Quartic function

93% of American citizens listen to music according to Music 360 2014. With, on average, 25 hours per week devoted to this activity, does it have any alternate uses other than for pure enjoyment? The answer is yes, with music therapy. “Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.” (American Music Therapy…

The morning of December 10, 1996 was a day that changed the course of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s life and sent her down a path of healing. This journey brought her to write My Stroke of Insight, sharing her story with students such as myself and providing an indispensable look into the experiences of a stroke victim. Her vivid recount of the day of her stroke as well as her arduous journey to recovery allow for readers to feel for a moment the bizarre effects of a left hemisphere stroke. After…

The surgery of split-brain has led to different conclusions as to how many minds there are in one body. There is a total of five different hypotheses that are popular with the philosophers about the split-brain outcome, but I will only be mentioning three of them. One of the main hypotheses is that of Tim Bayne’s notion of one mind-one body in split-brain patients. Another is that of two minds-one body supported by Roland Puccetti and Roger Sperry. And last is that it is indeterminate as to…

Typically, ‘left-brained’ people look at the analytic side. ‘Right-brained’ people explore a more imaginative side. Senior Erin Doran is the result of the harmonious mix of both. “I guess it’s sort of like a paradox- the way that I’m more of a logical thinker but I also do these creative things,” Erin said. The logical and analytical ‘left brain’ side of Erin is expressed in math. “[I like] math because it's very logical and there's usually only one or two answers, there's no discrepancies,”…

Group: Will Lee, Max Speil, Michael Jastrzebski, Frankie Villante Econ 364 homework #2 Chp 5. Discussion #2 Reason for 3M Dominance: conditional pricing in the form of rebates to retail stores that purchased its private label tape along with other 3M product lines. The more that the retailers bought, the higher their rebates would be. This resulted in a loss of sales for LePage tape. 3M’s action would be consistent with the dominant-firm price leadership model because they had a significant…

Quantitative risk analysis is the one which follows the Qualitative analysis, and gives a numerical priority rating to project risks (PMI, 2009). Based on the PMBOK (PMI, 2013) quantitative risk analysis “… is the process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives (p. 333).” This is also a process for the PM and project team to get risk data to support making decisions, which can help to reduce project uncertainties (PMI, 2013, p. 333). Based on the…

introduced copula function approach in the aspect of evaluating credit derivatives, the copula function has gradually become the main approach in pricing CDO (Burtschell & George, 2005). In Li (2000) paper, a new random variable named ‘time-until-default’ was created to demonstrate survival time of each defaultable entity. And the copula function approach is based on this random variable to evaluate the default probability of financial instruments. Specifically, copula function specify the joint…

Freud relates repression by terms deemed the “id”, “ego”, and “superego.” In relation to these terms, Hyde is the id, pursuing indulgence and possessing no moral code. He is pleased with violence and death, especially if he causes it (Singh). Hyde is pure, unbridled desire, making him the definition of the Id. Dr. Jekyll represents the ego. Always mindful and cautious, Jekyll lets society rule his life. Unfortunately, Jekyll is desperately consumed by the He has a difficult time juggling between…

Madame M walked into John Capgras’ office claiming that her family had been replaced by imposters. Moreover, she described that those who have been kidnapped have been placed below in her cellar or underground in Paris. Originally, it was believed that Madame M was experiencing a mental breakdown. However, Dr. John Capgras noticed that this phenomena that Madame M was experiencing was actually a psychological disorder. Although not common, it was prominently seen in women of all groups.…

configuration of planar position and the trajectories of all service vehicles for different time steps, 40 s, 90 s, 180 s are shown in Figure 6-3.1-1-c. The distribution density function based on the most updated probability maps are also shown in the figures. The color intensity is proportional to the value of distribution density function at each point. It can be seen from this figure that the configuration of service vehicles in the environment is optimal according to time-varying density…