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Compare the two buildings. What did you learn? How is OSU’s plan for the design of buildings contributing to student success? What ideas do you have for the future of design of the built environment on the OSU Campus?

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Sphere Project

Project Requirements

Analysis – Historical Contributing Structure

Select a building that is a Historical Contributing Structure on the map.

Investigate the spatial characteristics of the building, the design characteristics of the façades on all sides. Identify design characteristics on the interior that show the historic nature of the building.

Research information about the history of the building.

Summarize the history in two paragraphs with images, historic or new.

Describe the design elements in the building today.

Incorporate 10 different photographs of the building’s interior and exterior. Reflect on the design today.

Analysis – Nonhistoric or Noncontributing Structure

Select a building that is a Nonhistoric or Noncontributing structure.

Investigate the spatial characteristics of the building, the design characteristics of the façades on all sides.

Identify design characteristics on the interior. Summarize the design characteristics in two paragraphs with new images. Incorporate 10 different photographs of the building’s interior and exterior.

Compare the two buildings. What did you learn? How is OSU’s plan for the design of buildings contributing to student success? What ideas do you have for the future of design of the built environment on the OSU Campus?

Who are you spending time with? On what topics? Where are you traveling? What are you reading? And then how are you distilling this into understanding potential discontinuities, and then making a decision to do something right now so that you’re prepared and ready?

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Discussion Forum 4

Address all parts of the question thoroughly and accurately and adhere to any instructions provided, including minimum words. Express yourself clearly using your own words, with minimal spelling or grammar mistakes. Include specific, relevant details from readings or other course material and demonstrate an understanding of course material. Show original thought by presenting facts and ideas that do not restate what others have said.

B. Answer one of the following questions from the video (remember to identify the question you are answering):

1. Where are you looking to anticipate the next change to your business model or your life? Who are you spending time with? On what topics? Where are you traveling? What are you reading? And then how are you distilling this into understanding potential discontinuities, and then making a decision to do something right now so that you’re prepared and ready?

2. What is the diversity measure of your personal and professional stakeholder network? If your network is not diverse what can you do to increase it’s diversity? You know, we hear often about good ol’ boy networks and they’re certainly alive and well in many institutions. But to some extent, we all have a network of people that we’re comfortable with. So this question is about your capacity to develop relationships with people that are very different than you. And those differences can be biological, physical, functional, political, cultural, socioeconomic. And yet, despite all these differences, they connect with you and they trust you enough to cooperate with you in achieving a shared goal. Great leaders understand that having a more diverse network is a source of pattern identification at greater levels and also of solutions, because you have people that are thinking differently than you are.

 

Identify three reasons for resistance to change. Which of these reasons is likely to be the most critical in your organization? As a leader, how would you overcome this type of resistance?

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Breaking Through the Resistance

Read the article “Overcome the Five Main Reasons People Resist Change (Links to an external site.).” After reading the article, identify three reasons for resistance to change. Which of these reasons is likely to be the most critical in your organization? As a leader, how would you overcome this type of resistance?

Change Implementation

Organizations face substantial change on a regular basis. Technology, outsourcing, and restructuring through downsizing or rightsizing are some of the key reasons for change.

Assume you are receiving news that you are the point person within your department/division for one of the change factors listed above. What are the barriers you must address that could challenge the change initiative? What steps will you use to facilitate a successful change process?

 Why do most of the sample means differ somewhat from the population mean?  What is this difference called?  What is the mean of the sample means?  What is the standard deviation of the sample means called?  What is the formula for this standard deviation?

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  1.  It is very important to be able to find probabilities for a given z score.  Using software or a Standard Normal Distribution table, determine the following probability for the area (15 points)

    a.    between z = -0.52 and z = 2.33
    b.    z > 1.65
    c.    z < 1.85
    d.    z < 0
    e.    between z = 0 and z = 1

    2.    Answer the following: (15 points)

    a.    If samples of a specific size are selected from a population and the means are computed, what is the distribution of the means called?
    b.    Why do most of the sample means differ somewhat from the population mean?  What is this difference called?
    c.    What is the mean of the sample means?
    d.    What is the standard deviation of the sample means called?  What is the formula for this standard deviation?
    e.    What does the central limit theorem say about the shape of the distribution of sample means?

    3.    A pediatrician obtains the heights of her 200 three-year-old female patients.  The heights are normally distributed with a mean of 37.8 and a standard deviation of 3.14.  What percent of the three-year-old females have a height less than 34 inches? (15 points)

    4.    The local news reported that 6% of U.S. drivers text on their cell phones while driving.  If 300 drivers are selected at random, find the probability that exactly 25 say they text while driving.   Be sure and use the continuity correction for the normal approximation to the binomial distribution. (15 points)

    5.    Suppose you are asked to toss a coin 16 times and calculate the proportion of the tosses that were heads. (10 points)

    a.    What shape would you expect this histogram to be and why?
    b.    Where you do expect the histogram to be centered?
    c.    How much variability would you expect among these proportions?
    d.    Explain why a Normal model should not be used here.

    6.    The average cholesterol content of a certain brand of eggs is 210 milligrams, and the standard deviation is 14 milligrams.  Assume the variable is normally distributed.  If two eggs are selected, find the probability that the cholesterol content will be greater than 230 milligrams. (10 points)

 What is the probability that all 12 will be available to serve on the jury?  What is the probability that 6 or more will not be available to serve on the jury?  Find the expected number of those available to serve on the jury.  What is the standard deviation?

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The following assignment will allow you to master the concepts you have learned on discrete probability distributions.

1.  Answer the following questions based on rolling a single six-sided die. (2 points for each part)

a)    If you roll a single die and count the number of dots on top, what is the sample space of all possible outcomes?  Are the outcomes equally likely?
b)    Assign probabilities to the outcomes of the sample space of part (a).  Do the probabilities add up to 1?  Should they add up to 1?  Explain.
c)    What is the probability of getting a number less than 4 on a single throw?
d)    What is the probability of getting a 3 or 4 on a single throw?

2.  You draw two cards while playing Blackjack from a standard deck of 52 cards without replacing the first one before drawing the second. (2 points for each part)

a)    Are the outcomes on the two cards independent?  Why?
b)    Find P(ace on first card and king on second)
c)    Find P(king on first card and ace on second)
d)    Find the probability of drawing an ace and a king in either order

3.    You have three pancakes.  One is golden on both sides, one is brown on both sides and one is golden on one side and brown on the other.  You choose one pancake at random and see that one side is brown. Find the probability that the other side of the pancake is brown. (4 points)

4.    You wish to play a three-number lottery with your favorite data 8, 2 and 5.  After a number is drawn, the number is placed back in the container for the next draw.  What is the probability that the three winning numbers will be 8, 2 and 5?  Are the numbers independent of each other? How would the probability change if no repetition is allowed? (4 points)

5.    Have you ever tried to get out of jury duty?  About 25% of those called will find an excuse to avoid it.  If 12 people are called for jury duty, (2 points for each part)

a)    What is the probability that all 12 will be available to serve on the jury
b)    What is the probability that 6 or more will not be available to serve on the jury
c)    Find the expected number of those available to serve on the jury.  What is the standard deviation

6.    Create a probability distribution for a coin flipping game.  That is, toss a coin at least 25 times and keep up with the number of heads and the number of tails.  (8 points for each part)

a.    Compile your data into a probability distribution.  Be sure to show that your distribution meets the properties for a probability distribution.
b.    Use a bar graph to graph the distribution.
c.    Explain the random variables for your data.
d.    Did the values come out as you would expect?  Explain what you would expect to happen with the outcome of the game versus the actual expected value of your distribution.

7.    Use your example from question 6 to set up a binomial distribution. Find the probability based on your data that if the coin is flipped 25 times, what is the probability that a heads would appear 10 times or less.  (10 points)

8.    The following information has been given that shows the highest level of education received by employees of a company. (2 points for each part)

# Employees
Ph.D. 8
Master’s 21
Bachelor’s 33
Associate 18
High School Diploma 7
Other 2

Answer the following questions based on the data in the table:
a.    Find the probability an employee chosen at random has a Ph.D.
b.    Find the probability an employee chosen at random has an Associate degree.
c.    Find the probability an employee chosen at random does not have a Ph.D.
d.    Are the events independent?  Explain.

 

Describe how criteria sets/core measures contribute to the management of care in the U.S. healthcare system. Evaluate how health care policy-making both directly and indirectly impacts the national and global healthcare delivery systems.

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Quality Care and Criteria Measures

 

Describe how criteria sets/core measures contribute to the management of care in the U.S. healthcare system.
Evaluate how health care policy-making both directly and indirectly impacts the national and global healthcare delivery systems.
Appraise current laws and standards related to health information initiatives.
Perform quality assessment including quality management, data quality, and identification of best practices for health information systems.
Analyze the impact of policy on health.
Course outcomes assessed in this Assignment:

HI230-2: Assess the legal and ethical considerations related to managing health information and governing a healthcare institution.

Download and complete the Unit 8 Utilization Review Case Management Activity. First, you will be distinguishing between Severity of Illness and Intensity of Service for a list of indicators. You will then perform a utilization review and make decisions about discharge planning for 3 patients. Share how this activity assesses legal and ethical considerations related to HIM and governance of the facility.

Explain two things the Skipper’s description reveals about people in his occupation. provide details from the poem referencing specific line numbers to support each idea.

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The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer’s Prologue describes various people in connection with their profession. Analyze the Skipper’s description. Explain two things the Skipper’s description reveals about people in his occupation. provide details from the poem referencing specific line numbers to support each idea.

What were total current assets? What were total current liabilities? What were total assets and total stockholders’ equity ? Calculate working capital and describe how it changed from last year.

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Using the SEC 10-K for your company.

Answer the questions below:

What were total current assets?
What were total current liabilities?
What were total assets and total stockholders’ equity (deficit)?
Calculate working capital (current assets － current liabilities = working capital) and describe how it changed from last year.
If the company has treasury stock, is it increasing or decreasing in value? Remember that the normal balance for treasury stock is a negative value (debit balance).
What is the value for other comprehensive net income (or net loss), accumulated deficit, and/or retained earnings. How are these values changing?

Compare and contrast the three papers and share you insights from the papers.

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Experimental Designs

Hashim et al. (2017), Wang et al. (2018), and Lui et al. (2021) describe themselves as an experiments, a quasi-experiment and a field experiment. Compare and contrast the three papers and share you insights from the papers.

What is pedagogy? What is a pedagogical act/action? What forms of pedagogical activity are there?

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What is Pedagogy

Using the provided literature, please answer the following questions:

1) What is pedagogy?

2) What is a pedagogical act/action?

3) What forms of pedagogical activity are there?

*Note: the following are translations of German works. Both the original German and English translations have been provided.

*Note: In the translations, “pedagogical” is often translated to “educational”