Day: April 27, 2018

Throughout the semester, we have extensively learned about different types of money and how they are woven together by a system of dealers consisting of the central bank, banks, and security dealers to form a hierarchy of money. Our journey so far has focused on the functioning of the hierarch from the perspective of the system of dealers. The goal of this assignment is to take our journey one step further by delving into how different types of liquidity risks arise in the hierarchy, how they are interlinked, and how the central bank can manage them. In answering the following essay questions, try to use your own words to convey the main piece of information and the key line of reasoning. Quoting too heavily or failing to quote properly will result in little or no credit.

1. Definitions. Define and explain three main types of liquidity, namely, the central bank liquidity, funding liquidity, and market liquidity.
2. Liquidity linkages in normal times. Explain how the three types of liquidity are interconnected in normal times.
3. Liquidity linkages in turbulent times. Funding liquidity risk is intrinsic to banking. Explain.
4. Liquidity linkages in turbulent times. Explain the transmission mechanism from funding liquidity risk to market liquidity risk.
5. Liquidity linkages in turbulent times. Explain the feedback mechanism from market liquidity risk back to funding liquidity risk.
6. Liquidity linkages in turbulent times. Explain how the liquidity of the central bank together with its supervision and regulation can stabilize the financial system.

Assignment Remit
You will base your design plans on:
• An iconic historical character from the 1960’s wearing a beehive.

You are required to produce a design plan on the iconic historical character of your choosing. This research will eventually support your practical recreation and historically correct portrayal of your period character. Thorough research is essential using a wide range of visual and literary sources. You will need to consider the internal and external factors that your character influenced or was influenced by which helped to shape their style.
You need to contextualise your character within the fashions of the time, linking them wherever possible with any relevant information surrounding the era when they were most prominent.
Your model’s features must be taken into account when finalizing your designs.

Design plan elements to be considered, all of the below will be supported by your historical research:
• Hairstyles/postiche- sets/dress out
• Make-up styles and materials- face charts/tracing overlays/model characteristics and considerations.
• Products available then and now to best recreate the hair and make-up accurately.
• Price of materials.
• Millenary (hats/headwear)
• Fashion and adornment
• Fashion trends
• A4 Mood board (you can add texture and creativity to this)

Only Historical images can be used for your final practical recreation image. Images from films/TV/Theatre are not a suitable source of historical research. You can however contrast your research to images from media productions if you wish and reflect on their historical accuracy.
This must show historically correct details and reference pictures of your chosen period image. A full sized A4 colour print of your chosen image is a mandatory requirement of this assignment. You must also include visual references of the back of your chosen hairstyle.
Please note, as many of your research pictures may be portraits it may not be possible for you to find back of head reference pictures of your chosen image. In this case you may use a suitably styled reference picture that would complement your historical Icon/ image from a style, period and date perspective.

Option 1: Write a Literature Research paper where you critically analyze a literary work in order to interpret possible meaning(s) about the work. You must incorporate scholarly academic research into your paper to support and develop your own analysis of the literary work(s). You can choose any of the literary works from the semester that you have not already written a paper on. For this option you can also choose to analyze more than one literary work from the course that accomplish some greater purpose. Your argument would then focus on the connection you are making between the works.

Your thesis statement in your Introduction should clearly state the argument/interpretation you are making about the literary work. Here are some questions to help you come up with an argument:

How is human experience portrayed? What does this work reveal about issues like reality, imagination, truth, morals, values, relationships, gender roles, power structures, etc.? What social issues are raised by this character’s actions? How does the conflict in the story illustrate changing value systems or a resistance to change? How does the narrative structure manipulate reality in the story? What do the internal and external conflicts reveal about social issues during the time period it was written? How are these issues relevant to modern readers? Why is the symbol ____ significant to the literary work? How does this symbol illustrate larger issues within the work and/or outside the work?

Incorporate scholarly research to support and develop your analysis of the literary work:
Discuss why or how this critic’s argument provides valid and significant insight to the literary work.

You should NOT use Google for your research. Use the Palm Beach State databases to find reliable, scholarly arguments about the literary work, such as Academic Search Complete (Ebsco), JSTOR, or Academic One (Gale). You will find no shortage of articles in these databases.

You must also introduce, explain, and analyze any quoted material in order to prove the interpretation you are making. Do not expect readers to simply understand your interpretation by reading the material you quote. As the writer, it is your job to make your analysis of quoted material clear. Remember that ANY information or words not from your brain MUST be cited properly or you are plagiarizing. If you are unsure about what information to cite, see me. However, when in doubt, cite.

You should use a good selection of academic and business references, especially relevant academic journal articles.

There are many useful sources of critical and trade information including:
• https://www.marketingritson.com/,
• https://www.private-eye.co.uk/media-news,
• https://www.monbiot.com/category/media/,
• https://www.ft.com/companies/media,
• PR Week,
• Campaign.

A good essay will tend to do more than merely describe what’s happening – it will make an argument, put across the writer’s point of view, while helping to clarify relevant theoretical issues for the reader from the academic literature.

Strong answers will
• Be Theory-driven.
• Demonstrate evidence that you have thought carefully about the essay.
• Use terms with precision – and relate convergence to fragmentation – and both of these to the question.
• Integrate the theoretical (and practical) ideas gleaned from the academic (and practitioner) literature with the reality of the contemporary agency scene.
• From the first paragraph of the essay directly address the question that had been posed; throughout the body of the essay continue to attempt to answer the question; and at the end summarise your argument.

Problem – Pharmacy

You are the IT Director at a 175 acute care bed hospital in central Illinois that has been using Meditech for its core health care IT financial and admitting/registration applications. The organization has just completed the development of a strategic IT plan that calls for the implementation of a number of clinical applications during the next 2-3 years. The Director of Pharmacy has stated she would like to be among the first to begin implementing an automated clinical solution in her department. She has been pushing Bridge Medical as her system of choice and is trying to get other clinical department directors to agree upon Cerner as their system of choice. She is taking this position because she believes Bridge Medical will satisfy the demands of the “five rights” for medication safety while Meditech doesn’t have the capabilities she needs to be successful in this area.

The CFO of the hospital (your boss) recognizes if the hospital purchases the Bridge Medical clinical application then there could be data integration and billing issues from using two different IT suppliers. On the other hand, if the CFO dictates integration from a single supplier, then the clinical department directors could be very upset. The CFO has asked for your opinion on this matter. Should the hospital consider the purchase of Bridge Medical’s clinical application or should the hospital consider Meditech as its clinical system of choice?

He is asking that you prepare a 15-20-minute presentation that he’ll present to the hospital’s executive committee stating the background of the situation, an understanding of the problem, your position with supporting data and references, and your recommendation(s).

To Prepare:
Use the Walden Library to identify an early childhood dissertation, written within the last 5 years, that focuses on positive and caring learning environments. The dissertation you read should include in its literature review (Chapter 2) a discussion of how cultural and family influences play a part in establishing supportive learning environments through positive cultures and classroom communities.
Note:
• You may need to read/skim a number of dissertations before you find the one you choose to use as the basis for this Assignment.
• Additional information needed to complete this Assignment should be available in Chapters 1 and 5 of the dissertation you choose.
After reading the dissertation, and in particular Chapters 1, 2, and 5, create a post for your blog summarizing the following:
• The title of the dissertation
• The early childhood problem researched in the dissertation along with a brief explanation of the study—study purpose, population/participants, methodology, data sources, and conclusions
• 3 resources used by the author, and why each was relevant to the study
• How the information gleaned from this dissertation may further your work related to fostering supportive learning environments through positive classroom cultures and classroom communities
Please paste this post into your blog. Be sure to read through your peers’ blogs and note any resources that might inform your current and/or future early childhood practice and areas of possible research.

Paper Topic

Marjorie Shostak’s ethnography, Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, is guided by the narrative of the stories of Nisa’s life. About her stories, Nisa tells Shostak, “I’ll tell you another one now. I’ll break open the story and tell you what is there. Then, like the others that have fallen out onto the sand, I will finish with it, and the wind will take it away.” (36)

In this course, we learn about the stories of many people of many different cultures. At first glance, some of their stories may seem completely different from the events of our own lives. Upon closer examination, we can find many themes that run through the lives of the !Kung also run through our own.

Another major theme of our course is cultural adaptation. From your new anthropologist’s perspective, you should be able to examine a cultural practice in an objective way. For example, does the !Kung practice of sharing meat hurt or enhance their survival as a group? Does it support their health or well-being? A practice can be evaluated in this way even if it is not part of our own cultural norms.

PAPER TOPIC

Compare and contrast the aspects of !Kung life with your own. Choose at least three aspects to discuss. These may be rites of passage (such as birth, marriage, divorce, death) or other aspects of !Kung life (choosing a partner, healing the sick, securing food for consumption), etc.

For each aspect, first describe the practice in !Kung life. (You may rely solely on the Shostak text for this section, or use one of the required outside scholarly sources.)

Second, compare and/or contrast it with the practice in your own culture. Note the similarities or differences. (You may bring in outside scholarly sources in this section.)

Third, evaluate the practice based on its adaptability for the !Kung. Do you think the way the !Kung behave in this situation is adaptive for their health and well-being (even if it is unlike the way we behave in this situation)? Does it aid their success as a group? Give your opinion (analysis) based on evidence from the text or from scholarly sources.

PAPER REQUIREMENTS

Your paper must be 4-5 pages long, double-spaced with 0.8” to 1.0” margins with 10 or 12 point traditional font. The minimum length is 4 full pages. Please provide a References page at the end of the document using APA formatting.

Two scholarly sources are required for this assignment beyond the Shostak text. Scholarly sources come from academic journals or books from a university press. You will need to use the library’s databases (such as ProQuest) or physically check out books from the library to meet this requirement. Please see the TIPS FOR FINDING SCHOLARLY SOURCES handout in the Assignments section of the course.

Please use citations (or quotes) to support your arguments. To cite passages from a text, put quotation marks around a passage followed immediately by the author’s last name and page number in parentheses. Quotes should be brief, under four lines.

For example:

“My heart was so happy I moved around like a little dog, wagging my tail and running around. Really! I was so happy, I shouted out what I saw: ‘The rainy season has come today! Yea! Yea!'”(Shostak: 89)

If you must use a longer quote than four lines, eliminate the quotation marks, single space, and indent the entire quote several tabs from the left margin.

Be sure to explain why you are using a particular quote. A quote by itself does not prove a point. It only provides evidence for your argument. You must make an argument preceding or following the quote.

Using other people’s words constitutes plagiarism. Provide quotes and a reference including the author’s name, title and page number for more than three words in a row that are not your own. Please use APA formatting to provide a reference for the Nisa text and any other texts that you may have used at the end of the document.

Please spell-check your paper (check for typos, mistakes, etc.), organize it into indented paragraphs, and write in a clear and simple style.

Assignment Task: Essay

“Actor Network theory is a suitable theory for describing how humans and technology connect” Discuss this statement by following the tasks below.

Select TWO computing news stories of your choice, published anytime between 01/09/2016 and 30/12/2016. Analyse these using Actor Network Theory.

Your analysis should be written as an essay, and include the following points:

• A definition of Actor Network Theory including the key terms actant, assemblage and network

? Name and categorise the main actants in your stories. Describe how they are connecting to and “acting” upon other actants in the assemblage. Include the connection between the hardware and software actants, as well as other types of actants.

? Describe how the actions of the software actants can enhance management functions for both computing news stories.

? Discuss some of advantages/disadvantages of the constant use of both computing and the internet in modern society. To do this, compare and contrast the viewpoints of a range of theorists and critics explored throughout the module.

? Conclude by summarising how your answers relate to the statement “Actor Network theory is a suitable theory for describing how humans and technology connect”.

? Add an appendix which includes definitions of at least four computing terms or concepts used in your assignment. One of these terms MUST be software.

Deliverables

Your content will follow the structure outlined on page 3.

Task 1 is worth 100% of the total marks for the module. The marking criteria is outlined on pages below.
Suggested essay structure

Cover Page
Assignment title, module code, student name, student number and submission date.

Table of Contents

A list of headings and page numbers.

Introduction
How will you introduce your essay?
Tell your reader the aim of this assignment and how you intend to go about discussing or proving this aim. What else will you be telling your reader. No definitions here. Just describe in very general terms what you will be doing.

Main Body
Define Actor Network Theory
What type of theory is it? Who developed it? What does the term actant mean? What does the term assemblage mean? Here you will need to include in-text citations with your references properly laid out in your references section. The format you must follow is Harvard Referencing format.

Apply Actor Network Theory to Computing Story 1
Don’t retell your story. State your story in one or two sentences with in-text citations. Include the news story in your references section using correct Harvard Referencing format. You must apply Actor Network Theory to your story now. This means that you are describing the connections between actants and what happens as a result of these connections. To do this identify your actants, and categorise their scale, i.e. digital, software, hardware, human, cultural, structural and describe and analyse how some of these actants are acting on each other (the push/pull of actants – when an actant ‘acts’ on another actant, how does this change/modify the behaviour of the actant being ‘acted upon’)  How does this affect the network of actants? Are the actants both human and non-human?

State how management (the coordinated efforts of humans/technology in order to achieve goals efficiently) has been enhanced in the story by the software. This could be management of self or management of an uprising or management of the business etc.

Apply Actor Network Theory to Computing Story 2
Don’t retell your story. State your story in one or two sentences with in-text citations. Include the news story in your references section using correct Harvard Referencing format. You must apply Actor Network Theory to your story now. This means that you are describing the connections between actants and what happens as a result of these connections. To do this identify your actants, and categorise their scale, i.e. digital, software, hardware, human, cultural, structural and describe and analyse how some of these actants are acting on each other (the push/pull of actants – when an actant ‘acts’ on another actant, how does this change/modify the behaviour of the actant being ‘acted upon’)  How does this affect the network of actants? Are the actants both human and non-human?

State how management (the coordinated efforts of humans/technology in order to achieve goals efficiently) has been enhanced in the story by the software. This could be management of self or management of an uprising or management of the business etc.

Contemporary Debate
What are the theorists saying about computing in general?
Discuss both sides of the argument from both a techno-optimistic and techno-pessimistic point of view. Use key terms from the course to add value here.

Limitations of Knowledge
Do we really know the long term effect of computing? Is ANT a perfect theory? What problems did you encounter with it?

Conclusion
What did you learn? Did you prove the assignment task. Summarise your findings. No new knowledge here. Link your conclusions or recommendations back to your title.

References
Citations are listed in alphabetical order by the author’s surname (last name).

Appendix
Include four definitions of key terms from this module. One of these MUST be software. The other three can be any three terms of your choice.

Further notes on the appendix for your guide: In your essay, you may have referred to an image or chart. Let’s say that in the main body, you have written something like “Appendix A shows that there are many actants connected in order to achieve the aims of the assemblage. This essay will focus on just a few of those actants” Now in your Appendix section, you include the image that you have drawn. Give it the title, for example, “Appendix A: A mind map showing how the actants are connected in the assemblage”
If you did not create the image/chart yourself, you will need to put a citation under the image/chart and include the original source in your references section.

N.B. For good academic practice, please ensure that the same font of the same size and colour is used throughout your essay, and that your document has the same line spacing throughout.

Assessment Criteria

Explanatory comments on the assessment criteria
Maximum marks for each section
Knowledge & Understanding

Clear definition of Actor Network Theory
Two relevant news stories outlined
Clear explanation provided of how management is enhanced by the software
Well written appendix with clear definitions of required terms

45
Intellectual & Cognitive Skills

Actor Network Theory well applied and connections between actants discussed
Contemporary debate uses relevant arguments from the techno-optimists and techno-pessimists to provide a balanced and well-formed argument that demonstrates understanding of how contemporary computing fits into the knowledge economy.
Correct use of key terms from the module

30
Graduate Skills

Demonstrates an understanding of limitations of knowledge
Essay format
Use of business English Use of Harvard referencing

25

Total
100
Learning outcomes
• Collect, analyse, present and comment upon business
to be examined in
data.
this assessment

• Identify the relationship between computer hardware

and software.

• Describe the most common types of software

programmes and explain how they may be used to

enhance management functions.

The model below is for an APT (arbitrage pricing theory)-type multiple regression analysis and it investigates what influences the rate of return on a company’s shares.
ERCOMPANYt = ?+?1ERSFTSEt+ ?2TERMt + ?3EXCHANGEt+ ?4INFLATIONt + ?5DMONEYt+ ?6OILt +?t (1) The dependent variable (ERCOMPANY) is the company’s excess return based on its
share price {labelled as COMPANY in the Excel data spreadsheet}. Note that you are expected to construct this variable yourself, knowing that excess return means the additional return on top of risk-free rate proxy, i.e., TBILLSHORT as explained below.
The explanatory variables are: I. ERSFTSE: excess rate of return based on the FTSE ALL SHARE index in
London Stock Exchange {labelled as FTSE in the Excel data spreadsheet}. II. TERM: The difference between annual returns on 20-year government bonds and 3-month treasury bills {labelled as TBILLLONG and TBILLSHORT,
respectively, in the Excel data spreadsheet}.
III. EXCHANGE: exchange rate between US dollar and UK sterling {labelled as
EXCHANGE in the Excel data spreadsheet}.IV. INFLATION: inflation rate based on producer price index {labelled as PPI in the
Excel data spreadsheet}. V. MONEY: narrow definition of money supply, i.e., M1, in billion £ {labelled as MONEY in the Excel data spreadsheet}. VI. OIL: crude oil price in $US (labelled as OILPRICE in the Excel data
spreadsheet}.

In order to employ a set of regression analyses, the dataset is provided in Canvas (file name: Data for Assignment 2016.xlsx). The dataset is real data, with monthlyfrequency for the period September 1986 to August 2013. The explanatory variables on the right hand side are the same for all students. However, each student is allocated a different company; hence, the dependent variable of each assignment will be different. Check your student number to find out which company is allocated to you in the ‘company share price’ spreadsheet. Then, copy/paste the share price of the company allocated to you in column B of the spreadsheet named ‘Macroeconomic data’ in the same file.

APT assumes that it is the unexpected changes in financial and macroeconomic factors that exert influence on company returns. Therefore, before analysing data with regressions, you are advised to read the core textbook and module notes to identify how to use the raw data to transform series into variables that will eventually be included in the regression model.

Required:
1. Conduct the OLS regression analysis and comment on the results. Do the
estimates give any direct or indirect support to the APT?
(25 marks)
2. Refer to the OLS assumptions and conduct the diagnostic tests with respect to heteroscedasticity, normality, and autocorrelation. If there is any violation of the OLS assumptions, what can be done as remedies to these misspecifications? Namely, explain how to address regression models that fail these diagnostic tests in your analysis. (35 marks) 3. Is the functional form of the model actually linear as suggested by equation (1) and does it suffer from the multicollinearity problem? Provide the necessary tests.
(15 marks)
4. Test for the parameters’ stability by considering two or more sub-samples, e.g., the time between September 1986 and December 1999; and the time between January 2000 and August 2013. You can think of other periods such as the 2007-08 financial crisis. (15 marks) 5. Are there any other diagnostic tests that you might have considered? Provide them if the answer is ‘yes’.(10 marks)

NOTES:
– Word limit: 2,500 to 3,000 words (excluding references and appendices)
– Submission deadline: 15 December 2016, by 4 p.m. (It is suggested that students should submit by around 3 p.m. to avoid the possibility of late submissions due to technical reasons. See Canvas, module handbook for
further details).- You are expected to refer to and use academic journal articles for any section above. – You may have sections in your assignment. e.g., section 1 introduction; section 2 background about APT; section 3 Diagnostics tests,…. etc. Then, the last
section can be conclusion.

IMPORTANT: EXTERNAL DATA FOR ANALYSIS NEEDS TO BE SENDED SEPERATELY

Postmortem Audit Review of Projects

Postmortem Guidelines (“Major Ground Rules”)

Do not get back at people – make it clear, postmortem is not for getting back at people or finger pointing
Do not be oversensitive – check your ego at the door; be humble
Do not attack anyone – focus on the problem, not the people
Do not forget facts – what gets measured, gets improved
Do not write a postmortem book – people in future won’t read long reports
Discussion Topic:

General Construction Company has a contract to build three lower-income apartment buildings for the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. During the construction of the first building, the Project Manager formed an auditing team to audit the construction process for each building. He asked the team to develop a list of minimum requirements for the projects and use this as a baseline in the audit.

While reviewing the contract documents, one of the audit team members found a discrepancy between the contract minimum requirements and the City’s minimum requirements. Based on his findings, he has told the project manager that he has decided to contact the City Administrator and discuss the problem.

Required:

Review the Postmortem Guidelines, a.k.a. “Major Ground Rules” outlined above, for preparing information inputs for a postmortem audit review of projects. As the Project Manager, discuss how you would handle the situation in the General Construction Company above.
In addition to your response above, respond to the discussions of at least two other students’ postings.
[Source: Samuel Mantel, Jack Meredith, Scott Shafer, and Margaret Sutton, Project Management in Practice, 4thEdition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2011]