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Describe a human-technology interface that you have encountered in healthcare that you think needs improving. Describe what you would specifically like to see changed about this technology and why?

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Week 7 Discussion

Nurses interact with technology on a daily basis. For this discussion, address each of the following aspects of the discussion:

Describe a human-technology interface that you have encountered in healthcare that you think needs improving.
Describe what you would specifically like to see changed about this technology and why?

Do Factors such as proximity to a highly ranked university medical school, the average income of the outpatient region, and proximity to another highly ranked pediatric hospital matter?

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Research Paper Essay

Do Factors such as proximity to a highly ranked university medical school, the average income of the outpatient region, and proximity to another highly ranked pediatric hospital matter?

Why is the issue presented in the article important to discuss? Do you agree or disagree with the views presented? Why or why not? What other views do you believe should be considered for discussion surrounding this topic?

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Religion Question

Read the following contemporary religious topics article. Write a 1 PAGE double soaced reflection paper answering the following:

  1. Why is the issue presented in the article important to discuss?
  2. Do you agree or disagree with the views presented? Why or why not?
  3. What other views do you believe should be considered for discussion surrounding this topic?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/25/us/abortion-christi…

Differentiate with suitable examples the relevant cash flows and irrelevant cash flows. What relevant role do these cash flows provide in management decision-making? Provide a suitable example in context to an organization to support your answer.

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Cost Accounting

Assignment Question(s): (Marks 15)

Q1. Differentiate with suitable examples the relevant cash flows and irrelevant cash flows. What relevant role do these cash flows provide in management decision-making? Provide a suitable example in context to an organization to support your answer. (3 Marks)

Note: Your answer must include suitable examples of relevant and irrelevant cash flows for management decision-making. (Week 2, Chapter 1)

 

Q2. What are the various methods of estimating cost functions? Explain each method with suitable numerical examples. (4 Marks)

Note: You are required to assume values for numerical examples of your own, and they should not be copied from any sources. (Week 3, Chapter 2)

Choose an AUDIO example (not video clip) from Unit 3: Indonesia and write a 160 word journal about it.

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Indonesia Listening Journal

Choose an AUDIO example (not video clip) from Unit 3: Indonesia and write a 160 word journal about it. Utilize the listening guides in your textbook for this assignment. Include information about the audio example including the genre or style, instruments and form. What culture creates this music? What behaviors or activities are associated with this music? Also include your personal thoughts or feelings about your chosen audio example. Do you like it/dislike it? Why did you choose this particular example?

Write an editorial about an issue concerning you, your community, or our global community.

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EDITORIAL WRITING: ETHICAL ISSUE

REQUIRED: At least 3 outside sources, MLA format, LIMIT OF 2 PAGES, NOT INCLUDING VISUALS

Write an editorial about an issue concerning you, your community, or our global community.

Editorials are meant to influence public opinion, promote critical thinking, and sometimes cause people to take action on an issue. In essence, an editorial is an opinionated news story.

Write a 300 words reflection for each required reading. Briefly describe the main ideas/statements of the paper and do not forget to add your own thoughts and comments.

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Social Science question

Write a 300 words reflection for each required reading. Briefly describe the main ideas/statements of the paper and do not forget to add your own thoughts and comments.

  • https://www.studypool.com/questions/download?id=2812929&path=uploads/questions/5703347/20230418003446r_16___the_myth_of_big_data__chen__h.___zhou__l._.pdf&fileDownloadName=attachment_1

Using any stack of your choice, create a simple web application of the project description.

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Web Application

Using any stack of your choice, create a simple web application of the project description:

Project Details
A simple appointment application that does the following.

  • Allow club members to fill out a form to book an appointment. It is up to you to intuitively determine the appointment booking data.
  • The company’s appointment time is from 8am to 2pm inclusive and so the last appointment slot is 1pm on Monday to Thursday but on Fridays it is 3pm.
  • Each appointment slot is one hour.
  • Each employee is allowed one (1) hour lunch which is taken between 11am to 1pm.
  • Allow office staff of the company to login and view appointments that are assigned to them but also to view those assigned to other staff in the event that a staff member is unable to fulfill the role.
  • Allow for member appointment submissions to be added to Calendar such as Google Calendar and others etc.
  • It is recommended to approach the project in this manner:
    • Determine your functional requirements
    • Refer back to your diagrams from assignment two
    • Build your database. Depending on your stack it would likely be firebase, MongoDB, MySQL.
    • Develop your interface.
    • Build the rest of your application.
    • The parameters of the project and the marking scheme is provided below.
      • Use of modern web application design approaches ( MVC/MV*, MVVM) –
      • An application stack that is known such as MERN, LAMP or MEAN. However, you are encouraged to explore a range of technologies and languages beyond Javascript. Note this will include screenshots!
      • Code logic
      • GUI and UI

What are the premise(s) in the article? What evidence is presented? Is it credible? Can you independently verify the evidence presented? How are counterarguments addressed? Does the writer represent a particular interest?

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Instructions Learning Objectives

  • Examine the process involved with problem formulation.
  • Apply critical thinking to problem identification.
  • Evaluate ethical implications of a decision.

Prompt:

Choose an editorial article from within the past 5 years (An editorial is an article that presents the writer’s opinion on an issue supported with facts) from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal or browse the library and choose an editorial that addresses a business issue that interests you.

Instructions:
Write an essay describing the following:

  • Citation of the article and a brief summary of its contents
  • What are the premise(s) in the article?
  • What evidence is presented? Is it credible?
  • Can you independently verify the evidence presented?
  • How are counterarguments addressed?
  • Does the writer represent a particular interest?
  • How is language used to develop the argument?
  • Do you detect any errors in knowledge, evidence, or thinking?
  • Does the writer use any types of appeals or commit any fallacies?
  • Overall, how compelling is this article?

Be certain to carefully research your analysis using at least 4 credible sources properly incorporated. Your submission should be 4-6 pages in length minimum and should be a thorough representation of your ability to critically think through the steps above. Use the template provided to ensure you are following APA format. This assignment is worth 14% of your final grade.

Develop scenarios where a project manager has to cope with pressures from stakeholders with respect to cost and time overruns and outline how advanced planning and scheduling technique can help overcome these issues.

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Advanced Project Planning & Visualisation

Assignment

Submission deadline 7th May 2023, midnight

Your submission (including the front page and references) should not be longer than 10 pages A4. You must adhere strictly to this page limit. Writing beyond the specified page limit will be ignored.

 You should not use font size smaller than 11, line spacing smaller than 1, nor margins smaller than 2cm.

Marks will be awarded based on the following criteria:

  • Your understanding of the main themes of the lectures.
  • Evidence that you have read additional material and refer (using references) to the contributions from relevant authors in the field.
  • Clear structure and presentation of the software (MS-Project, Synchro Pro) outputs and their analysis.

Report Submission

  • You should submit on the Blackboard, No extension is given
  • Report should be submitted in a single .doc or .docx format file; pdf, .xls or other format is not accepted.
  • File name of the submission document should include your first and last names
  • All output from used software (MS Project, Synchro Pro) should be exported to your assignment document. No Excel, Project or Synchro files are accepted.

 The Assignment is worth 100% of the module. Each part of this assignment is worth 25% of the module.

 

PART 1 (25% of the assignment)

There is an increasing demand in the international market for high quality project managers to run multinational and multi-sites projects. As a Project Manager you have been given the task by an international company to identify qualities and attributes of project managers with emphasis on project planning and project organisation domain.

You need to include the following, backed-up with journals, books and references:

  1. Communications, with emphasis on a project manager working remotely with project team members. (9% of the assignment)
  2. Managing multi-cultural project stakeholders. (8% of the assignment)
  3. Develop scenarios where a project manager has to cope with pressures from stakeholders with respect to cost and time overruns and outline how advanced planning and scheduling technique can help overcome these issues. (8% of the assignment)

 

Part 2 (25% of the assignment)   

Augmented/Virtual/Mixed/Extended Reality

Discuss and analyse the practicality of AR/VR/MR/XR application in the industrial sector in which you have experience. Provide outline analysis of value and constraints of applying the approach. Use the following papers as example references for your bibliography (1000 words). You need to build a bibliography of at least 20 recent (within the last 5 years) references from a range of sources.

Dudhee, V. and Vukovic, V. (2021), “Building information model visualisation in augmented reality”, Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/SASBE-02-2021-0021

Alizadehsalehi, S., Hadavi, A., Huang, J. C. (2020), “From BIM to extended reality in AEC industry”, Automation in Construction, Vol. 116, No.103254, ISSN 0926-5805,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2020.103254

 

PART 3 (25% of the assignment)

A Teesside PLC has won a contract to work on a major Project to start on 1st December 2023. As a Project Manager you need to develop and analyse the planning schedule for this project using MS-Project. Your project team has identified major activities of the project, their dependency and resources needed to run each activity (see Appendix 1).

Appendix 1 provides information about the project, which includes project logic (activity links and their relationship – finish to start (FS), start to start (SS), and start to finish (SF), activity durations, resource allocation and work breakdown structure (WBS).

You have been asked to perform the following planning and scheduling processes using Microsoft Project 2012 or later version.

 

A: CPM & WBS (10% of the assignment)

  1. Draw a Gantt-Chart and CPM network for the project. Calculate early start (ES), early finish (EF), late start (LS), late finish (LF) and total float (TF) based on As Soon as Possible (ASAP) method and identify critical path.
  2. Draw WBS for the project (must include Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4) and discuss the importance of WBS as a Project Management tool.
  3. Explain why identification of the critical path is important? Also comment on the changes to the Critical Path, if the project is developed using As Late as Possible (ALAP)

 

B: Resource Planning (10% of the assignment)

  1. Produce and draw smoothed resource histograms for the skilled labour resources used in the project. Critically assess the output identifying the maximum units of each resource required for this project.
  2. Carry-out resource levelling for Unskilled resource only (do not use automatic resource levelling) and discuss how activities might be delayed beyond the latest start time (LST) to cater for the limits on Unskilled resources as a result of levelling. Consider resource pool for unskilled resources as 7 units per day.
  3. Explain and discuss the process of resource levelling.

 

C: Cost Analysis (5% of the assignment)                                                 

  1. Calculate the cost of each activity in the project (level 3). Consider the standard cost of a skilled labour as £20/hr, unskilled labour as £10/hr and equipment as £50/hr.
  2. Produce cumulative cost-time curve for the project.

 

Note:

  • Start the project on 1st December 2023.
  • Use default UK working calendar (i.e. Saturdays and Sundays are non-working days, 8 working hours in a day, bank holidays should be considered as non-working days)
  • Use resource unit as decimal.
  • Use fixed duration and set unit as days.
  • Clearly identify each part of the answers to the questions.
  • Use header and footer to clearly indicate what the chart or graph is showing.

 

 

PART 4 (25% of the assignment)

4D Planning

  1. Use Synchro Pro software and link the Building Project planning data with the given 3D CAD Building Model. Use both Assignment2.1.xml and Assignment2.2.xml with Assignment2.dxf. You will have two different models to review. Identify issues and conflicts with the proposed plans and changes. You should provide the pictures of the visualisation on your assignment. Briefly discuss the linking procedure carried out. (13% of the assignment).
  2. Define 4D planning. Discuss the purpose and benefits of 4D systems as a Project Management tool in an Engineering industry (12% of the assignment)