...BACKGROUND The goal of the students in the graduate studies is to acquire a unique experience, to develop more professionally, to sharpen a variety of skills, and to learn some new ones. Graduate education represents mastery of an academic discipline. As distinct from undergraduate education, graduate education provides advance knowledge in the field of study that is characterized by specialized training in the discipline’s theory, research, methodology, and critical analysis. Since graduate education is concentrated, learning is more self-directed and involves more individualized instruction and mentoring than does learning for baccalaureate degree. A master’s degree provides student with the skills necessary to generate new knowledge and to apply existing new knowledge. It also provides student with the professional ethics and values of the discipline. Graduate school is training in research. It is for people who love research, scholarship and teaching for their own sake and for the difference they can sometimes make in the world. (Phil. Agre. 1996). Graduate school generally takes five to eight years. The first year is often the worst. It usually consists of an overwhelming amount of structured reading designed to give general background in the basic text of the particular field. Graduate education requires significant investment of financial and personal resources and students should be able to dedicate themselves...
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...Note to FI 515 Exam 1 |Access dates: | |7/24/2011 12:00:00 AM to 7/31/2011 11:59:59 PM | | | |Can be reviewed in Gradebook on: | |8/2/2011 11:59:59 PM | | | |Number of times can be taken: | |1 | | | |Time allowed to complete: | |2h, ...
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...Kellough, (2007) p. 192). Compare and contrast three (3) state agencies’ personnel evaluation systems. In comparing and contrasting the three state agencies, I have chosen New Jersey, Kentucky, and Delaware, as it applies to education standards. Therefore, we shall look at the following, for all three states consider items (a-d) that I have outlined below: a. Goals of the work unit/employee: meet with the supervisor at the beginning of the Professional growth; the middle; and at the end; all in order to focus on enhancing an educator’s skills and knowledge; b. Individual Job Responsibilities: focus on the goals of the unit; the continuous growth-focused on an educator’s commitment to continuously improving performance so that the student achievement is continuously enhanced; c. Standards for Satisfactory Performance: define employee performance expectation; Quality assurance (i.e. timeliness, quality, and quantity); focused...
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...QRT2 Task 3 By Javier ollague April 3, 2014 Silvio’s Custom Shoe Design & Restoration is a small company located in Sarasota, Florida, which derives most of its income from the restoration of shoes and related articles such as handbags, belts, attaché cases, suitcases, and leather jackets. The store also provides a limited catalog of men and women shoes. Recently the company has entered the shoe industry designing field wherein the customer may choose from a selection of signature designs or it can create its own design with the assistance of the firm’s professional staff. It has been recommended that the company develops an online business presence by generating a well-designed website that will increase the firm’s visibility in the market as its strategy calls for the expansion of its products and services. The section below contains the new website’s structural site map and a design mock-up of its constituent pages. (see attachments). Project Scope and Estimated costs The new website for Silvio’s Custom Shoe Design & Restoration will be built using the Fortune3 platform. This turnkey solution provides hosting, and e-commerce capabilities such as an online store, shopping cart, and checkout. Silvio’s will subscribe to Fortune3 Gold plan based on a monthly fee. The company will retain the services of Gecko Media in the designing and the building of its website and to make ongoing changes once it is up and running. Fortune3 online store checkout module requires...
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...Background or Introduction Enterprise Resource Planning system or ERP has been adopted by a lot of companies. It is necessary to adopt an ERP system in order to maintain control of operations and to compete with other peers. Successful implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning system allows an organization to achieve business innovations and provide an integrated view of all business processes in an entity. However, an ERP implementation is very money costing and could be risky for all businesses; sometimes it is even more challenging for small businesses (Malhotra, Temponi, 2010). The number of companies that have implemented ERP systems and integrated with enterprise systems completely and successfully is limited. Integration between ERP and Enterprise Systems So, what is the difference between ERP and enterprise systems? ERP is actually business application software that offers solutions to different departments in a company as multifunction modules; whereas Enterprise Systems can include ERP, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), etc. Enterprise Resource Planning software is implemented to enhance a company’s internal functions; whereas Enterprise Systems are implemented to better run the external functions and suppliers, customers and so on. Consequently, there is a necessity to well integrate ERP and Enterprise Systems. In recent years, many researchers and practitioners have considered the continuing development of enterprise...
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...Formulas to Know for the Exam Although we do not suggest you memorize a lot of information to prepare for the exam, the following formulas are some of the items you do need to memorize, as well as understand. There will not be a lot of questions requiring you to use these formulas, but it will be helpful to be able to apply these at a moment’s notice. If you are not comfortable with math, you should be happy to hear that you can know none of these formulas and still pass the exam! The most important formulas are those relating to earned value, as earned value is a key component of monitoring and controlling. Formulas to Know for the Exam Title PMP® Exam Prep Chapter Reference Formula Present Value (PV) PV = FV (1 + r)n Integration Management Expected Activity Duration (Triangular Distribution)* P+M+O 3 Time Management Expected Activity Duration (Beta Distribution)* P + 4M + O 6 Time Management P−O 6 Time Management Beta EAD +/− SD Time Management LS − ES, or LF − EF Time Management Cost Variance (CV) EV − AC Cost Management Schedule Variance (SV) EV − PV Cost Management Cost Performance Index (CPI), or Cumulative CPI (CPIC) EV EVC or AC ACC Cost Management Schedule Performance Index (SPI) EV PV Cost Management Estimate at Completion (EAC) AC + Bottom-up ETC Cost Management Estimate at Completion (EAC) BAC CPIC Cost Management Estimate at Completion...
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...Questions: 1Introduction to OM: OM Q&A -1 9/26/2013 1) Identify three or more operations-related tasks carried out by Hard Rock Café. (Far East department) Answer: Providing custom meals; designing, testing, and costing meals; acquiring, receiving , and storing supplies; recruiting and training employees; preparing employee schedules; designing efficient restaurant layouts. 2) Identify two operations-related tasks carried out by Hard Rock Café (changed to McDonalds). Match each to its area of the Ten Critical Decisions. Answer: Providing custom meals–design of goods and services; designing, testing, and costing meals–design of goods and services; acquiring, receiving , and storing supplies–supply- chain management; recruiting and training employees–human resources , job design and work measurement; preparing employee schedules–intermediate and short-term scheduling; designing efficient restaurant layouts–layout strategy. 3) Define operations management. Will your definition accommodate both manufacturing and service operations? Answer: Operations management can be defined as the management of all activities directly related to the creation of goods and/or services through the transformation of inputs into outputs. Yes. 4) Why are services typically more difficult to standardize, automate, and make efficient? Answer: Services typically require customer interaction, which makes it difficult to standardize, automate...
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...in order to stretch their minds or to mature to where critical thinking overcomes impulse. College is the time to embrace the joy of discovery and the world of ideas, passions and relationships. Expextation Too few jobs satisfy the soul. Higher education should help to address that shortcoming. But for that to happen, we have to learn how to combine the practicality of learning with the joy of exploration. Why Get a Doctorate Degree in Business Administration? By Wendel Clark, eHow Contributor * * * Share * * Print this article Earning a doctoral degree in business administration can be worthwhile. A doctoral degree in business administration is the highest level of education possible in the field of business. Such a high level of education in a specialized field offers many benefits to a person who has attained this level of education. There are a few key benefits that should be considered by those who are considering this educational path. Other People Are Reading * DBA Vs. Ph.D. * Doctorate Degrees That Don't Require a Dissertation 1. Demand * One of the strongest reasons to get a doctorate degree in business administration is that there is a strong demand in the workforce for people with this degree. According to the executive director of doctoral programs at Harvard Business School, there is a shortage of candidates with doctoral degrees in business fields to fill positions at business schools. Because there is a demand...
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...CPS 230 DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS Fall 2008 Instructor: Herbert Edelsbrunner Teaching Assistant: Zhiqiang Gu CPS 230 Fall Semester of 2008 Table of Contents 1 I 2 3 4 5 Introduction D ESIGN T ECHNIQUES Divide-and-Conquer Prune-and-Search Dynamic Programming Greedy Algorithms First Homework Assignment S EARCHING 3 4 5 8 11 14 17 18 19 22 26 29 33 34 35 38 41 44 IV 13 14 15 16 G RAPH A LGORITHMS Graph Search Shortest Paths Minimum Spanning Trees Union-Find Fourth Homework Assignment T OPOLOGICAL A LGORITHMS 17 18 19 Geometric Graphs Surfaces Homology Fifth Homework Assignment G EOMETRIC A LGORITHMS 20 21 22 Plane-Sweep Delaunay Triangulations Alpha Shapes Sixth Homework Assignment NP-C OMPLETENESS 23 24 25 Easy and Hard Problems NP-Complete Problems Approximation Algorithms Seventh Homework Assignment 45 46 50 53 56 60 61 62 65 68 72 73 74 77 81 84 85 86 89 92 95 V II 6 7 8 9 Binary Search Trees Red-Black Trees Amortized Analysis Splay Trees Second Homework Assignment P RIORITIZING VI III 10 11 12 Heaps and Heapsort Fibonacci Heaps Solving Recurrence Relations Third Homework Assignment VII 2 1 Introduction Meetings. We meet twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 1:15 to 2:30pm, in room D106 LSRC. Communication. The course material will be delivered in the two weekly lectures. A written record of the lectures will be available on the web, usually a day after the lecture. The web also contains other information...
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...CASE 1.8 CRAZY EDDIE, INC. Synopsis Eddie Antar opened his first retail consumer electronics store in 1969 near Coney Island in New York City. By 1987, Antar's firm, Crazy Eddie, Inc., was a public company with annual sales exceeding $350 million. The rapid growth of the company's revenues and profits after it went public in 1984 caused Crazy Eddie's stock to be labeled as a "can't miss" investment by prominent Wall Street financial analysts. Unfortunately, the rags-to-riches story of Eddie Antar unraveled in the late 1980s following a hostile takeover of Crazy Eddie, Inc. After assuming control of the company, the new owners discovered a massive overstatement of inventory that wiped out the cumulative profits reported by the company since it went public in 1984. Subsequent investigations by various regulatory authorities, including the SEC, resulted in numerous civil lawsuits and criminal indictments being filed against Antar and his former associates. Following the collapse of Crazy Eddie, Inc., in the late 1980s, regulatory authorities and the business press criticized the company's auditors for failing to discover that the company's financial statements had been grossly misstated. This case focuses on the accounting frauds perpetrated by Antar and his associates and the related auditing issues. Among...
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...XYZ MEDICAL CENTRE Boston Sep 24th, 2006 MEMORANDUM TO: Alex Adams, Ph.D., Director, Institutional Review Board XYZ Medical Centre XYZ Medical Centre at Boston Boston, Ma FROM: John Johnson Investigator, Institutional Review Board (IRB) XYZ Medical Center at Boston Boston SUBJECT: Violations observed during the FDA inspection of XYZ Institutional Review Board from August 21 to August 25 1, 2006 I am writing this letter to set out all the non- compliance issues identified during the FDA inspection of XYZ Institutional Review Board (IRB). These violations are pertaining to applicable provisions of Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (21 C.F.R.) Part 56 Institutional Review Boards, Part 50-Protection of Human Subjects, and Part 812 Investigational Device. The compliance issues can be summarized as follow: 1- The IRB failed to establish, maintain, and follow adequate written procedures for conducting the review of research. (21 CFR 56.108, 21 CFR 56.110(c), and...
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...Case Analysis- Orange Inc. Case Analysis- Orange Inc. 2014 ACG5075, Section 11/27/2014 2014 ACG5075, Section 11/27/2014 A. Pricing Strategy Orange’s pricing strategy involves higher volumes as a result of lower profit margins in the ‘lower’ segment. This is shown in the table below where the ‘upper’ segment represents 84% of the total profit and the ‘lower’ segment represents 16% of the total profit. There are pros and cons to their pricing strategy. A pro of the pricing strategy is the increasing sales volume will allow the opportunity to increase customers, and therefore increase market share in the yacht industry. This is under the assumption people will buy. A con of the pricing strategy is Orange is not optimizing their profit. They are also anticipating how customers will react to price changes, which is a risk that may cause an overstock of yachts if customers do not buy. The risk of loss is greater with a higher volume because there is a chance for an increased amount of inventory to go obsolete. B. Benchmarking 1. *Return on equity (ROE): measures the rate of return on the ownership interest of the common stock owners. It measures a firm's efficiency at generating profits from every unit of shareholders' equity. *Return on sales (ROS): a ratio widely used to evaluate an entity's operating performance. It is also known as "operating profit margin" or "operating margin". *Asset Turnover: In accounting, the Inventory turnover...
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...The Case Study of TerraCog Global Positional Systems Xu Yang, 005767016 The company of TerraCog enjoys the flat organization juts like the typical law firm.The benefit of this structure is better communication between departments and efficient examination through production process. However, it also leads to the serious situation which TerraCog is facing now. Case question one: Richard Fiero as the president of this company regard quality reputation and market shares equally important which leads to divarication between sale department and design&development depattment. (Ed pryor is encouraged to reoccupy the market while Allen Roth is allowed to focus on product quality.) Besides the alternative goals president has set, all managers hold different opinions toward the price point and they are speaking for both their department and themselves. For example, Ed Pryor ask to proceed Aerial in order to hit the target of sales department. However, Ed make one-sided agreement of price point without negotiation with production department. Also, Tony Barren as the director of production department is on thin ice as the result of last failure. He decide to make more comprehensive cost estimate to cover the potential risks. According to the article, Allen Roth really wish to get the promotion of the vacant position. Thus, She is eager to design a functional product for company. As we can see from above analysis, every manager has individual...
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...his requests and orders. Is he trying to talk to the prop master, the set designer, the actors, the make-up artists? All of them are part of different departments. But all of them, in the end, have influence in the mise-en-scène. In the academic realm, the term mise-en-scène is always invoked when the overall look and feel of a movie is under discussion. Students taking Film Analysis should be quite familiar with the term. Even though many professionals are involved in its creation, the director is the one that oversees the entire mise-en-scène and all of its elements. Not just that, but during the early stages of pre-production, the director or his AD sits down with set designers, prop masters, location managers, costume designers, and scenic artists to determine the look and feel intended. In some instances, the mise-en- scène is used to evoke lasting feelings throughout the movie and not just for selected scenes. In the German expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), distorted shapes and claustrophobic scenery is implemented to disturb the audience and enhance the horror. Mike Nichols’ The Graduate (1967) has been praised by its amazing, exciting, and multi-layered visual...
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...Mike Nichol’s “The Graduate” A Real Graduate In Mike Nichol’s, “The Graduate” Ben (a shy, antisocial, college graduate) who attended school on the east coast for four years -more than likely to get away from his parents- returns home to his family and a life full of high expectations, confusion, and a love triangle. Most parents who want their children to be successful, ideally, would not want to have full control over their child’s career path. Unfortunately, this is not the case for Ben. The day he came home his parents threw him a graduation party -considering none of his real friends were invited- that was really for Mr. Braddock’s (Ben’s father) friends and business partners to associate. Though, the average 20 year old would be thrilled to receive a car for graduating college (or on any occasion for that matter). When Ben’s parents surprised him with an Alfa Romeo or as his dad’s guests might say “A wop-job” he didn’t seem too excited. After he became irritated with all the bogus compliments about graduating college, he raced up to his room to escape the madness. Thinking he was alone, Mrs. Robinson (one of Mr. Braddock’s business partners) walked into Ben’s room intentionally and exclaimed, “Oh I’m sorry, I thought this was the bathroom.” Afraid of her impeccable presence and his lack of experience with a woman, Ben becomes extremely nervous as she bluntly invited herself to sit on his bed. But her demanding tone of voice and her promiscuous personality was just the first...
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