In this hypothetical case study, a new rapid test kit nicknamed Alpha is being reviewed. The sensitivity of Alpha is 93.0% (0.93) and the specificity is 96.0% (0.96). Assume that the actual prevalence of the Zika antibody among the United States population of blood donors is 4% (0.04) and that of the hurricane disaster relief volunteers returning from Puerto Rico is 20.0% (0.20).

Construct a separate 2 x 2 table, to calculate the PPV and NPV for a population of 2,500 volunteers who aided in the recent hurricane relief efforts in the Caribbean.

If sensitivity and specificity remain constant, what is the relationship of prevalence to predictive-value positive and predictive-value negative? (Hint: Think if one increases, decreases, or stays the same.)

Consider the TV shows you watched as kids. What was the gender of the characters? What did each character do? What role did the characters have in the show? Were there more male or female characters? How prominent are female roles? Are female characters positive or negative? Are there differences among the various types of shows you watched? What messages do these shows send to girls and to boys?

King City Specialty Bikes (KCSB) produces high-end bicycles. Costs to manufacture and market the bicycles at last year's volume level of 2,050 bicycles per month are shown in the following table:

KCSB expects to produce and sell 2,250 bicycles per month in the coming year. The bicycles sell for $610 each.

KCSB receives a proposal from an outside contractor who, for $160 per bicycle, will assemble 900 bicycles per month and ship them directly to KCSB's customers as orders are received from KCSB's sales force. KCSB would provide the materials for each bicycle, but the outside contractor would assemble, box, and ship the bicycles. The variable manufacturing costs would be reduced by 45% for the 900 bicycles assembled by the outside contractor, and variable nonmanufacturing costs for the 900 bicycles would be cut by 60%.

KCSB's marketing manager thinks that it could sell 75 specialty racing bicycles per month for $6,000 each, and its production manager thinks that it could use the idle resources to produce each of these bicycles for variable manufacturing costs of $4,900 per bicycle and variable nonmanufacturing costs of $450 per bicycle.

If KCSB accepts the proposal, it would be able to save $26,650 of fixed manufacturing costs; fixed nonmanufacturing costs would be unchanged.

REQUIRED [Note: Round unit cost computations to the nearest cent]

What is the difference in KCSB's monthly costs between accepting the proposal and rejecting the proposal?   (Note: If the costs of accepting the proposal are less than the costs of rejecting it, enter the difference as a positive number; if the accept costs are more than the reject costs, enter the difference as a negative number.)

Although an insurance adjuster is highly skilled and experienced she sometimes lacks confidence in her abilities, particularly on new assignments. She seems to believe that any new accomplishments are due more to luck than her own expertise. Moreover, her work involves interacting with clients who are sometimes aggressive or hostile. This is a stressful situation to most insurance adjusters, including this employee.

Use path-goal theory to identify and describe the best leadership style or styles that this employee's immediate supervisor should use to improve her effectiveness as an insurance adjuster. Explain why this/these style(s) is/are appropriate in this situation.

1. What are the job expectancy rights? Explain.

2. What are DISCIPLINARY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES? Explain.

3. What is discipline from the perspective of HR? Explain.

4. What do organizations do when INVESTIGATING DISCIPLINARY PROBLEM? Explain.

5. What are some grounds for dismissal? Explain.

6. When is dismissing employees used? Explain.

7. What are some Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures? Explain.

8. What are ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS IN EMPLOYEE RELATIONS? Explain.

short answer questions

AverageGrade. Assume the professor gives five exams during the semester with grades 0 through 100 and drops one of the exams with the lowest grade. Write a program to find the average of the remaining four grades. The program should use a class named Exams that has

1. An instance variable to hold a list of five grades,

2. A method that calculate and return average.

3. A string that return the “exams Average” for printing.

Your program output should prompt for an input for each grade. Use any number between 0 and 100. Your submission should include compiled output.

a) The test statistic is:

b) rejection region

c) p-value (between what?)

d) test decision

e) conclusion

3. Neuroscience researchers examined the impact of environment on rat development. Rats were randomly assigned to be raised in one of the four following test conditions: Impoverished (wire mesh cage - housed alone), standard (cage with other rats), enriched (cage with other rats and toys), super enriched (cage with rats and toys changes on a periodic basis). After two months, the rats were tested on a variety of learning measures (including the number of trials to learn a maze to a three perfect trial criteria), and several neurological measure (overall cortical weight, degree of dendritic branching, etc.). The data for the maze task is below. Use the Microsoft Excel "Anova Single-Factor" Data Analysis tool to conduct a 1-way ANOVA test for the data in the following table:

1. What is your computed answer?
2. What would be the null hypothesis in this study?
3. What would be the alternate hypothesis?
4. What is your F_crit?
5. Are there any significant differences between the four testing conditions?
6. Interpret your answer in the context of the problem statement.

Why is it essential to learn collaborative documentation techniques when working in a multifaceted integrated clinic? What are the benefits to implementing such a system? How could an administrator increase motivation in the accurate use of such a system with all team members?

Please cite the answer

Case Management Action Planning Case Study (250 words)

A case manager, Marie, is meeting with Michael Cornell, an individual in need of services, and his granddaughter Jennifer. Michael age 86, took a bad fall six weeks ago and has been receiving rehabilitation services at a local nursing facility. Discharge planning was not thorough as Michael insisted he was ready to go home with services in place or not. Jennifer is not able to provide Michael with all the assistance he needs, but is willing to help as much as she can. However, it has become apparent to both Michael and Jennifer that he will not be able to remain at home without assistance. As a result of the fall, Michael had a hip replacement and a broken arm which was put in a cast. He also has diabetes, (two toes amputated in the last two years), and macular degeneration. Michael has become quite confused since his stay at the nursing facility and currently his decision making skills are severely impaired. He needs extensive assistance with dressing, bathing, toileting and transfers. Michael is not eating well and continues to lose weight. Michael tells Jennifer and Marie that he has no energy, feels down a lot and doesnt even care about tending to his garden this year. He previously enjoyed socializing with people and hobbies like woodworking, gardening and painting, but they dont interest him much now. Michael attended the local Congregational Church, but has not been to church services since his fall. He agrees that it might be helpful to talk with the pastor, have people around during the day and is willing to accept services that will help him to be able stay at home. Michael and Jennifer are interested in agency directed services at this time and clearly want to receive case management services. Michael, Jennifer and Marie are now developing Michaels Action Plan together.

Some simple questions to start:

List all the potential issues regarding Michaels needs

What goals do you think Michael might have?

List all the possible services Michael would need

For each goal (based on the issues), write a plan including strategies and timeframes

Remember to:

Address the following in the plan:

The processes involved in addressing the clients needs

Recommendations regarding services, supports and referrals

Details of (potential) meetings conducted with the relevant professionals

Continuous improvement strategies

Support from the literature

From an Australian perceptive, how would you brief your staff who is going to be communicating with Japan, Thailand and Singapore, what would you put into an information session for your staff regarding the information needed to know about how to communicate with someone from Japan, Thailand and Singapore? Taking into consideration their culture and custom.

It has been said that the importance of the sales force varies at different stages in the communication hierarchies. Discuss this idea, providing examples to support your position. in 250 -350 words please

Discuss the importance of SCM for Travelfast. Evaluate few SCM solutions available, and suggest which solution would be appropriate for Travelfast. What are some of the possible challenges Travelfast will face in implementing for adoption of SCM in Travelfast.travel fast is an imaginary based on transport company this is for essay so provide a long answer

I have to write 2500 words so could you plz provide like around 1500 words answer it would be great

We can use the generic strategies to combat four of Porter's Five Competitive Forces. The four are rivalry, threat, of substitutes, buyer power, and entry barriers. Can you explain the connection between business level strategies and these forces?

The signature of each function is provided below, do not make any changes to them otherwise the tester will not work properly. The following are the functions you must implement:

mashup(lst) [20pts]

Description: Creates a new string that is based on the provided list. Each number in the list specifies how many characters from the string that follows belong in the resulting string. Parameters: lst is a list of variable size, that contains alternating ints and strings Assumptions: When a pair of values doesn’t make sense, throw out that pair. When you have an empty string in the list, move on to the next pair. When you have a number that is larger than the length of the string, move on to the next pair, etc. Return value: the new string that is generated from the replacements Examples: mashup([2, 'abc', 1, 'def']) → 'abd' mashup([3, 'rate', 2, 'inside', 1, 'goat']) → 'rating'

expand(numbers, amount) [20pts]

Description: Given a list of numbers it returns that same list that has been expanded with a certain amount of zeroes around all of the numbers, including at the beginning and end of the list. Parameters: numbers is a list of mixed int and float Assumptions: You will always have at least one element in numbers. amount will be >= 0 Return value: Nothing is returned. The swapping occurs in-place, i.e. you modify numbers itself Examples: ls = [1,2,3] expand(ls, 1) # nothing is returned! print(ls) # prints [0,1,0,2,0,3,0] ls = [1.5, -6, 4, 0] expand(ls, 2) # nothing is returned! print(ls) # prints [0, 0, 1.5, 0, 0, -6, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]

Assumptions for the following two problems: There will be at least one row and one column in the matrix. All rows will have the same number of elements.

squarify(matrix) [25pts]

Description: Determine the size of the largest square that can be made with the given matrix. Construct a new square matrix of this size using the elements from the original matrix in their original order. Parameters: matrix (list of lists of int) Return value: A new matrix (list of lists of int) Examples: ls = [[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12]] new_ls = squarify(ls) print(new_ls) # prints [[1, 2, 3], [5, 6, 7], [9, 10, 11]]

apply(mask, matrix) [25pts]

Description: Given a matrix, apply the mask. The matrix is some MxN list of list of ints, and the mask is exactly a 2x2 list of lists of ints. Imagine you overlay the mask on top of the matrix, starting from the top left corner. There will be 4 places that overlap. Add each pair of numbers that are overlapped, and update the original matrix with this new value. Shift the mask down the row of the matrix to the next 2x2 that hasn't been updated already, and continue this process. Keep doing this down the columns as well. If you are on an edge and only a piece of the mask overlaps, you can ignore the other numbers and only update the overlapping portion. Parameters: matrix (MxN list of list of ints) and mask (2x2 list of list of ints) Return value: Nothing is returned. The updating occurs in-place, i.e. you modify matrix itself Examples: ls = [[1,2],[3,4]] apply([[1,1],[1,1]], ls) # nothing is returned! print(ls) # prints [[2, 3], [4, 5]] ls = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]] apply([[1,1],[1,1]], ls) # nothing is returned! print(ls) # prints [[2, 3, 4], [5, 6, 7], [8, 9, 10]] ls = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9], [10, 11, 12]] apply([[1,0],[0,1]], ls) # nothing is returned! print(ls) # prints [[2, 2, 4], [4, 6, 6], [8, 8, 10], [10, 12, 12]]