Disscussion Topic: The Kano Model

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Discussion Instructions

The student will post one thread of at least 700 words plus the associated annotated bibliography by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of the following modules all in APA format.

Reserve a Key Topic – The Kano Model

Key topics are addressed within each chapter. Select a key topic to research and discuss. Post the topic you wish to reserve in the subject line of your thread. You may choose the same topic as a peer, but the topics must be addressed from different vantage points (perspectives).

The Thread

After you have reserved your key topic, use the Internet to search for at least 5 scholarly resources that relate to the topic and have been published within the last 5 years. Academic articles and journals must be reputable and obtained from professional websites that address the content of this course. Popular magazines and online sources such as Wikipedia are not permissible.

After reading the articles, select 1 article relating to your key topic that you wish to use in your thread. Your thread must be posted in the text box where you originally reserved your key topic; do not submit a second thread. In addition to posting the thread in the text box, attach a Word file of your thread.  Adhere to the following format:

1. Key Concept Explanation: Define your key topic by using a source other than the textbook. Give a clear, concise overview of the essential elements relevant to understanding your key topic. In addition, explain why you are interested in this topic (e.g., academic curiosity, application to a current issue related to employment, or any other professional rationale). This section must be at least 100 words.

2. Comparison: Compare your research with what you have studied during the module in which the key topic/thread is assigned. Note differences or commonalities about your key topic, providing evidence that you have extended your understanding of this topic beyond the textbook readings. This is an opportunity for you to cite the additional articles you originally researched. This section must be at least 200 words.

3. Article Summary: In your own words, provide a clear and concise summary of the article you selected. This section must be at least 200 words.

4. Biblical Integration: Include at least 3 appropriate biblical references. Explain the relevance of your key topic to God’s law and how it can be applied in a Christian context. This section must be at least 100 words.

5. Application: Specifically state how your key topic has been applied to real-world businesses or describe the potential your key topic has to influence today’s business world. Your application must possess a professional rationale that demonstrates the significance of your key topic. This section must be at least 100 words.

6. Annotated Bibliography: Cite the articles you researched in current APA format. An annotation must accompany each citation. Each annotation will consist of a descriptive and evaluative paragraph that is at least 100 words. The annotations are designed to help your classmates in their understanding of your topic. In addition, provide a persistent link for each article.

AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT: Your Species, Your Choice

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Think of a cartoon show or a character. Create a food web that involves your chosen character (can use characters from the show or from other shows – it just has to make sense). The food web should have at least 4 cartoon characters (species). The only exception is producers (plants/algae/phytoplankton) since you may not find a cartoon character for it, so you can just use a graphic. Make sure your food web starts with a producer.

You may use Canva (Links to an external site.), Piktochart (Links to an external site.), PowerPoint or any other tool that you are familiar with to create your infographic. Your infographic should encompass the concepts in a visually pleasing way (including photos of the characters chosen). An infographic is a collection of imagery, charts, and minimal text that gives an easy-to-understand overview of a topic, typically on one page not multiple slides (learn how to change the size of a PowerPoint slide (Links to an external site.) to make it all one page). Here is an example templatePreview the document (you must fill the blanks with the correct information and remove reminder bubbles). This example is using characters from SpongeBob SquarePants. I checked each organism to make sure that it eats the next in real life. You may use this as a template but you may not use the same characters. 

For the infographic, you should:

  • Classify each species in the food web as a producer, herbivore, omnivore, or carnivore (don’t use decomposers or detritivores).
  • Make sure that the species you select are appropriate for the ecosystem and that they would eat (or be eaten) by the other species in your example.  I will check!!
  • Create an energy/trophic pyramid using the organisms from your food web. Label the 1) producers, 2) primary consumers, 3) secondary consumers, and 4) tertiary consumers. Make sure EACH trophic level is represented.
  • Summarize the 10% energy rule (should be in your own words).
  • Apply the 10% energy rule to your pyramid. Start with 5000 kJ at the producer level. How many kJ are available at each subsequent trophic level? Thoroughly explain in your own words what it means in relation to energy and heat. 

Englis Homework

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An effective description leaves the reader with a dominant impression–an overall attitude, mood, or feeling about the subject. The impression may be awe, inspiration, anger, or distaste, for example.

Read the following paragraph and take out details that do not contribute to the dominant impression.  List the details you took out and explain why you chose those details. Please reply to two of your classmates and remember that your post must be 150 words.

      All morning I had some vague sense that something untoward was about to happen. I suspected bad news was on its way. As I stepped outside, the heat of the summer sun, unusually oppressive for ten o’clock, seemed to sear right through me. In fact, now that I think about it, everything seemed slightly out of kilter that morning. The car, which had been newly painted the week before, had stalled several times. The flowers in the garden, planted for me by my husband, purchased from a nursery down the road, were drooping. It was as though they were wilting before they even had a chance to grow. Even my two cats, which look like furry puffballs, moved listlessly across the room, ignoring my invitation to play. It was then that I received the phone call from the emergency room telling me about my son’s accident.

Project- Exe Res

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The movie “The Martian” can be viewed through the framework of project management. There are two different but simultaneous projects going on in The Martian. One is the survival project of Mark Watney and the other is the project aiming to save him. Watney has the right skills for his survival project: he’s a botanist, he knows how to repair a broken Pathfinder and the most important thing is he doesn’t panic even in his first day alone on Mars. On the other hand, he’s not alone in this project. The members of the ‘remote’ team helping him are trying their best to achieve their goal. This is a good example for the importance of the communication between the team even if they are far away!

For this assignment, as we watch the movie, you will be required to address the following questions and answer them.  

·  Submitted through SafeAssign for originality, scores must be below 25%.

·  Follow APA formatting guidelines (i.e. include a reference page) Do not allow your margins to be reduced by utilizing bullet point margins. This will lead to point deductions. Only Pinto textbook needs to be cited; do not worry about citing the movie. 

See project management processes below. For which you must 

1) provide a brief description of each process, 

2) describe how Mark Watney or one of the project teams manages this process, and 

3) provide a specific example of the management of this process from the movie and why this is a good example. 

Project management process- Monitor Risk (Provide answers for above question in this project management process)

Text-

Title: Project Management 

ISBN: 9780134730332 

Authors: Pinto 

Publisher: Pearson 

Edition: 5TH 19

Topic 1 DQ 1

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Explain the role of accreditation in mitigating risk compliance issues.  Provide an example of a health care organization that was placed on probation by its accrediting body or by CMS within the last 3 years for a risk compliance issue. What caused the probation or loss of accreditation and how could it have been prevented?

Due Date: 20-Nov

This is an example of another student paper,,,

The Enterprise Risk Management Domains are a great tool to assess and coordinate surveillance plans in order to operate a hazardous free facility. I work in an Alzheimer’s and Dementia facility; in addition to the general risk plans, we have to add behavioral, fall prevention, and special disaster preparedness due to the patients’ inability to ambulate and verbalize needs. I will choose the two domains that we emphasized the most Clinical & Patient Safety and Environmental- and Infrastructure-Based Hazards. Clinical & Patient Safety – The facility prepares diligently to identified and respond to threats that may affect the overall health of the residents; they have designated team members to monitor patients outcomes in regards to antibiotic use, infection control and Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAI), that team member is called an infection preventionist, she is in charge of performing rounds to each department (laundry, nutrition, activities, nursing, etc.) to ensure they are in compliance with infection control guidelines and protocols. Infrastructure-Based Hazards – The environmental and maintenance team is of great support when it comes to environmental hazards, disaster preparedness, and patient safety; the facility is designed to protect the resident by preventing injuries, such as falls, drowning, choking, and aspirating. We are a lockdown unit to prevent elopement, the sinks are in special units to prevent patients from falling or ingesting the soap, their rooms have limited furniture, and the patios are gated with locks. I believe their plan is very effective in mitigating risk; I will suggest more assistive staff; the facility is against all types of restrains, meaning that if a patient becomes aggressive and combative, we have to handle the situation by other means, and it can be time-consuming. The quality improvement projects at the facility require a different approach due to the special infrastructure, the population, and the limited staff.

Catalyst, N. (n.d.). What Is Risk Management in Healthcare? Retrieved November 18, 2020, from https://catalyst.nejm.org/what-is-risk-management-in-healthcare/

Python Programming (14 Hrs to complete)

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Description: The university maintains course schedules at http://appsprod.tamuc.edu/Schedule/Schedule.aspx for different semesters (spring, fall, winter, etc ). You will develop a Python program to dynamically complete certain tasks, such as list, find, sort, and save, in course listings from schedule portal. You will mainly use “request” and “BeautifulSoup” libraries (or similar, see exercise 12.1). The program will operate at different level: Semester and Department.  Your program will be a menu based application. Assume that you project file is myproject.py. Once you run, it will show last 5 semester (fall, spring, summer only, (not winter, may mini))

> python myproject.py
Choose a semester: 1) Sprint 2021   2)Fall 2020  3)Summer II  4)Summer I 5)Spring 2020 
Selection: 2

Here, your program will parse the data from website and show only last (most recent) 5 semesters. User will make selection, then, you will show departments for the selected semester (Fall 2020). Note that selected semester is visible before a “>” sign.

Fall 2020> Select a department:
1) Undeclared
2) Accounting and Finance
3) Art
4) Ag Science & Natural Resources
…
…
30) Social Work
31) Theatre
Q)Go back

Selection: 3

Fall 2020> Art > Select an option:
1) List courses by instruction name
2) List courses by capacity
3) List courses by enrollment size
4) List courses by course prefix
5) Save courses in a csv file
6) Search course by instruction name
7) Search courses by course prefix
Q)Go back
Selection: ??

Here, your program will parse the data from website and show all available department then list of tasks. Q (go back) option will take user to previous level. 

Course listing output should show the following fields. For instance for course listing for “Fall 2020> Computer Science & Info Sys> List the course by prefix ” should show

PrefixIDSecNameInstructorHoursSeatsEnroll.COSC130101WIntro to CompuLee, Kwang33510COSC143601EIntro to Comp Sci & ProgBrown, Thomas44036COSC143601LIntro to Comp Sci & ProgBrown, Thomas4036COSC143601WIntro to Comp Sci & ProgHu, Kaoning44543COSC143602EIntro to Comp Sci & ProgHu, Kaoning43532

as first 5 rows.

You will follow above headers and order (prefix (col. width 6), ID (5), Sec (5) ,Name (25), Inst (20), Hours (5), Seats (5), Enroll. (7) ) for other listing selections too. Data cell should be aligned with column header and left justified. A course name should not have a word more than 5 chars. For instance Algorithms should be abbreviated as “Algor”. The length of course name will not exceed 25 chars. In option 5, the above format should be used to save a listing to a file as .csv format. User will be able to provide a filename for csv file.

For this program you need to develop at least one class (chapter 10) with (possible) many methods.

final case

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Chapter 5 exercises

20. Consider the task of building a classifier from random data, where the attribute values are generated randomly irrespective of the class labels. Assume the data set contains records from two classes, “+” and “−.” Half of the data set is used for training while the remaining half is used for testing.

(a) Suppose there are an equal number of positive and negative records in the data and the decision tree classifier predicts every test record to be positive. What is the expected error rate of the classifier on the test data?

(b) Repeat the previous analysis assuming that the classifier predicts each test record to be positive class with probability 0.8 and negative class with probability 0.2.

(c) Suppose two-thirds of the data belong to the positive class and the remaining one-third belong to the negative class. What is the expected error of a classifier that predicts every test record to be positive?

(d) Repeat the previous analysis assuming that the classifier predicts each test record to be positive class with probability 2/3 and negative class with probability 1/3.

Chapter 6 exercises

5. Prove Equation 6.3 in the book. (Hint: First, count the number of ways to create itemset that forms the left hand side of the rule. Next, for each size k itemset selected for the left-hand side, count the number of ways to choose the remaining d − k items to form the right-hand side of the rule.)

17. Suppose we have market basket data consisting of 100 transactions and 20 items. If the support for item a is 25%, the support for item b is 90% and the support for itemset {a, b} is 20%. Let the support and confidence thresholds be 10% and 60%, respectively.

(a) Compute the confidence of the association rule {a} -> {b}. Is the rule interesting according to the confidence measure?

(b) Compute the interest measure for the association pattern {a, b}. Describe the nature of the relationship between item a and item b in terms of the interest measure.

(c) What conclusions can you draw from the results of parts (a) and (b)?

(d) NOT NEEDED FOR THE TEST

Chapter 7 exercises

5. For the data set with the attributes given below, describe how you would convert it into a binary transaction data set appropriate for association analysis. Specifically, indicate for each attribute in the original data set.

(a) How many binary attributes it would correspond to in the transaction data set,

(b) How the values of the original attribute would be mapped to values of the binary attributes, and

(c) If there is any hierarchical structure in the data values of an attribute that could be useful for grouping the data into fewer binary attributes. The following is a list of attributes for the data set along with their possible values. Assume that all attributes are collected on a per-student basis:

• Year : Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, Graduate: Masters, Graduate: PhD, Professional

• Zip code : zip code for the home address of a U.S. student, zip code for the local address of a non-U.S. student

• College : Agriculture, Architecture, Continuing Education, Education, Liberal Arts, Engineering, Natural Sciences, Business, Law, Medical, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Veterinary Medicine

• On Campus : 1 if the student lives on campus, 0 otherwise

• Each of the following is a separate attribute that has a value of 1 if the person speaks the language and a value of 0, otherwise.

- Arabic

- Bengali

- Chinese Mandarin

- English

- Portuguese

- Russian

- Spanish

Chapter 8 exercises

1. Consider a data set consisting of 2^(20) data vectors, where each vector has 32 components and each component is a 4-byte value. Suppose that vector quantization is used for compression and that 2^(16) prototype vectors are used. How many bytes of storage does that data set take before and after compression and what is the compression ratio?

8. Consider the mean of a cluster of objects from a binary transaction data set. What are the minimum and maximum values of the components of the mean? What is the interpretation of components of the cluster mean? Which components most accurately characterize the objects in the cluster?

9. Give an example of a data set consisting of three natural clusters, for which (almost always) K-means would likely find the correct clusters, but bisecting K-means would not.

11. Total SSE is the sum of the SSE for each separate attribute. What does it mean if the SSE for one variable is low for all clusters? Low for just one cluster? High for all clusters? High for just one cluster? How could you use the per variable SSE information to improve your clustering?

13. The Voronoi diagram for a set of 1( points in the plane is a partition of all the points of the plane into K regions, such that every point (of the plane) is assigned to the closest point among the 1( specified points. (See Figure 8.38.) What is the relationship between Voronoi diagrams and K-means clusters? What do Voronoi diagrams tell us about the possible shapes of K-means clusters?

orgasnizational behavior and theory

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 Please answer the three questions by reading the PowerPoint in total one page.

As part of your class preparation for this week, please listen to this podcast on learning to love criticism (Links to an external site.). As you listen to the podcast, please consider and respond to the questions below. This response is self-reflection focused; I am looking for your thoughtful consideration of the questions at hand rather than application of course concepts. 

1. Anticipate the feedback that your OB Problem Analysis team members will say about you. Name two positive and two critical pieces of  feedback you think you will receive.

2. Feedback is key for employee development and growth. Have you sought feedback, particularly critical feedback before? From whom and when do you, or should you, seek critical feedback?

3. Optional: Over the past year, many of you have been working and studying remotely. Since we know that feedback givers tend to focus on critical feedback or not give feedback at all, you might have bright spots (i.e., something positive) big or small that have occurred that you wish others knew or had provided some positive feedback on. For example, this might be passing a tough class, maintaining mental health while working from home, celebrating a milestone birthday, securing an internship, launching a new event in a student organization, etc. Please share your bright spot with a photo (your own or image from the internet) or a few words. Note that photos and words may be shared with our class lab. 

WEEK 1 Discussion 2

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Much of what we know about how we communicate and engage on a daily basis is guided by theory. Theories provide useful and informative frames of reference that help explain different phenomena. Have you ever tried to understand the motivation behind a person’s actions or habits? Or perhaps questioned a technique or approach a professional might use when working with a client? If so, it is more than likely that some type of theory was involved. In this discussion, you will have an opportunity to read about various communication theories and describe them within different contexts.

Read the following communication theories: ConstructivismPreview the document, Attachment (Links to an external site.), Communication Accommodation (Links to an external site.), and Attribution (Links to an external site.).

Initial Post: Reflect on the significance and application of the theories presented and prepare a 300-word minimum post that sufficiently addresses each of the items below:

  • Briefly describe each of the communication theories that are presented.
  • Describe how two of the communication theories can be applied in a health and human services setting. For example, how can constructivist theory be used to understand people’s views of the world in human services work? How can levels of attachment, as related to the attachment theory, be used by human service professionals to understand client needs?

The initial reply is due no later than Day 3 (Thursday) of the learning week, and at least two substantive replies of at least 100 words to two different peers will be due no later than Day 7 (Monday) of the learning week.

Guided Response: Consider ways in which you might like to interact with your peers. For example, did you learn about the communication theories from the responses of your peers? Please be courteous and adhere to the rules of respectful engagement throughout your replies.

Analyzing Parametric Statistics

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Analyzing Parametric Statistics

As a practice scholar, you are searching for evidence to translate into practice. In your review of the evidence, you locate a quasi-experimental research study as possible evidence to support a practice change. You notice that the study aims to make a prediction that relates to the correlation between study variables. The study sample size is large and normally distributed. Reflect upon this scenario to address the following.

  • In your appraisal of the evidence, you note that an independent variable is not present and that a Spearman’s ranked correlation is used to analyze data. Is this the correct level of correlational analysis? Explain your rationale.
  • Are association and correlational analysis equivalent in determining relationships between variables?
  • Do these findings impact your decision about whether to use this evidence to inform practice change? Why or why not? 

Generalizing the Findings

Generalization extends the implications of the study findings from the sample studied to a larger population. For example, if the study was conducted on diabetic patients, it may be possible to translate the findings to persons with other practice problems or to healthy people.

What factors you need to analyze to generalize a research result?  

Instructions:

Use an APA 7 style and a minimum of 250 words. Provide support from a minimum of at least three (3) scholarly sources. The scholarly source needs to be: 1) evidence-based, 2) scholarly in nature, 3) Sources should be no more than five years old (published within the last 5 years), and 4) an in-text citation. citations and references are included when information is summarized/synthesized and/or direct quotes are used, in which APA style standards apply. 

• Textbooks are not considered scholarly sources. 

• Wikipedia, Wikis, .com website or blogs should not be used.