Business analytics

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A corporation plans on building a maximum of 11 new stores in a large city. They will build these stores in one of three sizes for each location – a convenience store (open 24 hours), standard store, and an expanded services store. The convenience store requires $4.125 million to build and 30 employees to operate. The standard store requires $8.25 million to build and 15 employees to operate. The expanded-services store requires $12.375 million to build and 45 employees to operate. The corporation can dedicate $82.5 million in construction capital, and 300 employees to staff the stores. On the average, the convenience store nets $1.2 million annually, the standard store nets $2 million annually, and the expanded services store nets $2.6 million annually.

  1. How many of each should they build to maximize income?
  2. What is the maximum income they will earn based on your answer in A?
  3. Which kind of store – convenience, standard, expanded services – will contribute the most to corporate income?
  4. Which kind of store – convenience, standard, expanded services – will contribute the least to corporate income?
  5. Identify any constraints which are not fully utilized – which are they?

 

You are devising a regression to value farms 100 acres or more. Data is in course files and is titled Test II bsad 2304 data spring 2021.xlsx. Your dependent variable – price per acre – will be explained by

  • Dummy variables(1=Yes) describing the property that include
    • is there a creek?
    • Is the land cultivated for farming (instead of suitable for hunting)
    • Does it have access to water lines
    • Is it heavily treed
    • Is it bordered by an asphalt road
  • Along with a continuous variables: the number of wells
  • And market characteristics for the county where the land was sold including:
    • average rainfall
    • average high temp
    • average low temp
    • % college grads
    • Unemployment rate
    • county population
    • county population/sq mi
    • average income

Run a regression that explains price per acre using all your independent terms. Use your regression results to answer the following questions:

  1. Of water lines, the number of wells, and the presence of creeks, which statistically affect the price per acre at the 90% level or greater? If your goal is to make the most money, would you rather have more wells, access to a creek, or access to water lines? Rank your answer by calculating the dollar difference per acre between your choices.
  2. What’s better: land that is heavily treed or land that is cultivated?  Calculate the dollar difference per acre.  What do you think drives this difference?
  3. What is your most significant variable when explaining land value. Explain why you think this drives value.  What is another variable that might contribute to price/acre for the same reason as your most significant variable?
  4. Comment on the accuracy of this statement: The further north you go, the more valuable the land.
  5. Parcel A gets 60 inches of rain per year. Parcel B gets only 50 inches of rain per year.  Which parcel is worth more? What is the price difference per acre?
  6. Kent County has 726 people or .9 people per mile. Taylor County has 137,640 or 143.64 people per square mile? Does this wide difference in population matter when pricing land? Explain.

UDL/CAST Instructional Plan Analysis

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 To prepare for this assignment, review the CAST (2010) video, UDL at a Glance  (Links to an external site.)and review the Explore model UDL lesson plans (Links to an external site.) (2011) web page, both of which are listed in the Week 3 Required Resources. Be sure to also review the Week 3 Instructor Guidance page for additional intellectual elaboration on UDL and assistance with this assignment. 

 

Refer to: Week 3 Assignment Template download

Content Instructions

  • Lesson Description (1 point): Include the title of the model lesson, the subject, and grade levels, and a one-paragraph introduction of the lesson you selected from the Explore Model UDL Lesson Plans (2011) page of the CAST.org website.
  • Principle 1 – Representation (1 point): In one to three paragraphs, describe ways that multiple means of representation are included in the model lesson. When providing examples from the lesson, be sure to describe how it reflects multiple means of representation. Make reference to the readings.
  • Principle 2 – Action and Expression (1 point): In one-to-three paragraphs, describe ways that multiple means of action and expression are included in the model lesson. When providing examples from the lesson, be sure to describe how it reflects multiple means of action and expression. Make reference to the readings
  • Principle 3 – Engagement (1 point): In one to three paragraphs, describe ways that multiple means of engagement are included in the model lesson. When providing each example from the lesson, be sure to describe how it reflects multiple means of engagement. Make reference to the readings
    • A description of at least two concepts or strategies from the lesson that serve as a means to motivate learners.
    • A description of how, overall, the lesson models differentiated instruction. Make reference to the course materials or outside sources to support this section.
    • A discussion of how your understanding of and appreciation for instructional planning has changed as a result of your analysis,
    • At least one specific concept or strategy from the lesson that you would consider applying to your own practice and the potential impact it may have on the population you serve.

Written Communication Instructions

  • Length Requirement (0.5 point): Four to seven pages including the title and references pages.
  • Syntax and Mechanics (0.5 point): Display meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar.
  • Source Requirement (0.5 point): Utilize at least two sources in addition the model lesson plan and the Edyburn (2013) textbook. All sources on the references page need to be used and cited correctly within the body of the assignment.
  • APA Formatting (0.5 points): Use APA formatting consistently throughout the assignment. Refer to the Writing Center for assistance with APA style and formatting or your copy of the APA Style Manual.

 

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Nurs

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Max King at Kaplan’s  who is 4 years old had leaky liquid stool in his underwear. The associated symptom is abdominal pain. For the past 3 years he is been having Abdominal pain and hard stools when collecting history, the last three weeks he is been having liquid stools. He moved his bowel movement every 2 to 3 days but hard stool .

Primary Diagnosis and ICD-10 code: Also include any procedural codes. 

3-5 Differential Diagnoses- Why? What made you select each one as a DDX? How did you rule out? This would be a good area to include references. 

 

Additional laboratory and diagnostic tests: May be necessary to establish or evaluate a condition. Some tests, such as MRI, may require prior authorization from the patient’s insurance carrier. 

 

Consults: referrals to specialists, therapists (physical, occupational), counselors, or other professionals. If you are sending to hospital, what orders would you write for a direct admit? 

 

Therapeutic modalities: pharmacological and nonpharmacological management. 

 

Health Promotion: Address risk factors as appropriate. Consider age-appropriate preventive health screening. 

 

Patient education: Explanations and advice given to patient and family members. 

 

Disposition/follow-up instructions: when the patient is to return sooner, and when to go to another facility such as the emergency department, urgent care center, specialist or therapist. 

 

References (minimum of 3, timely, that prove this plan follows current standard of care).” 

 

5Advanced Levels of Clinical Inquiry and Systematic Reviews6052

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Your quest to purchase a new car begins with an identification of the factors important to you. As you conduct a search of cars that rate high on those factors, you collect evidence and try to understand the extent of that evidence. A report that suggests a certain make and model of automobile has high mileage is encouraging. But who produced that report? How valid is it? How was the data collected, and what was the sample size?

In this Assignment, you will delve deeper into clinical inquiry by closely examining your PICO(T) question. You also begin to analyze the evidence you have collected.

To Prepare:

  • Review the Resources and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry.
  • Develop a PICO(T) question to address the clinical issue of interest you identified in Module 2 for the Assignment. This PICOT question will remain the same for the entire course.
  • Use the key words from the PICO(T) question you developed and search at least four different databases in the Walden Library. Identify at least four relevant systematic reviews or other filtered high-level evidence, which includes meta-analyses, critically-appraised topics (evidence syntheses), critically-appraised individual articles (article synopses). The evidence will not necessarily address all the elements of your PICO(T) question, so select the most important concepts to search and find the best evidence available.
  • Reflect on the process of creating a PICO(T) question and searching for peer-reviewed research.

The Assignment (Evidence-Based Project)

Part 2: Advanced Levels of Clinical Inquiry and Systematic Reviews

Create a 6- to 7-slide PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:

  • Identify and briefly describe your chosen clinical issue of interest.
  • Describe how you developed a PICO(T) question focused on your chosen clinical issue of interest.
  • Identify the four research databases that you used to conduct your search for the peer-reviewed articles you selected.
  • Provide APA citations of the four relevant peer-reviewed articles at the systematic-reviews level related to your research question. If there are no systematic review level articles or meta-analysis on your topic, then use the highest level of evidence peer reviewed article.
  • Describe the levels of evidence in each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, including an explanation of the strengths of using systematic reviews for clinical research. Be specific and provide examples.

Discussion 2: Motivational Interviewing vs. Traditional Assessment Techniques

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While professional interviewing can elicit information, motivational interviewing is a collaborative, conversational approach for evoking a service user’s own motivation to change. Not only do you draw upon an individual’s needs, using motivational interviewing helps to empower the service user to make the necessary changes to improve their well-being. Traditional assessment is often a question and answer process versus motivational interviewing, which is conversational and motivational. It is critical to note that traditional assessments are complex and are specific psychometric measurements that require reliability and validity in order to be a true assessment measure. Reliability is the degree to which an assessment is consistent, and validity is the degree to which an assessment measures what it intends to measure. As an advanced human services professional practitioner, you will generally use motivational interviewing more often than psychometric assessment instruments, however, this is dependent upon your practice or employment, or even your credentials. When you use assessment measures, it is important to understand the notion of reliability and validity.

In motivational interviewing, it is critical to understand and utilize communication styles that are effective. Without the appropriate communication style, the interview no longer elicits the right information nor empowers the individual. Identifying your communication style and approach is important in developing your skills in motivational interviewing. As you will discover in the readings, this week, some communication styles are more appropriate than others when using motivational interviewing.

In this Discussion, you will identify your communication style and consider how it may affect your approach to motivational interviewing. You also will compare motivational interviewing to traditional assessment techniques used in human services settings.

To Prepare

  •  Pay particular attention to the continuum of communication styles (directing, guiding, and following) and the role of each in motivational interviewing. Then, identify your dominant communication style.
  • Review the Learning Resources on traditional assessment techniques and motivational interviewing. Consider how the goals of motivational interviewing are similar to and different from the goals of traditional assessment techniques.
  • Post a brief explanation of where you believe you currently fall on the continuum of communication styles, and explain how your style may affect your approach to motivational interviewing. Then, describe the traditional assessment techniques you currently use in your organization or those with which you are familiar. Compare motivational interviewing to one traditional assessment technique. In your comparison, be sure to address how the goals of motivational interviewing are similar to and different from the goals of the traditional technique.

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Theater class journal HM

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Like sets and lights, costume design not only helps to tell the story, but also gives us insight into the individual characters (without them ever having to speak).  A character’s costume may indicate gender, position, status, occupation, occasion, and/or a sense of personality (modesty, flamboyance, independence, etc.) – the “essence” of that character.

For Journal 4…

  • find an image or link of a play, film or television show
  • select one character
  • and discuss what the costume design tells the viewer about that character

Remember, costumes involve more than actual attire (or lack there of).  Costumes also involve hats, masks, makeup, wigs, and accessories.  Review the Powerpoint notes on Costume Design to understand the objectives and goals for costume designers.  To get a better sense of how costumes “create” a character, watch the clip from Guardians of the Galaxy.

Create your response, in the Assignment submission box below (not in the Comments field), as a journal or diary entry.  This response will not be read by your fellow classmates.  The journal should be 1-2 pages long, approximately 400-500 words minimum.  Be careful of spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation…proofread and edit your work as necessary.  Please cite your sources, including videos or links used.  

ETHICAL CASE STUDY

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A nursing school initiates a mentoring program whereby all undergraduate student meet in assigned groups with a faculty mentor each semester in their program.

This mechanism is a way to provide students with the following:

v faculty mentor support for students. v provide students and future nurses with a sense of empowerment and support. v a channel to express themselves in a safe environment, without fear of reprisal. v It is also a means by which the values of the profession can be transmitted. This mechanism provides students with a forum of trust and respect for expressing their feelings and preserving their dignity.   However, one group of junior students is experiencing distress. Their mentor, a senior faculty member and department chairperson, has an outside business and asks for “volunteers” to work in his “community health center”, predominately funded by federal grants, where they are expected to do unsupervised well-child health assessments.  

The students feel inadequate to the task, but the faculty persons states that this is “related clinical experience that is supervised.” In addition, one of the students found the grant proposal on the internet and discovered that it contains provisions in the budget for registered nurse to conduct these assessments. This is a powerful member; other faculty members refuse to discuss this with the students. What ought the students do? 

 question 

write the conflict of interest back with provisions and ANA codes not more than 3 slides.

and with a picture.

Programming C assignment

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PROGRAMMING ASSIGNMENT #2 

Write a C program that determines the miles per gallon for 3 tanks of gasoline that a user fills in his/her car. 

We will explain to the user very clearly what the program will be doing and how they should enter data. 

The program should prompt the user to enter the number of gallons used and the number of miles driven for each of the 3 tanks of gas. The program should then calculate and display the miles per gallon obtained for each tank. Once processing is complete for the 3 tanks, the program will calculate the overall mileage(total gallons / total miles) and display a friendly “Goodbye” message as shown below. 

Once you create, compile, link and run your program, your program should present the following dialog to the user: 

Welcome to the mileage calculator. 

This program will calculate the miles per gallon for you for three tanks of gas after you have entered the gallons used and miles driven. 

Enter the number of gallons used for tank #1: 12.8 Enter the number of miles driven: 287.1 *** The miles per gallon for this tank is 22.4 

Enter the number of gallons used for tank #2: 10.3 Enter the number of miles driven: 200.2 *** The miles per gallon for this tank is 19.4 

Enter the number of gallons used for tank #3: 5.2 Enter the number of miles driven: 120.9 *** The miles per gallon for this tank is 23.3 

Your overall average miles per gallon for three tanks is 21.5 

Thank you for using the program. Goodbye. 

 Hints:  In this program you may use 1 variable of type int, and 5 or 6 of type float.  

This program requires an introductory statement to the user.  

This program requires a loop structure (a for loop is best, or while or do — your choice). 

Note that the loop in the input flushing code (to clear input buffer) does not count. 

 The loop requires 3 printf statements as described here: 

o a printf statement to prompt the user for the “number of miles driven” 

o a printf statement to prompt the user for the “number of gallons used” 

o a printf statement to display the calculated “miles per gallon for this tank”.  

The loop also requires 2 scanf statements as described here:

 o a scanf statement to “read in” the number of gallons used which is input by the user. 

o a scanf statement to “read in” the number of miles driven, which is also input by the user.  

This program requires 3 calculations within the loop as described here: o one calculation to determine for the “total miles per gallon ” 

o one accumulator to keep track of (add up) the total miles driven (used for the final calculation). 

o one accumulator to keep track of (add up) the total gallons used (used for the final calculation).  

This program requires another printf statement (outside the for loop) to display the average miles per gallon for all tanks. 

 The loop index can be used to display the current tank calculation. 

Political Science Disscussion

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Complete this assignment by attending or viewing remotely a city of Miami, FL or county government meeting and writing a brief analysis of the proceedings.

The meeting you attend must be a government proceeding: a city commission, county commission, zoning board, county/city committee meeting, or mayor’s or commissioner’s town hall. It cannot be a meeting of a political party or non-government community group.

Many local government bodies broadcast their meetings on television and online. If you are not able to attend a meeting in person, you may view one remotely. Start with a simple web search for meetings of your local city or county government, and proceed from there.

Your response should be around 500 words long, and should address these questions:

What type of meeting did you attend?

Which government officials were in attendance?

What issues did the officials address?

What procedures did they use for making decisions on those issues? (e.g., did they hold votes?)

How did political officials solicit and handle input from the general public at the meeting?

What issues did members of the general public bring to the attention of the elected officials?

Be sure to explain each part of your response in depth and use sources from class — readings or lectures — to support and/or to illuminate your observations.