Describe sensationalism and its use and function in at least two historical periods.

Describe sensationalism and its use and function in at least two historical periods. In which period was sensationalism most important to its audiences? Argue why your choices are valid. At the end of your essay, you may wish to describe how today’s audiences and agents of celebrities use these materials.

Requirements: 4 pages

Determine the market equilibrium prices and allocation.

Question 1: General Equilibrium and Welfare (50 marks)
Ann and Belle only consume cookies and milk. Ann’s utility from c cookies and m glasses of
milk is given by: uA = cA(mA)2. Belle’s preferences are represented by the utility function:
uB = (cB)2mB. Initially, their mother gives 2 cookies and 1 glass of milk to each of them, but
Ann and Belle are able to trade with each other afterwards.
a) Set Ann and Belle’s utility maximisation problems and find their Marshallian Demands.
(10 marks)
b) Determine the market equilibrium prices and allocation. Show your work. (5 marks)
c) Draw an Edgeworth box to show how trade leads to a Pareto improvement for Ann and Belle.
Label and explain your diagram. (10 marks)
d) The mother wants to maximise the social welfare function W = uA + uB. Which feasible
allocation would maximise this social welfare function? Comment on the merits and limitations
of using such a social welfare function. (10 marks)
e) The mother then decides to impose that Ann and Belle can only trade cookies and glasses
of milk at a ratio of 1:1. What would happen? Show your work and provide and discuss the
result. (10 marks)
f) Characterise the efficient ways to change the allocation. (5 marks)

Describe how the physicians practice and the hospital system communicate to foster high-quality, efficient, and effective care.

Complete a 3-5 page assessment template discussing the continuum of patient care, care quality, and communication between physician practices and hospitals.

As a health care administrator, you will likely spend a great deal of your time focused on operations. You may find yourself working in a hospital, clinic, long-term care facility, hospice, urgent care center, home health agency or a number of other types of organizations. Regardless of the type of organization, many of the operational responsibilities are the same.

Health care financing has become quite complex. Because most health care organizations are reimbursed primarily from a third party (insurance company), health care administrators must manage the communication between the patient, the insurance company, and the organization. Consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) have increased in popularity as a way to reduce insurance premiums; however, the patient has a larger financial responsibility for services compared to managed care plans. This concept is known as cost sharing (Niles, 2021). It is very important to understand the payer mix of your organization, so you understand where and how revenue is coming in.

Information technology is another huge area of focus right now for health care administrators. The health care industry has lagged behind other industries in the area of information technology. The U.S. health care system has seen a large increase in the number of electronic medical records implemented across health care organizations (Niles, 2021). In addition, other technologies such as telehealth, electronic data warehouses (EDWs), and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) are quickly expanding and improving the delivery of health care.

REFERENCE

Niles, N. J. (2021). Basics of the U.S. health care system (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

For this assessment, imagine you have accepted an administrator position at a physicians practice. One of your first tasks is to gather your team to introduce yourself and discuss operational priorities for the practice at a lunch-and-learn.

INSTRUCTIONS

Using course resources along with a minimum of three peer-reviewed articles based on your own research, complete the linked assessment template to address the following:

• Describe where the physician practice and the hospital fall on the continuum of patient care.
• Analyze how providers at each location try to return their patients to their highest level of functioning.
• Explain how a physician practice communicates with the hospital to foster high-quality, efficient, and effective patient care.
• Analyze three peer-reviewed articles that each discuss one of the topics above.
  • Description or summary presents the what of the article, but analysis will pursue the question of so what?
  • Why do these ideas matter and/or how are these ideas connected?
  • What are the potential gaps or questions that remain?

Please use the Assessment 2 Template [DOCX] to organize your paper with the following headings:

• Title Page.
• Agenda.
• Introduction.
  • Professional introduction (1 paragraph).
    • You have license to be creative as you imagine the background you would bring to a position like this one.
  • Agenda (bullet points).
    • Preview the main goals of the lunch-and-learn.
    • Refer to some of the scholarly sources you will summarize.
• Continuum of Care.
  • Describe where the physician practice and the hospital fall on the continuum of patient care.
  • Analyze a peer-reviewed article that discusses where the physician practice and the hospital fall on the continuum of patient care.
• Care Quality.
  • Describe how a physicians practice maximizes patient care quality to return them to the highest level of function, addressing quality standards such as:
    • Maximizing value-based reimbursement.
    • Positive patient experience.
    • Maintaining operational efficiency.
  • Analyze a peer-reviewed article that discusses how a physicians practice maximizes patient care quality to return them to the highest level of function.
• Operational Approach.
  • Describe how the physicians practice and the hospital system communicate to foster high-quality, efficient, and effective care.
  • Analyze a peer-reviewed article that discusses how a physicians practice and the hospital system communicate to foster high-quality, efficient, and effective care.
• Conclusion.
  • Recap the main themes of your lunch-and-learn session.
  • Draw conclusions based on information contained in at least two of the articles you summarized.
  • Offer specific examples to demonstrate application of these ideas in everyday practice.
• References.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Length: Your paper must be a minimum of 3–5 double-spaced pages, not including the title page and References section.
• Font: Times New Roman, 12 point.
• References: Cite at least three peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles or reliable primary sources from government or professional organization publications.
• Style: Format your paper according to APA style. Refer to Evidence and APA for guidance.

Note: Please review the Managing Quality Across Various Health Care Settings Scoring Guide before you begin the assessment.

discuss how Henry Ward Beecher and Sitting Bull’s beliefs and life experiences might have prompted them to issue these quotes.

While utilizing the two quotes below, describe and evaluate the Indian Boarding Schools system and relate them to the information found in chapter 11 (p. 365-381) of First Americans. (Reading for Module 6 in addition to any additional reading, lecture and/or film material provided by the instructor.)

The following quotes are from Henry Ward Beecher and Sitting Bull. Conduct simple internet research to learn about these men.

“The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.”

Henry Ward Beecher

 “If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other and different desires. Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary, that eagles should be crows.”

Sitting Bull (Teton Sioux)

Then read the following quotes carefully and relate each quote to the mission and activities of the Indian boarding schools. In your answer be sure to discuss how Henry Ward Beecher and Sitting Bull’s beliefs and life experiences might have prompted them to issue these quotes.

Format:

1. This should be between 5 – 7 pages
2. Arial, double spaced and 12-point font
3. Completely document all sources used in the text
4. References cited page
5. Turnitin.com percent of match should be below 20%

State and describe three manufacturing cost terms.

State and describe three manufacturing cost terms. Provide an example of each term in your own words. Based on your reading and outside research, please communicate your own understanding of the requirements. Citations and references are required.

Requirements: 250 Words

Evaluate ways in which quality has improved or not improved since 2010.

Complete a 3-5 page assessment template analyzing the impacts of The Affordable Care Act on the health care ecosystem we inhabit today and the related significance of one other health care initiative enacted since 2010.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or ACA) was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010. The ACA attempts to increase access to care, reduce cost, and improve quality. Nearly 50 different reform initiatives will be implemented between 2010 and 2017. Although primary care is a major focus of the act, these additional initiatives are focused on 10 different areas, including public health, prevention of disease, community health, and increasing revenue provisions to pay for the reform (Niles, 2021). The law has been controversial due to the mandate that all people in the United States must purchase health insurance. The future is still uncertain for the ACA.

The U.S. government plays a significant role in the operation of the country’s health care system. Quality, access, funding, education, and preventative services are all influenced by the U.S. government (Niles, 2021), and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has further increased the role and involvement of the government in health care. All health care administrators must be knowledgeable on the role of the government. Numerous governmental organizations exist, such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Office of the Surgeon General to name a few. Each organization exists for a specific purpose and has a specific mission. Your role as an administrator will be to understand the scope of these agencies and to help your organization meet or exceed the governmental mandates imposed by each.

As leaders in our field, it is our responsibility to stay on top of current issues and laws and to be visionaries for our organizations. Subscribing to email bulletins and alerts from the various governmental agencies is one way to stay abreast of changing regulations. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, HHS.gov, and Healthcare.gov are excellent resources that all administrators should check on a regular basis. The government, technology, and the changing financial landscape will all continue to impact and change the health care industry (Niles, 2021), and as health care administrators, we must be prepared to quickly respond.

REFERENCE

Niles, N. J. (2021). Basics of the U.S. health care system (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

The U.S. health care system was impacted significantly in 2010 by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Although the ACA improved access to health care, it emphasized the need for policies that increase funding and to streamline enrollment. Since the implementation of the ACA, newer reform policies and initiatives such as the Hospital Quality Initiative (2012), the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) (2015), the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), and the American Rescue Plan Act (2021) have increased quality initiatives through regulatory laws. In this assessment, you will review the Affordable Care Act and other more recent initiatives to understand the significance of quality evolution.

Reference

Niles, N. J. (2021). Basics of the U.S. health care system (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

INSTRUCTIONS

Using the Assessment 1 Template [DOCX], analyze the impacts of the ACA on the health care ecosystem we inhabit today. As part of this analysis, discuss the related significance of one other health care initiative enacted since 2010. Select this initiative from a list of the following four historical health care quality milestones:

• The Hospital Quality Initiative (2012).
• The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) (2015).
• The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) (2015).
  • Although MIPS is a component of MACRA, you may choose to focus on it separately.
• The American Rescue Plan Act (2021).

In your assessment template, include the following:

• Title page.
• Introduction.
  • Preview the main themes of your paper.
• Annotated bibliography.
  • Demonstrate research ability by identifying three quality sources supporting the ACA.
  • Demonstrate research ability by identifying three quality sources supporting your chosen focused topic in health care legislation, a regulatory agency, or a quality initiative.
  • Summarize each of the six articles separately to show comprehension of both topics.
  • Include APA citations for each source.
• Draft a summary (1–2 pages) addressing how the ACA and the other topic selected have impacted today’s health care ecosystem.
• Conclusion.
• References.

Note: Your sources for this assessment must be evidence-based research, peer-reviewed journal articles, or reliable primary sources from government or professional organization publications.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Length: Your paper must be a minimum of 3–5 double-spaced pages, not including the title page and References section.
• Font: Times New Roman, 12 point.
• References: Cite and summarize at least six peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles or reliable primary sources from government or professional organization publications.
• Style: Format your paper according to APA style. Refer to Evidence and APA for guidance.

Note: Please review the The Affordable Care Act and Beyond Scoring Guide before you begin the assessment.

The Affordable Care Act and Beyond Scoring Guide

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When it was discovered, why did was the Piltdown Man specimen thought to support the Brain First hypothesis for human evolution?

Thiswritten exam(part 2 of 2)is open book, so you may use the course materials (textbook, lecture

slides etc.) as a reference. However, all your answers must be written in your own words. DO NOT
“cut and paste”, include text written by another student, or work collaboratively with another
student. Doing so would constitute plagiarism and will be prosecuted as such.You are also not
permitted to copy text from your essays in this (or any) course; doing so would be an academic
offense.
Normally, students will be required to submit their course assignments to the University’s plagiarism
detection tool website for a review of textual similarity and detection of possible plagiarism. In doing
so, students will allow their material to be included as source documents in the University’s plagiarism
detection tool reference database, where they will be used solely for the purpose of detecting
plagiarism. The terms that apply to the University’s use of the University’s plagiarism detection tool
service are described on the company web site. Please know that all suspected cases of academic
dishonesty will be investigated following the procedures outlined in the Code of Behaviour on
Academic Matters.
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“We at the University of Toronto want you to feel proud of what you accomplish as students. Please
respect all of the hard work you’ve done this year as you complete the following assessment of your
learning by making sure that the work you do here is your own. We don’t expect you to score perfectly
on this assessment and there will be some things that you may not know. Using an unauthorized
resource or asking someone else for the answer robs you of the chance later to feel proud of how well
you did because you’ll know that it wasn’t really your work that got you there. Success in university
isn’t about getting a certain mark, it’s about becoming the very best person you can by enriching
yourself with knowledge, strengthening yourself with skills, and building a healthy self-esteem based
on how much you’ve grown and achieved. No one assessment captures that but your conscience will
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conducting yourself honestly on this assessment.”
Do not distribute this exam. It must not be uploaded to One Class, Discord, WhatsApp or any other
websites. Doing so would be a copyright violation and will be treated as an offense.

Instructions (read this!!):
The following document contains 12 written answer questions; you will be answering 6 of them.
Please complete your exam in a file that you create in a text editor program (e.g., Word).
It must be uploaded to the relevant Quercus Assignment as either a Word file (.doc, .docx) or a .pdf file.
Please double space your answers, using 12 pt. font (preferably Calibri or Times New Roman) and 1”
margins.

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Ensure that you indicate which question each of your answers pertains to. If you answer more than the
required number of questions in a particular section, only the first question(s) answered for each
section will be graded.
Please save the file using the following naming convention:
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This exam is OPEN BOOK; however, you should not be citing anything directly. You should be speaking
in your own voice. Everything you submit must be your own work!
Although the final exam (part 1 and part 2) is scheduled for 2 hours (from 2:00—4:00 p.m.), I have
given you two extra hours, one each at the beginning and end of the exam. This is in the event that if
anyone should experience technical difficulties (e.g., computer won’t turn on, problem accessing
Quercus), there is extra time to deal with those issues. This is not meant as extra time to be spent
writing the exam. The exam was written to be completed in the 2 hours originally allotted. Exams
handed in after 5:00 p.m. will not be accepted.

Take note of how many marks each question is worth. That should help guide the length of your
answers.

There are three sections to this part of the exam:
In Section 1 you must answer 2 of 4 short answer questions, you may answer in point form (6 points
each)
In Section 2 you must answer 3 of 5 short answer questions, you may answer in point form (4 points
each)
In Section 3 you must answer 1 of 3 short answer questions, you may answer in point form (8 points
each)


GOOD LUCK!

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SECTION 1:
Answer 2 of the four questions below for a total of 12 points (6 points each). Please indicate which
question you are answering. The questions in this section may be answered in point form.

SA1.1. Male-male competition and female choice are both examples of what evolutionary
mechanism? Explain both of these terms, making clear how they differ. Provide one example of a
behaviour for each

SA1.2. You are doing fieldwork in Chad in deposits that date to 6 million years old. You discover a
partial skeleton that includes a complete skull, most of a pelvis, and the distal (knee) end of a femur.
What features would you look for on these fossils to determine if this specimen was bipedal? Detail
three features and provide a brief description of why each feature could indicate bipedalism.

SA1.3. You have been hired as an archaeologist to work on an excavation in Turkey. One of your tasks
is to study the faunal assemblage for evidence of domestication. On your very first day at the site, you
uncover the complete skull of a mammal. To determine whether this mammal was domesticated or
not, what three morphological features would you look for and why?

SA1.4. What does the “Clovis First” hypothesis state? What is one major problem with this
hypothesis? Describe the material cultural evidence from one archaeological site discussed in lecture
and explain why it provides evidence contrary to the “Clovis First” hypothesis.


SECTION 2:
You must answer 3 of the following five questions for a total of 12 points (4 points each). Please
indicate which question you are answering. The questions in this section may be answered in point
form.
SA2.1. Using your knowledge of the skeletal features of Homo sapiens and Neandertals, explain 2
morphological differences AND 2 morphological similarities they share.

SA2.2. You are a horse breeder, and you have bred together two black horses. Surprisingly, their
offspring all have brown coats! If coat colour acts as a Mendelian (single gene) trait with only 2
possible alleles, what was the genotype of the black-coated parents? What was the genotype of the
brown-coated offspring? If you wanted to be sure to get a brown horse, what coat-colour should the
parents have? Without doing genetic testing, could you ever be sure of getting a horse with a black
coat?

SA2.3. There are two early hypotheses for human evolution: Brain First and Bipedalism First. Explain
what they mean. When it was discovered, why did was the Piltdown Man specimen thought to
support the Brain First hypothesis for human evolution? Based on our knowledge of the fossil record
today, which hypothesis is best supported: Brain First or Bipedalism first?

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SA2.4. Is there any scientific support for the racial categorization of modern humans? Why or why
not? What are 3 factors that influence human variation?

SA2.5. You are a primatologist working in the tropical forest in Costa Rica. You encounter a member of
an entirely new species of mammal. How exciting! You observe that it is an arboreal, equatorial
mammal, and you have seen it eating some fruit. Using information just from the one individual
observed at one point in time, describe TWO sets of anatomical features you would observe to
determine if it is in fact a primate


SECTION 3:
You must answer 1 of the following three questions for a total of 8 points. The questions in this
section may be answered in point form. Keep in mind that this does not mean the answers will
necessarily be short.
SA3.1. Who is Selam? How do we know her age and sex? What about her is similar to modern
humans, and what is different?

SA3.2. Discuss two ways in which the use of “race” in modern medical practice is damaging to the
health of Black patients.

SA3.3. In our lecture on the development of agriculture we discussed the health consequences of the
initial move to agriculture, as well as the impact humans have had on the world’s ecosystem by
spreading domesticates far beyond their original source areas. How has colonialism magnified the
impacts of these effects in North America, and what can be gained by learning more about Indigenous
diets?


SECTION 4:
BONUS QUESTION
Is there something that you spent time studying that wasn’t asked on the test? What is it and how
does it work?

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What training and other resources will you require to support the new plan?

Part A – Funding Your Plan and ROI(

1) View the video on Project Economics Basics in this week’s EOP videos and then use the Cost-Benefit Analysis Worksheet to calculate ROI, Payback, and IRR for your strategic initiative. The spreadsheet will calculate these items for you, but you will need to input the data from your analysis and forecasts, including:

• The expected revenue impact for the organization from your plan
• The costs of launching your plan, including:

• Acquisition and/or sale of assets
• Salary expenses including hiring, training or performance bonuses, if applicable
• Manufacturing, marketing, operations overhead, etc.
• Ongoing operating expenses that will be tied to the initiative once it is launched
• Cost savings (if your project is focused on operational improvements)

(2) Review your cost-benefit analysis in the worksheet and briefly answer these questions:

• How will you fund the startup and ongoing costs for your strategic initiative?
• How will your plan improve the organization’s financial health relative to its competitors?
• How does your plan compare to your company’s average (or industry average) profit margins for similar projects or services?
• Why is your proposed plan superior to other options to strengthen the long-term financial health of the organization?
• Provide a summary of how you arrived at your investment, revenue, and cost forecasts.

Important: Attach your completed Cost-Benefit Analysis Worksheet with your initial post.

PART B – Your People Plan

Staffing decisions will likely play a critical role in the successful implementation of your strategic plan. Referencing people management practices you have studied in this program and drawing on your own experience, address the following:

• What changes to team structures and key roles will you need make to execute your strategic initiative? Explain.
• Will the head count/salary costs be net positive, negative, or neutral? Why?
• What training and other resources will you require to support the new plan?
• What is the most critical element of your people plan that you will have to get right for your plan to work? Why?

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write a reflection of the material you’ve learned in the course. What did you like? What could be improved?

1)This is a short week and therefore only the initial post is required.

Review all of the chapter topics we have covered thus far.

Select three topics of interest and note:

• What you learned about the topic
• Why you selected the topic
• How you will utilize the topic in the future
• Also, write a reflection of the material you’ve learned in the course. What did you like? What could be improved?

Note: You are required to use at least two-peer reviewed sources (besides your textbook) to answer the above questions. 

Identify some cases of violations of user privacy from current literature and their impact on data science as a profession.

Complete the following assignment in one MS word document:

Chapter 14–discussion question #1, #3, #4 & exercise 2

1. Some say that analytics in general dehumanize manage- rial activities, and others say they do not. Discuss argu- ments for both points of view.
2. 3. What are some of the major privacy concerns in employ- ing intelligent systems on mobile data?
3. 4. Identify some cases of violations of user privacy from current literature and their impact on data science as a profession.

exercise 2

1. 2.Search the Internet to find examples of how intelligent systems can facilitate activities such as empowerment, mass customization, and teamwork.