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
gut feeling
intuition
- gut feeling that helps you take strategic action
6 critical elements in decision-making
define objectives clearly
gather data carefully
take time necessary
generate many alternatives
think logically
choose and act decisively
why can’t you just forge ahead (w/regards to decision-making)
should first determine your objectives and/or goals
confirmation bias
our tendency to search for/favor information that confirms our beliefs while simultaneously ignoring/devaluing iformation that contradicts our beliefs
managerial decision-making process
determien the decision and desired action
research/identify options
compare/contrast including with consequences
make a decision
implement
evaluate
traditional problem solving process
ID problem
gather data to analyze cause and consequences of proposal
explore alternatives
evaluate alternatives
set the appropriate solutions
implement teh solution
evaluate
format for Evidence Based Practice questions
PICOT
difference between left and right brain
left brain is analytical
right brain is creative, intiutive
PERT
program evaluation and review technique
- a flowchart that predicts which events and activities must take place if the final event is to occur
payoff table
columns = state of nature/events
rows = choice or decision
origin story of the PERT program
PERT = program evaluation and review technique
- used to determine timing of decisions in connection w/the Polaris missile program
set of small black leather boxes with lether stratch containing scrolls of partchmetn with verses from torrah
Tefillin
Tefillin
small leather boxes with straps. contain scrolls of parchmetn with Otrah verses
book by Dawin
The Descent of Man
glib
showing little forethought of preparation
- marked by ease/fluency in speaking/writing often to the point of being insincere or deceitful
what does Candide poke fun at
Leibniz and his belief that our world is the best of all possibel worlds
what did Voltaire criticize
Christianity/Catholic church and slavery
- advocate of freedom of speech and religion. wanted separation of church and staet
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polemics
contentious rhetoric intended to support a specific position by forthright claims and to undermine the opposing position
orthodoxy
adherence to correct or accepted creeds, especially in religion
what education is the only on that can truly be said that it makes good citizens
“education in the critical faculty is the only education of which it can truly be said that it makes good citizens”
what 3 things should you watch out for when you information gather
when information gathering, be sensitive to inaccuracies, distortion, and misuse
* the mind is unconsciously deluded, self-deceived, and sterotypes/projections/scapegoals
thngs you should assess for when information gathering
clarity
depth & breadth
relevance
logically
identification of POV and frame of reference
goals & objectives
question about the end/objectives…
end/objective statements and the wording of questions<
Implications of use
method/quality of collection
pov/frames of reference
assumptions that underly conclusoins
question to ask when you consider if a source is credible
your own POV/frame of reference
how does writing style trick teachers into thinking a student is critically thinking
if a student has fluent/glib/whitty writing, that isn’t critical thinking. if assert flamboyantly and vivaciously that can be mistanen for critical thinking
- example…
wrote Principia Mathematica
Bertrand Russel
axiomatic method
in logic, a procedure by which an entire system is generated in accordance with specified rules by logical deduction from certain basic preposition s(axioms/postulates) which, in tyrn, are constructed from a few terms taken as primitize
famous for work in geometry
Euclid
what does strategic assessment invovle
information sharing and coordination
what to ask when you aren’t sure about a question?”
“What is missing that needs to be addressed?”
what kind of cognitive thinking do we do throughout the day
We spend much of our day in cognitive autopilot. not thinking about the choices we make
- think: how much of your daily routine from teh moment is just a routin that you don’t have to think much abotu?
mental models
tools we unknowlingly create to replicate how we believe the world works
- lets us cope w/reality by providing a ready-made mode
- simplifies our enviornment by brining each experience a pre-established
narrative fallacy
cognitive bias where we view the world in terms of patterns but we get into trouble when these patters don’ eist
frames (critical thinking)
mental structures taht simplify and guide our inderstanding of a complex reality
why can’t we critically think about everything
we simply don’t have the capability to register and think about everything we perceive
- we are inclined to fill gaps w/assumptions b/c we are uncomfortable with a completely abstract picture w/o meaning
what happens when the things around us are too abstract
we are inclined to fill gaps w/assumptions b/c we are uncomfortable with a completely abstract picture w/o maning
- the more abstract a perception, the more our brain will add meaning to it
deductive reasoning
draw a confusion from two premises.
what are the 5 Disciplines
“the art and practice of the learning organization”
- personal mastery
- mental models
- building shared vision
- team learning
5th: systems thinking.
unduly
excessively
don’t be swayed by first impressions
do not be swayed by first impressions or single explaination that fits well enough
BATNA
best alternative to a negotiated agreement
cognitive bias
unconscious beliefs that guide and compel our behavior
sunk cost bias
humans persistently act illogically based on decisions they made previously b/c it relieves the necessity of admitting that previous decisions were made in error
halo effect
we place things we find appealing/attractive first regardless of actual capabilities. fallacy
pitchfork effect
unappealing things are placed last regardless of actual capabilities
narrative fallacy
turn unrelated facts into a story leads to invent reality where no meaning actually exists
self fulfilling prophecy
false definition of a situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false perception come true than the prophet will cite the course of events as proof that he was right all along
glittering generality
using vague emotionally appealing virtuous words that disposes us to approve something w/o closely examining the reason
appeal to questionalble authority
person cited is not the right authority for an issue
slippery slope
chain reaction
