Once you have the dataset, please use knowledge gained in other business and/or economics classes to realize what topic and theory the data could relate and a research question that it could allow you to answer. More specifically, please put together an analysis by making sure your project report includes the following:

1. Brief statement of the research topic and problem. As you get the dataset from me, you would need to use some imagination what research problem that data could be related to. Nevertheless, please state very briefly (i.e. in one paragraph) what theory (research literature or textbooks related to business or economics) says about the research problem – e.g. is there some dilemma or controversy that your research will help to clarify.
2. Clearly worded research question that limits the research problem to researchable task. (This is a short sentence that ends with the question mark and it is suggested that you draw from theory (research literature / textbook knowledge) in one of the business studies field to word it!)
3. Please identify the type of data that you are working with – on what type of measurement scale(s) where the selected variables measured by the original data collectors. (As you work with the dataset given by me, use your educated guess).
4. Describe the data with the tools of descriptive statistics, using both numerical as well as graphical methods. In addition to reporting and commenting on the values central tendency and diagrams, please also justify the choice of method (e.g. why a particular kind of measure of central tendency was selected and the chosen graphic is appropriate to use in this context).
5. Justify the selection of the specific data analysis method of inferential statistics. Recommendation – use the decision tree (introduced in Ch. 9ff) to make the selection and justification of it. You should look up also the assumptions and comment how your data meets them but I will not penalize you if it does not meet all the criteria. Nevertheless, please make sure that you include the basic information about distribution of the variables – are they more or less normally distributed (use both numerical as well as graphical methods). It is required that you restrict the choice of data analysis method(s) to the ones introduced in the class. (In addition to the fact that we covered only the most basic / frequently used methods in class, also the spreadsheet program (Excel) which the textbook is based on and that I presented during the course, has limited set of methods available).
6. Formulate the null and research (alternative) hypothesis – similarly to point 2 it is recommended that you word them on the basis of research literature / textbook knowledge in one of the business studies field that you know);
7. Determine the test criteria:

7.1. Specify the level of significance (Type I error associated with the null hypothesis),

7.2. Determine the test statistic (the appropriate statistical test as mentioned under point 5 above),

7.3. Determine the critical values (and region(s) if applicable),

8. Calculate the value of the test statistic (obtained value).
9. Make a decision about the null and research hypothesis by comparing the obtained value to the critical value and interpret the results of the data. You can pay attention also to the p-values.
10. Sum up you research report by relating the statistical test result(s) to the research question and theory that you set to test.

"Introduction to CSS" (ICSS 2)
by Carrie Dils

(Part 2 of 2)

1. Select File > Make a Copy of this Google document within your Google Drive.

2. Login to your https://linkedin.com/learning/ account

3. Search for the LinkedIn Learning course name listed above

4. Search for each of the highlighted video names listed below and click the bookmark flag of each

5. Watch your now bookmarked videos and answer the associated questions listed below

6. When done, select File > Download As > Microsoft Word (.docx) and save it to your computer

7. Return to https://canvas.seattlecentral.edu to this assignment > upload/submit your answers via a Word doc

Common CSS Concepts

1) [True or False] By default, backgrounds extend all the way to the inside edge of the element’s border.

2) [True or False] By default, backgrounds are transparent.

3) [Critical Thinking] Why does the author choose to hide the text of his heading tags from visible view while showing an image instead?

4) The CSS color property is used to define the color for the content of the element. In the case of a p tag (paragraph) what will this property effect?

5) [True or False] Absolute values are good for devices in which the exact size is already known, for example a printer.

6) [True or False] An advantage to using the relative value em is that the starting size of the text is up to the device itself. As the user changes the resolution, the relationship of the sizes based on ems will stay exactly the same.

7) [True or False] Pixels are calculated relative to the parent element.

8) [True or False] According to our author normal document flow can and should handle the majority of our layout needs.

9) Which value of the position property removes an element from normal document flow and repositions the element based on top, right, left or bottom offset values?

10) [True or False] To determine its position, an absolutely positioned element looks to the nearest parent element that has positioning. If no elements are positioned above it, it looks to the body tag for positioning.

11) [True or False] Fixed positioning is similar to absolute, but the position is always relative to the active viewport, not the parent element.

12) Which CSS property controls allow positioned elements to stack (appear on top of) other elements?

13) [True or False] When we float an element, it moves as far over as it can, either to the right or to the left, and the elements below it move up to take up the space the floated element used to occupy.

14) [True or False] When we float an element, we essentially remove it from normal document flow.

15) [Critical Thinking] If we wish the text in a paragraph tag to wrap to the left on a floated image, what value do we set to the float property of the image?

16) Which flexbox child property places child elements one on top of each other? (vertically)

17) While the grid layout is a powerful tool, it may not be fully supported by all browsers at this time. The author mentioned a couple of tactics to use grids with browsers that don’t fully support grids at this time. Name 1.

18) According to the author, what is an advantage of using lots of comments in our CSS?

19) [Critical Thinking] What is an advantage of grouping related styles in the same place?

20) According to the author, why should we consider splitting our CSS into multiple files?

21) What does the author do to inspect an element on a page?

22) What does a code linter do?

Introduction to responsive web design - 2:40

23) [Critical Thinking] In the video the author flexes the screen to approximate what the page would look like on a mobile phone. Would this be sufficient to determine how a the page would work for a phone? If not, why not?

24) [Critical Thinking] Write the exact syntax of a media query that allows you to write styles for all screens smaller than 600 pixels.

25) What does the author mean by mobile first?

CSS frameworks and grids - 1:23

26) [Critical Thinking] When should we consider using a CSS framework instead of creating our own CSS?

27) According to the author, what is the biggest reason to use CSS pre-processors?

Scenario

Frank has only had a brief introduction to statistics when he was in high school 12 years ago, and that did not cover inferential statistics. He is not confident in his ability to answer some of the problems posed in the course.

As Frank's tutor, you need to provide Frank with guidance and instruction on a worksheet he has partially filled out. Your job is to help him understand and comprehend the material. You should not simply be providing him with an answer as this will not help when it comes time to take the test. Instead, you will be providing a step-by-step breakdown of the problems including an explanation on why you did each step and using proper terminology.

What to Submit

To complete this assignment, you must first download the word document, and then complete it by including the following items on the worksheet:

Incorrect Answers

Correct any wrong answers. You must also explain the error performed in the problem in your own words.

Partially Finished Work

Complete any partially completed work. Make sure to provide step-by-step instructions including explanations.

Blank Questions

Show how to complete any blank questions by providing step-by-step instructions including explanations.

Your step-by-step breakdown of the problems, including explanations, should be present within the word document provided. You must also include an Excel workbook which shows all your calculations performed.

WORKSHEET:

Deliverable 02 – Worksheet

Instructions: The following worksheet is shown to you by a student who is asking for help. Your job is to help the student walk through the problems by showing the student how to solve each problem in detail. You are expected to explain all of the steps in your own words.

Key:

<i> - This problem is an incorrect. Your job is to find the errors, correct the errors, and explain what they did wrong.

<p> - This problem is partially finished. You must complete the problem by showing all steps while explaining yourself.

<b> - This problem is blank. You must start from scratch and explain how you will approach the problem, how you solve it, and explain why you took each step.

<p> Assume that a randomly selected subject is given a bone density test. Those tests follow a standard normal distribution. Find the probability that the bone density score for this subject is between -1.53 and 1.98

Student’s answer: We first need to find the probability for each of these z-scores using Excel.

For -1.53 the probability from the left is 0.0630, and for 1.98 the probability from the left is 0.9761.

Continue the solution:

<b> The U.S. Airforce requires that pilots have a height between 64 in. and 77 in. If women’s heights are normally distributed with a mean of 65 in. and a standard deviation of 3.5 in, find the percentage of women that meet the height requirement.

Answer and Explanation:

<i> Women’s pulse rates are normally distributed with a mean of 69.4 beats per minute and a standard deviation of 11.3 beats per minute. What is the z-score for a woman having a pulse rate of 66 beats per minute?

Student’s answer:

Let

            Corrections:

<b> What is the cumulative area from the left under the curve for a z-score of -0.875? What is the area on the right of that z-score?

Answer and Explanation:

<i> If the area under the standard normal distribution curve is 0.6573 from the right, what is the corresponding z-score?

Student’s answer: We plug in “=NORM.INV(0.6573, 0, 1)” into Excel and get a z-score of 0.41.

Corrections:

<p> Manhole covers must be a minimum of 22 in. in diameter, but can be as much as 60 in. Men have shoulder widths that are normally distributed with a mean of 18.2 and a standard deviation of 2.09 in. Assume that a manhole cover is constructed with a diameter of 22.5 in. What percentage of men will fit into a manhole with this diameter?

Student’s answer: We need to find the probability that men will fit into the manhole. The first step is to find the probability that the men’s shoulder is less than 22.5 inches.

Continue the solution:

Deliverables

There is one deliverable for this assignment

• hw6.py

Make sure the script obeys all the rules in the Script Requirements page.

Specification

The script must have 3 functions:

• get_args
• create_python_file
• print_directory

get_args

This function must have the following header:

def get_args(arg_number):

This function takes as its parameter an integer.

The function should look at the number of command line arguments that the script gets when it is run.

If the number of command line arguments is less than the parameter, it should print a usage message in the form specified in the Class Notes and the function should cause the script to quit.

If it gets the right number of command line arguments it should return those arguments.

Remember that the length of sys.argv is always one more than the number of command line arguments.

The test code will use the first command line argument as the argument to create_python_file and the second command line argument as the argument to print_directory.

create_python_file

This function must have the following header:

def create_python_file(filename):

This function takes as it's parameter a name of a Python script without the .py extension.

The first thing the function should do is check that there is no . (dot) in the filename.

If there is, the function should print an error message and the script should quit.

This error message must contain the word "ERROR".

Otherwise the function should add ".py" to the filename.

It should then use the Unix command touch to create a file with that filename.

touch when run with an argument creates a file of that name.

Then the function should give this file 755 permissions using the Unix chmod command.

print_directory

This function must have the following header:

def print_directory(path):

This function takes as it's parameter a path.

The first thing that the function should do is check to make sure the path is a directory that exits.

If the directory does not exist the function should print an error message and quit.

This error message must contain the word "ERROR".

Otherwise, the function should print the entries in the directory specified by the path parameter.

Script for this assignment

Open an a text editor and create the file hw6.py.

You can use the editor built into IDLE or a program like Sublime.

Test Code

Your hw6.py file must contain the following test code at the bottom of the file:

filename, path = get_args(2)
print(filename, path)
create_python_file(filename)
print_directory(path)

Suggestions

Write this program in a step-by-step fashion using the technique of incremental development.

In other words, write a bit of code, test it, make whatever changes you need to get it working, and go on to the next step.

1. Create the file hw5.py.
   Write a statement to import the os and sys modules.
   Enter the headers for get_args, create_python_file and print_directory.
   Under each header write the Python statement pass.
   Run the script.
   Fix any errors you find.
2. Remove the pass statement from get_args.
   Replace it with an if statement that prints an error message if the length of sys.argv is less the value of the parameter arg_number plus 1.
   After the print statement, but still inside the if statement, write at statement that causes the script to quit. Copy the first line of the test code into your script at the bottom of the file.
   Run the script with no arguments.
   You should see the error message,
   Run the script with one argument.
   You should see the error message.
   Run the script with two arguments.
   You should not see your error message, but you will get a TypeError.
   Fix any errors you find.
3. Outside the if statement write a return statement that that returns the first two elements in sys.argv.
   Copy the second line of the test code into your script at the bottom of the file.
   Run the script with two arguments.
   You should see those two arguments.
   Fix any errors you find.
4. Replace the text in the print statement with the text of a usage message as described in Class Notes 10.
   Your message should have the same format as shown in the Class Notes and it should print only the name of the script, with no path. Run the script with no arguments.
   You should see

   Usage: hw6.py FILENAME PATH

   Fix any error you find.
5. Remove the pass statement from create_python_file.
   In it place write an if statement which prints an error message if the argument

The Protek Company is a large manufacturer and distributor of electronic components. Because of some successful new products marketed to manufacturers of personal computers, the firm has recently undergone a period of explosive growth, more than doubling its revenues during the last two years. However, the growth has been accompanied by a marked decline in profitability and a precipitous drop in the company’s stock price.

You are a financial consultant who has been retained to analyze the company’s performance and find out what’s going wrong. Your investigative plan involves a series of in-depth interviews with management and doing some independent research on the industry. However, before starting, you want to focus your thinking to be sure you can ask the right questions. You’ll begin by analyzing the firm’s financials over the last three years, which are presented in the supplemental datasheet. Assume the company sold no property, plant, or equipment during the time periods presented. Also assume the company did not repay any long-term debt. The company’s normal credit terms extended to its customers is net 30.

Complete the following using Microsoft Excel and Word. All quantitative analysis should be done in Excel, while all qualitative analysis should be completed in Word. Construct horizontal analysis (year-over-year growth) on the financial statements for 2019 and 2020. Analyze the trend in each line; what does the trend analysis reveal? What are strengths, and areas for concern? Construct common size balance sheets for 2018 - 2020, respectively, and common size income statements for 2018 - 2020, respectively. Analyze the trend in each line. What appears to be happening? What are your significant findings? Construct Statements of Cash Flows for 2019 and 2020 using the indirect method. Also compute Free Cash Flow for each year. Where is the company’s cash going to and coming from? What are strengths, and areas for concern? Calculate all the financial ratios discussed in chapter 15 (use exhibit 15-6 as a guide) for 2019 and 2020. Analyze trends in each ratio. What can you infer from this information? Make specific statements about liquidity, asset management, debt management, profitability, and market performance. Do not simply say that ratios are higher or lower (or that they are going up or down); instead, think about what might be going on in the company and propose reasons why the ratios are acting as they are. Finally, based on all of your analysis, what two (or more) specific actionable items should the company do to improve its situation? Be specific in your response and discuss the implication of your recommendation.

1. Download this file to your hard drive and follow the instructions in the Module 9 Assignment (Word) document.
2. Prepare two files for your post. The first file should be a text file containing your Python solution. The second file should contain your output file(txt).

Complete the following using Python on a single text file and submit your code and your output as separate documents. For each problem create the necessary list objects and write code to perform the following examples:

1. Sum all the items in a list.
2. Multiply all the items in a list.
3. Get the largest number from a list.
4. Get the smallest number from a list.
5. Remove duplicates from a list.
6. Check a list is empty or not.
7. Clone or copy a list.
8. Find the list of words that are longer than n from a given list of words.
9. Take two lists and returns True if they have at least one common member.
10. Print a specified list after removing the 0th, 4th and 5th elements.
    Sample List: ['Red', 'Green', 'White', 'Black', 'Pink', 'Yellow']
    Expected Output: ['Green', 'White', 'Black']
11. Print the numbers of a specified list after removing even numbers from it.
12. Shuffle and print a specified list.
13. Get the difference between the two lists.
14. Convert a list of characters into a string.
15. Find the index of an item in a specified list.
16. Append a list to the second list.
17. Select an item randomly from a list.
18. Find the second smallest number in a list.
19. Find the second largest number in a list.
20. Get unique values from a list.
21. Get the frequency of the elements in a list.
22. Count the number of elements in a list within a specified range.
23. Check whether a list contains a sub list.
24. Create a list by concatenating a given list which range goes from 1 to n.
    Sample list : ['p', 'q'], n = 5
    Sample Output : ['p1', 'q1', 'p2', 'q2', 'p3', 'q3', 'p4', 'q4', 'p5', 'q5']
25. Find common items from two lists.
26. Change the position of every n-th value with the (n+1)th in a list.
    Sample list: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
    Expected Output: [1, 0, 3, 2, 5, 4]
27. Convert a list of multiple integers into a single integer.
    Sample list: [11, 33, 50]
    Expected Output: 113350
28. Split a list based on the first character of a word.
29. Select the odd items of a list.
30. Insert an element before each element of a list.
31. Print all elements of a nested lists (each list on a new line) using the print() function.
32. Split a list every Nth element.
    Sample list: ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n']
    Expected Output: [['a', 'd', 'g', 'j', 'm'], ['b', 'e', 'h', 'k', 'n'], ['c', 'f', 'i', 'l']]
33. Create a list with infinite elements.
34. Concatenate elements of a list.
35. Convert a string to a list.
36. Replace the last element in a list with another list.
    Sample data : [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10], [2, 4, 6, 8]
    Expected Output: [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 2, 4, 6, 8]
37. Check if the n-th element exists in a given list.
38. Find a tuple with the smallest second index value from a list of tuples.
39. Insert a given string at the beginning of all items in a list.
    Sample list: [1,2,3,4], string: emp
    Expected output: ['emp1', 'emp2', 'emp3', 'emp4']
40. Find the list in a list of lists whose sum of elements is the highest.
    Sample lists: [1,2,3], [4,5,6], [10,11,12], [7,8,9]
    Expected Output: [10, 11, 12]
41. Find all the values in a list are greater than a specified number.
42. Extend a list without append.
    Sample data: [10, 20, 30]
    [40, 50, 60]
    Expected output: [40, 50, 60, 10, 20, 30]
43. Remove duplicates from a list of lists.
    Sample list : [[10, 20], [40], [30, 56, 25], [10, 20], [33], [40]]
    New List : [[10, 20], [30, 56, 25], [33], [40]]

Please read case and answer the questions thank you.

Voice-controlled devices and utilities are growing more popular as smartphone and cloud technology become more robust. Apple’s Siri, Android’s Google Now, and Windows’ Cortana digital assistants are all powered by voice recognition, and Amazon entered the fray with voice controls for its Amazon Fire TV technology. Amazon’s latest voice-controlled technology offering, the Amazon Echo Bluetooth speaker and virtual home assistant, raises the stakes even further. Echo was released in 2015 to mixed but mostly positive reviews, which emphasized the future potential of the device. Amazon Prime members could buy Echo for just $99, while normal Amazon customers had to pay $199.Currently, Echo’s functionality is simplistic, but useful. The device is always on, but requires its ‘wake word’ to prime it for interaction – the only two choices are “Alexa” or “Amazon” at the moment. You can ask Echo questions, have it play music, create a to-do list, or get the weather. Echo can also play a digest of the biggest news stories or play reports of specific issues that users ask to hear. The Echo companion app allows you to customize settings, keep a record of your queries and the answers to those queries, and view the shopping and to-do list items that you’ve previously dictated to Echo. Amazon is also developing a developers’ kit to allow developers to create Echo apps, which are likely to make it even more multi-functional in the future.Echo is a move by Amazon to enter the voice-controlled technology space, but it also has potential as a “smart home” appliance, which is a growing market. Echo might someday be able to integrate with your home appliances, adjusting the temperature, locking and unlocking doors, and turning lights on and off. Amazon might envision a future where Echo is a kind of “hub” where you can manage and connect with all of the smart appliances in your home in one centralized location.Echo lacks a battery option and has to be plugged in to function, limiting its portability. It’s also able to glean information from Wikipedia, but not from Google or other search engines. That will likely change in the future as both Amazon and Echo’s developers gain more familiarity with the device. The speaker quality is also limited, with testers reporting distortion at higher volumes. Users report that Echo experiences some confusion with queries that don’t fall within its narrowly defined specifications, although Echo also learns from its mistakes and adapts to the types of queries you most frequently make.It’s not currently clear how Amazon uses the information it gleans from users’ questions and commands, or whether there’s any capacity for storing things you say that aren’t directed at Echo itself. From Amazon’s perspective, the Echo could be an invaluable new tool for learning more about its customers, with an ability to generate heaps of granular data about the routines and preferences of each individual user.On the other hand, privacy advocates have ample reason to be concerned about a device that can quickly transmit your every word to the cloud, where it can be stored along with the rest of Amazon’s trove of your personal information and used to make product recommendations and generate marketing materials. However, Amazon notes that any users uncomfortable with the collection of their data can simply go into their “History” using their Echo app, and delete queries either individually or in bulk, which will also delete the information from Amazon’s servers.At this point, there’s no telling what the Amazon Echo of 2020 will look like compared to the launch version of 2015. It could be a staple in homes across the country, or it could flame out like the Amazon Fire phone long before then. Amazon seems poised to commit the necessary resources to ensure the former.

1. What functionality does Amazon Echo display during the video?

2. What kind of technology does Amazon Echo use?

3. Why does Amazon Echo make sense as a hub for home appliance automation?

4.What might be some privacy concerns involving Echo? Are these well founded? Why or why not?

5. Why is releasing a developers’ kit for Echo important for Amazon to keep pace with services offered by Apple, Google, and Microsoft?

You are required to write an abstract and title using the below information. Submission requirements:

- Word length: 300 words (strictly enforced) -

-Information -

A number of case studies using data about disasters that had significant economic consequences were undertaken by the researchers, and these studies looked at the investment advice provided by the Home Budget Management System and whether it actually proved to be accurate.

- In this paper a new Domestic Budget Management System called the Home Budget Management System is proposed

- The Home Budget Management System figures out when it is really important for households to conserve funds and gives them accurate advice about how to do this as well as about safe-harbour investments in a crisis and this makes the home budget’s resilience to unanticipated events like the COVID-19 crisis, stronger.

- For homeowners to be able to insulate themselves from the worst of a crisis, they need to know when a crisis has occurred and how they can conserve funds and what strategies can enable them to achieve this. They also need to know about any safeharbour investment options that might exist at that precise time.

- It was concluded by the researchers that the Home Budget Management System helped build households’ resilience to economic crisis caused by disaster by directing when funds needed to be conserved and predicting how they could be best invested in safeharbour investments at critical moments, accurately.

- We are facing a global climate of increasing risk of disaster and the accompanying risk of economic consequences. The COVID-19 crisis has been a good example of this. We need to build up household resilience to economic disaster

- When to advise homeowners to begin insulating themselves is decided automatically by the Home Budget Management System. The Home Budget Management System undertakes really good and thorough monitoring of real-time data on global disaster occurrence.

- As disasters occur it is useful for households to be able to access accurate information about the risk of the economic fall-out accompanying a given disaster so that that they can make decisions about how to best insulate themselves and build resilience

– Domestic Budget Management Systems can help them do this.