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Health care CIOs need to be keenly aware of HIPAA and JCAHO? In four to five pages, describe what each one is and how CIOs are impacted by them.

Provide two current examples of HCOs that have violated a HIPAA Privacy Rule. Summarize how the violation occurred and how it could have been avoided. Look for case studies, or you can also cover an example that you may know of in your work history. To conduct your research, you are free to use textbooks, journals and/or personal experiences. You need a cover page, table of contents, and a reference page formatted in APA Style 6th ed. You will need at least four references.

1. What are Professor Zhang’s expectations of America? Where do you think these expectations come from? How do these expectations compare with the reality of her experiences upon arrival in the US? Based on her expectations and experiences, what messages are the essay saying about her and the educated elite in China?
2. How do you think China is usually perceived by Americans? Where do you think these perceptions come from? How realistic are these perceptions? Are these expectations about the rural or urban settings in China? How should the comparisons be made? Some factors you should consider should include class, time, and social construct.
3. Compare and contrast the images portrayed here about Professor Zhang with that of the other essays we have read. Identify specific passages from the readings to show how the writer represents this image. How do these images measure up to the first article we read about Chinese women? To what extent is Professor Zhang representative of women in China?
latimes.com/news/local/la-me-culture-clash-20100622,0,6268455.story
Culture clash in a Claremont center that integrates Eastern and Western thought
The China Project at Claremont’s Center for Process Studies draws Chinese scholars to America, but the center, and American culture, can be a surprise for them.
Ching-Ching Ni
June 22, 2010

Xiuhua Zhang prepares a traditional Chinese meal. She is a professor of Marxist theory and Western philosophy in Beijing. Her host in Claremont is an immigrant from India, Madhuri Bhattacharya. (Irfan Khan, Los Angeles Times / April 14, 2010)
For years the China Project at the Center for Process Studies in Claremont was known in Chinese as an institute. So the steady stream of Chinese scholars who came to study there arrived with certain expectations.
In China, after all, an institute is by definition an impressive place — not a single room below ground level.
“The institute is so well known in our field I had imagined that it would at least be in a big fancy building,” said Xiuhua Zhang, a professor of Marxist theory and Western philosophy at Beijing’s prestigious China University of Political Science and Law, who spent this year at the center. “I never expected it to be such a tiny place. So many people crowded together in one small office without even dividers. The bookshelves and the desks blend together. And it’s in a basement!”
Noting such reactions, those organizing the scholars’ visits have tried to downgrade assumptions. What once they called in Chinese an “institute,” they now refer to more humbly as a “center.”
But cultural expectations are hard things to pin down. And in fast-growing, ever-more-modern China, they keep changing.
Take Zhang’s other surprise upon arrival at the center, which is located on the campus of Claremont School of Theology. She had been told she would be living with an American host family. She thought blond. She thought rich. She expected lots of children and a pool and many gadgets.
Then she met her host, Madhuri Bhattacharya, 69, an Indian immigrant and a widow living alone in a simple house.
There was no pool, and few modern amenities — fewer, in fact, than she was used to back home. “I even have an HD flat-screen TV at home in Beijing,” Zhang said, surprised that her American host did not.
Few people outside academia are likely to know of the Claremont center, whose focus is on process thought, which sees reality as developmental and in a process of becoming. But the center has celebrity status among some Chinese scholars — who view process theory as a way to integrate the best of Eastern and Western thinking to create a model for China’s development.
Zhihe Wang is the founder of the China Project, which occupies a small space within the cramped Process Center. He and his wife Meijun Fan almost singlehandedly put process theory on the map in China and have brought hundreds of officials and scholars to Claremont for conferences and exchanges over the last decade. Originally from China, they both understand how jarring the visits can be.
In fact, Wang understands so well what visitors must be thinking that he’s sometimes tempted to pretend that the theology school’s stately auditorium, just above the center, is part of “the institute,” too.
“You know, Chinese people can’t believe such big ideas can come from this small place,” Wang said. “I must remind them of the Chinese saying that it’s not the size of the mountain that matters but the stature of the monk who resides within.”
The “monk” of greatest stature at the Process Center is its founding co-director, John Cobb, 85 — Chinese scholars usually can’t wait to meet him. But, in person, he hardly fits their image of a distinguished thinker. They are shocked to find that he lives not in a big home with servants but in a small one-bedroom apartment in a Christian retirement community, where he takes care of his elderly wife.
Chinese visitors watch in disbelief as he bends down to tie his wife’s shoelaces. They are stunned when they visit him at home and he leaves the lights off in the living room to conserve energy.
“My first impression was he is living the life of a real communist,” said Yiyu Liu, 27, a graduate student from Beijing Normal University. “My generation grew up in a material world. All we care about is name brands. To see a Westerner with his stature live like that and care about what I have to say, it was a shock.”
Most of the Chinese scholars who visit these days say they are used to more material luxury back home.
“You have to understand I come from a big city. Beijing is a metropolis and Claremont is a small village,” said Zhang. “In Beijing, I live well and eat well. I can hail a taxi and go anywhere and buy anything I need. Here, I don’t have a car and I am always hungry as a wolf.”
Food is the source of some of the major moments of cultural confusion, admits Wang.
“In the U.S. even the best dinners consist of an appetizer, a main course and dessert, but in China that would not be enough,” he said. “During a banquet the food has to flow and there has to be at least a dozen dishes or so.”
There must also be meat.
Once, a Chinese scholar was invited to the home of another process theory professor, who happened to be a vegetarian. The scholar was served what he described as “barbecue roots” — roasted vegetables, including carrots and potatoes.
“Our Chinese scholar took a couple of symbolic bites, put the food down and didn’t touch it again,” said Wang. “It was so embarrassing. The professor is such a prominent figure. He served what he thought was quality food.”
Wang said he chided the visiting scholar a bit: “We told him he should have made more of an effort.”
Even Wang and his wife Fan — who believe they understand Chinese expectations — have disappointed the visitors, he said. Once they invited Chinese students home for pasta, to show them the sort of food Americans eat.
“They didn’t tell me in person, but when they went back to China they told people they had no idea we lived such impoverished lives in America,” said Fan. “But my husband likes to say: if you watch American movies, you’d know even the Mafia eat pasta when they get together.”
These days, she says, she thinks Chinese visitors subconsciously feel superior to — not awed by —Americans.
“They feel like the American economy is in the tank and the Chinese have a higher GDP and fewer debts,” Fan said. “But what we try to teach them is that there are different lifestyles here in America. Not everyone lives lavishly like they do in Hollywood movies.”
chingching.ni@latimes.com
Copyright © 2010, The Los Angeles Times

 

After reading ”Utilitarianism” by john Stuart Mill and the module readings from The Fundamental of 5
Ethics, compose an essay answering the following question: What is utilitarianism? Explain what might
be thought of as the ”Swine Objection.” How does Mill respond to the objection? Do you think his
response is adequate?

 

Marketing
PLEASE see worksheet for the assignment along with instructions attached. All work is to be completed on worksheet

 

Part 1: Identify a specific organization that exemplifies having a Marketing Strategy (Big M) mindset. Provide specific evidence of how the organization legitimately satisfies at least 3 of the 5 action elements required for successful Marketing (Big M). You may use an organization you work for, providing evidence from your own experience, or you can use a different organization, using information you find online.
The class textbook discusses these action elements and the difference between Marketing (Big M) and marketing (little M) on pages 17-19.

Part 2: Provide evidence that the organization you identified in part 1 is having success, at least in part, because of its marketing strategy. Possible pieces of evidence you might cite include (but are not limited to):
• The organization’s financial or stock performance relative to a close competitor (possibly found on a finance-related website),
• Growth in its net profits over recent years (possibly found in the 10K report of public organization),
• High consumer preference relative to competitors (possibly found via Consumer Reports or other such 3rd-party source)
• Market share growth (possibly found in an annual report or internal records if you report on an organization for which you work).
Writing Assignment1 (15 points)
MKTG 601

Module 1 learning objectives:
1. Identify factors influencing marketing strategy and planning.
2. Evaluate marketing’s value to an organization.

This module’s two learning objectives help you work towards achieving two of the Course Learning Objectives:

1. Describe marketing concepts, frameworks, and methods related to organizational decision making.
2. Evaluate how strategic marketing decisions influence organizational performance.

Purpose of the assignment:
This assignment is designed to improve your ability to describe some key elements of marketing strategy (Big M) and evaluate how those elements influence an organization’s effectiveness.
What to do:Answer each of these questions
Part 1:Identify a specific organization that exemplifies having a Marketing Strategy (Big M) mindset. Provide specific evidence of how the organization legitimately satisfies at least 3 of the 5 action elements required for successful Marketing (Big M). You may use an organization you work for, providing evidence from your own experience, or you can use a different organization, using information you find online.
The class textbook discusses these action elements and the difference between Marketing (Big M) and marketing (little M) on pages 17-19.
Part 2: Provide evidence that the organization you identified in part 1 is having success, at least in part, because of its marketing strategy. Possible pieces of evidence you might cite include (but are not limited to):
• The organization’s financial or stock performance relative to a close competitor (possibly found on a finance-related website),
• Growth in its net profits over recent years (possibly found in the 10K report of public organization),
• High consumer preference relative to competitors (possibly found via Consumer Reports or other such 3rd-party source)
• Market share growth (possibly found in an annual report or internal records if you report on an organization for which you work).
Formatting Guidelines.
Please type your answers into the Writing Assignment 1Worksheet, provided in Class Module 1.

Table 1: Writing Assignment 1 Rubric
Poor Acceptable Excellent
Formatting 0 Points
Some formatting guidelines are not followed and/or the submitted work is not uploaded using the Assignment 1 Worksheet. 2 Points
Assignment 1 Worksheet is uploaded and the formatting guidelines are followed.

Part 1 0 Points
Either 1 or 0 pieces of evidence are provided,

OR, Only 1 or 0 pieces of evidence properly represent the criteria for which it is listed. 6 Points
2 pieces of evidence are provide, and each piece of evidence properly represents the criteria for which it is listed.

Or, 3 pieces of evidence are provide, but at least one does not properly represent the criteria for which it is listed.

9 Points
At least 3 pieces of evidence are provide, and each piece of evidence properly represents the criteria for which it is listed.

Part 2 0 Points
The answer fails to provide a legitimate piece of information supporting the claim that the organization is having success.

4 Points
The answer provides a legitimate piece of information supporting the claim that the organization is having success.

 

Writing Assignment 1Worksheet

Name (please type your name):
Instructions Type your answers into this worksheet and upload your completed worksheet to the “Submit Writing Assignment 1” link in Class Module 1. Please type your answers in a non-bold font following each respective portion of the assignment, outlined below. This worksheet provides headings, in bold, to help you organize your answers. Please keep these headings in bold.

Part 1: Elements of Marketing Strategy (Big M)
1. Name of the organization that exemplifies Big M:

2. List of (at least) three legitimate pieces of evidence that the organization satisfies elements required for successful Marketing (Big M).
Evidence that…
1. People throughout the organization have a customer orientation:

 

2. Internal processes and systems aligned around the customer:

 

3. CEO or other top leader is a champion of Marketing (Big M):

 

4. Concern for the customer is present across departments:

 

5. The company pursues market-driving (not just market-driven) strategies:

Part 2: Marketing Strategy’s (Big M) Influence on Organizational Effectiveness

Evidence that the organization you identified in part 1 is having success, at least in part, because of its marketing strategy.

Discuss the conflicts or contradictions within the ethical code of the Iliad. What does the code require of both men and women that leads

them to impossible choices or doomed lives.

Use one or two characters to illustrate the argument. Paper should present a clear and interconnected set of points and observations to

form an argument that is a response to the prompt, or a particular aspect of the prompt. The argument should persuade a reader through

judicious use of passages from the texts as evidence for the interpretation. Construct arguments that are nuanced, incorporate a many

aspects of the prompt as possible. It should not be vulnerable to obvious counter arguments. No outside sources needed.

Text of Iliad used was “Homer The Essential Iliad” Translated and edited by Stanley Lombardo.

When citing sections of the text use the book line numbers from the Lombardo edition ex: (Iliad 1. 212-43)

The essay topics are given below. Your essays should reflect your understanding of the topics, not the viewpoint of a scholar / author /

expert. Base your answers on your own observation, knowledge, and understanding, not on research.

Essay 1 Topic:

Identify and describe the characteristics of artistic style of the Italian Renaissance. Begin by identifying a number of characteristics of

style that can be applied to the majority of art from this culture / period, then describe each characteristic, and finally give example(s) of

each characteristic from the Italian Renaissance art we’ve studied.

You will discuss all the research questions and compare and contrast to the literatures/studies.
Technique: present the summary of result per research question; then cite at least 2-3 researches/studies that maybe be similar or different to

the results of your study; then last have your own analysis based on comparing or contrasting. do this in all the research questions.
2-chapter of Conclusion, Recommendation, Limitation, and Summary in 3 pages accorrding to following instruction: In Summary This chapter

presents….. Just mention briefly all the research questions .At least one sentence per each finding for all research questions.
Then ,Conclusion ..Only present the inferential part
Limitations ,Present based on your discussion what limits you- e.g. generalizability of the study? Applicable to a bigger population?
Recommendations in following :
o Hospital Administration
o Nursing Administration
o Nursing Education
o Nursing Practice
o Nursing Research

Document summarization is the technique of identifying and extracting important information from text documents. The output of the document

summarization is usually significantly smaller than original document and is not longer than half of the original document under any circumstances.

In this assignment you are required to do the following tasks:

1. Summarization Algorithms: Discuss at least three document summarization technique.

2. Implementation of summarization algorithm: Implement one of the document summarization techniques using Perl, Java or Python. Optionally you can

use automatic summarization tool such as Mead [http://www.summarization.com/mead/]

3. Results: Rate the summarization of text produced by program/tool. Present the summarization
results.

Report Guideline:

A “standard” experimental AI paper consists of the following sections:

1. Introduction
Motivate and abstractly describe the problem you are addressing and how you are addressing it. What is the
problem? Why is it important? What is your basic approach? A short discussion of how it fits into related
work in the area is also desirable. Summarize the basic results and conclusions that you will present.
2. Problem Definition and Algorithm
2.1 Task Definition
Precisely define the problem you are addressing (i.e. formally specify the inputs and outputs). Elaborate on
why this is an interesting and important problem. Include a simple specific example, providing the I/O
showing how the output is related to the input specifying the desired/achieved properties of the output
illustrating the basic terms used.

2.2 Algorithm Definition
Describe in reasonable detail the algorithm (rules) you are using to address this problem. A pseudo-code
description of the algorithm you are using is frequently useful. Trace through a concrete example, showing
how your algorithm processes this example. The example should be complex enough to illustrate all of the
important aspects of the problem but simple enough to be easily understood. If possible, an intuitively
meaningful example is better than one with meaningless symbols.

3. Experimental Evaluation
3.1 Methodology
What are criteria you are using to evaluate your method? What specific hypotheses does your experiment
test? Describe the experimental methodology that you used. What are the dependent and independent
variables? What is the training/test data that was used, and why is it realistic or interesting? Exactly what
performance data did you collect and how are you presenting and analyzing it? Comparisons to competing
methods that address the same problem are particularly useful.
3.2 Results
Present the quantitative results of your experiments. Graphical data presentation such as graphs and
histograms are frequently better than tables. What are the basic differences revealed in the data? Are they
statistically significant?
3.3 Discussion
Is your hypothesis supported? What conclusions do the results support about the strengths and weaknesses
of your method compared to other methods? How can the results, be explained in terms of the underlying
properties of the algorithm and/or the data.

4. Related Work
Answer the following questions for each piece of related work that addresses the same or a similar problem.
What is their problem and method? How is your problem and method different? Why is your problem and
method better?
5. Future Work
What are the major shortcomings of your current method? For each shortcoming, propose additions or
enhancements that would help overcome it.
6. Conclusion
Briefly summarize the important results and conclusions presented in the paper. What are the most
important points illustrated by your work? How will your results improve future research and applications
in the area?
Bibliography & Citations
Be sure to include a standard, well-formatted, comprehensive bibliography with citations from the text
referring to previously published papers in the scientific literature that you utilized or are related to your
work

Please make sure that the writer goes through the details thoroughly as this is a web based AI programming tasks and the requirements need to be

followed exactly.

 

Philosophy
Explain and critically evaluate the rationalist argument that reason is the source of knowledge and that some knowledge is innate. Then compare and

contrast the rationalist view with the empiricist vi

 

Curriculum & Instruction Comprehensive Exam Questions
Amanda Doll
Please read all directions, rubrics, and writing tips in Blackboard before submitting your responses. Submit your responses as ONE Word

document. All responses must be submitted in Blackboard.

You will answer a total of 4 questions. Be sure to label your responses (ex: set A question 3).

SET A
Answer BOTH of the following questions:

1. List and describe what you consider to be the three most critical curriculum issues facing
educational leaders today. Select one of the three that you find most important. Cite peer reviewed professional literature to describe

the historical and philosophical foundation of thatissue. Then propose a solution to that issue supporting your argument with the

professionalliterature. Cite sources (6 minimum) in-text and provide full reference citations, both correctlyformatted using APA.

2. Describe how Web 2.0 tools have impacted your own educational experience in terms ofpromoting creativity, collaboration, and

communication. Provide specific examples of how youhave benefited from these types of tools as a learner, and how you have incorporated

them intoyour own teaching practice to impact your students. Finally, link your own experiences (both asa student and as an

educator/designer) with what you have found in the research literature relatedto Web 2.0 tools. Follow APA writing and formatting

conventions, and cite at least five sourcesin the text of your response and provide their reference citations following your answer.

SET B
Answer TWO of the following questions:
1. List and describe what you consider to be the three most critical professional development needs in education today. Select one of

the three that you find most important. Cite peer reviewed professional literature to describe the historical and philosophical

foundations of that issue. Then propose a solution to that issue supporting your argument with the professional literature. Cite sources

(6 minimum) in-text and provide full reference citations, both correctly formatted using APA.

2. You are the leader of a team of faculty whose challenge is to investigate the low performance of students on the credentialing

exam for your program. Describe the process/steps you and your will follow to improve the passing rate of your students. Support your

discussion with professional literature. Cite sources (4 minimum) in-text and provide full reference citations, both correctly formatted

using APA.

3. Identify and describe the educational philosophy with which you most closely identify. Then explain how your educational

philosophy impacts the development, planning, and delivery of the content that you teach. Support your discussion with professional

literature. Cite sources (4 minimum) in-text and provide full reference citations, both correctly formatted using APA.