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Using the provided datasets of offenses reported, calculate the mean, median, mode, max, min, and range for each of the crimes. The list of crimes includes violent crime total, murder and non-negligent manslaughter, legacy rape, revised rape, robbery, aggravated assault, property crime total, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft.

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Although analyzing statistical data can be challenging, it is equally challenging to convert these data into a written format. Therefore, in this activity, you will practice the important skill of data analysis and presenting statistical information in a written format. Using the provided datasets of offenses reported, calculate the mean, median, mode, max, min, and range for each of the crimes. The list of crimes includes violent crime total, murder and non-negligent manslaughter, legacy rape, revised rape, robbery, aggravated assault, property crime total, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft.
The specific steps are as follows:
1.Download 1 of the following datasets of offenses from the Uniform Crime Report:
Accomack County Sheriff’s Office
Honolulu Police Department
Los Angeles Police Department
2. Calculate the mean, median, mode, max, min, and range for each of the following:
Violent crime total
Murder and non-negligent manslaughter
Legacy rape
Revised rape
Robbery
Aggravated assault
Property crime total
Burglary
Larceny-theft
Motor vehicle theft
3. Write 1 paragraph for each of the crimes, where you present the statistical results to the reader in a written format.
Reference
U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics. (2017). Welcome to a new way to access UCR statistics

Identify a Provision from the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses which you believe to be highly relevant to your ethical nursing practice. Provide a specific nursing practice example to illustrate and support your position.

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The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate your integration of the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses and how it influences and or impacts nursing practice.
Paper Requirements:
1. Identify a Provision from the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses which you believe to be highly relevant to your ethical nursing practice. Provide a specific nursing practice example to illustrate and support your position.

2. Approximately 4-5 pages (which includes the separate title page & references page). You may write more than the minimum required although you are encouraged to be succinct as more is not necessarily better. A minimum of 4 peer reviewed/primary references required (i.e. journal articles, textbooks) – APA format (6th ed.) – 12-point font, double spaced. Must have a separate title page and a separate references page. As this is a personal opinion paper, it may be written in 1st person context if you prefer. References must be primary sources. Follow APA 6th ed. format. Accurately cite the primary source: the 2015 ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses.

Write an essay discussing how you, as a business owner, can use annuities to achieve business goals. As you establish a process to achieve your company goals, you will need to demonstrate your math skills, consider different investment options, and describe how different investment vehicles can be used effectively to accomplish business goals.

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This module focuses on business investment concepts. Understanding how compound interest works will help you get the biggest return on your investment. One way of looking at the investment is to calculate the future value of your money at the end of a given number of years from an initial lump sum investment at a given interest rate. Another way is to say you want a certain amount by a given time, perhaps at some point in the future when you know, you will want to expand your business. What lump sum present value and the interest rate would you need to get your desired amount? In this Assessment, you will use the skills you learned in this module to investigate making large purchases for your business.

Write an essay discussing how you, as a business owner, can use annuities to achieve business goals. Financial decisions require careful planning and prioritizing, especially when large, capital-intensive purchases are involved. As you establish a process to achieve your company goals, you will need to demonstrate your math skills, consider different investment options, and describe how different investment vehicles can be used effectively to accomplish business goals.

Scenario:

As the owner of a vinyl fencing company, you are making plans for two large purchases in the next 3 to 5 years to achieve your business goals.

Purchase 1:
You plan to expand your vinyl fence company in the future and must purchase a new warehouse facility to achieve this goal. Your insurance company is offering you two very attractive investment options, an ordinary annuity, and an annuity due, both compounding quarterly and paying 8% annual interest over 5 years. Your 5-year budget includes saving $2,500.00 each quarter. To evaluate which option will benefit the business most, you must evaluate both annuity options by calculating the future value of each option and explain how the investment will help you to carry out your goals.

Purchase 2:
After careful review of your maintenance log, you also realized that you will need to replace a fence post molding machine that sells for $45,000.00. You estimate that you will need to purchase a new machine in 3 years as this machine reaches the end of its useful life. You plan to save for this purchase using a sinking fund that compounds semi-annually and earns a 12% annual rate.

Calculate the future value of both the ordinary annuity and the annuity due options being offered by your insurance company. Explain the differences between these two investment options. Select the best annuity option for your business and explain why that option is preferable.
Calculate the sinking fund payment required for the fence post molding machine.
Compare and contrast the shorter timeframe and higher interest rate of the sinking fund with the longer-term warehouse annuity option you chose. Be sure to calculate and report how much interest you will earn from the annuity chosen for the warehouse and the amount of the sinking fund investment.
Develop a plan to prioritize these two purchases, and discuss the potential impact that these will have on the future of your business. For example, is expanding your business more important than saving for and paying cash for a fence post molding machine? Remember, you could borrow money to finance the fence post molding machine when it eventually breaks, but financing will cost the business in finance charges.

Contrast how the three different populations (p0 = 0.5) evolve over time. Include reference to your three, representative graphs in your answer. Based on your data does the frequency of an allele determine its likelihood of fixation due to drift? Explain, with reference to the data you collected.

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You are to manipulate a two-allele, multi-generational, STOCHASTIC model of a population evolving under the influence of genetic drift. This model should allow you to assess the impact of population size on the magnitude of drift, and the likelihood of fixation.

Give you additional practice with MS Excel and quantitative reasoning.

List the different microevolutionary processes covered in thecourse and contrast how they change allele frequencies over time. Apply population genetic equations to explore evolutionary processes.

 This exercise will give you the opportunity to solidify your understanding of genetic drift now that we have covered the subject in lecture. The Excel file has already been set up to contain a single population of 50 individuals. You are to use copy/paste (with some editing) to add four additional populations to the graph (total of 5 pop’s). Starting with p0 = 0.5 you will collect data for 100 populations of size 50 by hitting the F9 key 19 times (20 total x 5 pops=100 pops). F9 causes Excel to recalculate, and the spreadsheet calculation is based, to some extent, on a random number. Record how many of those 100 populations fix for each of the p and q alleles (table below). Select a representative graph for screen-grabbing to turn in with this assignment. Then repeat this process with p0 = 0.1.

Next, copy the contents of this page to the N=30 worksheet and delete off the last 20 individuals (i.e., you are reducing N to 30). Make sure your graph is using data from this new page, and not the N=50 page, otherwise you will not see increased drift effects (see Select Data after right-clicking inside the graph). Again, generate the 100 populations of data for p0 = 0.5 and p0 = 0.1 and record the outcomes. Again, screengrab a representative graph.

Finally, copy the contents of this page to the N=10 worksheet and delete off the last 20 individuals (i.e., you are reducing N to 10). Again, make sure your graph is using data from this new page, and not the N=30 page. And again, generate the 100 populations of data for p0 = 0.5 and p0 = 0.1 and record the outcomes. Again, screengrab a representative graph.

  1. Contrast how the three different populations (p0 = 0.5) evolve over time. Include reference to your three, representative graphs in your answer.
  2. Based on your data does the frequency of an allele determine its likelihood of fixation due to drift? Explain, with reference to the data you collected.

Summarize your expertise in each of the three aspects of PMI’s Talent Triangle, explore how these competencies have aided you in successfully managing projects, and discuss opportunities for future improvement. Reflect upon how these competencies have contributed to your successful management of projects.

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In this workshop, you will summarize your expertise in each of the three aspects of PMI’s Talent Triangle, explore how these competencies have aided you in successfully managing projects, and discuss opportunities for future improvement.

  • PMBOK® Guide
  • Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage
  • Video: How to Be a Great Leader: Project Management
  • Article: PMI Talent Triangle

Now that you have reviewed each aspect of PMI’s Talent Triangle (leadership, technical project management, and strategic and business management), you will consider your own strengths in each of these three areas. You will reflect upon how these competencies have contributed to your successful management of projects. Additionally, you will create a plan for improving your expertise in any of the areas where you think you may lack proficiency. Even if you believe you are proficient in all three aspects, discussing your continuing efforts for improvement as PMI credential holders is important.

  1. Upon reviewing the PMI’s Talent Triangle, reflect upon the key skills and competencies you possess pertaining to each side of the triangle:
    1. Leadership
    2. Technical Project Management
    3. Strategic and Business Management
  2. Provide examples of your expertise in each of the three areas and describe which skills you have personally found most valuable for your success as a project manager. Draw upon your experience to explain why these competencies were, and are, so valuable.
  3. If you believe you lack proficiency in one of these three areas of expertise, share your specific plans for increasing your knowledge and skills in the future.

Identify the suitable Information Systems (IS) to facilitate all the activities in the value chain for the industry that you have chosen. Discuss in what ways that Information Systems can improve the productivity of the firm in a particular industry.

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The purpose of this assignment is to develop learners’ ability in understanding the key functions in an organisation and how Information Systems (IS) and the Information and Communications technology (ICT) infrastructure could help to improve the organisation’s excellence.

REQUIREMENT:
Figure 1 shows a sample of a firm’s value chain. A value chain consists of a set of activities that a firm operating in a specific industry to deliver a valuable product such as goods or services for the market. Choose ONE (1) of the following industries:
i. Electrical and Electronics
ii. Automotive
iii. Construction
iv. Finance

• Identify the suitable Information Systems (IS) to facilitate all the activities in the value chain for the industry that you have chosen.
• Discuss in what ways that Information Systems can improve the productivity of the firm in a particular industry.

Describe significant teaching and/or teaching-related experiences you have had with one or more learners . With reference to these experiences, please identify insights gained about teaching and learning and explain how these insights might contribute to the education of students in today’s schools.

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– Why have you chosen to apply to the Master of Teaching program?

– Describe significant teaching and/or teaching-related experiences (up to a maximum of three experiences) you have had with one or more learners . With reference to these experiences, please identify insights gained about teaching and learning and explain how these insights might contribute to the education of students in today’s schools.

– Describe a challenging situation you had with a learner or group of learners during one of the experiences mentioned in question 2. What did you learn about teaching and learning from this specific interaction? What specific action(s) will you take to apply this learning to the education of students in today’s schools?

– Describe an area of educational research that you’d like to investigate during your Master of Teaching program. Why are you interested in this area? What questions would you like to pursue?

A statement of intent (also known as a plan of study or letter of intent) should detail your study and/or research interests, career goals, and reasons for seeking admission.
It’s helpful to begin with a list of four or five key words or phrases that relate to your proposed study. You may also wish to identify the faculty members with whom you are interested in working.
The length of a statement of intent can vary, but generally it should be 1000 – 1500 words. If you are applying to more than one program, it is helpful to clearly identify sections within your statement that are specifically adapted for/directed to each program.

During this clinical rotation, you have engaged in service-leaning activities in collaboration with our community partners. Complete a community needs assessment, based on one of these activities. Utilizing the community assessment components (People, Place/Environment, and Social systems), address the guidelines listed below: Describe the Community: people, place, social systems

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During this clinical rotation, you have engaged in service-leaning activities in collaboration with our community partners. For this scholarly paper, you will complete a community needs assessment, based on one of these activities. Utilizing the community assessment components (People, Place/Environment, and Social systems), address the guidelines listed below: Describe the Community 1. People (Demographic, Biological Factors, Social Factors, and Cultural Factors) 2. Place/Environment (Physical Factors, Environmental Factor) 3. Social Systems (Health Systems, Economic Factors, Resources and Services) Research and Analysis of the Community • Data Collection (Conduct a Windshield survey) • Analysis of Community Assessment Data (Identifying Community needs and strengths) • Community Health Program (Identify a resource that this community could utilize to help alleviate the needs identified) • Summarize how your service-learning activity helps meet the Healthy People 2020 initiatives. • Reflect on what was learned from the assignment and how it will impact your practice in the future.

If you were advising a CEO on steps he or she could take to ensure confidence and trust in the compensation and benefit program what would you say? Provide specific examples from course and external resources for your suggestions to the CEO.

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What is job evaluation, how does it differ from job analysis and how is it used in establishing an equitable internal job structure?
Express your opinion about the pros and cons of job-based and person-based pay structures.

The effectiveness of any compensation system to attract, retain and align employee behavior and performance with the objectives of the enterprise is dependent upon management credibility. If you were advising a CEO on steps he or she could take to ensure confidence and trust in the compensation and benefit program what would you say? Provide specific examples from course and external resources for your suggestions to the CEO.

In this discussion, you will explore the use of inferential and descriptive analysis in public safety agencies. Selecting 2 different public safety agencies, find 1 example displaying the use of descriptive data and 1 example reflecting inferential analysis.

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In this discussion, you will explore the use of inferential and descriptive analysis in public safety agencies. Selecting 2 different public safety agencies, find 1 example displaying the use of descriptive data and 1 example reflecting inferential analysis. In 2 paragraphs, you will introduce your examples to the class, name the type of analysis undertaken, and suggest other types of statistical analysis that could be undertaken with these data or by including other data.
The specific steps are as follows:
Engage in independent research, and find 2 different public safety agencies using statistical analysis.
Of your selected examples, 1 example must reflect the use of descriptive data and 1 must be an example of inferential analysis.
Write a post introducing this research to your classmates.
Engage in a discussion with your classmates on the diverse types of statistical analysis and how they are used to improve public safety.