What are the three types of research used in social work? Give examples of each of them. What type of research would you be most interested in? (200 Words)
Category: Anthropolgy
Set Theory as a Framework for Relational Databases
A set can be a collection of any type of object, ranging from people to places to things. Basic set theory includes the study of subsets, proper subsets, finite and infinite sets, and the logical operations on them. Set theory plays a foundational role in mathematical processes and ideas and also has connections to computer engineering, programming, and databases.
The relational database model, originally invented by computer scientist Edgar F. Codd in 1969, is based on ideas from set theory. A simple database is a collection of records stored in tables. A relational database also includes relationships stored across multiple tables. One can run queries on the relational database to request specific information with set theory operators, such as union and intersection.
Post 1: Initial Response
Imagine you are responsible for your organization’s analytic tasks, and you are currently brainstorming how to query a relational database of marketing information for the organization. You want to test your understanding of how you might relate the database tables with the use of set theory, and particularly subsets. To carry out your test, complete each of the following:
To define two sets, set A and set B, first conduct an online browsing trial, in which you spend 10–20 minutes looking at different websites, such as for national news, social media, sports, hobbies, recipes, etc. Let set A represent exactly three distinct company names from any online advertisements you saw during your browsing trial. Let set B represent at least three distinct company names for any online retailers you have purchased from in the past year.
To prepare to use your algorithm, answer the following questions:
How many elements are in set A? This is what you will set as m = ___.
How many elements are in set B? This is what you will set as n = ___.
What are your first and last elements of A? Show these as a[1] = ____ and a[m] = ___.*
What are your first and last elements of B? Show these as b[1] = ____ and b[n] = ___.*
*Note: Recognize that there are other elements you will cycle through as you trace the algorithm. While you are not required to list all elements in this form, you will need to use them, in addition to the first and last elements, as you complete your trace.
Using your sets A and B along with what you just outlined to prepare, determine an algorithm that you can use to see whether A ⊆ B.
State the algorithm that you would use to compare these sets.
Based on your algorithm, did you find that A ⊆ B or that A ⊈ B? Explain. If A ⊈ B, how are they related (e.g., disjoint, intersecting)?
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Post 2: Reply to a Classmate
Now you want to try out the algorithm on another person’s data to further test your understanding and bolster your confidence about assessing relations computationally as you approach this relational database project.
Review a classmate’s post and consider their set B. Address the following items completely.
Using your set A and their set B determine whether A ⊆ B or that A ⊈ B? Explain how you know this. If A ⊈ B, how are they related (e.g., disjoint, intersecting)?
How might the understanding you have gained from your Post 1 and Post 2 tests be useful if you were responsible for querying a relational database?
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Post 3: Reply to Another Classmate
After conducting this computational practice, you have begun to develop some technical insight into how you might investigate and seek information on the marketing habits of clients by querying a relational database. However, you know your fellow staff members are not interested in this technical insight. So, for your general meeting, you plan to present a visual synopsis of some ideas considered in the planning stages of this project.
Review another classmate’s post and consider their sets A and B. Address the following items completely.
Create a Venn diagram that models all of the elements in your classmate’s sets A and B. Carefully place elements appropriately in the intersecting versus non-intersecting areas representing sets A and B, respectively. You may use the software of your choice for the Venn diagram (e.g., creatly.com, cosketch.com, Microsoft® Word®, or PowerPoint®). Copy and paste the image or screenshot of your Venn diagram into your post. (You may also use an attached file if needed.)
Draft some talking points in anticipation of addressing the following questions during your presentation:
How do these two sets relate in the example illustrated by the Venn diagram?
How have the concepts of sets and set operations been utilized in your analytic tasks?
How might table relationships be modeled from the ideas of set theory?
Marketing Plan
Analyze an organization’s value proposition.
Distinguish factors that influence buyer behavior.
Assess branding strategies for achieving marketing goals.
Evaluate current and emerging digital marketing strategies.
Determine the success of marketing campaigns using data analytics.
Create marketing communication strategies to achieve organizational goals.
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Scenario
You are the Marketing Manager for Canton Inc. Your company is launching 3 different products: soft drinks, smart phones, and headphones. You are excited about getting the opportunity to create a marketing plan for the new product. As the marketing manager, you are tasked to create a marketing plan for one of the new products. You understand that this is a large task, and you have been preparing months for this opportunity. You have so many ideas that you want to include in the marketing plan. The marketing plan will be written for the executive leadership team, so it must be detailed. You understand that in order to engage the executive leadership team, there need to be relevant pictures and images included in the marketing plan.
Instructions
Select one of the products: soft drinks, smart phone, or headphones to create a marketing plan for. The marketing plan is to be a written word document with at least 7-10 pages. Remember your audience as you create your marketing plan. Include the following:
Executive Summary (no more than 100 words)
Table of Contents
Introduction of the new product.
Write a value proposition for the new product and describe the importance of having a value proposition.
Distinguish factors that influence consumer buying behaviors by creating a consumer buyer profile for the new product.
Describe the branding strategy and discuss how this strategy meets marketing goals.
Explain emerging digital marketing strategies that you will use in the social media campaign of the new product.
Provide an overview of the data analytics that will be used to measure the success of the marketing campaign.
Create a communication strategy for the new product, and discuss how it will help achieve the organizational goals.
Functions of corrections
respond to the following in a substantive post:
Distinguish among the four functions of corrections: retribution, deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation.
Demonstrate these distinctions with current and/or historical examples.
Share the link to the resource you located that was most valuable to you in distinguishing among the four functions of corrections.
Be sure to explain why you found this resource so valuable.
Be sure to provide full citations and source list entries, formatted according to
Experience from a behavior analytic perspective
Think about a past personal experience in which a behavior (either your own or that of someone in your environment) was met with punishment contingencies. First, describe the behavior, explaining whether you think the behavior was a rule-governed or contingency-shaped behavior. Then, explain how either a positive or negative punishment contingency was used and the resultant effect on the problem behavior.
Finally, review that same experience from a behavior analytic perspective and discuss whether the use of punishment may or may not have be an appropriate strategy to use. Explain how you might modify the prior approach to decrease the problem behavior using positive punishment, negative punishment, or extinction, being sure to identify how motivating operations and the use of reinforcement would play a role in increasing an alternate behavior.
Segmenting, targeting, and positioning.
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, watch the following video McDonald’s Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning Links to an external site..
Create an assignment focused on segmenting, targeting, and positioning. The assignment evaluates a formal approach to segmenting, targeting, and positioning as a foundational marketing activity, compared to an informal approach that combines a small business launch along with a feedback loop focused on segmenting, targeting, and positioning.
Before creating your assignment, do the following:
A formal approach to segmenting, targeting, and positioning is structured and takes time, money, and staff to execute. A more informal approach to the process requires a general view of the market that is developed concurrent with the business launch. Effectively, the entrepreneur manages a feedback loop concurrent with business activities and tunes segmenting, targeting, and positioning activities as the business progresses.
· Identify resources the entrepreneur requires to effect formal segmenting, targeting, and positioning.
· Reflect on resources the entrepreneur requires to effect informal segmenting, targeting, and positioning.
· Evaluate approaches that resonate and addresses why they resonate.
The Segmenting, Targeting, and Positioning paper
· Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style
· Must include a separate title page with the following:
o Title of paper
o Student’s name
o Course name and number
o Instructor’s name
Grant Proposal Summary
Identify the role of music, poetry, prose, and visual art in the modern world and workplace.
Student Success Criteria
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Scenario
You have been asked to be on the town’s board of Cultural Affairs. When you step into your new role, you quickly realize that the organization is in trouble; the other board members have been on the board for a long time and haven’t done much in recent years. They explain that there is no money in the budget.
You hear about a grant opportunity. Every year, a wealthy resident of your town, Mr. Brown, offers a grant of $10,000 to one local organization. In the past, he has never given this grant to an arts organization because, in the words of another board member, “Mr. Brown does not think the arts are important.”
If you can change Mr. Brown’s mind about the importance of the arts in your community, you might just get the grant and be able to revitalize the town’s cultural arts scene!
Write the grant proposal summary for review by a few board members to be sure you are on the right track for the grant.
Instructions
Compose this document in the format of a letter to Mr. Brown. Your letter should include:
o two to three paragraphs using persuasive language.
o concisely written paragraphs using bullet-points if possible.
o a beginning paragraph that immediately captures the reader’s attention, using a story, surprising fact, or insightful quote.
o a complete but brief synopsis of the details in the proposal.
o the reason for the proposal and how the grant money will be used.
NOTE – Be sure the documents display proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure.
Pricing and Competition
How would a low-cost price leader enforce its leadership through implied
threats to a rival? How does a firm become a “low cost” price leader? Discuss
the specific type of market structure that implied threat strategy can be
adapted.
Cybersecurity Policy Design Issues
Discuss the topics below. Respond to posts by other students
Describe cybersecurity roles and responsibilities to protect security for the corporate business mission (for example, the Insider threat, Access Controls, Biometric Authentication) and explain why business also may have a cybersecurity responsibility to protect national security through business resilience and Continuity of Operations Planning
Describe what is meant by the term “Cascade Failures” as it may apply to cyberattacks against critical infrastructures. Do you agree or disagree that businesses should protect national security by expanding their cybersecurity budget to prevent or reduce the effects of possible Cascade Failures that may affect their business and other downstream businesses that may depend on them? Justify your answer
Communication strategies
Think about a conflict you have experienced either in the workplace or in a significant personal relationship. In your initial post respond to the following questions with a minimum 3-4 sentence answer.
Describe the situation briefly and consider which response to conflict was demonstrated by either you OR the other person in the conflict. (Examples would be avoidance or collaboration.)
What communication strategies did you use to resolve the conflict?