Using your knowledge of Retail Logistics make an assesment of the likely chances of Amazon being succesful in the same day delivery grocery business. What are Amazon’s relative strengths and weaknesses compared to a bricks and mortar network like Wal Mart? In addition to same day delivery what other changes to Amazon’s value chain would you reccomend?
1. Research and identify a big data article posted in the last seven days.
2. Mention the highlights of the article
What are the most difficult problems faced by an information manager today?
• What, in your mind, are the most difficult problems these people face in today’s environment?
• Give the reasons Why?
• How would you go about mitigating the problem(s) you identify?
• Keep your response to 400 words or less.
• Can automation be used to classify information?
• What do you think about Ying’s approach to the automation of classifying information content for the purpose of managing that information?
• Does the approach scale for large organizations?
• How would you try to improve on his approach if it were to be applied in your current work situation? -*** My Choice from CASI = Application, Company=Oracle/DBA-Middleware Administrator
• Describe the tension between information management and information security?
• Do you see information lifecycle management and information security, on a high level, overlapping, complementing, or fighting each other?
• What do you see as the crux of the tension between information management and information security?
• How is this changed when the content involves recordings of performances (music and movies)?
Part 1: Journal 1
Prompts
Read Chapters 2-5 from Tillie Olsen’sYonnondio: From the Thirties.
Choose a single key passage from Chapters 2-5 of Yonnondio to examine and respond to subjectively, following the same response pattern you used in your first Journal write of the unit.
Using this scene/passage/moment/event/etc. as your starting place, try out some of the theoretical principals you’ve learned from your study of Reader Response criticism this unit. How do you respond to the passage from Olsen’s story, subjectively? How does your response help you make sense of the work, in turn making it more “real” and meaningful for you? Do you think this is how Olsen wants you to respond to this moment in the story? Why? How exactly does she construct her language in her characterizations of people, place, time frame, tone and mood and atmosphere, to shape your response in a particular way? Why do you think she is trying to elicit certain responses from you? How do your subjective responses to this extended passage serve the larger goals Olsen might have for her storytelling in the novel?
Part 2: Journal 2
Prompts
Read Chapters 6-8 from Tillie Olsen’sYonnondio: From the Thirties.
Review the last section from Chapter 8 of Yonnondio, the final tableaux of the family in the kitchen (pp 184 through the end of the chapter on p 191).
Using this series of scenes as your starting place, try out some of the theoretical principals you’ve learned from your study of Reader Response criticism this unit. How do you respond to this passage from Olsen’s story, subjectively? How does your response help you make sense of the work, in turn making it more “real” and meaningful for you? Do you think this is how Olsen wants you to respond to this moment in the story? Why? How exactly does she construct her language in her characterizations of people, place, time frame, tone and mood and atmosphere, to shape your response in a particular way? Why do you think she is trying to elicit certain responses from you? How do your subjective responses to this extended passage serve the larger goals Olsen might have for her storytelling in the novel?
Examine McCrae and Costa’s five-factor model of personality. Pick one of the factor’s listed (extraversion, neuroticism, openness, agreeableness, or conscientiousness) and describe 1 person in Scripture that you would consider to be high in that area and 1 person in Scripture that you would consider to be low in that area. Please use the same factor for both people and support your stance with Scripture.
Task 1
Visit http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&y=PROD_FIN&locale=en_US&id=SLN2311 and read about how stock prices (and therefore returns) are adjusted for splits and dividends.
Task 2
Now determine the monthly return series for both stocks using the adjusted close prices. Keep this data within the tab. You can delete the Open, High, Low, Close and Volume data as we won’t be using this in the assignment. What is the mean and standard deviation of the returns for your two stocks?
Task 3
Visit yahoo finance again and download the monthly price data for the S&P/ASX-200 Index (^AXJO). Place this data in a separate tab on your spreadsheet and calculate the monthly returns.
Task 3
Now go to the RBA’s website (rba.gov.au) and download the monthly yields for bank-accepted-bills. Visit http://www.rba.gov.au/statistics/tables/index.html#interest_rates and choose ‘Interest Rates and Yields – Money Market – Monthly F1 [XLS]’
Ideally we would use this one-month Treasury Note data (FIRMMTN1) but there are gaps in this data. So we will use the 30 day bank-accepted bill as a proxy (FIRMMBAB30). Note that these rates are quotes as per annum rates.
Task 4
What are the differences between a bank-accepted-bill (BAB) and an Aust. Gov. Treasury note? Which would you expect to have the higher yield and why? What happens to these yields in a banking crisis? Can you find evidence on the RBA website to support your view?
Task 5
Conduct a Single Index Model regression for your two stocks return using the 30-day BAB as the risk-free rate. Use the S&P/ASX-200 Index as the market index. You should take care to make sure the data is correctly aligned. The Bank Bill yields are expressed as a percentage per annum. These will need to be converted into a monthly rate (divide by 1200).2 Include the regression results in each tab along with a graph of the SCL. You can get Excel to output the graph in the regression stage.
1. Write the problem statement for your proposal. “The purpose of this Quality improvement project is to . . . . . . .” (one sentence)
2. Identify at least one quality outcome related to the issue for this class – one sentence. (Examples: The outcome indicator for this quality improvement project is: Falls in hospital, MRSA incidence, Medication reconciliation compliance, hospital acquired pressure ulcers, research subject retention)
3. Identify at least one definition of this quality outcome indicator from a professional expert in the area. Some of these may be in the quality websites. Others will come from professional organizations or published articles.
4. Describe how you will measure this indicator. Provide a formula for the indicator. What do you know about the reliability and validity of this measure? (cite references, APA) Maximum length for this is one paragraph.
5. A. What is your target for this indicator? – it may be Zero – no infections or 100% — 100% compliance with hand washing. It may be XX% improvement over current rate.
5. B. What is your Benchmark – Specify if this is an internal or external benchmark.
Evaluate the pharmacological effect and mechanism of action of the given test compound ATROPINE on the contractility of isolated guinea pig ileum using a range of agonistic substances (acetylcholine, carbachol, methacholine, histamine, and barium chloride).
• Find information about these drug substances in regards to their pharmacological action and mechanism of action on intestinal smooth muscle before proceeding with the experiments.
• Continue with the experiments as explained in the previous sections.
• You will need to think about explanation for observed changes.
Prepare a statement of changes in owner’s equity and accompanying notes appropriate to the section.
Note. Record the necessary journal entries before attempting to calculate other comprehensive income.
Choose a service organization of your choice and answer the following questions.
(1) Describe why you choose this particular organization to blueprint;
(2) Describe three key elements of physical evidence revealed in the blueprint (photos/images of these elements should be included in the visual portion of the blueprint) and discuss how they influence the customer’s experience;
(3) Identify, number, and describe three potential fail points (points in the process where problems may occur) and/or bottlenecks (points in the process where backups or slow delivery may occur);
(4) Suggest possible solutions/alternatives to address these (potential) problem areas;
(5) Discuss how a service blueprint might be used in each of the following areas in your chosen organization: marketing, human resource management, and operations;
(6) Discuss what was learned in doing this assignment and how it could be applied in the real business world.