Between the two frameworks, which do you find to be the most useful for thinking about your professional and academic life and why? Explain and give examples.

In a minimum 250-word paragraph, Answer the following questons: what do you see as the biggest difference between communites of practice and discoures communities. Between the two frameworks, which do you find to be the most useful for thinking about your professional and academic life and why? Explain and give examples.

How did John Muir and Josiah Whitney differ on their theories of how Yosemite Valley formed?

The questions you will need to answer/analyze in paragraph form are:

  1. How did John Muir and Josiah Whitney differ on their theories of how Yosemite Valley formed?
  2. In 1872, what was John Muir’s data collection method for testing if glaciers are alive (moving)?
  3. What is the data on the diminishing glaciers of the American West? The world? What does this melting coincide with?
  4. Since record keeping began, what does the temperature record show for California and how does it affect the show pack in the Sierras?
  5. When a glacier disappears, what are the effects on the local ecology?
  6. What did the research find about the difference between the Lyell and Maclure Glaciers in Yosemite?

Compare and contrast the various forms (sects) of Judaism.

Based on this week’s material, write a 200-250-word count for the below TWO (2) essays. (You must answer both essays separately, each adhering to the above word count).

Essay #1: Compare and contrast the various forms (sects) of Judaism.

Essay #2: What was the impact of the Holocaust on the shape of modern and postmodern forms of Jewish life?

 

“Time is a river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight then it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.” Explain what you think this statement means and what are its implications for managing strategically.

N.B. Support your arguments and conclusions. Explain your answers thoroughly. Reference any appropriate readings in your answer.

1) How have recent changes in technology (for example, robots, 3-D printing, artificial intelligence (AI), Virtual reality (VR), blockchain) affected the four major business-level strategies – overall low-cost, differentiation, focused, and hybrid or combination strategies? How does this relate to the creation of sustainable competitive advantage for a firm?

2) If a firm is successful domestically, it is likely to be successful internationally? Why or why not?

3) What determines the level of competitive intensity in an industry?

4) Marcus Aurelius Antoninus said: “Time is a river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight then it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.” Explain what you think this statement means and what are its implications for managing strategically.

5) It is widely recognized that changes in technology and competition have diminished many of the traditional roles of location. Resources, capital, technology, and other inputs can be efficiently sourced in global markets. Firms can access immobile inputs via corporate networks. It is no longer necessary to locate near large markets to serve them. Governments are widely seen as losing their influence over competition to global forces. It is easy to conclude, then, that location is diminishing in importance. Do you agree or disagree with the statement that location is diminishing in importance in the global economy? Support your conclusions.

In a few short paragraphs, explain which cloud services you use (Google, Amazon, iCloud, Verizon, Microsoft One, Dropbox, etc) and what type of information you store (docs, photos, music, other files?).

1)  Do you feel the benefits of cloud computing are worth the threats and vulnerabilities? Have we arrived at a point where we can trust external agencies to secure  our most precious data? Please explain your answer.

2) In a few short paragraphs, explain which cloud services you use (Google, Amazon, iCloud, Verizon, Microsoft One, Dropbox, etc) and what type of information you store (docs, photos, music, other files?). How much space do you have and what does this cost per month?

Share the EHR platform that your practice uses and discuss the challenges and barriers to electronic charting. What is meant by meaningful use regulations and why is this important to know when documenting in the EHR?

Health information technology (health IT) makes it possible for health care providers to better manage patient care through secure use and sharing of health information. Health IT includes the use of electronic health records (EHRs) instead of paper medical records to maintain people’s health information.

Share the EHR platform that your practice uses and discuss the challenges and barriers to electronic charting. Why have we moved from paper charting to EHR’s? What is meant by meaningful use regulations and why is this important to know when documenting in the EHR?

Discuss the implications for initial communications differences between US and China.

Explain Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions *Using the United States as a basis for comparison, evaluate China’s similarities and differences relative to the franchise business deployment. *Discuss the implications for initial communications differences between US and China. Example: What is the impact of collectivism relative to individualism regarding management communication?

Write an essay in a Microsoft Word document on the three types of economic efficiencies and both positive and normative economics as it relates to regulating sugar-sweetened beverage sales in schoo

When dealing with public health policy and laws, we need to consider various aspects of the economy. Concepts of efficiency can be utilized when deciding which goods and services should be produced and who should receive them.

The three types of efficiencies are allocative, production, and technical. The two types of health economics are positive and normative. Positive Economics deals with “what is” or the current status that is linked to a clear standard of measurement. Normative economics deals with “what ought to be” and is subject to interpretation with the moral or ethical aspects of a policy. Your lecture has more details.

Using South University Online Library or the Internet, search the article, “The Interplay of Public Health Law and Industry Self-Regulation: The Case of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Sales in Schools.”

On the basis of the article and your understanding on the topic, write an essay in a Microsoft Word document on the three types of economic efficiencies and both positive and normative economics as it relates to regulating sugar-sweetened beverage sales in schools.