The advanced analytics

Describe how advanced analytics can contribute to describing the community’s needs, defining the right mix of services, and monitoring performance. Other than internal records (financials, EHR, HR), what sources of information should be used? What role does population health play?

The environmental issues and regulations

How did trends in environmental issues and regulations change and stay the same in the 1970s and 1980s as compared to earlier decades?

The map projection process

Describe the map projection process from beginning to end using and defining the terms geoid, the reference ellipsoid, generating globe, developable surface, and point/line of tangency along the way.

The vector and raster data models

Describe the vector and raster data models in detail, noting which kinds of data are best represented by each, the differences between the two, the advantages and disadvantages of each, the data structure of each, and the types of vector and raster data file formats.

The Central venous pressure

What role did groundwater play in the Central venous pressure and Systematic Withdrawal Plan? What are some of the problems with pumping groundwater out of the ground?

The Kepler Mission

Describe briefly NASA’s Kepler Mission and its question to find exoplanets. How does one go about finding a planet circling a star tens or hundreds of light years from Earth?

The detrital sedimentary rocks

What are the three major changes that occur in detrital sedimentary rocks with increasing transport distance? What term is used to describe these changes?

The discrete object views.

Compare and contrast the field and discrete object views. What method of digital representation is commonly associated with each view?

The Central venous pressure

Did companies or individual farmers end up receiving the Central venous pressure, and water? How did they get around the problem of divestiture? Did the Bureau know about illegal landholdings?

The survey information and township patenting

What is the difference between township survey information and township patenting information in regard to the survey of property located within a geographic township lot?