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Discuss your future career goals as a clinical psychologist, why you want to become a clinical psychologist, and how the PhD program’s clinical and research training will help you reach these goals.

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Personal Statement

• Formatting: Double space, and limit to 1,000 words.

• Provide a brief autobiographical sketch, including what led to your interest in the practice of clinical psychology.

• Discuss your future career goals as a clinical psychologist, why you want to become a clinical psychologist, and how the PhD program’s clinical and research training will help you reach these goals.

• Address your strengths and accomplishments that have prepared you for graduate psychology training. This might include your professional development, including course preparation for research projects; history of publications and presentations at professional conferences; experience with and/or commitment to diverse populations; and/or clinical training or work experience.

• Discuss the qualities you possess that you think will be important assets as a practicing clinical psychologist.

Review Erikson’s psychosocial development theory and give examples of the first 4 stages based on your experience or your environment. Discuss issues that can keep a child from successfully accomplishing the task for each stage. Discuss ways to help a child have positive psychosocial development experiences in each stage.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Review Erikson’s psychosocial development theory and give examples of the first 4 stages based on your experience or your environment. Discuss issues that can keep a child from successfully accomplishing the task for each stage. Discuss ways to help a child have positive psychosocial development experiences in each stage.

Does Amazon threaten Fastenal’s market position in the industrial supply industry in the long term? What competitive strategies can Fastenal use to preserve its advantages?

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Fastenal Case Assignment 3

The Fastenal Case Study presents a scenario in which an established company is threatened by a new entrant and new competition.

Does Amazon threaten Fastenal’s market position in the industrial supply industry in the long term?
What competitive strategies can Fastenal use to preserve its advantages?
Can the company maintain its market share?

Explain your answers.

Review Exhibits 1 through 5 and use the information in your explanation.

Answer each questions separately and comprehensively. Explain your logic.

 

Develop an understanding of equity yields by computing portfolio yields. Develop an understanding of fixed income yields by computing portfolio yields.

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Unit 4: Investor Yields: Equities and Fixed Income (with tax shield effect)

Topics:
Equities Securities
Fixed Income Securities (bonds and preferred stock)
Corporate Bond Tax Shield (issuer perspective)
Municipal Bond Tax Shields (investor perspective)
Market Pricing Impact on Yields

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this Unit, you will be able to:
1. Develop an understanding of equity yields by computing portfolio yields.
2. Develop an understanding of fixed income yields by computing portfolio yields.
3. Determine the implications of the effect tax shields have on fixed income yields.

Tasks:
Peer assess Unit 3 Written Assignment
Read the Learning Guide and Reading Assignments
Participate in the Discussion Assignment (post, comment, and rate in the Discussion Forum)
Complete and submit the Written Assignment
Respond to the Portfolio Activity

Complete the financial section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators. Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, with an explanation of the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.

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Developing a Balanced Scorecard

You are a former Navy officer and fighter pilot who is now the controller of a division of TransGlobal Airlines, which utilizes a fleet of corporate jets for charter at several airports in the southeast part of the United States. Your division’s private charter clients include several Fortune 500 companies in the region. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has informed you that the company is considering the acquisition of two smaller aviation firms in the Caribbean specializing in chartered flights for luxury vacations using light aircraft (60 passengers or less). The CFO has tasked you with assessing the organizational benefits of acquiring these aviation firms. The CFO intends to develop a new business plan for the organization if your analysis recommends moving forward with the acquisition.

After an initial assessment, the company has shortlisted two airlines they want to examine further for acquisition. To understand all aspects of the two airlines under consideration, you have visited each proposed site to assess their performance. The assessment includes creating and analyzing a balanced scorecard for each airline with all four components—financial, internal processes, customers/market, and learning and growth—that will impact the acquisition.

In this milestone, you will use the given information to create balanced scorecards for Company A and Company B.

Prompt
Use the Basic Balanced Scorecard Template to create a balanced scorecard for each company.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Use the data given in Company A Information and Company A Financials to create a balanced scorecard for Company A. The balanced scorecard should highlight key performance indicators, such as net profit, annual growth, and market share, and include the four components:
Financial: Complete the financial section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, with an explanation of the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Internal Processes: Complete the internal processes section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, with an explanation of the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Customers/Market: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, with an explanation of the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Learning and Growth: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, with an explanation of the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.

Use the data given in Company B Information and Company B Financials to create a balanced scorecard for Company B. The balanced scorecard should highlight key performance indicators, such as net profit, annual growth, and market share, and include the four components:
Financial: Complete the financial section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, with an explanation of the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Internal Processes: Complete the internal processes section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, with an explanation of the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Customers/Market: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, with an explanation of the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
Learning and Growth: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, with an explanation of the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.

Guidelines for Submission:
Submit two completed Excel spreadsheets using the provided template

What are your competitors' current products and services? Are your competitors expanding in the current market? Explain how this impacts their market strength. Analyze your company’s capability to pursue the innovation.

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Innovation Approach

Overview
In the highly competitive automotive market, it is critical to keep up with current technology to stay in or get ahead in the marketplace. To remain competitive, companies must innovate and integrate new technologies within their product lines and services.

Scenario
You work as a middle manager for one of the top U.S. producers of luxury and mass-market automobiles and trucks.

The chief technology officer (CTO) of the company from the course scenario has been monitoring new technology developments that the company could integrate into its vehicles to enhance the usefulness of and improve access to the data acquired by the many digital sensors integrated into vehicle subsystems over the past 20 to 30 years. The technology trend of particular interest is the internet of things (IoT)—the interconnection of embedded devices, such as sensors and computers, over the internet. By taking advantage of this trend, the CTO believes the company can seize an opportunity to provide better service and predictive maintenance to its customers, improving customer satisfaction and adding additional revenue streams.

Based on briefings by the CTO and your Module One memo, senior management has decided to implement IoT into its product line. Your CTO has asked you to lead a cross-functional team to take this initiative forward. Your first task is to create a presentation that will include your recommendation for how the company should approach this business problem: should you use incremental or discontinuous innovation?

Specifically, should the company:

Design a completely new product line, based on the new technology (discontinuous innovation)
or

Add new technology features first into one model and then incrementally into the broader product line (incremental innovation)
The recommendation you and your team will make is an important first step in pursuing this new technology. Your presentation and recommendations will be reviewed by senior management. Until senior management approves your approach to this innovation, your cross-functional team will not have a budget and will not be able to start work on the innovation. You should utilize your work from the Module Two presentation and data analysis when making and justifying your recommendation in this first milestone. In Milestone Two, you will subsequently develop a go-to-market strategy. For your project in Module Nine, you will compile your work from Milestones One and Two, and include a proposed organizational structure to best integrate, produce, and market the new technology.

Prompt
Create a PowerPoint presentation to make a recommendation for how the company should pursue the IoT technology to remain competitive: either by discontinuous or incremental innovation. To make your recommendation, you will need to identify how the evolving IoT (sensor) technology fits into the company’s products and services and determine potential risks and benefits. You will also need to look at your competitors to see what they are doing. Finally, you need to analyze the company’s capability (resources) for pursuing the innovation. Use the information and data from the CTO Brief, Comparative Growth Data, Comparative Operating Statistics, and Comparative Product Plans to complete this milestone.

Explain potential risks and benefits for options A and B.
Overview (1 slide): Present the business problem and options A and B.
Option A (1–2 slides): Explain at least two potential risks and benefits for option A.
Option B (1–2 slides): Explain at least two potential risks and benefits for option B.
Compare your competition’s products and services.
Competitors (3–4 slides): Evaluate the competitors’ current products and services.
What are your competitors' current products and services?
Are your competitors expanding in the current market? Explain how this impacts their market strength.
Analyze your company’s capability to pursue the innovation.
Complete a partial gap analysis (2 slides):
Does your company own the technology, or does it need to be purchased?
How is the technology currently being used in today’s products and services?
What type of technology is available to purchase?
Recommend the innovation approach your company should pursue.
Innovation approach (2 slides): Explain which innovation approach you are recommending and why.
Consider the different stakeholders—research and development (R&D), marketing, finance—when communicating your recommendations.
Include a description of the incremental or discontinuous product that you are recommending for R&D.
Include the sales forecasts for marketing.
Include a financial snapshot for finance.

How can mobile app be used for early detection and intervention of cerebral palsy in neonatal high risk pregnancies?

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

How can mobile app be used for early detection and intervention of cerebral palsy in neonatal high risk pregnancies? The aim of this project is to be able to use mobile app clustering in identifying pregnant women with high risks of birthing a cerebral palsy child. CP is diagnosed when a child cannot do certain motor activities and the time taken to identify this condition is when the child is 1.5 – 2years. With the early detection app during pregnancy, CP can be identified on time before the child is born and early intervention can begin.

 

Describe your career goals and plans for the future.

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Application Essay

Describe your career goals and plans for the future.

Provide a personal statement detailing why you wish to undertake the programme and the area of research that you are interested in doing.

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Personal Statement for Public Health Ireland

Provide a personal statement detailing why you wish to undertake the programme and the area of research that you are interested in doing. (maximum length two pages A4, 11-point font size, 1.5 line spacing).

What information could each item indicate? What are the drawbacks of using each data source separately? How can 3 or more of these data sources be used to triangulate areas needing improvement?

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Collecting Data Through Surveys

In this assignment, you will address how data can be collected and used for improving program effectiveness. The programmatic evaluation uses triangulation to determine a program’s effectiveness.

There are 2 parts of this assignment.
In Part 1, you will discuss some sources of data for program evaluation. You will explain how each source can be used in evaluation for determining the value of the program as well as pinpointing the program’s inherent issues that need to be addressed. In Part 2, you will develop 2 surveys from which you will collect data for programmatic review.

 

Part 1
Address the following:
• How can the following data sources be used to guide program evaluation and quality improvement?
• Withdrawal rates
• Course failure rates
• Summative assessments
• Formative assessments
• Internal test scores
• External test scores
• Student end-of-course survey answers
• Faculty end-of-course survey answers
• What information could each item indicate?
• What are the drawbacks of using each data source separately?
• How can 3 or more of these data sources be used to triangulate areas needing improvement?

Part 2
In Part 2, you will develop 2 surveys from which you will collect data for programmatic review.

Write 2 different surveys for the same course:
• Student end-of-course survey
• Faculty end-of-course survey

Develop a student end-of-course survey to assess the curriculum and teaching. The survey will:
• Contain 10 questions (5 questions regarding course curriculum and 5 regarding instructor/teaching)
• Use a Likert scale
• Follow guidelines for writing effective survey questions

Develop a faculty end-of-course survey to gain their feedback on the curriculum. The survey will:
• Contain 10 questions
• Use open-ended questions
• Follow guidelines for writing effective survey questions

Explain how you will use the resulting data to drive decision-making.