Paper should be about 10 double-spaced, type-written pages or the number of pages to fully explore the topic. The paper should include no less than 4 academic sources.

Write an essay on one of the following:

1. Describe the impact of "shifting services” on marking channels.
2. Describe the impact of "online channels” on marketing channels.
3. Describe the impact of "globalization” on marketing channels.
4. Explain how the design and management of marketing channels fit into the marketing mix of entrepreneurial and start-up firms.
5. Discuss how channel theories, structures, and strategies of the past apply to the present, and if they will hold in the future.
6. Evaluate the role of branding and brands in channel structures and strategies.
7. Describe the role of culture in channel structures and strategies.
8. Explain the relationship between multi-channel usage, channel strategies, and firm strategies.
9. Explain the factors that are impacting the disintermediation of marketing channels in some industries.
10. Select a company. Describe how the various distribution channels are organized. Explain how it compares with competitors. Evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of its channel management. Detail any recommendations you might have to improve them.
11. Describe how power retailers impact the contracts in and the structures of distribution channels.
12. Describe whether a monopolistic manufacturer can increase both channel profit and its own profit through the implementation of trade promotions.

1. Skill Identification Exercise: Job-Related Examples

• Review the list of job-related skills below,
• Think about times or situations when you have used each skill, and note that example in the right-handcolumn

I am writing an essay about Minorities and stereotypes in The Big Bang Theory. What types of stereotypes they are using and how they are addressing in the show.   

Here is the paragraph you can look the answer. Please help me with that and feel free to look that up.

"Weitekamp says, “The show itself starts from the idea that scientists and nerds have a certain number of stereotypes and then the characters, I think, are really written in ways that both play off of and sometimes play against those existing stereotypes.”

“Part of the popularity of The Big Bang Theory has come out of it being the right show at the right moment where there’s been an evolution in the social acceptance of geeks or nerds. Being able to work on computers, to know about science to know these kinds of things, and seeing that as a new kind of ‘geek chic,’ and this show then tapped into that very effectively,” says Weitekamp.

“It’s unusual to have a depiction of scientists in a comedy not in a drama. They tend to be the side character who comes in with the answer, or who is so obsessed with their own work that they have actually created the problem,” says Weitekamp.

Finally, says Weitekamp, “If readers get a chance to look at my academic look at The Big Bang Theory,and see how science, scientists, knowledge about science, and how science works, it might allow readers to think a little about the ways in which science gets depiced on television and in the movies.”

Ahmad, S. N. B. B. (2010). Organic food: A study on demographic characteristics and factors influencing purchase intentions among consumers in Klang Valley, Malaysia. International journal of business and management, 5(2), 105.

Quah, S. H., & Tan, A. K. (2009). Consumer purchase decisions of organic food products: An ethnic analysis. Journal of International Consumer Marketing, 22(1), 47-58.

Shaharudin, M. R., Pani, J. J., Mansor, S. W., & Elias, S. J. (2010). Factors Affecting Purchase Intention of Organic Food in Malaysia's Kedah State/FACTEURS INFLUANT SUR L'INTENTION D'ACHAT D'ALIMENTS BIOLOGIQUES DANS LA RÉGION DE KEDAH EN MALAISIE. Cross-Cultural Communication, 6(2), 105.

Wee, C. S., Ariff, M. S. B. M., Zakuan, N., Tajudin, M. N. M., Ismail, K., &Ishak, N. (2014). Consumers perception, purchase intention and actual purchase behavior of organic food products. Review of Integrative Business and Economics Research, 3(2), 378.

Prepare a consumer report using the 4 articles above as main references. You may also want to do additional academic reading that is relevant to answer this assignment question.

Summary of consumers’ perception towards organic food products in 1500 words.                                              

Sex Segregation

In this assignment, you will explore socially derived gender norms and the role they play in primary education environments.

Assume that a friend is thinking about sending her six-year-old daughter to an all-girls' school. She has asked for your opinion on whether all-girls' schools are better for girls in terms of fostering achievement and self-esteem.

Using the module readings, the online library resources, and the Internet, research sex-segregated education.

Based on your research, respond to the following:

What are your personal views on having sex-segregated education? What do you base these opinions on (personal experience, research, opinions of others, or media reports)?

What, according to scientific literature, are the biological, cultural, or social reasons for or against sex-segregated education? Is there evidence to suggest that there may be academic areas where sex-segregated education for girls or boys is beneficial?

Would sex-segregated education affect self-confidence and self-esteem in students and impact success in work, school, or the social environment?

Would you recommend that your friend send her daughter to an all-girls’ school?

Please note that your responses should represent both girls and boys with regard to your overall assessment of sex-segregated instruction.

Give reasons and examples from research in support of your assertions. Be sure to integrate research and personal views in your response.

A.) A group of engineers developed a new design for a steel cable. They need to estimate the amount of weight the cable can hold. The weight limit will be reported on cable packaging. The engineers take a random sample of 43 cables and apply weights to each of them until they break. The 43 cables have a mean breaking weight of 774.3 lb. The standard deviation of the breaking weight for the sample is 15.4 lb.

Find the 90% confidence interval to estimate the mean breaking weight for this type cable.

( _______,____________ )

Your answer should be rounded to 2 decimal places.

B.)

According to the website www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov, “About 25 percent of college students report academic consequences of their drinking including missing class, falling behind, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall.” A statistics student is curious about drinking habits of students at his college. He wants to estimate the mean number of alcoholic drinks consumed each week by students at his college. He plans to use a 90% confidence interval. He surveys a random sample of 50 students. The sample mean is 3.90 alcoholic drinks per week. The sample standard deviation is 3.51 drinks.

Construct the 90% confidence interval to estimate the average number of alcoholic drinks consumed each week by students at this college.

( ______, ________ )

Your answer should be rounded to 2 decimal places.

1. Come up with 3 topics about which you might be interested in writing a research paper.

a. These topics can be very general: carnivals, Nicola Tesla, cartoons, special education, etc. Try to pick three subjects that interest you, about which you might actually enjoy learning more.

b. You don't necessarily need to know anything about those subjects yet, so it's fine if you pick subjects that are new to you.

2. For each topic, generate a question (or a few questions) you would like to ask.

a. The answer to this question, which you will only fully discover during your research, should eventually help you form your thesis statement.

b. I suggest generating questions by going online and getting a general sense of what information is available about your subject--especially if it’s a new subject for you!

3. Find one source that you feel is trustworthy and would be useful for researching each topic. For each source, write a paragraph about how this source would be useful in answering the question(s) you generated in Step 2. Be sure to include whether the source is popular or academic and whether it’s primary or secondary--and address why you chose the type of source you did!

According to the APA Ethics Code, was the psychologists’ involvement in this study ethical or unethical? Apply the General Principles and Ethics Codes Standards to the following dilemma:

Case Study: In 2014, investigators from several academic research institutions collaborated with Facebook to test whether reducing the number of positive or negative messages people saw made them less likely to post positive or negative content themselves (Kramer, Guillory, & Hancock, 2014). The experiment was carried out by manipulating the algorithm by which Facebook sweeps posts into members’ news feeds. Participants were not informed they were a part of this research. Investigators involved in the study defended the absence of informed consent for a study designed to influence emotions, arguing that the manipulation was consistent with Facebook’s Data Use Policy, to which all users must agree at the time they join Facebook (Goel, 2014). However, Facebook policy only mentions “research” in general terms (e.g., “We may use the information we receive about you…for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and service improvement” (Waldman, 2014). The investigators also argued that they were using “archival” data collected by a business entity, despite the fact that they were involved in the initial study design. According to the APA Ethics Code, was the psychologists’ involvement in this study ethical or unethical? Support your decision with relevant General Principles and Ethic Code Standards.

A researcher investigates the factors that are associated with the salaries of professors who teach courses at a major university. The researcher gathers data about the subject area and the salary per course for a random sample of professors. Data are found in the file Academic Salaries by Subject Area.

a) State the null and alternate hypothesis we would run to determine if the average salaries of the professors is the same across all subjcet areas.

b) Run the appropriate test in Excel and show output. What conclusions can you make?

c) Obtain boxplots for these data, each individual data NPP, and a NPP for all residuals.

d) Are the assumptions of an ANOVA reasonably satisfied? Explain & Discussion in reference to the plots.

e) If there is a difference in salaries run a Tukey’s test to show how the salaries for the different subject areas compare to each other. Describe what the results of the Tukey’s test tell you.