Tutor profile: William C.

Which is most important in system integration: the data formats of the interfacing systems or the system-to-system interface requirements?

The system-to-system interface requirements: the data formats do not capture interchange timing requirements, intermediate data transition/reformatting requirements, interactions of indirectly supplied "other application" data, and broader application environment dependencies that may impact how the data at this interface needs to be handled outside of its point-to-point considerations.

Which of he following four factors has most effected global supply chain management: logistics management information systems, the pandemic, theoretic research and real-world practice, super-sized container-carrying megaships?

The pandemic: COVID-19 worldwide has affected all aspects of international trade from permanent changes via online customer access methods to end products disrupting established order entry methods, to remote agile problem-solving teams distributed worldwide solving channel specific supply chain issues, to intense pressures on worldwide ERP (enterprise resource planning) to predictably answer "where will product be and when", to re-establishing "just in time" system-wide inventory standardization.

Eliquis is a blood thinner with many applications, primary of these being atrial fibrillation treatment. Humans span a range from "free bleeders (hemophilia)" to "hyper-rapid blood clotters (hypercoagulation)". Provide one clear reason why drugs like Eliquis should be specifically targeted for general populations in the +/- one sigma to +/- two sigma human blood clotting types?

Restrictions of the drug use to this population minimizes the deleterious effects of potentially pushing slow blood clotters into life threatening free bleeder situations, due to blunt trauma, cutting accidents,. or bone breakage, as examples.