Based on your readings thus far from the text and your own research describe the intelligence quadrangle. Discuss the anatomy of counterintelligence. Discuss the taxonomy and typology of counterintelligence. Explain the “Grounded Theory” behind counterintelligence.

Q-1. What are some of the major sources of short-term financing, and how are interest rates on these loans quoted?  How do firms develop a short-term financing plan that meets their need for cash?  ( 5 Marks – 400 to 500 words )

Q-2. Solve the following questions:-

 (A)- Create the statement of sources and uses of cash from the following entries:

( 2.5 Marks )

(B)– Energetic, Inc. believes that it can acquire Satisfied Industries and improve efficiency to the extent that the market value of Satisfied will increase by $5 million. Satisfied currently sells for $20 a share, and there are 1 million shares outstanding.

1. Satisfied’s management is willing to accept a cash offer of $25 a share. Can the merger be accomplished on a friendly basis?
2. What will happen if Satisfied’s management holds out for an offer of $28 a share? 

( 2.5 Marks )

Q-3 . Describe the basic differences between mergers, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, divestitures, and spin-offs.  ( 2.5 Marks- 300 to 400 words )

Q-4 – How can options, futures, and forward contracts be used to devise simple hedging strategies? Discuss similarities and differences between futures contracts and forward contracts. ( 2.5 Marks- 300 to 400 words )

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Q1. You have been hired as an economic consultant by a price-taking (a perfectly competitive) firm that produces T-shirts. The firm already has a factory, so it is operating in the short-run. The price of T-shirt is $9, the hourly wage is $24, and each T-shirt requires $1 worth of material. The following table shows the relationship between the number of workers and output of T-shirts.

Note: For answering question-1 (a) and (b) students are required to show all possible calculations.

Q2. See around you and pick up a firm which is either dominating the market or trying to create monopoly.

• (a) Write in brief about the firm chosen and explain how the firm is trying to create a monopoly or dominating the market? (2 points)
• (b) Elaborate your opinion, why we as a society should worry about a firm trying to create a monopoly? (2points)
• (c) Discuss some policy options a government could have to intervene in such market and prevent the monopoly creation. (2points)

Terms have layers of social meaning, historical contexts, and political orientation. It’s not a matter of just being “politically correct” or “politically incorrect.” It’s about conveying a worldview and theoretical framework, whether you were aware of it or not. . .

What does the term “Oriental” sociohistorically signify? Integrate Chapter 1 from the textbook “‘Oriental’ is for Objects and ‘Asian’ is for People: Asian Americans as the Racialized Other” when discussing the layers of social meanings attached to the term, “Oriental.” How has it been employed and applied to Asian Americans? How have Pacific Islanders figured into this label and social reality? What role has “race” and the “racialization process” played in contributing to the proliferation of this label and all of the layers of social meanings attached to this term. Discuss and incorporate Angelo Ancheta’s notion of “foreigner racialization” and “perpetual foreigner” status of AAPIDAs. How have laws and case law informed these processes and labels for AAPIDAs?

I have attached below all the information al sources that must be used fro the assignment.Please use them as a reference and cite it when appropriate.

As a seasoned Health Information Management Director who has experience with data storage and data reliability, you have been asked by the Chief Operating Officer to support LiveWell while he is underway hiring additional managers. There are two initiatives at LiveWell that will benefit from your expertise. One requires a radiology image storage recommendation for hospital administration, and the other requires the development of a plan for data reliability as LiveWell Physician Practices contemplate a quality improvement project.

You will develop an action plan on data reliability to support the development of a quality improvement project for the Physician Practices at LiveWell. You will also complete a radiology storage compare/contrast review and write an executive summary to support the Chief Operating Officer with your expertise.

INSTRUCTIONS

Part One – Action Plan for Data Reliability at Physician Practices

Recommend an action plan on data reliability by considering the information below and performing the steps that follow. Your action plan will include a Research Assessment and Summary, Analysis of Shadowing Observations, and Action Recommendations.

1. Research Assessment and Summary

You have researched the issue of data reliability and prepared vital highlights and takeaways from the article Mining EHR Data for Quality Improvement.

Assess the takeaways below and summarize pertinent aspects that ensure data quality, consistency, and definition.

While their use may not be considered data mining, when you create a new health maintenance alert, you are mining your EHR data for a purpose.

Small practices can consider out- Sourcing data mining and analysis to their EHR vendor or one of its technology partners. Some vendors, such as Epic, Cerner, Meditech, and athenahealth, are incorporating analytics into their EHRs and will do the work for you in the cloud, Mr. Hood says.

Dr. Ejnes also underlines the problem of getting all of the group’s physicians and nurse practitioners to enter data in structured fields, rather than as free text. The group has medical assistants inputting some of this data so miners have something to mine, he says that her EHR includes prebuilt reports for all of the quality measures in Meaningful Use incentive program and the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS). However, her practice cannot modify these reports because they’re written to meet EHR certification requirements. To produce custom reports, the practice’s IT staff developed a special web-based application that queries the EHR database.

GETTING THE DATA YOU NEED

Good data gets you actionable results. To start with, lab results may not be available in structured form, depending on whether the EHR interfaces with a particular lab. Dr. Ejnes’ practice, for example, doesn’t have interfaces with all of the labs it uses, so employees must enter some faxed lab results manually into the EHR.

Ms. Nelson says the solution is to train staff members to enter data in agreed-upon fields. But that’s difficult.

2. Analysis of Shadowing Observations

When considering the key takeaways from your reading, you realize that Real-Time live documentation observations of physician office documentation practices will be beneficial. Your goal is to review for contributing factors that hinder data quality in the EHR. To achieve this, you have shadowed both Dr. Welby and Dr. Olisa and noted your observations. Review the notes below:

Observation notes from shadowing Dr. Welby:

• Patients are REGISTERED by Mindy (medical assistant), Mrs. Welby (Dr. Welby’s mom who works part-time as a coder), and by Dr. Welby’s nurse, Sara, but only over lunch periods.
• EHR documentation begins when Sara enters a brief free text note into the EHR for every new patient to summarize previous healthcare treatments and medications.
• Dr. Welby updates the Medication Maintenance Record using structured data fields provided in the EHR for every patient he sees. He adds the medication, dosage, and frequency. The EHR’s structured fields are complete for every patient.

Observation notes from shadowing Dr. Olisa:

• Patients are registered by Mindy (medical assistant), Mrs. Welby (Dr. Welby’s mom who works part-time as a coder), and by Dr. Welby’s nurse, Sara, but only over lunch periods.
• EHR documentation begins when Sara enters a brief free text note into the EHR for every new patient to summarize previous healthcare treatments and medications.
• Dr. Olisa reviews Sara’s entries to familiarize herself with a new patient’s history, treatment, and medications. (Dr. Olisa voted against the purchase of the current EHR because it was not user-friendly, objecting to the time-consuming structured data fields. She appreciates Sara’s efforts in gathering pertinent patient information for each patient visit.)

Analyze the observations above to identify opportunities for document improvement. In a well-written paragraph, assess the difference in physician documentation practices found. Be sure to state what the difference is and why it will impact the generation of quality reports generated by the current EHR and impact data consistency.

3. Action Recommendations

Based on the key takeaways from your reading and your documentation from the shadowing observations, develop action recommendations for three documentation practices for the Physician Practices to present to the Chief Operating Officer.

4. Write your action plan in a Word document. Be sure to include the following:

• The purpose of the plan
• Research Assessment and Summary
• Analysis of Shadowing Observations, which includes identification and analysis of the issues
• Action Recommendations
• Appropriate titles for each part of your action plan

Part Two – Compare/Contrast Data Storage Recommendation for Radiology

1. To prepare the Compare/Contrast data, you will need to conduct research (in the Rasmussen College Library or on the internet) about digital data storage methods. It may be useful to consult Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) vendor statements as well as general information articles on digital storage. LiveWell is a small, urban medical center, and the medical center uses x-ray, CT, ultrasound, and mammography; an average of 100 images are completed each business day.

Consider the three (3) storage methods for digital radiology images listed below:

• Storage using active, on-site data server and drives for the main radiology image storage system
• Storage using a remote data storage facility or Cloud, using an applications service provider to deliver images on demand
• Storage using an array of Flash drives that are kept at the facility and are indexed for retrieval of images on demand

Compare and contrast data for storage recommendation to meet the needs of the radiology department in the following areas:

• Cost of storage
• Ease of retrieval
• Size of necessary storage
• Limitations of the storage method (such as security; delays in diagnosis and patient treatment)
• Perks and positives of the storage method

2. To organize your data in preparation for making a recommendation for the Chief Operating Officer, complete the table below using information gathered from your research in the previous step.

3. Write an executive summary for the Chief Operating Officer that includes your compare/contrast table, elements of your analysis, and clearly states a storage recommendation. So that your recommendation is well evidenced by research, be sure to include details, such as:

• What is great about this recommendation?
• Why is another option not the best?
• What are the perks of your choice?

Submit both your Action Plan and Executive Summary documents.

Description

In this assignment you are responsible for identifying and discussing two areas:

1. Target Market
2. Buyer Behavior

1. Your assignment should begin with a discussion of your proposed Target Market. This description needs to be specific and clearly outline how this segment differs from other segments purchasing your product or service.  To accomplish this, you will need to do the following:

1. Identify and describe the method you’ve selected for segmenting the market. For the purposes of this exercise, your segmentation method needs to be based on the reason or purpose for the customer purchasing the product.  This would include a discussion of the motivations that caused the purchase decision.
2. Supplement this needs-based reason with supporting demographic, e.g., age, income, family status, education information for the largest number of customers in this segment. If you prefer, you can also use a psychographic description using VALS II or another model.
3. Estimate the addressable number of prospective customers (Those members of the target market that can be reached given the Strengths and resources of the company.) in this segment and the expected purchases for the group. These purchases should be estimated on an annual basis and include a discussion of the expected growth rate during the term of your marketing plan, i.e., 2-3 years.

1. The second portion of this section is a discussion of the buyer behavior of the prospective customers:

1. The value received by the customer.
2. A description of the type of purchase.
3. Two to three benefits sought by the customer.
4. Type and extent of the search expected to be made by the customer.
5. Level of customer involvement in the purchase and your reasons for selecting this level of involvement.
6. The impact of cultural, social, and individual factors on the purchase decision.

Stage Format

1. Maximum Length: 6, single-spaced pages.
2. Font: 12-point
3. Margins: 1-inch on all borders
4. Points: 80

Q1. With the aid of a diagram describe the process whereby V. cholerae infects humans and disrupts signal transduction pathways. Terms that should be mentioned include: GPCR, G protein, adenylate cyclase, cAMP, ADP-ribosyl transferase. (15 marks)

Q2. With the aid of a diagram describe the process whereby Bordetella pertussis infects humans and disrupts signal transduction pathways. Terms that should be mentioned include: GPCR, G protein, adenylate cyclase, cAMP, ADP-ribosyl transferase. (15 marks)

Q3. Describe in detail how the V. cholerae toxic differs in its action from the Bordetella pertussis toxin

This discussion aims to make you aware of the geological hazards affecting societies around the world and the potential actions to build resilience.

Background information:

Video: Natural Hazards Affect Humans (AGI)

Video: Natural Hazards (Crash Course Geography)

Web page: Natural Hazards, Geology (University of Washington)

Web page: Geologic Hazards Science Center (USGS)

Video: Catastrophic Landslide in California: Can We Stop the Unstoppable? (PBS Terra)

Video: Will the Cascadia Earthquake be the Worst Disaster North America’s Ever Seen? (PBS Terra)

E-document: Primer on Natural Hazard Management in Integrated Regional Development Planning (OAS)

Instructions

1. Consider your favorite location around the world other than Miami. What type of natural hazards do you expect to find there? Be specific. Is there evidence of past catastrophic natural events in such a location? Provide specific examples—minimum 100 words plus references (non included in your word count).

2. Imagine that you will buy a house and retire at your favorite location; how can you minimize the risk on your investment (and life)? Support your answers with evidence.

3. What type of measurements can the local government at your chosen location take to minimize the potential material and human costs of catastrophic geological and other natural events? Minimum 100 words, add references (non included in your word count).

4. Comment on the answers of 1 of your classmates. Be critical of your classmate’s responses.