Week 1 DiscussionDiscussion Topic Due August 18 at 11:59 PM

1.  Download and install MATLAB. Develop the following function using MATLAB a.  Write a script that loads data from a file and display the first five instances. Create a matrix from the loaded instances.  b.  Divide the loaded instances into two sets with one set containing 70% of the instances

  Health care organizations such as Choice Hospital must keep up to date with new initiatives related to reimbursement by third-party payers for services provided. This is especially true for Medicare reimbursement and initiatives tied to legislation such as the Affordable Care Act and the 21st Century Cures Act. You

1. After learning about some of the possible solutions to prevent human trafficking, identify what you believe to be the three most effective solutions, and offer one new solution to this problem 2. According to the United Nations, there are 29.4 million victims of human trafficking around the world at

WEEK 9 DISCUSSION   Think about how human resources are handled at the company you work for, or one you have worked for in the past. In the discussion thread, comment on the following questions: What steps of the human resources cycle does the company handle well? Why? What steps of

Draft a memo to the CMO outlining the marketing research efforts and their alignment with the vision, mission, and values of the organization in the course scenario. You must share two marketing strategies as well. Specifically, you must address the following criteria: Describe the marketing research efforts that should be

 Nursing Evolution    How has nursing evolved since you graduated from your original nursing program? Is nursing today what you expected when you enter nursing education? Submission Instructions: Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic

Debates on Stress Coping Lazarus’s cognitive approach suggests that the way you cope with stress is based on your mental process of how you interpret and appraise a stressful situation in which the level of appraisal determines the level of stress and the unique coping strategies used (Lazarus & Folkman,

  Pick a German artist or architect, or a German work of art or architecture, and do a bit of research. (Certainly, musicians are “artists” too, but we will devote an entire discussion to them alone and their works in a couple weeks so let’s focus here just on art

   Should Not Privatize Prisons Rasmussen College Author Note Student Anybody Should Not Privatize Prisons Prisons should not be privatized because punishing criminal activity should not be a profit business. It is not the place of private prisons to administer punishments. It is the State or government that decides who

Answer the Discussion Board board questions in paragraph form and reply to at least 1 classmate.  Joan Leikvold was hired by Valley View Community Hospital as an operating room supervisor in 1972. She did not have a contract for a specific duration, nor was she told that the hospital would

 Nice work in bringing to mind the notions of “Lean”, “Six Sigma” and “Kaizen” methods of thinking to the evaluation of our healthcare learning communication processes to promote project success: “I also need to be competent in informatics so that I will be able to recognize and use nursing data to

 For this assignment, you will explain managerial concepts as they pertain to business process costing. You will select a business process, describe the inputs and outputs, and define the job roles. In your paper, you will evaluate the current process effectiveness, estimate the cost of the process, and propose any

  Quantitative Annotated Bibliography In this week’s discussion question you were asked to consider a potential problem (appropriate to your role option) that you would like to investigate through nursing research. For this assignment you will review current research from South’s Online Library and provide a critical evaluation on that