...description one (1) page of the topic for your Research Proposal paper for this course. Please follow these criteria: 1. Choose a topic from your major field of study. For example, if you pursuing a degree in education, your topic will come from the education field. 2. Describe the topic clearly: The topic should be well defined, realistic in scope, and appropriate for scholarly research. 3. Include a brief explanation of why you chose this topic. Keep in mind that you will be working on this topic all through the course. Choose one that will sustain your interest. Why is this topic important to you? The format of the description is to be as follows: o Typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), one-inch margins on all sides, APA format. o Use headers for each of the three (3) criteria, followed by your response. o In addition to the content page required, a title page is to be included. The title page is to contain the title of the assignment, your name, the instructor’s name, the course title, and the date. Note: You will be graded on the quality of your answers, the logic/organization of the content, your language skills, and your writing skills. RES 531 WEEK 2 ASSIGNMENT 1 TOPIC SELECTION Submit a brief description one (1) page of the topic for your Research Proposal paper for this course. Please follow these criteria: 1. Choose a topic from your major field of study. For example, if you pursuing a degree in education, your topic will come from the education...
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...in this course will be encountered in future courses and quite likely throughout your business career. The purpose of this project is to explore how researchers in your area of interest use the process of regression analysis. In order to do this, you will locate two articles from academic journals that pertain to your area of interest in business and contain the use of regression analysis. Your search criteria will contain one of the following majors from the UTSA College of Business: Accounting, Economics, Finance, Human Resource Management, Information Systems, Management, Management Science, and Marketing. There are several other majors, but you may find it hard to locate articles about them. In that case, it may be better to choose one of the highlighted majors above that is related to your major. Directions for finding articles: From UTSA home page Select Libraries link (bottom of page, under Current Students) Under Find Information, select Databases Select “A” under Find by Title Select ABI/INFORM – Global On first line of search terms: enter your business major from the list above (Use quotes if it is more than one word); select Subject heading (all)-SU For the two boxes on the second line enter: “linear regression” [or] “multiple regression” (be sure to include the quotes); keep the default of Anywhere Limit Results to: check Peer reviewed Publication date: select Specific date range Enter July 1, 2013 and December 31, 2013...
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...throughout the human lifespan 2. Understand the potential effects of life factors and events on the development of the individual 3. Understand the physical and psychological changes of ageing | Context | The study of lifespan development is about understanding the way we change over time. In this unit you will be able to identify some patterns in the course of human development and a range of factors that will influence how your life turns out. You will also need to make up your own mind about some very deep questions. Will you have a fixed life course where you can predict much of what will happen to you? How far is your life fixed for you by your genetics or by the social and economic environment you grow up in? How far can you choose to control your own life and can you try to ensure a happy old age? | Overall Scenario | As part of your work experience you have been asked to produce a fact file to show your understanding of the different life stages. You have been asked to discover as much information as possible about a family member (Parent, Aunt, Uncle, Grandparents) or a high profile person, to describe the stages of their life so far and what might happen in the future. | Task 1 Date issued | 17/11/15 | Task 1 Hand in dates | P1, M1, D1HAND IN BY- 1/12/15 | Task 1 | Stages of Growth and Development throughout the human lifespan TASK A (P1)Describe the physical, intellectual, emotional and social development for each of the life stages of your...
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...scenario will help the students to understand and explore further the importance of marketing orientation for an organization. B. The assignment encompasses the concepts of marketing environment, segmentation, targeting and positioning and the role of marketers in specific buying behaviors. Students are expected to use suitable examples, provide reasons and justifications to support their answers in their own words. Part A Assignment Task / Description: 1. Define Marketing. What is marketing process as set out in your text book. Explain the various elements of marketing process. ( LO1; Assessment Criteria 1.1) 2. Select an organization of your choice, identify the marketing orientation it focuses on and evaluate the benefits and costs of the marketing orientation for the selected organization ( LO1; Assessment Criteria 1.2) 3. The Dunkin’ Donut Case: ( LO1; Assessment Criteria 1.2) For more than 50 years, Dunkin’ Donuts has offered customers throughout the United States, and around the world, a consistent experience – the same donuts, the same coffee, the same store décor – each time a customer drops in. Although the chain now offers iced coffee, breakfast sandwiches, smoothies, gourmet cookies, and Dunkin’ Dawgs in addition to the old standbys, devoted customers argue that it’s the coffee that sets Dunkin’ Donut apart. To keep customers coming back, the chain still relies on the recipe that founder Bill Rosenberg crafted more than 50 years ago. 1...
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...assignment, you will choose one (1) major food / equipment distributor, either global, regional, or local (i.e., Sysco Foods Inc., U.S. Foods, Sherwood Food Distributors, or S&W Wholesale Foods), for restaurants and conduct an in-depth research study. * Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you: * Choose one (1) distributor company and provide a brief overview including: * a history of the company * the geographical areas that they serve * a high-level list of supplies they offer (by category) * the main competitors * Choose one (1) competitive distribution company and compare and contrast five (5) similar products (offered by both firms) in the areas of price, quality, and value. Create a table to represent the data. * Provide an overview of this company’s payment policy including: * the objective of payment policy * the costs of paying early * the costs of late payment * the mechanics of bill paying * discounting * Determine whether or not to choose this distributor as the main supplier for the restaurant chain you selected in Assignment 1. Explain the decision by discussing the following items: * The impact of this distributor’s purchasing policy on the supplier selection. * This distributor’s ranking based on the supplier selection criteria outlined in Chapter 12 of the Feinstein and Stafanelli textbook. * The most important supplier selection criteria for this distributor...
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...What is Decision Making? Some Definitions A good place to start is with some standard definitions of decision making. 1. Decision making is the study of identifying and choosing alternatives based on the values and preferences of the decision maker. Making a decision implies that there are alternative choices to be considered, and in such a case we want not only to identify as many of these alternatives as possible but to choose the one that (1) has the highest probability of success or effectiveness and (2) best fits with our goals, desires, lifestyle, values, and so on. The two important ideas here are that first, there must be some genuine alternatives to choose from among. Note that "Do it" or "Don't do it" does not qualify as a set of alternatives. Only "Do this" or "Do something else" really qualfies. Second, every decision must be made in the light of some standard of judgment. This standard usually gets expressed in the form of criteria, which reflect the values and preferences of the decision maker. These values and preferences are often influenced by corporate rules or culture, law, best practices, and so forth. 2. Decision making is the process of sufficiently reducing uncertainty and doubt about alternatives to allow a reasonable choice to be made from among them. This definition stresses the information-gathering function of decision making. It should be noted here that uncertainty is reduced rather than eliminated. Very few decisions are made with absolute...
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...process: Individual student have been found in terms of Background, Influence, Interest, and behavior factors related to which school they choose. It is always good to take a look other than that how many student are enrolling in Washington State University, as each possess the different sets of preferences when they choice a particular school/university. A number of factors are considered that would serve as bases for different segmentation. This case study is focused upon the preferences of the students in the process of deciding to choose Washington State University. A total of 100 questionnaires are distributed on facebook and classes through email using the free online survey service. A total of 40 were completed for a response rate of approximately 40 percent. The online survey is selected for this study due to its accessibility and easily distribution. There are different stages or steps that student follows to make their decision about choosing in which university they want purse their studies. The first decision is about the problem recognition, which in this case is to find the ideal university in which they meet the universities minimum requirements. There are lots of other problems that students look into before even start searching for ideal match. The next major step to find the information related to the criteria which student is following. There are many different ways to find information which are divided into two categories: internal and external...
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...Management | | Assignment Brief | | Module Title: | Intermediate Sport Management | Module Code: | SL501 | Assignment: | CW2: Sport Business Report | Assessment Weighting: | 40% | Submission Date: | 21 May 2014 | Feedback Target Date: | 11 June 2014 | Tutors: | Andrew Rankin / Alan Hockley | | | This assignment is to be submitted electronically using Blackboard | 1. This assignment must be submitted electronically by 2pm on the submission date 2. To submit electronically you must upload your work to the e-submission area within the Blackboard module concerned. Click Submit> Browse (find the correct file to upload) Upload> Submit 3. You can resubmit your work as many times as you like until the deadline. If you choose to resubmit, your earlier submission will be replaced, and you will NOT receive an Originality Report until 24 hours from when the submission was made. 4. You will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission. This will be sent to your Bucks e-mail address; please keep this for reference. 5. You are reminded of the University’s regulations on cheating and plagiarism. In submitting your assignment you are acknowledging that you have read and understood these regulations. 6. Late submission within 10 working days of the deadline will result in the mark being capped at a maximum of 40%. Beyond this time the work will not be marked. 7. You are reminded that it is your responsibility to keep an electronic copy of your assignment for...
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...use nominal, limited, and extended decision making. Watch this video to learn more about the different types of consumer decisions. Consumer Decisions and Strategy In order to successfully reach their target market, marketers must have some idea of how much time and effort consumers will put into a purchase decision. For BMW the business personalities, high officials are the target market but decision sometimes depends on their wives and children. After many observations of the decision-making process, you see that the actual customers of BMW are motivated by their spouses or children and they must spend a lot of time to select a specific car among Mercedes Benz, Lexus, Prado etc. Types of Consumer Decisions There are three major categories of consumer decisions - nominal, limited, and extended - all with...
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...The major writing assignment Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwaid.com/shop/the-major-writing-assignment/ The major writing assignment for this course is a Book or Movie Review. You are required to select a movie, play or book from the the courses dates The Discvery through the Election of 1876 through the Inauguration of 2005. In writing your review, keep in mind that you are not writing a report. Do not merely state what the movie is about. A review is your opinion of whether the movie is good or bad based on the following criteria: bias, movie design, educational value, and historical accuracy. These issues are all discussed in greater depth on the backside of this page. In talking about your view of this movie, it is critical to keep in mind that entertainment value is important, but not the key criteria. While a boring movie might not keep your attention, a movie rife with false details does not teach you true history. Another point to think about is whether the movie makes you want to learn more about that particular subject. In determining a movie as “bad” or “good” take all factors into consideration. Your paper should be a minimum 1.5 - 2 pages in length to provide adequate detail. A full description and the grading rubric is included below. MILITARY HISTORY LEADERS BATTLES WARS LEADING FIGURES POLITICAL SCIENTIFIC ACADEMIC SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES MEDICAL TECHNOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE DEFINING MOMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY ANY TOPIC THAT YOU FEEL IS A "DEFINING...
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...buyers who differ in one or more ways, so Shell need first segment its potential consumer market. There are several major variables that can be used in segmenting consumer markets, including geographic, demographic, psychographic, and behavioral variables. In this case, SOPC used the latter two variables to segment its market. It chose “personality” and “benefit” as its segmentation criteria, of which the former belongs to psychographic segmentation and the latter belongs to behavioral segmentation. * Why to choose these two criteria? According to the requirements for effective segmentation, SOPC has to make sure that its market segments are measurable, accessible, substantial, differentiable, and actionable. The requirement of differentiable market segments means that the segments are conceptually distinguishable and respond differently to different marketing mix elements and programs. Neither geographic segmentation nor demographic segmentation can be effective, because those criteria do not affect Shell’s customers’ attitude of stopping their automobiles at gasoline stations. That’s why SOPC aimed at customer needs and chose personality and benefit as segmentation criteria. We can find that Figure1.1 gives a very clear market segmentation: 10 market segments are determined according to two criteria – personality and benefits. Segmentation criteria | | Benefits | | Transaction | service | Bargain price | others | | quick | easy | simple | safe | high relationship...
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...economics. Currently, this is my first semester at the University of Houston - Clear Lake (UHCL), and my interest on economics has increased after enrolling system engineering economics course in this semester, this made me to looking into options about pursuing Ph.D. in economics after my graduation i.e. December 2016. In order to consider a university to pursue Ph.D. in economics, I am conducting a research on different criteria to evaluate between three different universities. The following three universities are considered as alternatives based on my criteria selected: 1. Columbia University 2. New York University 3. Yale University My main criteria for choosing these universities are specialties, fee structure, and scholarship. After detailed research I have narrowed down my decision to Yale University and Columbia University, but finally concluded Yale University is the perfect and economic place to pursue my Ph.D. The further report contains alternatives, criteria, method, evaluation, conclusion and recommendation. Alternatives I choose following universities to pursue Ph.D. in economics. The three universities are: 1. Columbia University “Columbia University has traditionally been seen as the academic big shot, a member of the prestigious Ivy League, a group of America’s most historically prestigious and selective institutions.”1 The core of this university is wide range of academic inquiry is the commitment to attract and engage the best minds,...
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...your system. (It is essential that this is consistent with the scenario selected). First of all, the scenario we choose is being individual investor. Generally, our investing strategy combines both fundamental analysis and technical analysis. For example, we plan to use high share price relative strength, volume and MACD as well as low P/E ratio, Earning persistency, low P/B ratio indicators since the mixing growth and value strategies could not only reducing the volatility of strategies based on growth alone but also increasing the capital appreciation potential of strategies. Therefore, we believe the mixing strategies could help us to make fewer mistakes, increase probability to maximize our absolute returns through the years and also outperform buy and hold after expenses. Moreover, we will use fundamental methods to calculate an accurate proportion for the amount of money we put in each stock in order to well diversify risks and max net profit. For the philosophy, we believe that markets are efficient, prices move in trends and history repeats itself from technical analysis aspect. Moreover, even though fundamental analysis is worthless somehow, low P/B, P/E, P/CF and high yield show otherwise. ii. What is your approximate expected time horizon/holding period per trade? The holding period per trade will depend on the indicator we choose. We will buy or sell decision as long as the indicators show buy or sell signals with confirmations told us to do so...
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... assignment to his work. Furthermore, the researcher start by giving the definition of the concepts of Order Qualifiers and Order Winners. “Order winners and order qualifiers are criteria defined by managers within their operation strategy plan to gain competitive advantage in the market” (Encyclopedia of Business, 2nd Ed.) In other words , order qualifier are the sets or laid down criteria the International Organisations Companies (IOC’S) adopts when sourcing for capable service providers or mainly called contractors. This is a practical example of how Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) source for qualified contractors to provide services for their various operations either major/ minor. This example illustrate how Petmam Ventures was pre qualified for a major contract by SPDC Nigeria. The Order of Pre qualification Process include the followings. There was an advert for the provision of Quality Assurance Quality Control Inspection service by SPDC Nigeria. Evaluation of companies documents, policies and site inspection by our clients. Subject vendors to technical bid (with bench mark criteria established). Subject successful vendor of the technical bid to commercial bid stage (In this stage you are expected to...
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...Graphing Ellipse, Hyperbola, and Parabola Answer the following questions to complete this exercise: 1. Find the standard form of the equation of the ellipse and give the location of its foci. The standard form of the equation of an ellipse with the center at the origin and major and minor axes of lengths 2a and 2b (where a and b are positive, and a2 > b2) is: The location of foci are at (–c, 0) and (c, 0) where c2 = a2 – b2. 2. Graph the ellipse. and choose the correct graph from the given graphs: a. b. c. d. [Hint: To graph this ellipse, find the center (h, k) by comparing the given equation with the standard form of equation centered at (h, k). Next, find a and b. Find the vertices (h – a, k) and (h + a, k). Find the foci (h + c, k) and (h – c, k).] 3. Find the standard form of the equation of the hyperbola whose graph is given below. 4. Find the vertices of the hyperbola. 5. Sec 10.3 ## 2, 8 p. 925 Evaluation Criteria: * Did you show the steps to solve each problem? * Did you write thorough explanations for the short-answer questions? * Did you accurately choose a problem that fits the criteria for each rule? * Were the answers submitted in an organized fashion that was legible and easy to follow? * Were the answers...
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