Applied science

Verdi, 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)Comparing the stylistic characteristics of each, how are the two operatic/vocal examples different? (2 points)

compare and contrast use use of natural sweeteners and artificial sweeteners in food processing and preservation

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

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

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.

STUDY GUIDE FOR DECISION SCENARIO CASES1. Analyzing a Decision Scenario CaseThis study aid is divided into two parts. The first part organizes your notes and thinking about the case. The second organizes the points you want to make for an essay on the case. (For a detailed explanation of how to analyze a decision scenario, see chapter 4.)To begin your work, think about the following questions:What is the decision that needs to be made in the case? Example: Should Trendway make changes to its production line?David Schramm, the chief engineer for Cable and Component Design (CCD), has to decide whether General Motors needs to commit to the RIM grommet for a 1992 model year car. The Product, Process, and Reliability (PPR) committee has the final responsibility to commence the new product development. Still, they have given Schramm the responsibility to analyze and recommend their decision (Mann, 1987).What are the major decision options? Example: The Company can expand its current production line, improve its yield, or build a new line with advanced technology.The company’s major decision is whether they can commit to this 1992 model year car production. This decision might positively impact the company in terms of yields and their automobile industry if they buy into the decision to make the model. Schramm needs to analyze that decision before recommending it (General Motors Corporation, 1968).Exploring the Decision OptionsWhat questions will help you decide which decision option is best? Example: Which option yields the best financial results for Trendway?What is best for the General Motors brand? Will the decision to commit to the 1992 model year car yield the company financial results? Will this decision put the company at the top of the automobile industry charts?What concepts and frameworks might help answer your questions? Example: The concepts of unit cost and breakeven help compare the three decision options’ financial impact.Committing to the 1992 model year car might be the best option for General Motors since it might be a success, causing a sales turnover rate. This new production could put the company in the charts, thus improving their people’s perception and their brand name (Patrick J. O’shaugnness Kathryn E. stock, 1996).Use the following grid to organize your thinking about the decision. Use your questions to study the evidence and identify the decision criteria. Please write down the criteria, the case evidence relevant to them, and which decision option the evidence supports. Your goal is to determine the most strongly supported option by the evidence. You can defer thinking about action steps if you’d rather focus on the decision first.Example: Should Trendway expand its current production line, improve its yield, or build a new line capable of producing future products?

Evaluate your community and identify types of social work micro practice settings. Then, prepare a written analysis addressing the following:Examine the specific issues faced by individuals and families in your community.Investigate how social workers address social problems faced by individuals and family units.Provide examples to support your findings and indicate which tasks are key skills social workers must possess to work with these unique populations.Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.Length: 5-7 pages, not including title and reference pagesYour assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect graduate-level writing and APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.Upload your document, and then click Submit to Dropbox button.

Write a small discussion on ONE of the topics we learned below.This week, we reviewed all course concepts. Select a topic from your readings, outcomes, objectives, concepts, and sub-concepts (below) and present a question that applies to a concept or a disease process, wellness, or illness. Submit your question in the following formats: audio, text, or webcam. Once your comment has been posted, submit responses to your peers’ questions and comments. Consider the outcomes, objectives, and concepts below when formulating your initial question.Your question and response should explain, illustrate, justify, trace, discuss, compare, contrast, agree or disagree, interpret, evaluate, and summarize.Weekly Outcomes & Weekly ObjectivesExplain the pathophysiologic processes of select health conditions.Predict clinical manifestations and complications for select disease processes.Correlate lifestyle, environmental, and other influences with changes in levels of wellness.Review normal physiology.Describe common types of disorders: causes, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tests, and treatments.Compare and contrast common conditions: causes, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tests, and treatments.Apply understanding of alterations across the lifespan to formulate care priorities.Review responses to aging and its impact onpathophysiologic changes in all systems.Review how heredity and genetics influence pathophysiology.Main Topics and Concepts/ Subconcepts With ExemplarReview of materialsActive Learning Templates completedChapter readingsStudy guide sheets completedNotes from in-class discussionsAcid-base imbalance: respiratory failureAcute versus chronic conditions: heart failureCellular regulation: leukemiaFluid imbalances: dehydrationPerfusion: myocardial infarctionElimination: gastroenteritisNutrition: anorexiaTissue integrity: venous stasis ulcerInfection: meningitisGenetics: sickle-cell anemia

Joseph Campbell’s theories on mythology and the Hero’s Journey connect mythology to our everyday lived realities. In this module, you learned that all myths follow the arc of the Hero’s Journey and that the Hero’s Journey is as influenced by real-life experiences as it is the inspiration for future human creation.Instructions: Think of a time in your life in which you have participated in the path of the Hero’s Journey. You could have been any of the main characters—the hero or a figure supporting the hero.Use a free online application (Canva, Piktochart, etc.) to create an infographic that includes an explanation of the following:Each of the ten steps of the Hero’s Journey as it relates to your situationWhich role you playedWhat the call to adventure wasHow the journey unfolded during each of the ten steps