Case 1 Quantitative Analysis

Ashley Miller has three major routes to commute to work: take RiverView Street the entire way, take several back streets, or use the expressway. The traffic patterns are pretty complex. Under good conditions, RiverView Street is the fastest route; however, when it is congested, one of the other routes is usually preferable. Over the past two months, Ashley has tried each route several times under different traffic conditions. Her travel time to work (in minutes) is summarized in the following table.

STATES OF NATURE

1. If nothing is known about the demand probabilities,

a. Based on Conservative Approach, which route should Ashley choose to commute to work?

b. Using the Minimax Regret Approach, create the Opportunity Loss/Regret Table. What route should Ashley take if she wants to minimize average drive time?

2. Suppose the probabilities for No Traffic Congestion, Mild Traffic Congestion, and Severe Traffic Congestion are 50%, 33%, and 17% respectively,

c. Construct a Decision Tree (draw it neatly by using MS Word/MS Excel Drawing Tool OR if you are drawing it by hand, please a ruler) and solve it using Expected Value Approach. What is the recommended decision alternative?

d. Calculate the Expected Value of the Perfect Information (EVPI)?

ow, it's time to turn in your semester project. Remember your project should include the following:

A Mental Health Concern - and the Patient or Community - for your project.

A brief history of the patient including diagnoses and medications - or a brief description of the community issue.

Any substance abuse, addiction or violence issues surrounding this mental health problem. Describe the attempted interventions that have been made for your patient or community, and identify what has been successful and what has not. Submit a rough draft of information gathered so far.

Describe your thoughts regarding your patient's or community's mental health issue. Are there any cognitive concerns? Think about interventions that may be helpful. Include sources for evidence-based practice.

List appropriate nursing interventions for your chosen patient or community. How will you evaluate effectiveness? Include an evaluation tool or rubric.

Complete your Semester Project by identifying mental health resources that can be used for your chosen patient or community. Finish with an educational tool for your patient or community.

Submit your completed assignment by following the directions linked below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.

Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the ".docx" extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:

Expanding Gregory’s – Greg and John has owned Gregory’s Greek Restaurant for over thirty years. The restaurant overlooks a river and offers visitors a lovely view of the countryside. Over the years, the restaurant’s popularity has grown through word-of-mouth advertising, and now guest often wait up to two hours on the weekend before being seated. Greg and John have been approached by Capstone Developers, which wants to use the Gregory’s Greek Restaurant concept in a mixed-use development it is putting together. It seems that one of Capstone’s managers ate at Gregory’s and loved the concept. Capstone Developers put together an investment proposal for Greg and Andy requesting to use their concept and cash equity for the deal.

The following are excerpts from the offer:
· Use of the Gregory Greek Restaurant name in exchange for limited partnership units in the new restaurant.
· A request for a 45% equity investment from Greg and John on the total project cost of $3,000,000. In return for their investment, they will receive 25% ownership and 25% of all cash flows, with Capstone reserving 75%.
· With an estimated $175,000 in cash flows in Year 1 and a 10% growth rate over the next decade, the return on equity looks very promising.
· Capstone Developers, as the general partner, will retain all operating rights, including the right to decide when the restaurant and property will be sold.

Analyze the structure of the equity proposal. If you were Greg and John, would you accept this offer as it stands? If not, what would you negotiate?

Seek and Find

Choose and research four (4) infectious diseases. Try to achieve a variety in your own selections as well as diseases unique from what your classmates have already posted. For your research please use only well-known, reputable sources.

In one discussion post that has four sections, create a brief description or summary of each of your four diseases. The word count for each disease should be approximately 100 words. The content of your summaries should include the etiology, mode of transmission, target host, or any other pertinent details about each disease that makes them unique. The summaries may be short, but they should be complete and include any essential or notable facts about the diseases.

At the end of each summary include a question about the disease that would prompt your colleagues to visit your references and find the answer. They will have the opportunity to go into more detail about the topics in their discussion replies.

In your replies to this discussion, answer at least one of the four questions posed by your classmate in their initial discussion post. You will visit the resources listed in their reference list to answer and expand on that aspect of the pathogen or the disease it causes.

Resources to get you started

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/

CDC MMWR Index
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2015.html

CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/

Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/

Food Poisoning Related Diseases & Conditions
http://www.medicinenet.com/food_poisoning/related-conditions/index.htm

Reducing Health Disparities

In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the first CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report (CHDIR). This report examined health disparities in the United States associated with various characteristics, including race/ethnicity, sex, income, education, disability status, and geography.

Among other recommendations, the 2011 CHDIR emphasized the need to address health disparities with a dual intervention strategy that focuses on populations at greatest need and improves the health of the general population by making interventions available to everyone.

Review the following PDF to learn more:

MMWR: Strategies for Reducing Health Disparities—Selected CDC-Sponsored Interventions, United States, 2014

Create a 4- to 5-page Microsoft Word document that addresses the following:

Compare the patterns of the major diseases of Hispanic/Latino groups and their rates and health effects between the other racial or ethnic groups living in the United States.

Identify at least one consequence that a lack of access to healthcare has on Hispanics/Latinos.

Explain why access to care issues will need to be monitored even more closely within the U.S. healthcare system beginning 2014.

Find at least two scholarly journal articles that discuss all or at least one of the topic areas related to Hispanic/Latino health disparities in the United States. Provide a synopsis of each article.

Explain what type of barrier(s) (structural, financial, or socio-cultural) each article examines? Describe at least two policies or strategies that can be implemented to improve access to healthcare services as they relate to the articles you reviewed.

Criminal Justice - short writting- Plea bargaining

Between 2002 and 2004, Ariel Castro kidnapped three young women and held them prisoner in his Cleveland, Ohio home. Held against their will for ten years, the women were beaten, raped, and starved. In May 2013, one of the women screamed for help when she saw neighbors through a screen door. Hours later, the two other women were rescued and Castro was arrested. Over the course of two months, 977 charges were brought against Castro including kidnapping, rape, and aggravated murder for the intentional induction of five miscarriages. Castro pled guilty to 937 of the 977 charges in a plea bargain that spared him the death penalty.

As we noted in Chapter 10, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and defendants often agree to plea bargains, in which the prosecutor and the defense work out a mutually satisfactory agreement that is subject to court approval. In this case, Castro pled guilty to the kidnapping, rape, and aggravated murder charges in exchange for consecutive life sentences, plus 1,000 years with no eligibility for parole. He subsequently committed suicide while in prison. Conduct some independent research on this case. Considering what you have learned about plea bargaining in Chapter 10 (Criminal justice by siegel) , please answer the following:

How could a man in a urban area kidnap and hold 3 women against their will for 10 years? Was this case an example of the effective use of plea bargaining? Explain.

(250 word minimum response required)

Find a market in Singapore that differs from the perfect competition benchmark in an interesting or important way, and report on how and why that market differs from the benchmark. Markets which differ from the benchmark generally do so because of strategic behaviour or problems of imperfect markets ; apply one of these theories to analyse the market in question. Then, suggest a method of increasing competition in the market.

The total word limit of the written report is 1,500 words, not counting tables, figures and references. You may allocate words as desired among sub-questions, subject to the total limit. A good report may be considerably shorter. Avoid copying or rephrasing text from the study guide or textbook, as absolutely no marks will be awarded for explaining economic theory using the textbook. The idea is to apply the theory to the problem at hand. You should segment your report into the following sections:

(a) Summarize the key details of the market in question, explaining the main product, the market players, and the prevailing market clearing mechanism or trading arrangement (e.g. how do buyers and sellers interact).
(b) Explain how the market differs from the assumptions of perfect competition. Apply a theory from strategic behaviour or imperfect markets to illustrate and examine the market’s departure from perfect competition.

(c) Suggest a mechanism to resolve the problem you have identified that affects competition in the market. The mechanism could be a business innovation, a public policy, or government regulation. Explain why the mechanism would be effective. It may also be the case that no market correction is required; if so, explain why.

Please Answer All 4 parts:

1.) Which of the following statements about cancers is FALSE? Select one:

a. African-Americans have higher rates of prostate and early breast cancer.

b. Most lumps detected in breasts are not cancerous.

c. Testicular cancer has a high survival rate if detected early before it spreads.

2.) How do orgasm and ejaculation differ from one another? Select one:

a. Orgasms are dependent on changes in the activity of neurons in the brain's cortex, while ejaculation is dependent on changes in the activity of neurons in the spinal cord.

b. Orgasms are a purely psychological phenomenon and are not associated with any changes in physiological or neural activity while ejaculation is associated with muscular contractions in the pelvis.

c. They differ from one another in that only men can ejaculate while both men and women can experience orgasms.

d. Two of the above are correct

3.) Which of the following can cause hypoactive sexual desire disorder? Select one:

a. An increase in factors that make sex undesirable.

b. A, B and C all contribute to hypoactive sexual desire disorder.

c. Two of the above

d. A lack of interest in sex that doesn't cause a person any distress.

e. A decrease in factors that make sex desirable.

4.) Match each phase of sex anatomical development with the primary inducer of differentiation and organizational effects at that stage:

(Word Bank)

-estrogen

-DHT

-Terstorsone and MIH

-SRY

hypothalamus (gonadostat): __________.
external genitalia: ____________.
internal genitalia: ___________.
gonads: ____________.

Haply Inc. contracts with Barksdale LLC to have an engine repaired. After much negotiation, the parties agree that the engine will be repaired and reinstalled at Haply’s facilities in 5 days. Haply plans on losing $40,000 a day for each day the engine is not delivered after the five-day window (this is the cost for a replacement engine).

Haply tells Barksdale’s representatives that if the engine is not repaired on time that bad press will cause Haply to lose a client’s business totaling $3,000,000. Barksdale does not complete the contract until day 7.

It cost Haply $500 to secure the delivery of a replacement engine. The actual rental of the replacement engine cost $40,000 a day. And Haply lost the business of a client totaling $3,000,000. Haply sues Barksdale for incidental, consequential and compensatory damages. The court finds that there is a breach of contract. What are the consequential, incidental, and compensatory damages that Barksdale is liable for in this case? Be sure to define each of those terms.

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

Write between 500 – 750 words (approximately 2 – 3 pages) using Microsoft Word.

Attempt APA style, see example below.

Use font size 12 and 1” margins.

Include cover page and reference page.

At least 60% of your paper must be original content/writing.

No more than 40% of your content/information may come from references.

Use at least two references from outside the course material, preferably from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the two reference requirement.

Case Study-Insurance Company Network Design [5 x 3=15 Marks]
Care super insurance company has 150 computers that are networked together. It also has four
servers and uses a star topology wired network to reach employees' offices, with a bus
interconnecting four floors in its office building. Because of a staggering influx of Internet business,
the network administrator's task is to boost network performance and availability as much as
possible. The company also wants a network design that's easy to reconfigure and change because
workgroups form and disband frequently and their membership changes regularly. All computers
must share sensitive data and control access to customer files and databases. Aside from customer
information and billing databases, which run on all servers, employees' desktop computers must run
standard word-processing and spreadsheet programs.
Use the following write-on lines to evaluate the requirements for this network. After you finish,
determine the best network topology or topology combination for the company. On a blank piece of
paper, sketch the network design you think best suits company needs. Remember: High performance
and easy reconfiguration are your primary design goals!
a. Design a Network topology for the given scenario.
b. Will the network be peer-to-peer or server based? Justify your answer.
c. Analyse business goals for this network.
d. Analyse business priorities for this network.
e. Investigate business constraints for this network.