COM 320: Social Science Research Name: Ian Reuter Your assignment is to research Creighton University and your class. You should do your best to accurately complete the questions below using evidence or observation. Be sure to write down where you found the information requested. Work to vary where you find information. Complete this assignment in your assigned small groups, however everyone must complete a worksheet. 1. Find five (5) facts about Creighton University. How confident are you
Chapter two reviews probability and the normal distribution. Probability equals the number of events meeting the specified condition divided by the number of possibilities (Mirabella, p. 2-1, 2011). For example, my organization two primary products. Those products are orange postal bags and brown boxes. Forty percent of the volume consists of orange postal bags. A simple probability question could be as follows; out of ten packages, how many postal bags are processed. The answer would be four out
Chem 111 Post-Exam Self-Assessment See the instructions in Canvas for more details about how this assignment will be scored. 1. Fill in these blanks: Exam Number __3__ Your Predicted Exam Score _75_% Actual Exam Score _77.67% Current Course Score _77.4__% Current Course Letter Grade _C+_ 2. How did your actual score on this exam compare to the score you expected? How do you explain the difference, if any? The actual score on the exam was as little bit higher than what I predicted. This is due
Probability is a constant source of passion for me. A percentage is a bridge between the quantitative and qualitative in that it gives any event a representative number. For example, if an event was given a 67% likelihood, number 0 to 66 out of 99 would be favorable. Afterwards, any number from 0-99 would be randomly picked and if it was a number in between 0-66, then the event would occur. My sophomore math teacher called my explanation of the percentage “bizarre, yet creative.” Rather than just
with several optimizations. Similar to the Solovay-Strassen test, even numbers are discarded are these cannot be primes anyway and decreases the number of possible misdetections. Implementation Select a random odd integer n>2 Select the number of times k we want to run the test Select a random integer a between the range of 1≤a≤n-1 Rewrite n-1 as 2^s q, where q is an odd
that a person can maximise their gains and minimise their losses. In his book Taleb aimed to encourage his readers to clearly see the illusions of skill in their lives and recognise that the patterns that behaviours are commonly based on are merely random outcomes interpreted with biases. In several incidences, Taleb uses examples from the gambling literature to explain the role of chance, probability and perceptual biases, most frequently in
Question 1 i) Unknowns x = number of lamps L1 y = number of lamps L2 ii) Function f(x, y) = 15x + 10y iii) Conversion of time from minutes to hours 20 min = 1/3 h 30 min = 1/2 h 10 min = 1/6 h L1 L2 Time(h) Manual 1/3 1/2 100 Machine 1/3 1/6 80 iv) Constraints as a system of inequalities 1/3x + 1/2y ≤ 100 1/3x + 1/6y ≤ 80 x ≥ 0 y ≥ 0 v) Solutions that graphically represent the constraints As x ≥ 0 and y ≥ 0, it lies on the first quadrant 1/3 x + 1/2 y ≤ 100 1/3 • 0 + 1/2 • 0 ≤ 100
As it is the power to influence, control is an important concept. Because of this, control directs many things, such as people’s behavior. People can use the power of control for many things. You can control large things, like your future, or just everyday things, like what you’re going to eat for lunch. Control, overall, is a very big concept that is extremely influential as it directs many actions that happen daily. In the dystopian society short stories, “Harrison Bergeron” and “2BRO2B” by Kurt
IMPACTS OF ECONOMIC FACTORS ON STARBUCKS The ongoing global economic recession is the prime external economic driver for Starbucks. As I already mentioned, this factor dented the profitability of Starbucks. This has convinced buyers to shift to cheaper alternatives. As they did not quit buying coffee, Starbucks should seek an opportunity here.The company has to deal with rising labor and operational costs. The inflationary environment and falling profitability is causing a lot of stress. Some other
with the assumption that there is limited evidence to support the proposition (Whitley, Kite, Adams, 2013). It is a statement whose veracity is not verified but if tested can solve the problem. A hypothesis should give a relationship between two variables and should be testable so as to come up with an answer that explains the issues brought forth. An example of a hypothesis is individuals get hungrier if they eat in short intervals rather than if they eat in long intervals. Theories can therefore
Many songs have many different meaning to many different people. Everyone interprets songs and poems differently. This particular song has a very distinctive meaning and it's important to me. The song I chose is “Love Triangle” by Raelynn. In the song “love Triangle” the song is being sung by a child's point of view the little girl in the song is longing for each of her patients while she is with the other. The little girls parents are divorced and she has to go with her dad and stay and she's excited
In the play Into the Woods written by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim, Little Red sings the song “I Know Things Now.” I chose the song “I Know Things Now” because I can relate to the lyrics. Most of the songs in Into the Woods have a theme to them and the song, “I Know Things Now,” definitely has a theme of maturity. Little Red does not listen to her mother when she does not stick to her path to her grandmother’s house. After she strays from the path, she ends up learning to listen to her mother
3. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH THEORY 3.1 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Qualitative research is a form of research in which the researcher collects and interprets data, meaning the researcher is as important in the research process as the participants and the data they provide. Reason and Rowan (2004) have argued that the core element of a qualitative research approach is to connect meanings to the experiences of respondents and their lives. According to Clissett (2008) qualitative research involves a variety of
largest survey of registered nurses ever conducted in a large southeastern state to see what the nurses have to say about providing safe and effective care and how satisfied nurses are with their current nursing position. A survey was sent out to a random sample of 49,385 registered nurses who were working and residing in this southeastern state using a modified Dillman’s methodology. Neff et al. (2011) mailed a cover letter explaining the purpose of the survey. Then a postcard was sent out a week
In terms of controlling, the management of Marks and Spencer has frequent reporting of expenditures with costs to provide a form of feedback. The reactions of managers to such type of data rely on the expectations or the formal budget or planned targets. The management believes in collecting and assigning cost data that is being shifted away from control. There is a recognition related to the repetitive exercise of planning and re-planning for creating a full time job for accountants. The assessment
FTMS Global, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ATTEMPT: 1 ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY Assignment Coversheet STUDENT DETAILS Student Number: 1550371/1 FACULTY Lord Ashcroft International Business School ASSIGNMENT DETAILS Module Ref MOD001055 / F01FTM / 2016/7 Module Title International Business Module Element 010 - Assignment 3000 words To Be Marked By Submission date (by 2pm) 04 January 2017 Submission of this assignment agrees to the following: I understand that the piece of work submitted will be considered
It is true that the United States is the world largest economy based on GDP. It is famous for numerous huge brands in the World. For instance, in the field of technology and social networking, American Brands such as Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. always take the lead in this market. In terms of food, we can not deny the succeed of McDonald or Duckin’ Donuts. And in the coffee markets, there is a firm which changed the way Americans and people around the world view and consume coffee -
The origins of the Poverty measure While studying the impact of minimum wage increases on poverty, it is of significant importance to understand how poverty is measured. According to the definition of poverty – “The U.S. Census Bureau determines poverty status by comparing pre-tax cash income against a threshold that is set at three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, updated annually for inflation using the Consumer Price Index (CPI; see the last section of this FAQ for an explanation
Case Study: Aksa and Shabir Mohammad Monthly Budget for Aksa and Shabir Mohammad______________________ Gross Monthly Income 10 000 Income tax, CPP, EI, pension (3500) Disposable Income 6500 Necessities Student loan payments 800 Rent 1000 Car payments and maintenance 1000 Insurance 600 Cable, internet and phone plans 300 Transit 280 Groceries 400 Clothing 450 Total Necessities 4830 Discretionary Income 1670 Discretionary
classifying them as either fixed or variable cost. The cost accountant then uses the company's data to figure out the estimated variable cost per cost-driver unit or fixed cost period. The account analysis approach requires four steps: Step 1: Look through the costs that are included in a particular account and classify each amount as variable or fixed based on judgment. Step 2: Total the variable costs. Determine variable costs per unit by dividing the total of all the variable costs you identified by the