...the horizon that is effecting the health care system. There is quality of health care, continuous rising of health care, and the developing of electronic medical records transparency. The impact of health care involves a selected choice of rules to Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that the Senate-passed health insurance reform bill. Health care reform indicates health care industries must do more with less if they want to keep competive. In addition, this means health care industries need to become incredibly effective (Cleverly, W. O., Song, P. H., & Cleverly, J. O., 2011). On February 17, 2009, According the the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Act The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act authorizes the Centers to provide reimbursement incentive for physicians, hospitals, and providers who are successful in becoming meaningful users of an electronic health care records(Cleverly, W. O., Song, P. H., & Cleverly, J. O., 2011). However, not all hospitals have a extensive electronic-record system. Fighting against cause the electronic health record can be assessed by all providers within a network this can cause patient care more effectively. There have been worries over the Health Insurance Affordable Care considerations regarding safety is another...
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...Assignment Report University of Wolverhampton Business Management University of Wolverhampton Business Management Applied Strategic Marketing – 6MK002 Group Report Module leader: William Mott Team O Student Names / Numbers - Kamran Ditta (1008999) Bhavneet Kalsi (0910613) Beverley Knibbs (0921999) Audrey Whyte (0921994) Xianzhi Deng (1122635) 30/03/12 Content Page Page Numbers 1.0 Introduction…………………………………………………………………… 3 2.0 Segmentation ………………………………………………………………… 4-5 2.1 Perceptual Map………………………………………………………….. 6-7 3.0 Portfolio Analysis……………………………………………………………… 8-11 4.0 Completive Analysis…………………………………………………………….. 12-13 5.0 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………… 14 6.0 References……………………………………………………………………… 15 7.0 Appendix’s ……………………………………………………………………… 16 7.1 Appendix 1 ………………………………………………………………… 17 7.2 Appendix 1.1……………………………………………………………… 18 7.3 Appendix 2……………………………………………………………….. 19-24 7.4 Appendix 3…………………………………………………………………. 25-28 7.5 Appendix 3.1………………………………………………………………… 29 7.8 Appendix 4………………………………………………………………… 30-31 7...
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...Variance Analysis Blake Richardson Grand Canyon University HCA-240 March 16, 2013 Variance Analysis To really understand this paper, one should understand what variance analysis does for the entity. Variance analysis is the process of examining every variance between what is actual and budgeted or expected and standard cost to develop reasons as to why the budgeted results were not met. In hospitals, there are many different factors that a financial manager should consider before submitting a variance report to the vice president of the entity. These factors can include staff receiving too much overtime, hired too many staff members for the increase in patients, and maybe even one of the staff members forgot to scan in all of the equipment. Once the problem is recognized and determined it is sent up the chain of command, where the variance reports are interpreted and the expected results are given. In this setting, there could be quite a few factors that had potentially created higher salaries and lower supplies. To determine this we need to look at the changes in input prices, productivity and the changes in departmental volume. (Cleverley, Song, & Cleverley, 2011, p. 386) For a manager to be able to determine this they should first recognize the problem, determine the cause, and then correct the problem. Looking at the efficiency cost, we can determine how long it has been going on for, the loss per time unit, and if the problem is correctable. Once the...
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...Leslie M. Rogakis HCA 240-0500 03/29/2015 Professor Tirizia York Variance Analysis A variable department manager has many factors to consider when interpreting and analyzing a variance report. Variances can be attributed to factors such as increased or decreased volume, wage increases, cost increases for equipment and cost increases for supplies. Variance reports are a tool that can be utilized to analyze how well a company is doing with meeting current budgetary goals as well as a means for forecasting information for future budgets. In preparing a variance analysis report to be presented to the vice president, the information needs to be simple enough to understand easily, but detailed enough for the information to be useful to the person reading the report. To ensure a well-rounded variance report it should include information such as budgeted values, the actual values for the specific term as well as the overall variance. This paper will explain the relationships between variance reporting, interpreting or analyzing variance report results, and actual results of performance. A variance report is a valuable tool used to analyze a company’s or a specific department’s performance in a given period. When variances in wages occur, there are several factors that could have contributed to that variance. Such factors include higher than expected patients admittance, longer than average patient days and possibly wage increases awarded to staff. An additional factor could...
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...understanding the statistics behind these relationships can contribute to numerous problems in music information retrieval and creativity support. In this paper, we present the results of an observational study on a large symbolic database of popular music; our results identify several patterns in the relationship between lyrics and melody. 1. INTRODUCTION Popular music uses several streams of information to create an emotionally engaging experience for the listener. Lyrics, melody, chords, dynamics, instrumentation, and other aspects of a song operate in tandem to produce a compelling musical percept. Extensive previous work has explored each of these elements in isolation, and certain relationships among these components – for example, the relationship between melody and chords – have also been addressed in the research community. However, despite their salience and central role in music cognition, lyrics have not been addressed by computational analysis to the same degree as other aspects of popular music. In this study, we examine the relationship between lyrics and melody in popular music. Specifically, we investigate the assumption that songwriters tend to align low-level features of a song’s text with musical features. Composer Stephen Sondheim, for example, has commented that he selects rhythms in music to match the natural inflections of speech [1], and popular books on songwriting suggest considering the...
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...correspondence seeking reparations for musical instruments damaged by United Airlines employees stalemated, Canadian musician Dave Carroll took action online. Utilizing the video-sharing Web site YouTube, Carroll narrated his ordeal went viral generating a torrent of negative YouTube comments about United, commentary from the mainstream media, and more than 3 million views the first week of its launch. United Breaks Guitars embodies the new phenomenon of a social media wildfire in which the rapid proliferation of information through social media causes severe reputational damage to organizations whose crisis communication plans are ill equipped to handle online dilemmas. CO iii PY Using symbolic interactionist theory, this case analysis explores the phenomenon in detail and provides suggestions for how organizations must re-evaluate existing crisis communication plans to respond effectively to an online audience in the billions. RI G H through the lyrics of a music video entitled United Breaks Guitars. Within hours, the video TE D TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION AND PROBLEM...
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...Personalized Optimization for Android Smartphones WOOK SONG, YESEONG KIM, HAKBONG KIM, JEHUN LIM, and JIHONG KIM, Seoul National University As a highly personalized computing device, smartphones present a unique new opportunity for system optimization. For example, it is widely observed that a smartphone user exhibits very regular application usage patterns (although different users are quite different in their usage patterns). User-specific high-level app usage information, when properly managed, can provide valuable hints for optimizing various system design requirements. In this article, we describe the design and implementation of a personalized optimization framework for the Android platform that takes advantage of user’s application usage patterns in optimizing the performance of the Android platform. Our optimization framework consists of two main components, the application usage modeling module and the usage model-based optimization module. We have developed two novel application usage models that correctly capture typical smartphone user’s application usage patterns. Based on the application usage models, we have implemented an app-launching experience optimization technique which tries to minimize user-perceived delays, extra energy consumption, and state loss when a user launches apps. Our experimental results on the Nexus S Android reference phones show that our proposed optimization technique can avoid unnecessary application restarts by up to 78.4% over the default...
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...Directions for Essay Two Step One: Understand the Assignment Before writing the essay, read the following documents in “Resources for Writing Assignments” in the course Content: How to Write a Literary Analysis Instructions for Doing Research Rubric for Grading Essays Guidelines for Using MLA Style Example of a Works Cited Page Sample Student Essays A Word of Caution: if you do not read/ understand the documents listed above, you will not fully understand the assignment and may not make a passing grade. Many of you did not read all of these instructions for Paper One. Step Two: Understand the Requirements (see Rubric for Grading Essays) Each Essay is required to have/contain the following: 3 – 4 typed pages, not counting Works Cited page Times New Roman, 12 point font A Works Cited page, even if only a primary source is used A critical argument, a thesis, based on one of the questions provided (see questions in Step Three) Essay’s thesis is supported with quotes/examples from the primary source; remember to always introduce quotes and then explain them after you have correctly cited them. Put your quotes into context for the reader. Essay’s thesis is supported with at least one secondary source – more than one source is not required, but strongly encouraged. However, do NOT use unreliable online sources, such as Wikipedia or Sparknotes Logical organization that flows, using clear transitions between sentences and paragraphs Grammatically/mechanically...
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...appropriately. There are rules that accounting agencies have to be followed while assessing an organization's financial history. There are many accounting principles implemented to make certain the books are balanced legally. The health care field consists of many aspects that depend on funding for sufficient health care. Ernst and Young (2012) states cost management decisions have to depend on financial and clinical leadership. Accepted accounting principles (GAAP) are the common set of accounting principles, standards, and procedures that companies use to compile their financial statements. This paper includes accounting principles, such as entity concept, money measurement, duality, cost valuation, and stable monetary unit (Cleverley, Song, & Cleverley, 2011) which are pertinent to health care practice. Accounting Entity According to Finkler, Kovner, and Jones (2007) states the accounting entity has to be concise and clear to be certain financial information is beneficial. Financial reports have to include specific objects in a health care organization. Specific entities in accounting will ensure objective and reasonable aspects of profitability. A business has to execute a need and remain profitable. There has to be a generation of revenue from a business to meet expenses and recover profit. Organizations have to pay close attention to legal entities that will generate conflict in profits. Each entity has to be appropriately defined to...
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...Paper, April 2015. (Revise and resubmit to Journal of Accounting and Economics.) Gow, Ian D., Sa-Pyung Sean Shin, and Suraj Srinivasan. “Activist Directors: Determinants and Consequences.” HBS Working Paper 14-120, June 2014. Gow, Ian D., Sa-Pyung Sean Shin, and Suraj Srinivasan. “Consequences to Directors of Shareholder Activism.” HBS Working Paper 14-071, February 2014. Ioannou, Ioannis, Shelley Xin Li, and George Serafeim. “The Effect of Target Difficulty and Incentives on Target Completion: The Case of Reducing Carbon Emissions.” HBS Working Paper 13-043, November 2012. (Revised August 2014.) Khan, Mozaffar N., George Serafeim, and Aaron Yoon . “Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence H ARVA R D BU SI N ESS SCH OO L D O C T O R A L P R O G R A M S on Materiality.” HBS Working Paper 15-073, March 2015. Li, Shelley Xin. “Boss, Cut Me Some Slack So That I Can Innovate—Relaxing Time Constraints on Execution...
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...fill it the needed area with different colors. Please follow the example below. (Check the pictures of the composers and their hometowns in all the units.) Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Music Page 1 MUSIC LEARNER’S MATERIAL GRADE 9 Unit 1 Time allotment: 8 hours LEARNING AREA STANDARD The learner demonstrates an understanding of basic concepts and processes in music and art through appreciation, analysis and performance for his/her self-development, celebration of his/her Filipino cultural identity and diversity, and expansion of his/her world vision. key - stage STANDARD The learner demonstrates understanding of salient features of music and art of the Philippines and the world, through appreciation, analysis, and performance, for self-development, the celebration of Filipino cultural identity and diversity, and the expansion of one’s world vision. grade level STANDARD The learner demonstrates understanding of salient features of Western music and the arts from different historical periods, through appreciation, analysis, and performance for self-development, the celebration of Filipino cultural identity and diversity, and the expansion of one’s world vision. CONTENT STANDARD The learner demonstrates...
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...Research Methodology: An example in a Real Project Noel Pérez Laboratory of Optics and Experimental Mechanics, Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão Industrial. nperez@inegi.up.pt Abstract. The research methodology defines what the activity of research is, how to proceed, how to measure progress, and what constitutes success. It provides us an advancement of wealth of human knowledge, tools of the trade to carry out research, tools to look at things in life objectively; develops a critical and scientific attitude, disciplined thinking to observe objectively (scientific deduction and inductive thinking); skills of research particularly in the ‘age of information’. Also it defines the way in which the data are collected in a research project. In this paper it presents two components of the research methodology from a real project; the theorical design and framework respectively. Keywords: Research methodology, example of research methodology, theorical framework, theorical design. 1 Introduction The research methodology defines what the activity of research is, how to proceed, how to measure progress, and what constitutes success. It provides us an advancement of wealth of human knowledge, tools of the trade to carry out research, tools to look at things in life objectively; develops a critical and scientific attitude, disciplined thinking to observe objectively (scientific deduction and inductive thinking); skills of research particularly in the ‘age of information’. The...
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...equations ´ ´ OPTIMIZACION DE LA SACARIFICACION ENZIMATICA DE PAJA DE TRIGO EN ´ ´ (Desarrollo y aplicación las ecuaciones de Stefan-Maxwell) MICROESCALA A TRAVESdeDE LA METODOLOGIA DE SUPERFICIE DE Stephen Whitaker RESPUESTA C. Molina1∗ , A. S´ nchez2 , A. Seraf´n-Mu˜ oz3 y J. Folch-Mallol4 a ı n de Guanajuato - Guanajuato, Depto. de Ingenier´a Qu´mica, Noria Alta s/n, 36050 Guanajuato, ı ı 245 Modelado de la biodegradaciónGto., M´ xico. lodos de hidrocarburos totales del petróleo en biorreactores de e 2 Centro de Investigaci´ n y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Unidad de Ingenier´a Avanzada. Av. del Bosque 1145, o intemperizados en suelos y sedimentos ı Colonia el Baj´o, Zapopan, 45019, Jalisco, M´ xico. ı e (Biodegradation modeling of sludge bioreactors of total petroleum hydrocarbons weathering in soil 3 Universidad de Guanajuato - Guanajuato, Depto. de Ingenier´a Ambiental, Av. Ju´ rez 77, Zona Centro, 36000, ı a and sediments) Guanajuato, Gto., M´ xico. e S.A. Medina-Moreno, S. Huerta-Ochoa, L. 4 Universidad Aut´ noma del Estado de Morelos, CentroC.A. Lucho-Constantino, enAguilera-Vázquez,ıA. Jiménezo de Investigaci´ n Biotecnolog´a, Cuernavaca, Morelos, o González y M. Gutiérrez-Rojas M´ xico. e 259 Crecimiento, sobrevivencia y adaptación de Bifidobacterium infantis a condiciones ácidas Received October 31, 2013; Accepted July 2, 2014 1 Universidad Biotecnología / Biotechnology (Growth, survival and adaptation of Bifidobacterium...
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...Mridul Agarwal Introduction to World Music Research paper Simply clad in a plain saree with her hair in plaits, the 'Nightingale of India' serves as an inspiration to many. She has been in the music industry since the age of 13 and has sung over 28,000 songs in the past decades. Through her hard work and determination, she has proved that every goal, every dream is achievable. She featured in the Guinness book of world records for having made the most recordings for about 16 years (1974 to 1991). She has also received the Bharat Ratna award which is one of the most prestigious award from the Indian government. She is the fifth woman to receive the award ever, after Indira Gandhi and Mother Teresa (The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of women’s biography, 2005). This paper will henceforth speak about the inspiration and impact that Lata Mangeshkar has had on the entire music industry, making her an unperishable idol in the minds of the Indian public. She was born in a Marathi speaking family, her father was a well renowned theatre actor who used to perform musical plays and was an exceptional Hindustani classical vocalist. Lataji trained with her father in the early stages of her life and became a part of her father’s musical play since she was five years old. She, defined as ‘devi’ (goddess) by everyone in the country is so polite and humble towards her singing that her singing became a sensation and for a lady in the early 40’s and 50’s it’s unusual to have an ambition to...
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...Variance Analysis A manager of a variable hospital department has many responsibilities. The manager is accountable for budgeting and to protect profits. The financial manager is responsible for guarding overspending and generating profits. They are active in the budgeting process throughout the fiscal year. The budget department manager communicates with other managers, and accounting departments concerning budget issues, financing, and concerns in the organizations departments. Sometimes situations occur whereas payroll salaries are high and supplies are lower than planned and budgeted. The budget manager is responsible for providing feedback about finances, revenue, and any potential variances in the budgeted costs. This essay will be based on a scenario of salaries that were higher and supplies lower than initially budgeted. This paper will explore variances in the scenario mentioned earlier, and explain the relationship between variance reporting, interpreting variance reporting results, and the results of performance within a health care organization. The hospital variable department has experience a case in which employee salaries are higher than budgeted, while the supplies are lower than initially budgeted. This is the result of an epidemic of asthma patients who were admitted to the hospital over the last three months. The hospital approved overtime to assist in the growing number of patients and to accommodate their needs. In the process of caring for patients more...
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