Author: chris

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This final paper should be critical and objective. The paper should be between 6 to 8 pages in length (2000-2500 words). This does not include the cover page, abstract, and bibliography. The paper should be double-spaced with one-inch margins on all four sides of the paper (Times New
Roam, 12 point font size, paged numbered). Your bibliography should consist of a minimum of 10 sources. These sources should demonstrate a thoughtful and considered approach to the subject. DO NOT USE ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES, ONLINE SOURCES (e.g., ask.com), TEXTBOOK & CLASS POWERPOINTS. NEVER USE WIKIPEDIA! Your sources should have the depth of scholarship appropriate for a graduate-level class.
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Part A. Scattergram Exercise

The table below examines the number defects associated with different levels for processing widgets. For example, when the processing speed reaches 60 widgets per hour, an average of 65 defects are encountered.

Draw a scatter diagram showing the relationship between processing speed and defects. What conclusions can you derive from the diagram?

Units processed per Hour———-Average number of defects
300——————————————–50
400——————————————–42
500——————————————–40
600——————————————–55
700——————————————–80
800——————————————–95

Part B. Office Move: Cause and Effect (Fishbone) Diagram Exercise

You are in charge of managing a project to relocate an office from one building to another. The new building is located three kilometers from the old one. Your job is:

to schedule the move
to make sure the old building is prepared for the move (e.g., to reserve use of elevators)
to make sure the new building is prepared for the move (e.g., to reserve use of elevators)
to make sure all employees are aware of their responsibilities to help the move to go well
to handle all the financial arrangements associated with the move
to handle all contractual arrangements associated with the move
to arrange for the moving company to pack, transport, and unpack the furnishings being moved.

Using the information supplied here, create a cause-and-effect diagram that describes the move effort.

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Monte Carlo Simulation Exercise

Equipment Installation at Globus Enterprises

The equipment installation group at Globus Enterprises is about to make a cost estimate to determine how much it will cost to install a back-up generator at a government laboratory facility. Over the years, this group has carried out more than 100 such installations and has developed a database reflecting past experience. Data on the distribution of cost for design work, building effort, and testing effort is provided in Table 1.

——-($/%) Cheapest——-($/%) Usual—–($/%) Expensive

Design:—- 9,000/30———10,000/40———12,000/30
Build:——60,000/20———70,000/60———80,000/20
Test:——-18,000/20———20,000/50———24,000/30
Table 1. Historical Data on Cost Distributions
The data in the table picture the cost of an effort and the percentage of times this cost is achieved. For example, 30% of the time, Design cost $9,000; 40% of the time it cost $10,000; 30% of the time it cost $12,000.

00 16 45 84 18
83 28 82 36 91
95 14 80 68 34
54 55 13 20 70
57 68 61 37 30
09 81 24 55 21
Table 2. Two-digit Random Numbers

Questions

1.Conduct a Monte Carlo simulation to create a distribution portraying total estimated project costs. Employ ten iterations in your computation. Display the distribution graphically.

2.On the average, how much does it cost to carry out this project?

3.What is the standard deviation of the distribution that you generated (use the formula: SD = (Xi X-bar)2/N, where SD = standard deviation, = square root symbol, = the summation sign, Xi = the ith value of X, X-bar = the mean of the X values, and N = the number of values being considered)? What information does the standard deviation offer us that helps us develop a better understanding of risk in this case? (For more help on computing standard deviation, see below.)

4.Roughly what is the probability that the project will cost more than $105,000?

Computing standard deviation for following numbers: 8, 4, 10, 7, 6

———–X——-X-bar—–x – X-bar——–Squared
———8.00—–7.00——-1.00————–1.00
———4.00—–7.00——-3.00————-9.00
———10.00—7.00——-3.00————–9.00
———-7.00—–7.00——-0.00————–0.00
———-6.00—–7.00——-1.00————–1.00
Total—35.00————————————-20.00
Average = X-Bar 7.00————————-4.00 (Sum Squared)/N = Variance
—————————————————–2.00Sqrt(Variance) = Standard Deviation

Computing standard deviation for following numbers: 6, 7, 5.5, 8, 8.5

————-X——-X-bar———x – X-bar——–Squared
————6.00——7.00———–1.00————-1.00
————7.00——7.00———–0.00————-0.00
————5.50——7.00———–1.50————-2.25
————8.00——7.00———–1.00————1.00
————8.50——7.00———–1.50————-2.25
Total——–35.00————————————–6.50
Average = X-Bar =7.00——————————1.30 (Sum Squared)/N = Variance
————————————————————-1.14 Sqrt(Variance) = Standard Deviation

Note that the spread of numbers in the first case above is greater than the second case, so that standard deviation in the first case (SD = 2.00) is greater than in the second (SD = 1.14)

Read the following article. Consider its subject matter and do a little extra research on this subject. Answer the discussion questions below.
1.Describe the problem faced by Vlasic. Why were they unable to oppose the sales plan put forth by Wal-Mart? Ultimately, how did responding to Wal-Mart affect their business?
2.Was this an ethical supply chain decision on the part of Wal-Mart? Also, highlight any sustainable ethics that was involved here.
3.What does this case tell you about how much influence a business can have with regard to its suppliers decisions and behaviors? What does this say about the conventional notions of the responsibility of firms for the practices of their suppliers (both in terms of individual firms and collectively)? Is it reasonable for consumers (or even regulators) to hold firms accountable?

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The objective of this paper is for you to consider the application of this week\’s course objective to your career experiences and/or to current events. The course objective this week is, \”Ability to discuss ethics & SEC Requirements Code of Ethics.\”

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Research Paper Topic: James says that the “power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things,” is among the “cluster of gifts [that] may almost be said to constitute experience” (555). First, explain what this statement means. Then, drawing on two stories from this week, apply this statement to an examination of how the stories are told. Then explain how the characters—or an environment, or both—exert or submit to power over each other, most obviously (but not necessarily) of men over women.
Text: “A White Heron” Sarah Orne Jewett and “Daisy Miller: A Study” Henry James
Film: “Daisy Miller” (1970)

Research paper: you will need to write one research paper. By “research” paper, I mean your paper ought to integrate innovative primary and secondary sources and cite them accurately, with full command of the MLA style sheet. By “integrate,” I mean the research need be an integral part of the whole, not tacked on. By “innovative” I mean the research ought to make original use of outside knowledge and involve a discernible critical approach or methodology.

When citing multiple works from your book, cite them by using the format in the MLA website under the \”Required Text\” head (p. 1) and cross-reference it with some form of the entry here:
Whitman, Walt. “The Wound Dresser.” Baym et al. 71-3. Print.

Format: Your research paper will need to be paginated and double-spaced.
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Select a patient that you examined during the last 10 weeks. With this patient in mind, address the following in a SOAP Note: Subjective: What details did the patient provide regarding his or her personal and medical history? Objective: What observations did you make during the physical assessment? Assessment: What were your differential diagnoses? Provide a minimum of three possible diagnoses. List them from highest priority to lowest priority. What was your primary diagnosis and why? Plan: What was your plan for diagnostics and primary diagnosis? What was your plan for treatment and management including alternative therapies? Reflection notes: What would you do differently in a similar patient evaluation?less
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Lesson 5 (and Jones’ chapter 4), what might Jones say about the idealization depicted in the film “Jesus Camp”?

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Georges Thanksgiving Trip

George is invited by his sister, Dorothy, to attend a family reunion during the Thanksgiving weekend. Dorothy lives in Denver, NY, about 90 miles northeast of New York City. George lives in Washington, DC, about 215 miles south of New York City. George decides to visit Dorothy and to travel to her place by car.

The only problem is that road traffic during the Thanksgiving holidays is terrible along the East Coast of the United States. George would normally travel to Dorothys house by taking Interstate Highway 95. This is the major link connecting Washington and New York City. However, during Thanksgiving, the traffic on I-95 is usually bad, leading to major delays.

George decides to explore an alternate route to traveling to Dorothys. This route would be a few miles longer. Also, he would encounter a 60 mile segment of road in a rural area, and he would have to travel slowly on this segment. The good feature about the alternate route is that it is unlikely to suffer from Thanksgiving traffic.

A map showing the two routes to Dorothys house is offered in Figure 1.

Based on his experience in traveling along I-95 during Thanksgiving holidays, George has developed a good sense of the likelihood of delays that he can encounter on the journey. Table 1 shows the probability distributions he has created for all the segments of his trip to Dorothy for both the I-95 route and the alternate route.

Assignment

Using the information supplied in Figure 1 and Table 1, determine the expected amount of time it will take George to travel from Washington, DC to his sisters house, employing both the I-95 and alternate route. SHOW YOUR WORK, DEMONSRATING HOW YOU ARRIVED AT THE ANSWERS YOU PROVIDE.

Two routes to George sister\’s house:

Figure 1
Route 1:
George sister house upstate New York to Kingston 10 miles using Rural Road; Kingston to New York City 80 miles using highway; New York City to Baltimore 175 miles using highway ; Baltimore to George house Washington DC 40 miles using highway .

Route 2:
George sister house to East Branch 60 miles using Rural Road; East Branch to Binghamton 50 miles using highway ; Binghamton to Scranton 30 miles using highway ; Scranton to Baltimore 130 miles using highway ; Baltimore to George house 40 miles using highway .

Legend: Highway 70 MPH; Rural 40 MPH

Table 1
Probability Distributions for Travel Times on Journey
Regular Route (East Route)
Probability of achieving schedule, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% longer than schedule
Segment
Washington-Baltimore 0.70.30.0 0.0 0.0
Baltimore-New York City 0.00.10.2 0.5 0.2
New York City-Kingston 0.10.20.3 0.3 0.1
Kingston-Sister\’s Home 0.80.20.0 0.0 0.0

Alternate Route (West Route)
Probability of achieving schedule, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% longer than schedule
Segment
Washington-Baltimore0.7 0.30.0 0.0 0.0
Baltimore-Binghamton0.9 0.10.0 0.0 0.0
Binghamton-E Branch0.9 0.10.0 0.0 0.0
E Branch-Sister\’s Home0.8 0.20.0 0.0 0.0

Chapter 7 of the textbook gives an overview of the interconnections between gender and security, and chapter 8 focuses on Human Security, and there are two documents; One is an advertisement directed towards women during WW2. Another is a recent article about a Canadian soldier who fought in Afghanistan and observed that soldiers would get sexually aroused while fighting. What does this tell us about the nature of war and gender?

Readings:

-Collins, Alan. 2010.Contemporary Security Studies – chapter 7 and 8

-To the Women of Canada
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/posters/big/big_30_war_poster.aspx

-Canadian soldiers unprepared for the reality of killing. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/