Course Schedule: Week of Topic Reading Assignment due by end of day Sunday January 16, 2017 The Affordable Care Act http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacar e-facts and http://obamacarefacts.com/wcontent/uploads/2015/01/obamacare -open-enrollment-2015-guide-1.1.pdf Discussion due by end of day 1/22 January 23, 2017 Major Characteristics of US Health Care Delivery Chapter 1 Quiz and discussion due 1/29 January 30, 2017 Foundations of US Health Care Delivery Chapter 2 Quiz and discussion due 2/5 […]

1. Please read following and answer related questions about Radio Frequency Identification: Input Device or Invasion of Privacy?Punch cards, keyboards, bar code scanners—the trend is clear. Input devices have continued to promote faster and more accurate data entry. Key to this advance is capturing data at their source, and no tool does this better than radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. An RFID transmitter sends out a coded radio signal. An RFID tag […]

Assignment 2: Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)Due Week 5 and worth 180 points In a virtual world (VW) of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), collaboration and communication are provided through the Internet between MMORPG-ready devices such as the Microsoft Xbox, and Sony PlayStation, and by using the Web browser. Gamers around the world can play against other gamers without seeing their opponent face-to-face. […]

Freedom Insurance Company, a national life, health, and auto insurance company, is headquartered in Boston and has independent agents working out of remote offices all over the country. Recently, Freedom received a phone tip on their anonymous compliance reporting line indicating that the vice president of operations is engaged in an ugly custody battle with his former spouse, including the use of corporate e-mail to […]

Identify two related articles published RECENTLY that describe/discuss the topic of Big Data and the Applications. One article should be ONLY published on the Internet, and the other article should be ORIGINALLY published off the Internet (but, it may also be available on the Internet). Write a short report in APA (American Psychology Association) style on the information technology discussed in the articles, which accounts […]

A large multinational company has three regional data centers to support the operations of the three major geographic regions where the company operates. A fourth data center serves as the central data warehouse for the company and reside in one of the three geographic regions, but government regulations prevent the two data centers from being withing 250 miles of each other. Consider the discussions of […]

You have learned some database components such as entities (tables) with attributes (columns/fields) and keys in previous lessons such as Relational Databases, Database Fields and Field Specifications, and Establishing Keys. Now based on the examples in those lessons, you will design a database for CTU, which includes three entities (tables): Students, Faculty, and Classes. Note a class refers to a particular class section. For example, […]

A Large multinational company has three regional data centers to support the operations of the three major geographic regions where the company operates. A fourth data center serves as the central data warehouse for the company and reside in one of the three geographic regions, but government regulations prevent the two data centers from being withing 250 miles of each other. Consider the discussions of […]

You are modeling the relationship of employees and managers in your organization. One possibility is to show a unary or recursive relationship on the EMPLOYEE entity. How would you model the cardinality of the unary relationship to indicate that an employee has one manager and a manager may have many employees? Draw the model to show that an employee must have a manager. Now draw […]

A global information system is utilized across one or more national borders and attempts to offer the totality of measurable information globally. On the other hand, an information system in a single country is intended to be utilized within its borders. The similarity that exists in the two is that they are intended to offer totality of measurable data within the defined contexts.  When it […]