Applied Sciences

QUESTION: Major infrastructure projects are impossible to control from a cost time and quality point of view rendering the traditional Quantity Surveyor’s role redundant. Critically analyse this statement and use your analysis to predict how the role will change over the next 20 years. CRITERIA: Format and style of the paper including referencing 10 Marks Description and discussion of the key issues related to the topic (45 Marks) Analysis of the impact on the future role of the Quantity Surveyor (45 Marks)

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:  In this discussion, you will have an opportunity to make connections between your prior knowledge and the new content you are learning this week. Use your results from this week’s “Build Your Proficiency” Diagnostic to provide context for your prior knowledge and consider the new content about fossil fuels and energy resource management to answer the following questions:  What are the sources, uses, and any problems associated with 1) fossil, 2) nuclear, and 3) renewable fuels? How did your results from the “Build Your Proficiency” Diagnostic reflect an understanding, or lack of understanding, about this content? How has your understanding changed this week?

how has Adobe impacted the graphic communication industry today? what is the history of the Adobe cooperation? what specialized software does Adobe offer?

The purpose of this assignment is to make you become more critically aware of musical sounds in your daily life, how they are used, and what is their function. Music is all around us, some of which is fore fronted in our awareness, such as concerts, or practicing a musical instrument, or listening at home to a new song on your iPod; while others are mere background, a kind of sonic wallpaper which we may not even be aware of, such as music playing in a store, or music in commercials, films, or TV shows. In the time of covid-19, the musicscape has gone through a transformation. Concerts have been canceled, audiences have disappeared, rehearsals suspended, live events now broadcast remote via pixel dots. Yet people have found ways to be together musically, whether on the internet or apartment balconies. This musicscape, of course, is part of a more encompassing soundscape, which itself has undergone transformation. Staying at home, for example, seems to have led to a reduction in traffic, thus quieter streets and less pollution, though this is rapidly changing. All of this is material for a well-constructed paper (6-8 double spaced pages) that demonstrates critical thought. The paper must cite at least 3 specific examples from your musicscape and 3 examples from other appropriate sources (newspapers, magazines, media sites, journal articles). Your paper should address the following questions: How is music situated within your particular soundscape? Are there overall patterns? How do particular musical genres relate to specific situations? What were the functions and uses of music (emotional release, to sell a product, enhance a film, worship as a community)? Was most of the music mediated or live, passive or active, or, these days, virtual which is somewhere in between these binaries? What kind of conclusions or statements can be made about the musicscape around you and by extension to the United States? Are there aspects of this musicscape that are unique? Importantly, how has the musicscape changed due to the pandemic? Your paper should engage these types of questions about music-culture explored in Chapter 1 of your text and in class lectures. Your papers must be in 12-point font, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins.

Week 1 Discussion Prompt #1 – Environmental Justice COLLAPSE Provide two examples of environmental justice issues we currently face in our regional and global communities (one from each). What do you think is the most profound underlying reason for environmental justice problems? Suggest a solution ** please cite with scholarly reference and use APA format 7th edtion

1. Define the differences between goals, strategies, and tactics in a campaign. Next, using the example we used yesterday (a campaign to get students more interested/engaged with the COMM department at BSU via social media) provide an example of i) one SMART* objective, ii) a strategy statement (1 sentence), and iii) sample tactics (x2-3). *SMART Objectives are: S=specific M=measureable A=achievable R=realistic T=have a timeline 2. If a primary audience for your ‘campaign’ is BSU COMM students, who could be a secondary audience? And a tertiary audience? 3. For the 2019 Super Bowl, the brand Skittles produced a 30-minute Broadway musical which included a song titled “Advertising Ruins Everything.” What reasons would compel Skittles to include such a song in their branded content? 4. As TopRank pointed out “Facts tell, stories sell” (Odden, 2015). What’s an example you can think of that demonstrates how a story can be effectively used to sell something?

Q1: Review the historical determinants of the modern world and browse the galleries and images of Renaissance art on websites. What role did the invention of linear perspective in art play in helping to create the modern world? What aesthetic components, forms and themes do you observe in the Renaissance paintings and sculptures? Q2: Another historical marker of modernity is the emergence of capitalism and global commerce. As we can see in the images, the invention of linear perspective placed the individual at the center. This helped to create a relationship between the individual viewer and the outside world which became an object to be observed and ultimately controlled. This distinction also reinforces difference and distinction between self and other. How do the art works presented this week reveal relationships of power and inequality, e.g., between male and female, Europeans and colonized peoples? Global trade expanded during the Renaissance. What evidence do we find of trade, commodities and the celebration of moneymaking in Renaissance art? Q3: In the Middle Ages, the Christian religious view of human beings as sinful, fallen creatures who needed the Church to achieve redemption was dominant in European culture. In the Renaissance, how did humanists like Pico della Mirandola reorient the idea of humankind? How does Michelangelo’s famous Sistine Chapel ceiling reflect this view? As printing developed, what role did books, e.g., the Bible, play in giving ordinary people a greater sense of power over their own destinies?

Part 2 The second part of this exam will be a long essay, in great detail, chosen from a list of two essays listed below.    The length of this essay that would fit 2- 4 pages of 8 & 1/2 x 11 inch pieces of paper.  The content of the essay needs to cover all the topics listed in the essay question plus examples to fill out your answer.  And detail means tell me every thing you can based on the lecture notes, the study guide and the text book.  The essay is worth 50 points. Essay choice one:  Knowing what you do about the founding Fathers’ idea of separation of powers and checks and balances, write an essay, in detail, describing how the federal (national) government operates.  Topics must include:  What are the three branches of our government (in detail) ?  How do they cooperate?  How are they in conflict?  How is the conflict resolved?  How is the Senate different from the House?  Do you think this system works well today?  Why/why not? Essay choice two:  Describe the five roles of the President.  Topics must include:  What powers (in detail) are set aside by the Constitution for the President?   How are these roles or powers exercised?   How much can the President do own his or her own and how much must be done in cooperation with Congress?  Who is more powerful today, the President or Congress?  Explain.

Repetition task 5-1: What method would you use to develop the technical strategy draft? Give reasons for your answer.  Repetition Task 5-2: What method could the customer segmentation be based on? Reason. Repetition task 5-3: What method would they use for creating the value network apply? Reason. Repetition task 5-4: How can the quantitative development be planned? Method? Repetition task 5-5: Which method is suitable for creating the technical draft of the Process? Reason. Assistance Methods and tools for the preliminary examination: ABC analysis Eisenhower matrix or portfolio analysis Benchmarking Methods and tools for recording the current situation: Self-recording Questionnaire observation Multi-snapshot Document analysis Methods and tools for the as-is analysis: Checklist Check matrix ABC analysis SWOT analysis Methods and tools for generating solutions: brainstorming Brainwriting Morphological analysis Methods and tools in solution evaluation: Verbal evaluation Investment calculation Utility analysis Cost-benefit analysis Methods and tools for implementation Methods and tools for evaluation: Benchmarking survey

Readings:  Module 5 Lesson: Public Health and Healthcare Systems (global Settings) Mills, A. (2014). Health care systems in low- and middle-income countries. New England Journal of Medicine, 370, 552–557. doi:10.1056/NEJMra1110897 Riegelman, R., & Kirkwood, B. (2019). Public health 101: Improving Community Health (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. Chapter 4: Social and Behavioral Sciences and Public Health Turnock, B. J. (2016). Essentials of public health (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. Chapter 1: What is Public Health? Chapter 2: Measuring Population Health Chapter 3: Public Health and the Health System No unread replies. No replies. Module 5: Case Scenario: Public Health Roles, Functions, and Levels of Prevention As the orientation with your public health agency progresses, you realize how important your organization is to the health and well-being of the surrounding community. The mainstay of the public health system are the public health organizations and agencies at the national, state, and local levels. These organizations are often directly accountable for diverse public health initiatives and programs. Please elaborate what on what you have learned about your agency’s history and how its primary role or function related to health promotion and prevention may have changed over time. What are some of your agency’s main health promotion and prevention activities? If no activities are being conducted, what type of prevention activities do you feel are needed to better address the needs of the agency’s target population? Readings: Module 6 Lesson: Policy and Advocacy: Law, Government and Public Health Riegelman, R., & Kirkwood, B. (2019). Public health 101: Improving Community Health (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. Chapter 5: Health Law, Policy and Ethics Chapter 12: Public Health Institutions and Systems Turnock, B. J. (2016). Essentials of public health (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. Chapter 4: Law, Government and Public Health Chapter 5: Twenty-first Century Community Health Practice Module 6: Case Scenario: The Promotion and Protection of Public Health Through Policy No unread replies. No replies. As the orientation with your public health agency continues, you are eager to learn more about public health policy. You have connected with various individuals from your agency who are well versed in this area. Please elaborate on what you have learned about policies that are supporting your agency’s goals. Describe any associated ethical principles that may be involved that consider the rights of individuals and the needs of society. If no policies have been identified, what governmental policies may have a linkage with your agency’s goals?