Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

The standard error of the estimate of the mean is represented by the equation: σ√n Discuss what this equation means, using your own words and explain why we use it. Consider how it relates to the fact that we are making assumptions about the population and not just the sample.

Red Carpet LLC is a national hospitality and entertainment company with headquarters in Philadelphia, PA with national operations in the US. Historically, the company has had 3 divisions: hotels, food service, and cruise lines. However, it recently completed the acquisition of Sparkstar theaters, a movie theater company, that it is slated to become its 4th division. Red Carpet now owns 200 hotels in 48 states, 4 brands of restaurants with 1776 locations, 4 Buoy Bay branded cruise ships, and 300 Sparkstar theaters.

Its matrix organizational structure consists of a central HR, accounting, business development, sales, marketing, and research and development departments located at the headquarters in Philadelphia that serve each division. Each division is located in a different part of the US and lead by a VP that reports to the President and CEO. The company is privately owned by a consortium of investors and investor groups.

Red Carpet has 16,000 employees, 1000 of which work at its corporate headquarters. The organizational culture of the headquarters is informal and organic and there are few policies and processes that guide employee behavior. The company, as a whole, does not value HR so employees struggle with many employee relations and employment law concerns. The company outsources all of its training to one of the investor group companies, however this training is commonly not customized to the needs of Red Carpet.

As a whole, Red Carpet struggles with its business to business partners and suppliers because of its reputation for being nonnegotiable. Red Carpet would rather disrupt the quality and availability of its only products and services rather than partner for the supply chain resources that it needs. Likewise, Red Carpet does not hold many of the General Managers in its hotels, restaurants, and its cruise ships accountable for performance, opting instead for a weaker political strategy of blaming and gotcha games.

Being aware of these challenges, Red Carpet acquired Sparkstar for their strong industry reputation and financial performance in the hopes that merging the structure and culture of Sparkstar into Red Carpet would change the organization for the better. Historically, Red Carpet has been a highly successful company, however in recent years, its mismanagement has created noticeable effectives in product and service quality and its bottom line.

Divisions

Hotels: Red Carpet branded hotels are mid-price semi-luxury hotels known for high quality. Each customer is given a red velvet cupcake upon checking in. Red Carpet relies on its General Managers to micromanage the hotel. Despite its corporate parent owning a restaurant division, no Red Carpet hotels have restaurants. The Red Carpet division headquarters are in Sedona AZ. Many of the hotels are in need of refurbishment.

Food Service: Chicken Heaven is a fast-food chain with a long tradition of quality, large customer base, and 1000 locations. It is a solid overall performer for Red Carpet with high employee satisfaction. Burger Blast is another fast-food chain recently launched to cater to upscale customers who seek customized, gourmet-style burgers. It has 200 locations, however General Managers are struggling with budget and supplies causing a poor customer experience and high employee turnover. Food Park is a buffet-style restaurant with 500 locations that has been recently struggling because of high competition and poor marketing. Delicacy is a high-end restaurant with an urban theme. It has 76 locations, is the oldest of Red Carpet's food service operations, and provides a unique dining experience for customers. However, General Managers have a high turnover at Delicacy because of the grueling schedule. The food service division is located in Burke, ID.

Cruise Ships: Buoy Bay cruise ships offer low-cost, short-term cruises from Port Canaveral, FL only to the US Virgin Islands. Buoy Bay offers customers average quality staterooms and food from Chicken Heaven, Burger Blast, and Food Park. However, it does not offer a non-buffet formal dining option such as Delicacy. Although they are known for their over-the-top entertainment, employee turnover is very high relying primary on seasonal employees who are poorly trained. Buoy Bay has had much controversy. Just 5 years ago, the Buoy Bay cruise ship, Garland of the Sails, hit a reef, partially sank, and had to be salvaged in a 1.5 billion dollar operation. This resulted in a Federal investigation that is still pending. The Buoy Bay division is located in Lapsowanne, OR.

Movie Theaters: Sparkstar theaters were recently purchased from the Vegamega group for 2.3 billion dollars. Sparkstar is the highest rated movie theater chain the US. It has high customer and employee satisfaction, an efficient organizational structure, and solid financial results. Sparkstar's culture is one of high HR involvement including a strong training and development department, Sparkstar Institute. Sparkstar has a customer rewards program that provides a free movie rental of the film that the customer saw in the theater which has been very popular and has increased its strong customer base. Sparkstar has its divisional headquarters in Pasadena, CA.

The Issues

With the purchase of Sparkstar theaters, Red Carpet is hoping to redefine its operations in the next 5 years. It sees opportunities to integrate its divisions, products, and services to better serve its customers and employees. Here is a summary of some of the issues that Red Carpet must address in its strategic plan:

Internal politics and communication
Improved HR and training
Employee relations issues
Federal investigations
Product and service quality
Marketing support
Performance issues
Redefining the organizational structure
Improving its organizational culture
Integrating products and services
Resource and supply chain issues

Your Role

Leroy Banks, the Director of Change management at Red Carpet is seeking an Organization Development Consultant to address Red Carpet's need for change. You've just received a consulting contract from him to help prepare a plan to assist Red Carpet. You're excited about the opportunity and are motivated to work on this project. You know that your insight will assist Red Carpet with managing organizational change.

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 300-400 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Additional Information:

The VP of HR reviewed the executive summary and decided that your recommendation was a strong course of action for the change process. In her discussions with Leroy, she mentioned that it would be good to have you participate in a focus group to discuss your experiences with the change process. She was interested in discovering some best practices for change and felt that your experiences would be very valuable to Red Carpet’s approach to change. To guide the discussion, she recommended addressing a few points that should be covered in the focus group. Leroy will gather the results of the focus group and share it with the VP of HR.

Review the Red Carpet scenario for this course and with your classmates; discuss the following questions that will provide insight into your own change experiences:

Describe a successful change initiative from your own experiences and why it worked well.
Describe an unsuccessful change initiative from your own experiences and why it did not achieve its intended objectives.
From your own experiences, summarize the key success factors for change at Red Carpet that you would recommend to Leroy.

To simulate Prophase of Meiosis I - Synapsis and Crossing Over:

1. Homologous chromosomes come together and synapse along their entire length. This pairing (synapsis) of homologous chromosomes represents the first big difference between mitosis and meiosis. This pairing will produce two tetrads, each consisting of four chromatids. Entwine the two chromosomes to simulate synapsis.

2. To simulate crossing over, start with your long tetrad and transfer the circles on the red chromatid at the fourth bead or “gene” to the yellow chromatid, and the yellow circles to the red chromatid. Now take your short tetrad and transfer your circles from the red chromatid at the second bead or “gene” to the yellow chromatid and the yellow circles to the red. Proceed through meiosis and note how crossing over results in recombination of genetic information.

3. Draw your two centrioles to opposite poles (sides) of the cell and be sure not to draw the nuclear membrane.

4. Draw the arrangement of your tetrads and provide a brief description of what happens during

prophase of meiosis I.

a) Is the optical axis of a birefringent crystal simply a line or an address in space?
Does it have direction and sense like an arrow?
b) Explain what the crystals are: trigonal, tetragonal, hexagonal, triclinic, monoclinic and orthorhombic.
c) Explain in detail what is fluorescence and phosphorescence.

In roughly 3 pages, reflect upon the reasons WHY the sugar is in existence to begin with, explain your thoughts/feelings about this. Do you foresee any changes in the future? Explain. Take a stance, for or against sugar and/or forms of sugar in our food. 
A fairly solid reason explanation of WHY you feel this way. Make clear your personal feelings/beliefs about the use of sugar. Clarify your position by citing reasons and give examples. Include at least four references.

::Here is data:: about students in our class showing what country they are from and their opinion about pineapple on pizza.  

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/3/d/1a5nXmzTGaF_knVmvDkOrSQhpRfEp6edUXm1e7Ze-1_M/edit?usp=sharing

Conduct a hypothesis test to compare the proportion of Shoreline students who love pineapple on pizza (answered “YEAH!” on the survey) who are from Asia and the proportion of students who love pineapple on pizza who are from North America.

For each of the steps below, explain your work in words, symbols, and pictures.

1. Write the null and alternative hypotheses in words and symbols.

2. Check the conditions necessary to use the Central Limit Theorem.

3. Select an alpha level and use it to find the critical values.

4. Find your test statistic and compare it to the critical values.

5. Compute the p-value of your test statistic and compare it to alpha.

6. Describe what the p-value measures in this hypothesis test.

7. Make a decision about the null hypothesis.

8. Interpret that decision.

1. Give two examples of the limitations of the STRIPS representation for planning, i.e. things it cannot represent or cannot easily represent.

2.   a. In what sense is branch-and-bound search similar to A* search?

            b. In what sense is branch-and-bound search similar to depth-first search?

3. How does A* search extend best-first search?

4. If we have a search problem that does not involve costs, can we still use a heuristic function with A* in order to find the optimal solution? Explain your answer.

5. Define a plateau. Why are plateaus a problem for local search applied to constraint satisfaction problems?

6.  What are the two key weaknesses of Stochastic Local Search?

7. If we unroll a CSP planning problem to horizon k and do not find a solution, is there any point in unrolling it to a larger time horizon and trying again? Explain why or why not.

8.  If we have two admissible heuristics h1 and h2, would it be better to use min(h1, h2) or max(h1, h2) as a heuristic with A* search? Briefly explain your answer.

9. How many states can be represented by four variables, each of which can take five values?

Section C. Arc Consistency

Consider the following constraint network.

10. If the variables A, B and C each have the domain {1,2,3,4} before arc consistency is run, indicate what their domains will be after arc consistency has finished:

A = {                            }

B = {                            }

C = {                           }

11. If we have just considered the edge and reduce the domain of B as a result, do we need to add any arcs back to the To-Do Arcs list? If not, why not? If so, which edges?

Section D. Optimality of A*

Assume that we are running A* search on a problem and we find path p to a goal. In the lecture and text, we proved mathematically that, if we are using an admissible heuristic, there is no other path that is shorter than p. In other words, if path p' is still on the frontier, and p'' is a path to the goal that extends p', path p will always be less than (or equal to) p''. This is called proving the optimality of A*.

12. Explain why we cannot prove the optimality of A* if the heuristic is not admissible. Be as specific and detailed as possible, referring to the proof in your answer.

Read the article below and answer the questions (article should be 1 page, 11-point font). The article is provided via the link below

https://web.natur.cuni.cz/zoologie/biodiversity/prednasky/EvolucniGenetika/clanky_2016/Transgenerational-epig-inheritance-Science-2016.pdf

Primary Paper HW assignment guideline

Your primary paper consists of three parts:

1. In your own words, state the essential take-home message of the paper assigned.

--Here you should briefly mention what was known about this topic before this paper was published

--Then state what the aim/goal/purpose of this published study was. In other words, what did the authors set out to do?

--Also describe why this research is important (if you think it is important)/ what are the researchers hoping to contribute to the existing knowledge.

2. State how the authors demonstrated the essential point of the paper: what experiments and what methods they used to prove the point

--In this section, you should link how a particular approach/method was used to obtain a particular result and why it would be important/relevant. For example:

--Authors used method A to get/show result B. Result B is important because (it supports their original hypothesis in the following way/describe how/ or it provides novel findings regarding mechanism X

--Continue the bulleted list to correlate specific method with the specific result and how it supports the claims made in the paper.

3. Discuss the strengths and significance of the paper and also the weaknesses and indicate additional lines of investigation that you think would be worth pursuing that were opened up by the paper.

--Here I want you to critique the experimental approach and author’s conclusions, not their writing style or format of the paper. Also, keep in mind that these are primary research articles published in scientific journals, so they are intended for a scientific, not general audience. Hence the language could be a bit dense.

--I want you to be very specific here. Do not write general and vague statements. Instead, refer to specific data in the paper (in figure X, or table Y) and indicate any possible flaws or limitations of the experiment.

--Propose possible future directions or follow up studies. You can look up papers that cited this research or follow up on the last author’s subsequent research.

--Explain if this paper contributed anything new to the field and if it enables a better understanding of the subject.

Using the Red Tool Kit analyze more thoroughly Ms Viola’s case. Begin with Step 2 since you will be starting this process while Ms Viola is in the hospital awaiting discharge to the most appropriate facility. Work through the parts in this step to determine how to work through the concerns and support making the decision of best placement. Use the Red Tool Kit pages 23 – 46 as your guide. However, you will need to do further research to understand his medications and other issues in the case.