Applied science

You are charged with the task of developing a definition that would differentiate the difference between hate crimes and terrorist acts.  What would your definition look like? For more information on Definitionread this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition

What is gap analysis as it relates to Safety Management Systems and is it important? First, view the video on the space shuttle accident from NOVA: NOVA: Columbia Disaster (53:35) In this discussion, post your response to the following: Explain how conducting this gap analysis might have changed the organizational structure at NASA leading up to the Columbia accident and provide two-gap analysis examples. For more information on Gap Analysis read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_analysis

DQ1 1) What is the most significant element for coordinating a face-to-face group presentation? DQ2 2) Contrast the elements necessary for a face-to-face and virtual group presentation. What are the most significant elements required for a virtual group presentation? For more information on Group Presentation read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation_of_a_group

ReviewReview this week’s readings, links to videos, learning media, audio, or downloadable docs.Respond Writing an introduction is one of the most difficult parts of writing a speech. Engaging the audience, without resorting to gimmicks or shock techniques, is quite difficult to do. 1. Search through speeches on YouTube with the intent of finding one with an effective introduction. Once you have found an effective introduction, analyze it, seeking out how the speaker managed to effectively capture the audience’s attention. Provide the URL for the speech. Give a short background including the name of the speaker and the occasion. Share the video with your peers:2. Reflect on strategies that you could adopt in your own speaking practice. What qualities did you observe in the speaker’s introduction that you could use in your own speech? Explain what the speaker did effectively in the introduction. Give at least five specific examples of concepts and techniques that the speaker used, and refer to the concepts and techniques mentioned in the reading for this week. For more information on Engaging the Audience read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audience

1. Composition deals with the overall readability and meaning of the project. As noted by Kirk (2016), the topic of composition is divided into project-level and chart-level composition. Select one component of either project composition or chart composition and discuss.2. We have spent the past weeks working on the individual visualization layers and last week we learned how the layers all fit together. This week we will concentrate on creating visualizations (write) and consuming visualizations (read) (Kirk, 2016). We must first learn how to understand the visualization as viewer and at the same time use our skills, knowledge and mindsets to achieve excellence in data visualization design. We will focus on “The Seven Hats of Data Visualization.” Select one of the “Hats” and expand it for your classmates.

Submit a Word document that addresses each of the following: Chapter 19 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 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.Your responses should be submitted as a Word document and the paper should adhere to APA format and style. Your answers should be written in your own words. Include proper citations to any sources you used in your answers. URL and DOI for references. 

Apply the vocabulary and concepts relevant to eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century European and American art, artists, and art history.30.e  Interpret a work of eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century European or American art using appropriate art historical methods of observation, comparison, and inductive reasoning.30.f  Select visual and textual evidence in various media to support an argument or an interpretation of a work of eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century European and American art. Resources Using Discussion Boards – Blackboard Student Tutorial Grading Criteria- there is a rubric on the DB page to help guide your entry. For a top score, you must respond constructively to at least two other students. More extensive participation will be noted.SpecificationsPost your opening response to the question early in the assignment period so that others have time to respond to you. A thoughtful opening response will be relevant to the prompt and have evidence of direct observation. The PromptRespond to the following discussion question for this module. Chapter 30 covers a very turbulent time in western art.  In Europe, it was a time that the aristocratic rulers lost power through revolutions and social change challenged long-held beliefs and living conditions, and ways of life.  This was not a time of calm, successive movements but a time when counter points of view coexisted and clashed.  Specifically, the ideas of the Enlightenment and of Romanticism.  For this prompt, please choose one piece of work from either style and discuss it using the four types of art historical analysis.  Please include what aspects of the piece show Enlightenment ideas or Romantic characteristics. Please support your opinion with other examples of art from this chapter.  Remember to include an image of the work of art you are discussing.

Why is it important to specifically identify those individuals who are the most vulnerable in terms of getting a certain disease or disease?  Why do general or mainstream approaches typically not work on those high-risk populations or groups? 

Given the readings and assignments in the course: Identify and briefly discuss 2 concepts in this course that you believe will be most applicable to the professional discipline you will enter upon completion of your degree program. What is the importance of these concepts to professional discipline? How will you use these concepts in your future career?250-275 words For more information read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline

Explain each of the different stages of a fire? what are some examples of protective measures that can be taken to protect assets from fire damage? For more information read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire