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What are some of the strengths and limitations of the organization (i.e. limited funding, ageing community etc.)? 

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Bloemraad (2006) in the first reading by Gidengil and Stolle describes political incorporation as the “process of becoming apart of mainstream debates, practices and decision making…” See if you can find some information on a particular ethnic-based organization in Australia. How might your chosen ethnic organization facilitate the political incorporation of migrants and ethnic minorities?
In your reflections you might like to look at some of the following:
What are the main functions of the ethnic organization?
Does the organization have a social or political role (or both)?
What are some of the strengths and limitations of the organization (i.e. limited funding, ageing community etc.)?
In reflecting on some of these questions, what are your views towards multiculturalism in Australia?

Is it due to direction or causality.. or it could be simultaneous in which one causes another no clear pattern of simultaneous causality.

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Why is there a debate about what determines property value? Does land prices determines house prices or does house prices determines land price?
Is it due to direction or causality.. or it could be simultaneous in which one causes another no clear pattern of simultaneous causality.
Will it guide people into the property market and into development and allow them to be more mindful of final house price.
or use market price to bargain for land price.
Who is this research significant to? Is it important to the government who is trying to increase the number of houses built to increase supply.
Argument that there is a huge supply of land available that property developers have access to.. because low house prices hasn’t increased enough to use that land. until house price increases and only then will they build on the land. this is issues of property supply, these issues may explain it better. the government can reduce sales tax on new houses. if government reduces it could make up the premium that property developers are waiting for to build houses.

Create a form using a wizard for your database using any format of your choice. Use all fields in the Form. Name the form with the same name as your table.

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Microsoft Access Assignment CMAP120
25 Total Points/-2 each error, omission, misspelling, etc.; -5 Each Object missing or big concept not completed correctly
Create a database with the subject/category of your choice. Determine a category for your database where you can create 15 records that have multiple characteristics. (An example might be a book or music collection, sports team you follow, musician/band you like, books you’ve read or would like to read restaurants you visit, colleges you’d like to apply to, places you have or would like to visit etc.) Have it be something you can research on the Internet or have tangible items you can look at to populate your table – no personal address books.
Name the database file XXXX.accdb. Replace the XXXX with the topic of your database. The database name should be the broad name of what will be inside it. If I were creating a database on the history of the Pittsburgh Steeler Coaches I would call mine SteelerCoaches.accdb, as an example.
A. Design one table with at least:

a. 6 Fields (can have more, but not more than 10)

b. Correct datatypes for your fields

c. Make property changes as needed to each field. At the very least change the field sizes; none should be 255.

d. A primary key Field other than ID with an AutoNumber (ID with AutoNumber is a default, I’d like you to replace that with your Primary Key field; keeping AutoNumber as a Datatype might be okay with your data)

e. One field should have a drop-down box (Lookup Wizard Datatype)

f. Name the table appropriately, there should be no tables named Table1, for instance.

B. Populate the table with at least 15 records. Make sure all the data shows—adjust columns as needed. (No more than 25 records).

C. Create a form using a wizard for your database using any format of your choice. Use all fields in the Form. Name the form with the same name as your table.

D. Query the table, have at least one criteria, and name the query based on what’s in it. You can have as many of the fields showing as necessary to show what you’re trying to accomplish, but do not have all the fields in the query or showing.

E. Create a report, using a wizard, based on all fields in the Query, using any suitable format. Save the report giving it an appropriate name.

TO SUBMIT YOUR COMPLETED ACCESS ASSIGNMENT: Do not submit until you are done and database is ready to be graded; save and close your file and know where you saved it.

1) Click on Course Content on BlackBoard Course Menu.

2) Click on Access Assignment title.

3) Scroll down some and choose Browse My Computer.

4) Find your file you’d like to submit, select it and hit Open.

5) You will see file name and know file is attached. 6) Click Submit.

As a common form of risk transfer, what are the economic and risk benefits of fixed-price contracts bring to the construction companies and clients?

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Other the requirements are below:

(1) Make the proposal more critically and add some data.

(2) The end of (back ground of study), I have no idea to write continuedly, please write more. The aim is giving some effective policies to improve fixed-price contract.

(3) Write more of (research questions) and (research objectives)

My supervisor was very strict and kept asking me to be critical and specific.

The risk transferring: a critical approach to discuss the fixed-price contract plays a common role in the construction projects

 

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to discuss some problems occurred in fixed-price contracts which applied by the corporation between client and construction companies in the risk transferring methods, meanwhile it will give some effective contracts’ policies which could help to reduce the legal disputes between construction companies and clients. In the complex environment, the construction companies tend to cannot change the nature of the risk itself through the risk avoidance or risk mitigation method. In this situation, risk transferring method is the choice because it can transfer the result of the project risk to the other party together with the rights corresponding to the risk to reduce the loss of the cost.

 

Background of the study

Normally, risk is transferred for a fee. Thus, risk transfer in principle amounts to the “sale” of risk. It is fair to say that the fixed-price contracts are the common way for construction companies to transfer risk, especially in the construction industry. The construction companies will establish a set price for each client regardless of the actual time and materials used for a project.

The fixed-price contracts are attractive to both construction firms and clients, which firms have detailed project budgets before construction, and clients who prefer contracts with transparent prices to avoid open-ended timing contracts. From the negative side, the disadvantages of fixed-price contracts are often the trigger for legal disputes between construction companies and customer service. First, risk transfer breaks the principle of personal responsibility, because risk transfer leads to injustice as it imposes responsibility for the failure of the project on the party that did not perform the action in the first place. Secondary, not only does the customer have to pay more than a flexible contract, but a sudden drop in service and quality during the period puts the customer at a disadvantage. Furthermore, when the price of services or materials increases sharply, the construction company may not be able to fulfill the contract so that the clients need to take useful legal action. For the construction company side, the design process should be completed before the contract is signed so that the later design changes to the project will reduce the revenue of the profit. Finally, delays in the client’s finance will delay the project because the break of capital chain can affect procurement. Therefore, how to minimize the problems arising from fixed contracts is another argument to be discussed in this paper. For example, how to specify problem solutions and policies in a fixed contract…………………………

Research aim

The long-term goal of the research discusses the problems occurred in the fixed-price contracts in risk transferring and state some effective methods or policies which could help to reduce the legal disputes between construction companies and clients.

 

Research objectives

1.Explain the benefits of the contract to the construction company and the client.

  1. To find out the problems caused by the fixed-price contracts.

3.Give some useful methods and policies to improve fixed-price contract’s practicability.

Research questions

  1. As a common form of risk transfer, what are the economic and risk benefits of fixed-price contracts bring to the construction companies and clients?
  2. Do fixed-price contracts cause legal disputes between construction companies and clients under special circumstances?
  3. What policies can improve the fixed-price contract?

Create an give in Excel (or by hand). Do any of the temperatures appear to be unrealistic or in error? If yes, which ones and why?

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Project 1 Instructions

Based on Brase & Brase: section 2.1

Use the Project 1 Data Set to create the graphs and tables in Questions 1–4 and to answer both parts of Question 5. If you cannot figure out how to make the graphs and tables in Excel, you are welcome to draw them by hand and then submit them as a scanned document or photo.

  1. Open a blank Excel file and create a grouped frequency distribution of the maximum daily temperatures for the 50 states for a 30 day period. Use 8 classes.
  2. Add midpoint, relative frequency, and cumulative frequency columns to your frequency distribution.
  3. Create a frequency histogram using Excel. You will probably need to load the Data Analysis add-in within Excel. If you do not know how to create a histogram in Excel, view the video located at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gQUcRwDiik. A simple bar graph will also work.

If you cannot get the histogram or bar graph features to work, you may draw a histogram by hand and then scan or take a photo (your phone can probably do this) of your drawing and email it to your instructor.

  1. Create an give in Excel (or by hand).
  2. Do any of the temperatures appear to be unrealistic or in error? If yes, which ones and why?
  3. Explain how this affects your confidence in the validity of this data set.

Describe your thoughts on the role health care professionals should play in resolving the ethical issue.

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Find a scholarly, peer-reviewed article no more than four years old that discusses an ethical health promotion-related issue.
• Use the WCU library databases to search for appropriate articles.
In your paper:
1. Briefly summarize the presented issue.
2. Describe your thoughts on the role health care professionals should play in resolving the ethical issue.
3. Provide specific theories and refer to specific ethical codes to support your position.
Your paper should be 2–3 pages long. Use APA to cite and reference the article and any other optional sources you use. Adhere to APA formatting throughout your paper.

Why would a company continue to offer these discounted items despite losing money on them?

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300-word ( 3-4-paragraph) explanation of the benefits and risks of low-cost product or service offerings for a business. In your explanation, address the following:

Why would a company continue to offer these discounted items despite losing money on them?
Is this pricing strategy financially sustainable for the businesses?
Other than loss of profits, what are some other possible negative consequences of businesses offering discounted products or services?
To support your response, be sure to reference at least one properly cited scholarly source.

Provide a synopsis of the webinar and a brief description of the pathophysiology of the disorder, as well as what you gleaned from the webinar.

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Instructions
Considering the significant number of neurological disorders and what you have learned this week, take time to reflect upon the content and your experiences. Please watch an Educational Webinar related to Brain Dysfunction and submit a journal entry. There are many brain dysfunctions and a lot to learn. Is there something you are curious about? Is there a personal experience you would like to understand better? Or, just Google it – no matter how you get there, the goal is to leave the experience knowing more than when you started.

Provide a synopsis of the webinar and a brief description of the pathophysiology of the disorder, as well as what you gleaned from the webinar. Reflect upon this experience, consider what you learned, and how this could affect your practice as an APRN.
The paper submission should be 500-550 words in length and in APA format.

Required Articles
Traumatic Brain Injury:
Dash, H. H., & Chavali, S. (2018). Management of traumatic brain injury patients. Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 71(1), 12–21.
Updated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Guideline for Adults
Videos:
http://regiscollege.idm.oclc.org/loginurl=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=274023&xtid=40543

Analyze the media landscape of your chosen market in relation to your two profiles from the preceding task – what media are available, what sort of reach and influence do these have on your profiles?

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Digital Marketing, Branding and Strategy – Summative Assessment.

Overview:

You are to take the role of a brand consultant and develop a corporate brand revitalization strategy and a communication plan to generate better engagement around a corporate brand of your choosing (this could be the organization you work for). Your strategy for revitalizing the brand image will serve as a springboard for converting the engagement into new customers and more revenue, as well as retaining and building loyalty with existing customers

Requirement:

Focusing on the market of one country or region (UK, UAE, North America, Singapore-Malaysia), you are expected to develop a corporate brand revitalization strategy including a communications plan to generate engagement around the brand. As part of this, the following are required:

  1. An executive summary of no more than 200 words.
  2. An introduction to the report specifying the chosen corporate brand, its business, the chosen country/region and a summary of key proposals made within the report.
  3. A situation analysis of the relevant industry/sector in the chosen country region (clearly identify this in the introduction) from macro and micro perspectives. This should result in the identification of key strategic issues with respect to the problems described in the background.
  4. Conduct a brand audit and develop a conceptual map for the brand (based on secondary research) – explain the key perceptions and associations of the brand and evaluate these critically (e.g. strength vs. weakness?).
  5. Identify and describe the characteristics of the brand’s main current customers. Further, develop two profiles (personas) of potential target audiences (i.e. a group of people who are likely to be future customers), so that they can be targeted through a subsequent communications campaign.
  6. Analyze the media landscape of your chosen market in relation to your two profiles from the preceding task – what media are available, what sort of reach and influence do these have on your profiles? Discuss specific media that are of relevance (e.g. Instagram, radio channels, specific trade magazines) instead of grouping them together (e.g. social media).
  7. Propose a detailed communications strategy (start by specifying a set of objectives) on how you intend to engage these two targeted audiences with a view to ultimately recruiting them as customers/clients. Using the knowledge of your target audiences, their profiles, and your analysis of the media landscape, create a customer journey map for each profile to summarize and present your communications strategy – this will show what type of message, method, medium you will utilize to engage the audience (potential customers) at each relevant touch-point.
  8. Provide a summary of what relevant metrics and performance evaluation mechanisms you will incorporate into your communications strategy – you may use an augmented version of the customer journey map from the previous task to achieve this.
Section Titles   Marks
1. Executive Summary 5
2. Introduction 10
3. Situation Analysis 15
4. Brand Audit & Conceptual Map 15
5. Customer Segmentation 15
6. Analysis of Media Landscape 15
7. Your Proposed Communication Strategy 20
8. Summary 5
Appendix
100

 

Additional Guidance Notes

  • Treat this as a business report, and therefore whilst addressing all the requirements above, sections need to be succinct and impactful. Use well-structured paragraphs and include headings and sub-headings. Ensure that the sections are well linked to each other. Keep to the word limit of 4,000 words.
  • Consider the impact on the reader, please use creative/visual techniques to make and strengthen your arguments – e.g. infographics, graphs/charts, and mock-ups of social media pages or webpages.
  • You can use appendices if you wish, for supplementary information to the main contents of your report; e.g. to show how a new and innovative marketing technique has been effectively used for another campaign – a point which you have made in the main body of the report but would like to supplement with the contents in the appendix. However, please do so judiciously, and bear in mind that the marker has no obligation to award marks for your appendices. In other words, there is no benefit in having several pages of appendices because marks are, strictly speaking, awarded only for the contents of the main report.
  • Good use of references is welcome, including academic articles, market research reports, and credible web-sources (referenced according to the university’s referencing guidelines). Use these to add credence to your arguments, to support your points, or illustrate your understanding of techniques, theories etc. However, there is no benefit in simply stacking-up references to support obvious points, or basic theories (e.g. 4Ps, Segmentation criteria etc.).
  • As this is a business report, lengthy descriptions of basic theory do not add value. So, please use only brief descriptions, if needed. If you use an advanced theoretical approach (e.g. a framework proposed in a recent journal article) or refer to something very technical (e.g. DMP – Data Management Platform), then it might be worth providing a description or explanation for the benefit of the reader.

Marking Guide:

>80: Excellent evidence of selection and application of appropriate theoretical concepts and frameworks, and their application to context of identified problem exceeding expectations. A comprehensive review of all critical elements related to the case is adopted throughout, integrating secondary research to a commendable extent. A robust submission in terms of support for arguments but additional advanced features showing clear link between how application of theories may be used to develop objectives and strategy to tackle a clearly identified business problem. Evidence of excellent appreciation of interrelationships between different aspects of a brand strategy and therefore application. The proposal is highly developed and meets industrial standards as well as academic.

70-79: Very good evidence of application of appropriate theoretical concepts and frameworks to context of identified problem meeting all expectations. A very good review of all critical elements related to the case is adopted throughout, and a high level of secondary research input is evident. A fairly robust submission in terms of support for arguments some evident links between how application of theories may be used to develop objectives and strategy to tackle a clearly identified business problem. Evidence of very good appreciation of interrelationships between different aspects of a brand strategy and therefore application. The proposal is highly developed and meets academic standards.

60-69: Adequate identification and application of theoretical concepts and frameworks to context of identified problem, but somewhat lacking in integration, consistency and flow. Some evidence of use of secondary data sources and good effort made in terms of applying these to the context or identified problem. However, the depth of analysis is not maintained throughout the application and a descriptive style may have been adopted in places. Proposal of communications strategy is good but in places good be further developed.

50-59: Basic application of theoretical concepts and frameworks to the case with descriptive construction of discussion rather than evaluative. Lacking in consistency, flow or clarity and effort to link various aspects of the strategy together. Research input is lacking or weakly integrated into the discussion and the proposals made are lacking in relevance, suitability, or practicality.

40>49: Very basic application of theoretical concepts and frameworks to the case with largely descriptive construction of discussion, lacking in evaluative elements. Poor in consistency, flow or clarity and effort to link various aspects of the strategy together. Research input is minimal or poorly integrated into the discussion and the proposals made are poor in terms of relevance, suitability, or practicality. Very weak construction of discussions throughout the assignment and poor appreciation for the requirements set-out in the brief in terms of the research problem. Descriptive or generic application of concepts and ides within the proposed strategy. Secondary research input and integration could be much improved.

<40: Little or no application of theoretical concepts and frameworks to the case with descriptive construction of discussion. No evaluative elements and poor in consistency, flow or clarity. Minimal effort to link various aspects of the strategy together. Research input is irrelevant of inadequate; not integrated into the discussion and the proposals made are very poor in terms of relevance, suitability, and practicality. Extremely weak construction of discussions throughout the assignment and little appreciation for the requirements set-out in the brief in terms of the research problem. Highly descriptive or generic discussions of concepts and ideas within the proposed strategy, if at all. Secondary research input and integration inadequate or irrelevant.

 

Discuss the future direction you selected that most excites you, and explain how it will enhance your professional practice as a counselor.

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To Prepare:

Review Chapter 1 of the Erford course text in this week’s Learning Resources, and select one historical figure (a person) to discuss in your paper.
From Chapter 1, select one future direction (from the section “Where We Are Going,” beginning on p. 22) to discuss.
Review the webpage “Keyword Searching: Finding Articles on Your Topic: Searching Basics,” located in this week’s Learning Resources related to how to search the Walden Library databases.
Search the Walden databases for at least one scholarly article pertaining to the historical figure and/or to the future direction you chose.
Use the Research Paper Template in this week’s Learning Resources to complete this Assignment. Refer to your American Psychological Association (APA) manual to assist you in the proper use of APA throughout your paper.
Assignment: 2 pages
Include the following sections:

Part 1 – Present
What is counseling?
How does it differ from other helping professions?
Summarize the philosophical underpinnings of the counseling profession.
Part 2 – Past
Looking historically, if you showed Part I of your paper to the historical figure you chose, how would this figure handle it? Would the figure be shocked, mildly surprised, or in complete agreement? How would the figure respond?
Part 3 – Future
Discuss the future direction you selected that most excites you, and explain how it will enhance your professional practice as a counselor.
Be sure to use proper APA format and citations. These details are demonstrated in the template provided for this Assignment.