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What test(s) did the researchers use? Was this test(s) the correct test to use? Why or why not?

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NURS 330: Nursing Research & Evidence-Based Practice

Select the Test Worksheet

Choose two research articles identified by your group for your group EBP project. Complete the following table using the resources provided in Chapter 11 on page 311 to define the tests used by the researchers for both articles.

Article 1:

  • What test(s) did the researchers use?
  • Was this test(s) the correct test to use? Why or why not?

 

Article 2:

  • What test(s) did the researchers use?
  • Was this test(s) the correct test to use? Why or why not?

Examine the decision of public decision making. Discuss the key principles of public decision making.

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Discussion MGT 423 Amal

 Week 4: Interactive activity

4.1 Learning Outcomes:

  • Examine the decision of public decision making.
  • Discuss the key principles of public decision making.

4.2 Action Required:

Watch the video at the following link

 

 

4.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

What is the importance of public decision making?

For example

What are the main elements of public decision making?

 

4.4 Instructions

Answer both questions in the test your knowledge section.

Post your answer on the discussion board using the discussion link below (Week4:Interactive learning Discussion)

 

 

 

Explain the basic principles of programming, concept of language, and universal constructs of programming languages. Demonstrate Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the editing, building, debugging, and testing of programs.

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Java programs

  • Explain the basic principles of programming, concept of language, and universal constructs of programming languages.
  • Demonstrate Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the editing, building, debugging, and testing of programs.

Research an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and discuss how it improves organizational performance?

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Discussion question

Research an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and discuss how it improves organizational performance? (Be specific with an actual ERP and actual performance metrics!)

If Simon makes only the minimum monthly payment and makes no other charges, how many months will it be before he pays off half the balance on the card?

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Unit 4 Individual Assignment

Name your file “Lastname, Firstname Unit 4”.

For this unit, the assignment focuses on working with the formulas that are used to measure risk and return.

 

PROBLEM #1

Twin sisters, Joanna and Liz, received today $44,000 each from their parents for their 24th birthday. They will use this money to start their retirement plans.

They both hope to retire with $1.5 million dollars. Each plans to make a $1,000 monthly contribution to her retirement fund, beginning one month from today.

Joanna opened an account with the Conservative Bond Fund, a mutual fund that invests in high-quality bonds whose investors have earned 4.7% per year in the past.

Liz invested in the Aggressive Growth Fund, which invests in small, bio-tech stocks and whose investors have earned an average of 7.9% per year in the fund’s short history.

  1. a) If the two women’s funds earn the same returns in the future as in the past, how old will each be when she reaches her retirement goal? Round your answer to the nearest whole year.
  2. b) How much would Liz’s retirement fund grow to, if she invests for the exact same time as Joanna needs to reach her initial goal?
  3. c) How large would Joanna’s monthly contributions have to be for her to reach her retirement goal at the exact same time as Liz needs to reach her initial goal?
  4. d) Is it rational or irrational for Joanna to invest in the bond fund rather than in stocks?

 

 

PROBLEM #2

Simon recently received a credit card with an 18% nominal annual interest rate. With the card, he purchased a new Apple iPhone 14 for $900. The minimum payment on the card is $35 per month.

  1. a) If Simon makes only the minimum monthly payment and makes no other charges, how many months will it be before he pays off half the balance on the card? Round your answer to the nearest whole month.
  2. b) If Simon adds just $5 more to his minimum monthly payment, how much less would he owe at that time? Round your answer to the nearest whole month.
  3. c) Simon’s wants to finish paying off in just two years. He found an internet offer from a company willing to pay off his credit card balance, if he pays them $40 per month for 24 months. Is this a good deal for Simon? Why?

 

 

PROBLEM #3

Assume that the real risk-free rate is 1.5%, and that the credit risk, liquidity risk and maturity risk premiums are all zero. A 1-year U.S. Treasury bill yield is 4.66% and a 2-year Treasury note yields 4.31%.

  1. a).What is the 1-year interest rate that is expected for Year 2? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answer to two decimal places.
  2. b) Inflation is currently 4%. Based on the above Treasury yields, what does the market expect inflation to be next year?

Show the networks (rows) in descending order based on average viewership (values) and also include the average ratings (values). Prepare a Pivot Chart that displays this information.

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Homework #6 – TV Ratings

You are an analyst at a company that advertises on network TV.   You want to explore the trends in network programming on the 5 major broadcast networks over the past few years and prepare an advertising budget for the current year.  You have created a dataset that contains the shows that were on the air, their ratings and their viewership and a few other categories of information.

As you prepare your analysis, remember that you will be presenting this information to your boss, so make an effort to present the information clearly and concisely.  You will be graded on ease of interpretation.

Use what you’ve learned and think about things like:

  • fonts and color coding,
  • formatting of numerical values,
  • column sizing,
  • arrangement of information in your sheet,
  • which totals / subtotals are appropriate to show or not
  • hiding / displaying field headers and +/- buttons in pivot tables
  • sizing and labeling charts clearly, etc.

 

 

  • Using Pivot Tables, sort and summarize this information in order to identify trends and get a perspective on each of the following – do each part (a-c) on a separate sheet / pivot table:

 

  1. You first want to understand how the networks have performed as compared to each other in terms of both average ratings and average viewership across all of their shows and across all years in the dataset. (HINT: do not include the titles of the shows or individual years in the pivot table).

 

  1. Show the networks (rows) in descending order based on average viewership (values) and also include the average ratings (values).
  2. Prepare a Pivot Chart that displays this information. (HINT: a dual vertical axis chart will probably work best due to the difference in the range of values for each metric).

 

  1. Now you are interested to see what sort of track record each network has in terms of developing new shows by looking at how many shows they’ve developed in the last 3 seasons that have been “cancelled in the first season” (status). (HINT: only include information for shows that have this status).

 

  1. Include the network and show titles (rows – in this order), and count of the shows (values) for each year individually (columns).

 

  1. Now let’s look at some specific shows and see how they are performing in terms of overall viewership.

 

  1. We are only interested in shows that are active and are scripted (filters).
  2. Display the viewership for each season (columns) for each network and show (rows) that meet the above criteria.
  • We want to create calculations that show the percentage change in viewership for each year for each show. (HINT: Add a second viewership selection in the Values section of the Field Settings,  then in Value Field Setting select Show Values as “% difference from” . . .  Season . . . previous.)
  1. Because this isn’t a complete list of all shows or all years, we do not want to show sub-totals or grand totals on the table.
  2. Place the % change columns together in the right hand columns by moving the ∑ Values item first in the column field. Center the % change information in their columns.
  3. Change the column labels for the second viewership field to “% change vs. prior year”.
  • You have likely gotten some errors in the % change calculation where there are no values for the prior year. Clean these up – use PT Options (under PT Analyze) and indicate for it to show NA instead of the error message.

[PT Analyze – PT Options (far left on ribbon) – Layout and Format – check “for error values show”, then fill NA in the box behind it].

  • Now let’s highlight those years where the viewership is increasing (green) vs. decreasing (red). Think conditional formatting of the percentage change columns here. “NA” indicators should not be highlighted at all.  You will have 3 conditional format options applied (red for decreasing, green for increasing, white background formatting when the cell value is equal to NA).
  1. What sorts of trends do you see in the viewership of active shows? Are people watching fewer shows?  Are more options available?

 

  • Let’s now turn our attention to developing an advertising rate card and budget. You have learned that the advertising costs are based on the ratings according to the schedule below.  These costs reflect the price of one 30 second commercial.
Over 0.9  $ 400,000
0.8 – .89 350,000
0.7 – .79 300,000
0.6 – .69 250,000
0.5 – .59 200,000
0.4 – .49 175,000
0.3 – .39 150,000
0.2 – .29 125,000
0.1 – .19 100,000
Below .1 80,000

 

On a new sheet – prepare a rate schedule that displays the advertising cost for each show that is on the schedule for next year (status = active & new shows) based on its most recent rating.  (Some current season ratings aren’t available).

  1. If the show has a rating in the current season, use that rating
  2. If the show doesn’t have a current season rating, use the prior season rating.

HINT:  For this step prepare a Pivot Table to isolate the ratings for each show for 2021/2022 and 2020/2021 (you don’t need to include the network information).  You can then copy this information into another sheet [Copy – Paste Values]. Embed VLOOKUPs in an IF Statement to identify the cost to advertise on each show.   This is your rate schedule.

  • Your market research department has compared the demographics of the 2021/2022 shows and has determined that the following shows are optimal selections for reaching your target audience. This step can be done on the same sheet as #2.
A Million Little Things
Blue Bloods
Dancing with the Stars
Grey’s Anatomy
Chicago Med
Shark Tank
Station 19
The Good Doctor
FBI
60 Minutes

 

List each of these shows, then using the rate schedule that you prepared in Step #2 as your lookup range, lookup the show title and return its advertising cost.   Determine what the total cost will be for the current year if you advertise on each of these shows for 13 weeks.  Assume each show will air once per week.  Don’t forget to calculate the total cost.

Briefly address how you recommend that the client evaluate the efficacy of your recommended approach.

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Research & Summaries Question

Section 1

Step 1 in action research model is client identifies a problem. Therefore, provide background to problem(s). Provide detail including major players, symptoms of the problem(s) (i.e. turnover is increased, many customer complaints, shooting incident etc.). In this section, you want to briefly review and convince the client that you understand and can describe their pain. What is dysfunctional? Not working? Changing? Why does this organization need an OD consultant?

Section 2

Step 2 in action research model is to consult an OD consultant. In this section, provide a brief biography of each team member (i.e. 1 paragraph description for each member). Discuss your assumptions and philosophical approach to OD (hint- this would be a good time to discuss reframing and how it can be helpful).

Section 3

Step 3 in action research model is for OD consultant to gather data and make a preliminary diagnosis. Here’s where the real work begins! You will need to actually collect data from an organization. Remember, there a number of ways to do this including interviews, surveys, observations, and archival data (i.e. annual reports, published information from media, books written about the organization etc.). Be sure to include information as to why you chose the data collection technique that you did and discuss pros and cons of your choice. Remember, multiple methods are best! You will need to collect as much data as you feel you need to make a good

Section 4

Step 4 in the action research model is to provide feedback to the key client or group. This section of the proposal should include a synopsis of the data that you collected. You may use the feedback forms provided in class as samples or create your own format.

Section 5

Step 5 in the action research model is to jointly diagnose problems with the client and step 6 is to jointly action plan for solutions. Assume that you are working jointly with your client (of course, if you can actually do so, than so much the better but I certainly do not expect this!). This is the longest and most challenging part of your proposal. Here is where you need to take the data that you collected, interpret it using the 4-frame approach, and come up with recommendations (i.e. OD interventions) for solving problems. This section will probably be approximately 6-10 pages. I highly recommend that you use sub-headings within this section. For example, you may want to begin by analyzing the organization using each of the 4 frames as a reference. Next, you should discuss what OD interventions or recommendations you would suggest for resolving each of the issues or problems surfaced from your 4-frame analysis (i.e. teambuilding, reengineering, mentoring, job enrichment). Be sure to clarify how and why you think each intervention would be useful. Assume that your client is relatively naive about the various interventions so provide enough explanation that a layperson would understand.

Section 6

Step 7 in the action research model is action and implementation. Therefore, in this section provide a preliminary action plan which includes information such as time frame, pros and cons of various interventions, and who would be involved in each intervention.

Section 7

Briefly address how you recommend that the client evaluate the efficacy of your recommended approach.

Contrast the use of an internal evaluator and an external evaluator for program evaluation. Examine the advantages and disadvantages of having an individual employed by the institution conduct the evaluation versus contracting with an external program evaluator.

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Learning activity masters

Contrast the use of an internal evaluator and an external evaluator for program evaluation. Examine the advantages and disadvantages of having an individual employed by the institution conduct the evaluation versus contracting with an external program evaluator. 3 apa citations

Develop an activity diagram for one aspect of PHTRS. Visio has several templates you can use or create your own. Develop a swimlane diagram for one or more aspects of PHTRS. You can find a base template in Visio for this or create your own.

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Use Cases & Essential Diagrams

Part 1: Use Cases (Chapter 7)

Textbook assignment (may be slightly altered from book):

7.5. Develop a complete use case for one of the following activities:

  • Making a withdrawal at an ATM
  • Using your charge card for a meal at a restaurant
  • Searching for books (on a specific topic) using an online bookstore

7.6. Write a user story for one of the activities listed in Problem 7.5.

7.7. Consider the use case you created in Problem 7.5 and write a nonfunctional requirement for the application.

 

Applying concepts: Use case diagram

7.1 Create a use case diagram for the use case you developed above. See Visio templates to help in creating your diagram.

Insert diagram as a jpeg below the responses to the textbook assignments.

 

Part 2: Diagrams (Chapter 8)

Textbook assignment (may be slightly altered from the book):

8.3. The department of public works for a large city has decided to develop a Web-based pothole tracking and repair system (PHTRS). A description follows:

Citizens can log onto a website and report the location and severity of potholes. As potholes are reported they are logged within a “public works department repair system” and are assigned an identifying number, stored by street address, size (on a scale of 1 to 10), location (middle, curb, etc.), district (determined from street address), and repair priority (determined from the size of the pothole). Work order data are associated with each pothole and include pothole location and size, repair crew identifying number, number of people on the crew, equipment assigned, hours applied to repair, hole status (work in progress, repaired, temporary repair, not repaired), amount of filler material used, and cost of repair (computed from hours applied, number of people, material and equipment used). Finally, a damage file is created to hold information about reported damage due to the pothole and includes the citizen’s name, address, phone number, type of damage, and dollar amount of damage. PHTRS is an online system; all queries are to be made interactively.

Draw a UML use case diagram PHTRS system. You’ll have to make a number of assumptions about the manner in which a user interacts with this system. Visio has templates to get you started.

8.4. Write two or three use cases that describe the roles of various actors in the PHTRS described in Problem 8.3.

8.5. Develop an activity diagram for one aspect of PHTRS. Visio has several templates you can use or create your own.

8.6. Develop a swimlane diagram for one or more aspects of PHTRS. You can find a base template in Visio for this or create your own.

8.7. Develop a class model for the PHTRS system presented in Problem 8.3. There are several templates in Visio for class models.

8.8. Develop a complete set of CRC model index cards on the product or system you chose as part of Problem 8.3. These can be created as tables in Word. Use the example in Figure 8.5 as a template for formatting.

Discuss the end of the war and the emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as competing world powers. How did the end of World II help start the Cold War?

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World War II

World War II is a watershed moment in history. Its impact had far-reaching consequences for not only the United States but the world as a whole. Discuss the end of the war and the emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as competing world powers. How did the end of World II help start the Cold War? In your response please discuss the roles of Harry Truman and his administration and their role with national security.