Last week, Canada announced that they would launch a pilot program that would set up ATM-like vending machines to dispense hydromorphone to those who are addicted to opioids. Many see this intervention as a novel and potentially unconventional way to address the problems with opioid abuse. Please read the article here before responding. I would like to know your thoughts on this approach. What are the risks and benefits? Do you believe that this approach will be effective?

Some analysts have argued that Big Data is fundamentally about data “plumbing,” and not about insights, or deriving interesting patterns. It is argued that value (the fifth V) can just as easily be found in “small,” normal, or “weird” datasets (i.e., datasets that wouldn’t have been considered before). Do you agree with this? Can you think of small or novel datasets that would provide value as well, without requiring a full-fledged Hadoop setup?

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For each of Questions 1 to 5, is the given value of the correlation coefficient reasonable?

Hint: think about the strength and the direction of the relationship between the two variables in each case.

Note: It is subjective to decide whether the magnitude of the correlation between two variables should be, for example, 0.7 or 0.8. The below questions don't ask you to make a decision like this.

Question 1 

A correlation of r = +0.7 between gender and height.

Question 2 

Let X = speed of vehicles driving on the highway and Y = distance for the vehicles to stop when the brakes are applied.

A correlation of r = +1.0 between X and Y.

Question 3 

A correlation of r = 0 between number of slurpees (a frozen beverage) sold at 7-Eleven in one day and number of cups of hot chocolate sold at the same store in the same day.

Question 4

A correlation of r = +0.7 between number of pages in a fiction novel and time it takes to read the novel.

Question 5 

Let X = time it takes a marathon runner to finish the race and Y = number of runners who finish ahead of him.

A correlation of r = -0.8 between X and Y.

Women from some cultures may profit greatly from emphasizing their pain during childbirth. A labor and delivery nurse reported that the most difficult patient she ever attended was Robabeh Farag, an Iranian woman, who yelled and screamed for the entire duration of her labor. After she delivered their child, her husband presented her with a three-karat diamond ring. When her nurse commented on the expensive gift, she responded dramatically, "Of course. He made me suffer so much!" Iranian custom is to compensate a woman for her suffering during childbirth by giving her gifts. The greater the suffering, the more expensive the gifts she will receive, especially if she delivers a boy. Her cries indicate how much she is suffering. A young Iranian doctor recently told me that when his wife has a baby, he will present her with a diamond ring or a watch. American nurses value cooperation; a cooperative patient is one who is stoic and follows directions. Uncooperative patients, like Robabeh Farag, are often avoided. How can hospital personnel deal with the variety of expressions of women's pain during labor and delivery?

Source:

Galanti, Geri-Ann. Caring for Patients from Different Cultures, Chapter 9, Page 152 (4). Philadelphia, US: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

*****THIS IS FOR A MULTICULTURALISM AND HEALTH CLASS***** PLEASE RESPOND WITH A 300-500 WORDS MAX THANK YOU :)

What is your culture regarding the pain of child delivery?

If you are not an American person, how do you compare the approach of your county to this issue with the behaves and beliefs of the Americans?

How do you evaluate benefiting from the pain of baby delivery? Can be labeled this case as a right or wrong cultural behavior?

suggest steps the company might take to reduce its losses and establish profitability,

the cenario:

Reitmans Ltd. (RET.TO) says it had a net loss of $3.2 million in the last quarter in an improvement from the $6.6 million net loss in the same quarter a year earlier (The Canadian Press, 2018).

Reitmans management says sales were $207.6 million in the quarter, compared with $207.1 million a year earlier despite a net reduction of 32 stores, while promotional costs were up on increased activity. The company said in March it would close its 17 Hyba athletic clothing stores by next February and move the brand into the company's existing Reitmans stores (The Canadian Press, 2018).

Reitmans also states Online sales jumped 21.9 per cent in the quarter while store sales dropped 3.9 per cent.

Reference

The Canadian Press. (2018, June 05). Reitmans reports $3.2M net loss; sales steady despite store closures - Article. Retrieved from https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/reitmans-reports-3-2m-net-loss-sales-steady-despite-store-closures-1.1088263

Write a simple JAVA program to understand natural language.

The user will enter the input following the format:

Name came to City, Country in Year.

For example:

Chris came to Bangkok, Thailand in 2009.

The user will follow the exactly the same formats for the inputs. Your program should be able to analyze the key words (Name, City, Country and Year) from the inputs and reorganize the outputs following format:

Name stay in City for X year(s). City is in Country.

For example

Chris stay in Bangkok for 11 years. Bangkok is in Thailand.

*  note X = 2020-Year.

Example of the output to illustrate the expected behavior of your program.

Hint: you may use Integer.parseInt() to convert a string to an integer.

Translator Program

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Please enter the input sentence (press q to exit):

Chris came to Bangkok, Thailand in 2009.

Chris stays in Bangkok for 11 years. Bangkok is in thailand.

Please enter the input sentence (press q to exit):

Lee came to Paris, France in 2000.

Lee stay in Paris for 20 years. Paris is in France.

Please enter the numbers along operation (press q to exit):

q

Thank you

Create a Case study "Preventing iodine deficiency disease in China" with the info below

Health Condition: Iodine deficiency - a range of disorders including goiter (enlarged thyroid), stillbirths, stunted growth, thyroid deficiency, and mental defects - affects 13 percent of the world's population, or 740 million people. Iodine deficiency is the leading cause of preventable intellectual impairment in the world and may forfeit as much as 15 percent of a person’s intellectual potential. China bears the heaviest burden of iodine deficiency in the world. In 1995, 20 percent of children aged 8 to 10 showed signs of goiter. Overall, some 400 million people in China were estimated to be at risk of iodine deficiency disorders, constituting 40 percent of the global total.

Intervention or Program: In 1993, China launched the National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Elimination Program to elimi­nate iodine deficiency, with technical and financial assistance provided through the donor-funded Iodine Deficiency Dis­orders Control Project. Both the programs have:

raised awareness of the health impact of iodine deficiency;

strengthened the capacity of the salt industry to iodize and package salts;

monitored and enforced the quality of the salt; and

promoted the compliance among the salt industry through enforcement of licensing regulations and legislation banning non-iodized salt.

Impact: By 1999, iodized salt was reaching 94 percent of the country, up from 80 percent in 1995 - and salt quality had improved markedly. As a result, iodine deficiency has been reduced dramatically. Total goiter rates for children aged 8 to 10 have fallen from 20.4 percent in 1995 to 8.8 percent in 1999.

Cost and Cost-Effectiveness: Fortifying salt with iodine costs approximately 2 to 7 cents per kilogram, or less than 5 percent of the retail price of salt in most countries. The Chinese government invested approximately $152 million.

Kning,S. (2009). Josie's story. New York: Grove press

Go through the QSEN-KSA and identify which area were "broken" as it relates to josie King. Explain