On the 26th July 2019, National Australia Bank (NAB) which is the 4th largest bank in Australia, contacted approximately 13,000 customers to advise that some personal information provided when their account was set up was uploaded, without authorisation, to the servers of two data service companies. NAB’s security teams have contacted the companies, who advise that all information provided to them is deleted within two hours. NAB Chief Data Officer, Glenda Crisp, said the compromised data included customer name, date of birth, contact details and in some cases, a government-issued identification number, such as a driver’s licence number. “We take the privacy and the protection of customer information extremely seriously and I sincerely apologise to affected customers. We take full responsibility,” she said. “The issue was human error and in breach of NAB’s data security policies.” Ms Crisp said it was not a cyber-security issue. No NAB log-in details or passwords have been compromised – and NAB’s systems remain secure. Page | 3 Asia Pacific International College Pty Ltd. Trading as Asia Pacific International College 55 Regent Street, Chippendale, Sydney 2008: 02-9318 8111 PRV12007; CRICOS 03048D Approved: 13/02/2019, Version 1 “Our number one priority is to support our customers. We are moving quickly to proactively contact every person affected.” NAB called, emailed or written to each impacted customer individually. A dedicated, specialist support team was in place, available to them 24/7. If government identification documents need to be reissued, NAB would cover the cost. NAB would also cover the cost of independent, enhanced fraud detection identification services for affected customers. Importantly there is no evidence to indicate that any of the information has been copied or further disclosed. NAB is advising impacted customers that they do not need to take any action with their account. “We have reviewed these customers’ accounts, over and above our rigorous normal checks, and have not identified any unusual activity. We will continue to monitor 24/7 to protect our customers’ accounts,” Ms Crisp said. NAB also notified and was working with industry regulators, including the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Ms Crisp said: “We take full responsibility. We can assure you that we understand how this happened and we are making changes to ensure this does not happen again.” On further development, NAB CEO admitted that it is difficult to invest huge amount of money in information security compared to the industry leaders like Microsoft, Google, Amazon. His opinion was to leverage on the infrastructure created by these companies i.e. through cloud computing
1.Overview of the addressed problem
2.Describe common security issues that an auditor needs to investigate
3.Describe NAB’s response to the data breach.
4.Propose information security measures NAB should adopt.
5.Describe the role of cloud computing in information security.
In: Operations Management
Hilton Hotel Vs Mariott Hotel
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (Hilton), a global class hotel
operating out of 113 countries and
territories as of 2018, had a portfolio of 16 world class brands
consisting of 5,000 properties. The
debate continues on whether Hilton can survive and thrive in the
new age of travel and the
growing trend of e-commerce in the world. Hilton was able to
differentiate itself from other
global hotels because of its unique employee centric HR practices
like their recruitment, on
boarding, and training processes.
The leadership at Hilton believed in attracting, hiring, and
retaining employees. This made
business sense because these employees would service their guests
better. Over the years, the
company created a culture of high engagement of employees who went
out of their way to
delight customers. Hilton employed a truly diverse workforce across
a variety of positions in its
hierarchical structure ranging from valet to cleaning personnel,
restaurant servers, concierge
providers, and managers which were recruited using global
recruiters who were able to recruit a
large number of talented employees. The management kept its focus
on the human aspect in
order to become profitable. The hotel was successful because it
gave each its employee a special
work culture about caring for each other. The management felt that
its continued focus on HR
policies and practices had acted as a competitive advantage for
them...
Marriott, a hospitality giant, had a huge association with social
media which generated a huge
response from its followers. Using a team structure and empowered
self-managed teams,
Marriott was able to respond to global changes and to increase its
flexibility by attracting on line
customers.
The Facebook page of Marriott attracted 1,874,121 likes and
4,041,532 visits while its Twitter
account was followed by 171,842 people as on March 2015. Its major
move into gamification
came when it introduced a game on Facebook in 2011 for recruiting
people, a game called ‘My
Marriott Hotel' as part of its recruitment gamification
strategy on its Facebook jobs and careers
page. Mariott had earlier released a game named ‘Xplor'
which gave players a virtual experience
of touring five gateway cities and solving challenges which led to
their earning rewards that
could be redeemed against their stay in Marriott hotels. The
company also tried its hand at
different apps like ‘Red Coat Direct', ‘Workspace on
Demand', and ‘The Perfect Travel
Companion' in order to provide fast and convenient services
at the customer's fingertips. Players
were then directed to Marriott's official recruiting page
where they could submit their resumes
for a suitable position.
1-What HR Practice helped Hilton Hotel overcome the
Globalization challenge?
2- How is Hilton hotel differentiating itself globally?
3-In your opinion, which hotel is applying a prospector strategy
and why?
4-Clearly identify the recruitment sources used by Hilton hotel and
Marriott hotel and why in
your opinion they are using them?
In: Operations Management
In: Math
In: Operations Management
In this discussion board assignment, you will critically evaluate the following scenario using the four basic critical questions. Here is the scenario:
Researchers wanted to study the relationship between pizza consumption by college freshmen and academic achievement. The researchers selected a freshmen history class with 900 students. The class lasted for 16 weeks and had weekly quizzes.
The researchers used random sampling and got two equivalent groups of participants from the class. Each group had 35 students. One group was the pizza group and one was the non-pizza group. To prepare for the experiment, the researchers compared the average quiz results of both groups for the first three weeks of the course and found no statistically significant difference between quiz scores.
In weeks 4 - 12, the researchers provided pizza dinner for everyone in the pizza group but those in the non-pizza group were told not to eat pizza 48 hours before the weekly quizzes. After week 12, the researchers compared the average quiz scores in each group and found that the non-pizza group had a statistically higher average quiz score than the pizza group. The researchers concluded that pizza consumption hinders academic performance of college freshmen.
Here are the basic 4 critical questions:
The next step to critically evaluate correlational claims is asking our four basic CRITICAL QUESTIONS applied to correlation (p. 118):
What does the claim of correlation mean? Which two variables, changing events, factors, or things co-vary? Do they exhibit a positive or negative relation?
How good is the evidence? Are two relevant groups being compared? Is the difference between the groups large enough (i.e., outside the margin of error of both samples) so that it is unlikely that these differences are the result of chance sampling variation? Were the groups being compared appropriately selected?
What other information is relevant? What is the context? Have other researchers found similar correlations? Of similar strength? Did other researchers use different types of samples and groups?
Are relevant fallacies avoided? For example, consider the fallacies of No comparison, Biased Sampling, Small Sample, Unclear Target Population, and of Significance.
These fallacies are clearly described in our textbook. Since most have been already covered in the previous chapters of our textbook, corresponding online links, and in the Keynotes, we need only introduce the new fallacy of Significance. The error of reasoning here for this fallacy is to argue that the difference between two (sample) groups, in a strict statistical or scientific sense, is important—relying on the common usage of the word “significant.” In contrast, the “[d]ifferences are said to be ‘statistically significant’ when…we can theoretically be 95% confident that the differences are not due to chance” (according to what we learned about statistical reasoning in Chapter 3 of our textbook; p. 105, emphasis added). This, therefore, merely provides a probabilistic judgement about a result that is basically not significant or important in any ordinary sense. As Mark Battersby notes, “[a] ‘statistically significant difference’ between two groups means that it’s very likely that there’s a correlation; but this says nothing about the strength of the correlation or about whether the correlation is of any human, scientific, or personal significance” (pp. 114-115, emphasis added).
In: Psychology
Employment Discrimination Practice Sheet
Instructions:
Employment Law Terms
6. ______________________________ The Duke Power Company adopted a requirement that applicants for hire or transfer to any department but the labor department had to have a high school diploma or receive a satisfactory score on two IQ tests. As a result of these requirements, African American employees were denied jobs and promotions. (Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424 (1971)) Are these requirements discriminatory if they are not related to job performance? If so, under what theory could an employee or applicant file a complaint?
7. ______________________________ Your employer states that upon turning 65, all traveling sales employees must turn over their territories to younger workers and begin handling in-office file work only. If you can show that at age 65 or above you are just as capable and competitive out on the road as your younger counterparts, can you bring a claim stating that this practice will adversely impact your income or other benefits? If so, under what law?
8. ______________________________ Malia, a hard worker who is praised by her coworkers and clients alike, is looking forward to receiving her first annual bonus after working for the company for more than three years. When she does not receive the bonus and finds out that a co-worker, who has only been at the company for four months, does, Malia is upset. When she questions her supervisor, she is told that she could not be given the bonus because she did not have a college degree. She then discovers that the newly-promoted Walter does not have a degree either. Does Malia have a discrimination claim? If so, under what law?
9. ______________________________ A trucking company conducts job interviews in a second floor office where there is no elevator. The company calls Tanya to arrange for an interview for a secretarial position. She requests a reasonable accommodation because she uses a wheelchair. Installing an elevator would be an undue hardship, so what could the company do to provide a reasonable accommodation? What law is relevant here?
10. ______________________________ Samuel was uncomfortable with the sexual jokes his co-workers regularly posted in the break room. He told his manager who did not address the issue. He then went to Human Resources to see what options he had in this situation. When his manager heard that Samuel when to HR, his manager told Samuel to suck it up and took away the extra overtime shift Samuel had been working. The manager’s actions are an example of what?
In: Operations Management
If someone asks us what the set of natural numbers is, she/he is interested in the definition of the set of natural numbers. We usually would write 0, 1, 2, 3, . . . as our answer. Since the set is infinite, we cannot write it out completely, even though each natural number is finite. Notice that . . . after 3 is for humans to understand because we (human beings) are intelligent. However, we cannot use it to define things for a machine such as a computer or in a computer program. Another example would be to define the factorial of a positive natural number. We would let n be a positive natural number and let n! the factorial of n. We could write n! = n × (n − 1) × . . . × 2 × 1. Again, we use . . . in our definition.
How could we define things without using . . .? One of the answers is to use a recursive (or inductive) definition. This allows machines, as well as human beings, to follow the definition. The programs that we write in this lab will follow the definitions exactly.
Learning recursive definitions (inductive definitions) and programming using recursion.
Let us look at a few examples of recursive definitions.
Example One: Defining a natural number
Note that we used a natural number to define a natural number, which is recursive and may seem to be circular. However, it is well defined (not circular) because X − 1 is smaller and we have the basis where 0 is a natural number. The definition assumes we understand subtraction or −. From the definition, we know that 0 is a natural number (from the basis), 1 is a natural number (1 − 1 is 0, using the recursion once and the basis), 2 is a natural number (2 − 1 is 1, using recursion and the previous statement), and so on. Here is the idea!
Example Two: Defining the factorial of a positive natural number
Note again that we used (n − 1)! factorial to define n! factorial, which is recursive. However, it is well defined because n − 1 is smaller than n and we have the basis where 1! is 1. The definition assumes we understand multiplication or ×. From the definition, we know that 1! is 1 (from the basis), 2! is 2 (2 × 1!), 3! is 6 (3 × 2!), and 4! is 24 (4 × 3!), and so on.
If someone writes the following:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, . . . It would be harder for us to know what is the number after 144, right? This is the sequence of Fibonacci numbers F0, F1, F2, . . .
Example Three: Defining Fn, the nth Fibonacci number
Note again that we used two smaller Fibonacci numbers (Fn−1, Fn−2) to define a larger Fibonacci number(Fn), which is recursive. However, it is well defined because n − 1, n − 2 are smaller than n and we have the bases where F0 = 1, and F1 = 1. The definition assumes we understand addition or +.
A sequence of n integers, a1, a2, . . . , an is in a nondecreasing order if a1≤ a2 ≤ . . . ≤ an. Again, we use the . . . in defining nondecreasing order. The following is a recursive definition.
Example Four: Defining a1, a2, . . . , an is in a nondecreasing order
We could follow the above definition to rearrange a sequence of integers (or an array of int) into nondecreasing order. We simply find a smallest value and put it in the first place, recursively rearrange the remaining integers in the same way. Rearranging is what we call sorting.
Write three recursive functions to compute n!, Fn, and sorting; and one function to output sorted values in one line.
int factorial(int n);
int fibonacci(int n);
void sort (int * seq, int size);
void display(int * seq, int size);
Factorial function:
Fibonacci number:
Sorting:
Note seq is an array of integers (int) and n tells us the number of elements in the array.
Display:
Note seq is an array of integers (int) and n tells us the number of elements in the array.
You may implement the display function using recursion if you want, but it is not required for this lab. Note that solving the three main problems, factorial, fibonacci, and sorting involves the concept of looping. However, in the hints provided in the recursive implementation no loop is involved! In general, there is a strong connection between looping and recursion. Please also note how the implementation follows the corresponding recursive definition.
Testing should have been done in the main program that calls these functions and during the implementation. You are STRONGLY recommended to trace the execution of recursive functions to understand recursion, say observe the order of calls and the parameter values. Output (cout) the values as in debugging and see if the values are what you expect. Your main program should call each function in order to demonstrate that those functions work as expected.
In: Computer Science
Text 1. Read the text and answer the questions. A better life? China's expectations are rising, with no end in sight. What's next? By Peter Hessler The beginning of a Chinese factory town is always the same: in the beginning, nearly, everybody is a construction worker. The growing economy means that everything moves fast, and new industrial districts rise in several stages. Those early labourers are men who have migrated from rural villages, and immediately they are joined by small entrepreneurs. These pioneers sell meat, fruit and vegetables on informal stalls, and later, when the first real shops appear, they stock construction materials. After that, cell phone companies arrive: China Mobile, China Unicom. They sell prepaid phonecards to migrants; in the south-eastern province of Zhejiang, one popular product is called the Homesick Card. When the factories start production, you start to see women. Young women have a reputation for being hard-working. After the arrival of the women, the clothes shops appear. An American poet once described an industrial town in the USA as 'springing up, like the enchanted palaces of the Arabian tales, as it were in a single night.' Today it's the factory towns of China that seem to belong to another world. The human energy is amazing: the courageous entrepreneurs, the quick-moving builders, the young migrants. A combination of past problems and present-day opportunities has created an extremely motivated population. Most people in China have seen their standard of living go up in recent years. The size of the population is both a strength and a challenge to China. Of the 1.3 billion people, 72 per cent are between the ages of 16 and 64. The movement of people from the countryside to the cities has transformed China into the world's factory floor. In 1978, there were only 172 million urban residents. Now there are 577 million. Social scientists predict that the urban population will be 60 per cent by 2030. Each year about ten million rural Chinese move to the cities, so the factories have a constant supply of labour. Chinese schools have been very successful. The literacy rate is over 90 per cent. The next step is to develop higher education. Many people are looking for better training. In a Chinese factory town, there are many private courses: English classes, typing classes, technical classes. In Zhejiang, I met Luo Shouyun, who had spent a quarter of his wages on training. Now he is a master machinist, with a salary that makes him 'middle class'. Another young man had learned Arabic in order to translate for Middle Eastern buyers. Clearly, there are environmental costs from China's rapid growth. Collaboration between China and other countries will be crucial in managing environmental problems. Nobody in the developed world should criticise China without taking a look in the mirror. The nation has become successful by making products for overseas consumers. There's nothing foreign about the materialistic dreams of the average Chinese worker. (CENGAGE, 2020) Questions 1 – 10 Circle the letter which best answers the question 1. What is the starting point for factory towns? A. Money B. Construction C. Commercial D. Residential 2. Where does the initial workforce come from? A. cities B. towns C. villages D. overseas 3. What is the role of early entrepreneurs? A. sell products to support the workforce B. start designer outlets to attract people C. to provide telephonic services D. to encourage the government to provide hospitals 4. What does the writer mean by the Homesick Card? A. It is a card that tells the employer you are sick B. It is a card that you send to your family because you miss them C. It is a card that gives you free phone calls D. It is a card you buy which you use to call home 5. Why do production factories employ young women? A. because there are more women than men B. because older women are not allowed to work C. because they work hard D. because they do not have to pay them big salaries 6. Why does the writer refer to an American poet and Arabian tales? A. He comes from an Arabic country, and he remembers home B. He wants to make a strong mental image for the reader C. He is a poet and likes poetry D. He wants to say that all three countries are similar 7. How many people lived in the city in 1978? A. 72% B. 577 million C. 10 million D. 172 million 8. How many people migrate from the countryside into urban areas? A. 1.3 billion B. 577 million C. 10 million D. 172 million 9. Why are people looking for better training? A. to improve their economic status B. they like to learn C. they want to keep busy D. they have nothing else to do 10. The article mentions one issue that is affecting China. A. relations with other countries B. they dream too much C. environmental costs D. production costs Question 11 – 20 Complete the summary using words from the original text. Chinese factories always start in the same way. First it is mainly ____________________ 1 workers. Things go along quickly due to the expanding economy with staged building taking place to establish these new industrial areas. Migrants _________________2 provide most of the workforce who come from rural villages to seek employment. Alongside this migrant workforce are a few ___________________ 3 who provide essential services to meet the need of the workers such as selling meat, fruit and vegetables. China Mobile and China Unicom represent the ___________________ 4 companies. They provide telecommunication services so that the labour force can keep in touch with people back at home. They normally sell ______________ 5 services such as the Homesick Card. Women join the growing number of people working in these factory cities especially at the time of __________________ 6 . This is because young women work hard. These factory towns make China seem like they are from some other planet. What is remarkable is the human ______________ 7: the brave businesspeople, the fast responding construction workers, and the younger migrants. The past and the present meet to create a highly _______________ 8 group of people. Standards of living in _________________ 9 have gone up in recent years. Although there has been tremendous Economic growth nothing comes without problems and the biggest one clearly is the _____________________ 10 costs from China’s rapid growth.
In: Economics
17. Which of the following is not a function of the skeletal system?
18. Your client, Ryan, starting jogging recently and he informs you that his right IT band has been feeling stiff. He also mentions that his right knee tends to buckle inward when climbing stairs. Which corrective exercise is likely to decrease his IT band stiffness and reduce inward buckling of the right knee?
19. The two primary roles of fascia are to:
20. Which fascial line travels from the bottom of the feet, up through the hamstrings, spine and posterior skull, and attaches at the forehead?
21. A concentric muscle action occurs when:
22. For what primary reason is the gluteus maximus the strongest muscle in the human body?
23. Considering the 180° of shoulder abduction required to reach overhead, how many degrees comes from the scapulothoracic region?
24. The human body loses its balance when what happens?
25. When a client has poor motor control it increases his/her risk of joint pain and injury because of what two reasons?
26. Which system contains structures and neurons that connect receptors within the skin, muscles, and joints to the cerebellum?
27. After months of practicing a movement, an athlete is able to "automatically" produce that movement very quickly. This is due to the development of:
28. The process that underlies all motor learning is known as:
29. Which brain structure is primarily responsible for correcting movement while it's occurring?
30. What is the primary difference between closed-loop and open-loop motor control?
31. Skeletal muscle is directly controlled and innervated by which component of the nervous system?
32. Which neurotransmitter is released at the neuromuscular junction?
33. During an initial meeting with a potential client it's important to ask if he's been experiencing any red flag symptoms. Which of the following is not a red flag?
34. During an initial interview with a potential client, he mentions that he has been experiencing pain that feels like it's inside his knee joint. What should you do?
35. You're training a client to learn a new exercise that is unfamiliar to her, and she's struggling to perform the exercise correctly. In order to promote motor learning, how should the sets be performed?
36. When training a client with a corrective exercise, how many reps should the client perform?
37. What are the three components that you'll use to create a Just Right Challenge for your clients?
38. A client has 6/10 knee pain at the beginning of a workout. At the end of the first set of the lateral step with a mini-band his knee pain decreased to 4/10. At the end of the second set it decreased to 2/10. After the third set, his knee pain increased back to 4/10. What should you do next?
39. What is the purpose of performing the Y raise with the client's chest/trunk resting on a Swiss ball?
In: Anatomy and Physiology
What is the goal of China's 2011-2020 Anti-Poverty Program
Why do Li and Sicular (2014) believe China's minimum wage has not been effective in reducing inequality and poverty?
What has happened to life expectancy and education levels in China since reforms?
What does the Human Development index measure? How has China's average HDI changed in China since reforms? How does the HDI in China compare to the global average?
What does the Harrod-Domar model say about the relationship between investment and growth? What are the weaknesses of the Harrod-Domar model?
What is the "classical" progression of structural change in a developing economy?
How did the manipulation of prices during China's socialist era distort the pattern of structural change? What does the pattern look like when evaluated at market (2004) prices?
What is the largest sector in China today by share of GDP?
How does China's pattern of structural change differ from the "classical" progression? How is that related to globalization?
Why do some believe there is a housing bubble in China today?
How does the Chinese government explain the rapid expansion of the housing market?
Describe the four stages of the demographic transition.
What is the Total Fertility Rate? The Birth Rate?
In what two ways has China deviated from the standard demographic transition model?
How has China’s TFR compared to other Asian countries?
What was the One Child Policy? How has enforcement changed over time?
What were some major critiques of China’s fertility policy?
What defines a stable equilibrium in the marriage market?
Why would a gender imbalance intensify competition in the marriage market?
What positive economic effects do Wei and Zhang (2011) observe as a result of China's skewed sex ratio?
What is the dependency ratio? How and why will China's dependency ratio be changing in the next few years?
What "marginal" changes were made to reform urban labor markets in the initial phase of reforms?
Who were the xiagang?
What share of the population was employed in the state sector before 1978?
How did the average urban worker get a job during that time?
What is the Lewisian Turning Point (LTP)?
Use the appropriate diagram to explain what happens to wages as demand for industrial labor grows before the LTP and then after the LTP.
Is there strong evidence to support the existence of an LTP in China? What else might explain rising wages?
Why can the returns to education be used as evidence of efficient labor markets?
What is a Mincer equation?
How have rising returns to education affect educational achievement in China?
Why is migration an indication of healthy labor markets?
Why did labor reforms create a need to reform China's social security system?
What was the role of the agricultural collective in during China's Socialist Era?
According to Lin, how did the collectives create a “prisoners’ dilemma?” What effect did this have on agricultural productivity?
What is a dominant strategy? What is a Nash Equilibrium?
Why did China's TVEs grow so quickly?
What are the three "models" of TVEs we discussed in class? How would you characterize each one?
Why did the rapid growth of TVEs end?
What information asymmetry problem complicated TVE privatization?
What mechanism did the gov't design to solve this problem?
What is individual rationality? What is incentive compatibility?
What are non-performing loans? How are they related to SOE reform?
What is “Grasping the large, letting go the small?”
Why was it important to increase SOEs’ marginal retention rates?
What was the Company Law?
What is SASAC and why was it created?
What share of output is accounted for by SOEs today?
What are the four elements that must be changed to turn a socialist enterprise into a “capitalist” one?
What are the theoretical advantages of corporatization? How did it work in practice?
What is the difference between market-based and control-based models of corporate governance? Which model best fits governance in China?
What is was the Anti-Monopoly Law? Why do some believe it has not been enforced effectively?
What is "creative destruction"? Why might the continued prominence of SOEs in China limit the potential for "creative destruction"?
How does China rank globally in terms of exports and total trade?
What is China's total trade as a % of GDP?
Which country was China's biggest trading partner during the Socialist era?
What were the two elements of the “double airlock” system before reforms?
What are special economic zones? Where were they first set up?
What is export processing?
What are tariff vs. non-tariff barriers to trade? What role did they play in reforms?
When did China join the WTO? What reforms were necessary for it to do so?
Why is it important to look at imports as a measure of openness? How have imports in China been changing?
Which "mode" of foreign direct investment (FDI) is most common in China today?
What were the important findings of Hu and Jefferson's (2002) study of FDI in China?
How does China manage its exchange rate today? What type of system is this?
How would a country intervene in foreign exchange markets to defend a fixed exchange rate?
What is the "impossible trinity"? How is it related to China's exchange rate policy?
What is an environmental Kuznets curve?
What are scale, composition, and technique effects? How are they related to the Kuznets curve?
Where (broadly speaking) in China are the major air pollutants concentrated?
What did the World Bank estimate for the economic costs of China's pollution in 2007? Why might this be an underestimate?
What are the main causes of China's degraded water quality? How are these problems made worse by water shortages?
How much of China's surface water is unfit for direct human contact (Grade IV and above)?
What government body is responsible for environmental protection in China today?
What has undermined the effectiveness of China's system of discharge fees for pollution?
Why is China's arable land shrinking?
What is the pollution haven hypothesis?
Do Dean, Lovely, and Huang (2009) find evidence to support this hypothesis "on average?"
Why do Dean, Lovely, and Huang (2009) argue lower pollution taxes is not an effective strategy for attracting FDI?
In: Finance