Day: April 27, 2018

Answer all the questions provided in details and explain all the calculations provided in all table and how the numbers are found

* This website may help (what i need is the same formate)

*The case study is provided in the attachment provided (PDF)

Answer these questions (These questions are in the attachment provided)

Answer the following Questions:
1) Evaluate Apple Inc. Vision / Mission based on clear criteria.
2) Apply the five forces model on Apple’s case.
3) Discuss the competitive Profile Matrix.
4) Interpret the Financial ratios for both Apple and Alphabet.
5) Discuss the importance of the Internal and External Audits
6) Discuss importance of the Internal factors/External factors based on the given weights/rates in Apple’s matrices
7) Suggest TWO strategies in each of TWOS matrix (i.e. So & WO & St & WT)
8) Define and discus the importance of the SPACE Matrix and the Grand Strategy Matrix. Conduct both of them to Apple Inc. and comment on your answer
9) Based on the given comparative revenue. Conduct the IE matrix and comment on your answer
10) What is the QSPM, and why we need it and what are the main steps of QSPM. Comment on the given part of the QSPM to the opportunities/threats of Apple in the mentioned two options

This assignment needs to broke down into 5 parts with at least certain amount of  words. Each part needs references listed after, and has different instructions and resources. Use 2 references at least for each. attached text is chapters 16 and 17 from, Remler,  D.,  & Van  Ryzin.  G.  (2015). Research methods in practice (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA:  SAGE.  ISBN:13-978-1452276403

. Part 1 at least 100 words:

After reading the chapters 16, 17 , write and submit an essay demonstrating your general understanding of the material,highlighting the most important takeaways

Part 2 at least 100 words:

After watching the following video, write and submit an essay demonstrating your general understanding of the material,highlighting the most important takeaways, use video plus 1 reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGySqXPYQiw

Part 3 at least 100 words:

After watching the following video, write and submit an essay demonstrating your general understanding of the material,highlighting the most important takeaways, use video plus 1 reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt2aNWTuRJk

Part 4 at least 125 words

After reading the textbook Chapter 16, post an essay in the general discussion forum that addresses the following question. The initial post must comply with APA 6th edition style in regard to in-text citations and a Reference section. In addition to citing your assigned readings, find, read,and cite at least two additional scholarly articles to support your essay.

Think about a research project you might conduct involving a small survey of people in your community or workplace.

• What is your research question?

• What ethical issues would you need to consider?

• How would you ensure informed consent, voluntary participation, no harm to subjects, and beneficence?

• Given your research question, write 3 questions that would be included in the survey.

Part 5 at least 125 words

What are the arguments in support of torture.  What are the arguments against torture? Is torture ever a ethical option?

Directions:
Respond to each item. Each response should be concise and between 2 and 3 paragraphs in length.
Use MS Word to write your responses, and submit your answers to all three questions in one Word document.
Copy and paste each question within the document, so that your Instructor can see which question you are responding to.
Pages 35-41 of Assessing and Guiding Young Children’s Development and Learning outline four general decision-making categories of assessment. Briefly, summarize each of these. Identify when assessment for each category is most likely to be effective.

Using the website https://www.childfind-idea-il.us listed under the Resources as an example, research a Child Find Project in NEW JERSEYwhere you live and identify the different professional roles in the assessment process.

The position statements, published by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), “Where We Stand on Curriculum, Assessment and Program Evaluation” and “Screening and Assessment of Young English-Language Learners” outlines recommended standards for developmentally appropriate and authentic assessment in early childhood. Review these standards, and explain, providing examples, how these standards can be used to ensure that appropriate assessment practices are in place.

Pick any two chapters in the Stulberg-Fuhrman text that more or less address the same subjects. Explain the different perspectives of each author.

Adam N. Stulberg and Matthew Fuhrmann (Eds.): The Nuclear Renaissance and International Security: (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013). ISBN 978-08047-8417 -7

PART I Drivers and Patterns of the Nuclear Renaissance

Adam N. Stulberg and Mathew Fuhrmann, Introduction: Understanding the Nuclear Renaissance, pp. 1-18
Chp. 1 Bernard Gourley and Adam N. Stulberg, “Correlates of Nuclear Energy: Back to the Future or Back to Basics, pp. 19-29
Chp. 2 Allison MacFarlane, Where, How and Will Nuclear Happen? Nuclear ‘Renaissance Discourses from Buyers and Suppliers”, pp. 50-72
Chp. 3 Mathew Fuhrmann, Nuclear Suppliers and the Renaissance in Nuclear Power, pp. 73-976

Chp. 4 Adam N. Stulberg, Internationalization of the Fuel Cycle and the Nuclear Energy Renaissance: Confronting the Credible Commitment Problem, pp. 97- 123

Chp. 5 Joshua William Busby, Vaunted Hopes: Climate Change and the Unlikely Nuclear Renaissance”, pp. 124-153

Chp. 6 Christopher Way, the Politics of the Nuclear Renaissance: A Comment, pp. 154-176

PART II the Nuclear Renaissance and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation

Chp. 7 Stop Helping Me: When Nuclear Assistance Impedes Nuclear Programs, pp. 177-202

Chp. 8 Mathew Kroenig, The Nuclear Renaissance, Sensitive Nuclear Assistance, and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation, pp. 203-222

Anth 101
Final paper format
I. Introduction
a. Provide 1-2 paragraphs introducing the
topic/theme/subject of your paper and what you
will address in it.
II. Data collection (methods)
a. How, when, where and with whom (remember no direct identifiers!) did you collect your data
III. Data presentation and wrap-up (discussion/conclusions)
a. Describe your observations, what was the focus
of your observations, how does your data
illustrate the theme/subject of your paper.
b. You will need to draw on resources from either your textbook or from peer-reviewed articles to
analyse your observations in terms of what others have found.
Some suggestions
From Nancy McKee for Anth 350:
OK, so now you have your data (raw information—and by the way, the word “data” is plural, as in “my data ARE really great”). Like the dog who actually caught the car he was chasing, what are you going to do with it (them) now? You’re going to do three things:
• announce the theme, argument, or basic point (usually called a “problem”) you are going to explore with the data you have collected;
• lay out your data in such a way as to make and illustrate your problem; and
• wind up your paper with an economical analysis (a thrifty general statement) about what you think you’ve found out.

The big problem is determining a problem. This is the big problem for everyone at every level. Even PhD students have terrible trouble formulating a question or problem to guide their research, so if you have to struggle a bit, it might make you feel better to know you aren’t alone. But if you don’t have a problem to guide you, all you have is data, and as a my favorite anthropology professor used to yell at his classes, “Data never taught anybody anything.” You need to think hard about a problem even BEFORE you go into the field, but the truth is that the sacred problem might not occur to you until after you get started doing your observations. Still, the sooner the better, because then you’ll know better what you should be looking for.
What are some sample problems? Suppose you’re observing 3-5 year olds in a daycare. How about “Linguistic Dimensions of Young Children’s Conflict Resolution.” (I know it’s a bit pompous, but there’s no harm in learning to talk like the academic natives.) Basically, you would be trying to see how little kids fight verbally with each other, how it differs from the ways adults resolve conflicts verbally, and how kids’ quarrels plug in to other phenomena, like age, gender, maybe ethnicity or social class, if you can get a fix on these. Or suppose you’re going to go to three Tupperware parties (I’m not sure they still exist, but other kinds of pseudo parties do). You could explore “Social, Commercial, and Gender Aspects of Language Use at Home-based Selling ‘Parties.'” Here you would be looking at the ways in which everyday language use intersects with language aimed at pitching a commercial product, so as to produce the illusion that this is not a profit-oriented undertaking, but just a group of women in a social setting talking about the domestic duties and pleasures they share.
Remember that your paper will need both general statements and specific examples from your field notes. “””General statements without specific substantiation are worthless and indefensible.”””” Concrete examples without interpretation may be interesting curiosities, but they are meaningless in any significant context.
Protecting Privacy
Finally, there is the very important issue of protecting the privacy of the people you observe. If the group is so large or anonymous that you and your work are unnoticed and that none of the people you observe could be identified from the paper you write, then don’t worry. Make sure you use pseudonyms (invented names) if you describe individuals, and use pseudonyms also for the names of institutions and locations. On the other hand, if the group is so small that your work is noticeable and/or individuals could be identified from your final paper, then you must get permission from these individuals (or their parents, if they are children) to report on them.

Part 1: Consolidate your career wanderings for the semester into a series of four visuals. These visuals can contain collages, drawings, word art, etc. Your first visual represents where you have been; your second visual represents where you are now; your third visual should represent where you want to go; and your fourth visual should represent how you are going to get there. These visuals should be enhanced versions of wandering maps and contain pictures, symbols and other material, not just words.

Part 2: You will write a 2500-2750 word essay explaining your visuals in part three you will deliver a presentation where you display this series of wanderings maps and discuss your career journey. You are expected to use the sum of the knowledge and reflections (Yellowdig/other assignments) done in this course to write a well-informed and reflective essay. You may not answer “I don’t know” of any of these questions. Be creative and have fun with your visuals! You should include reflection on at least one activity you had to complete for/in this class for each question.

III. Risk and Return
•
To understand the risk profile of the company, estimate risk parameters and the hurdle
rates for the firm, try answering the following questions:
1.
Estimati
ng Historical Risk Parameters (Top Down Betas)
Run a regression of returns on your firm’s stock against returns on a market index, preferably
using monthly data and 5 years of observations (or)
If you have access to Bloomberg, go into the beta calculat
ion page and print off the page (after
setting return intervals to monthly and using 5 years of data)
•
What is the intercept of the regression? What does it tell you about the performance of
this company’s stock during the period of the regression?
•
What
is the slope of the regression?
–
What does it tell you about the risk of the stock?
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How precise is this estimate of risk? (Provide a range for the estimate.)
•
What portion of this firm’s risk can be attributed to market factors? What portion to
firm
–
specific factors? Why is this important?
•
How much of the risk for this firm is due to business factors? How much of it is due to
financial leverage?
1.
Comparing to Sector Betas (Bottom up Betas)
•
Break down your firm by business components, and estimate a business beta for
each component
•
Attach reasonable weights to each component and estimate an unlevered beta for
the business.
•
Using the current leverage of the company, estimate a levered beta f
or each
component.
2.
Choosing Between Betas
•
Which of the betas that you have estimated for the firm (top down or bottom up)
would you view as more reliable? Why?
•
Using the beta that you have chosen, estimate the expected return on an equity
investment i
n this company to
*
a short term investor
*
a long term investor
•
As a manager in this firm, how would you use this expected return?
3.
Estimating Default Risk and Cost of Debt
If your company is rated,
•
What is the most recent rating for the firm?
•
What is the default spread and interest rate associated with this rating?
•
If your company has bonds outstanding, estimate the yield to maturity on a long
term bond? Why might this be different from the rate es
timated in the last step?
•
What is the company’s marginal tax rate?
If your company is not rated,
•
Does it have any recent borrowings? If yes, what interest rate did the
company pay on these borrowing?
•
Can you estimate a synthetic rating? I
f yes, what interest rate would
correspond to this rating?)
4.
Estimating Cost of Capital
Weights for Debt and Equity
•
What is the market value of equity?
•
Estimate a market value for debt. (To do this you might have to collect
information on the average maturity of the debt, the interest expenses in the
most recent period and the book value of the debt)
•
What are the weights of debt and equity?
C
ost of Capital
•
What is the cost of capital for the firm?

–COMPANIES ARE—
Abudhabi National Energy Company (Taqa)
Dubai Financial Market

Week 3 Essay Assignments

Instructions: All written submissions should be submitted in a font and page set-up that is readable and neat. All essays must be prepared in Microsoft Word and uploaded to the appropriate online assignment. Please include your name, course number, week number and assignment name at the top of your submissions.
Submission Instructions:Please submit your answer in the submission box for this assignment. If you submit your essay as an attachment make sure that it is done in Microsoft WORD format.
Please cite your references for this and all essays with a URL or proper APA bibliographic citation.You may use the APUS on-line library to look for scholarly sources. The textbook may be cited as well a reference for essay answers. Be careful that you do not create a “cut and paste” paper of information from your various sources. Your essay should be new and freshly constructed in your own words. Also, take care not to plagiarize, credit your references.

Assignments completed in a narrative essay or composition format must follow the citation style cited in the American Psychological Association (APA).Students are encouraged to read/understand the Basics.
You may consult the Purdue OWL (On-line Writing Lab) website for instructions.

See attached grading rubric for scoring guidelines.
Also please make sure that you don not submit your essays as drafts. Instructors cannot grade and assign credit to drafts.

Assignment:
Here are this week’s essay options please respond to one of these:

(1) Why is the ocean layered?* Explain the PHYSICAL CAUSES of layering, and describe the major layers in the ocean. NOTE: In your research you may find the Hadalpeligic Zone. Hadal means Hades, why would the conditions here be “Hell-like”? Also during WWII and the Cold War submariners found the “deep-scattering layer” where they could hide from sonar. So for grins (and to help your grade on this item.) find out what & where it is while doing your research. Or just ask your local submariner, anybody who has ever served on a sub will know the answer to this. The attached article will prove useful here.
You can also check out this video that names the oceanic zones (and invertebrate phyla) from Finding Nemo:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufxGw8EqY5Q
*When you research this topic you will find that some references mention a 3 layer or zone system while others like our text use a 5 layer or zone system. Let’s use the 5 layer system for this topic.

OR (2) The ocean has very significant concentrations of various gases dissolved in it. In the uppermost 1200 meters of the ocean, a graph of oxygen concentration against depth often shows two especially interesting features – (a) at perhaps 50 to 150 meters depth there is a subsurface oxygen maximum, and (b) at perhaps 750 to 900 meters depth, there are very low oxygen concentrations (some places approaching zero). For each (a & b), you must FIRST identify a physical or biological process that could be responsible for the feature, and then SECOND explain HOW that process might create the feature. Label the parts of your answer to correspond to the question. If you want to submit a diagram or picture, upload them to your MY FOLDER and tell the instructor via email ***

OR (3) A salvage company out of Florida worked in the Atlantic off of Europe to recover the treasure ($50 million so far) from a sunken ship (Spain claims it is one of theirs and actually arrested the divers and salvagers). The same company also found a British wreck worth an estimated $500 million. Research this and describe what types of technology would be used to locate and salvage the treasure (the wreck is almost a mile underwater) and what oceanic conditions (besides the Spanish Government) they would have to contend with to perform their salvage operations. Also mention how the Law of the Sea Treaty (UNCLOS) might effect this situation. By the way all successful treasure salvage operations start in LIBRARIES! Explain that factor. Read Lecture Week 1-A in the Lesson Packets it will really help with this one.
http://www.gc.noaa.gov/gcil_maritime.html

http://news.yahoo.com/explorers-tussle-spain-over-treasure-court-083053577.html;_ylt=A0LEVvVQGudVaCIAm50nnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTE0M3A4OGhhBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDRkZYVUkyOV8xBHNlYwNzcg–

Information Technology Solution for the Company
Software as a Service is slowly becoming one of the most widely used software technologies that businesses use for enterprise resource planning (ERP), replacing traditional enterprise IT infrastructure. A recent Forrester report found that the budget for on-premise software across diverse enterprises experienced a steady drop of 13 percent, whereas the spending budget for SaaS experienced a 53 percent increase (Dalal, 2016, p.1). Although there is a rapid increase it is important to understand that there are certain disadvantages to using SaaS from a vendor, such as Microsoft.
One of the disadvantages is that the company loses autonomy over their applications and data because a vendor is collecting and storing the data and because the software is owned by the vendor not the company. It is important to remember that Microsoft is one of the leading companies in ERP software and that it is most likely a better situation for the company because the management will be better and more efficient and the company can use Microsoft as a resource and get the help of Microsoft’s IT department that is experienced in SaaS and enterprise systems that can come to a solution quicker than the IT department of the company. It also allows the IT department to lower the amount of high-paid skilled workers needed to run the Enterprise IT infrastructure.
Another disadvantage that some argue is that SaaS loses that customizable factor that can be tailored to a company’s ERP needs where on-premise or in-house software does not lose that customizable factor. However, SaaS is constantly evolving and the services that the software provides from Microsoft and other vendors is constantly being updated and more functionalities are arising from the innovation. The integration of the SaaS can be tailored to the individual company’s ERP needs for a more effective and cost-efficient solution for ERP, rather than being the same services for each company regardless of how the organization operates. Microsoft Dynamics 365 takes advantage of their partners and other independent software vendors that allow them to extend and provide value added solutions that tailor to a wide variety of business capabilities without having to custom build foundational infrastructure that can be costly. This allows Microsoft Dynamics to not only incorporate their SaaS system in large companies, but also be able to tailor to medium and smaller companies that need niche SaaS products. Microsoft Dynamics is able to cater to a wide variety of companies which is important because a lot of companies that were skeptical of the idea of Saas replacing their current enterprise IT systems, can use Saas to benefit them without worrying about disadvantages in regards to customization.
Another risk identified with SaaS is the security, safety, and privacy of data that is stored on a cloud-based server. “The Software as a Service (SaaS) model faces similar challenges as other online services required to protect private information, such as financial or health-care services. In this case, a user interacts with cloud services through a well-defined interface. In principle, therefore, it’s less challenging for the services provider to close some of the attack channels” (Marinescu, 2013, p.1). It is emphasized that protection of storage servers is important and that the methods for protecting and securing said storage servers constantly advances with technology to prevent possible security breaches by new technology, DoS attacks, and malicious insiders. SaaS is constantly updating and even though such challenges arise in terms of security and privacy there are a lot of ways to prevent such attacks and secure a company’s data. Using Microsoft’s Dynamics SaaS is taking advantage of the sophisticated analytics and professional management of several IT departments that Microsoft is equipped with, making evolving security risks less of an issue because not only is it a professional company that has experts in security but, it also stays up to date with the latest security threats and combative measures to provide a high value product for its SaaS users. “Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Dynamics 365 (online) provide a security model that protects data integrity and privacy, and supports efficient data access and collaboration. The goals of the model are as follows: Provide users with the access only to the appropriate levels of information that is required to do their jobs. Categorize users by role and restrict access based on those roles. Support data sharing so that users and teams can be granted access to records that they do not own for a specified collaborative effort. Prevent a user’s access to records the user does not own or share” (Microsoft, 2016, p.1). Microsoft Dynamics 365 is also available as an on-premise platform that allows any cloud-based security skeptics to rest easy as it does not necessarily run the same risks as having your data on the cloud.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 provides customizable solutions that tailor to any businesses’ ERP needs, while maintaining the security and privacy of the data that is stored in cloud-based servers. Like any technology SaaS, more specifically, Microsoft Dynamics 365 is constantly evolving, increasing its value, efficiency, customizability, accessibility, and security that makes it a strong solution that can replace current on-premise enterprise IT infrastructure as it creates more value for the business process than on-premise solutions.