Write an analysis report about the recent attack on the US Office of Personnel Management.

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Wk 5: Networks of Networks and End to End Networking

Write an analysis report about the recent attack on the US Office of Personnel Management. In the report, answer the following questions:

1- What type of attack was launched on OPM?
2- What was compromised or breached?
2- How was the attack accomplished if known?
4- Your own analysis and feedback about the attack?

5- Who are the victims? What are the implications for them?

Why do you think teacher mentor programs are effective at helping retain new teachers? What are some reasons you think the mentor program in the video is effective? What elements make it effective?

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Education questions

Watch the video on one teacher mentor program and then respond to the following prompts:

1. Why do you think teacher mentor programs are effective at helping retain new teachers?

2. What are some reasons you think the mentor program in the video is effective? What elements make it effective?

3. What are some other elements that were not mentioned but that you think might make a mentor program effective? What kinds of things do you think would be helpful to you as a future mentee?

4.Reflect on your past experiences with teachers and write a few sentences about those experiences. Did you have a teacher champion you? Did any teachers push you and make a difference in your educational journey? Then think about and write a few sentences on why you want to be a teacher.

Discuss whether the promotion of ‘Garden Communities’ by government is a relevant response to the housing crisis.

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Garden Communities

Discuss whether the promotion of ‘Garden Communities’ by government is a relevant response to the housing crisis.

Prepare a business plan for implementing digital strategy including digital twin.

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BIM and Digital Construction

This assignment focuses on developing a business case for implementing BIM in a construction company.

Task:
Prepare a business plan for implementing digital strategy including digital twin. This has to be specifically related to the client and aligned with its strategy. The report will need to consider the following aspects and follow this structure:

– Introduction
– Strategic analysis
– Economic analysis
– Commercial analysis
– Financial analysis
– Management analysis
– Final recommendations

Use the following link as the client (Balfour Beatty)

https://balfourbeatty.com/how-we-work/public-policy/the-industrial-strategy-a-vision-for-growth/

In what other areas of American life does this mindset—the need to be first—emerge?

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Race to space discussion

In what other areas of American life does this mindset—the need to be first—emerge? Cite evidence from this text, your own experience, and other literature, art, or history in your answer.

Create an AWS CloudTrail trail that audits actions taken in your account. Conduct an investigation to determine who modified the Mom & Pop Café website.

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Module 9: Activity 9 – Working with AWS CloudTrail

Activity overview

In this activity, you will create an AWS CloudTrail trail that audits actions taken in your account. You will then conduct an investigation to determine who modified the Mom & Pop Café website.

The activity starts with an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance named Cafe Web Server, which runs a web application that hosts the Mom & Pop Café website.

  • In Task 1, you observe that the website looks normal.
  • In Task 2, soon after you create a trail with AWS CloudTrail, you notice that the website has been hacked, and that part of the hack involved an action where someone modified the security group settings.
  • In Task 3, you use a variety of methods to analyze the CloudTrail logs, including the Linux grep utility and the AWS CLI.
  • In Task 4, you use Amazon Athena to search the CloudTrail logs.
  • In the Challenge section that concludes Task 4, you work to identify the hacker.
  • In Task 5, now that you have discovered the culprit, you remove that user’s access. You also take steps to reduce the chances that the AWS account and the Mom & Pop Café website will be hacked again.

The architectural diagram here illustrates the setup that is used in this activity

Suppose the first player plays Tit for Tat nicely – starting with C. The second player plays nasty Tit for Tat – that is, starts at D. What would the first seven pairs of moves be? Could there be any reason that the first player would start with C knowing the other is going to defect?

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5 Basic Game Theory Questions

1. Suppose the first player plays Tit for Tat nicely – starting with C. The second player plays nasty Tit for Tat – that is, starts at D. What would the first seven pairs of moves be? Could there be any reason that the first player would start with C knowing the other is going to defect?

2. Suppose your discount rate is .8 per year. Would you rather have four yearly payments, starting now of $10, $10,  $10,  and $10, or would you rather have $4 yearly forever?  Show your work of course.

  • (a) For the following Prisoner’s Dilemma game, infinitely repeated, is the strategy pair (Grim, Grim) and equilibrium for discount rate δ = .7? Show your work, as always.

C      D
C   3,3   1,8

D   8,1   2,2

  • (b) What is the minimum discount rate for which (Grim, Grim) is an equilibrium?

 

3. The 2008 Presidential nomination saw 21 Republican primaries and caucuses happening all on one day, so-called Super Tuesday, Feb 8. There were only four real candidates left afterwards: John McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul. In the West Virginia caucus, there were seven groups of voters, we’ll assume.  Here are their sizes and their preferences.

Group 1 (16%)  JM  MR  MH  RP

Group 2 (28%)  MR  JM  MH  RP

Group 3 (13%)  MR  MH  JM  RP

Group 4 (21%)  MH  MR  JM  RP

Group 5 (12%)  MH  JM  MR  RP

Group 6 (6%)   RP  MR  MH  JM

Group 7 (4%)   RP  MH  MR  JM

Let’s assume the voting procedure was the following.  Candidates are eliminated in rounds until only one is left.  Assume the voters vote sincerely each time – that is, they vote for their top choice.  On the first round Mitt Romney won a plurality of the votes in the first round with 41%.  (Plurality means he won more votes than anyone else.)  But that doesn’t make him the winner.  After each round of the caucus if no one wins a majority, (majority means over 50%) then the candidate with the fewest votes is dropped.  Then his or her supporters vote for one of the remaining candidates.

Again they vote sincerely.  Who would win?  (It probably helps to copy the above table, and cross people in it, as you determine the fewest-vote-getter each time.)

 

4. There are exactly four candidates, A, B, C and D in an election, and there are exactly five citizens voting on them.

Citizen 1.   C, A, D, B

Citizen 2.   B, D, C, A

Citizen 3.   B, D, C, A

Citizen 4.   C, D, A, B

Citizen 5.   C, D, B, A

  • (a) Which candidates are Pareto efficient for these four citizens?  If a candidate is not Pareto efficient say why not.
  • (b) Is there a Condorcet Winner?  If there is, who is it?
  • (c)  Who would win by the Borda count?
  • (d) Who would win by approval voting, assuming Citizens 1 and 2 voted for only one candidate, but citizens 3, 4, and 5 voted for two.

 

5. In class I had four movies D, C, S and R and a preference ordering for three people who were voting on which one to go see. Use these orderings instead

person 1:  D R C S

person 2:  S R D C

person 3:  C S D R

  • (a) Suppose the voting method was to choose between the pairs D, C versus S, R, and then choose between whichever pair wins.  Who would win?  (I showed the general method in Thursday’s class.)
  • (b) Suppose instead they started with a choice between either D, S or C, R, then went on to choose one of that pair.  Who would win?
  • (c) Suppose they started with a choice between D, R versus C, S.  Who would win?
  • (d) When we make these predictions about who would win, are we assuming that the players know each other’s preferences, or are we assuming only that they know their own?

Build a professional-looking PowerPoint (PPT) presentation on some aspect of professional communication that contains at least 17 slides.

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Research Project: PowerPoint Presentation Assignment Instructions

Overview

For this assignment, you will build a professional-looking PowerPoint (PPT) presentation on some aspect of professional communication that contains at least 17 slides.

 

Explain how to compute geometric change of variables factors (e.g., ∂r/∂x,∂s/∂x, etc) for quadrilateral elements. Are they constant as they were for a triangular element? Give a geometric interpretation of when the geometric factors are constant for a quadrilateral.

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Differential Equations and Eigen Values

2. Consider the linear constant coefficient hyperbolic system.
Write the Maxwell’s system of equations in matrix form. Determine the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the normal flux matrix An=! ! “! + ! “ ““ and compute the upwind flux for such a system.

3. Consider a quadrilateral element [−1,1]^2 with vertices (r1,s1)=(−1,−1),(r2,s2)=(1,−1),(r3,s3)=(1,1),(r4,s4)=(−1,1).

  • 1) Provide explicit formulas for degree 1 Lagrange polynomials on the reference quadrilateral, and use them to construct a mapped physical element with vertices (xi,yi) for i = 1,…, 4.
  • 2) Explain how to compute geometric change of variables factors (e.g., ∂r/∂x,∂s/∂x, etc) for quadrilateral elements. Are they constant as they were for a triangular element? Give a geometric interpretation of when the geometric factors are constant for a quadrilateral.
  • 3) Explain what would need to change in the implementation of the code to accommodate geometric factors which are non–constant.

4. Consider a DG discretization of the Laplacian on a periodic uniform mesh using the BR1 formulation without penalty.

  • 1) Explicitly characterize the null–space of the DG discretization matrix for degree N=0 polynomials. Hint: use the weak formulation.
  • 2) Construct the the DG discretization matrix explicitly for a degree N=0 DG approximation with 8 elements.

Use critical analysis to write a 500 words proposal based on feminist.

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Reasons for the generation of feminist movements under media studies

Use critical analysis to write a 500 words proposal based on feminist.