This is an extract describing a fashion house noted for custom-made gowns in Ghana. Use the case information to answer the questions that follow. Pistis is a Ghanaian based fashion house headquartered in Accra. The company currently stands at the frontline of the fast growing African fashion industry while making major strides on the international markets. Pistis, at the core, prides itself on creating master pieces for every client and, as result, has garnered a name as the leader in special occasion clothes. From their unique hand beaded bridal gowns to their creative use of African fabrics such as kente, the brand aims at making every woman standout as royalty in a Pistis gown. All clothing are specially made to order and the organisation does not stock clothing. There are minimum slots per month for the clothes that can be made so its best to confirm an order when you are certain with the dates to start the process. The organisation has only one facility in Ghana but has a website where orders can be placed online. Pisits was started in 2008 by Kabutey and Sumaya right after graduating from Vogue Style School of School and Design in Accra, Ghana. The brand was founded on a common vision of uniquely providing the perfect fit and style to a fast evolving woman who exuberates ambition, reveres culture and embraces innovation. By acknowledging the demand in the growing African and global market, the brand, through the years, has grown expediently by focusing on providing customers with the best service through rigorous product development in regard to originality and quality. Pistis has been featured in various shows such as the Runway Dubai Season III, Glitz Africa Fashion Week 2013, Radiance Bridal Show and headlining 3 seasons of the Vlisco Fashion Show in Ghana. In addition, Pistis has had the opportunity to dress the finalists for the Miss Malaika Pageant Ghana for 2012, 2013, and 2014 seasons. Through the years, Pistis has had the opportunity to dress dignitaries, celebrities, corporate executives, religious leaders and most importantly, the hardworking everyday woman.


a. If a key need of the customer segment the organisation aims to fill is increase rate of innovation, how would the key customer need identified influence the implied demand uncertainty? (3 Mark) b. Which capabilities of responsiveness (mention 2) does the organisation’s supply chain possess (use information from the case to explain why)? c. How can the organisation use the pricing driver to a. Match supply and demand b. Increase responsiveness c. Increase efficiency?

Read the article (link is below) and answer the questions that follow in a paper format. (Paper has to be 1-page, 11-inch font- single-spaced). I already did #1, please I need help with 2 & 3. The article is super confusing. COPY THE BELOW LINK AND PASTE IN YOUR BROWSER

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/50596700_A_long_noncoding_RNA_maintains_active_chromatin_to_coordinate_homeotic_gene_expression

Primary Paper HW assignment guidelines

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 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 enabled better understanding of the subject

A research laboratory was developing a new compound for the relief of severe cases of hay fever. In an experiment with 36 volunteers, the amounts of the two active ingredients (A & B) in the compound were varied at three levels each. Randomization was used in assigning four volunteers to each of the nine treatments. The data on hours of relief can be found in the following .csv file: Fever.csv

State the Null and Alternate Hypothesis for conducting one-way ANOVA for both the variables ‘A’ and ‘B’ individually.

1.2) Perform one-way ANOVA for variable ‘A’ with respect to the variable ‘Relief’. State whether the Null Hypothesis is accepted or rejected based on the ANOVA results.

1.3) Perform one-way ANOVA for variable ‘B’ with respect to the variable ‘Relief’. State whether the Null Hypothesis is accepted or rejected based on the ANOVA results.

1.4) Analyse the effects of one variable on another with the help of an interaction plot.
What is an interaction between two treatments?
[hint: use the ‘pointplot’ function from the ‘seaborn’ function]

1.5) Perform a two-way ANOVA based on the different ingredients (variable ‘A’ & ‘B’) with the variable 'Relief' and state your results.

1.6) Mention the business implications of performing ANOVA for this particular case study.

You are a professor of statistics and have been asked to teach a course in social science statistics off-campus to a class of grad students enrolled in the Continuing Education Program of the University. Since you’ve never taught this program before, you don’t know a great deal about the needs and background of the students in the class. In order to learn more, you hand out a survey to each student asking for information on the following variables: age, undergraduate field, number of stats courses taken, and the level of interest in conducting research (coded as low, medium, high). The results are below:

Analyze your data to give you some useful information about the class. In doing so you need to answer a few things: the level of measurement of the variables, meaningful measures of central tendency for each variable (there can be more than one), the calculated measure of central tendency for each variable (there can be more than one). In order to do that, populate the following table:

Based on the data you collected, calculate the measures of dispersion (specifically the range, variance and standard deviation) for each of the variables that are at the interval level of measurement.

Since all of your data, your measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion. brief paragraph explaining the results of your survey paying special attention to what you, as the instructor, would find useful to bear in mind as you conduct the class. Address each variable, meaningful measures of central tendency for each (providing brief mention as to why you think which are the most useful), and measures of dispersion (where appropriate). You can include graphical representations of the data where it would help to defend the answer.

You are field manager for the general contractor on a multi-story office building under construction. The project has risen all 15 floors above the foundation. The roof is on and the exterior façade of the structure, consisting of alternating blue glass ribbon windows and red granite panels, has “dried in” the project many weeks ago. On the third, seventh and fifteenth floors, the executive offices located on the corners of the building have blue glass doors that lead outside to small balconies. Interior work (walls, electricity, hvac, water, sewer, sprinker, suspended ceiling, millwork, carpet, etc.) is well under way on several of the lower floors. After carefully checking the blueprints, shop drawings and bulletin drawings completed and approved by Architects & Engineers, the superintendent for the plumbing contractor stops by your office to mention that the design doesn’t seem to provide for floor drains on the exterior balconies. A quick conversation with the architect reveals that a serious design error has occurred. Floor drains and the necessary piping will need to be retrofitted that tie-in to the vertical pipe for the roof drain, located near the center of the building. There is vertical air space (plenum) available (approx. 2 feet) on each floor between the bottom of the concrete floor slab above and the top of the ceiling grid that can be used to route the connecting pipes to each balcony drain. However, many specialty contractors have already installed their work on several floors in the plenum space. Another problem is the length of connecting piping needed for each balcony drain. Following the minimum slope for the drain pipe allowed by building code, the distance is so great from each balcony to the vertical roof drain in the center of the building that the connecting pipe would be visible below the ceiling grid, which is not acceptable to the project owner. So, the piping for each balcony drain will have to be routed at the minimum slope above the ceiling grid partway to an interior column, where a vertical pipe and floor penetration will be needed. Each balcony drain pipe will continue in the plenum space on the floor below in order to reach the roof drain. The vertical piping next to certain interior columns can be hidden with studs and drywall. In this manner, each of the retrofitted balcony drains can connect to the vertical roof drain pipe without being visible in the interior office space on each floor.

List Five things/actions that you as a Manager could do to keep the project going and solve the problem as well as what parts and how could your Schedule be affected:

Another Problem would be Who Pays: Who and Why?

1. In 2015, countries around the world agreed to develop a new set of global goals to eradicate extreme poverty and achieve sustainable development by 2030 through 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the future of the world. No goal or target is considered met unless met for all people, whoever and wherever they are.

a) Briefly explain what the concept of sustainable development means.

b) Illustrate the three pillar model of sustainability. Comment on some of the challenges for sustainable development in our country and suggest a way to overcome the same.

c) The SDG #7 is to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.

(i) Differentiate between conventional and non-conventional energy sources. Which will you support? Why?

(ii) Going green can reduce the overall energy use. Mention any two strategies that you could adopt to meet the sustainability benchmarks.

2. Air pollution in Asia has worsened since 2000 and is responsible for deaths of thousands of people in Beijing, Jakarta, Seoul and Manila. The pollution is a result of the use of fossil fuels by the industry and transport sectors. The problem got aggravated in Asia due to the use of poor quality fuel, inefficient method of energy production, use of vehicles in poor condition and traffic congestion. This was revealed during a research conducted by World Bank and Stockholm Development Institute. The research states that air pollution in the continent has surpassed the combined emissions in Europe and North America. The deaths caused by fine particulate matter far exceed those caused by sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, ozone and lead. The health cost in major Asian cities now exceed for 15-18 percent of urban income expenditure, claims World Bank officials.

a) A comprehensive campaign to address air pollution need to be launched through school children, what programme (one) would you envisage for this. What is outcome anticipated?

b) There is a sudden decision to remove all vehicles from the road that fails to meet specified norms of emission level within a specified time period. As part of citizen forum you are requested to give views on the enforced regulation. State your views on this.

c) A massive campaign on environmental degradation is to be initiated. Bring out a slogan and the key message that need to be addressed.

d) Suppose you are a Carbon Credit Auditor appointed to assess the greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies. Identify a component of assessment and brief the methodology that could be adopted in connection with this.

Mr. Marcotte was at Joel’s Little League game last week where he ran into one of the other parents, who seemed to
be in a very upbeat mood. Mr. Richards could not seem to stop talking about his windfall in the past week on some
stocks he had bought in the last month or so. Since Mr. Marcotte is still new to the investing game, he seemed to be
somewhat overwhelmed with some of the terms like stock splits, P/E ratios, dividend payout that Mr. Richards was
using to explain his success story. Moreover, Martin Marcotte has always assumed that one needs to have a sizable
amount to invest in the stock market, not to mention the inherent risk involved in the equities market. It has not
helped that by nature Mr. Marcotte is a risk averse person, he seems to think that if he was to dabble in the stock
market, he will have the same fate as those who invested in Enron, World Com, or some of the other companies
involved in fraudulent practices.
Having the above concerns aside, Martin knows that he will not be able to achieve his financial goals by keeping his
savings in a savings account or having certificates of deposits. Therefore he has decided to research stocks further,
and together with Mrs. Marcotte start a small investment in some well-researched company. Before he does so,
however he still has several questions that he needs answered.

Part 1: The Marcottes are not sure what are the different ways one make money by investing in the stock of a company?
Please list and explain the three ways you can make money with stocks.

Part 2: Given that there are many classifications of stocks to choose from, which ones should the Marcottes invest in
initially? (Remember, their initial goal is to have sufficient funds for their kids’ college education) It may maybe
more than just one class of stock. Explain and support your recommendations for the Marcottes.

Part 3: The Marcottes are not sure if they should use a Full-Service of Discount Brokerage firm, since they feel they
will not be able to spend enough time researching individual stocks. What recommendation would you give them?
Please support your recommendation.

Part 4: What are the long term techniques that the Marcottes can follow when investing in the stock market? List and
explain two methods. Which one do you recommend for this family?

Part 5: What are the short term techniques that the Marcottes can follow when investing in the stock
market? List and explain two of the methods and explain why you would not recommend them to Marcottes.

please type it. . We need to work on your sentence structures and how many ideas are in 1 sentence. Also, there are some phrasing issues but this is okay for now. You have ideas but they need to be written a bit more academically. For example, I need a thesis statement in the introduction. I need clear topic sentences. Try not to write as if you are talking, in the present moment. The conclusion should be a summary of what you just proposed on how they will make a contract and have some positive info, which you do have already. I just need to see more of an academic structure.

_{You need to write 5-8 sentences per paragraph for a total of 20-32 sentences overall.}

Introduction paragraph 1: The thesis statement is usually the last sentence of the introductory
paragraph: This paper is going to discuss how Ms. Adelle Dubois will convince the Saudis
management team to agree to a French and Saudi ballet performance and contract.
Topic sentence

for paragraph 2: Ms. Adelle Dubois will need to respect the local Saudi traditions
when negotiating a contact with the Saudi management team.
Topic sentence

for paragraph 3: To convince the Saudi management team, Ms. Dubois will need to
address the Saudis concern for the French women’s dance attire and whether the dancers may
include male dancers or not.
Topic sentence

for paragraph 4 (conclusion): In conclusion, the success of Ms. Dubois’s contract
depends greatly upon her intercultural communication and persuasion skills.

Case 1: A French firm, The Paris Opera Ballet, sent its senior-level manager, Ms. Adelle Dubois, to
opening discussions to negotiate a performance contract with The Theater of King Fahd Cultural
Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The discussion will address how the dancers from France will be able
to perform with the Saudi dancers in Saudi Arabia. Briefly, discuss the cultural values of each culture
in a business context. Mention the language used for communication between the two parties.
How will Ms. Dubois convince the Theater of King Fahd to accept her offer and have both the French
and Saudi dancers perform together?

In the introduction, describe the situation and add a thesis statement. In the body of the essay,

paragraph 2 discuss how Ms. Dubois will learn about the Saudi culture.

In paragraph 3, discuss how
Ms. Dubois will address the Saudis concerns about the French women’s dance attire and whether
the dancers may include men or not. In the conclusion, provide a summary reiterating the
advantages Ms. Dubois may cultivate in order to seal the contract.