Day: April 25, 2018

Operations Management- solve problems

Operations Management
Q1 Emergency calls to Winter Park, Florida’s 911 systems for the past 24 weeks are as follows:

(a) Compute the exponentially smoothed forecast of calls for each week. Assume an initial forecast of 50 calls in the first week and use alpha = 0.1. What is the forecast for the 25th week?
(b) Reforecast each period using alpha = 0.6.
(c) Actual calls during the 25th week were 85. Which smoothing constant provides a superior forecast?
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Q2The Outdoor Furniture Corporation manufacturing two products, benches and picnic tables, for use in yards and parks. The firm has two main resources: its carpenters (labor force) and a supply of redwood for use in the furniture. During the next production cycle, 1,200 hours of labor are available under a union agreement. The firm also has a stock of 3500 feet of good-quality redwood. Each bench that Outdoor Furniture produces requires 4 labor hours and 10 feet of redwood; each picnic table takes 6 labor hours and 35 feet of redwood. Completed benches will yield a profit of $9 each, and tables will result in a profit of $20 each. How many benches and tables should Outdoor Furniture produce to obtain the largest possible profit?
Q3 MSA Computer Corporation manufactures two models of minicomputers, the Alpha 4 and the Beta 5. The firm employs five technicians, working 160 hours each per month, on its assembly line. Management insists that full employment (i.e., all 160 hours of time) be maintained for each worker during next month’s operations. It requires 20 labor hours to assemble each Alpha 4computer and 25 labor hours to assemble each Beta 5 model. MSA wants to see at least 10 Alpha4s and at least 15 Beta 5s produced during the production period. Alpha 4s generate $1,200 profit per unit, and Beta 5s yield $1,800 each. Determine the most profitable number of each model of minicomputer to produce during the coming month?

Q4 The Krampf Lines Railway Company specializes in coal handling. On Friday, April 13, Krampf had empty cars at the following towns in the quantities indicated
TOWN SUPPLY OF CARS
Morgantown 35
Youngstown 60
Pittsburgh 25
By Monday, April 16, the following towns will need coal cars as follows:
TOWN DEMAND FOR CARS
Coal Valley 30
Coaltown 45
Coal Junction 25
Coalsburg 20

Using a railway city-to-city distance chart, the dispatcher constructs a mileage table for the preceding towns. The result is shown in the table below. Minimizing total miles over which cars are moved to new locations, compute the best shipment of coal cars.
TO COAL VALLEY COALTOWN COAL JUNCTION COALSBURG
FROM
MORGANTOWN 50 30 60 70
YOUNGSTOWN 20 80 10 90
PITTSBURGH 100 40 80 30

Q5 The three blood banks in Franklin County are coordinated through a central office that facilitates blood delivery to four hospitals in the region. The cost to ship a standard container of blood from each bank to each hospital is shown in the table below. Also given are the biweekly number of containers available at each bank and the biweekly number of containers of blood needed at each hospital. How many shipments should be made biweekly from each blood bank to each hospital so that total shipment costs are minimized?

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Australia is experiencing an ‘epidemic’ of methamphetamine use

Task A (About 550 words)
Please refer to the table below. You are going to investigate three perceptions regarding
methamphetamines by answering the questions in column 1. To answer the questions you will need
to use the corresponding data sources (Reliable Health Data) provided in Column 2. You must back
up all of your answers with the relevant data (briefly) and reference the source(s) of the data
appropriately.
Questions to be answered based on evidence
Reliable health data
(government reports
peer-reviewed journal articles)
Perception: ‘Australia is experiencing an ‘epidemic’ of
methamphetamine use.’
Use Table 2.2 on page 9 of the report opposite to answer the
following questions:
1. What percentage of the Australian population aged 14 years
and older had ever used methamphetamines in 2010?
2. How does the level of meth/amphetamine use compare
with levels of use of other illicit drugs?
3. (a) Has the level of ‘ever use’ of meth/amphetamines
increased between 2007 and 2010 (the most recent data
available)?
(b) What does the longer term trend (i.e. from 2001 to
2010) indicate?
4. Based on your answers to the above questions, do the data
indicate that “Australia is experiencing an epidemic of
methamphetamine use”? (Briefly explain your answer)
Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare (2011). 2010 National Drug
Strategy Household Survey Report.
(http://www.aihw.gov.au/WorkArea/Dow
nloadAsset.aspx?id=10737421314)
Perception: ‘Ice use is responsible for a large and increasing
number of ambulance call-outs in Victoria.’
5. Is the number of ice-related ambulance call-outs in Victoria
increasing? (You should mention what is happening in
metro areas as well as what is happening in regional Victoria
in your answer.)
6. Is ice responsible for a large proportion of drug-related
(legal and illicit) ambulance call-outs in Victoria?
7. Based on your responses to questions 5 and 6, what do you
conclude about the perception ‘Ice use is responsible for a
large and increasing number of ambulance call-outs in
Victoria’?
Hellbronn, C, Gao, CX, Lloyd, B, Smith,
K, Best, D, Lubman, DI. (2013). Trends
in amphetamine-related harms in
Victoria. Medical Journal of Australia,
199 (6): 395.
Lloyd, B (2014). Trends in alcohol and
drug related ambulance attendances
in Victoria 2012/13,

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summary. Turning Point Alcohol and
Drug Centre.
(http://www.turningpoint.org.au/site/Def
aultSite/filesystem/documents/TP.amboc
allout.reportsummary.080514.pdf)
Perception: ‘Ice is the drug that is responsible for the majority
of drug-related violence in Australia.’
8. Which drugs (legal and illicit) are related to the majority of
‘king hit’ fatalities in Australia?
9. Does the data from the Pilgrim et al (2014) study support
the perception that ‘Ice is the drug that is responsible for
the majority of drug-related violence in Australia? (Briefly
include your reason).
Data are available on a specific form
of violence that is often drug-related;
namely, ‘king hit’ fatalities.
Pilgrim, J, Gerostamoulos, D,
Drummer, O. (2014). “King hit”
fatalities in Australia, 2000-2012: the
role of alcohol and other drugs. Drug
and Alcohol Dependence, 135: 119-
132.
Task B (About 50 words)
Health research employs both quantitative and qualitative approaches to data collection and
analysis. As you learnt in Topic 1, the type of study design and data collection methods used
depends on the specific research question you are attempting to answer. Certain research questions
(such as most of the questions in the table above) can only be answered using quantitative research
designs and methods; while other research questions require the use of qualitative research designs
and methods.
10 (a) Develop ONE research question related to the use of methamphetamines in Victoria. Your
question must be a reasonably feasible research question which requires QUANTITATIVE methods to
be answered.
10 (b) Develop ONE research question related to the use of methamphetamines in Victoria. Your
question must be a reasonably feasible research question which requires QUALITATIVE methods to
be answered.
Task C: (About 200 words)
In Topic 1 you learnt about the ethical requirements of conducting health research, and the key
principles underpinning ethical health research. Illicit drug use is considered a sensitive research
topic, in part because the researcher may be investigating illegal behaviour.
This task requires you to use the Deakin University library to conduct an online search for peerreviewed
journal articles or reports (from reputable organisations) that focus specifically on the
ethical issues associated with conducting research into illicit drug use.
11. Specify the database(s) and search terms that you used to locate appropriate articles or reports.
12. Select the most relevant article you obtained in your search. Provide the full reference and
abstract of this article as an appendix in your assignment. (Note: the abstract is not included in the
word count for the assignment).
13. Select one of the research questions you developed for task B. Imagine you are a researcher
attempting to collect data in order to answer the specified research question. Three key ethical
principles are (a) respecting autonomy, (b) confidentiality and anonymity, and (c) protection from
discomfort and harm. Briefly describe an example of an ethical issue in each of these three areas
that would need to be considered when attempting to carry out the research

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Socrates got into trouble with the elders of Athens because it was thought that Socrates didn’t believe in the gods worshiped and adored by most Greeks.

He was also

accused of corrupting the youth who listened to him in the Academy. Professor Kreeft’s view is that Socrates was more religious and more spiritually-minded than his

accusers could ever have imagined. Socrates was a lover of wisdom, and he devoted his life to that cause. Without ever writing anything down for us to examine, his

listeners and students give us a glimpse into what it was like to be around Socrates. And in some ways, we still revere him by mimicking his questioning methods. To

make the point, we need only sit in a courtroom or a college classroom. Attorneys in the modern,

American legal system and many college professors use the Socratic

Method as a tool to teach or to draw information out. Socrates would slowly strip away what was useless to eventually find out what was useful or the truth. He did

this by asking questions and then answering student questions with another question. Finding truth, as in finding wisdom, was and is a journey, not necessarily a

destination in and of itself. Socrates, like modern attorneys and professor, wanted to excite learning within the minds of those they influenced. In the courtroom,

the

attorney tries to excite the truth from witnesses and the jury. Aristotle provides us with another dichotomy. And these elements of an argument are still practiced

today. The Greeks called a dispute about facts a dialectic. If there was no clearly discerned truth, adversaries would try their hardest to argue logically. The burden

of truth was dependent on the winner of the argument, but even the winner could be draw into an argument with someone else and could lose.

Some arguments were always

dialectical. However, when the facts were incontrovertible, when it was clear what outcome was obvious, that form of argument was apodictic. The facts were

incontestable and logically certain. We see from these two forms of argument two important legal terms still in effect today: substantive law and procedural law.

Substantive law is like the arguable dialectical form explained by Aristotle. Procedural law is mechanical and is largely apodictic, where truth is easily determined

by the statute. We will find later that procedural law and administrative law are very similar, as we look at modern rules for the administrative law process. Gesell

and Lawrence, in Aviation and the Law, make the following observation of the nature of law as seen through the eyes of Thomas Hobbes. Arguably, the nature of human

beings is sociability and rationality. To bring up the nature of law is to resume arguments posited by the ancient Greek philosophers Socrates and Plato, but

especially Aristotle. The arguments are disputes about the nature of law and morality, and about the relationship of the two. Morality in this case meaning ‘virtue,’

with virtue generally being interpreted as ‘mastery.’ The opposite, immoral, does not necessarily mean sinful, as in the breaking of God’s laws. But it does imply a

violation of the norms of society

Aristotle focused on three kinds of justice: (1) distributive justice; (2) corrective justice; and (3) justice in exchange. Distributive justice describes a legal

environment where there is equality between and among equals. There is equal allocation among equals. After the American War of Independence, the federalists in

government practiced this type of justice;

but it was not afforded to those “unequal:” a matter discussed in the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers. To see an

example of inequality, visit the history of the Bill of Rights and those Constitutional amendments that followed. For example, why did it take so long to extend

equality to women? When the slaves were freed at the close of the American Civil War, it still took some time before they too were declared “equal.”

Corrective justice

is a concept much older than Aristotle, but a concept very much part of our modern legal system. It is equality between punishment and crime. To be fair, any citizen

who violated a statute should expect to receive the same punishment for the same crime. We know that this is not always followed in our American legal system. Some

persons seem to be exempt from punishment for crimes they commit, because of their status.

1. Revise, using feedback from the professor and classmates, your Persuasive Paper Part I: A Problem Exists.

Develop Part 2: Solution to Problem and Advantages (3-4 pages for 6-8 pages total)

2. Include a defensible, relevant thesis statement clearly in the first paragraph. (The thesis statement may need to be modified to reflect added information and purpose of this part.)

3. Explain a detailed, viable solution that supports your thesis. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.

4. State, explain, and support the first advantage (economic, social, political, environmental, social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.

5. State, explain, and support the second advantage (economic, social, political, environmental, social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.

6. State, explain, and support the third (and fourth if desired) advantage (economic, social, political, environmental, social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.

7. Use effective transitional words, phrases, and sentences.

8. Provide a concluding paragraph / transitional paragraph that summarizes the proposed solution and its advantages.

9. Develop a coherently structured paper with an introduction, body, and conclusion.

10. Use one (1) or more rhetorical strategies (ethos, logos, pathos) to explain advantages.

11. Support advantage claims with at least three (3) additional quality relevant references. Use at least six (6) total for Parts 1 and 2. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting guidelines:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Note: Submit your assignment to the designated plagiarism program so that you can make revisions before submitting your paper to your professor.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Recognize the elements and correct use of a thesis statement.
• Recognize the use of summary, paraphrasing, and quotation to communicate the main points of a text.
• Analyze the rhetorical strategies of ethos, pathos, logos in writing samples and for incorporation into essays or presentations.
• Correct grammatical and stylistic errors consistent with Standard Written English.
• Prepare a research project that supports an argument with structure and format appropriate to the genre.
• Revise drafts to improve clarity, support, and organization. Recognize how to organize ideas with transitional words, phrases, and sentences.
• Incorporate relevant, properly documented sources to substantiate ideas.
• Write clearly and concisely about selected topics using proper writing mechanics.
• Use technology and information resources to research selected issues for this course.

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Consumer Behaviour

Write a report demonstrating how an understanding of internal influences could assist your chosen organisation in developing their
marketing strategy.

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In your answer you should choose a company you have worked for (or admire and would like to work for) and use this as
the context for your discussion (lfthey have more than one product or service, please choose one to focus on).

In your response please

referto the internal influence chosen forAssessment 2

This is a 5 step process

Step 1: Re-read the relevant chapters of your

textbook and the sources collected in assignment 2 about your chosen internal influence.

Step 2: Do some additional research on your

focal business and find academic evidence to support your response /argument. You are expected to have at least6 academic referencesfor
the assignment.

Step 3: Make a list of pointsthat you want to discuss. These will form the basis ofthe headings within your

report.

Remember reports have a distinct style. You must use yourfocal organisation and theoryto illustrate your claims (this will
demonstrate a working understanding ofthe theory you are discussing).

NB: You can find more information about writing reports

Resources.

Step 4: Create a reference list using APA6th style (a short guide to APA referencing is provided in your resources folder on
interact) and make sure all ofthe articlesthat you have cited in the report are included in the list.

Step 5: Submit the report via

Turnitin.

Rationale

The objective ofthis assessment is for studentsto demonstrate their abilityto:

Describe the theoretical concept

of one internal influence on consumer behaviour

Apply thattheoretical concept to the context oftheir chosen organisation, i.e. a real

world example

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Engage in online search activity to find appropriate sources

Review and evaluate sourcesto develop a theoretical

argument

Understand the factors (internal) that influence the consumer decision process

Use the knowledge they have gained to make

effective decisions as a marketer

Marking criteria:

Excellent overview ofthe organisation: concise, clear and shows a

good

understanding of current marketing strategy,well supported by chosen sources.

Sets the_ stage well for the discussion to follow.

Appropriate ength.

lnsightful recommendations, well supported by literature. Feasible and related to appropriate aspects of marketing

strategy and relevant for chosen organisation. lmaginative application to theoryto the internal influence chosen.
Professionally presented

Irzeplorrti /SH key elements evident, each used effectively to enhance report and of a consistently high standard. Creative approach.

document showing attention to detail. Logically organised. Well developed academic writing style, clear line of argument throughout, good
use of signposts- headings etc, linking language and seamless linksto the question.Present, accurate in text citations. Attention to
detail. Detailed reference list. Significant research apparent. Correct APA6th format.

Used more than six references.

Presentation

Report- You are expected to present this report in correct report style including executive summary, table of content,
headings etc, see interact for a reportwriting style guide

Full Justify 1.5 line spacing with 12 point font

Use in text referencing and a

reference listformatted using APA 6th referencing

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