Applied Science

This is a required assignment worth 75 points (75-points/1000-points). Assignment must be submitted by the due date. No late assignments are allowed. Please discuss the following topics and provide substantive comments to at least two other posts. Select from the following list one topic and discuss. Your submission must be 400 words and be in APA format.The discussion questions this week are from Chapter’s 16-20 (Jamsa, 2013).Chapter 16 topics:Define and describe total cost of ownership. List at least 10 items to consider when determining a data center’s total cost of ownership.Define and describe a capital expense. How are capital expenses different from operational expenses?Define and describe economies of scale and provide a cloud-based example.Define and describe “right sizing” as it pertains to cloud computing.Define Moore’s law and discus how it might influence cloud migration.Given company revenues of $2.5 million and expenses of $2.1 million, calculate the company’s profit and profit margin.Chapter 17 topics:Compare and contrast functional and nonfunctional requirements and provide an example of each.Discuss why a designer should avoid selecting an implementation platform for as long as possible during the design process.Discuss various trade-offs a designer may need to make with respect to nonfunctional requirements.Discuss why the system maintenance phase is often the most expensive phase of the software development life cycle.Chapter 18 topics:Using Yahoo! Pipes, create a pipe that displays the names of pizza restaurants within a given zip code.Using Google App Engine, create a page that displays the following Python script:print “Content-type: text/htmlnn”print “Cloud Computing, Chapter 18“Chapter 19 topics:Define scalability.List five to ten potential relationships that align with the Pareto principle, such as how 80 percent of sales come from 20 percent of customers.Compare and contrast vertical and horizontal scaling.Explain the importance of the database read/write ratio.Assume a site guarantees 99.99 percent uptime. How many minutes per year can the site be down?Chapter 20 topics:List and describe five ways you think the cloud will change the future of TV.List and describe five potential uses for intelligent fabric.List and describe five ways the cloud will influence the mobile application market, or vice versa.Discuss the importance of HTML 5.Discuss how the cloud will impact future operating systems.List and describe three potential location-aware applications.List and describe five ways intelligent devices may work together.Supplementary topic:Discuss the importance and function of a Content Delivery Network

Listening Log questionsVerdi, from Otello, Act II (Listening Guide p. 177)Describe the type and style of the work you hear:List three musical characteristics heard in this selection that help define the style. Indicate where in the piece they can best be heard. (3 points)How is the excerpt from Act II of Verdi’s Otello similar to others of the period? Compare it to Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Fourth movement (Listening Guide p. 193).Name at least three musical characteristics of this period heard in both works that help define the style. (3 points)4. Comparing the stylistic characteristics of each, how are the two operatic/vocal examples different? (2 points)

Read my classmate post. Think and write your thoughts and feelings about his post. (1 page)Classmate’s PostDeeper learning is more than just remembering, recall, and recitation of what we understand, though. It is learning that enables us to “transfer knowledge to new contexts, apply concepts to novel situations, look at problems from varied perspectives, and explain in ways that make sense to others” (Hoffer, 2017). Deeper learning does not end with the accumulation of a set of knowledge; it is a continual process of connecting that knowledge to life. It is heart learning, not head just learning. In biblical studies, it is a process of understanding the text that leads to spiritual growth.The 4Mat approach to teaching can bring about heart learning. Begin by answering the question in quadrant one, Why do I need to learn this? My son always had to have a reason to learn something and usually, “Because I (his homeschool teacher) said so” did not work. But when I could formulate a specific reason in a way that fit his thinking, he could learn just about anything. Interestingly, once he knew why, he needed to be left alone to figure out what he could do with the information; that’s quadrant 4 on the model. One of my daughters fit quadrant two; lecture/explain What does it mean, and the lesson was hers. My other daughter was a quadrant three doer. As a homeschool teacher, I was challenged to present the material in a way that each of my students could make it their own, but when I was successful, they were able to hide Gold’s Word in their hearts.While the explanation of the model was clear, the example the textbook offered was unfortunate. The theme of Matthew 25 is preparing yourself for the judgment. The chapter contains 2 parables of preparation, the ten virgins and the talents. They were the illustrations for the lesson found in verses 31-46. This passage, though, is neither a parable; it is a depiction of Judgment Day. The King of verses 34 and 40 is identified in verse 31 as the Son of Man. The rest of verse 31 offers the setting.Also, using the passage as instruction to pursue prison ministry is inaccurate. Consider Coffman’s comments on Matthew 25:36, “Those who think they find in these words of Jesus an excuse for making Christianity a mere matter of social charity, should look again. It is not the treatment of all the wretched and unfortunate of earth that shall make up the burden of the Christian’s duty (though that must be allowed as desirable), but the treatment of ‘these my brethren,’ as Christ expressed it, that determines destiny (see Matthew 25:40 (Links to an external site.))” (1974). Teaching the lost in prison is included in the Great Commission, but it is not part of this passage.Yount would have created more understanding in my mind had he properly used a biblical passage when explicating the 4MAT process. This misuse reminds me that the basic knowledge must be valid for deeper learning to be of benefit.

Prompt: The Lilly Ledbetter Act was the first law signed by President Obama after he became President. Research the law and discuss its history and what impact the law has on employees and employers currently and in theRequirements: 500 words minimum, APA Style

Promoting Safety and QualityThroughout your education, patient safety and improving the quality of patient care have been examined. Through numerous readings and media pieces, you have heard about Never Events. These are serious and costly medical errors that are preventable, such as wrong-side surgery, medication errors, and hospital-acquired infections. Each of these types of medical errors is preventable. The consequences of such errors are now financial as well as legal and emotional. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services no longer reimburse for medical errors classified as Never Events.In the article “Managing to Improve Quality(See article under required readings): The Relationship Between Accreditation Standards, Safety Practices, and Patient Outcomes,” the authors discuss the growing trend by medical insurance companies to eliminate reimbursement for Never Events. As these types of mistakes should be easily preventable, hospitals have developed protocols to lessen or extinguish the occurrence of these events. In addition, The Joint Commission (TJC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have developed core measures to guide health care providers’ efforts in improving patient safety and the quality of care delivered.Health care organizations have developed strategic agendas to help meet these standards and reduce the incidence of Never Events. Nurses significantly influence the overall quality of health care provided and play a pivotal role in improving patient outcomes.For this Discussion, you will consider the standards that are in place for nurses and how they can be used to improve quality of care.To prepare for this Assignment:1. Review the information at the Joint Commission and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services websites on the core measures and standards presented in this week’s Resources.2. Consider the nurse’s role in supporting the organization’s strategic agenda as it relates to improving clinical outcomes.3. Conduct an Internet search for either a Never Event or a core measure, and select one to address in your post.Respond to the following:1.How has the emphasis on quality of care, patient safety, and clinical care outcomes been impacted by specific standards emanating from TJC and/or CMS? Cite your selected core measure or Never Event in your response.2. What is the impact of the nurse’s role in clinical outcomes for the organization?3. Discuss nurse-specific challenges in influencing change in quality improvement.4. How does this influence the ability of the organization to achieve its strategic agenda?Initial Post: At least 450 words response. Be sure to use evidence from the readings and include in-text citations. Utilize essay-level writing practice and skills, including the use of transitional material and organizational frames. Avoid quotes; paraphrase to incorporate evidence into your own writing. A reference list is required. Use the most current evidence (usually ? 5 years old). Support your response with references from the professional nursing literature.Grading Rubric1. Analyze how specific standards emanating from CMS and/or TJC have impacted quality of care, patient safety, and clinical care outcomes for a selected core measure or Never Event.2. Determined the impact of the nurse’s role in clinical outcomes for the organization3. Differentiated selected nurse specific challenges in influencing change in quality improvement.4. Considered how these challenges influence the ability of the organization to achieve its strategic agenda

This case-study examines the patterns, symmetries, associations and causality in a rare but devastating disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). A major clinically relevant question in this biomedical study is: What patient phenotypes can be automatically and reliably identified and used to predict the change of the ALSFRS slope over time?. This problem aims to explore the data set by unsupervised learning.Load and prepare the data.Perform summary and preliminary visualization.Train a k-Means model on the data, experiment at least two different k values, and explain which k value is a better choice.Evaluating the model performance by report the center of clusters.Visualize the final clustering result.Submit Python code, report that explains the k experiment, performance evaluation, and visualizations.

1. FOR 9 POINTS – Read through each of the scenarios below (you only have to do 3):· Jimmy is a 12 year old individual with a history of severe self-injurious behavior in the form of head-banging (resulting in bruises, concussions, and lacerations to their skin). You are trying to do a functional analysis for this head banging behavior and want to ensure that the person does not hurt themselves. That staff members are not trained in handling head-banging and have consulted with you in order to assess this behavior and review next steps.· Tiffany is a 34 year old individual diagnosed with Down Syndrome and is living in a community integrated living arrangement (CILA). You have been called to consult on her noncompliance with household tasks (e.g. cleaning after self). The staff is frustrated as she does drop to the floor when she does not want to do something.· Albert is a 14 year old individual diagnosed with minor learning disabilities and is in a mainstream high school classroom. Their IEP states that they are allowed to take 1 break per class for 10 minutes. The teacher reached out to you because the student is taking 20 minute breaks and refuses to do this in any less time.· Answer these questions for each scenario:· What is a potential ethical issue with this scenario?· How would you address the issue to “fix” this and make sure future work is done correctly?· This is the rubric in which you will be graded:·Item NeededBehavior analytic languageAPA style, grammar, & punctuationCompleteness2. FOR 1 POINT – identify one of the ethical codes we discussed in class and then provide an example of directly violating that code.

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Quality Analysis, Part 2For the company and product or service that you selected for the W3 Project, complete the following:Imagining yourself to be viewing the company’s product or service through the eyes of the customer, construct a House of Quality to provide the organization with your perspectives on what the important dimensions of quality are and how well the organization is currently meeting your needs.Develop a SPC checklist for each dimension of the product that you believe would be subject to statistical control.Evaluate the product using the five-step plan that is associated with the Kaizen philosophy.Propose what elements of the production and delivery of the product or service would be subject to benchmarking and how you would identify those organizations to which comparisons could be made in a benchmarking process.Submission Details:Submit your report in a three

For the statistics project you are completing in this course, you will need to select a relevant topic that will allow you to gather both qualitative and quantitative data. You may gather data from a group of your choice using a data collection instrument (survey or data mining) that you design. Using the results of that collection instrument, you will create a data set, analyze the data, and create a professional report showing the results of the data that you collected.For this assignment you will choose a topic and create a data collection instrument. When selecting a topic, remember you need to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. Data collection could be done in the form of a survey via a medium such as Survey Monkey or Facebook or through available workplace content such as sales orders. You will want to collect data from approximately 30 observations. This means you will want to survey at least 30 people or select data from 30 different sales orders.Submit the topic of the study, a rationale (one or two paragraphs) outlining the purpose of the study, and the data collection instrument you created as a Word document. Include relevant survey links if the data is being collected digitally.For this Module/Week 2 assignment, you are to write JUST a Statistics Project Proposal in a Word Docx file. In the Proposal, include 1) the topic of the study, 2) rationale (that is a need or gap in existing literature) of the study, and 3) how you will collect at least three (3) quantitative and least three (3) qualitative data from at least 30 people you will interview or at least 30 individual data from an existing data/database.