Random B Flashcards
principal assistant to a member of a cabinent
undersecretary
goal of commissary charges
preserves the military resale which decrease taspayer burden
% savings at the comissary versus civilian sector
30% savings
where are most commissaries located
2/3 of commissaries operate in areas that wouldn’t be profitable for commercial entities
uses of liquid nitrogen
Freezing and transporting food products
Cryopreservation of biological samples (sperm, eggs, animal genetic samples)
Cryotherapy for skin abnormalities
Cooling superconductors
Making liquid nitrogen ice cream
Creating fog effects
Flash-freezing flowers
Protecting samples from oxygen exposure
Source of dry nitrogen gas
Cryosurgery
froze Han Solo
liquid carbonite
benefit of using liquid nitrogen to make ice cream
takes an 18hr process down to 18 seconds with less stirring
importance of ice crystals in ice cream
ice crystals in ice cream gives cream smoothness
why doesn’t dry ice work of ice cream.
carbonates it melts into the cream and alters flavor in a bad waqy
“air whip” ice cream
churrning introduces air into the mixture as the cream freezes
- most brands have an air whip factor of above 50% which means 50% of the ice cream is air. more air = less taste.
- best premium (like Ben and Jerry) gets air whip factor to 15% which is why B&J tastes so good…but also why it is expensive…
HITECH Act
Heath Infomration Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
- US law to expand the use of electronic health records. incentivizes the meanifnful use of EHR and strengthens privacy/security privisions of HIPA
actuaries
pros who assess financial risks in the insurance and finance fields
- risk assessment, pricing, product development, create projection models
data aggregation
process of combining datasets from diverse sources into a single format and summarizing it to support analysis and decision making
- makes it easier to assess and perform statistical analysis on a large amount of data to gain a holistic view of your businesses and make better informed decisions
IIHI
individual identifiable health information
URL
Universal Resource Locator
TRO operations
treatment, payment, healthcare operations
fundamental objective of information security
confidentiality
integrity
availability
critical triad of learned skills that improve with practice
decision making
mangement
ledership
PBL
problem base learning
what triggers decision-making
decision making is usually triggered by a problem but is often handled in a way that doesn’t focus on eliminating the underlying problem
- sometimes a deliberate choice b/c don’t have the time, energy, reosurces to solve the real problem
purpose of cse studies
stories that impart knowledge
rules of thumb
heuristics
nursing process
ADPIE
definition of critical thinking
the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptilizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating informaation to reach an answer or concdlusion
- reflecting on teh meaning, examining the offered evidence, and reasoning, and forming jdugements about facts