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Identify and briefly describe the campaign this battle was part of, if any. What were the events that lead to this battle being fought at this location with these units?

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Battle Analysis: Battle of Chickamauga

 

  1. Strategic/Operational Overview:

(1) Identify the war this Battle is fought in to include the time frame and locations.

(2) Identify the war aims of the principle adversaries.

(3) Identify and briefly describe the campaign this battle was part of, if any. What were the events that lead to this battle being fought at this location with these units?

 

  1. Study the area of operations:

(1) Weather. What was the weather like in the area of operations? How did it affect the operation?

(2) Terrain. Use OAKOC (obstacles, avenues of approach, key terrain, observation and fields of fire, and cover and concealment) factors to describe the terrain in the area of operations. What advantages did it give to the attackers or to the defenders?

Post an explanation of whether psychotherapy has a biological basis. Explain how culture, religion, and socioeconomics might influence one’s perspective on the value of psychotherapy treatments.

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DISCUSSION

Post an explanation of whether psychotherapy has a biological basis. Explain how culture, religion, and socioeconomics might influence one’s perspective on the value of psychotherapy treatments. Describe how legal and ethical considerations for group and family therapy differ from those for individual therapy, and explain how these differences might impact your therapeutic approaches for clients in group, individual, and family therapy. Support your rationale with at least three peer-reviewed, evidence-based sources and explain why each of your supporting sources is considered scholarly.

Categorize these five items or activities into primary or secondary reinforcers. Explain why each is an example of a primary reinforcer or a secondary reinforcer. What primary reinforcers are the secondary reinforcers (if any) likely paired with?

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Primary and Secondary Reinforcers

We use reinforcement to increase appropriate behaviors. The effectiveness of reinforcement depends on an individual’s preference. While some items or activities are preferred for some individuals, they may be aversive for others. When using positive reinforcement, we must ensure that the reinforcers we are presenting actually function as reinforcers. Also, keep in mind that just because you may like or enjoy something, it does not mean you will respond to gain access. One may like doing puzzles, but one may not be willing to run five miles to gain access to a puzzle.

List five preferred items or activities that you enjoy.
Categorize these five items or activities into primary or secondary reinforcers.
Explain why each is an example of a primary reinforcer or a secondary reinforcer. What primary reinforcers are the secondary reinforcers (if any) likely paired with?
Speculate how they may have come to be secondary reinforcers (if any are secondary reinforcers). What were the primary reinforcers with which they may have been paired?

SOURCE:
Read or review the following:

Miltenberger, R. G. (2016). Behavior modification: Principles and procedures (6th ed.). Cengage Learning.
Pages 301–302 in Chapter 15, “Differential Reinforcement.”
Pages 113–114 in Chapter 6, “Punishment.”
Pages 73–76 in Chapter 4, “Reinforcement.

Cooper, J. O., Heron, T. E., & Heward, W. L. (2020). Applied behavior analysis (3rd ed.). Pearson.
Pages 263–271 in Chapter 11, “Positive Reinforcement.”
Pages 38–39 in Chapter 2, “Basic Concepts and Principles.”
Pages 329 and 330 in Chapter 14, “Positive Punishment.”

What is the probability that a product is assembled in less than 12 minutes? What is the probability that a product is assembled in between 14 and 16 minutes?

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CHAPTER 6

 

  1. True or false questions.
  2. The probability that a standard normal random variable, Z, is between 1.50 and 2.10 is the same as the probability Z is between – 2.10 and – 1.50.
  3. The probability that a standard normal random variable, Z, is less than 50 is approximately 0.
  4. Theoretically, the mean, median, and the mode are all equal for a normal distribution.
  5. Any set of normally distributed data can be transformed to its standardized form.
  6. The “middle spread,” that is the middle 50% of the normal distribution, is equal to one standard deviation.

 

  1. Multiple choice questions.
  2. In its standardized form, the normal distribution
  1. has a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
  2. has a mean of 1 and a variance of 0.
  3. has an area equal to 0.5.
  4. cannot be used to approximate discrete probability distributions.
  1. Which of the following about the normal distribution is not true?
  1. Theoretically, the mean, median, and mode are the same.
  2. About 2/3 of the observations fall within 1 standard deviation from the mean.
  3. It is a discrete probability distribution.
  4. Its parameters are the mean, , and standard deviation, .
  1. If a particular batch of data is approximately normally distributed, we would find that approximately
  1. 2 of every 3 observations would fall between 1 standard deviation around the mean.
  2. 4 of every 5 observations would fall between 28 standard deviations around the mean.
  3. 19 of every 20 observations would fall between 2 standard deviations around the mean.
  4. b and c are correct.

 

  • Solve the following problems in separate sheets of paper.

 

  1. The amount of pyridoxine (in grams) in a multiple vitamin is normally distributed with  = 110 grams and  = 25 grams.

(1) What is the probability that a randomly selected vitamin will contain between 100 and 110 grams of pyridoxine?

(2) What is the probability that a randomly selected vitamin will contain between 82 and 100 grams of pyridoxine?

(3) What is the probability that a randomly selected vitamin will contain at least 100 grams of pyridoxine?

(4)What is the probability that a randomly selected vitamin will contain between 100 and 120 grams of pyridoxine?

(5)What is the probability that a randomly selected vitamin will contain less than 100 grams of pyridoxine?

(6)What is the probability that a randomly selected vitamin will contain less than 100 grams or more than 120 grams of pyridoxine?

(7)Approximately 83% of the vitamins will have at least how many grams of pyridoxine?

 

 

Suppose Z has a standard normal distribution with a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1.

(1) What is the probability that Z is less than 1.15?

(2)What is the probability that Z is more than 0.77?

(3) What is the probability that Z is less than -2.20?

(4)What is the probability that Z is more than -0.98?

(5)What is the probability that Z is between -2.33 and 2.33?

(6) What is the probability that Z is between -2.89 and -1.03?

 

 

  1. The amount of time necessary for assembly line workers to complete a product is a normal random variable with a mean of 15 minutes and a standard deviation of 2 minutes.

(1) What is the probability that a product is assembled in less than 12 minutes?

(2) What is the probability that a product is assembled in between 14 and 16 minutes?

(3) What is the probability that a product is assembled in between 10 and 12 minutes?

(4) What is the probability that a product is assembled in between 16 and 21 minutes?

(5) What is the probability that a product is assembled in more than 11 minutes?

(7) 15% of the products require more than __________ minutes for assembly.

(8) 90% of the products require more than __________ minutes for assembly.

 

 

Describe the population for the Harris Interactive survey. Is a response to the question “By which methods do you feel you find the best candidates?” categorical or numerical?

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CHAPTER ONE HOMEWORK

 

  1. True or False
  1. The type of TV one owns is an example of an ordinal scaled variable.
  2. Whether the university is private or public is an example of a nominal scaled variable.
  3. Marital status is an example of a numerical variable.

 

  1. Multiple choices

The process of using sample statistics to draw conclusions about true population parameters is called

  1. statistical inference.
  2. the scientific method.
  3. descriptive statistics.

Those methods involving the collection, presentation, and characterization of a set of data in order to properly describe the various features of that set of data are called

  1. statistical inference.
  2. the scientific method.
  3. descriptive statistics.
  1. The universe or “totality of items or things” under consideration is called
  1. a sample.
  2. a population.
  3. a parameter.
  4. a statistic.
  1.  The portion of the universe that has been selected for analysis is called
  1. a sample.
  2. a frame.
  3. a parameter.
  4. a statistic.
  1. A summary measure that is computed to describe a characteristic from only a sample of the population is called
  1. a parameter.
  2. a census.
  3. a statistic.
  4. the scientific method.
  1. A summary measure that is computed to describe a characteristic of an entire population is called
  1. a parameter.
  2. a census.
  3. a statistic.
  4. the scientific method.
  1. Which of the following is most likely a population as opposed to a sample?
  1. respondents to a newspaper survey
  2. the first 5 students completing an assignment
  3. every third person to arrive at the bank
  4. registered voters in a county

 

  1. Which of the following is most likely a parameter as opposed to a statistic?
  1. the average score of the first five students completing an assignment
  2. the proportion of females registered to vote in a county
  3. the average height of people randomly selected from a database
  4. the proportion of trucks stopped yesterday that were cited for bad brakes
  1. Most analysts focus on the cost of tuition as the way to measure the cost of a college education. But incidentals, such as textbook costs, are rarely considered. A researcher at Drummand University wishes to estimate the textbook costs of first-year students at Drummand. To do so, she monitored the textbook cost of 250 first-year students and found that their average textbook cost was $300 per semester. Identify the population of interest to the researcher.
  1. all Drummand University students
  2. all college students
  3. all first-year Drummand University students
  4. the 250 students that were monitored
  1. Most analysts focus on the cost of tuition as the way to measure the cost of a college education. But incidentals, such as textbook costs, are rarely considered. A researcher at Drummand University wishes to estimate the textbook costs of first-year students at Drummand. To do so, she monitored the textbook cost of 250 first-year students and found that their average textbook cost was $300 per semester. Identify the variable of interest to the researcher
  1. the textbook cost of first-year Drummand University students
  2. the year in school of Drummand University students
  3. the age of Drummand University students
  4. the cost of incidental expenses of Drummand University students
  1. Most analysts focus on the cost of tuition as the way to measure the cost of a college education. But incidentals, such as textbook costs, are rarely considered. A researcher at Drummand University wishes to estimate the textbook costs of first-year students at Drummand. To do so, she monitored the textbook cost of 250 first-year students and found that their average textbook cost was $300 per semester. Identify the sample in the study.
  1. all Drummand University students
  2. all college students
  3. all first-year Drummand University students
  4. the 250 students that were monitored
  1. Which of the following is a discrete quantitative variable?
  1. the Dow Jones Industrial average
  2. the volume of water released from a dam
  3. the distance you drove yesterday.
  4. the number of employees of an insurance company
  1. Which of the following is a continuous quantitative variable?
  1. the color of a student’s eyes
  2. the number of employees of an insurance company
  3. the amount of milk produced by a cow in one 24-hour period
  4. the number of gallons of milk sold at the local grocery store yesterday
  1. The classification of student class designation (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior) is an example of
  1. a categorical random variable.
  2. a discrete random variable.
  3. a continuous random variable.
  4. a parameter.

 

  • Solve the following problems in separate sheets of paper.

 

  1.  According to a Harris Interactive survey of 502 senior human resource executives, 58% responded that referrals were one of the methods for finding the best candidates.
  1. Describe the population for the Harris Interactive survey.
  2. Is a response to the question “By which methods do you feel you find the best candidates?” categorical or numerical?
  3. Fourteen percent of the senior human resources executives polled indicated that professional associations were one of the methods for finding the best candidates. Is this a parameter or a statistic?

 

 

  1. A Wall Street Journal poll asked 2,150 adults in the United States a series of questions to find out their view on the U.S. economy.
  1. What is the population of interest?
  2. What is the sample?
  3. Is a response to the question “How satisfied are you with the U.S. economy today with 1 = very satisfied, 2 = moderately satisfied, 3 = neutral, 4 = moderately dissatisfied and 5 = very dissatisfied?” a categorical or numerical?
  4. Is a response to the question “How many people in your household are unemployed currently?” a discrete or continuous variable?

 

Which graphical method do you think is best to portray these data? Based on this survey, what conclusions can you reach about the use of the Internet at work?

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CHAPTER TWO HOMEWORK

  1. Solve the following problems. Submit graphs and charts on the Blackboard after you create them in Excel. The other questions still need to be submitted in hard copy.

 

  1. A categorical variable has three categories with the following frequencies of occurrence:

 

Category                                                                 Frequency

                           A                        13
                           B                        28
                           C                          9

 

  1. Compute the percentage of values in each category.
  2. Construct a bar chart for percentage.
  3. Construct a pie chart for percentage.
  4. Construct a Pareto diagram.

 

  1. A survey of 705 workers asked how much they used the Internet at work. The results (USA Today Snapshots, March 21, 2006) were as follows:

 

Use of the Internet at Work                                              %

                 Too much                        5
                 More than I should                        4
                 Within limits                      60
                 Very little                        5
                 Do not use                      26

 

  1. Construct a bar chart, a pie chart, and a Pareto diagram.
  2. Which graphical method do you think is best to portray these data?
  3. Based on this survey, what conclusions can you reach about the use of the Internet at work?

 

  1. S. companies spent more than $250 billion in advertising in 2005 (K. Delaney, “Google Steps Further into World of Old Media,” The Wall Street Journal, January 18, 2006, pp. A1, A6). The spending was as follows:

 

Media                                                      Amount ($billions)                             Percentage (%)

Cinema                     0.4                       0.16
Direct mail                   44.5                     17.35
Internet                   10.0                       3.90
Magazines                   23.9                       9.32
Newspapers                   50.2                     19.57
Outdoor                     5.7                       2.22
Radio                   20.6                       8.03
TV                   55.4                     21.60
Other                   45.8                     17.86

 

  1. Construct a bar chart and a pie chart for percentage.
  2. Which graphical method do you think is best to portray these data?

 

  1. The following data is the total fat, in grams per serving, for a sample of 20 chicken sandwiches from fast-food chains. The data are as follows:

 

7     8     4     5     16     20     20     24     19     30

23   30   25   19     29     29     30     30     40     56

Source: Extracted from “Fast food: Adding Health to the Menu,” Consumer Reports, September 2004, pp. 28-31.

 

  1. Place the data into an ordered array.
  2. Construct a stem-and-leaf display.
  3. Does the ordered array or the stem-and-leaf display provide more information? Discuss.

 

 

  1. The following data represent the cost of electricity during July 2006 for a random sample of 50 one-bedroom apartments in a large city:

 

Raw Data Utility Charges ($)

 

96     171     202     178     147     102     153     197     127     82

157     185       90     116     172     111     148     213     130   165

141     149     206     175     123     128     144     168     109   167

95     163     150     154     130     143     187     166     139   149

108     119     183     151     114     135     191     137     129   158

 

  1. Form a frequency distribution and a percentage distribution that have class intervals with the upper class limits $99, $119, and so on. (Hint: It means that the first class can be expressed as $80 but less than $100, where $100 is not included in the first class but the second class.)
  2. Construct a histogram and a percentage polygon.
  3. Form a cumulative percentage distribution and plot a cumulative percentage polygon.
  4. Around what amount does the monthly electricity cost seem to be concentrated?

 

 

 

Briefly describe the global health issue you are tackling and which specific health outcome you want to change. Describe the study you would undertake to test your intervention.

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Discussion

Choose a global health problem that interests you. Now, suppose you’re working for a non-governmental organization (NGO) on that problem and that you’re testing out a community-based intervention to see if it improves your primary health outcome.

  • Briefly describe the global health issue you are tackling and which specific health outcome you want to change.
  • Describe the study you would undertake to test your intervention.
    • What study type did you choose, and why? (e.g., cross-sectional, case-control, retrospective cohort, prospective cohort, experimental/RCT)?
    • What is your study population?
      • How will you recruit them?
      • Are they similar to your population of interest?
    • What potential confounders (if any) do you want to control for?
  • What challenges / trade-offs do you anticipate in making your study work?

As always, please remember to respond to two of your classmates for your follow-on participation.

Create one form for each operating event to record a new instance of that event (see Forms Lab). Create one form for each resource and agent table. Create a sub menu form for each operating event.

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ACCT–361: Accounting Information System Development Project Application of Business Processes and Embedded Controls

Scope:
This is an individual project that requires the development of an event–driven IT application prototype for a business process in your assigned industry. The project will conclude in a demonstration of your working database.

The objective of the project is to:
• Apply the cumulative instruction provided in this course to a final project that integrates your understanding of the course material and the database management skills presented throughout the semester.
• Increase understanding of how technology affects organizations, and the varying information needs of different industries; and
• Increase understanding of how the use of technology and the knowledge of business processes can help accounting professionals produce and deliver more valuable information.

Steps of the Project:

Using the information from course module material and the Access techniques learned in the Controls lab, Forms lab, Tables labs, Query labs, and Report lab, create the AIS database for your company’s partial sales/collection cycle. Use the following steps to work through completing your database:

1. (MS Word) Create the Logical model for your company from the REA model given for this project. This is Assignment 2. Make sure the names of your table and the attributes of the tables are customized to your assigned industry. Do not use “Item# or “Sales Clerk” primary key names – be creative and have the names fit your industry. Also collect data on your customers which fit the needs of your industry.

2. (Access) From the Logical model:
• Start with a new (blank) access database (DO NOT USE AN EXISTING COMPLETED OR PARTIALLY COMPLETED ACCESS DATABASE AND MAKE ALTERATIONS) and create all tables, complete with required attributes; primary keys, foreign keys, and non–key attributes for each of the business events (including resources, agents) using a new Microsoft Access database.

3. (Access) Invoke real–time information risk controls. Your new tables should have the following internal controls implemented (see Controls Lab)
• the Now Date for the Date field in your operating event tables
• Auto number as the data type for the primary key for each of your two Operating event tables (see video about Auto number in Course Resources for system project folder)
• Use input masks for the Zip Code, SS#, State abbreviation, and phone number in the tables containing these non–key attributes

4. (Access) Establish Referential integrity (Tables Lab)

5. (Access) Complete your database.
• Create one form for each operating event to record a new instance of that event (see Forms Lab)
• Create one form for each resource and agent table. This is to allow adding a new resource or agents to the table via a form (not direct input like Step 4). Use this form to populate at least 10 records for each resource or agent table.
• Create a main menu to be shown when your database opens (Controls Lab)
• Create a submenu form for each operating event. These menu and submenu forms will help organize your system and allow access restrictions by making them password protected. A user of your system must be able to access all forms and reports using menus and not the database objects window. (Controls Lab)
• Test the accuracy of your prototype. This will require you to use your operating event forms to add new records to each operating event table. There should be a minimum of 10 operating events for each operating event table created.
• Password protect your database using the password: klam
• Require a password before allowing access to your database (Controls Lab)
• Hide the navigation pane from users (Controls Lab)
• Create a minimum of two reports. Required Reports are:
o Sales by Customer Report (Query Lab)
o EQOH Report listing EQOH by total number of items and total dollar amount of items
(EQOH = Ending Inventory in US Dollars) (Query Lab)
• Add custom logos, color, graphics, design to your database as desired.

Provide a 5-7 sentences essay summarizing what you read and what it means to you as a professional.

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Learning About Developmental Domains

We will take the time this week to re-familiarize ourselves with the developmental domains….

As a group we will:

  • Listen to the podcasts
    • Andy Meltzoff: Cognitive Development
    • Doug Clements: Math is Fundamental for Development
    • Louise Hemmeter: Social and Emotional Development – Research to Practice
    • Daryl Greenfield: Encouraging Our Youngest Scientists at Work
    • Catherine Snow: Building Language Knowledge

Understanding the ELOF: Stories from ExpertsLinks to an external site.

You will need to take notes in this format, for EACH of the podcasts, enter the information here.

Notes:

Your notes on the audio, 8-10 sentences.

Key Points (AT LEAST 5, but more is fine):

Summary:

Provide a 5-7 sentences essay summarizing what you read and what it means to you as a professional.

Choose one concept from the list above, and write a paper a 400 to 500 word paper (400 words, is the absolute minimum) in which you state a response to the following prompt.

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ECO2013 Macroeconomics

  • Scarcity, Opportunity Cost, Wants, Entrepreneurship, Market, Law of Demand, Law of Supply, Market Failure, Unemployment Rate, Structural Unemployment, Human Capital, Inflation Rate, Savings, Gross Domestic Product, Economic Growth, Supply Side Fiscal Policy, Fiat Money, Monetary Policy, Liquidity, Public Debt

General Instructions:

Choose one concept from the list above, and write a paper a 400 to 500 word paper (400 words, is the absolute minimum) in which you state a response to the following prompt;

“Before taking this class I thought about (one of the concepts from the list) in this way …, now I think … “.