Covid’s huge backlog of demand for health and wellbeing services.

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Covid has created a huge backlog of demand for health and wellbeing services. You have been retained as an Innovation Management consultant by a local GP with the support of the local health board. Your brief is to develop an innovation to help reduce their waiting list, allowing them to priorities the most urgent cases. Unfortunately, due to financial pressures, they are not in a position to provide additional resource. It is hoped that a successful intervention would have potential to be scaled rapidly across other GPs in order to maximize its benefit.

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Sports Statistics

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Q1: You are attending a championship soccer match with your family. In your pocket only $40 to spend on Popcorns(S) and Cokes (C), supposed to allocate such amount to maximize satisfaction of the two goods, where the price of popcorn is $5 and the price of coke is $4, looking at the table below:
Various levels of S and C MUs MUs/Ps MUc MUc/Pc
1 40 120
2 30 80
3 25 40
4 20 32
5 15 16
6 10 8
MUs = marginal utility of popcorn, Ps = price of popcorn
MUc = marginal utility of coke, Pc = piece of coke

Answer the followings:

  1. Fill up the blanks above?
  2. Find the combination of popcorns and cokes yields and the level of utility, subject to the budget constraint?
  3. Calculate the total utility of the optimal consumption of the two good?
  4. What is the marginal rate of substitution(MRS) in such case?
  5. State the budget equation in this case?
  6. Graph the budget line and an indifferent curve, showing the optimal point?
  7. What does the indifferent curve represent? How it relates to the indifference map?
  8. What is the level of marginal utility per dollar spent, where you get the maximization or the optimal equation of the two goods?
  9. The demand curve is derived from the marginal utility concept, explain?
  10. Can you classify this case as a corner solution? Explain?

Q2: Decided on open tailor shop, the following table gives the level of outputs(shirts) produced daily, with the least cost of input combinations (labor wage(w) = $300, and cost of capital, sewing machine(r) = $200) per day:
output Labor # Capital # Long run total cost (LTC) Long run average cost(LAC) Long run marginal cost(LMC)
100 10 7
200 12 8
300 20 10
400 30 15
500 40 22
600 50 30
700 60 42
Answer the followings:

  1. Fill up the blanks above?
  2. Write down the cost equation?
  3. State the total production function?
  4. Draw up the graph for LAC and LMC in relation to the output?
  5. Graph the Isoquant curve as well as the Isocost curve, with the optimal input combination?
  6. In this case, you are operating in competitive market, what are the characteristics of such market?
  7. At which price you are supposed to sell the shirt?
  8. Draw up the expansion path for outputs and costs in the table above?
  9. What is the approximate level of output(varies discretely by 100 units in the table), where profit is maximized and you are economically and technically efficient?
  10. What is the Marginal Rate of Technical Substitution (MRTS) in this case?
  11. Is the cost structure in the question long-run cost or short-run cost ones, what is the difference between the two, and how can they be related?
  12. There are many factors reduce costs, and shift LAC downtrend, identify three of them?
  13. At which level of output is the Minimum Efficient Scale(MES)?
  14. What kind of demand curve you are facing in this market?
  15. Is this competitive market, what is the economic profit, and should it be different in value from the opportunity cost? Explain?

Q3: Abdullah want to expand the capacity of his restaurant, but not sure of the 2020 economic growth (GDP) of the Saudi economy. He has the probability of 40% that the economy will maintain the expected growth rate in 2019 (1.8%) and the probability of 60% it will be little higher (2.1%) as the IMF forecasted. Accordingly, the table below is:
Growth rate 2.1% 1.8%
Probability Dist. 60% 40%
Profit Profit($Million) Profit($Million)
A. Decision maintain capacity 100 persons 3 2
B. Decision expand capacity by 20% 4 1
Answer the following:

  1. Compute the expected profits for both decisions?
  2. Based on the expected profit only, which decision should Abdullah make?
  3. Compute the Standard Deviation for decisions A and B, facing Abdullah?
  4. Which decision would Abdullah make, using the coefficient of variation?
  5. If Abdullah has no idea of the probability distribution of economic growth, operating in uncertainty world. Using the information above, what decision would Abdullah make, according to each of the following rules:
    A. Maximax:
    B. Maximin:
    C. Minimax Regret:
    D. Equal Probability:
  6. Which decision is riskier, and how can you classify yourself as risk lover or averter or neutral?

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Hearing loss

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Hearing Loss

Hearing loss can affect anyone at any age.  In the U.S., 15 percent of adults over the age of 18 (37.5 million people), report having trouble hearing.  Of adults aged 65-74,  25 percent have a disabling hearing loss, and 50 percent of adults over the age of 75 have a disabling hearing loss. Of babies born in the U.S., 2-3 of every 1,000 have a detectable hearing loss in at least one ear.

Below are 4 types of hearing loss. Choose one and write a 1 – 2 page essay.  Include the following information in your essay. 

How many people in the US has the hearing loss
The cause or risk factors
Symptoms/How does it effect a person’s auditory perception
Treatment options
Prevention
Important guidelines to follow:

Required font: Arial, 12 point
Required formatting: Double-spaced
Required length: 1 page (minimum)
When using outside sources (other than your textbook), you must use APA style to reference your source(s) at the end of your essay.

Types of Hearing Loss (Choose 1)

Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Conductive Hearing Loss

Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

Tinnitus

Language and the constitution of South Asian nations

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you need to have completed the readings for the week. Based on those readings, please write a 1-2 paragraph post (it does not need to be longer than that) that makes a clear and concise argument about a theme or aspect of the readings that ties them together. You do not need to be very formal, but you should write with proper grammar and make sure that your writing is well constructed, as well as have a clear thesis statement.

Chapters to do the summaries on (mentioned below) : Language and the constitution of new nations, making nations on the bodies of women, nationalism and the diaspora, Development and its discontents, How to riot in South Asia, Modi’s Gujarat and the making of new India
So, 6 1-2 paragraph posts : (around 1 page per 2 assignments)
Please find necessary readings for each chapter/assignment below:
ASSIGNMENT 1: Language and the constitution of South Asian nations
NCERT Textbook Colonial and Modern India: “Framing the Constitution” (required)
Ramachandra Guha, “Redrawing the Map” in India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy : 189-208 (required)
France Bhattacharya, “East Bengal: Between Islam and Regional Identity,” in Christopher Jaffrelot, ed., A History of Pakistan and its Origins (Anthem Press, 2002): 39-60. (required)
Aatish Taseer, “How English ruined Indian literature,” New York Times, March 29 2015 (required)
Primary sources:
Meghna Guhathakurta, Willem an Schendel, eds., The Bangladesh Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke University Press, 2013): 159-169; 175-176; 184-186; 214-219; 225-236; 262-263; 332-335 (required)

ASSIGNMENT 2: Making nations on the bodies of women
Urvashi Butalia, “Community, State and Gender: On Women’s Agency during Partition,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 28, No. 17 (1993), 12-21 (required)
Yasmin Saikia, Women, War and the Making of Bangladesh (Duke University Press, 2011) 122-157, 186-212 (required)
Zoya Hasan, “Minority identity, state policy and the political process,” in Zoya Hasan, ed., Forging Identities: Gender, Community and the State, (Westview Press, 1994) (required)
Primary sources:
Sati Regulation (required
)Report on the Roop Kanwar case (Links to an external site.) (required)
Saadat Hasan Manto, Khol do (optional)
Amrita Pritam, Aaj akhan Waris Shah nu (optional)

ASSIGNMENT 3: Nationalism and the Diaspora
Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed, The South African Gandhi (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016): 26-48 (required)
Sana Aiyar, “Negotiating nationhood” in Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora (Links to an external site.) Harvard University Press, 2015) (required)

Primary sources (required):
Speeches of Jawaharlal Nehru in Lok Sabha, September 2, 1957 and December 17, 1957
Speech of Narendra Modi at Madison Square Gardens, September 28, 2014 (Links to an external site.) (English summary and video)
Full transcript in Hindi (Links to an external site.) (optional)

ASSIGNMENT 4: Development and its Discontents
Metcalf and Metcalf, A Concise History of Modern India, 231-251 (required)
Leela Fernandes, India’s New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006): 29-87 (required)
Vandana Shiva, “Homeless in the ‘Global Village’,” in Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, eds., Ecofeminism (Links to an external site.) (Zed Books, 1993): 98-107 (required)
Vandana Shiva, “The Chipko Women’s Concept of Freedom’,” in Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, eds., Ecofeminism (Links to an external site.) (Zed Books, 1993): 246-250. (required)
(Please make sure you are signed into Georgetown University library to access these book chapters)
Primary Source:
Excerpt from “Towards equality: report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India,” 1974 (required)

ASSIGNMENT 5: How to riot in modern South Asia
David Ludden, “Ayodhya: A Window on the World,” in Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community and the Politics of Democracy in India, ed. David Ludden, (University of Pennsylvania, 1996): 1-23 (required)
Stanley Tambiah, “Reflections on Communal Violence in South Asia,” Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 49, No. 4 (1990): 741-760 (required)

Primary sources:
Sarvepalli Gopal, Romila Thapar et al, “The Political Abuse of History: Babri Masjid-Rama Janmabhumi Dispute,” Social Scientist, Vol. 18, No. 1/2 (1990): 76-81 (required)
Film:
Anand Patwardhan, Ram ke Naam (1992). (Links to an external site.)
ASSIGNMENT 6 Pahle kasai, phir isai: Modi’s Gujarat and the making of New India
Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi, “On the Political Uses of Disgust in Gujarat,” South Asian History and Culture, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2010 (required)
Talal Asad, “Religion, Nation-State, Secularism” in Peter van der Veer and Hartmut Lehmann, eds. Nation and Religion (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999): 178-196. (required)
Basharat Peer, In India’s Largest Muslim Ghetto, The Hindu, June 20, 2015 (Links to an external site.) (required)
Primary sources:
Human Rights Watch, “We have no orders to save you: state participation and communal violence in Gujarat,” Vol. 14, No. 3, April 2002 (required)

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