I need support with this Statistics question so I can learn better.

It is hard to believe that randomized control trials are known as a weak from of evidence. Since it has a proven cause and effect results in phenomena. The use of control and intervention of one study falls short to the colossal amount of information that the study needs to be evaluated against in order to be used into practice. It is understandable, that in order to be applied it needs to be evaluated with different kind of scenarios and patients. This is where systematic reviews come into play since they collate trial data to evidence in order to be used in clinical practice

I’m studying for my Writing class and don’t understand how to answer this. Can you help me study?

Day 1: Focus on an Obscure Instrument: History

You see and hear instruments almost every day, but have you ever stopped to think about how long they have been around, who invented them, or how they evolved from earlier instruments?

In this listening log, you will pick an obscure instrument and research it. Make sure you pick an instrument with which you are not familiar. There are a lot of crazy ones to choose from. Some examples of interesting instruments I would recommend include:

• Theremin
• Balalaika
• Didgeridoo
• Dulcimer
• Sitar
• Sarrusophone
• Ophicleide
• Ondes-Martenot
• Flugelhorn
• EVI (Electronic Valve Instrument)
• EWI (Electronic Woodwind Instrument)

Please do not pick a familiar Western European or American instrument such as the guitar, drums, bass, synthesizer, violin, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, flute, etc… Be sure to find a recording of the instrument in action and listen to it several times before deciding which instrument you would like to study.

Instrument:

1. How long has this instrument been in existence? When did it first become popular? Is it still popular or widely used today?

1. Is one person credited with its invention, or was it the culmination of years of tradition?

1. What family of instruments does it belong to? What similar instruments preceded it?

Day 2: Focus on an Instrument: Common Applications

Now that you have learned a bit about the history of the instrument you have chosen, you will examine its common modern applications.

1. In what ensembles is the instrument most commonly used?

1. What does its role tend to be? Is it a melody instrument or a bass instrument? How does this affect the role that it plays in the ensemble?

1. How is the sound of this instrument unique, different from that of other instruments? What makes it irreplaceable?

1. Do you think this instrument will continue to be popular? Or, if it has fallen by the wayside, why might that have happened? Could it make a comeback? Why or why not?

I’m studying and need help with a Management question to help me learn.

Your initial post should be at least 250 words. Please respond to at least 3 other students.

Watch / Read the below to help you complete the forum.

Links:

Predator drone video located at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMh8Cjnzen8

Book Review of ‘Predator’ by Richard Whittle located at http://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-predator-by-richard-whittle-1410822967

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles a RAND report located at http://www.rand.org/topics/unmanned-aerial-vehicle…

http://richardwhittle.net/

Interviews on the Predator located at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVNN_Je7RgM

Interview on the Predator from a maintenance officer located at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2-uUOrJ_rE

Government Contract Weekly episode located at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAT99aGLmpE

The web as well to find material that could support your position.

I’m working on a Communications exercise and need support.

For this assignment, interview three people about their reasons for participating in social media (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat, blogs, etc.). For each interviewee, include in your writing:

• A high-level description of the person and how you know him or her
• The social media platforms that he or she uses
• The reasons he or she visits these sites
• The needs that these sites appear to be satisfying
• Any brands that appear prominent
• Actions the interviewee takes based on his or her social media interaction

Synthesize your findings and identify three ways marketers could use this type of information to reach these consumers based on these behaviors.

Your presentation must be 8-10 slides (does not include the title or reference slides). Include well-written speaker notes and informative graphics, and format according to CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA (Links to an external site.). Include at least four scholarly references in addition to the course textbook. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these references.

I need help with a Social Science question. All explanations and answers will be used to help me learn.

INSTRUCTIONS (PLEASE FOCUS ON CITATIONS)

•Minimum of 8 sources in the bibliography

•Ensure you reference appropriately, both within your essay (intext citations), and in your bibliography-Use the guides to avoid mistakes!!

•Observe the word count: 1,500 word essay (10%)

•Ensure you provide the correct intext citations – use the guides

•Organise/structure the literature you present

•Support the points you make with appropriate references

•No: ‘I’, ‘we’, ‘me’ or ‘my opinion’ (you need to write in third person narrative)

•Ensure you provide an introduction and a conclusion

•No: tables, photo’s, graphs/charts or subheadings

Focus is on individual limitations – the impairment is regarded as the ‘problem’

Bodily ‘abnormality’ causing ‘disability’ or limitation

This has also been referred to as ‘The personal Tragedy Model’ – why?

How does the concept of the ‘norm’ fit here? – To be healthy means not suffering from any diseases, this is regarded as a ‘deviation’ from ‘normal’ biological functioning

What role do medical specialists play? Some key terms/points: Medicalisation, professional dominance, expertise, care

The Medical Model:

Weakness: the focus is on the individual, their impairment = their problem. Why is this problematic?

Strength: Pain alleviation and medicine – reduces the pain and discomfort experienced

The Social Model:

Weakness: accused of neglecting /denying experiences of impairment i.e pain/discomfort

Strength: Understanding disability in relation to oppression, campaigning activities have paved the way for anti-discrimination legislation, rights and social change – which ones are relevant here?

What other strengths and weaknesses can you identify?

I’m trying to study for my Management course and I need some help to understand this question.

Word limit:
2,500
Country Strategy Paper

Please note – a full briefing on this assignment and its

requirements will be delivered during the term.

The aim of this assignment is for you to apply the understanding of the course and apply it through the writing of a practical policy document.
The exercise is for you to produce a ‘Country Strategy Paper’. This is based on a generic policy document that most bilateral and multilateral agencies use. It is a document that broadly explains the position of a particular donor and a particular host nation.

For this exercise you can write from the perspective of

•

any bilateral agency or development ministry/administration from the OECD-DAC Development Assistance Committee
) or

•

a “new” donor; for example including China, India or a Gulf State

•

a multilateral agency/institution for example the World Bank, European Union/Commission or a UN agency.
As you will see below this will require some work from you to establish what their respective policies are in general – and would most likely be when applied to a particular state.

Potential Countries
The following is a list of countries which you must choose as your recipient country and the subject of your ‘Country Strategy Paper Sengal

Nepal
Madagascar
Mozambique
Vietnam
Zambia
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Papa New Guinea
Jamaica
The Document Pro Forma is as follows:

Section 1: Introduction
An overall summary of the document; remember this document is primarily intended for the funding agency and/or donor.
Section 2: Context
A basic discussion of the issues involved with the respective
country. Basic economic and social data are expected in this section as is some commentary and reflection on the country’s political situation.
Section 3: Vision
The section summarises some of the issues in the county and explains
why the relevant donor (ie you!) should be involved. Explain how it fits into your donor’s stated priorities.
Section 4: Sectors/areas that will be supported
The respective sectors that will be supported by your donor and the reasons why. There is an implicit budget constraint in that you cannot support every sector. You must make a choice on your sectors
and justify them.
Section 5: Aid Dilivery and Modalities
In this section there should be a discussion of how the aid will be delivered. You must discuss the extent to which each modality or approach will be used and the reasons why you have chosen the approach of modality that you have. This would be expected in any donor or funder documenrts which are often in a pro forma format. Section 6: Monitoring and Evaluation and Delivering Value for Money
This section is concerned with how the the country strategy you have designed will be effectively monitored and evaluated? In addition
this section needs to show how the programme (s) you have effectively
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designed will deliver VfM. What are the arrangements and mechanisms
to support these objectives?
Section 7: Risks
Finally this section needs to explore what are the potential risks to this county stratergy. There needs to be some discussion of how likely the risks are or what are their probalities of happening. This should aslo include some discussion of possible mitigation stratergies
Marking Criteria

Coherence of the Country Strategy Paper

Relevance and appropriateness to the respective country

Relevance to your respective donor strategy and ethos

Feasibility: How realistic is your Country Strategy Paper

Aid and Beyond Aid 2019/2020 Reading list
General Reading list
Essential
Deaton, A. (2013). The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins

of Inequality, Princeton University Press. de Haan, A 2009.

How the aid industry works: An introduction to

international development

, London: Kumarian Riddell, R 2007.

Does Foreign Aid Really Work?

Oxford: Oxford
University Press
– now increasingly dated but make sure to look at Riddell’s 2014 revisiting of his thesis on Canvas (under Modules, Handbook). Wickstead, M 2015.

Aid and Development: A Brief Introduction

Oxford:
Oxford University Press
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Background
Balla, Eliana (2008) ‘Giving and Receiving Foreign Aid: Does Conflict Count?’, World Development 36 (12): 2566-2585. Booth, D et al 2008.

Good Governance, Aid Modalities and Poverty

Reduction: From Better Theory to Better Practice

(see http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/docs/2265.pdf) Collier, P 2007.

The Bottom Billion

, Oxford: Oxford University Press Collier, P 2009.

Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places

,
London: Bodley Head Commission for Africa 2005.

Our Common Interest: Report of the

Commission for Africa

(see http ://www.commissionforafrica.info/wp-content/uploads/2005- report/11-03-05_cr_report.pdf)
De Haan, A (2009) How the Aid Industry Works, Kumarian: West Hartford, CT.
Development Gateway
http://www.developmentgateway.org/ Probably
the best single source for aid information.
Easterly, W 2006.

The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to

Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

, London:
Penguin
Forum on the future of aid: southern voices http://www.futureofaid.net/
Grindle, M 2011. ‘Governance reform: The new analytics of next steps’,

Governance

, 24 (3), pp.415-418
Hubbard, M 2005. ‘Aid management: Beyond the new orthodoxy’,

Public

Administration and Development

, 25 (4), pp.365-371
Hubbard, M 2007. ‘Entitlement, rules, coordination, club, market and hierarchy: General budget support practice and theory, implications of results of the joint evaluation of general budget support’, World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), UN(see PDF link

at http ://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/research- papers/2007/en_GB/rp2007-39/)
Hyden, G 2008. ‘After the Paris Declaration: Taking on the issue of power’,

Development Policy Review

, 26 (3), pp.259-274
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International aid transparency initiative http://www.dgfoundation.org/index.php?id=331 International Development Department (IDD) 2006.

Evaluation of

General Budget Support

(see http://www.oecd.org/development/evaluationofdevelo… mes/d
cdndep/37426676.pdf)
Killick, T 2004. ‘Policy, evidence and the new aid agenda’,

Development Policy Review

, 22 (1), pp.5-29 Koeberle, S (ed) 2005.

Conditionality revisited: Concepts,

experiences, and lessons

, Washington DC: World Bank Mawdsley, Emma (2012)

From Recipients to Donors: Emerging Powers and

the Changing Development Landscape

, Zed Books: London.
Molenaers, Nadia; Dellepiane, S and Faust, J (2015) ‘Political Conditionality and Foreign Aid’,

World Development

, 75 (November 2015): 2-12. Moyo, D 2008.

Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is a

better way for Africa

, London: Penguin
Organisation for Economic Development (OECD) 2003.

Rome Declaration

on Harmonisation

(see http://www.oecd.org/development/aideffectiveness/31451637.pdf) OECD 2008.

Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness 2005 High Level

Forum and Accra Agenda for Action 2008

(see http://www.oecd.org/development/aideffectiveness/34428351.pdf) OECD 2011.

Busan Partnership for Effective Development

Cooperation

(see
http://www.oecd.org/dac/aideffectiveness/49650173.pdf) OECD-DAC–Development Cooperation Report 2014
useful
source of official aid statistics, http://www.oecd.org/dac/development-co-operation-report- 20747721.htm

Ostrom E, Gibson C, Shivakumar S, Andersson K (2002) ‘Aid, Incentives and Sustainability: an analysis of development cooperation’. Stockhholm: SIDA studies in the evaluation 02/01 www.sida.se/shared/jsp/download.jsp?f=Stud02-01.pd…

I’m working on a Accounting exercise and need support.

• Assignment Content
  • Create a 4 to 5 -slide presentation in which you:
    • Create Introduction
    • Identify the decision-making factors in lease versus buy.
    • Identify the effect of financing strategies on cost of capital.
  • Cite at least 1 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your paper.
  • 
    Format your citations according to APA guidelines.

I’m working on a Health & Medical question and need guidance to help me study.

1. “Although Americans and foreigners alike tend to think of the U.S. health care system as being a market-driven system, the prices actually paid for health care goods and services in that system have remained remarkably opaque.” (Reinhardt, 2006) In the today’s Healthcare market place, prices are muddy and difficult to predict, explain, or even defend. Everything else that Americans buy is not like healthcare it is more black and white. Healthcare services can seem impossible for the customer to shop for. Most patients often make purchases without knowing the cost for the care they are receiving or even fully knowing what is being charged to them. When the bill arrives (weeks later) it is filled with ambiguous information: diagnosis and procedure codes, unfamiliar line items, and unclear calculations involving total charges, deductibles, and co-payments. As major purchases go; very few of us would be willing to buy a house or a car under these type situations. But this is precisely how today’s healthcare is purchased all the time by patients all over the U.S. Princeton economist Uwe Reinhardt has described US healthcare pricing as “chaos behind a veil of secrecy.” (Reinhardt, 2006)

Healthcare is paid for through a multi-part billing of transactions that occur between providers, insurance companies, and other stakeholders. Each group of billers have an incentive to charge different amounts to different patients and they keep the amounts a secret which allows each party to maximize their profits. Unlike most other companies who sell a product they are very transparent of pricing to be competitive in the market. Having this allows for companies to show how the compare to their competition and against the rest of the market to get your business.

Most people would think that cost and price is the same thing, but they have different meaning. Cost refers to typically the expense that is incurred for a product or service being sold. What the customer is willing to pay for a product or service would be the price. The costs would include items like manufacturing, materials, marketing and anything the company spends on the produce. Depending on the amount of cost it takes to produce a product can have a large impact on both the price of the product and the profit earned from its sale. Because the difference between the cost and the price would be the profit, it is only logical that the larger the difference the larger the profit. “Every company must determine the price customers will be willing to pay for their product or service, while also being mindful of the cost of bringing that product or service to market.” (Difference, 2014) That is where the seller needs to ensure that they get enough profit to make it worth the cost of the product to make or provide.

2. Healthcare is very difficult to pinpoint an upfront price for the consumer, there are different entities involved in healthcare pricing Insurance company and coders that all play a part in the overall price of healthcare services and this is mostly after services have been rendered. As Jeffrey pointed out the general population does not understand healthcare pricing because when the bills show up weeks or months later they are filled with ambiguous information like diagnosis codes, confusing calculations, charges and deductibles. Healthcare is a major purchase, but unlike every other major purchase people make this one is according to the U.S. Princeton economist Uwe Reinhart has described as “chaos behind a veil of secrecy.” (Reinhardt, U. E., 2016). As Sumetria mentions it can be difficult to find the right prices to charge in healthcare because insurance companies have contracts that may be negotiated with a fee schedule with Medicare or Medicaid (Marlowe, D., n.d.). Denae covered the fact that cost and price can seem to have a similar meaning but are actually different. Price is the amount that is charged for healthcare services while cost is the amount actually paid (Art of Medicine, 2015). It can be very difficult to have standard costs for the healthcare system because they are not a flat rate situation for all patients.

I don’t know how to handle this Political Science question and need guidance.

Every day, the media (including social media and other internet sources) influence public opinion by injecting bias in its reporting. Many people listen to only one source to be informed of a particular event, issue, or person. There are dangers in this. You need to get in a habit of cross-referencing sources to get the “big picture.” Hopefully this assignment will guide you in this effort.

How to Identify Bias

– Bias through selection and omission (what they choose to cover).

– Bias through placement (which stories are first).

– Bias by word choice and tone.

– The use of words with a positive or negative connotation can strongly influence the reader or viewer: consider how a hockey game might be seen differently if it’s described as a “loss,” a “close game” or a “near win.”

– Bias by photos, captions and camera angles.

– Bias by source control.

– To detect bias, always consider where the news item “comes from.”

Can you help me understand this Health & Medical question?

This week you will complete your floor plan by incorporating additional elements, such as IT equipment and creative healing elements. It is important to review your facility and consider any additional changes based on the knowledge you have gained throughout the course.

Add the required design components, and complete your facility.

Complete the Week 5 section of the Facility Planning Template. Submit the drawing and essay as separate files.Remember that the drawing itself is worth less than 10% of this assignment’s grade: 10 out of 120 points.

Cite Hayward and at least 1 other peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references. Remember to properly cite every idea, fact, and series of words (quotation) that is not your own. Place quotations within quotation marks.

Please see attached, and follow instructions for week 5.