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Do you think the recording of “The Epitaph of Seikilos” sounds exactly the way it was intended by the composer? Why or why not?

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History of Ancient and Medieval Music

Answer the following questions after listening to this video

1. Do you think the recording of “The Epitaph of Seikilos” sounds exactly the way it was intended by the composer? Why or why not?
2. There are many examples of sacred vocal music from the Middle Ages. However, there are very few examples of secular instrumental music. Why do you think this is?

The book used for the course is Survey of Music is The Enjoyment of Music, 13th ed. by Forney and Machlis.

In what instances are each of them more important in conveying financial information? To what audiences are they targeted? How do each of the four reports fit together to contribute to a complete picture of the financial state of the organization?

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Financial statements

Try explaining and providing examples of the 4 basic financial statements.
Compare and contrast these statements for their general purpose and use.
In what instances are each of them more important in conveying financial information?
To what audiences are they targeted?
How do each of the four reports fit together to contribute to a complete picture of the financial state of the organization?

Will there be an increase, a decrease, or maintenance of the status quo?

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Forecasting Paper

Forecast a department/service area or your organization for the next 12 months. If you’re not currently working use hypothetical data that shows your understanding of forecasting.
Will there be an increase, a decrease, or maintenance of the status quo?
Look at these areas:
Services,
Revenue,
Expenses, and
Staffing needs.
How did you arrive at this information?

Discuss the disparity between the reimbursement and cost-sharing levels of the outpatient hospital facility and ASC. Why is parity and disparity an important topic to discuss? How does it affect the average Medicare beneficiary? What do you think Genie should do? Are there additional questions that Genie should ask Dr. Williams before she makes her decision?

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Discussion Board Topic: Reimbursement Levels Discussion

Topic for your response:
As you have seen in this module, Medicare has different payment systems associated with various healthcare settings. In this chapter, you have learned about the hospital-based outpatient setting. This system is not used in the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) setting; rather a modified version of this payment system is used and is called the ASC payment system. Both systems use APCs, but provisions, adjustments, and payment rates are different. Medicare designates which procedures are safe for the ASC setting. In this exercise, we examine a cataract procedure (CPT code 66984) which is one of the most performed procedures for Medicare beneficiaries. This procedure is approved for both the hospital outpatient and ASC settings.
Genie is a 68-year-old female who presents with age-related incipient cataract of the right eye (ICD-10-CM code H25.011). She recently met with her physician about cataract surgery. The physician indicated that she needs extracapsular cataract removal with insertion of an intraocular lens prosthesis (CPT code 66984). Dr. Williams told Genie that she could have the procedure in an outpatient hospital facility or an ambulatory surgical center (ASC).
Let’s examine the reimbursement and cost sharing amounts for each setting.

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CPT Code
Outpatient Hospital Facility
Ambulatory Surgical Center
Reimbursement
Cost-Sharing
Reimbursement
Cost-Sharing
66984
$2,021.86
$404.38
$1,012.72
$202.54
Rates as of January 2020

As you can see, the reimbursement and cost sharing amount for the hospital-based outpatient facility is almost twice the amount required for the ASC facility. It is the same procedure, provided by the same physician (Dr. Williams) regardless of setting.
Before you answer the discussion question below, consider the following:
Is the quality of care two times better in the outpatient hospital facility setting?
Are the outcomes of care two times better in the outpatient hospital facility setting?
Are the costs of providing services and care that much lower in the ASC setting?
Are Medicare beneficiaries aware of the disparity of cost-sharing amounts in different surgical settings?
Is it fair to charge different cost-sharing amounts for the same service?
Do you think the difference in cost-sharing would influence your decision about where to have surgery?

Discuss the disparity between the reimbursement and cost-sharing levels of the outpatient hospital facility and ASC. Why is parity and disparity an important topic to discuss? How does it affect the average Medicare beneficiary? What do you think Genie should do? Are there additional questions that Genie should ask Dr. Williams before she makes her decision?

More questions to you should include in your response:
– Is the quality of care two times better in the outpatient hospital facility setting? Is the quality of care any better in the outpatient hospital facility setting?
– Do you think Medicare beneficiaries are aware of the disparity of cost-sharing amounts in different surgical settings? How could they be better educated?
– Do you think the difference in cost-sharing would influence your decision about where to have surgery?

Gather evidence on a group of players or an individual athlete (depending on team or individual sport context) in a coaching session or interview a coach and create profiles from three distinct perspectives.

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Writer’s choice

Assignment Task 1: Briefing 

In this task, you will examine WHO coaches coach by considering a variety of ways to profile (that is, categorise aspects of an athlete’s performance to inform the planning of coaching sessions) either a group of players or an individual athlete (depending on the sporting context chosen).

Three profiles are to be created: one profile can be a technical or physical one, the other two profiles MUST be from different perspectives (that is, not technical or physical ones).

Supporting reading:

All material presented on the module to date (i.e., weeks 1-5 on the Reading List)

Submission

Use the template (link HEREActions) and submit to Canvas by the time and date specified.

Section 1: Gather evidence on a group of players or an individual athlete (depending on team or individual sport context) in a coaching session or interview a coach and create profiles from three distinct perspectives.

Choose ONE of the following three options:

1. Interview with a coach where you focus your questioning on the information the coach would want from the athlete in order to develop their performance and how they would measure this(i.e., profile) NO. OR

2. Profiling performers from a session that you are coaching. NO. OR

3. (ONLY choose option 3 if you cannot access a coaching session). Identifying and summarising relevant five research articles on the topic of profiling athletes (NB you must consider at least three different perspectives across the five articles – only ONE of these can be physical or technical). These summaries should be supported by a description of your article selection criteria.

What is the lens that the author is looking through? What is the academic field? How is the field reflected in the writing style? What methodologies are used for gathering information?

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Art Paragraphs

Instead of a list of review questions, I’d like you to write an open reflection on valuable points in each essay. Read them closely. I’m not assigning videos or lectures this week to allow for this focus. Aim for one long paragraph for each essay.
Again, this is an open reflection, so I want you to draw out the things that influenced your thinking or shifted your perspective. Below is a list of questions you can use to help guide you –you don’t need to answer them – they are designed to offer a framework for the kinds of things you can discuss in each essay.

Some things to think about as you read:
-What is the lens that the author is looking through? What is the academic field? How is the field reflected in the writing style?
-What methodologies are used for gathering information?
-What historical or conceptual framework does the author use to provide context for their study of a contemporary art scene?
-What are the standout points in the author’s argument about the art scene?
-Look at the author’s bibliography at the end of their essay. Are there sources that are interesting? Are there sources relevant to your own research?
-What do you find useful in reading these essays?
-What are the spatial barriers that Morgner is discussing?
-How is the term “makeshift” useful for Sooudi?
-How is the art scene adapted to the specific context of the city?
-What becomes visible through these studies?

Knowing how the firm responded, what would you have done differently? What are some steps you think the firm could have taken to prevent this incident? Is your business susceptible? How are you going to reduce your risk?

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Case Study 1

SCENARIO:
A 10-person consulting firm sent a small team to South America to complete a client project. During their stay, an employee used a business debit card at a local ATM. A month after returning to the US, the firm received overdraft notices from their bank. They identified fraudulent withdrawals of $13,000, all originating from South America. There was an additional $1,000 overdraft fee.

ATTACK:
The criminals installed an ATM skimmer device to record card account credentials. Many false debit cards were manufactured and used at ATMs in different cities across South America.
What is Skimming? Skimming occurs when criminals install devices on ATMs, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, fuel pumps, etc. to capture data or record cardholders’ PINs. Criminals use the data to create fake debit or credit cards and then steal from victims’ accounts.

RESPONSE:
Realizing they had been defrauded, the firm contacted their bank and closed the impacted account immediately. Their attempts to pursue reimbursement from the bank were unsuccessful. The commercial account used at the ATM for local currency had different protections from consumer accounts and the bank was not required to reimburse them for their losses. The bank went on to deduct the $1,000 overdraft fee from the firm owner’s personal account.
The firm severed ties with that bank. The new bank offered comprehensive fraud protection guarantees.
The firm created two business accounts:
• one for receiving funds and making small transfers
• one for small expense payments
The firm updated travel protocols, banning the use of company-provided debit cards. Employees now prepay expenses electronically, pay cash, or use a major credit card, as necessary.

IMPACT:
The entire cash reserve for the small business was wiped out, netting losses of almost $15,000.

LESSONS LEARNED:
1 Use major credit cards when traveling – they have more consumer fraud protection than debit cards.
2 Get notified – set up transaction alerts with your credit and debit card companies to monitor fraud.
3 Check your bank account frequently.
4 Create withdrawal alerts.
5 Understand your bank’s policies about covering losses from fraud.

DISCUSS:
• Knowing how the firm responded, what would you have done differently?
• What are some steps you think the firm could have taken to prevent this incident?
• Is your business susceptible? How are you going to reduce your risk?

RESOURCES:
• NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Corner: https://www.nist.gov/itl/smallbusinesscyber
• National Cybersecurity Alliance: https://staysafeonline.org/cybersecure-business/

What are your goals for this experience? Describe a situation when you experienced a setback. How did that affect you personally and your approach to the problem you were working on?

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Essay needed for research internship application

  • Why are you interested in this program?
  • What are your goals for this experience? Describe a situation when you experienced a setback. How did that affect you personally and your approach to the problem you were working on? In general, we want to hear how you feel about how obstacles and adversity play a role in reaching your academic and personal objectives.
  • What career paths are you considering?
  • What types of research being conducted at Scripps Research particularly interest you and why?
  • Are you passionate about science and research?  How? Why?
  • Do you have any research experience, including academic year research, summer internship programs, relevant employment, etc. If you do not have research experience, what are some ways in which you sought to expand your interest in science and research?

 

 

How would your positionality as a researcher be defined—as an insider working with insiders, for instance? How would you describe your positionality in terms of power relationships with potential stakeholder groups from whom you might interact and collect information?

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Teacher turnover (K-12)

Instructions
In this assessment, you will examine potential conflicts of interest that might exist because of your role and positionality within the organization in which you will collect data. Then you will actually code your interview transcripts and identify themes to inform the development of your narrative. This will also be a time to connect these qualitative data logically with other evidence and existing quantitative data that you uncovered in your data-gathering process earlier in the course (review the Framing an Issue and Data Collection Plan assessment where you identified the existing data on your topic). Finally, you will develop a validity matrix that reflects the totality of ethical issues that you considered as you identified codes, coding categories, and emergent themes.

Use the Data Coding and Ethics Template [DOCX]. Arrange your assessment in a single document with three headings: Part 1: Researcher Relationships and Positionality 2; Part 2: Data Coding 3; Part 3: Validity Matrix.

Part 1: Researcher Relationships and Positionality
For Part I of this assessment, develop several paragraphs (300–500 words) that respond to the following questions:

Describe your positionality as a researcher.
How would your positionality as a researcher be defined—as an insider working with insiders, for instance?
How would you describe your positionality in terms of power relationships with potential stakeholder groups from whom you might interact and collect information?
Explain ethical considerations and conflicts of interest.
What conflicts of interest exist, given your role and positionality?
Which principles learned in CITI training apply to information gathering and data collection in your own organization?
Explain the risks involved in data collection and efforts to ensure ethical practices and accuracy.
How could someone be hurt or at risk as a consequence of a focus group interview, individual interview, survey, or observational data collected in your organization?
How did you ensure ethical practices in gathering your data?
How did you ensure accuracy in your data collection? What were the results of your member checking with participants?
What are the clear benefits of the information you obtained during your interviews or focus group and do they outweigh the risks?
How might bias creep into your data collection or analysis, and how might you avoid it?

Part 2: Data Coding
Use separate headings in Part 2 for the first three assessment components below:

Complete the following under the heading “Context:”
Provide an introductory narrative of the context of the data collection, including the development question.
Include a one- or two-sentence description of the issue you are investigating: your development questions.
Describe how you expected the interviews to add to your understanding of the issue.
Complete the following under the heading “Findings:”
Provide a summary report of the data collection that includes findings and evidence.
Report on the results of your coding exercise.
Tell the story of your results so that the reader has insight into your findings.
Include quotes from your interviewees as appropriate to support your inferences.
Complete the following under the heading “Relationship to Other Data:”
Explain the alignment of new data collected with existing data.
Explain how the findings from your data collection connect to other data you have examined in relation to the issue (records or document data).
Provide a copy of interview transcripts along with coding used for thematic analysis.
Include these transcripts in an appendix to the paper.

Part 3: Validity Matrix
Provide a complete validity matrix and an accompanying memo explaining threats to validity.

What additional information might you require in order to provide Vancouver Library with further insights into their data? Are there any other tables that would be helpful?

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Canvas Assignments

PART 1: DATABASE
Q1.A) Vancouver Library has provided you with the files used to track their inventory. Use this data to design a normalized relational data model for this library. Normalize the data as necessary and list all tables using the following notations. Indicate Primary Keys as underlined and Foreign Keys as italic. (20 marks)

NOTE: missing normalized table file = -5 marks per each file

Q1.B) Use this data to design the structure of the database required for this case and visually represent this with the ER Diagram. Using any diagram tool, create an ERD with the required entities, attributes, and relationships. (20 marks)
Insert an image of your ER Diagram in the box below. Additionally, submit a high-resolution copy to Canvas as a PNG, GIF, or JPG image file.

NOTE: missing ERD file = -10 marks

Q1.C) What additional information might you require in order to provide Vancouver Library with further insights into their data? Are there any other tables that would be helpful? (5 marks)

PART 2: ETL
Q2.A) If the Publication Date has imported as a number, how might this cause a problem without analysis if we wanted to dig into the data by month, for example? (4 marks)

Q2.B) Examine the Price field. What are the benefits of this datatype being imported as a numeric field? What issues could arise if this was imported as a text field? (4 marks)

PART 3: ANALYSIS
Q3.A) Which Library name has the highest number of staff? Display your results in a tree map. (3 marks)

Q3.B) What are the top 10 Author ID’s with the highest average Price? Display your results in a bar graph. (3 marks)

Q3.C) Which Publisher ID had the highest average Price in the year 2180 (Hint: Use the Publication Date)? (1 mark)

Q3.D) Which two libraries do not have any Library Assistants? (1 mark)
Library Name #1:
Library Name #2:

Q3.E) Who is the oldest author? What year is this author born in? (2 marks)
Author’s Name:
Birthday Year:

Q3.F) Is there any correlation between the Print Run Size and the Price for a book? Please include a trend-line in your results. (2 marks)

Q3.G) In the year 2191, which month had the highest book price? Which month was it and what was the price? (2 marks)
Month:

Q3.H) There is one author who only uses the Mass Market Paperback as the format of their book. What is their Author ID? (2 marks)

Q3.I) Which book has the highest average number of pages? What is the Genre of this book? Create a bar graph and display the top 10 books by average number of pages. Use the following colour scheme to organize your data. (3 marks)

Book Title:
Genre:

Q3.J) Which Country of Residence has the lowest average Price? Display your results on a filled map, using the “Sunrise-Sunset Diverging” colour palette. (3 marks)
Country Name:
Average Price:

PART 4: DASHBOARD
Q4.A) Create a digital dashboard within Tableau with the following worksheets and filter your dashboard by the country, “United States”. (6 marks)
• Adjust the window of the dashboard to be customized (width: 1500px * height: 750px)
• Q3.A) Make sure your results are displayed in a tree map
• Q3.B) Make sure your results are displayed in a bar graph
• Q3.I) Make sure your results are displayed in a bar graph
• Q3.J) Make sure your results are displayed in a filled map

Q4.B) After completing the steps above, what additional data would you recommend that Vancouver Library analyze? What is another data visualization that would be helpful for Vancouver Library? (4 marks)

Q4.C) Upload your FINAL Tableau assignment file, in the twbx format via Canvas.

NOTE: missing or incorrect Tableau file = -10 marks

PART 5: VISUALIZATION
Q5.A) Review the dashboard provided below. List and briefly discuss at least 3 weaknesses of this visualization. For each weakness, please provide a suggestion for improvement. (6 marks)