Explain what a company’s highest priority should be when creating a competitive advantage? What is an example of a competitive advantage that is created by using information technology? In your opinion, what are the ethical considerations when using information technology to create a competitive advantage?

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Strategic

Within the Discussion Board area, write 300–500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

For this Discussion Board, complete the following:

Strategic evaluation of a company requires managers to consider the reasons why one company has a competitive advantage over another. When managers make decisions to compete, they also need to reflect on ethical implications. Competitive advantage can be created when information technology is used to collect and interpret data.

Read the following article:

Digital Transformation – How to Differentiate and Create Competitive Advantage in the Digital Era

Please answer the following questions:

Explain what a company’s highest priority should be when creating a competitive advantage?
What is an example of a competitive advantage that is created by using information technology?
In your opinion, what are the ethical considerations when using information technology to create a competitive advantage?

Evaluate the current moral, philosophical and worldview influences in a specific, researched public administration case study. Explain how these challenges impact ethics, statesmanship and governance of public administrators.

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The Relationship between the Federal Government and Native American Sovereign Nations

Evaluate the current moral, philosophical and worldview influences in a specific, researched public administration case study. Whatever source is used for the actual case study must focus on a real-world public administration situation that is being discussed and analyzed in the chosen article.

Explain how these challenges impact ethics, statesmanship and governance of public administrators. Remember to synthesize your research and findings with the required readings and presentations for this week and a Biblical/covenantal model of statesmanship, leadership and organizational behavior.

You will conduct a case study of an observed study in a public administration, in this case “The Relationship between the Federal Government and Native American Sovereign Nations. The analysis will be based upon the concepts you learned and discussed in the previous module’s essay assignment, writing 550-600 words in the initial thread. For the case study, you are welcome to cite a scholarly source, but if they do, it must not be merely a theoretical/philosophical discussion. Instead, whatever source is used for the actual case study must focus on a real-world public administration situation that is being discussed and analyzed in the chosen article. You will in turn apply concepts discussed in the previous Module: Week’s essay to analyze the situation, in addition to the required reading and presentations from the current Module: Week. Remember: it will be important to do both!

Discuss and summarize the case study. Summarize and discuss seven best management practices of urban planning in biblical context.

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Best management practices of urban planning

Based on your readings thus far from the text and your own research discuss and summarize the case study. Summarize and discuss seven best management practices of urban planning in biblical context. (See non inclusive list below).

• Select right, capable people get the best possible team in place.
• Show empathy listen to people, relate to their emotional experience.
• Communicate clearly foster transparency. openness, trust. and honesty.
• Lead by example take responsibility for projects.
• Delegate only so much that you can do by yourself.
• Be positive and constructive timely and meaningful feedback is crucial.
• Develop people a manager is only as good as their team.
• Encourage innovation think outside the square and know when to take risks.
• Be flexible.

Apply the physical, chemical and microscopic examinations of an urinalysis to a case study. Describe the various urinalysis tests, indicate abnormal results and determine what abnormal conditions they may detect.

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Urinalysis

Purpose: The urinalysis is a diagnostic procedure used in diagnoses of several conditions. Urines are collected and analyzed by 3 methods:

Physical – color, turbidity (cloudiness) are examined

Chemical – a dipstick is a strip of test chemicals placed on small pads. The dipstick is literally dipped into the urine and removed, and then colors of the pads are compared to determine any chemicals present.

Microscopic examination – urine is spun down in a centrifuge and then a drop is placed on a microscopic slide, cover-slipped and placed under a microscope. This slide is read by qualified professionals.

This exercise is specifically designed for the medical assistants and medical lab technicians taking Basic A & P. But we all should understand why physicians often use the urinalysis for diagnosis.

Objectives:

Apply the physical, chemical and microscopic examinations of an urinalysis to a case study.
Describe the various urinalysis tests, indicate abnormal results and determine what abnormal conditions they may detect.

Select the following urinary conditions that apply to the case study.

  • calculi
  • glycosuria
  • albuminuria (proteinuria)
  • ketonuria
  • hematuria
  • hemoglobinuria
  • pyuria

Provide a detailed description of how at least 3 of the following theories of delinquency apply to each of the five juvenile characters in the movie. Provide specific descriptions/examples, including supporting terminology to demonstrate an understanding of the applicable theories.

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The Breakfast Club

Instructions for “The Breakfast Club” Assignment

Watch the movie, The Breakfast Club, directed by John Hughes in 1985.

Provide a detailed description of how at least 3 of the following theories of delinquency (Choice Theory; Strain Theory; Social Learning Theory; Control Theory; Labeling Theory) apply to each of the five juvenile characters in the movie.

Provide specific descriptions/examples, including supporting terminology to demonstrate an understanding of the applicable theories.

Successfully completed the General Secondary School Education-Natural Sciences section with an overall grade of Excellent.

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Primary extracurricular and Community services activities.

Objective
Saudi secondary school graduate with over five years work experience at GT Medical company in Jeddah, SA as an administrative assistant and study abroad experience for less than a year seeking a bachelor degree of aerospace engineering.

Key Skills

  • • MC office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • • Interpersonal communication
  • • Collaboration and Teamwork
  • • Analytical and Problem-Solving skills • Ability to multitask
  • • Task prioritization
  • • Ability to organize own work
  • • Ability to work under pressure
  • • Flexibility and Adaptability
  • • High Attention to Detail

Work Experience
Administrative Assistant , GT Medical Company.                                                           May 2016 – Present

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

  • • Drafted documents, correspondence, and reports using Word, Excel, and other MC office tools.
  • • Organized Computer files, sensitive documents, and home office supplies.
  • • Supported office staff by processing correspondence, documents, and reports.
  • • Researched executive business operations to compile information into detailed reports.
  • • Triaged multiple tasks and competing priorities in servicing requests for senior managers.
  • • Greeted visitors upon arrival directed guests to appropriate departments.

Education
Secondary School AL-FODAIL BIN AYYADH-M

• Successfully completed the General Secondary School Education-Natural Sciences section with an overall grade of Excellent, CGP of 98.58%.

Canadian College Of English Language Vancouver, Canada

• Completed English as a second language.

UBC English Language Institute Vancouver, Canada

• Completed the Upper Intermediate Level of the English for Academic Purposes.

Identify and describe your chosen Use Case. Identify and describe five or more types of personal / private information or data that will be collected, stored, processed, and transmitted in conjunction with the use case. Identify and describe five or more compliance issues related to the use of the RFID bands to make and track mobile purchases.

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Research Report #2: Emerging Issues Risk Analysis and Report

Write a five to seven (5-7) page report using your research. At a minimum, your report must include the following:

1. An introduction or overview of event management systems and the potential security and privacy concerns which could arise when implementing this technology. This introduction should be suitable for an executive audience. Provide a brief explanation as to why three major operating units believe the company needs this capability.

2. An analysis section in which you address the following:
a. Identify and describe your chosen Use Case.
b. Identify and describe five or more types of personal / private information or data that will be collected, stored, processed, and transmitted in conjunction with the use case.
c. Identify and describe five or more compliance issues related to the use of the RFID bands to make and track mobile purchases.
d. Analyze and discuss five or more privacy and security issues related to the use case.
e. Identify and discuss 3 or more relevant laws, regulations, or standards that could impact the planned implementation of the event management system with RFID wrist bands.

3. A recommendations section in which you identify and discuss five or more best practices for security and privacy that should be implemented before the technology is put into use by the company. Include at least one recommendation in each of the following categories: people, processes, policies, and technologies.

4. A closing section (summary) in which you summarize the issues related to your chosen use case and the event management platform overall. Include a summary of your recommendations to the IT Governance Board.

Equation 3 above suggests you that high interest rate spreads are a consequence, rather than a cause of high unemployment. Is this interpretation plausible? What are the limitations of testing this hypothesis using Equation 3?

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ECN220 Project – Updated 22/02/2022

The submission deadline for all components of the Applied Portfolio is Monday 23 May by 12.00 noon. All submissions must be uploaded to the L2 Applied Portfolio Blackboard organisation

The module does not have dedicated workshops or lectures for the project, but there will be signposts throughout the semester to support the task. The project should demonstrate applications of concepts and techniques learned in the class; you should also be able to provide a good interpretation of the results that you produce.

The behaviour of interest rates during recessions.

 The aim of the project is to study the behaviour of various interest rates across recessions and financial crises. You will organize, graph and interpret the data. You will also use various econometric tools to understand the behaviour of interest rates during recessionary periods.

 

Section 1 (Data cleaning and basic analysis)

Log on to the Federal Reserve Economic Data website (FRED) (you may have to register)

 

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/categories

Go to the sub-field “Interest Rates”.

Download the following interest rates (feel free to download more interest rates of your choice).

When possible use monthly frequency from the starting observation of the series to the last observation of 2019:

  1. Moody’s Seasoned Aaa Corporate Bond Yield (AAA)
  2. Moody’s Seasoned Baa Corporate Bond Yield (BAA)
  3. 30-Year Conventional Mortgage Rate (MORTGAGE)[1]
  4. Bank Prime Loan Rate (PRIME)
  5. 3-Month Treasury Bill: Secondary Market Rate (TBILL3)
  6. Effective Federal Funds Rate (FFR)

 

  1. Load all the data in a single Excel file (or Stata file) and graph the series. Make sure that the x- and y- axes are correctly labelled. Provide a table with some basic descriptive statistics: Min, Max, St. Dev., Mean. Show the matrix of correlation coefficients.. Report this.
  2. Looking at the graph in #1 provide a brief (about 250 words) comment on the dynamics of the various interest rates. (Hint: use the economic theories studied in the module)
  3. Standard intermediate macro models, such as IS-LM, postulate the presence of a single interest rate. Does that hypothesis hold in the data? Why or why not? (Max 1000 words).

 

Section 2 (Empirical section)

This section looks at the behaviour of alternative interest rates across past recessions.

 

  1. Use the data collected in section 1 to generate the following interest rate spread:

 

  1. SPt= BAA-AAA

 

  1. Generate a recession dummy variable (i.e. a variable that takes the value of 1 during recession periods and 0 otherwise). Data from the recessions can be downloaded here http://www.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html (Recessions go from peak, the first date, to trough, the second date).
    1. Estimate the following regression for the period 1919M1-2019M12:

 

Where  is the spread (BAA-AAA) that you have created before,  is the dummy capturing the recessions and  is the error term.

 

Report coefficient estimates, standard errors, and R2. Present your results in a table and, using the theory studied throughout the semester, comment on your estimated coefficient. (Max 250 words, table(s) excluded).

 

  1. Generate three new variables to capture the financial crises:
    1. A dummy variable, , which takes the value of 1 during the 1929 crisis, 0 otherwise (approximate the dates using the 1929-33 recession dates used above).
    2. A dummy variable, which takes the value of 1 during the 2007 crisis, 0 otherwise (approximate the dates using the 2007-09 recession dates used above)
    3. A dummy variable, , which takes the value of 1 during recessions (but excluding the 1929-33 and the 2007-09 episodes), 0 otherwise.
    4. Estimate the following regression:

 

 

Where  is the spread (BAA-AAA) that you have created before, ,  and  are the dummy variables described above.  is the error term. Please report coefficient estimates, standard errors, and R2.

  1. Comment on the results obtained (about 500 words).
    1. What is the economic significance?
    2. Are the results econometrically sound?
  2. From the Federal Reserve Economic Data website (FRED) download the civilian unemployment rate (series ID UNRATE). The unemployment rate should be at a monthly frequency, seasonally adjusted and for the period 1954:01-2019:12
    1. Plot the unemployment rate and the spread (BAA-AAA) Compute the correlation coefficient between the two series over the entire sample. Please report this.
    2. Run the following regression:

 

  1. Where is the spread (BAA-AAA) that you have created before,  is the unemployment rate, and  is the error term. Report coefficient estimates, standard errors, and R2.  Comment on the results obtained (max 250 words).
  2. Equation 3 above suggests you that high interest rate spreads are a consequence, rather than a cause of high unemployment. Is this interpretation plausible? What are the limitations of testing this hypothesis using Equation 3? (max 250 words).

What is human trafficking? How prevalent is it in the US today?

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Human Trafficking

Use this site below and answer these questions based on the website:

What is human trafficking? How prevalent is it in the US today?

What are the three (3) most important themes/issues that you learned in this class that had the most impact on you, that you found the most interesting? What one takeaway/learning surprised you the most — that you didn’t know before taking this class?

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Reflection paper

There are two (2) questions that comprise this essay:

1. 1) For you personally, what are the three (3) most important themes/issues that you learned in this class that had the most impact on you, that you found the most interesting?

• Provide examples for each of these themes/topic areas that support why you think they are important

2. 2) What one takeaway/learning surprised you the most — that you didn’t know before taking this class?

• For both questions, reference lecture, class readings, guest speakers, class discussions, assignments, etc.