The PI owners are anticipating that as the business begins and becomes busy, potential contract-related problems and disputes could arise from purchases of paints and supplies from Naturals, and from sales of supplies and paints to local and internet customers. For example, the PI owners know from their prior business experiences, that hassles often develop with manufacturers when a company places an email purchase order to which the manufacturer does not reply, but simply ships nonconforming goods or ships orders too late to meet customer needs. Another problem area is related to internet sales where customers often claim the sales contract is confusing or incomplete sometimes resulting in mistakes in orders and cancellations. These problems can be time-consuming, detrimental to the bottom line, and can create damaging publicity and a negative image for any business. Pat and Gale, the lead consultants working with the PI owners, and you, along with the PI owners, Jo, Maddy, and Taylor have discussed these problems and the need to minimize disputes and liabilities for PI arising from its contract agreements. After several meetings, Pat and Gale ask you to develop sample form contracts designed to minimize contract sales disputes and possible liabilities for PI. Instructions There are two parts to this project. In the first part, you will create two (2) sample contracts. In the second part, you will write a brief memorandum. Part I Create the following two (2) sample contracts for PI that are all consistent with UCC rules regarding sales. A. Create a standard form sales contract to be used to purchase an order of paint from Naturals. B. Develop a standard e-contract form for internet sales of paint sold by PI to internet customers; include shipping policies and procedures. (PI will be reselling paint it purchases from Naturals via the internet.) DO NOT use standard form contracts from the internet; this will be obvious and will not receive credit. Part II: Write a brief memorandum addressed to the PI owners. Write in depth, comprehensive analysis and explanations to support conclusions. Explain the following: Analyze and discuss how the standard form sales contract (created in Part 1. A. above) for purchase of paint from Naturals will help prevent or minimize contract disputes and possible liabilities. Analyze and discuss how the standard form e-contract (created in Part 1. B. above) for internet sales of PI paint will help prevent or minimize contract disputes and possible liabilities and losses. Format for Report Create a Word or Rich Text Format (RTF) document Double-spaced, 12-point font, Arial or Times New Roman No page requirement Include title page with your name, course/section number Use in text citations Include a References list of cited resources Write clearly and concisely. Use the given scenario and facts to create the sample contracts; do not use contract forms from the internet – that will be obvious and may result in grade penalties. Label each part as follows: Part I A. B. Part II A. B. Review the Contracts and Memorandum Thoroughly read the contract and memorandum to ensure all required elements are present. Use the grading rubric to ensure that you gain the most points possible for this assignment.
In: Operations Management
Learning Objectives
About Your Data
A statistics student was late on completing the final statistics project. While racking her brain for ideas, she watched her cat eating supper and noticed how much quicker the cat ate the new brand of cat food. Feeling desperate about the project, she decided to figure out if cats really do prefer Brand A over Brand B. She catnapped six neighborhood cats (No judging!) and deprived them of food for 10 hours. Then she gave the cats Brand A, measured the amount of food eaten, deprived them of food for another 10 hours and gave them Brand B. The amounts eaten in grams are listed below:
|
Cat |
Brand A |
Brand B |
|
1 |
32 |
33 |
|
2 |
40 |
30 |
|
3 |
36 |
32 |
|
4 |
37 |
29 |
|
5 |
37 |
30 |
|
6 |
36 |
25 |
Instructions
The steps below are slightly different from the ones laid out by your textbook author. I want you to follow my six steps below. Also, because it can be difficult and time consuming trying to figure out how to insert symbols into a word processing document, I would like you to complete your manual work with pencil and paper.
Six Steps of Hypo Testing and Manual Calculations
You will be conducting a related-samples t-Test (SPSS calls it a Paired-Samples test) to determine whether the cats have equal preference for Brands A and B. Your alpha level will be .05.
Write out your six steps for this ethically dubious though highly entertaining study. ;-)
1) State H0 using symbols AND words
2) State H1 using symbols AND words
3) State your alpha level
4) Articulate your rejection rule ("Reject H0 if
|obtained t| ≥ critical t, tcrit =
_____")
5) Manually calculate your related-samples t value (Show
your work. Carry your calculations out to two decimal places. Feel
free to calculate standard deviation on calculator.)
6) State your conclusions in four parts. a. What
did you do? b. What did you find? c. What does it mean? d. What can
we do with these findings? (REFER BACK TO ABOVE VIDEO for
explanation and examples of the different parts of Step 6. Follow
the template provided in the video.)
Effect-Size Statistics
What are Cohen's d and the confidence interval of the difference? The confidence interval is listed in the SPSS output. You can do a quick internet search for "Cohen's d" calculator and find many websites that will allow you to quickly perform that calculation. Once you have your effect sizes, explain what they mean.
Decision-Making Errors
Of course, there is always the possibility of Type I or Type II error. Which type of error is relevant in this case? What are some possible consequences of this type of error?
In: Math
"PYTHON"
Declare a list that is initialized with six of your favorite
sports teams. Print out the number of teams to the shell. Use a for
loop to print out the teams to the shell.
2. a. Declare a sporting goods list, initially with no
elements.
b. Use a while loop to prompt the user for a sporting goods item
and append the item to the list.
c. Break out of the loop when the user enters exit; do NOT append
the word exit to the list.
d. Write a for s in sport_list loop to print out the elements in
the list to the shell.
(BONUS) Add code to handle a ctrl-c exit.
3. a. Create a pressure list which initially contains no elements.
b. Using the SenseHat, take 25 pressure measurements and store each
measurement as a floating-point number in the list. Be sure to have
the program sleep for a second or two between each
measurement.
c. After recording the measurements, calculate the average of the
pressure measurements- use the sum function and display the average
on the SenseHat.
4. Allow the user to enter new sporting goods items at a specific
index in the sporting goods list. Prompt the user for the index and
the new item’s name.
5. Sort the sporting goods list in ascending order. Use a while
loop to print out each item in the sporting goods list.
---Allow the user to delete an item from the sporting goods list.
Prompt the user for the item’s name.
-- Sort the sporting goods list in descending order. Use a while
loop to print out each item in the sporting goods list.
---a. Create a week_tuple and assign the days of the week as
strings to the week_tuple.
b. Print out the elements in the week_tuple.
---a. The following list has been declared as follows:
credit_list = [24,3,15]
b. Convert the credit_list to a tuple named credit_tuple.
c. Print out the elements in the credit_tuple.
---a. Write an initialize_list_values function that takes in a
number for the number of elements in a list and an initial value
for each element. The function creates a new list and appends the
elements with the initial value to the new list.
b. Pass in 5 and 3.4 as arguments to the intital_list_values and
store the returned list in data_list.
c. Use a loop to print the elements of the data_list.
---a. Create a tuple named inventory_items_tuple which has
Raspberry Pi 3, Raspberry Pi 2, and Raspberry Pi Camera
Module.
b. Create a tuple named out_of_stock_items_tuple which has
Raspberry Pi Zero. (Hint: add a , after “Raspberry Pi Zero”.)
c. Append these two tuples together into the all_items_tuple. Print
out each element in the tuple using a for loop and use the len
function to determine the number of elements in the tuple.
--a. Create a list of lists consisting of three rows and four
columns, which were initially set to 0.
b. Prompt the user to initialize each element in the list of
lists.
c. Compute the sum of all of the elements in the list. You may use
the sum function.
d. Prompt the user to enter a row number and use a loop to
calculate the sum of the elements in the row and print out the
sum.
In: Computer Science
Project 1
You are the manager of an organisation that sells and delivers IT training. You predominantly offer courses in the Maxihard Office suite and you know that Maxihard are bringing out a new version called Ultimo in six months. Ultimo is being hailed as the new revolution in IT and there is a lot of interest in it from the general public. You have been sent a trial copy of Ultimo by Maxihard but there are no training materials available yet.
Your team comprises:
- three staff trainers (one full-time and two part-time)
- three client relationship managers
- one sales administration trainee
- one receptionist
Your challenge is to get your team ready to launch your training courses in Ultimo in six months. In order to do this you need to prepare a learning and development strategy that includes all of the following aspects. (1,000–2,000 words)
1. Identify the learning needs of:
(a) The organisation.
(b) The team as a whole.
( c) Each of the individuals who will be involved.
2. Explain how you will encourage team members to assess their own competencies and identify their own learning and development needs. How will this be documented?
3. Provide a description of the activities you will utilise/ organise in order to achieve the learning needs.
4. Give an example of how you will document this learning in:
(a) Team performance plans.
(b) Individual performance plans.
5. Describe how you will accommodate the diversity of needs of participants and maximise participation in the learning opportunities you propose.
6. Which experts within your organisation, and external to your organisation, can you ask to help you? What will you ask for assistance with?
7. What changes to organisational procedures need to be made as a result of the learning that is being planned?
8. How will you monitor the learning activities whilst they are in progress?
9. What will you do to encourage team members to share their skills and knowledge:
(a) During the six months lead up time?
(b) Once Ultimo has been launched?
10. How will you recognise achievements of your team?
11. As you undertake the learning in order to prepare to sell and deliver Ultimo courses, how will you:
(a) Monitor each individual in your team and how well they are prepared?
(b) Monitor the overall team performance?
(c) Determine if additional work-based support is required?
12. Choose a specific learning activity to focus on and describe how you will gather feedback on the training activity from:
(a) The individuals involved.
(b) The team as a whole.
13. How will you use this information to make improvements in future learning arrangements?
14. What records of this learning and development need to be kept?
Project 2
Write a 1,000 word essay on learning organisations. Explain what a learning culture entails, what a learning organisation is, how learning organisations are created, developed and maintained and why continuous learning is essential to organisational success in today’s commercial world.
Research at least one organisation that purports to be a learning organisation and provide details of what they do, how they do it and what they had to do in order to create their learning culture. If possible, describe the tangible benefits that they have received as a result.
In: Operations Management
Design a follow-up study to Aggression Priming. As you work on this discussion, try to think about what other variable might influence Aggression Priming. Give a hypothesis for what you expect to occur for your new independent variable.
Let me give you a few example, though try to get creative with your group. Look at prior research and see if you can use some of their work as a follow-up to your study. Have fun with it! Okay, consider some ideas I was thinking about for a follow-up study (Personally, I would recommend the second or third idea, as there is a lot of research you could draw on about these topics, which would make Paper III much easier to write).
First, you can alter the way that you manipulate aggression awareness. For example, some people can get the advertisements (aggression versus financial ads) while others get a game format (complete crossword puzzles / word searches that use either aggressive-related or finance-related words). Alternatively, you can give some participants aggression-related images (like guns and gore) while others get neutral images (like dollar signs or bills) while other participants get words (the actual words guns/gore for some versus words about money/dollars for others). Here, one IV would be type of topic (aggressive versus financial) while your other IV would be type of medium (images versus words).
Second, source credibility is a good topic to explore. Have some participants read about Larry “the well-educated and respected doctor” while others read about Larry “the former prisoner who never graduated high school). Then, some participants get the financial ads while others get aggressive ads. Will the social status of Larry interact with the ads?.
A third idea might involve altering frustration. Give people a task and then tell some they did terrible and others they did wonderful. Does this feedback influence their assessments of Larry depending on whether they see aggressive versus financial ads?
Finally, you can look at some participant characteristics if you like. You can measure the participants’ likelihood to have a hostile attribution bias (the tendency to perceive others as acting aggressively, even when they aren’t). Or you can focus on whether or not the participant plays a lot of violent video games (versus few violent video games) to see if those who play such games are impacted more by the aggressive ads then those who do not play those games. You could see if participant gender interacts with the type of ad. Just remember that if you choose a participant characteristic, you cannot draw cause-effect conclusions (since you cannot randomly assign someone to be high versus low in hostile attribution bias or to be a man versus a woman). That is why I would prefer that you manipulate some feature of the study so you can randomly assign people to one of the four different conditions.
In: Psychology
The limbic system is:
A) made up of the hypothalamus, hippocampus and amygdala, B) involved in memory, emotion and regulation of “drives” C) may have a large impact on the qualities we know as “personality” D) all of the above E) none of the above
The cerebrum is:
A) part of what separates us from other animals B) covered by indentations called “fissures” which indicate the amount of neural activity the brain has processed C) both of the above
Reflexes in the newborn serve which function(s)?
A) maintain oxygen levels C) Manage feeding B) maintain body temperature D) all of the above
The biggest problem facing newborn babies world wide is:
A) inadequate health care C) inadequate parenting B) malnutrition D) none of the above
Piaget’s stages of Sensorimotor development suggest beginning development of which of the following psychological components:
A) focus on self C) development of fantasy C) focus on others/environment D) all of the above Language development begins: A) at birth C) with babbling B) at 1 year D) with the first spoken word
In Freud’s theory of PsychoSexual Development, he proposes that growth comes from the conflict between:
A) the id, ego and super ego C) Eros and thanatos B) the wish to fulfill our desires and reason D) all of the above
Erikson’s theory of personality development:
A) is a psychodynamic theory B) postulates that development results from mastery of certain tasks which result from trying to negotiate two opposing forces C) is a stage theory D) all of the above
Which of the following were found in Ainsworth’s “Strange Situation” study?
A) a positive correlation between parenting style and type of attachment B) longitudinal data collected over a year C) in-home study and documentation of subjects D) all of the above
Attachment Theory states that attachment is a process that:
A) occurs at the moment of birth C) is irreversible B) can be changed by relationship and life circumstance D) none of the above
TRUE/FALSE
_____ The diet recommended as being best for babies is breastmilk.
_____ Learning theory states that personality is molded by reinforcement and punishment from the environment.
_____ Erikson theorizes that in the first two stages of psychosocial development, children assess the safety of the world, begin determining whether or not making choices is a good thing, and begin developing self-control.
_____ Class discussion and articles on early brain development suggests that high levels of cortisol, a hormone the body produces under stress, helps children learn better and increases their brain development.
_____ Class discussion and articles on infant crying stated that high levels of coritsol “damage brain cells and impair memory”.
_____ Piaget’s theories rely on information about the individual, biology and experience, while Vygotsy’s rely on cultural processes.
_____ Children repeatedly ask for feedback on their performance only when they are insecure and being abused.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which of the following has the biggest impact on developing adequate levels of prosocial behavior?
A) cognitive development B) physical development C) emotional regulation D) gender
Which of the following types of aggression could indicate probable problems in emotional regulation AND an authoritarian parenting style in the home?
A) instrumental B) reactive C) relational D) bullying
In: Psychology
You have just started a new job with a significant increase in salary above what you were earning when you originally negotiated your student loan repayment. The salary increase affords you the opportunity of increasing your monthly loan payments, thereby allowing you to retire the debt sooner than originally planned. You have six years remaining in the original payback plan on a loan of $55,000, with an interest rate of 2.4% and a monthly payment of $566.74. With your new salary, you can afford a monthly payment of $672. You also will be eligible for end-of-year bonuses. PART 1: Use the concepts and techniques that you have learned throughout the semester to create a worksheet containing a loan calculator and an amortization schedule. Determine how soon you can retire the student loan debt with the new higher monthly payments. Assuming that you earn yearly bonuses of $6,000 at the end of each year, when could you pay off the remaining balance on your student loan if you kept the lower monthly payment? PART 2: Would you opt for increasing your monthly payment, or using any earned bonus money to retire the debt early? Explain the reason for your choice. PART 3: Create a PowerPoint presentation in which you summarize the spreadsheet and your decisions based on the spreadsheet. Choose your design, layout, font size, colors, and number of slides for the presentation. Please remember that PowerPoint is a visual and NOT a Word document. Considerations: Assume this is a fixed rate loan. Most loans do not penalize for pre-payment. In order to arrive at your answers, you will need to determine the following: A.Number of years for the original loan. There is a financial function that will help you obtain this information. To locate it, select the Formulas tab, click on Insert Function in the Function Library section. In the pop-up, type a brief description of what you want to do in the box provided, and then click Go. Once you select the appropriate function, specify the required parameters. B.Amortization schedule of the original loan. You will need to provide the Principal and Interest portion for each period (month). Follow the same steps specified in A above to locate the necessary functions. Please note that, as time goes on, the principal amount paid in each period (month) will increase while the interest amount paid will decrease. The principal portion plus the interest portion will always equal the total amount paid on each period (month). C.Amount of loan still owed. You can obtain this from the amortization table of the original loan and the information provided of the current period (month) of the loan. D.Period (month) on which you will complete paying the loan, based on the new payment amount. You may either develop an adjusted amortization schedule for the remaining payments, or find a function that provides the number of periods based on the remaining amount in the loan, the fixed interest rate, and the new monthly payments. Follow the same steps specified in A above to locate any functions you may need. E.Apply the annual bonus to the loan payments. Please follow prior steps to determine the impact of using your annual bonus to accelerate the payment of your loan.
In: Accounting
THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING THE 4 QUESTIONS
Q3. Create a function in Python called sum_list_div2 which takes as input a list of integers and returns the sum of the elements of the list which divide by 2.
Examples of tests in the Python interpreter:
>>> sum_list_div2 ([1,4,3,8,5])
12
>>> sum_list_div2 ([])
0
>>> sum_list_div2 ([4, -10,7])
-6
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Q5. Imagine a customer at a bank who must enter a number that represents their money. There are people who type spaces to separate the thousand, millions, etc. The bank needs this number without the spaces.
Create a function in Python named number which takes as input a string of characters s. The function returns an integer that represents the number. If s contains characters other than numbers and spaces, the function returns None. If it only contains numbers and
spaces, we assume that the spaces are well placed. For example, s might be '119 189 000' but not '1345'.
Examples of tests in the Python interpreter:
>>> number ("251")
251
>>> number ("1 abc 340")
>>> number ("1250")
1250
>>> number ("- 97,500")
-97500
>>> number ("1000 001") 1000001
>>> number ("999 999 100 102") 999999100102
>>> number ("")
0
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Q8. Create a function in Python named encrypt which takes as input a string of characters s and returns an encrypted version of s. A simple encryption system writes the message beginning with the characters at the end, in reverse order. For example, 'Hello, world' becomes 'dlrow, olleH'. To make the system more difficult to decode, the function starts when standing and at the end, at the same time. The first and last character become the first and second character in the new string, the second and penultimate character become the third and fourth, etc. For example, 'Hello, world' becomes 'dHlerlolwo', (specious characters, punctuation marks, spaces, etc. are treated the same) and '0123456789' becomes '9081726354'.
Examples of tests in the Python interpreter:
>>> encrypt ("Hello, world")
'dHlerlolwo,'
>>>> encrypt ("1234")
'4132'
>>> encrypt ("12345")
'51423'
>>> encrypt ("1")
'1'
>>> encrypt ("123")
'312'
>>> encrypt ("12")
'21'
>>> encrypt ("Secret Message")
'eSgeacsrseetM'
>>> encrypt (", '4'r")
"r, '' 4"
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Q10. This question is difficult to resolve. Use fragments of the strings (operator :) and test the equality of the two strings if necessary (s1 == s2).
A word has the property squarefree if it does not contain the same subword twice in a row. Examples:
ana is squarefree.
borborygmus is not squarefree, there are bor twice in a row.
abracadabra is squarefree.
repetitive is not squarefree because ti is repeated twice in a row.
grammar is not squarefree because m is repeated twice in a row
gaga is not squarefree because ga is repeated twice in a row
rambunctious is squarefree.
abcab is squarefree.
abacaba is squarefree.
zrtzghtghtghtq is not squarefree because ght is repeated twice in a row (three times, friends twice is enough to return False).
aa is not squarefree because a is repeated twice in a row
zatabracabrac is not squarefree because abrac is repeated twice in a row
Create a function in Python named squarefree which takes as input a string of characters s and returns True if s has the property squarefree and False otherwise.
Examples of tests in the Python interpreter:
>>> squarefree ("")
True
>>> squarefree ("a")
True
>>> squarefree ("zrtzghtghtghtq")
False
>>> squarefree ("abcab")
True
>>> squarefree ("12341341")
False
>>> squarefree ("44")
False
In: Computer Science
REFLECTION QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER # 5 --- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Read the article below and answer the following three reflection questions. The answers are to be submitted for grading.
Reflection Question#1 – What is Christina Aguilera and the other musicians asking the U.S. government to do and explain why?
Reflection Question #2 – Describe your opinion on this issue and mention if you agree or disagree with the musicians as to what they are asking?
Reflection Question #3 – Give your opinion on --- “Whose job is it to police copyright infringement?”
“The music industry is begging the US government to
change its copyright laws” By Jamieson Cox on April 1,
2016
Christina Aguilera, Katy Perry, deadmau5, and dozens of other
musicians are asking the US government to revamp the Digital
Millennium Copyright act (DMCA), the piece of law that governs
access to copyrighted work on the internet. Musicians, managers,
and "creators" from across the industry co-signed petitions sent to
the US Copyright Office arguing that tech companies — think YouTube
and Tumblr, sites with vast reserves of content that infringes on
some copyright — have "grown and generated huge profits" on the
backs of material that's illegally hosted.
"The growth and support of technology companies should not be at the expense of artists and songwriters," reads the letter signed by Aguilera, Perry, and their peers. "The tech companies who benefit from the DMCA today were not the intended protectorate when it was signed into law two decades ago."
Whose job is it to police copyright infringement?
This is a complicated issue, but you can boil it down to one key
question: whose job is it to police the appearance of copyrighted
material where it doesn't belong? When the DMCA was created in
1998, it was much easier for artists and labels to handle isolated
incidents of copyright infringement using the act's
"notice-and-takedown" system. (It's self-explanatory: the copyright
owner files a notice of infringement, it's processed, and the
offending post is taken down.)
It's a lot harder to police the internet c. 2016. It's flooded with
new, potentially infringing material every second, and the industry
the notice-and-takedown system isn't responsive enough to help
musicians' work retain its value. It's also noting that sites like
YouTube have thrived on the "copyright black market," earning
millions of clicks and views from content sitting in the grey area
between posting and takedown. The sites counter by arguing they've
given the labels the tools they need (like YouTube's Content ID
system) to make DMCA takedowns faster and more effective.
It's unclear exactly what impact the industry's coordinated
response will have on the status of the DMCA. Bloomberg notes that
the US Copyright Office doesn't have the power to directly change
the DMCA; it can recommend a set of changes to a subcommittee
tasked with reviewing contemporary copyright law, but that's about
it. If you take the industry's word for it, that change needs to
happen fast, because the status quo is endangering the future of
music. "The existing laws — and their interpretation by judges —
threaten the continued viability of songwriters and recording
artists to survive from the creation of music," reads the
musicians' letter. "The next generation of creators may be silenced
if the economics don't justify a career in the music industry."
In: Operations Management
For this exercise, consider the situation of developing the “New Appointment” page for a calendar app. In this scenario you are tasked with just the HTML — web designers will style the page with CSS, and the back-end developers will write the logic that connects it to the database. You will be graded on your ability to use HTML correctly, not on your artistic or creative ability. Feel free to make any creative modifications to the page, as long as each of the HTML elements is present and used correctly. When you submit your assignment, include the following: 1. A single HTML5 file called appointment.html 2. A screenshot of your page with all elements in place 3. A screenshot showing that your page has successfully validated The screenshots can be submitted as individual JPG/PNG/GIF files or pasted into a Word file. Design Specification The exercise consists of a single HTML file called appointment.html, containing the following: ❏ Aelement containing the following: ❏ Aelement, titling the page “New Appointment” ❏ At least two tags — one with your name, and one with your CWID. ❏ A pagecontaining the following elements. ❏ A page
. Theshould contain the following: ❏ The page’s title, “New Appointment”, within an appropriate heading tag (e.g.
). Page 1 of 4 ❏ A
element containing an unordered list (
containing a copyright notice (using the © special character) and any other information you feel is appropriate. Be sure to use proper HTML5 form input types, as discussed in section 3.2 of your textbook. All inputs should be named and labeled appropriately. Be sure to validate your page using one of the HTML validators listed in chapter 1 of the textbook, such as https://validator.w3.org. (Note that you might see several warnings along the Page 2 of 4 lines of “the [such-and-such] input type is not supported by all browsers.” The assignment is about using HTML5 inputs, not cross-browser compatibility, so you can ignore these warnings, but all errors and all other warnings must be corrected.
In: Computer Science