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In his book, “The Signal and the Noise,” Nate Silver discusses many statistical and analytic techniques as they relate to everyday events and phenomenon. For instance Silver writes about topics such as baseball, weather predictions, climate change, the stock market and terrorism to name a few. In each chapter he addresses the issues at hand and describes how statistical analysis can be employed to make the topic easy to understand and often predict certain outcomes. The book is very enjoyable…

Introduction The dynamics of hospital performance are often associated with effective patients’ care and length of stay (LOS). In this case study, the hospital governance is strategically seeking to reduce LOS in the inpatient setting at four of the system 's hospitals. Generally, we will conduct analyses of the data set that have been provided to identify the hospital that is achieving the lowest LOS using descriptive statistics. Statistical Analysis: Length of Stay Each hospital in the…

External & internal environment There are two types of environment of the marketing the external & internal environments. The external environment is involved of those variables which are the natural environment, societal environment and task environment. The societal environment includes general forces that do not directly touch on the short run activities of the organization but can influence its long –term these forces are the : economic forces , technological forces , political –legal…

John Davison Rockefeller the well-known American entrepreneur was born July 8, 1839, in Richford, New York. His first oil refinery was assembled in 1870 starting the later multi-million company brand “standard oil.” It was built near Cleveland because of the many oil hotspots. It wasn’t long until his business grew wealthier, by 1882 he had a near-monopoly of the oil business in the U.S., however some of the ways he ran his business led to the passing of antitrust laws. Rockefeller devoted…

the surface roughness characteristics Ra, Rq and Rz. For the experimentation, twenty seven alternatives of EDM process parameters, Pulse on time (TON), Pulse off time (TOFF), Wire Tension (WT) and Wire Feed (WF) were considered as per the Taguchi’s standard L27 Orthogonal Array. The Roughness characteristics of Arithmetic average (Ra), Geometric average (or) RMS value (Rq) and Ten point height average (Rz) were considered as the experimental responses. Multi-criterion decision making method,…

3 Questions: 1. What are the 6 stages of “refugee career”? 2. How are immigrants and refugees similar and different? 3. What are some conflicts that immigrant families might face that would cause the family dynamics to disintegrate? Summary: • According to Hong and Ham (2001), the word migration includes two ways that it can be described. The first phenomena: describes it as the flight of refugees from their own countries because of the threat of persecution, imprisonment or death. Or a…

An Analysis of BP’s Difficulties, “Signature Processes” & Performance BP is the multinational holding company and one of the world’s major petroleum and petrochemical groups. BP’s primary activities include: exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas; refining, marketing and transportation; and manufacturing and sales of petrochemicals. In 1908, William D’Arcy and George Reynolds struck oil in Persia and established the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC). In 1935 APOC was renamed…

The values for the Axial length and Keratometry obtained through the various methods as mentioned above should be consistent so as to rule out sources of error. The need to repeat these measurements can be obtained based upon the HOLLADAY CRITERIA which states: Repeat Km if: Km47D for either eye Difference between the two eyes >1 D Corneal cylinder doesnot correlate well with the refractive cylinder Repeat AL if: AL< 22mm AL> 25mm Difference between the two eyes > 0.3 mm Doesnot…

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) is an American multinational oil and gas investigation and generation organization with operations in the United States, the Middle East, and Latin America. Headquartered in Houston, Texas,[5] it is one of the biggest American oil and gas organizations in light of 2015 year-end advertise capitalization. Regularly truncated as "Oxy", in reference to its ticker image, the organization is positioned on the Forbes Global 2000 and Fortune 500 rundown. In 2015,…

Introduction Sleep is an important component for maintaining, sustaining, and optimizing academic performance. Different lifestyle needs fluctuate the amount of sleep between individuals and often led them to attain inadequate sleep. Sufficient sleep has been linked to the enhancement of emotional and social function, whereas insufficient sleep reduces cognitive function and negatively affects academic readiness (Deuster & Yarnell, 2016). Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles…