Archive for August 19th, 2019

Quality of Service

Quality of Service” Please respond to the following:
 

 

  • Your design team presents a project to you, in which most inputs seem to have about a 1.5-second delay before a response. The lead designer has decided this response is acceptable. Analyze response-time models and decide if the response time in the presented project is acceptable. Explain why it is or is not. 
  • Evaluate the importance quality of service has to designers. Choose two areas discussed in the textbook you would focus your attention to ensure quality of service for a team of designers that you were managing. Justify your choices.

Balancing Function And Fashion

 

 
  • Error messages are a key part of an overall interface design strategy of guidance for the user. Discuss strategies to ensure integrated, coordinated error messages that are consistent across an application. 
  • Choose the one topic covered in Chapter 11 (error messages, non-anthropomorphic design, display design, window design, and color) that creates the biggest challenge to achieving balance between function and fashion. Support your response.

Comparison of Metatherian and Eutherian Mammal Ecology

 

Follow the directions for each activity. Answer the essay questions completely using thoughtful ideas, the course text, and outside reference sources, where applicable. Proofread answers for potential writing errors. 

 

Part A. Metatherian Mammals

 

  

 

Part A Question1) What are metatherian mammals? What are distinguishing characteristics of metatherian mammals? 

 

Extinct mammals, they are very few living. Metatherians, which comprise marsupials and their closest fossil relatives, were one of the most dominant clades of mammals during the Cretaceous and are the most diverse clade of living mammals after Placentalia. The only living metatherian mammals are the marsupials. There were some extinct metatherians that were not marsupials, such as the Sparassodonts, but as these have gone extinct, a metatherian is now just a synonym for a marsupial Metatherians belong to a subgroup of the northern tribosphenic mammal clade or Boreosphenida. They differ from all other mammals in certain morphologies like their dental formula, which includes about five upper and four lower incisors, a canine, three premolars, and four molar. In metatherians, marsupium is present which is required for carrying the infants

 

Part A Question2) Describe the biogeography of metatherian mammals. 

 

Part A Question3) Using the following websites choose one extant (currently living) metatherian (marsupial) mammal species. Conduct research about the species. Discuss and analyze the species’ anatomy, ecology, and life history. Write a species account of at least 300 words correctly citing the reference source(s) you used. Scientific names are comprised of the genus (capitalized) followed by the species name (not capitalized) and they are italicized. For example, Ornithorhynchus anatinus

 

  

 

Site Name

 

 

 

Web Site URL/Address

 

 

 

Mammalogy on the Internet

 

 

 

http://www.mammalsociety.org/mammalogy-internet 

 

 

 

Tree of Life Web Project

 

 

 

http://www.tolweb.org/Mammalia

 

 

 

Animal Diversity Web 

 

 

 

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Mammalia.html

 

 

 

Wilson & Reeder’s Mammal Species of the World

 

 

 

http://www.vertebrates.si.edu/msw/mswcfapp/msw/index.cfm

 

 

 

American Society of Mammalogists: Mammalian Species

 

 

 

http://www.mammalsociety.org/publications/mammalian-species

 

 

 

Mammalian Species pdf Site

 

 

 

http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/

 

 

 

National Geographic Mammals

 

 

 

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/

 

Species Scientific Name:

 

Species Common Name: 

 

Species Account: 

 

Part B. Comparison of Metatherian and Eutherian Mammal Ecology

 

  

 

Complete the table using the websites listed in Part B. Match the eutherian (placental) mammal with a similar ecological equivalent metatherian.

 

  

 

Scientific Name of Metatherian   Mammal

 

 

 

Common Name

 

 

 

Ecological Description

 

 

 

Eutherian Mammal Match

 

 

 

Petaurus   breviceps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vombatus ursinus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Myrmecobius fasciatus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notoryctes typhlops

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dasycercus cristicauda

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sarcophilus harrisii

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thylacinus   cynocephalus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

List of Eutherian Mammals to Match

 

Peromyscus polionotus

 

Talpa europaea 

 

Glaucomys volans

 

Taxidea taxus

 

Myrmecophaga tridactyla

 

Canis latrans 

 

Marmota flaviventris 

 

Part B Essay Question: What are potential hypotheses (explanations) regarding why there are ecological equivalents between many metatherians and eutherians? Discuss your hypothesis in terms of the processes that could lead to the current ecologies and distributions of metatherians and eutherians.  

Recognize the hindrances to the decision-making process in order to apply problem-solving skills to a variety of situations.

When faced with a problem, what do you do to solve it? This assignment asks you to apply a six-step to problem solving process to a specific problem scenario. You will write a paper that presents a synthesis of your ideas about solving the problem using this systematic approach. As Voltaire said, “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”

 

Choose one (1) of the problem scenarios as a topic choice for your paper (Note: Your professor must approve your topic choice before you begin work on the assignment.)

 

Scenario 1: You have worked at your company for eleven (11) years. You have returned to college to earn a Bachelor’s degree in order to increase your chances for a promotion. You are nearly finished with your degree, when a supervisor’s position in a competing company becomes available in another state. The start date is in two (2) weeks, during your final exam period for your courses. The position offers a $15,000 per year salary increase, a car allowance, and relocation expenses. Your former supervisor works for the company and is recommending you for the position based on your outstanding job performance; if you want the job, it’s yours. All of the other supervisors at this level in the company have Master’s degrees, so you know that you would be expected to earn your Bachelor’s degree and continue on to a Master’s degree. Your present company offers tuition reimbursement, but the new company does not.

 

Scenario 2: Your child comes home from school with an assignment sheet for a school project. He / she is very excited about the project and begins work immediately, doing research on the Internet and gathering materials. You read over the assignment sheet and notice that your child is not including all of the required items in the project, and you have some ideas for how to improve the quality of the presentation. You recently read an article in a parenting magazine about the importance of a child developing responsibility for his/ her own learning. You recall the many ways in which your parents took over your school projects. You, on the other hand, want to encourage your child’s confidence in his / her ability to complete a project independently. The next day, you are at the grocery store when you see a parent of a student in your child’s class. That parent has spent over $30 in supplies for the science project and is taking a day off of work to put the pieces of the project together.

 

Scenario 3: You have two jobs, one during the week from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, and one on Saturday from 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm. You are taking two classes, one that meets from 6:00 to 10:00 pm, and one class online. You have two kids, one who plays soccer, and one who is in band. You have two elderly parents who no longer drive. You have two siblings, one who lives two (2) miles away, and one who lives in another state. You have two (2) papers due in your classes the same week that one (1) of your children has a soccer tournament, and the other child has a band concert. You are coaching the soccer team, and you are in charge of fundraising for the band. You have a goal to complete your degree in two (2) years. Your doctor tells you that your blood pressure, your cholesterol, and your weight are too high and recommends several medications that cost you nearly $200 per month after your insurance co-pay.

 

Scenario 4: You are a sales representative for a company that encourages staff to log time in the field and away from the office. You are expected to begin and end your day at the office. You notice that each day when you arrive and return another co-worker is already there, and you wonder whether this person spends most of his / her time at the office. At your weekly sales meeting, you are informed of your co-workers’ outstanding sales performance. You suspect that this co-worker is spending more time flattering the boss instead of working leads in the field, and as a result is getting the best client referrals. Your own sales numbers have steadily decreased since this other sales representative was hired.

 

Scenario 5: Professor’s Choice – problem scenario presented by your professor.

 

Scenario 6: Student’s Choice – Problem scenario presented by you.

 

Review the six-step problem solving process outlined in the webtext, based on the article “The Problem Solving Process” located at http://www.gdrc.org/decision/problem-solve.html:

 

  • Step One: Define the problem
  • Step Two: Analyze the problem
  • Step Three: Generate options
  • Step Four: Evaluate options
  • Step Five: Make your decision
  • Step Six: Implement and reflect

 

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

 

  1. Define the problem in the scenario that you have chosen.
  2. Analyze the problem in the scenario.
  3. Generate options for solving the problem in the scenario.
  4. Evaluate the options for solving the problem.
  5. Decide on the best option for solving the problem.
  6. Explain how you will implement the decision made and reflect on whether this option was the most effective.

 

The paper should follow guidelines for clear and organized writing:

 

  • Include an introductory paragraph and concluding paragraph.
  • Address main ideas in body paragraphs with a topic sentence and supporting sentences.
  • Adhere to standard rules of English grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

  • This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
  • Based on the guidelines in SWS, “A well-researched assignment has at least as many sources as pages.” Therefore, since this assignment requires you to write at least 4-5 pages, you should include at least 4-5 references.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

  • Recognize the hindrances to the decision-making process in order to apply problem-solving skills to a variety of situations.
  • Create written work utilizing the concepts of critical thinking.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in critical thinking skills and informal logic.

The Problem Of Asymmetric Information

 What is the problem of asymmetric information?  Why is it so important to understand this problem?  This video is great!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXPXpJ5vMnU

 

Many police officer positions require the applicant to have a college degree even though the tasks of a police officer rarely call upon college course material. Why don’t police departments increase their applicant pool by dropping this requirement?  

 

 

 

As you answer this question think back to last week and the problem of Type 1 and 2 errors and the human tendency to be risk-averse.

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