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Q1

Age

• Under 18
• 18-24 year old
• 25-34 years old
• 35-44 years old
• 45 years and older

Q2

Gender

• Male
• Female
• Other

Q3

Education: What is the highest degree or level of school you have completed?

• Bachelor’s degree
• Master’s degree
• Professional degree
• Doctorate degree
• Other (please specify)

Q4

What is your ethnicity?

• Asian
• White
• Native Hispanic or Latino
• Black or African American
• American Indian or Alaska Native
• Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
• Other

Q5

How important do you think communication skills affect your career success?

• Extremely important
• Very important
• Moderately important
• Slightly important
• Not at all important

Q6

How familiar are you with Chinese and American universities’ admissions policies?

• Extremely familiar
• Very familiar
• Moderately familiar
• Slightly familiar
• Not familiar at all

Q7

Do you have any experience studying in both the U.S. and China?

• Yes
• No

Q8

How comfortable are you communicating with new people?

Not at all comfortable Extremely comfortable
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Q9

How good at communicating do you think you are in general?

Not good at all Extremely good at it
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Q10

How likely would you be to improve your communication skills if entrance to a university required it?

Not at all likely Extremely likely
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Q11

If it is necessary for you to improve your communication skills, which of the following would you choose to practice?(select all that apply)

• Participate more in class
• Join societies/associations/clubs/activities
• Go for lessons online
• Talk to parents/teachers for help
• Other (please specify)

Q12

Which of the following was the most important factor to you when you were in high school?

• Grades
• Personal Skills
• Games
• hobbies and interests
• Other (please specify)

Q13

Looking back, do you wish your college required higher level communication skills?

• Yes
• No
• Not Sure

 

• Response (96 Chinese students)
• 55%: the only thing: Grade :because No time to practice (there are a lot of students who study abroad for undergrads, if there are more samples study in Chinese universities, the percentage would be much higher)
• 75%: comms is important and affect career success
• 60%: wish their college required higher level communication skills: parents and teachers will pay attention on communications
• Only if the university admission policy required communication skills, the official such as schools will pay attention on communications

 

INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT I: TIME SERIES ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING

 

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS

 

• Just Eat is the FTSE-100 company for my report.
• Data on the FTSE 100 Index prices and UK government Treasury bill is also attached as Data Set as a separate file.

The only data you are required to download is the monthly price series of your selected (Just Eat) from Yahoo Finance or any similar data source.

 

Yahoo Finance (https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/quote/JE.L?p=JE.L)

 

1. The assignment must be word-processed.
2. The whole assignment must be no more than 1000 words in length including any, GRAPHICS BUT NOT REFERENCES. The word count must be stated on the front page of the assignment.
3. The assessment criteria detailed overleaf will be used to mark your assignment. Please bear the criteria in mind when preparing your assignment.

MAIN PURPOSE

The purpose of this assignment is to make students familiar with some with the basics of time series analysis and forecasting.

SCENARIO

You are a Junior Stock Analyst for F&H Investment Plc, with responsibility for tracking FTSE 100 stocks on the London Stock Exchange. One of your core duties is to determine the right price and return of stocks, which in turn, informs traders on buying or selling decisions of the stocks in their portfolio.

 

The asset returns/pricing model used is the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), which proposes the market (systematic) risk as the single determinant of stock value.

The CAPM is estimated using the following empirical mode

)                                                                                   (1)

where, i= 1,…, N and t=1,…,T

= return on asset i at time t (your selected stock, e.g., Barclays)

= return on the risk-free asset at time t (UK govt three (3) months Treasury bill price)

= return on the market portfolio at time t (FTSE 100 Index)

and  are the coefficients to be estimated.

Your task for the month is to produce a report detailing the time series pattern, return analysis and forecast of a stock that is a constituent of the FTSE 100 index (refer to list of FTSE 100 firms). The main body of your report should be structured based on the following sections.

Time Series Analysis

Stock Returns Analysis

Forecasting

Below are detailed requirements for each component of your report.

PART ONE: TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

1. Produce a time-series graph of the monthly price series for (i) the selected stocks, (ii) the risk-free asset and (iii) the market portfolio for the past 15 years.
2. Provide a description of the patterns observed for your series plots, that is, whether you observe a trend, season, cycle, structural break, random walk or a combination of them).
3. Identify an economic/fundamental reason for the patterns observed in each of the series analysed above.

[20 marks]

PART TWO: STOCK RETURNS ANALYSIS

1. Estimate a monthly return series for your chosen stock (), the risk-free asset (), the market portfolio.

Due to the desirable properties of logarithm transformation, the following log-return formula is to be used for calculating the return series:

where, R_t is the return on asset i at time t,  is the price of the asset at time t,  the price of asset at time t-1, ln is the natural logarithm and  is the return on stock i.

1. Plot a time-series graph of all the return series estimated and comment on how their pattern differ from that of the price series in part one.
2. Estimate a static linear regression of the monthly return series using equation (1).
3. Interpret the coefficients of your regression and comment on their statistical significance.
4. Comment on how the presence of autocorrelation is likely to affect your analysis of the result above.

[40 marks]

PART THREE: FORECASTING

You are expected to provide forecasts of your chosen stock. These forecasts will inform the trading division on their buy and sell decisions.

1. Produce a forecast of the monthly price and return series of your chosen stock for the last 3 years using (i) the moving average method, (ii) exponential smoothing method and (iii) the regression estimates from your previous section.
2. Compute the mean square error (MSE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) for all the three forecasting methods and comment on the accuracy of your forecasts.

[30 marks]

FORMAT OF REPORT

Executive summary, introduction, logical structure, clear explanation and appropriate referencing.

[10 marks]

WRITTEN REPORT FORMAT

The written report should be 1,000 words (plus or minus 10%) in length (including, introduction, main report and conclusion, but not the reference list), word-processed and should be of a professional format suitable for the audience.

ASSESSMENT AND MARKING SCHEME

The majority of the marks will be given to students that produce evidence of:

• A good understanding of time series analysis.
• A good understanding of time series regression analysis and forecasting.
• Critical thinking in the interpretation of the findings.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

An executive summary should be no more than 10% of the final word count. This is not part of the word count.

 

Read the integrative case “Sometimes a Simple Change Isn’t So Simple” (Integrative Case 7.0) starting on page 600. Conduct research beyond the textbook (2 additional resources) and provide in-depth analysis of the case.

You will take on the role of Kate from this case study, and you will be creating a Presentation for the hospital’s administrative team. After reading the case study, create a Presentation with in-depth speaker notes that address the following questions:

(1) What structural change is indicated at Integrated Health?

(2) What caused MAR to fail? (3) Why are the nurses resisting the MAR project?

(4) What techniques should be used to overcome the barriers to change?

Question A

1. The tvshows data set from AI:FCA-1 (exercise 7.3) is shown below:

Assume that we are reporting errors based on the absolute error value (basically, each error counts as 1). Gove very brief answers to the following questions:

1. What is the optimal tree with one node only? What is the associated error?
2. What is the optimal tree with a depth of 2 (i.e. a root node with leaves as children)? What is the associated error? Which instances end up at each leaf?
3. What is the smallest tree that classifies correctly all training instances? How will it classify a new instance described as (Comedy = true, Doctors = true, Lawyers = true, Guns = true) and another one as (Comedy = false, Doctors = false, Lawyers = true, Guns = true)? Which of the two test instances allow us to say that the tree is able to generalize?
4. If you were building the tree using the information gain as a splitting criterion, what would be the root?

 

Week 3: Collaborative Strategies with other Professions

What is Collaboration and why is it important ? Collaboration fosters open communication and shared decision making to achieve quality patient outcomes. It is a working practice where individuals work together to achieve a common goal. In the healthcare industry it is vital for collaboration amongst healthcare disciplines and professionals. It effectively identifies strengths within the roles that can enhance a patient’s care on a holistic level. It is the cornerstone of success.

Collaboration provides every team member with equal opportunities to participate and communicate their ideas. http//www.nutcache.com (May 28,2019)

Professional Nurses can use specific strategies to promote collaboration with other healthcare disciplines and professionals that can lead to successful outcomes and improve patient care.

1: Communicate: The Nurse is usually the first to engage in a dialogue with the patient.  Assessment and Evaluation, obtaining History and Physical. Needs are identified problems are detected, thus the beginning of a Nursing Care Plan. The Nurse must first collaborate with the patient and inform them of the need for other disciplines involvement in their care.

2: Coordinate: Coordination with other disciplines is necessary to meet patient’s needs. This can be through Social services, Physical/Occupational Therapy, Home Health aide,  Pharmacy, other family members and sometimes community assistance can be vital. The Nurse must now have a discussion (communicate) with the multidisciplinary team.

3: Delegate Responsibilities: Each disciplines/professionals plays an important role in the quality of care or information they  provide, with delegation of responsibilities, each role is utilized to the fullest. A mixture of thinkers, problem solvers and communication skills along with experience and innovated ideas can now exchange information through Case Conferences, Emails, Telephone Calls and Video Conferencing.

4: Accountability: Each professional team member is held accountable for the information they provide, Deadlines for care must be met, schedules for patient visit/care must be kept. This is crucial as it reflects on the care that will be given. Patient participation is key to executing care plans and accomplishing goals.

Mutual trust and Respect: As professionals we all have our idiosyncrasies  but in order to build a successful work environment Nurses must communicate expectations, establish goals and foster cohesiveness between team members. Specific collaboration strategies utilizes multiple health care workers from different professional backgrounds to deliver the highest quality of care. (WHO, 2010)