to identify the magazine as Outdoor Life magazine (the word magazine is not capitalized or in italic print).

Specific features your letter should include are:

• Paragraph 1 – a technique designed to capture the attention of the reader.
• Paragraph 2 – information to develop interest in your magazine; include creative descriptions of the content of Outdoor Life magazine (including the type of articles and features included in the magazine).
• Paragraph 3 – develop your persuasive message to create a desire for the reader to want to subscribe as you introduce the price and mention benefits of subscribing.
• Paragraph 4 – tell the reader what specific action to take to subscribe to the magazine. Remember to use the action ending techniques of making it easy and specific to inform the reader how to take action to respond to your offer (for example, a toll free telephone number or postage-paid card to return). Also, the action ending should urge haste for the reader to respond and emphasize why it is to the reader’s benefit to act quickly to take advantage of the offer.

Please refer to the Writing Assignment 3 Evaluation Sheet to determine how points can be earned and lost.

Read the scenario then answer the question:

When Ahmad and Amina decided to get married, they were worried that their coming children might suffer from Sickle cell disease, since Amina’s mother had the disease. But the doctor made things clear ….

DOC: “Unfortunately Mr. Ahmad after tracking your family’s genetics you might be carrying the recessive allele for the disease so there is a 25% chance your children might be anemic. “

PARENTS: “ So does that mean that 25% might not even carry the disease allele?

And 50% will carry the allele but won’t have the disease? Did we mention to you that we are cousins? “

Doctor: “ Well now it makes much more sense! Children of first-cousin marriages have an increased risk of autosomal recessive genetic disorders, just like sickle cell disease, which comes from a recessive allele. Two cousins might both carry the recessive allele and transmit it both to their child which will become ill unfortunately, just like sickle cell disease.

PARENTS: “ Unfortunately, my son Seif was born with sickle cell anemia and is getting medication to carry on his life normally. My daughter Shamsa doesn’t suffer from the disease, but she might carry the recessive gene and might have anemic children in the future. “

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INFORMATION:

•You should know that S is the dominant allele for normal blood cells, and s is the recessive allele for sickle cell anemia

•Phenotypes are normal for normal trait and anemic for recessive trait

•In the pedigree we see the cross of the heterozygous parents

question:

Write a neat and full text about your analysis of the family’s inheritance, explain how the disease inheritance is affected by cousins marrying each other, and give solutions to reduce the probability of getting the disease. (350 words)

Enforce your work by doing further research, make sure to insert pictures or any document that you believe can show your work and express your ideas. Do your research on mendelian genetics, inherited diseases, autosomal and gonosomal, patterns of inheritance etc…

This assignment is about the article “I’m not a racist but…” by Neil Bissoondath. The article is available on ecentennial under ereserve. You may also wish to refer to readings on ecentennial under ‘class 1’ and ‘class 2.’

Part 1: Context. /6

1. What is Bissoondath’s purpose in writing this article? Support your answer with at least two reasons. You can refer to table 1.1: A Spectrum of Purposes in our week 1 reading (available on ecentennial under <content> <cl---ass one>).

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2. What is the genre of this piece? How do you know?

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3. Who is the intended audience? How do you know?

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Part 2: Modes. /2

Bissoondath uses blended modes in his essay “I’m not a racist but…”   Mention ONE mode that he uses and give an example .

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Part 3: /3

Refer to your literary devices list (on ecentennial under <content> <class 2>) and answer the questions below:

1. What literary device does Bissoondath use in his ‘hook,’ when he says “Someone recently said that racism is as Canadian as maple syrup.” (1 word answer - 1 mark) ______________________________

2. Choose 2 literary devices from your list and find examples from the reading. Identify these sentences using “quotation marks.” (1 mark each)

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b.) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Part 4: Reading for Understanding /4

Highlight the best answer. (1 mark each)

1. According to Bissoondath, true racism is caused by:

a.) the media

b.) family influences

c.) willful ignorance and acceptance of stereotypes

d.) use of stereotypes

2. “I’m not a racist but…” is a phrase usually used by:

a.) racists

b.) bigots

c.) people with a lack of experience

d.) people who are willfully ignorant about stereotypes

3. According to Bissoondath, multiculturalism:

a.) indulges in stereotype

b.) is only in Canada

c.) is great

d.) discounts personal experience

4. Bissoondath’s main idea is:

a.) We must be careful about how we use the word racism

b.) Racism is an international problem

c.) We have to be conscious of our own responses to racism

d.) Racism is an individual problem

Read the Case and Directions

State of Sand Crabs   Privileges & Immunities Equal Protection Discussion/Due Process - Issue & Rule Post due 10/17, Reply Post Due 10/19

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The state of Sand Crabs, facing the southern border of our country, has experienced an increase in crime, and a deterioration of effective policing. Most of the crime increase involves crimes of theft, robbery, burglary. Almost all have been crimes of violence without resulting arrests. Residents and businesses alike have been victimized. It has also been documented that over the years there has been an increase in illegal border crossings. Police have literally been under attack. There has been a 32% increase of officers injured during active crime deployment in the last 18 months. This has resulted in several full disability severances pf female officers. At the same time, the State Police force has experienced increased numbers of civil law suits and federal investigation attributed in a rise in the shooting of criminal suspects by a largely young officer base. Many senior officers claim that these young, limited English speaking officers lack patience when responding to crime scenes and do not understand local culture. Rising temperatures have made out-door patrols a grueling operation.

In response to these conditions, a group of state legislators are developing a bill, which will be introduced into the legislature with full hearing, to increase state police forces. It limits member of the state police force to male citizens of the United States who are over the age of 20 years and who have lived in the state for 12 months.

You are asked, using IRAC to review only the Privileges & Immunities, Due Process/Equal Protection Constitutional issues of this proposal.

Remember:

Issues of Constitutional questions must identify the source of the violation, the state actor (defendant), the plaintiff, and act in question

Rule: starts with the general rule (look to the constitution as the tree trunk) followed by elements or more specific rule. Do not name cases or mention facts.

Post: Issue & Rule Statement: Post your original Issue and Rule statement

Please, explain your answer, i am here to learn. Pass it if you can't explain all the answer to others out there. and be fair. Thanks.

1. Which one of the following is true about the power of the project managers in different organizational structures?

a. In a project-oriented organization, the project manager has no real authority and power.

b. A strong matrix maintains many characteristics of a project-oriented organization, where much of the authority rests with the project manager.

c. In a weak matrix, the authority is shared between the functional manager and the project manager, the project manager does not have full authority for the project and its funding.

d.A balanced matrix maintains many characteristics of a functional matrix; the project role is like that of a coordinator or expeditor (communications coordinator or staff assistant) than that of a true project manager.

2. While reviewing a deliverable due today to the customer, you noticed a technical defect in the deliverable. Upon further inspection, you realize that even though the deliverable fails to meet the project quality standards, it fully satisfies the contractual requirements. You are aware that the customer does not have the domain knowledge and technical expertise to notice the defect. The team member responsible for this deliverable tells you that fixing the defect will be time consuming and superfluous. What is your best course of action?

a.Contact the customer immediately and inform them that the deliverables will be late due to some unavoidable consequences.

b. Make sure that the issue is captured on the lesson learned so that future projects can benefit.

c.Have a discussion with the customer about the issue with the deliverable.

d. Do not mention anything and get formal acceptance form the customer.

3. You are overseeing a project to implement an online travel package reservation system that has 6 sponsors and 13 stakeholders. You want to make sure that your project stakeholders will receive the correct version of the product. Which of the following plans will you use to specify how versioning information will be tracked?

a. Quality management plan

b. Scope management plan

c.Change management plan

d.Configuration management plan

1) How has the environment and topography of Greece affected the development of Greek culture?

2) What are the main periods of Greek history from 2000 BC to 31 BC? For each period write name, date, and a couple of important characteristics

3) What are the main differences between the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures?

4) When are Greek Myths created? How many types of myths are there in Greece? Which type was created first and which one was created second and why?

5) Describe the connection between myths and poetry in the Dark Ages

6) What is a polis? When does it emerge and what are the types of government that develop in the different poleis?

7) What is Individualism, when does it emerge, and how is it expressed?

8) What is Idealism, when does it emerge, and how is it expressed in art?

9) What is Realism, when does it emerge, and how is it expressed in art?

10) Which period is the Golden Age of Greece? Why do we call it the “Golden Age”?

11) When was the Iliad composed and by whom? What is its subject?

12) What is the first word of the Iliad? What event does this word refer to?

13) What are the psychological effects on the soldier of the loss of a comrade in battle? How do armies help their soldiers heal in the Iliad?

14) What are the triggers, symptoms, and consequences of the “berserk” stage for the soldier?

15) What are the principles and effects of the betrayal of the moral principles of the soldiers?

16) How are civilian populations impacted by war?

17) How does the persistence of combat mode in civilian life expresses itself?

18) What is “secondary traumatization” and how is it expressed?

19) Name at least 5 skills which veterans acquire in battle, but which are not useful to civilian life and their workplace.

20) What made return of the veterans to civilian life easier in ancient Greece than what it is today?

2) Slide identification (5 points) You will be shown a pair of slides, one Minoan and one Mycenaean, and will be asked to: a) identify which one is which and b) mention a couple of features of each one of these cultures

Communication Mr. Simpson is a 78-year-old patient whose wife died last year. He has been living alone. He has limited cooking skills; thus he eats out a lot. Since his wife died, his blood sugar has been poorly controlled. To help Mr. Simpson gain better blood sugar control, the dietitian came to see him. After she left, Mr. Simpson was angry and stated his desire to leave the hospital right now. He stated, “That diet person came to see me, and she doesn't know anything.” 1. How would you approach Mr. Simpson? Which communication techniques would you use and which would you avoid? 2. You talk with the dietitian and learn that she gave the patient information about his diet and recipes that he could try. As you talk further with Mr. Simpson, you learn that the physician told him he might not be able to live alone anymore. You realize that he doesn't know how to cook. Knowing this, how would you respond to him? 3. After talking with Mr. Simpson, you determine that he is able to care for himself at home but will need some assistance. He is willing to consider various options for meal preparation. You call the physician to discuss this. Your hospital has established SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) as a standard communication tool. How do you effectively communicate your concerns and the patient's need to the physician using SBAR?