Look for pathos in the speech. Identify using quotes from the speech. What are the specialized topoi to lead the audience into feeling? Look for ethos in the speech. Identify using quotes from the speech. How does the speaker create credibility?

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Answer questions 1 & 2 from this article

https://speakola.com/political/jon-stewart-9-11-benefits-first-responders-2019

1.) Look for pathos in the speech. Identify using quotes from the speech.
•What are the specialized topoi to lead the audience into feeling?

2.) Look for ethos in the speech. Identify using quotes from the speech.
•How does the speaker create credibility?

Produce a review of eight sources/articles in the form of a Literature Review, by summarizing the findings and conclusions, and synthesizing the implications of this research with respect to your topic.

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Management Information Systems- Cloud Computing

Produce a review of eight sources/articles in the form of a Literature Review, by summarizing the findings and conclusions, and synthesizing the implications of this research with respect to your topic.

BROAD TOPIC:
It has been argued that Cloud Computing has emerged as one of the technologies that have the potential to offer business value to organizations and institutions as they manage their Information Systems and technology service needs. Many businesses rely on the use of the cloud to provide much-needed services to advance their needs while responding to growth spurts that they may experience. Given the level of dynamic shifts within businesses, seen for example, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, cloud service providers are required to be responsive to the needs of their customers, who are themselves cloud consumers, and should ensure that the cloud environments provided are built such that they meet the requirements and changing needs of these consumers. Cloud Computing technologies and environments, which include a combination of IT resources, can be adopted and packaged by service providers to meet the different and specific needs of a business. Cloud-based environments are accessible through different cloud service delivery models.
There are several considerations pertaining to cloud service delivery models. With reference to a specific industry or a company, you are to discuss these considerations from a cloud consumer perspective.

Why could BAE not take an existing IT infrastructure and simply increase its scale and expect it to work? Be specific and provide detailed explanation for your response.

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Disaster at Denver International Airport

Answer all questions below:
1. Why could BAE not take an existing IT infrastructure and simply increase its scale and expect it to work? Be specific and provide detailed explanation for your response.

Instructions: Read and use the attached Disaster at Denver International Airport document, and research the Internet as a reference to address all questions. Use the attached Discussion Board Response Rubric as a guide.

Research one robotic or AI system and write a convincing brief on why that technology should be adopted in an organization. For the organization, you may choose your own company, your employer, or a hypothetical company.

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Internet of Things and Connected Systems

Description
In this paper, you will gain experience assessing the value and applicability of an AI, IoT, or robotic system in addressing the technical and functional requirements of an organization.

Writing Prompt
Choose ONE of the writing prompts below to address for this paper. You don’t have to address more than one prompt.

Prompt Option 1
Research one robotic or AI system and write a convincing brief on why that technology should be adopted in an organization. For the organization, you may choose your own company, your employer, or a hypothetical company. Note that, while you need to provide references to back up your claims about the capabilities and value of your chosen system, you are ultimately writing this document to convince the reader to adopt the system. Be sure to argue why an intelligent system should be employed here. Why not just do things the “tried and true way”?

Prompt Option 2
Research the applications of AI and IoT systems for industrial applications and write a paper explaining how these technologies are transforming the way enterprises are doing work. I’d suggest choosing one domain, such as manufacturing, transportation, construction, power generation, and the like. Be sure to discuss how the application of these intelligent systems helps enterprises with their service offerings, competitiveness, and strategy. Be sure to consider why an intelligent system should be employed in the first place.

Prompt Option 3
IoT, AI, and robotics are coming together to revolutionize the transportation industry. As an example, companies like Embark (https://embarktrucks.com/), Waymo (https://waymo.com/), Ford, and others are developing driverless vehicles for both the consumer and corporate space. Write a research brief on how driverless vehicles may upset the transportation industry, or a segment thereof. Be sure to address how driverless systems will change the mission, strategy, and services in transportation.

Prompt Option 4
As with other papers, if you have your own idea for a topic that doesn’t fall directly in line with any of the previous prompts, discuss with me. You may be able to write on your own topic… one that is more in line with your career goals or interests. Just make sure you get my feedback before writing about your custom topic.

Analyze, design, implement, and document a database system application. Use the methodology for database development learned in class.

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DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS DESIGN PROJECT

Purpose of this project
Analyze, design, implement, and document a database system application. You will use the methodology for database development learned in class. The system must be implemented on a DBMS with any language as a host–language for the application. The system must be menu–driven and include the basic functionality described below.

The Online Computer Store
The following specifications are intended as a guide; they are not the complete specifications. These are intended to be a basis for you to get started in the right direction in designing your system. You as the designer must analyze and decide what other details or features should be specified for your system. Thus, individual group implementations will differ in terms of design and implementation styles. Every group has to mention clearly in its report what other specifications are assumed. However: (a) they should not contradict the assumptions described below, and (b) they have to be clearly stated in your report.

DATABASE REQUIREMENTS
(Specifications for the design of the database)
Newark–IT is a company that sells computers all over the world. It is a web–based company. All sales are managed via a website. The company wants to build a database system for customers, products, and sales transactions. You have been approached to help Newark–IT with the database design and application development.

1. A customer has an ID, a first name and a surname.

2. Each customer has a home address, a telephone number, and an email address.

3. A customer can have one or multiple credit cards. Each credit card has a number, a security number, the name of its owner, the billing address, the type of credit card, and an expiry date.

4. A customer can specify multiple shipping addresses. A shipping address is identified by the name the customer choses for this address (which is unique among the shipping addresses of this customer) and the ID of the customer. For a shipping address the zip code, street name, street number, city, state and country are provided. If a customer is deleted, we need not keep track of her shipping addresses any longer.

5. Customers have a status (regular, silver, gold and platinum). A status level corresponds to different advantages. In particular, a credit amount is offered to the customers of silver status and above which might be different for each of these customers. In addition, the company proposes each month special offers (reduced prices) for some products exclusively for gold and platinum status customers.

6. An offer is the combination of a particular product and a price.

7. Each product has its own product ID, a name, a recommended price, and a brief textual description.

8. Each product has also a unique product type. The quantity of each product in stock is recorded in the database.

9. A customer can collect several products in a shopping basket each at a different quantity. If the product is on offer and the customer is of gold or platinum status, she is charged the reduced price for this product.

10. A shopping basket is always non–empty. It is created with the first item added.

11. A successful sales transaction is recorded in the database, when a customer buys a shopping basket (with products), choses one and only one shipping addresses and the payment is confirmed. The price and the quantity of every product in the transaction should be available as well as the total amount of the transaction.

12. The payment of a sales transaction is done with a credit card. It can be one of the credit cards stored by the customer, or a credit card whose information is recorded for this particular transaction.

13. As soon as a sales transaction is confirmed, the shipment is started. If a product is not delivered successfully, for instance because the cargo got lost, the transaction gets tagged with not–delivered tag.

14. There are three main categories of product types: Desktop computers, laptops, and printers.

15. There are also product types that do not belong to any of these main categories (e.g., different kinds of accessories).

16. Product types of main categories have specific attributes: Desktop computers and laptops have both a CPU type, and laptops have also a weight and a battery running time. Printers have a resolutions and a printer–type.

Provide the meaning and the details pf the historical background of customer facing system. Explain if the operation was effective and how was it effective.

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Customer Facing System

Provide the meaning and the details pf the historical background of customer facing system. Explain if the operation was effective and how was it effective.

Write a program in Python to calculate the surface area of a cuboid. Collect width, height and depth of the cuboid as input. Write a program that will work out the distance travelled if the user enters in the speed and the time. 

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Scientific Programming and Mathematical Modelling

Question 1: Python Function (12 marks)
a) Write a program in Python to calculate the surface area of a cuboid. Collect width, height and depth of the cuboid as input.  (2 mark)

b) Write a program that will work out the distance travelled if the user enters in the speed and the time.  (2 mark)

c) Write a program to calculate the area of a circle from the radius entered by the user.  (2 mark)

d) Write a program to calculate the future value (FV) of a loan using compound interest.  (3 mark)

𝐹𝑉 = 𝑃𝑉(1 + 𝑟)𝒏

PV = present value

r = interest rate (as a decimal value) n = number of periods

e) Display 0 if a number entered by the user is even, and 1 if it is odd.  (3 mark)

Question 2: Sketching and analyzing graph (13 marks)

You will need to use Jupyter notebook for this question. The code below draws a line from position (0,0) to (6,250)
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np

xpoints = np.array([0, 6]) ypoints = np.array([0, 250])

plt.plot(xpoints, ypoints) plt.show()

a) The code above creates a positive linear slope. Change the code so that the positive linear slope becomes a negative linear slope using the same range of axis.  (3 mark)

b) Create code which will produce the graph below. Hint: you may need to use this line in your code:
plt.plot(xpoints, ypoints, ‘o’)  (2 mark)

c) Create the line graph with multiple points shown above.  (2 mark)

d) Why do the majority of Data Scientists use NumPy array instead of Lists in Python?  (3 marks)

e) The following is an example of unstructured data. How would you be able to structure this data? (3 marks)

Question 3: The practice of mathematical modelling (12 marks)

Answer the following questions regarding the basic of Mathematical Modelling. It is also useful to illustrate your answer using a diagram or a chart.

a. In your own words, provide a definition of Mathematical modelling and explain three components which contributes to a good mathematical model. Think of one or more real-world scenario in which mathematical modelling can be used to provide insights, solutions, and predictions. (2 marks)

b. Explain the importance of assumptions in building a mathematical model. Use one or two examples to further clarify your answers. (2 marks)

c. Explain three possible limitations of using mathematical model as a data scientist. Use some real-world example(s) to illustrate your answers. (3 marks)

d. Suppose that one of your hobbies is to collect ants and put them in a jar. One day after coming to mathematical modelling seminar, you are interested in modelling the growth of your ant’s colony population.

i. Explain using the 1st stage of mathematical modelling how you would define the objective of your model, the assumptions regarding your ants’ population, the level of simplifications, and your model function or formula. (hint: suppose P = population and t=time (day), what is the function for your ants population growth in terms of time ) (3 marks)

ii. What technique of mathematics is used to model the scenario above? Suggest some ways for you to validate your model in (i) (2 mark)

Question 4: Functions and structured data (13 marks)

The questions below test your understanding on using functions and structured data in modelling real-world problems.

e. In the context of mathematical modelling, explain the relations and differences between an expression, an equation, and a function. Use a real-world example, structured data, or a cartesian graph to illustrate the suitability of using a function in modelling.   (3 marks)

f. Observe the structured data provided below.

Summarize the structured data above and determine whether you can model a function of height in terms of age (Height (Age)). Explain the relationship between height and exam score and analyse if you can model a function of exam score in terms of height (Exam score (Height)).  (3 marks)

g. A University had 1200 undergraduate students enrolled in 2003 and 1500 students in 2006. If the student population P; grows as a linear function of time t, where t is the number of years after 2003 (Hence t = 0 at 2003).

i. Find a linear function that relates the student population P to the time t. Starts with defining your objective (what the independent and dependent variable is) and any assumptions necessary for your model. (2 marks)
ii. With your linear function, predict the number of students enrolled in the University in 2010. (1 mark)

h. As an analyst at Amazon, your first task is to analyse the sales of Amazon Kindle throughout the year. Your data concludes that when the retail price of a kindle is $50, the number of sales is 4,500 unit per month. After analysing it further, you find out that if the price is raised by $1, the sales drop by 5 unit. So at $51, the number of sales become 4,495.
i. Find a linear function that relates the number of sales to the price of a kindle. Determine the dependent and independent variable and write down your function. (2 marks)
ii. Extend your function so that it relates the monthly revenue to the price. Note that Revenue(price) = number of sales (price) * price. In addition, find the optimal price of a kindle so that it maximises the revenue. (2 mark)

Which approach best explains this event? What are the limitations of each approach? Ultimately, what is the most appropriate response, if any, to the protest on the part of the federal government?

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ESSAY QUESTION

– In January 2022, thousands of protestors dubbed “The Freedom Convoy” descended upon Ottawa to protest all Covid-19 restrictions. Thousands of truck trailers shut down the city core. How are we to characterize this group of protestors? Compare and contrast Durkheim’s views on crime and punishment with the political economy approach.

-Which approach best explains this event? What are the limitations of each approach? Ultimately, what is the most appropriate response, if any, to the protest on the part of the federal government?

Was it a good sign that the CEO came to a kick-off meeting for a project, or was it a threat? The symbolic frame also relates to the company’s culture. How do people dress? How many hours do they work? How do they run meetings?

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Four frames of organization

Managers integrate business and organizational issues into their planning. It also helps them look at projects as a series of interrelated phases. When you integrate business and organizational issues into project management planning and look at projects as a series of interrelated phases, you do a better job of ensuring project success.

2.2 UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONS
The systems approach requires that project managers always view their projects in the context of the larger organization. Organizational issues are often the most difficult part of working on and managing projects. In fact, many people believe that most projects fail because of organizational issues like company politics. Project managers often do not spend enough time identifying all the stakeholders involved in projects, especially the people opposed to
the projects. Also, project managers often do not spend enough time considering the political context of a project or the culture of the organization. To improve the success rate of IT projects, it is important for project managers to develop a better understanding of people as well as organizations.

2.2a The Four Frames of Organizations
As shown in Figure 2-2, you can try to understand organizations better by focusing on different perspectives. Organizations can be viewed as having four different frames: structural, human resources, political, and symbolic.

  • The structural frame deals with how the organization is structured (usually depicted in an organizational chart) and focuses on different groups’ roles and responsibilities to meet the goals and policies set by top management. This frame is very rational and focuses on coordination and control. For example, within the structural frame, a key IT issue is whether a company should centralize the IT personnel in one department or decentralize across several departments. You will learn more about organizational structures in the next section.
  • The human resources (HR) frame focuses on producing harmony between the needs of the organization and the needs of people. It recognizes that mismatches can occur between the needs of the organization and those of individuals and groups, and works to resolve any potential problems.
    For example, many projects might be more efficient for the organization if employees worked 80 or more hours a week for several months. However, his work schedule would conflict with the personal lives and health of many
    employees. Important IT issues related to the human resources frame are the shortage of skilled IT workers within the organization and unrealistic schedules imposed on many projects.
  • The political frame addresses organizational and personal politics. Politics in organizations take the form of competition among groups or individuals for power, resources, and leadership. The political frame emphasizes that organizations are coalitions composed of varied individuals and interest groups. Often, important decisions need to be made about the allocation of scarce resources. Competition for resources makes conflict a central issue in organizations, and power improves the ability to obtain those resources. Project managers must pay attention to politics and power if they are to be effective. It is important to know who opposes your projects as well as who supports them. Important IT issues related to the political frame are the differences in power between central functions and operating units or between functional managers and project managers.
  • The symbolic frame focuses on symbols and meanings. In this frame, the most important aspect of any event in an organization is not what actually happened, but what it means. Was it a good sign that the CEO came to a
    kick-off meeting for a project, or was it a threat? The symbolic frame also relates to the company’s culture. How do people dress? How many hours do they work? How do they run meetings? Many IT projects are international
    and include stakeholders from various cultures. Understanding those cultures is also a crucial part of the symbolic frame.

Project managers must learn to work within all four frames to function well in organizations. Organizational issues are discussed further in Chapter 9, Project Human Resource Management, Chapter 10, Project Communications Management, and Chapter 13, Project Stakeholder Management. The following sections on organizational structures, organizational culture, stakeholder management, and the need for top management commitment provide additional information related to the structural and political frames.

Knowing how the firm responded, what would you have done differently? What are some steps you think the firm could have taken to prevent this incident? Is your business susceptible? How are you going to reduce your risk?

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Case Study 1

SCENARIO:
A 10-person consulting firm sent a small team to South America to complete a client project. During their stay, an employee used a business debit card at a local ATM. A month after returning to the US, the firm received overdraft notices from their bank. They identified fraudulent withdrawals of $13,000, all originating from South America. There was an additional $1,000 overdraft fee.

ATTACK:
The criminals installed an ATM skimmer device to record card account credentials. Many false debit cards were manufactured and used at ATMs in different cities across South America.
What is Skimming? Skimming occurs when criminals install devices on ATMs, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, fuel pumps, etc. to capture data or record cardholders’ PINs. Criminals use the data to create fake debit or credit cards and then steal from victims’ accounts.

RESPONSE:
Realizing they had been defrauded, the firm contacted their bank and closed the impacted account immediately. Their attempts to pursue reimbursement from the bank were unsuccessful. The commercial account used at the ATM for local currency had different protections from consumer accounts and the bank was not required to reimburse them for their losses. The bank went on to deduct the $1,000 overdraft fee from the firm owner’s personal account.
The firm severed ties with that bank. The new bank offered comprehensive fraud protection guarantees.
The firm created two business accounts:
• one for receiving funds and making small transfers
• one for small expense payments
The firm updated travel protocols, banning the use of company-provided debit cards. Employees now prepay expenses electronically, pay cash, or use a major credit card, as necessary.

IMPACT:
The entire cash reserve for the small business was wiped out, netting losses of almost $15,000.

LESSONS LEARNED:
1 Use major credit cards when traveling – they have more consumer fraud protection than debit cards.
2 Get notified – set up transaction alerts with your credit and debit card companies to monitor fraud.
3 Check your bank account frequently.
4 Create withdrawal alerts.
5 Understand your bank’s policies about covering losses from fraud.

DISCUSS:
• Knowing how the firm responded, what would you have done differently?
• What are some steps you think the firm could have taken to prevent this incident?
• Is your business susceptible? How are you going to reduce your risk?

RESOURCES:
• NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Corner: https://www.nist.gov/itl/smallbusinesscyber
• National Cybersecurity Alliance: https://staysafeonline.org/cybersecure-business/