Archive for November 27th, 2018

How the British dealt with piracy as a threat to their naval dominance.

Research Paper 

You will write a 2500 word paper, complete with footnotes and a bibliography. This is a formal

history paper. Therefore, it must conform to the standard format required in the field,

particularly with respect to citation of sources. 

Economics of the business environment

Company to analyse: Taylor Wimpey (UK building company)

Set out the performance of the firm/organisation in relation to its main competitors/comparators from 2006 until 2018. Conduct an economic analysis of the firm/organisation, its wider macro context, its market exposures and its cost vulnerabilities, including comparisons with an appropriate comparator organisation or organisations. Does your analysis of these “fundamental economics” of the firm/organisation fully explain your data? If not, why not? What does your analysis reveal about the effectiveness of business strategy in your chosen firm or organisation especially in 2008/2009? How well equipped is the business/organisation to withstand further global economic shocks in 2019/20?

 

Further information regarding the breakdown of allocated marks for 3000 words (graphs and table not accounted for)

Background to your chosen company ( ≈ 5% )

• Its Vulnerability and Costs ( ≈ 20%)

• Its Market Exposure ( ≈ 25% )

• Its macroeconomic exposure ( ≈ 20 % ) Focus on what matters for the chosen business/organisation and show how its exposure affects its performance using macro and micro data in combination. Avoid lengthy descriptions and analysis of the macro events per se. Its non-economic macro exposure eg 9/11, SARS, local politics ( ≈ 5% )

• Does your business’s conduct and strategy protect it from external exposures? Is it ‘clothed’ or ‘naked’ in the marketplace. How does it compare with others in the same marketplace ? Well equipped for 2019 ? ( ≈ 25% )

Honicker Corporation

Go to the Project Management Simulation: Scope, Resources, Schedule V2 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. at Harvard Business Publishing online. 

Once you have registered, you will be able to view the “Prepare” section to read about the project management process at Delphi Printers and learn how to run the simulation.

For this Portfolio Project Milestone, draft the framework of the Portfolio Project paper for Honicker Corporation. This draft must be properly organized with the following key elements:

• Running header with designation of Portfolio Project- Honicker Corporation.

• Cover page with designation of Portfolio Project option clearly designated.

• Paper title with designation of Portfolio Project option clearly designated.

• Introduction to include, as complete as possible, a descriptive overview of the Portfolio Project and a brief preface of the essay paper (three to four paragraphs).

• Main body of the essay paper with APA style 

• Section level-1 headings for Section 1: Principle Components Discussion; 

• Section 2: Simulation Scenario Analysis; 

• Section 3: Case Study Analysis. Include APA style section level-2 headings for bullet items or key elements within each main section. For the first three Section 1: Principle Components bullet items, include a substantive, synopsis of each item (three to four paragraphs for each subsection level-2 bullet item):

• Project, Program, and Portfolio Management distinction;

• Project Selection; and,

• Project Charter. Additionally, develop a basic, 2 to 3 page Project Charter template based on the PMBOK® Guide (6th ed.) that could be used for small-to-medium projects in a global organization. Include your Project Charter template as an appendix in your paper.

• Conclusion 

• Reference page(s) listing any appropriate references cited; a minimum of four scholarly references. NOTE: all in-text citations must include (Autor, Year and Page number(s))

The course is Resource Economics, which develops the concepts of Social Contract theory, Valuation of resources depending on Property Rights, Market Failures and Policy development. The text book used is: Resource Economics: An economic Approach to Natura

Research was conducted on water sampling to find rate of sedimentation/ deposition and carbon load at two acidic pit lake kepwari and WO5H at collie. The paper is to make a comparison of this two lake based on the above parameter and also to find differences within the lake. 

The Forestry Sector: Impacts of carbon pricing and increased forest fires on the Faustmann model

The course is Resource Economics, which develops the concepts of Social Contract theory, Valuation of resources depending on Property Rights, Market Failures and Policy development. The text book used is: Resource Economics: An economic Approach to Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, Fourth Edition, J.C. Bergstrom, A. Randall.. The paper needs to be a max of 20 pages with a development of the forestry industry and its Property rights. The components of Faustmann model for harvesting and new influences due to changes in the market from risk created by forest fires and new valuation from carbon sequestration. Then after developing the changes in the model review policy implemented relative to these market disruptions and define the public interest. This paper is written from a Canadian perspective though all relevant sources are encouraged.

Software Project Management – Work breakdown, risks and estimation

This coursework is for the scottish housing options who are buildiong an e-learning toolkit, the project breakdown is listed in files below.

 

Please talk about the below point the mark for this is out of 60

1. Architecture Diagram

System Architecture Diagram. This should show the key components of your proposed system and the interfaces between them. 

2. Work Breakdown Structure

Produce a top-down Work Breakdown Structure for the project. This should keep sub-systems separate. Allocate an approximate budget to each top-level deliverable. 

3. Uncertainties

Give an example of a favourable/unfavourable uncertainty, in each of the following categories (10 examples in total):

a. Financial- – exchange rate changes may benefit a project

b. Technical- a breakthrough could benefit a project (and others)

c. Business Environment- growth in a market could make a project more profitable

d. Social- stakeholder buy-in could help a project

e. External/Natural Environment- melting ice sheets could make oil extraction easier

4. Uncertainty analysis

Add likelihood estimates, impact assessments, and response strategies for your unfavourable examples, and risk Matrix

5. Network Diagram

Use the tasks from two interdependent components from your answer to section 2, to create a Network Diagram, showing the Critical Path through the tasks.

6. Software Estimation

For one software component of the project, use appropriate methods to estimate the size of the software, and the effort and cost required to deliver it.

Rate of sedimentation and carbon load at acidic pit lake kepwari and WO5H at collie, WA

Research was conducted on water sampling to find rate of sedimentation/ deposition and carbon load at two acidic pit lake kepwari and WO5H at collie. The paper is to make a comparison of this two lake based on the above parameter and also to find differences within the lake. 

Using Machine Learning Techniques to Determine the Special Factors Affecting Delays in National Airline Flights

Our approach will depend on trying various machine learning techniques on a real data from a national airline company. 

The different ways that our data can be viewed, mapped, and associated with other data such as regional weather, religious dates and times will be our space of trials to experiment to reach to the best model. 

Our steps will be as follows:

1 Data collection and cleaning

2 Learning different machine learning techniques that can be used in prediction.

3 Trying each or combination of machine learning techniques on manipulated data.

4 Variation of our training data by cleaning, mapping or appending other related data.

5 Repeating steps 3 and 4 until reaching to the best model.

Digit Span

Digit Span

Lab report on a study conducted on memory span. Grading criteria is included in the attachments. 

All data needed for the analysis is also included in the pdf that includes all information retrieved from the study (doanja memory lab pdf). (sorry it’s a bit messy). 

Additional questions to consider during the analysis is located in the “analysis of digit span” pdf. 

Project: An “electronic journal” document of 20 hours of video/documentary program viewing reflecting anthropological concepts and cultural universals

Description and What to Watch: 
There are a lot of excellent programs and documentaries provided on progressive, viewer-supported, TV networks and the internet (local PBS stations, BBC, Free Speech TV, Link TV, TheRealNews.com, etc.) The programming on these networks can serve admirably to expose viewers to alternative cultural views and lifestyles. These networks can offer serious, un-censored information about what’s going on in the world today, and from a variety of cultural perspectives that is not offered on the major commercial networks. These can all be accessed online and/or through satellite TV systems such as Dish TV, Direct TV, Spectrum, etc. PBS programs such as “Global 3000, Earth Trek, Nova, Nature, When Worlds Collide, and Global Voices” are good starting points. Additionally, websites such as DocumentaryTube, Topdocumentaryfilms, Openculture, and others make finding relevant programs.

To determine whether a program is appropriate, check our Course Outline topics each week and see if the program fits into these themes (subsistence, family, marriage systems, language, religion, politics, etc.). There are literally thousands of appropriate programs. Be creative and explore beyond my suggestions. Understand that your 20 hrs should not contain major commercial networks, episodic fictional shows, cooking shows, travel shows, etc. which are general, superficial and do not conform to the requirements.

You can satisfy the term project requirement by watching 20 (or more) hours of appropriate programming and submitting a typed “electronic journal” of what you have watched, as well as your thoughts about the material presented. See the template on page 3. Please note, any videos I assign as weekly viewing in this course are not eligible as these are part of your course material. Your project is your responsibility. 

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