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What is your opinion about weight loss theories? Have you tried specific weight loss techniques? If so, were they successful? If not, do you know someone who has tried loosing weight? Were they successful in reaching their goal?

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Week 9 Discussion

There are many theories out there for weight loss. The standard concept of “energy in = energy out” where one counts all kilocalories as equal is an outdated model that doesn’t work for many people. There are some pioneers in the field of nutritional research that are committed to finding conclusive evidence about the root cause of our growing obesity epidemic, and effective techniques for healthy weight loss.

Dr. Jonny Bowden calls himself the “Nutrition Mythbuster”. He has some very interesting videos and articles about weight loss, nutrition, and exercise: https://jonnybowden.com/Links to an external site.

 

Gary Taubes (http://garytaubes.com/ Links to an external site.)has written some very interesting books about this topic (Why We Get Fat, and Good Calories, Bad Calories), and co-founded a non-profit organization called NuSi, the Nutrition Science Initiative. The mission of Nutrition Science Initiative is to “reduce the individual, social, and economic costs of obesity, diabetes, and their related diseases by improving the quality of science in nutrition and obesity research.”

 

There are many different ways to approach weight loss/weight management, and it is important to find a method that works for your lifestyle and personal goals. Read the following articles and share your reflections in your original post.

 

1. Watch Dr. Jonny Bowden talk about the Perfect Diet:
Dr. Jonny Bowden: The Perfect DietLinks to an external site.
Dr. Jonny Bowden: The Perfect Diet

and Weight Loss Tips that Work:
Weight Loss Tips That WorkLinks to an external site.
Weight Loss Tips That Work

What do you think about his recommendations? Which ones resonate with you? Describe why….

 

2. Dr. Axe has a great article about how to control a ‘hunger hormone’ called ghrelin.

Read through it and see if any of his suggestions ring true for you. https://draxe.com/health/ghrelin/Links to an external site.

Have you used any of these suggestions before to feel less hungry? Explain which ones you have tried (or try a few in the next few days and report your results).

 

3. Read the article by Dr. Axe “How to Stop Overeating: 7 Natural Ways to Try Now”.

https://draxe.com/health/how-to-stop-overeating/Links to an external site.

Have you ever tried any of these techniques? If so, which ones worked for you? If not, try some of them in the next few days and report on your experience in your post.

 

4. Read the article by Gary Taubes that discusses the issue of weight gain caused by kilocalorie consumption vs. carbohydrate consumption. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-makes-you-fat-too-many-calories-or-the-wrong-carbohydrates/?WT.mcLinks to an external site.

What do you take away from this article in regards to the possible causes of weight gain?

 

What is your opinion about weight loss theories? Have you tried specific weight loss techniques? If so, were they successful? If not, do you know someone who has tried loosing weight? Were they successful in reaching their goal?

Write at least one paragraph for each state noting the following—What is each state saying about policy? Legislative news? What seems to be the focus or what seems to be important?

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Understand the state department of education/higher education

This week, you will examine the state’s role in educational policy at the PK-12 or higher education level.

Access the website for your state’s department of PK-12 education or higher education based on your professional preference. Every state should have a website for each of these organizations. Some example of PK-12 and higher education state department sites are provided in the resources for this week.

In this assignment, you will compare and contrast state education policy at either the PK-12 or higher education level by accessing websites for three states. One of the states must be your own and the other states must be bordering your state (or at least in your region of the U.S.—Hawaii and Alaska residents may choose any other two states). International students may choose a state that they would like to visit plus 2 bordering states; or select 3 regions from their location.

For this two-part assignment you will address the following:

Part I:

Write at least one paragraph for each state noting the following—What is each state saying about policy? Legislative news? What seems to be the focus or what seems to be important?

In your next paragraphs, compare and contrast the states. You may focus on areas of emphasis or areas of disagreement or discrepancy. In other words, what is the policy related items that you saw for one state that you didn’t see for another state?

Part II:

Find a news article from your state or local news or a video in which the leader of your states department of PK-12 or higher education has been interviewed or is making a statement. What is the leader saying? Write 1-2 paragraphs discussing what the leader has stated, how that relates to any policy initiatives or news items on the state’s website, how you view the leader’s comments, and the impact of that leader on your state.

Read lecture slides and seminar article for that week. Choose a question from the end of lecture slides.

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Weekly assignments.

Read lecture slides and seminar article for that week. Choose a question from the end of lecture slides. See instruction doc for more details.

Calculate these additional values. These can be added in the HHflocPreDesigner function. Make sure to do these calculations below the functional call for flowDimensions so that all of the values you calculated in flow Dimensions are available to be used in these calculations.

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Write a code and answer to all the questions

    1. FS: We have provided a the skeleton of a function (flowDimensions) where you can add code. Use it to calculate the flocculator flow dimensions. Note that the function takes the design map as an input and returns the design map (with more parameters defined). Thus every parameter that you define as design.x will be returned by this function. We have provided recommended names for the parameters that you will be calculating in () below. After each step you can check the value that is being calculated by opening the variable table in the PS. Check the value of each calculation to make sure that the units are correct. In the flowDimensions function calculate the following:
      • Kbaffle������� from the vena contracta for the case when ΠHeS>6Π���>6 (design.baffleK_min). Our best estimate for the vena contracta is from sluice gates where the geometry is very similar to flow around a baffle and thus use a value of 0.6 for a 90 degree bend. Remember that the fluid change in direction is twice as large for a baffle than for a sluice gate and thus it contracts by this much twice! Note that this simplified design approach assumes that the flow has fully expanded before entering the next contraction.
      • kinematic viscosity (design.NU) based on the minimum water temperature. If you start typing viscosity the functions will pop up.
      • the baffle spacing (design.S), S�, assuming the flow passage is square (see Equation (512)).
      • the baffle spacing for the case (if statement here!) where the target outlet water height is greater than the calculated design.S. Use Equation (511)
      • the distance between expansions (design.He), He��. We are assuming the given ratio (design.PI_HS) of the distance between expansions to the baffle spacing.
      • the residence time (design.baffleSpaceTI) in one baffle space. Use the flow rate and volume of one baffle space to calculate the baffle space residence time.
      • the average velocity (design.V) of the water in the flocculator for fully expanded flow. Use continuity (Q = VA) where A is perpendicular to the main direction of flow between baffles. Don’t worry about the curved flow at the ends of the baffles.
      • the head loss for one baffle (baffleHL). The gravity constant with units is available in FeatureScript as “gravity”.
  2. FS: Calculate these additional values. These can be added in the HHflocPreDesigner function. Make sure to do these calculations below the functional call for flowDimensions so that all of the values you calculated in flow Dimensions are available to be used in these calculations.
    • the required residence time for the entire flocculator (design.TI_bod) based on the required design.GT_min. Remember that G_bod (the velocity gradient that is the basis of design) is a known input and thus you can use Equation (513).
    • the number of baffle spaces (design.baffleSpacesN) given the required residence time in each baffle space and the total residence time of the flocculator. Don’t look for an equation, instead think about it and create your own equation! Use the ceil function to round up. This will ensure that the total fluid deformation in the flocculator is at least design.GT_min.
    • the active residence time based on the number of baffle spaces (design.TI_active). Note that this time does not include the extra time that results from head loss increasing the water level. The active residence time accounts for the fact that we rounded up in the previous step and thus the active residence time is greater than design.TI_boc.
    • the total head loss (design.HL_total) that takes into account the fraction of the design flow that the flocculator is currently treating, design.Q_pi. You will need to derive an equation for this. Consider how head loss varies with flow for minor losses (see Equation (20)) and from that deduce how head loss must vary with the fraction of the design flow.
    • the height of the tank walls (design.H). Make sure the tank walls are higher than the maximum water depth!
    • the total volume of water in the flocculator (design.VOL_total) taking into account the extra triangle of water caused by head loss. You don’t need to take into account the water in the ports through the baffle walls. If this isn’t clear you can postpone this until after you’ve created the flocculator tank and the water surface.
  3. PS: Verify that your Featurescript code is running without errors before moving to the Parts Studio
  4. PS: Use the Civil Tank feature to draw the flocculator tank. The Civil Tank feature is in the part studio, but the inputs have to be linked to variables that you calculate. Note that the Civil Tank has an option for ports that can be used to turn the internal tank walls into baffles. Initially set the port height to be the same as the tank wall height so that the ports effectively remove a section of the wall. You will have to think about geometry and the correspondence between the flow geometry in Equation (511) and the tank geometry required as inputs for the Civil Tank feature.
  5. PS: Draw the water surface for the entire flocculator. To simplify this challenge make the assumption that the water slopes uniformly from one end of the flocculator to the other as it crosses the many baffles. There are many ways to approach this. We need a line that can then be “extruded” into a surface that will be normal to the sketch plane that the line was drawn on. To avoid needing a slanted plane you can create a sketch on the Front plane (assuming that you didn’t move the tank after inserting). All you need is to define a line on the sketch that has the right starting and ending elevations. Then extrude it to create a surface. Note that the extrude tool can either create a solid or a surface so you’ll need to select the surface option.
  6. The water elevation in a flocculator is controlled by the water elevation in the downstream clarifier because we can’t have a sudden decrease in water elevation (a waterfall!) because that would break up the flocs. The water depth increases as we move upstream in the flocculator because potential energy is being lost to heat as the water is being deformed. This increase in water elevation results in the flow area increasing and the velocity decreasing as we move upstream. This would result in less energy loss in the upstream baffles. To remedy this situation and increase the strength of the tank, set the port height to be equal to the target width of the flow so that a beam extends over the top of the port. We don’t know if this contraction will be exactly what is needed, but it should be close. This is an example where some computational fluid dynamics would be great to check if this solution behaves as we expect.
  7. FS: Design two drains for the flocculator tank. These drains will work together to drain the tank in the specified time (design.drainTI).
    • Create a drain function (same inputs and outputs as the flowDimension function) that you call from the HHflocPreDesigner. (Done)
    • Calculate the average flow rate through each of the two drains that must be achieved to empty the tank in time design.drainTI. Use the total volume of water (including head loss) in the flocculator to calculate the required flow.
    • Use the diamMinorPipe function to size the minimum inner diameter of the drain pipe (design.drainID). Use the very good approximation that the drain pipes must deliver twice the average flow given the initial head loss. You can assume that the head available to drive water through the drain is equal to the initial minimum depth of water in the flocculator (i.e. not counting the extra head available because of head loss in the flocculator that results in an increase in water depth). This assumption will create a slightly conservative design. For the minor loss coefficient you can use minor loss coefficient constants that are already defined in FeatureScript. You can access these constants by starting to type “minor” and a list of options will appear. You can randomly select some loss coefficients initially and then return to this and select the correct coefficients after you have created the drain in the PS.
    • Use the queryPipeWithFittingDim function to find a pipe in our parts database that meets the inner diameter requirement. Note that there are two versions of the queryPipeWithFittingDim function. Use the one that has 4 inputs. Use the genSDR for SDR and select and ELBOW_90 for the fitting shape (options show up when you type “FittingShape.”). This function returns the key dimensions of both the pipe and the elbow and places them in a map. Assign the output of the function to (design.drain). (This step is already done.)
    • Use printMap(design.drain) to print the resulting map in FeatureNotices so you can see all the cool information that is returned. You’ll be using this to sketch the pipelines for the drains in the next step.
 

Using principles of media planning, create a hypothetical media plan for the new Philips Juicer.

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Advertisement- Media Planning

You are the media planning team of the ad agency that has been hired by Philips to create a media plan for the launch of their new juicer.
• The existing creative assets are:
• A print ad
• A long version of a TV commercial, which will be available to air in :30” or :60: format

• Using principles of media planning, create a hypothetical media plan for the new Philips Juicer.

• Your media plan must contain:

  • Media Objectives
  • Media Strategy
  • Media Tactics
  • Blocking Chart

• As smart media planners, you are supposed to work with the creative team. So make assumptions and provide your rationale that demonstrates you are doing creative, effective, and efficient media planning (i.e. doing justice to the creative campaign as well as AND….your client)

Analyze the creative concept and evaluate its efficiency. Analyze the TOV. Clarify the creative technique and evaluate relevance. Analyze the visual aesthetics and its employment and relevance. Analyze the Copy’s appropriateness, originality, and persuasiveness. Evaluate the campaign from ethical perspective.

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Midterm word doc

Course learning outcomes: Marks Task no

  • CLO1: Identify the process of building commercial campaign strategy 4 1
  • CLO3: Critique the use of visual and textual aesthetics in commercial campaigns 8 2
  • CLO7: Demonstrate responsibility for self-directed and self-learning skills 4 1 & 2
  • CLO9: Show understanding of ethical values in advertising industry 2 2
  • CLO10: Demonstrate professional communication skills in oral, visual, and written format to present projects to peers, colleagues, and clients 2 1 & 2

Assignment description:

You are required individually to provide 5 case study analysis of integrated advertising campaigns, that are communicated during 2023; locally, regionally, or internationally. Brands can be local or international, where you should diversify between promotional and communication campaigns (social media always on communication is not considered as campaign).

Tasks to be covered:

Task 1: Campaigns Overview

– Collect samples of each campaign (offline, online, static, films, motion, activation)

– Brand overview (image, position, voice, value etc)

– Product identification and attributions (for promotional campaigns)

– Clarify the goal of the campaign

– Specify the targeted segment/s

– Identify the campaign key message

– Imagine an insight that might be used for the campaign

– Identify campaign channels (media)

Task 2: Campaigns Analysis

– Analyze the creative concept and evaluate its efficiency.

– Analyze the TOV.

– Clarify the creative technique and evaluate relevance.

– Analyze the visual aesthetics and its employment and relevance.

– Analyze the Copy’s appropriateness, originality, and persuasiveness.

– Evaluate the campaign from ethical perspective.

What solvent system worked for dissolving the solid samples prior to running a TLC plate? Why would you recommend that solvent system?

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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LABORATORY I

Separation and Purity Techniques: Thin–Layer Chromatography and Melting Point

OBJECTIVES:
1) Investigate solubility of organo–metallic compounds
2) Advise a solvent system for proper separation of organo–metallic compounds on TLC plate
3) Determine the melting point of organo–metallic compounds

Note: All background regarding TLC and melting point determination has been covered in previous activities. You are encouraged to refer to these documents for an overall review prior to completing this activity. Obtain some samples of ferrocene and its derivatives from the instructor and advise a solvent system for proper separation of these compounds on a TLC plate. Also, record melting points for these samples.

Research Proposal Preliminary Data Questionnaire – Review MEMO Grading Rubric
You are tasked to analyze ferrocene analogs and become familiar with working with a variety of these molecules. As organometallic complexes have distinct and diverse instrumental analyses resulting from the metal to organic ligand bonding, it is critical to note the difference and predict the instrumental signals for these complexes that might deviate from the original expected behavior of organic ligand in the absence of the metal. You are provided a set of analogs to analyze using organic techniques and instrumentation. An active anti–cancer ferrocene molecule will be assigned to your group and you are to predict the expected results using your information you find from studying the standard analogs.

1) From your measurements of the melting points of ferrocene, what did you note about purity? These samples have reported melting point ranges.

2) Was there a trend in the melting point with the change from the parent to the derivative compound? How does the structure of the analogs impact the melting point? Think about  IMF/Supramolecular forces.

3) What solvent system worked for dissolving the solid samples prior to running a TLC plate? Why would you recommend that solvent system?

4) Did you establish a separation of the ferrocene compounds on TLC plate? What structural modifications does your assigned compound of interest have?

5) Based on the structure of our compound and the collected preliminary data, what do you expect the melting point and the polarity of your assigned compound of interest?

What are some strategies you can use as a health care manager to overcome HR challenges? What are some current and future HR issues in health care? How may effective HR management handle these issues?

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Healthcare response 1

ASSIGNMENT

Read each sections question and response. Respond to each sections response in 150 words.

SECTION 1

  • What are some strategies you can use as a health care manager to overcome HR challenges?
  • What are some current and future HR issues in health care?
  • How may effective HR management handle these issues?

SECTION 2

  • What are some strategies you can use as a health care manager to overcome HR strategies?
  • What are some current and future HR issues in health care?
  • How may effective HR management handle these issues?

SECTION 3

  • What is a current legal challenge in health care? How would you respond to this challenge as a healthcare manager?
  • What is a current ethical challenge in health care? How would you respond to this challenge as a healthcare manager?
  • Do you perceive your identified legal or ethical issue as a bigger issue? Explain your answer.

SECTION 4

  • Current legal challenges in health care?
  • Current ethical challenges in health care?
  • Legal vs. Ethical. Which is bigger?

Reference

Buchbinder, Sharon B., Shanks, Nancy H., & Kite, Bobbie J. (2021). Introduction to health care management (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett LeAarning. https://lccn.loc.gov/2019019012

Why have few dinosaur fossils been discovered in California?

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GEOG 101: Geology

Why have few dinosaur fossils been discovered in California?

What should Helen have done to find out the true reasons? How effective is an employee survey in this research? What other options should Helen explore?

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2 questions

Read the case and answer the two questions as a bullet points or short sentences, because it’s gonna for the power point and after do a write up for the two questions.

  1. What should Helen have done to find out the true reasons?
  2. How effective is an employee survey in this research? What other options should Helen explore?