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Do you know someone who may have a drug problem?

personal health case

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review Healthy People 2020 Nutrition & Weight Status Website.  Look through the “Overview” section.  Then go to the “Objectives” section.  Review all of the listed objectives for 2020.  Identify one objective(s) (or more) that is most interesting to you and describe WHY.  Identify one (or more) objective(s) that is least interesting to you and describe WHY.

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Do you know someone who may have a drug problem? What steps, if any, have you taken to help that person? If you were using drugs and felt that things had gone out of control, what would you want  your friends to do for you? (hint: see page 162 “Take Charge If Someone you Know Has a Drug Problem”) Justify your answer. Respond to at least two other students.

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Many food additives are currently approved for use and are recognized as “GRAS” (generally recognized as safe) substances.  Review the text p.231-12th ed. (Additives in Food, Food Irradiation and Genetically Modified Food)  & p. 218-13th ed. (Additives in Food and Food Biotechnology) and the article: “Chemical Cuisine Learn about Food Additives” by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

 

Check out the entire article (all listed substances) and descriptions, then go to your pantry/refrigerator or review items at the grocery store.  Find two food additives to discuss that are currently present in the foods you consume (and listed in the category of: cut back; caution; certain people should avoid; avoid).  Defend whether you agree or disagree with adding the substance to food and why. Do your findings change your attitude about purchasing the product?

Explain the different kinds of statistics and data available with the CDC and WHO.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO)

The overarching goal of public health informatics is to apply computer science and information technology to promote health and minimize disease and injury at the population level. Public health informatics uses data from surveys, vital statistics, hospital and clinical statistics, private and public data sources, and government data sources for analysis in improving population health.

Key concepts of public health informatics include:

  • Data collection
  • Storage
  • Retrieval

Using the required readings and websites for this week, respond to the following:

  • Describe the most significant milestone(s) in the history of public health informatics.
  • Refer to the CDC and WHO websites and state the similarities and differences between the types of public health data available with both these organizations.
  • Explain the different kinds of statistics and data available with the CDC and WHO. In addition, explain the various methods of research that they use.
  • Explain some of the major roadblocks that the field of public health informatics has encountered during the course of its development.
  • Describe the most salient issues facing the field of public health informatics today.
  • List and describe the various web-based data query programs that are available for different states, including your own.

 

Should higher education be classified as a natural monopoly in these European countries?

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Most European countries have nationalized their universities and colleges. Consider that some countries have also used the law to ban private colleges. Should higher education be classified as a natural monopoly in these European countries? Explain and justify your answer and use appropriate examples to support your conclusions.

 

Next, consider the case of several large, established pharmaceutical manufacturers such as Merck. What type of market form do you believe that such manufacturers operate under?

 

Justify your answers and use appropriate examples to support your conclusions.Quotations, paraphrases, and ideas you get from books or other sources of information should be cited using APA style. Help with citing sources can be found through the Academic Resources page under Course Home.

 

What would be an example of a variable for this study that could be measured on a nominal scale?

Research Design Questions

Suppose you were going to create your own study to examine what course-delivery format (online, blended, or face-to-face) leads to the best performance in a psychological statistics class. In a paper identify the following for your study:

  • What is your research question?
  • What is your hypothesis (both null and alternate)?
  • Is this a qualitative or quantitative design (based on type of variable collected) and why?
  • Is this a descriptive, correlational or experimental design and why?
  • What would be an example of a variable for this study that could be measured on a nominal scale? Ordinal scale? Interval scale? Ratio scale?
  • Once you have collected your data, would you use inferential or descriptive statistics and why?
  • Create a sample frequency distribution for one of the variables. Choose either a simple or grouped frequency distribution and explain your choice.

By Monday, January 10, 2016, deliver your assignment to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox.

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Identified an appropriate research question
3
Correctly identified the null and alternative hypotheses.
6
Explained whether your study would be classified as a qualitative or quantitative design and why.
6
Explained whether your study would be classified as a descriptive, correlational or experimental design and why.
10
Provided an example of a variable for this study that could be measure on a nominal scale, ordinal scale, interval scale, and ratio scale.
13
Explained whether inferential or descriptive statistics would be used to analyze the data collected and why.
6
Created a sample frequency distribution for one of the variables. Selected either a simple or grouped frequency distribution and explained choice.
20
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
16
Total:
80

Explain what is the NoSQL movement. Find one “DBMS” that is NoSQL.

atabase HW

Exercise #1 IS420

 

This assignment needs to be completed individually. Copying and being copied will both result in at least no score for the exercise. Please make sure you understand your answers, not just cut and paste the researching results. In quizzes and midterms, I will test your understanding of these concepts and terms.

What to do

  1. Using reference tools, other than our textbook, to find the definitions for the following terms: Please include your sources

Database

Database Manage Systems

SQL

ER model

Relational Algebra

Data modeling

RDS from Amazon

SQL Azure

 

  1. Using the Internet or other sources to find two dominating DBMS vendors and their latest products. Please include your sources and state in which way or ways the vendors are considered to be dominating as part of the answers of this question. Please do not use the vendor provided information to justify whether the vendor is one of the top DBMS provider or not.
  2. If you are working for a Saudi oil company (meaning money is not an issue), should you pick ORACLE 11g/12c or MySQL 5.6 for the company? Why?
  3. If you are working for a startup company, should you pick ORACLE 11g/12c or MySQL 5.6? Why?
  4. Using the Internet or other sources to find two dominate Cloud DBMS vendors and their latest products. Give the URLs for these DBMSs.
  5. Explain what is the NoSQL movement. Find one “DBMS” that is NoSQL.
  6. Explain what is Vertia. What are the features of Vertica?

What to turn in

Your answers,typedand then convert into a PDF file before dropping into the Moddle folder.

Describe how the use, or misuse, of images and typographic principles contributes to the site’s visual identity.

question 24

discussion question not a paper! read before sending me a hand shake

150-200 words

 

Evaluate one of the following Websites for correctly applied image and typographic principles:

 

1.What do you want to do today? From Interfaceware, via http://help.interfaceware.com/

2.Tips to succeed in an online course, by US News, via http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/articles/2013/01/14/5-tips-to-succeed-in-an-online-course

3.Gulliford County, NC Veterans Memorial via http://gcveteransmemorial.org/photo-panels/

4.Manifest Destiny Overview, from PBS, via http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/prelude/manifest_destiny_overview.html

 

Evaluate the website to see how the application of image and typographic principles affects the visual identity, and then answer the following questions:

 

1.Describe the website you choose, and then identify the basic image and typographic principles as applied to the website.

2.Discuss the potential effect of the images and typography on first-time visitors.

3.Describe how the use, or misuse, of images and typographic principles contributes to the site’s visual identity.

 

What were the goals, and were they achieved?

db7–at least 250 words

The Mexican Explosion/ Chapter 7

“Like our popular fiestas, the Revolution was an excess and a squandering, a going to extremes, an explosion of joy and hopelessness a shout of orphanhood and jubilation, of suicide and life, all of them mingled together” (Octavio Perez)

“…in that explosion, much was unclear: Who won? Who lost? What were the goals, and were they achieved? And were the results worth the loss of more than one million lives?”(Burns and Charlip, 2007:179).

What are your opinions on the questions stated above? Remember to respond to at least two classmates.

 

Why is Cuba considered the example of a populist socialist revolution?

b9–at least 250 words

 

Chapter 9/ The Revolutionary  Option

Choose two questions below to answer thoroughly and then respond to two of your  classmates  postings.

  • Why is Cuba considered the example of a populist socialist revolution?
  • What did revolutionaries want to achieve and why?
  • Why did the U.S. oppose these revolutions?

 

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