If you were VP of strategic planning for a large multi-busines company, would you use portfolio planning techniques in your work? If so, for what purposes? If not, why not? Would your preference be to use the GE-McKinsey nine-box matrix or the BCG matrix? Explain the rationale behind your choice.

The following data represent a sample of the assets (in millions of dollars) of 28 credit unions in a state. Assume that the population in this state is normally distributed with σ=3.5 million dollars. Use Excel to find the 99% confidence interval of the mean assets in millions of dollars. Round your answers to three decimal places and use ascending order.

Assets
12.23
2.89
13.19
73.25
11.59
8.74
7.92
40.22
5.01
2.27
16.56
1.24
9.16
1.91
6.69
3.17
4.78
2.42
1.47
12.77
4.39
2.17
1.42
14.64
1.06
18.13
16.85
21.58

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Focus on the campaign called Act Against Aids and explain the campaign to your colleagues. What is the target audience? Is the target audience suffering from a specific ailment or morbidity (disease)? Share and describe two objectives of the campaign. Inform your colleagues if the campaign has demonstrated evaluative success or not? Explain using statistics.

Is the campaign designed to prevent, intervene or rehabilitate the target population? Discuss and explain.

Then, describe two health promotion methods the campaign utilized to reach the target audience. Did the campaign use public service announcements? Fact sheets? Education groups? Thoroughly explain how and what methods were utilized.

Explain the channels the campaign used to reach the population. Did the campaign use television? Radio? Interpersonal communication?

Post two questions you have regarding the campaign

Answer the following macroeconomics questions.
a) What is the difference between nominal GDP and real GDP? Which one of them is used to calculate the economic growth rate? Justify your answer.
b) Give the equation used to calculate the unemployment rate. State the different types of unemployment. In your opinion, which type is the most problematic one? Justify your answer.
c) Governments may achieve certain economic goals; say controlling inflation, by implementing fiscal and/or monetary policies. Explain briefly the difference between fiscal and monetary policies.

1. Hiring and developing human capital is important to keep the company stays competitive.

(a) State your opinion on the statement above

(b) Explain any FIVE (5) strategic roles of HRM in a total quality management organisation.

2. Some organisation set the policy that an engineer can only be promoted to higher position if he or she becomes a green belt and later a black belt.

(a) What is your opinion on such policy from organisation performance perspective?

(b) Is six sigma continual improvement a “cure-all” methodology for all problems? Justify your answer

A child counts the number of cracks in the sidewalk along the block she lives in (about 1/8 mile of sidewalk). Suppose the expected number of cracks in a block of sidewalk is 2.

a) Which distribution would be best to use to model this situation? Explain.

b) What is the probability that she observes three or more cracks?

c) What is the probability that she observed exactly two cracks in 1/2 of the block?

Use the terms cohesion and adhesion to explain how plants carry water from the roots through the stem all the way to the flower.

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Describe how products like Rain-X help in repelling water from a windshield glass.

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What would have happened if you started with a larger amount of baking soda instead of only half a spoonful? What about a lesser amount of baking soda?

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Red light is incident in air on a 30^o - 60^o - 90 ^o prism as shown. The incident beam is directed at an angle of φ₁ = 47.6^o with respect to the horizontal and enters the prism at a height h = 15 cm above the base. The beam leaves the prism to the air at a distance d = 37.6 cm along the base as shown.

1)

What is φ₂, the angle the beam in the prism makes with the horizontal axis?

degrees

2)

What is n, the index of refraction of the prism for red light?

3)

What is φ₃, the angle the transmitted beam makes with the horizontal axis?

degrees

4)

What is φ_1,max, the maximum value of φ₁ for which the incident beam experiences total internal reflection at the horizontal face of the prism?

degrees

5)

The red beam is now replaced by a violet beam that is incident at the same angle φ₁ and same height h. The prism has an index of refraction n_violet = 1.7 for violet light. Compare d_violet, the exit distance for violet light, to d, the exit distance for red light.

d_violet < d

d_violet = d

d_violet > d

6)

Suppose now that the violet beam is incident at height h, but makes an angle φ_1,v = 60^o with the horizontal. What is φ_3,v, the angle the transmitted beam makes with the horizontal axis?

degrees

LP1.1 Assignment: Research Topic Options

During this course, you will be working on a research paper to be submitted at the end of LP6 (Week 11). Your paper will focus on a healthcare management topic that is a source of ethics debates. It should:
1) address the ethical theories or principles that most influence current conversations about this topic.
2) discuss how these ethical theories or principles translate into healthcare policy decisions.

These ethical principles must come from the course readings this is evidence that you understand and have considered materials presented in this course.

Your paper must be 5 APA-style pages (Times New Roman, 12-point font, and with 1" margins). In addition to these 5 pages, it must also include a "References" page formatted in APA style that includes at least 6 credible sources. You can use the Web, books, journal articles, newspapers, or magazines. Keep in mind that you want good sources for your research ones that are current and credible.

For information on what a credible source is, please view the NAU Online Library’s tutorial on finding credible sources.

During this Learning Plan, you should begin thinking about a research topic to submit to your professor for approval. You can choose any topic related to healthcare ethics.

Choosing a Topic
You can choose a topic inspired by discussions, short papers, and non-graded activities. Here are a few examples of possible topics:

Should healthcare be universally available in the US? For example, should everyone receive the same quality of health care regardless of their ability to pay?

How should we make decisions about which patients receive high-cost, scarce medical resources such as organ transplant?

cultural diversity and differences in the medical environment

profitability vs. patient care

You may choose to do a paper on another topic, too, as long as it involves policy and ethics in the medical environment.

In choosing your topic, you should consider not only how interesting it is to you, but also how easy it will be to find information about it. You will need to find credible references and refer to them in your paper.

For more tips and guidance on choosing a research topic, visit this ProQuest Research Companion learning module, available to you for free through the NAU Online Library. You may also wish to use Credo Reference's mind map search for brainstorming.

LP1.1 Assignment: Research Topic Options

During this Learning Plan, you should begin thinking about a research topic to submit to your professor for approval. You can choose any topic related to healthcare ethics.

Choosing a Topic
You can choose a topic inspired by discussions, short papers, and non-graded activities. Here are a few examples of possible topics:

Should healthcare be universally available in the US? For example, should everyone receive the same quality of health care regardless of their ability to pay?

How should we make decisions about which patients receive high-cost, scarce medical resources such as organ transplant?

cultural diversity and differences in the medical environment

profitability vs. patient care

You may choose to do a paper on another topic, too, as long as it involves policy and ethics in the medical environment.

In choosing your topic, you should consider not only how interesting it is to you, but also how easy it will be to find information about it. You will need to find credible references and refer to them in your paper.

For more tips and guidance on choosing a research topic, visit this ProQuest Research Companion learning module, available to you for free through the NAU Online Library. You may also wish to use Credo Reference's mind map search for brainstorming.

What to Submit for this Assignment
For this assignment, submit a list of 3 topics you are considering for your paper. For each topic:
1) state what is interesting to you about this topic, and
2) speculate about which ethical theories or questions are raised by this topic.