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What does the term globalization mean to you? lect any two factors affecting globalization and explain how they contribute to the process of globalization.

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Globalization

Using the following questions below as prompts, write a 2−3 page essay answering the each of the questions:

1. What does the term globalization mean to you?

2. Select any two factors affecting globalization and explain how they contribute to the process of globalization.

3. Describe some features of current trends of globalization and possible responses to these trends.

Remember, that you are required to write just ONE essay discussing responses to the questions above.

WHY DON’T THE POLICE TRUST THE RESIDENTS OF A COMMUNITY? WHY DOESN’T THE COMMUNITY TRUST THE POLICE? WHAT SUGGESTIONS DO YOU HAVE FOR BUILDING TRUST? WHAT CHANGES NEED TO BE MADE?

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Intro to criminal justice

THE LACK OF TRUST BETWEEN THE POLICE AND COMMUNITY IS AN ISSUE THAT MUST BE ADDRESSED FROM BOTH SIDES. WHY DON’T THE POLICE TRUST THE RESIDENTS OF A COMMUNITY? WHY DOESN’T THE COMMUNITY TRUST THE POLICE? WHAT SUGGESTIONS DO YOU HAVE FOR BUILDING TRUST? WHAT CHANGES NEED TO BE MADE?

How much is too much technology? Is there a line where we drown in our devices and lose ourselves in the outside world? Can this create the tension and disconnect with families? Co-workers? Friends?

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Chef Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmare

Watch the Amy’s Kitchen episode from the famous show Chef Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmare.

Part 2 discussion

(1) What do we identify as traditional social institutions?

(2) Social institutions are established or standardized patterns of rule-governed behavior. They include family, education, religion, work, ethnic identity, social identity, and economic and political institutions.  Do you think the stability of traditional social institutions are changing with advancement of technology?

(3) Has this been good or bad? Why?

 

PArt 3 discussion

(1) How much is too much technology?

(2) Is there a line where we drown in our devices and lose ourselves in the outside world?

(3) Can this create the tension and disconnect with families? Co-workers? Friends?

Using Warshall’s algorithm, compute the reflexive-transitive closure of the relation below. Show the matrix after the reflexive closure and then after each pass of the outermost for loop that computes the transitive closure.

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Using Warshall’s algorithm

1. Using Warshall’s algorithm, compute the reflexive-transitive closure of the relation below. Show the matrix after the reflexive closure and then after each pass of the outermost for loop that computes the transitive closure.
0 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0
0 0 1 1 0
0 0 0 0 1
0 0 1 0 1

2. Using the matrix in the previous problem show the final result of executing Floyd’s algorithm on that matrix to produce a matrix containing path lengths.

3. Show the graph that corresponds to the matrix in the first problem assuming the rows and columns correspond to the vertices a, b, c, d and e. Show its condensation graph, renaming its vertices. Determine any topological order of that graph and create an adjacency matrix with the vertices ordered in that topological order. Finally compute the reflexive-transitive closure of that matrix. What characteristic of that matrix indicates that it defines a total order?

4. Using Floyd’s algorithm, compute the distance matrix for the weight directed graph defined by the following matrix:
[0
4 −2
2 3 6
−3 2 0

4
5 0]

Show the intermediate matrices after each iteration of the outermost loop.

How does the lack of leadership from the chief executive affect an organization? Can other sources provide leadership? Who are the constituents of the detention center? How are they affected by the situation?

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Off the Rails: A Troubled Criminal Justice Agency

Read the scenario, Off the Rails: A Troubled Criminal Justice Agency.

Write a 700 to 1,050 word paper assessing the situation at the detention center. Include a discussion of the following questions:

  • How does the lack of leadership from the chief executive affect an organization? Can other sources provide leadership?
  • Who are the constituents of the detention center? How are they affected by the situation?
  • What is the result when supervisors focus on processes instead of people?
  • What trends found in Ch. 3 of Managing Police Organizations should the detention center embrace? How would you go about implementing them?
  • What does the research on leadership described in Ch. 7 of Criminal Justice Organizations suggest needs to change at the detention center? What attributes of leaders are suggested?

Based on your analysis, should the company open the mine? Most spreadsheets do not have a built-in formula to calculate the payback period. Write a VBA script that calculates the payback period for a project.

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BULLOCK GOLD MINING

Seth Bullock, the owner of Bullock Gold Mining, is evaluating a new gold mine in South Dakota. Dan Dority, the company’s geologist, has just finished his analysis of the mine site. He has estimated that the mine would be productive for eight years, after which the gold would be completely mined. Dan has taken an estimate of the gold deposits to Alma Garrett, the company’s financial officer. Alma has been asked by Seth to perform an analysis of the new mine and present her recommendation on whether the company should open the new mine.

Alma has used the estimates provided by Dan to determine the revenues that could be expected from the mine. She has also projected the expense of opening the mine and the annual operating expenses. If the company opens the mine, it will cost $745 million today, and it will have a cash outflow of $55 million nine years from today in costs associated with closing the mine and reclaiming the area surrounding it. The expected cash flows each year from the mine are shown in the table. Bullock Mining has a required return of 12 percent on all of its gold mines.

    Year                 Cash Flow

0                —$745,000,000

1                    127,000,000

2                   135,000,000

3                   145,000,000

4                   185,000,000

5                   225,000,000

6                    165,000,000

7                    155,000,000

8                    134,000,000

9               — 55,000,000

QUESTIONS

1. Construct a spreadsheet to calculate the payback period, internal rate of return, modified internal rate of return, and net present value of the proposed mine.

2. Based on your analysis, should the company open the mine?

3. Bonus question: Most spreadsheets do not have a built-in formula to calculate the payback period. Write a VBA script that calculates the payback period for a project.

Write paper on your business strategy wooing the investors to fund your business model. Pick any stock market listed company like Microsoft, Apple, Amazon etc.

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Business strategy wooing the investors to fund your business model.

Write paper on your business strategy wooing the investors to fund your business model. Pick any stock market listed company like Microsoft, Apple, Amazon etc. You are to write as if you are the owner of the company and are trying to sell your company to get additional funding from investors. Present your best arguments – what your business is doing that competitors cannot. What are some barriers to entry, if any.

What regions does cetacean taxonomy neglect? Which cetacean and fish species are threatened? What taxonomy do for cetaceans and fish?

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Research writing + ppt

Objective:

Main research objective:

To find what cause Taxonomy in the ocean and its effects on cetaceans and fish’s and environmental health.

Research – Specific objective:

  1. To find the effect of mercury on cetaceans and fish
  2. To evaluate the impact of contaminated ocean on the quality of health
  3. To find the effect of climate change on the species

Research questions:

Main research question:

What can we infer about cetacean and fish taxonomy from recent reports?

Research – Specific question:

  1. What regions does cetacean taxonomy neglect?
  2. Which cetacean and fish species are threatened?
  3. What taxonomy do for cetaceans and fish?

What is the sample correlation between Mkis the fore and RCI. over t that period? If one is sitting at the end of the period, what cas fore future correlation between Mil and Ra. using the Fama-French Three Factor Model?

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Portfolio Management

19) The spreadsheet 1.1W,I_Q19 has weekly data for Apple and Royal Caribbean stocks over a three-year period, and weekly Fama-French Three Factor returns over the same time period.

  • a) What is the sample correlation between Mkis the fore and RCI. over t that period?
  • b) If one is sitting at the end of the period, what cas fore future correlation between Mil and Ra. using the Fama-French Three Factor Model?
  • c) Why is a) bigger or smaller than b)?

Have appropriate interaction plots and explain whether the interaction is significant or not. Develop the final regression model and have relevant contour plot from your final model. Analyze the residual to check whether there are any potential concerns about the validity of the assumptions.

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Stat 490 Group project

Due 04/26

In experimental design, designing an experiment is as important as analyzing the results. Through the semester we have learned 4 ways to design an experiment

  1. Design an experiment that is BIBD.
  2. Design an experiment that is an optimal design.

For these two types of designs you need to use R language to help you unless for simple cases. Even for the same input, you may end up different designs if you rerun the code. For example, the runs in the same treatment group may end up with different blocks. Or you may end up with different subset of the total runs that is still optimal.

  1. Design a blocked experiment with confounding structure.
  2. Design a fractional experiment with aliases structure.

For these two types of designs you can use either R or Excel to help you design the experiment. With the same confounding structure, same aliases structure, you will end up with the same design.

In this group project, you are asked to design 4 experiments and analyze the results. There is an excel file called “group_response.csv” on canvas, with two variables  and  in it. These will be the response variables for your analysis below.

Experiment 1

  1. Design a BIBD that has 6 treatment groups and 10 blocks. What is the number of runs in each treatment group? What is the number of runs in each block? What is the value of ?
  2. If the response variable is (sorted by treatment and block), analyze the results. Is there a significant main effect at treatment group? Is there a significant block effect?
  3. Analyze the residual to check whether there are any potential concerns about the validity of the assumptions.

 

Experiment 2

  1. Suppose that factor A has 3 levels, factor B and C each has 2 levels. Assuming you only have budget to have 30 runs, design a D-optimal experiment with these 3 factors such that a model with all first order term and second order term for A can be estimated, and there are 3 replicates in each treatment combination.
  2. If the response variable again is (sorted by treatment A, B, C), analyze the results. Is there a significant main effect at factor A, B or C?
  3. Have appropriate interaction plots and explain whether the interaction is significant or not. Develop the final regression model and have relevant contour plot from your final model.
  4. Analyze the residual to check whether there are any potential concerns about the validity of the assumptions.

 

Experiment 3

  1. Design a blocked experiment. Choose two three order or higher order interactions to be confounded with the blocks. To choose the confounded interaction terms, use the names from every member’s name. Pick one distinct letter (A-E) from each person’s name and form the interaction.
  2. If the response variable is (sorted by the order from the output from conf.design() function, that is the order of Blocks, E, D, C, B, A), analyze the results. Identify the significant factors and develop your model.
    1. Be careful that when you run Yates analysis the data should be in standard order, while the output from conf.design() function is not in standard order.
  3. Is there a significant block effect?
  4. Write down the complete confounding structure. Confirm the confounding structure using SS.
  5. Analyze the residual to check whether there are any potential concerns about the validity of the assumptions. Analyze dispersion effect if there is any.

Experiment 4

  1. Design a To choose the generators for the design, use the names from every member’s name. Pick one distinct letter (A-G) from each person’s name and form the generator.
  2. If the response variable again is , analyze the results. Identify the potential significant factors and develop your model.
    1. Use the same order as your data in experiment 3, that is you can just add two more factors to your experiment 3 data using the generators you have
    2. Be careful that conf.design() function is based on 0/1 coding, while defining relation is based on -1/1 coding.
  3. Write down the aliases structure for the main effects and two order interactions (ignore higher order interactions) and confirm the resolution of the design.
  4. Analyze the residual to check whether there are any potential concerns about the validity of the assumptions. Analyze dispersion effect if there is any.