Read the case provided below and answer the questions.

Managers encourage your team to take time off. “I’m going nowhere fast.” This was the concern one of my clients recently. Her complaint wasn’t about working in quarantine per se, but about her frantic pace and static productivity. With the initial adrenaline rush of the crisis passed, vast numbers of my clients are reporting that they and their teams feel exhausted to the point of being useless, work demands are on the rise, and the time saved commuting has been converted to meetings that creep earlier into the day and fill the space between dinner and (a too-late) bedtime. It’s not just our commute times that have been co-opted but also our vacations. With nowhere to go and much to adjust to, most people have cancelled not only their travel reservations but their time off as well.

However, while the number of hours worked is soaring, people’s capacity to focus and

produce quality work is diving. Several of my clients — executives and managers, along with

their human resource partners — are increasingly seeking guidance on how to unplug and

recharge and encourage their employees to do the same. Companies are offering a range of

wellness options but also vary in their policies about taking time off, from “we trust you, take

care of what you need to” to “take some of your allotted vacation time” to “we need all hands

on deck right now and we can figure out time off later.”

Research shows the benefits of vacations to employee productivity and the economy — both

of which are currently under threat. Unused vacations have cost U.S. businesses $224 billion

a year. Project: Time Off’s new study found that 95% of people surveyed claimed that using

their paid time off was very important. And yet for the first time in recorded history, more

than half of Americans (55%) left vacation days unused, which equates to 658 million unused

vacation days. Take a moment for that number to set in. Imagine the impact those vacations

could have on the U.S. economy — on airlines, hotels, restaurants, attractions, and towns —

not to mention the impact it would have on individuals’ stress levels.

Remember, this is paid time off that is not being used. Let us ask you two questions to make

this idea come alive: Would you do your job for free? And do you take all your vacation days? If you say no to the first, you had better say yes to the second.

In truth, if you are not taking all your time off, you’re not working more — you’re volunteering your time. This is our favorite conclusion from the study: “By giving up this time off, Americans are effectively volunteering hundreds of millions of days of free work for their employers, which results in $61.4 billion in forfeited benefits.”

Working from home doesn’t mean working all the time. Ease the numbness induced with

back-to-back video calls and a long to-do list by reinventing vacations and time off, and

encouraging your team to do the same. As Limeade’s CEO Henry Albrecht stated in my survey,“Share the rules, show care, model the behaviors, and trust people to do the right thing.”

Question 3:

3) In your opinion, how can you ensure that taking time off is the best solution to increase

employee motivation and efficiency? Are there other solutions? What are the steps in

evidence based management thinking that can be used to make the best decision for your

employees?

QUESTION 5: Case Study I - ETHICS CASE STUDY [10 Marks] One for the Road—Anyone? “Florence Yozefu is a brilliant scientist who heads a robotics research laboratory at one of the top ten research universities. Florence has been developing wearable robotics gear that can take over the driving functions of a vehicle from a human operator when it is worn by the driver. In laboratory tests, the robot, nicknamed Catchmenot, has performed successfully whenever Florence and her assistants have worn the robot. However, no real-life experiment has ever been conducted outside the lab. Florence has been planning to try it out in her project plan but has not yet had a chance to do so. For New Year’s Eve, Florence has plans to visit her mother and sister, about 100 miles away. This was a good opportunity to show her mother and her sister what she has been working on in the last few months. So, she decides to take Catchmenot with her. She packs her car the evening before and on the morning of the trip, she passes by the lab to get her robot and put it in the car. She drives the 100 miles in a little under her usual time and arrives at her mother’s house earlier than usual”. “In the evening, Florence bids her mother good-bye and passes by her sister’s apartment as promised. At her sister’s apartment, she finds a few of her teen friends and they get right into a party mode. Florence drinks and dances and forgets about the time. There are many stories to tell and to listen to. About 1:00 a.m., after the midnight champagne toast, she decides to leave and drive back to her apartment. She had promised to accompany her friends to a pre-planned engagement. Although she is very drunk, and against her friend’s advice and insistence that she should not drive, Florence puts on Catchmenot and in a few minutes she is off. Thirty minutes later, she is cruising at 70 mph and she is also sound asleep. She is awakened by a squirrel running all over her car at about 5:00 a.m. She is parked by the roadside in front of her apartment complex. She has made it home safely. She has no idea when and where she passed out and what happened along the way. She will never know. Although she is surprised, confused, and feels guilty, she is happy how well Catchmenot has worked. She decides to market it. How much should she charge for it, she wonders”. [Source: Kizza J.M. History of Computing. In: Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age, 2010, Texts in Computer Science. Springer, London] Please answer the following questions:

1. As AI applications increase, such as in the use of robotics, will the wider use of these “manlike” machines compromise our moral values system? Why or why not? [2 Marks]

2. Discus the future of computer ethics in the integrated environment of Artificial Intelligence (A I), Virtual Reality (VR), and cyberspace. [3 Marks]

3. If anything went wrong during the ride home, would Florence be responsible? Who should be? What are the consequences? [3 Marks]

4. Discuss the ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence. [2 Marks  

This week, you will create and implement an object-oriented programming design for your project. You will learn to identify and describe the classes, their attributes and operations, as well as the relations between the classes. Create class diagrams using Visual Studio. Review the How to: Add class diagrams to projects (Links to an external site.) page from Microsoft’s website; it will tell you how to install it.

Submit a screen shot from Visual Studio with your explanation into a Word document, save as a .docx, before submitting it.

Below is the code I am trying to add class diagrams to:

using System;

namespace ConsoleApp8
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{

// display the current date
DateTime d = DateTime.Now;
Console.WriteLine("{0:dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss}", d);

Console.WriteLine("Quiz");
string[] questions = LoadQuestions();

Boolean[] status = { false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false };

string[] options = LoadOptions();

string[] key = { "A", "B", "C", "D", "B", "C", "A", "A", "A" };

int noCorrectAnswer = 0;

// iterate through questions
for (int i = 0; i < 9; i++)
{
string choice = DisplayQA(questions, options, i);

// record correct answers
if (choice == key[i])
{
status[i] = true;
noCorrectAnswer++;
}
}

// if all answers are not correct, restart the quiz for wrong answers
if (noCorrectAnswer < 9)
{
Console.WriteLine("Re-Start Quiz================================");
Console.WriteLine("Repeat the quiz for wrong answered questions!");
for (int i = 0; i < 9; i++)
{
if (status[i] == false)
{
string choice = DisplayQA(questions, options, i);

if (choice.Equals(key[i], StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
{
noCorrectAnswer++;
status[i] = true;
}
}
}
}

// display correct answers
Console.WriteLine("Number of correct Answers: " + noCorrectAnswer);
Console.ReadLine();
}

///

/// display question with answer choices
///

///
///
///
///
private static string DisplayQA(string[] questions, string[] options, int i)
{
string choice = "";
Console.WriteLine(questions[i]);
Console.WriteLine(options[i]);

Console.Write("Enter the answer: ");
choice = Console.ReadLine();

// keep asking until user enters valid option
while (!(choice.ToUpper().Equals("A") || choice.ToUpper().Equals("B") || choice.ToUpper().Equals("C") || choice.ToUpper().Equals("D")))
{
Console.WriteLine("\nInvalid value. Please choose valid option!");
Console.Write("Enter the answer: ");
choice = Console.ReadLine();
}

return choice;
}

///

/// Load question options
///

///
private static string[] LoadOptions()
{
return new string[] { "A. 5\nB. 5\nC. 6\nD. 9",
"A. 2\nB. 7\nC. 6\nD. 9"
,"A. 2\nB. 5\nC. 7\nD. 9"
,"A. 2\nB. 5\nC. 6\nD. 24"
,"A. 2\nB. 1440\nC. 6\nD. 9"
,"A. 2\nB. 5\nC. 12\nD. 9"
,"A. 86400\nB. 5\nC. 6\nD. 9"
,"A. 60\nB. 5\nC. 6\nD. 9"
,"A. 60\nB. 5\nC. 6\nD. 9"};
}

///

/// Load Questions
///

///
private static string[] LoadQuestions()
{
string[] questions ={"How many working days are there in a week?"
,"How many systems make up the human body?"
,"How many days are there in a week?"
,"How many hours make up one day?"
,"How many minutes make up one day?"
,"How many months are there in a year?"
,"How many seconds make up one day?"
,"How many seconds make up one hour?"
,"How many minutes make up one hour?"};
return questions;
}
}
}

The prgramming language is C# through Visual Studio. Thanks.

Cases of Covid-19 first emerged in December 2019, when a mysterious illness was reported in Wuhan, China. The cause of the disease was soon confirmed as a new kind of coronavirus, and the infection has spread to a number of countries around the world. The Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, the start of which coincided with the emergence of COVID-19, is the most celebratory time of the year in China, during which a massive human migration takes place as individuals travel back to their hometowns. People in China are estimated to make close to 3 billion trips over the 40-day travel period, or Chunyun, of the Lunar New Year holiday. About 5 million people left Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province and epicentre of the COVID-19 epidemic, before the start of the travel ban on Jan 23, 2020. About a third of those individuals travelled to locations outside of Hubei province and these people were probably the main reason for the current global pandemic.

On 11 February the World Health Organization announced that the official name would be covid-19, a shortened version of coronavirus disease 2019. The WHO refers to the specific virus that causes this disease as the covid-19 virus. This is not the formal name for the virus – the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses calls it the “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2”, or SARS-CoV-2, because it is related to the virus that caused the SARS outbreak in 2003. However, to avoid confusion with SARS the WHO calls it the covid-19 virus when communicating with the public.

The WHO’s definition of a confirmed case of covid-19 is a person shown by laboratory testing to be infected with the virus, irrespective of clinical signs and symptoms. However, some reported case numbers from China have included people with symptoms of covid-19, but without laboratory confirmation.

The coronavirus death toll in mainland China increased by 42 Sunday March1, 2020, according to China’s National Health Commission (NHC). All the new deaths were in Hubei province. The additional deaths bring the total death toll in mainland China to 2,912, the NHC said. There have been 129 deaths reported outside mainland China, raising the global death toll to 3,041.

Other deaths across the globe include:

• 54 deaths in Iran
• 34 deaths in Italy
• 20 deaths in South Korea
• 12 deaths in Japan
• 2 deaths each in Hong Kong and France
• 1 death each reported in the Philippines, Taiwan, Australia, Thailand and the United States

The total number of confirmed cases in mainland China is now 80,026, bringing the global total to 88,443. The number of infected cases have also been increasing globally, including in Malaysia.

Question:

Based on the whole scenario circulating covid-19, identify a potential “solution” that can help control the pandemic from becoming a lot worse than what it is already today. The solution must NOT be from a medical or scientific point of view but from the information technology or digital business perspectives. The solution must also become economically sustainable. In your answer, your solution must fulfil a specific SBO, be categorized in a specific type of information system, has a potent business model, and fits into a specific e-commerce type and category. In addition, how will the solution benefit from social, mobile and location-based technologies and marketing? Finally, how do you intent to develop the solution (based on the assumption that it is going to be a type of information system) and ensure its web development is effectively executed?

As CEO of Ocean World​, Rita Greenwood knows it is important to control costs and to respond quickly to changes in the highly competitive​ boat-building industry. When DMG Consulting proposes that Ocean World invest in an ERP​ system, she forms a team to evaluate the​ proposal: the plant​ engineer, the plant​ foreman, the systems​ specialist, the human resources​ director, the marketing director, and the management accountant. A month​ later, management accountant Marcus Chumura reports that the team and DMG estimate that if Ocean World implements the ERP​ system, it will incur the following​ costs:

Costs of the Project

a. $360,000 in software costs

b. $72,000 to customize the ERP software and load OceanWorld​'s data into the new ERP system

c.$115,000 for employee training

Benefits of the Project

Requirement 1. If the ERP installation​ succeeds, what is the dollar amount of the​ benefits?

Requirement 2. Should OceanWorld install the ERP​ system? Why or why​ not? Show your calculations.

Complete the table below to calculate the expected net benefits​ (costs) of the project. ​(Use parentheses or a minus sign for net​ costs.)

Since the expected value of the benefits ▼(are less than ,are greater than )the total​ costs, Ocean World▼(should not,should)undertake the project.

Requirement 3. Why did Stuckey create a team to evaluate DMG​'s ​proposal? Consider each piece of​ cost-benefit information that management accountant Chumura

reported. Which person on the team is most likely to have contributed each​ item?

​(​Hint: Which team member is likely to have the most information about each cost or​ benefit?)

Stuckey formed a team to evaluate the feasabilty of installing an ERP system for the following reasons. ​(If a box is not used in the​ table, leave the box​ empty; do not select a​ label.)

Forming a team would lower the cost of evaluating the system.

She did not want to take sole responsibility for the decision

the project was too big for one person

the representatives of different functional business areas have different knowledge and information to contribute

the representatives of different functional business areas have the same knowledge and will offer similar perspectives.

Consider each piece of​ cost-benefit information that management accountant Chumura reported. Which person on the team is most likely to have contributed each​ item?

​(​Hint: Which team member is likely to have the most information about each cost or​ benefit?) ​(If a box is not used in the​ table, leave the box​ empty; do not select a​ label.)

annual growth rate during this period. For example, real income per person in Zambia was $1,412 in 1960, and it actually declined to $1,309 by 2010. Zambia's average annual growth rate during this period was -0.15%, and it was the poorest economy in the table in the year 2010.

The real income-per-person figures are denominated in U.S. dollars with a base year of 2005. The following exercises will help you to understand the different growth experiences of these economies.

Indicate which economy satisfies each of the following statements.

Consider the following list of four economies. Which economy began with a level of real income per person in 1960 that was well below that of Venezuela and grew fast enough to catch up with and surpass Venezuela's real income per person by 2010?

Botswana

Honduras

Malaysia

Zambia

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Consider a simple economy whose only industry is weaving. In this industry, productivity—the amount of goods and services a worker can produce per hour—is measured by the number of garments one weaver makes per hour.

In the following table, match each example to the productivity determinant it represents.

Consider a small island country whose only industry is weaving. The following table shows information about the small economy in two different years.

Complete the table by calculating physical capital per worker as well as labor productivity.

Hint: Recall that productivity is defined as the amount of goods and services a worker can produce per hour. In this problem, measure productivity as the quantity of goods per hour of labor.

Based on your calculations,   in physical capital per worker from 2028 to 2029 is associated with   in labor productivity from 2028 to 2029.

Suppose you're in charge of establishing economic policy for this small island country.

Which of the following policies would lead to greater productivity in the weaving industry? Check all that apply.

Imposing a tax on looms

Sharply increasing the interest rate on student loans to people pursuing advanced degrees in weaving

Imposing restrictions on foreign ownership of domestic capital

Offering free public education to every worker in the country

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When a stem cell undergoes asymmetric cell division, what are the two cell types typically formed?

List three ways stem cells protect their genomic DNA.

What are the two main lineages derived from hematopoietic stem cells? List two differentiated cell types derived from each lineage.

Some people believe that cancers form from mutated stem cells. What data from the study of CML supports this theory?

Many DNA polymerases have two catalytic activities. What are they?

What is the phenotype of a mouse in which the proof-reading activity of DNA polymerase has been eliminated through mutation?

When a mistake occurs during DNA replication, it is important for the cell to identify which base is correct and which is incorrect. What clue is used by the repair machinery to determine which base(s) to remove?

What is a microsatellite and how can they lead to random base insertions and deletions in the DNA sequence?

Some (but not all) cancers display microsatellite instability. How does this instability usually arise?

Many bases undergo deamination, but deamination of 5-methylcytosine is very frequent. What base is formed when 5-methylcytosine undergoes deamination?

What products are formed from single electron reduction of O2 to H2O?

Name 3 sources of reactive oxygen species in living tissue.

Would you expect a mouse with a deleted 8-oxo-deoxyguanosine glycosylase to have a higher or lower cancer risk?

Compare how X rays and UV damage DNA.

What are the two major photoproducts formed by UV radiation?

Many environmental agents can alkylate DNA. What is the specialized repair mechanism used by the cell to repair this type of damage?

Many carcinogens enter the body as non-reactive pro-carcinogens. How do they become carcinogens?

Why do cytochrome P450 enzymes attach oxygen molecules to pro-carcinogens?

List three cytochrome P450 substrates that are thought to be human pro-carcinogens and indicate where they come from.

Many dietary pro-carcinogens are absorbed by the small intestine. What is their next destination and where does most of their metabolism usually occur?

What are phase I and phase II enzymes?

What is glutathione and how do glutathione-S-transferases protect cells from carcinogens?

Name a cruciferous vegetable and one of its “active” ingredients with regard to cancer prevention.

How does sulforaphane impact Keap1 and Nrf2 in the cell? What kind of proteins are Keap1 and Nrf2?

Compare base excision DNA repair and nucleotide excision repair. What types of lesions are repaired by BER and which are repaired by NER?

How many XP genes are there? Are XP individuals homozygous or heterozygous at a mutant XP locus?

Most of the XP genes encode proteins involved in: ____________.

Approximately how many base pairs are replaced following NER and BER?

Are BRCA1 and 2 genes best viewed as gatekeeper or caretaker genes?

There are two ways a cell can repair a double strand DNA break. What are they called and which is more error prone?

Which double strand break repair pathway requires a sister chromatid?

What is the difference between chromosomal instability and microsatellite instability? How do these states arise?

In a normal cell, mitosis will not occur until the spindle assembly checkpoint in passed. What event satisfies the spindle activated checkpoint? What happens when this checkpoint in deficient?

What is the role of centromere tension for passing the spindle assembly checkpoint?

QUESTION 5: Case Study I - ETHICS CASE STUDY [10 Marks]

One for the Road—Anyone?

“Florence Yozefu is a brilliant scientist who heads a robotics research laboratory at one of the top ten research universities. Florence has been developing wearable robotics gear that can take over the driving functions of a vehicle from a human operator when it is worn by the driver. In laboratory tests, the robot, nicknamed Catchmenot, has performed successfully whenever Florence and her assistants have worn the robot. However, no real-life experiment has ever been conducted outside the lab. Florence has been planning to try it out in her project plan but has not yet had a chance to do so. For New Year’s Eve, Florence has plans to visit her mother and sister, about 100 miles away. This was a good opportunity to show her mother and her sister what she has been working on in the last few months. So, she decides to take Catchmenot with her. She packs her car the evening before and on the morning of the trip, she passes by the lab to get her robot and put it in the car. She drives the 100 miles in a little under her usual time and arrives at her mother’s house earlier than usual”. “In the evening, Florence bids her mother good-bye and passes by her sister’s apartment as promised. At her sister’s apartment, she finds a few of her teen friends and they get right into a party mode. Florence drinks and dances and forgets about the time. There are many stories to tell and to listen to. About 1:00 a.m., after the midnight champagne toast, she decides to leave and drive back to her apartment. She had promised to accompany her friends to a pre-planned engagement. Although she is very drunk, and against her friend’s advice and insistence that she should not drive, Florence puts on Catchmenot and in a few minutes she is off. Thirty minutes later, she is cruising at 70 mph and she is also sound asleep. She is awakened by a squirrel running all over her car at about 5:00 a.m. She is parked by the roadside in front of her apartment complex. She has made it home safely. She has no idea when and where she passed out and what happened along the way. She will never know. Although she is surprised, confused, and feels guilty, she is happy how well Catchmenot has worked. She decides to market it. How much should she charge for it, she wonders”.

[Source: Kizza J.M. History of Computing. In: Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age, 2010, Texts in Computer Science. Springer, London] Please answer the following questions:

1. As AI applications increase, such as in the use of robotics, will the wider use of these “manlike” machines compromise our moral values system? Why or why not? [2 Marks]

2. Discus the future of computer ethics in the integrated environment of Artificial Intelligence (A I), Virtual Reality (VR), and cyberspace. [3 Marks]

3. If anything went wrong during the ride home, would Florence be responsible? Who should be? What are the consequences? [3 Marks]

4. Discuss the ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence. [2 Marks]

Massachusetts General Hospital settles potential HIPAA violations
Large hospital system to improve policies and procedures safeguarding patient information

The General Hospital Corporation and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization Inc. (Mass General) has agreed to pay the U.S. government $1,000,000 to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today.

Mass General, one of the nation’s oldest and largest hospitals, signed a Resolution Agreement with HHS that requires it to develop and implement a comprehensive set of policies and procedures to safeguard the privacy of its patients. The settlement follows an extensive investigation by the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which enforces the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules. The HIPAA Privacy Rule requires health plans, health care clearinghouses and most health care providers (covered entities) to protect the privacy of patient information through administrative, physical and technical safeguards at all times.

“We hope the health care industry will take a close look at this agreement and recognize that OCR is serious about HIPAA enforcement. It is a covered entity’s responsibility to protect its patients’ health information,” said OCR Director Georgina Verdugo.

The incident giving rise to the agreement involved the loss of protected health information (PHI) of 192 patients of Mass General’s Infectious Disease Associates outpatient practice, including patients with HIV/AIDS. OCR opened its investigation of Mass General after a complaint was filed by a patient whose PHI was lost on March 9, 2009. OCR’s investigation indicated that Mass General failed to implement reasonable, appropriate safeguards to protect the privacy of PHI when removed from Mass General’s premises and impermissibly disclosed PHI potentially violating provisions of the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

The impermissible disclosure of PHI involved the loss of documents consisting of a patient schedule containing names and medical record numbers for a group of 192 patients, and billing encounter forms containing the name, date of birth, medical record number, health insurer and policy number, diagnosis and name of providers for 66 of those patients. These documents were lost on March 9, 2009, when a Mass General employee, while commuting to work, left the documents on the subway train that were never recovered.

Mass General also agreed to enter into a Corrective Action Plan (CAP), which requires the hospital to:

Develop and implement a comprehensive set of policies and procedures that ensure PHI is protected when removed from Mass General’s premises;
Train workforce members on these policies and procedures; and
Designate the Director of Internal Audit Services of Partners HealthCare System Inc. to serve as an internal monitor who will conduct assessments of Mass General’s compliance with the CAP and render semi-annual reports to HHS for a 3-year period.
“To avoid enforcement penalties, covered entities must ensure they are always in compliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules,” said Verdugo. “A robust compliance program includes employee training, vigilant implementation of policies and procedures, regular internal audits, and a prompt action plan to respond to incidents.”

1.Summary Details of the Violation: (Include all pertinent information)
2.What part (or parts) of the HIPAA Law was violated?
3.Penalty Given:
4.What actions could have been taken to avoid the violation? (Be specific)
5.What steps will you take as a healthcare provider to avoid violations of the HIPAA Law? (Be specific)