Unit VII covers international environmental law. The assignment for Unit VII is a Case Study addressing the textbook’s Case Study on pages 416-418. How do you feel about the two positions in the textbook’s Case Study? This Discussion Board is aimed at bantering ideas back and forth among classmates so that you have heard different sides of the arguments. Hopefully the Discussion Board will help you better formulate your opinions as you write your Case Study.

 

100 words APA format

 

Course Textbook

 

Kubasek, N. K., & Silverman, G. S. (2014). Environmental law (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Pipelining can efficiently increase the performance of a processor by overlapping execution of instructions. However the efficiency of the pipelining depends upon how problems encountered during the implementation of pipelining are handled. These problems are known as hazards.
1. Given the following program:
LW R1, 0(R2)
SUB R4, R2, R5
AND R6, R1, R7
detect the hazards in the given program and propose two solutions for each hazard you detect.
2. Given the following program:
Add r1, r2, r3
Sub r4, r1, r3
And r6, r1, r7
Or r8, r1, r9
Xor r10, r1, r11
Detect the hazards in the given program and propose two solutions for each hazard you detect. Show the timing of this instruction sequence for the RISC pipeline before and after the solution.
Compose your work using a word processor.

ECO 500 Excel Assignment Two Instructions

This sample problem shows the steps to evaluating two potential projects. In this problem, we are going to determine the expected value and the amount of risk for each project using Excel. To do so, we are going to find the net present value for each outcome, then find the weighted net present value. That will give us the expected value. Then, we are going to find the coefficient of variance which is used to determine the risk.

Start a new worksheet.

Step 1: Enter the cost of capital in the worksheet.

Step 2: Enter information about probability of each possible outcome and the expected annual rate of increase in revenues. Take these values from the given data.

Step 3: Enter the cash flow data for the 3 years of investment costs and the first year of revenues from the information given. Notice that the first 3 values are negative because it costs you money to invest in these projects. Year 4 is positive because you are expected to generate revenue in year 4.

 

Step 4: Use the following formula for calculating growth rates to find expected revenues for the remaining 9 years (for a total of 13 years; 3 years of cost and 10 years of revenue).
Use Previous Year + (1 + Probability (%))

Step 5: Find the NPV of each of the outcomes for each project using Excel’s NPV formula.
NPV = (cost of capital (%), Year 1: Year 13).
Step 6: Find the weighted average of the NPVs of the three outcomes. This weighted average is the expected value! Note that the weighted average is the sum of the probability times the NPV for each outcome: Expected Value =∑ Probability (%) outcome* NPV outcome.

Now we have our expected value for each project! Now let us find the risk, using the coefficient of variation.

Step 7: Find the deviation of the NPV for each outcome from the weighted average NPV for the project, then square the deviation. Use Probability of each outcome = (NPV – Expected Value(NPV))^2.
Step 8: Now find the weighted average of the squared deviations. This is the variance. Take the square root of the variance to get the standard deviation.

Step 9: Find the coefficient of variation or the standard deviation divided by the expected value. Notice that the higher the coefficient of variation, the riskier the project.

 

Summarize wireless and mobile networks and technologies, and the importance of security in relation to each Assess the convergence phenomenon and its significance

No matter what wireless or mobile networks are being used by a company, it is essential to safeguard those networks against potential threats and manage them efficiently for the best possible results. In this assignment, you will examine these types of networks and the related convergence phenomenon. For this assignment, write a paper that addresses the following: Outline a wireless network and technology that you use regularly. What sorts of security issues do you face, and how do you address them? Describe a mobile network and technology that you use regularly. What sorts of security issues do you face, and how do you address them? In your opinion, what is the importance of the convergence phenomenon? How might it affect IT or MIS development in the years to come? You must reference two quality, peer-reviewed journal articles in your assignment. Assignment should be two to three pages in length. For citation guidelines, please refer to the table in the APA Style section of the syllabus. Save your document with a file name that includes your name, course code, section number, and title. (For example: JaneSmith ISM5026-12 Week 6.docx) If you are not using Microsoft Word, save your document with the .rtf file extension (Rich Text Format).

Preview of Your Final Project
I want my project to be about the United Service Organizations (USO)
Over the next few weeks we will be learning about service learning and investigating a community organization.  You will begin to put this information together to evaluate the role of the community organization that you have chosen.  You will support your ideas with the literature resources that you have found.
You have one option in how you can present your final project:
As a Paper
Your paper should be creative and interesting, and demonstrate what you have learned.  It should be a minimum of 5-7 pages in length and you will use APA style formatting with a title page and reference section.  You should use Times New Roman, 12pt. font, double-space your lines, and set your page up with one inch margins (See the APA Template included in the Course Resources folder)
Your assignment should be well-organized and demonstrate an orderly flow of information that clearly addresses the subject chosen.  In addition to the above criteria, your final project should include the following elements:
The Community Organization: Clearly indicate the focus of the organization and the community needs that the organization. A brief historical background of the organization should also be included.
Discuss any community partnerships that they have.  Suggest additional partnerships that you feel they should have.
Explore how the cross-cultural challenges and humanitarian considerations are involved.
Demonstrate how the organization uses volunteers and the economic benefits associated with this (not just “free labor”).
Illustrate any roadblocks that the organization has faced or potential could face and how they did or might find solutions.
Describe the organization’s vision for the future.
Indicate what areas in which you feel the organization could improve.  What challenges (technological, political, economic, laws and regulations, community-based initiatives, educational, etc.) will they need to overcome?
Discuss potential ways you might be able to contribute to the organization.  How could your own interests, talents, and skills benefit this organization?
Note: You will need to include a minimum of ten (10) sources to support your project claims. Additionally, make sure the sources you choose are no more than five (5) years old.
Criteria:
Title your Project
Introduction: Begin with the attention-getter, tie in the background information, and end the introduction with your thesis.
Body:

Clearly identify the topic of each section. The topic must be a statement, not a question, and should begin with your own ideas and your own words.
After identifying your topic, use quotations or paraphrase from your sources to help illustrate the point you are making (be sure to identify the author(s) and source(s)).
After you have given support, spend a sentence or two explaining how the example(s) support the section topic.
A compilation of your research, your literature review, your methods,  (how the data was collected or generated and analyzed), and your results should be included in the body of your project.
Conclusion:
Restate your thesis.  This means that you say about the same thing as you did in your thesis, but you say it differently.
After stating your thesis, restate the topics from each of your body sections and emphasize what is important for your audience/readers to remember.
End your conclusion with a call to action that illustrates what your audience/readers should do with the information you presented.
My Project should be about the United Service Nations (USO)

What Motivates You?

What are five motivators that make you do better work?

Bad Behavior

What behaviors do you believe would be severe enough violations to warrant terminating an officer?

Stressed is Desserts Spelled Backwards

In a discussion forum posting, answer the following questions:

1. What are major stressors in your life right now?
2. How could you reduce your level of personal stress?

W4 Discussion

Below are two separate discussion questions, choose ONE and discuss.

Conventional Chemical Pesticides

Pesticides are those substances applied to destroy, repel, or control populations of undesirable organisms.  Conventional chemical pesticides are pesticides are synthetic materials that are commonly used to kill or inactivate a particular undesirable organism.  These chemicals have both advantages and disadvantages, which are outlined below.  Which single advantage and which single disadvantage do you think are the most important? Why?

Advantages of Conventional Chemical Pesticides

1. Saves lives
2. Contains diseases geographically
3. Improved crop/livestock yields
4. Nutrition and health improved
5. May be safe if utilized properly

Disadvantages of Conventional Chemical Pesticides

1. Negative health effects to humans and wildlife
2. Reduces biodiversity in ecosystems
3. Pollutes the environment by unintentionally entering air, water, and soil resources
4. Pests can develop resistance to pesticides, necessitating a new pesticide.
5. May be expensive for farmers

W5 Discussion Forum

Below are two separate discussion questions, choose ONE and discuss.

Nonrenewable vs. Renewable Resources

Review the website http://www.conserve-energy-future.com/ and your PowerPoint lectures 9 and 10 to get an understanding of the differences between nonrenewable and renewable energy resources. Cite at least one advantage and one disadvantage of using each.  Then, reflect on the environmental impacts associated with nonrenewable energy resource use and select the renewable energy resource you feel would best reduce our dependence on nonrenewable energy resources. Defend your selection.

Energy Resource Challenges

The Deep Water Horizon oil spill was the largest marine oil spill in US history. It caused extensive damage to marine and wildlife habitats and to the fishing and tourism industries situated around the Gulf of Mexico.  It is likely that scientists will continue to uncover effects from the oil spill for years to come.  Review the websitehttp://www.eoearth.org/article/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill?topic=50364 to read more about the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill.  The Deep Water Horizon is located in a unique, yet critical environmental habitat which supports a variety of marine organisms.  Do you think that drilling in this area should continue?  Why or why not? When defending your response, cite examples and describe the advantages or disadvantages of drilling in the Deep Water Horizon.

1. Identify a business decision situation that requires action in your organization. Be clear and succinct.

2. Assess the current situation.

3. Identify two symptoms.

4. Identify likely problems causing each symptom.

5. Write a decision statement (this is always a question).

6. Identify research objective (potential result) that corresponds to the decision statement.

7. Restate research objective in the form of a question (known as the research question).

8. Develop a hypothesis by (1) reviewing the research objectives and identifying the variables and (2) specifying the variables in a declarative statement and describing the direction of the relationship.

 

Write a two-page paper based on the information from your responses.

The paper should include the following headings:

Current Situation, Problem Statement, Research Objective, Research Question(s), and Hypothesis.

Be sure to include a title page and a reference page.

Use correct APA formatting when writing your paper.

In a recent news article located at http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/heres-where-your-federal-income-tax-dollars-go-f654971, NBC News reported that the U.S. Government spends $3.6 trillion per year to fund Social Security, Medicare, homeland defense and safety, education, transportation, and the interest on debt obligations. In spite of the services and benefits that the government provides, many taxpayers dread paying income taxes but consider them a necessary evil. Consequently, there is much debate about the inequities contained within the tax code, due to tax shelters and tax credits provided to some taxpayers which thereby increase the tax burden on others.

Using the Internet or Strayer Library, research at least two (2) countries that have a zero income tax rate.

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

1. Analyze the way in which the two (2) countries that you have researched provide services and benefits to its citizens without collecting personal income taxes.
2. For the countries that you have chosen, determine whether or not the U.S. could adopt their taxation model without reducing its total amount of revenue generated by collecting personal income taxes from individuals and business. Justify your response.
3. Suggest at least three (3) advantages and three (3) disadvantages of the U.S. adopting a zero income tax model. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Create a proposal for where the revenue would be derived if the U.S. were to adopt a zero income tax model. In your response, provide specific recommendations concerning the following:
   1. The proposed tax base.
   2. Whether or not tax payers at certain income levels should be exempt from taxation.
   3. The primary way in which the IRS would calculate the tax rate in order to ensure that the same level of tax revenue would still be collected.
   4. The primary way in which your plan will achieve equity.
5. Speculate on the primary way in which the federal government could make up any shortfalls if it does not collect its targeted revenue from personal income taxes, and ascertain the most significant way in which the U.S. Department of the Treasury, through the IRS, can still adhere to its fiscal and monetary policies. Justify your response.
6. Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Examine the types of taxes imposed at the federal, state, and local levels; the federal tax formula; and the rules for arriving at personal and dependency exemptions.
• Analyze the concepts of gross income and distinguish between the economic, accounting, and tax concepts of gross income and strategies to minimize gross income, maximize deductions, and minimize disallowance of deductions
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in federal taxation.
• Write clearly and concisely about federal taxation using proper writing mechanics.

Ted Talks Rhetorical Analysis Criteria
You are expected to use this criteria when evaluating the in-class Ted Talks assignments. EachThe first set will be due near midterm and last set will be due at the end of the semester-see course outline for due dates.

What kind of presentation was it? (1pt.)

What was the central idea of this presentation? (1pt.)

What sources did the speaker orally cite if any? (1pt.)

How would you evaluate the speaker’s vocal variety? (1pt.)

How would you evaluate the speaker’s physical delivery? (1pt.)
Did the speaker use any visual aids? If so, how would you evaluate the speaker’s management of the visual aids? (1pt.)

Did like or not like this presentation? Be specific with at least two examples. (2pts.)

What two things did you learn by watching this presentation that you did not already know? (2pts.)