Have you found yourself searching the internet and suddenly see an ad “pop up” that connects to the very topic or subject matter you were reading about? Have you shopped on-line only to see “Your Recommendations” delivered to a separate email about your browsing history?
These examples are the result of programs implemented using a variety of algorithms to “track” our search history, interests, shopping and dining preferences, and even our connections to a political party. After reviewing the readings and videos shared in our week 4 module, please respond to each of the following questions.
• How do you believe technology plays a role in governance and laws which have been created as technology has advanced?
• Are there benefits behind the algorithmic programs that share additional recommendations for us based on our “browsing history” through the internet? If so, what are they, and why are they beneficial?
• Consider the Net Neutrality rules currently being evaluated by the government (refer to the video and article shared on this topic in our weekly material). Do these “net changes” impact society’s perception of the government in a positive or negative way? Why do you feel that way?
Category: Algorithm
CEC and InTASC standards
Compare the InTASC standards to the CEC standards to identify at least two common themes. Explain how these themes are represented in each standard set and how they relate to the knowledge, skills, and values of effective teachers.
Describe how each set of standards addresses professional collaboration and student-driven, data-informed instructional decision-making.
According to the expectations of the profession expressed in the InTASC standards, describe how teachers are expected to assume the responsibilities of improving practice and advancing the profession.
Cite the CEC and InTASC standards
Responsibility matrix for the WAG expansion
create a responsibility matrix for the WAG expansion project that you have just been hired as an Assistant Project Manager. You will be using the RACI matrix design that you learned about in this module to assign responsibilities.
As you might remember, the project is for an expansion of the shoe line that WAG has in the United Kingdom, which includes a new factory and artisan workshop. Some of the key stakeholders are:
Clive Edwards – CEO of WAG, who oversees all of the operations in both the US and the UK and is the project sponsor
Cecil Moneypenny – Factory Manager in the UK, who will oversee the plant operations in the UK
Kingston Bryce – Factory Manager in the US, who will oversee the plant operations in the US
Include yourself as the Assistant Project Manager
Greg Hasselbach – CFO for WAG
Kaplan Thunderbird – Commercial Real Estate Agent in the UK
Some of the key tasks of the project include:
Location selection in the UK
Equipment selection for the new factory
Hiring employees in the UK
Mapping processes from the US factory to the new UK factory
Mapping all of the tasks for the project
There may be some additional tasks that need to
A maker of energy drinks is considering abandoning can containers
A maker of energy drinks is considering abandoning can containers and going exclusively to bottles because the sales manager believes customers prefer drinking from bottles. However, the vice president in charge of marketing is not convinced the sales manager is correct. Investigate this issue using statistical analysis.
Explain which data collection method you would use and what procedures you would follow to apply this method to this situation.
Propose which level of data measurement applies to the data collected. Justify your answer.
Determine whether the data is qualitative or quantitative.
Submit your work in a Word document.
A computer scanner can read a bar code on a package correctly 97% of the time. One company monitors the accuracy of the scanner by randomly sampling packages and verifying that each package has been correctly scanned. Random samples of size n = 25, 50, 100, and 200 have recently been taken with the following results.
Package Sampling TableSample
Calculate the sample proportion for each sample size.
Calculate the single-proportion sampling error for each sample size.
Calculate the probability of finding 198 correctly scanned packages, for a sample of size n=200.
Submit your work Excel file.
State population with demographic breakdown by: gender, age, race
Provide City and state population with demographic breakdown by: gender, age, race, socioeconomics for Orlando, Florida.
Current event about an organizational change effort.
Find a current event about an organizational change effort. Create a two-paragraph synopsis to explain that change effort to your classmates, post a link to the current event article, and make sure to answer the following questions:
What were the primary drivers of the change effort? Why were these drivers critical? Who was “feeling the pain” of those issues not being addressed effectively?
What was the gap (or gaps) between the current situation and the targeted goal of the change effort?
Submission, APA, 2 paragraphs
Organizational Chart
As a new health care manager, you will need to have an organizational chart of the facility and of your department. Complete the following for this assignment:
In PowerPoint or Word, develop two simple organizational charts for a facility. Include 2 pages for each chart that explains the goals and objectives of each organizational role.
Make this chart original.
Do not use real names or companies.
Topography-based interventions
Describe each of the following early methods of interventions and provide one example of each: Topography-based interventions, Case-based interventions, Individual/team preference-based interventions
Discuss the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act as it pertains to functional behavior assessment.
Describe indirect assessment and direct descriptive assessment as components in the functional behavior assessment Provide at least 1 specific example of each.
Explain the “efficacy of function-based interventions” in applied behavior analysis. Provide supporting evidence.
Describe what operant conditioning is and how it pertains to the FBA process.
Describe what a three-term contingency is and how it is used in the FBA process. Consider direct assessments and the hypothesizing function.
Project manager at Textron Aviation (TXT)
Determine the present value of cash and cash flows to be received at a future date or dates. (CO3)
Determine the future value of an investment made today. (CO3)
Analyze the effect of interest rates on managerial decisions. (CO2, CO4)
Textron Aviation unites Hawker®, Beechcraft® and Cessna® brands, creating aviation’s most iconic family of aircraft and the industry’s broadest product portfolio and largest company-owned service network (Textron Aviation, 2016). The most noticeable feature to appear on airliners and smaller airplanes alike, since 2000, are winglets. These are wing tip extensions which reduce lift-induced drag, and provide extra lift (Larson, 2001). The original winglet design was by NASA Langley aeronautical engineer Richard Whitcomb during the 1973 oil crisis: most essentially, they reduce fuel consumption by reducing drag. One available brand of Winglets is estimated to reduce interference drag to provide a 4% fuel-burn reduction over long ranges. Thus, Winglets are now available as a standard production line option on many varieties of airplanes. Many well-known makers now utilize Winglets. For instance, Bombardier’s Challenger 601 (first flown 1987), for instance, was one of the first aircraft with production-standard Winglets (Warwick, 2016).
Assume that you are the project manager at Textron Aviation (TXT). Textron Aviation products include corporate and business, personal, and military aircraft. For purposes of this discussion, you have knowledge that in recent years most of Textron Aviation’s military products have, where possible, been outfitted with Winglets. Further, the design of these wing components has evolved to make them more efficient and maximize the fuel savings they provide. Textron Aviation flight operations manager reports finding that the addition of Winglets to an existing aircraft offers fuel savings of approximately 3% of the gas bill, or 150,000 gallons of jet fuel per year (Aviation Partners, Inc., n.d.). At a cost of $1.06 per gallon (which for simplicity, we will assume to be stable), this is a significant source of cost-reduction which accrues to the end user over the useful life of an aircraft. While the useful life of the corporate craft is 30 years, Textron’s research indicates that clients typically use a 10-year planning horizon, at most.
Tasks:
As Textron’s production manager, you have been asked to offer an evaluation of the following:
If Textron chooses to discount these savings at a rate of 15% per year of useful life, considering only a 10 year planning horizon, what is the potential cost savings to the customer over the life of this plane? Evaluate the potential financial benefit to Textron of adding winglets to an existing corporate aircraft, if the cost to Textron of each winglet is $556,000 per craft, assuming that demand for corporate aircraft will allow Textron to increase the craft’s price by the full amount of the savings accruing to the customer (Aviation Partners Boeing, 2016).
The manager that originally brought this idea forward understood this addition of Winglets to represent a net increase in revenues of almost double of the price of the Winglet. As Textron’s production manager, it is your opinion that this estimate may not encompass facts related to project production and financing. Using concepts covered in this and previous modules, analyze additional concepts that indicate other concerns that we might have in making this change, including the impact on other areas of financial policy. Calculate the rate of return that would make the net present value of this project equal to zero, and comment on its importance in terms of the impact of this project, through the diversion of existing resources, and on future growth and sustainability in the face of fluctuating revenues.
Responses should comprise 200–600 words.
Post two additional replies to classmates, offering critical analyses and comments relating to their determinations and evaluations of Textron’s options. Please cite sources of additional research, and examine areas where you do and do not believe that your classmates’ statements make optimal use of assigned readings, or could otherwise include additional considerations.
Terministic screen
Use real word examples to discuss terministic screen