In order to illustrate the social construction of illness, choose a specific "disease” and trace how it’s been approached historically, as well as clearly explain how it is approached in the present. For example, the history of alcoholism shows a view that changes from concerns of morality and self-control to one of chemical addiction based on genetic tendencies. Other possibilities include schizophrenia, ADD, depression, etc. Use appropriate textual evidence to support your claims.

Explain how the adoption of the cloud may be a model for future outsourcing of applications and jobs. List some changes and developments that will have an effect on an organization’s management of IS and IT. How might the gig economy affect organizational effectiveness? Explain how robotics and automation will affect the workplace. Describe how virtual workers and “connected” digital devices may actually make an organization less cohesive. Explain the organizational cultural change that will affect the IS department.

Discuss performance management and your likes and dislikes about the system you currently work with? Do you agree or disagree that performance appraisals are important for the worker and the organization and why? What format do you believe they should take to be effective?

Consider 5 major developments you believe will have a significant impact on human resource planning in the future. Do not limit yourself only to technological, social, political or cultural changes.

True/False

1. ___ In the MTS environment the inventory that defines the customer service is the inventory of components.
2. ____ The objective of moving-average is to smooth out the random fluctuations while being sensitive to any possible changes that may be taking place with the underlying average.
3. ____ Often the most recent history is the most relevant in forecasting short-term demand.
4. ____ The mean error (ME) is concerned with the error magnitude.
5. ____ The mean absolute deviation (MAD) is used to measure bias.

The National Financing Company paid $2.00 per share in common stock

dividends last year. The company’s policy is to allow its dividend to grow

at g₁=10 percent for 4 years and then the rate of growth changes to g₂=3 percent per year from year five and on. What is the fair value of the stock if the required rate of return is 8 percent? Would you buy this stock if the market price is $55.2?

1. (a) What are the properties of indifference curves (utility functions)?

(b) Use consumer theory (budget constraints and indifference curves) to drive (show graphically) and explain an individual’s demand curve for a commodity (show how a change in price causes a movement along the demand curve).

(c) Use indifference curves and budget lines to show graphically and explain the expansion path for two normal goods and for a normal good and an inferior good as income changes.

** Summarize the following paragraphs in ONE PARAGRAPH please. **

The opioid crisis in the United States continues unabated despite an overall reduction in the number of prescriptions for opioid analgesics written over the past 5 years.¹ If nothing changes, opioid deaths are predicted to increase almost 100% by between 2016 and 2025 and the number of persons using illicit opioids will increase 61% by the same date.² The number of persons who inject drugs continues to increase, with many of these persons reporting that they used prescription opioid analgesics before they started using heroin. A less-discussed complication of the opioid crisis that may be just as lethal is the increase in serious infections in persons who inject drugs.³ Hospitalizations for infective endocarditis associated with injection drug use increased 50% between 2002 and 2012.³ Admissions for osteomyelitis and septic arthritis increased 54% and 63%, respectively, over the same period.³ Patients with untreated opioid use disorder often receive suboptimal care for their serious infections.⁴ Onset of withdrawal symptoms and cravings for opioids generally occur within 4 to 12 hours after the last use of an opioid, depending on the substance used. Patients who inject drugs are more likely to leave the hospital before completing a course of treatment or may be unable to comply with outpatient discharge instructions and are at higher risk of reinfection, readmission, or death. Patients who are referred for an addiction medicine consultation are less likely to leave the hospital against medical advice.⁵ The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to develop a response to the increase in hospitalizations for infections of patients who inject drugs.⁶ The workshops resulted in several recommended action steps. Action step 4 calls for all prescribers and other personnel to receive training on Drug Addiction Treatment Act waivers. Clinicians also should be trained on how to safely prescribe methadone to patients before patients are discharged from the hospital.

WHAT IS HOLDING US BACK?

Historically, the amount of time dedicated to education on screening for, diagnosing, and treating substance use disorder is limited in the medical curriculum.⁷ Students may attach a stigma to patients with substance use disorders.⁸ A survey of general internists found that almost a third felt that opioid use disorder was different from other chronic conditions because they believed it was a choice.⁹ Fourteen percent of the respondents felt that medication-assisted treatment was substituting one drug for another.⁹ Twelve percent of hospitalists and 6% of primary care providers believed that persons using drugs committed a crime and should be punished.⁹ Only 9% of the sample felt they were prepared to discuss medication treatments for patients with opioid use disorder.

WHY SHOULD THIS MATTER TO YOU?

Whether you are practicing in primary care, emergency medicine, or a hospital-based specialty, you will encounter patients with opioid use disorder.¹⁰ Clinicians must be able to screen patients for substance use disorders, diagnose patients with opioid use disorder, and manage these patients, whether by treating withdrawal symptoms, initiating medication-assisted treatment (MAT), or referring them to an appropriate level of care. Hospital providers are authorized, without the need for a waiver, to use either methadone or buprenorphine to treat withdrawal symptoms in their patients. However, waiver training gives clinicians the knowledge to use these medications appropriately.¹¹

PROBLEM 4–30 (Garrison text)  

Changes in Cost Structure; Break-Even Analysis; Operating Leverage

Duchamp Company’s contribution format income statement for the most recent month is given below:

Sales (30,000 units)                $ 900,000

Variable expenses                     630,000

Contribution margin                  270,000

Fixed expenses                         180,000

Operating income                     $ 90,000

The industry in which Duchamp Company operates is quite sensitive to cyclical movements in the economy. Thus, profits vary considerably from year to year according to general economic conditions. The company has a large amount of unused capacity and is studying ways of improving profits.

Required:

New equipment has come on the market that would allow Duchamp Company to automate a portion of its operations. Variable costs would be reduced by $9 per unit. However, fixed costs would increase to a total of $450,000 each month. Prepare two contribution format income statements, one showing current operations and one showing how operations would appear if the new equipment is purchased.

Show an Amount column, a Per Unit column, and a Percentage column on each statement. Do not show percentages for the fixed costs. (current versus proposed)

Refer to the income statements in (1) above. For both current operations and the proposed new operations, compute

(a) the degree of operating leverage,

(b) the break-even point in dollars.

Refer again to the data in (1) above. As a manager, what factor(s) would be paramount in your mind in deciding whether to purchase the new equipment?

(You may assume that ample funds are available to make the purchase.)

Question 1: Given the following reactions and standard molar enthalpy changes ΔrH0:

D-glucose 6-phosphate2-(aq) = D-fructose 6-phosphate2-(aq)                                (1)

D-glucose + ATP4-(aq) = D-glucose 6-phosphate2-(aq) + ADP3-(aq) + H+(aq)        (2)

D-fructose + ATP4-(aq) = D-fructose 6-phosphate2-(aq) + ADP3-(aq) + H+(aq)       (3)

ΔrH0 (1) = 11.7 kJ mol-1

ΔrH0 (2) = -23.8 kJ mol-1

ΔrH0 (3) = -15.0 kJ mol-1

Calculate ΔrH0 for the reaction: D-glucose(aq) = D-fructose(aq)                (4)