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Case 6 [5 points] Ruth is a 60-year-old female with nonfluent / agrammatic primary progressive aphasia (PPA). You are planning to teach her spouse supported communication strategies. What are strategies you might introduce that could assist Ruth’s spouse in facilitating communication at home? Describe at least 3 strategies.

Aphasia is most often caused by damage to which cerebral artery?

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Let . Compute the derivative of .

Use a linear approximation of the function at to approximate the value of .

Potpourri-2c Potpourri (2c) [2 points] (Answer True/False with justification)  Tuning the overshoot parameter associated with firm timers to zero is equivalent to using soft timers.

Potpourri-1 Potpourri 1. [2 points] (Answer True/False with justification) Your friend is submitting a map reduce job. Her input data is split into 100 shards. Ignoring set up time, the actual time for the map function to execute on an input shard is T. To speed up the map phase, she asks for 200 nodes. With this allocation, the map phase on the entire input will complete in T/2 time units. 

Internet_Scale_Computing_3a Map Reduce Consider the following implementation of a MapReduce Application. It operates on a cluster of server nodes with the following execution model:  Each worker thread executes its assigned map tasks sequentially (one map task at a time)  Intermediate data from each map task is stored on the worker’s local disk  Data transfer occurs for reducers to collect the intermediate data from the mapper tasks   No network cost for accessing data on the same server node  Network transfer cost applies only between different server nodes  All inter-server-node data transfers can occur in parallel  The reduce phase starts only after all the intermediate data from all the map tasks have been transferred to the nodes.  Each worker thread executes its assigned reduce tasks sequentially (one reduce task at a time)  Specifications of the MapReduce Application to be run:  Input data: 150GB split into 50 shards of 3GB each.  Number of map tasks: 50 (one per shard).  Number of reduce tasks: 15 (the desired number of outputs from the Map-Reduce Application).  Each map task produces 300MB of intermediate data.  Each reduce task gets equal of amount of intermediate data from each of the map tasks to process for generating the final output.  Simplifying assumptions:  Ignore local disk I/O time  All network paths between server nodes have same bandwidth.   Parallel network transfers don’t affect each other (no bandwidth contention).  All data transfers occur ONLY after ALL the map tasks have completed execution  Perfect load balancing (work distributed evenly to all reduce tasks)  All server nodes have identical performance  Assume 1000MB=1GB (instead of 1024MB) for ease of calculations.  All nodes mentioned in the configuration below are workers and mappers/reducers can be scheduled on them. You can assume a separate node for master which is in addition to what is stated.  You should ignore time spent by master for doing the orchestration. You should ignore the time taken to shard and time taken to send shards to nodes running map tasks. You should ignore the communication time for anything except file transfer.  Calculate the execution time for the map phase and on the following configuration:   5 server nodes  Processing speed: 1 minute per GB (for either map or reduce task)  Assume that the data needed for processing is already present on the nodes.