Eight states and Washington DC allow by statute physician assisted suicide. Careful criteria have been established in these states to prevent abuses and overreaching. The patient must self-administer the oral medication himself, and no state allows the physician to administer the medication to the patient directly.

Research this concept, and decide whether this is a reasonable practice. But stay away from the ethics or religious aspects of this. Stick with the statutes and statistics. Some ideas to consider: Is it being overused or abused (review the state statistics)? What is the "slippery slope" argument? How does this collide with capital punishment in this country? Should this be expanded or abolished? Of course fortify your answers with respectable references.

You are a health systems analyst with MegaHealth. After seeing a news report on the aging of American, the board chair has expressed an interest in opening long-term care facilities in Oregon, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The vice president for planning has asked you for background information on Certificate of Need (CON) requirements in these states. Prepare a brief passage that defines a CON and explores the pros and cons of the law. Then, create a table that compares the legal requirements for CONs in those three states. Finally, summarize your findings. Which state law is the least onerous? Why? Which one is the most difficult of the three? Why? Are they controversial? If so, in what way?

A computer is shared by 2 users who send tasks to a computer remotely and work independently. At any minute, any connected user may disconnect with probability 0.5, and any disconnected user may connect with a new task with probability 0.2. Let X(t) be the number of concurrent users at time t (in minutes). This is a Markov chain with 3 states: 0, 1, and 2. The probability transition matrix can be calculated and it is Generate 10000 transitions of the Markov chain. What percent of times do you find your generated Markov chain in each of its 3 states? Write using R code.

Many researchers have tried to determine whether capital punishment deters murder. Suppose a new study has been published analyzing how death-sentence rates in one year relate to murder rates the following year. The researchers who conducted this study included only the 32 states that authorize the death penalty, and excluded the remaining states. Do you think this is a justifiable approach to studying the possible deterrent effects of the death penalty? Would you trust the results of the analysis and the conclusions the researchers reach on the basis of those results? Explain your answer.

These questions are related to the chapter about types of variables and levels of measurement

ou are a health systems analyst with MegaHealth. After seeing a news report on the aging of American, the board chair has expressed an interest in opening long-term care facilities in Oregon, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The vice president for planning has asked you for background information on Certificate of Need (CON) requirements in these states. Prepare a brief passage that defines a CON and explores the pros and cons of the law. Then, create a table that compares the legal requirements for CONs in those three states. Finally, summarize your findings. Which state law is the least onerous? Why? Which one is the most difficult of the three? Why? Are they controversial? If so, in what way?

Design an Moore FSM for an 8-interval stoplight system where the red light is ON (yellow and green lights are OFF) for 4 intervals, then yellow light is ON (red and green lights are OFF) for 1 interval and then green light is ON (red and yellow lights are OFF) for 3 intervals. After the green light has been ON for three intervals, we go back to the red light being ON for 4 intervals. Use binary encoding for states and use JK FFs for storing the state. You have report the state machine (using 8 states), state table, Boolean expression and a gate-level diagram (FFs + combinational logic).

question about R:

The vectors state.name, state.area, and state.region are pre-loaded in R and contain US state names, area (in square miles), and region respectively.

(a) Identify the data type for state.name, state.area, and state.region.

(b) What is the longest state name (including spaces)? How long is it?

(c) Compute the average area of the states which contain the word “New” at the start of the state name. Use the function substr().

(d) Use the function table() to determine how many states are in each region. Use the function kable() to include the table in your solutions. (Notes: you will need the R package knitr to be able to use kable().

Context is 1D Ising model. Metropolis algorithm is used for simulate that model. Among all possible spins configurations (states) that algorithm generates only states with the desired Boltzmann probability.

Algorithm chooses spin at random and makes a trial flip. If trial satisfies certain conditions related to Boltzmann probability, flip is accepted. Otherwise flip is rejected and system is unchanged.

Define "acceptance ratio" as a percentage of accepted trials. Simulation shows that acceptance ratio is higher on higher temperature (behave as increasing function of temperature).

Questions:

Why Metropolis algorithm is not efficient at low temperatures?

Is efficiency of algorithm related to acceptance ratio?