Author: chris

1)  The director of a national research institute believes that faculty at larger, more comprehensive institutions have lighter teaching and advisory responsibilities and more time for research and scholarly writing.  The director develops a measure of institutional comprehensiveness and a measure of scholarly productivity for psychology departments.  In a pilot project, the director selects 18 colleges and universities and determines the institutional comprehensiveness and scholarly productivity of the psychology departments in these institutions.  The data were as follows:

 

Institution	Comprehensiveness	Scholarly Productivity
1	162	82
2	250	88
3	89	78
4	115	92
5	165	75
6	150	75
7	54	70
8	180	62
9	185	65
10	194	70
11	200	81
12	210	94
13	210	83
14	222	82
15	240	84
16	242	77
17	74	62
18	270	86

 

1. Determine the regression equation for predicting scholarly productivity (Y) from institutional comprehensiveness (X).

 

1.          For an institution with a comprehensiveness score of 175, predict the psychology

department’s scholarly productivity score.

 

 

2) Enrollment and Courses Projection

 

This is a real world example.  I need your help in helping the Registrar’s office in calculating how many courses should run for the Fall ’15 semester.  Using enrollment and courses that ran, I need you to do two things:

 

1. a) Identify the regression equation for the data to estimate the number of courses.

 

 

 

1. b) If the enrollment for Fall ’15 is 7,450, how many courses should be scheduled?

 

 

 

The data below should help you with your recommendation.

 

 

	Fall ‘12	Fall ‘13	Fall ‘14	Fall ‘15
Enrollment	8042	8179	7651	7450
Courses	1322	1374	1268	???

You have been hired by Nobody State University (NSU) as a consultant to help the university with how to increase their total revenue. The university has been struggling in recent years, so they have hired you to help them in their last attempt to find an appropriate solution so that the university can survive.

Raise or Lower Tuition? Suppose that, in an attempt to raise more revenue, Nobody State University increases its tuition.

• Assess a raise in tuition and if it will necessarily result in more revenue.
• Describe the conditions under which revenue will (a) rise, (b) fall, or (c) remain the same.
• Explain the process of revenue at NSU, focusing on the relationship between the increased revenue from students enrolling at NSU despite the higher tuition and the lost revenue from possible lower enrollment.
• If the true price elasticity were (-1.2), discuss what you would suggest the university do to expand revenue.
• Using what you have learned in this course, explain how you would resolve this problem if you were the President of NSU.

1. Cord Chemical is a manufacturer of specialty chemicals. The firm, which does not currently pay a dividend, expects to earn $4.00 per share next year. The firm plans to retain and reinvest 100 percent of earnings during each of the next three years to generate future earnings growth. Exactly four years from today (at date 4), the firm expects to pay its first ever dividend of $5.40 per share from year 4 earnings of $9.00 per share. From date 4 on, Cord expects that retained earnings can be reinvested in the firm at a return on equity (ROE) of 16 percent. The required rate of return on the company’s stock is 11.4 percent. Assuming that Cord Chemical will continue to retain the same fraction of earnings and to reinvest at the same ROE each year from date 4 on (in perpetuity), determine the current price of Cord’s stock and explain whether and why the price to earnings ratio for Cord Chemical will increase or decrease between date 0 and date 4. (15 points
2. ) 2. Elwood Dowd, who just turned 33, expects to retire in 35 years when he turns 68. Mr. Dowd expects to earn $70,000 next year at his job as a licensed plumber. The yearly earnings for licensed plumbers are expected to grow at 4.2 percent per year over the next 35 years. Mr. Dowd plans to save for retirement by depositing 12 percent of his yearly income at the end of each year in a retirement savings account. Mr. Dowd expects to earn a yearly return on his retirement savings of 8.2 percent over the next 57 years. Mr. Dowd’s life expectancy is 57 years, so that he can expect to enjoy a 22-year retirement, with yearly withdrawals from the retirement account at the end of each of the 22 years following his retirement at age 68. Mr. Dowd would like for the yearly income stream that he receives during retirement to provide him with constant (the same) purchasing power during each year of his retirement. Consequently, the dollar amount of his retirement income must increase each year at the rate of inflation. Assuming that inflation is expected to be 3.8 percent per year, determine the maximum initial retirement income that Mr. Dowd can withdraw from the retirement account at the end of his first year in retirement. (15 points) 2
3. 3. On September 25, 2015 Bruno Stachel paid $1135.96 for a U.S. Government bond having exactly 22 years to maturity. The bond has a coupon rate of 4.5 percent and a par value of $1000, with the next coupon payment to bondholders scheduled for March 25, 2016. Assume that the Federal Reserve is sure to raise interest rates in December, before Mr. Stachel receives the next coupon payment from the bond. Due to the anticipated December increase in interest rates, Mr. Stachel will be able to reinvest all of the future coupon payments from the bond at a semiannually compounded rate of 4 percent. Determine the future amount to which the reinvested coupon payments from the bond will have grown by September 25, 2037 when the bond matures. (10 points)

 

4. 4. Last year, Cape Fear Energy raised (borrowed) $100 million by issuing an innovative new bond that is being referred to as a “Triennial” bond. The Triennial bonds, which have a par value of $1000, make an interest payment of $120 once every three years in perpetuity, so the principal amount of the bond is never (not ever) returned to the bondholders. Assuming there are two years until the next triennial coupon payment of $120 and that the required yearly rate of return on the Triennial bonds is 5.2 percent, determine the current value of one (and only one) of the Triennial bonds issued by Cape Fear Energy. (10 points)

This is a synthesis essay. That is, in writing, you are to synthesize two authors’ viewpoints toward a specific topic. To do this, you will analyze (by reading) two essays that cover the same general topic. Using the two essays, you will explain what the authors say about a more specific topic—or area of synthesis—and how the authors’ texts relate to that area of synthesis. This essay is not about you and your position, but instead should remain focused on how the authors are presenting their ideas and how the authors position themselves in relation to the area of synthesis. “To accomplish this goal, you will need to incorporate ideas and details from the readings” (p. 128).

 

The general topic that you will write about for Writing Project #2 is intercultural communication. You are to explore aspects of cross-cultural communication by analyzing (through reading) texts from Spack (2007) and other sources. Your choices of text pairs include:

 

1. Creativity in the Classroom	AND	Intercultural communication and the classroom (Andersen & Powell)
2. Intercultural communication competence (Spitzberg)	AND	Social Time: The Heartbeat of a Culture
3. Intercultural Communication Stumbling Blocks	AND	Prejudice in intercultural communication (Brislin)

 

In Writing Project #2, your process should be something like:

• Develop a non-argumentativesynthesis thesis statement that references and can be supported by two texts.

 

 

• Identify the most useful details and supporting points related to the thesis that can be drawn from each source text.

 

 

• dentify the similarities and differences between main ideas and details you identified in the two different source texts.I

 

 

• Develop topic sentences that relate to the synthesis thesis and are separatefrom the source texts, but can be supported by the source texts.

 

Your essay should include the following parts:

• Introduction: this is where you introduce the general topic, some of the larger guiding opinions that were most evident in the source texts, and your synthesis thesis.
• Summary:Following the introduction, you should include a one paragraph for each text (e.g., two summaries in two paragraphs).
• Body: the topic sentences should be focused on ideas (not the authors or texts) from the texts that support the thesis. Then, synthesizethe authors’ viewpoints using paraphrasing and focus on details to investigate the important ideas from the source text.
• Conclusion: this is where you round up your essay. Be sure to recapitulate your thesis and identify further implications about the topic.

 

Ebola virus draft.

– Create an example of classical conditioning to produce an assigned natural response. ( Fear, happiness, or so on )

– Identify the Unconditioned stimulus  , unconditioned response, conditional stimulus , and conditional response.

– Describe the process of learning through classical conditioning.

– Create an example of an operant conditioning situation.

– Identify which operant conditioning method you would use to either increase or decrease the specified behavior.

– Describe how positive reinforcement , negative reinforcement , and punishment can influence behavior.

There have been several classic experiments to study and describe classical conditioning; one of the more famous is the Little Albert experiment. Over the years, the experiment has lost some of its validity due to numerous interpretations by several introductory psychology textbooks. It is, therefore, beneficial to go back to the original (or primary) source and read what the authors of the experiment themselves had to say.

Search line: “conditioned emotional reactions” (in quotation marks). Find the article in the search results by John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner. Watson J. B., & Rayner, R. (1920).Conditioned emotional reactions.Journal of Experimental Psychology, 3(1), 1–14.
Help finding article in Library

Read the article and answer the following questions in your essay:

Explain the initial pairing of the banging bar and the rat in terms of learning through classical conditioning. What are unconditioned stimulus (US), conditioned stimulus (CS), and conditioned response (CR)?
How were Watson and Rayner able to condition Albert to react to different stimuli such as masks, other animals, and a fur coat? Explain the concept of generalization.
Why didn’t the conditioning last over time? Explain the concept of extinction.
Considering the current standards, can the same experiment be conducted (or replicated) by researchers today? Explain some of the ethical issues related to the experiment.

In response to increasing criticism over its sponsorship of physician-education courses (and the suggestion of undue influence on doctors prescriptions and procedures), the drug maker Pfizer announced in July 2008 that it would no longer pay marketing communications companies to arrange continuing medical education (CME) courses, which doctors must take to maintain their licenses. Pfizer said it would support medical education only when it was put on by hospitals and professional medical associations. Zimmer Holdings, a medical device manufacturer that manufactures hip, knee, and elbow implants, suspended funding of all CME activity. The company said it will restrict the way it funds courses in the future by identifying an independent third party, such as a professional society, to organize educational programs.

 

“We understand that even the appearance of conflicts in CME is damaging, and we are determined to take actions that are in the best interests of patients and physicians,” Dr. Joseph M. Feczko, Pfizer’s chief medical officer, said in a press release.

 

Industry support for CME has quadrupled since 1988, to $1.2 billion a year, according to the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), an organization in Chicago that approves CME providers. More than half of that is funneled to marketers, with the rest going to hospitals, medical associations, and other nonprofit entities.

 

As industry money for continuing education proliferates, so do worries that many of the courses have become at least partly aimed at promoting products. The industry and its outside marketers say they ensure that the courses remain free of commercial influence. But some medical experts argue that when employees of communications firms are beholden to pharmaceutical and device companies, they will produce CME courses that are slanted in favor of their sponsors, even if they don’t realize what they are doing. “There’s not only a perception of bias, there’s a reality,” says Dave Davis, a vice president of Association of America Medical Colleges.

 

In January 2010, Pfizer appeared to modify its 2008 position by announcing a $3 million grant to Stanford University to create continuing medical education courses that the company claims will come with “no conditions, and the company will not be involved in developing the curriculum.” However, critics have argued that the curriculum will most likely focus on at least two areas in which Pfizer has major product lines: smoking cessation and heart disease.

 

 

 

Case #1

 

#1) Where is the conflict of interest in this CME relationship?

#2) Do you think doctors are likely to be influenced by such promotional tactics? Why or why not?

#3) If the pharmaceutical company is paying for the event, shouldn’t it have the right to promote its products at the event? Why or why not?

#4) Pfizer stated in 2008 that it would only support medical education put on by hospitals and professional medical associations. How can it then justify the Stanford grant?

#5) Has Pfizer simply replaced one conflict of interest with another? Why or why not?

#6) Propose an alternative approach to ensure that CME is provided without a conflict of interest.

1)   Explain problems which may arise if there is not enough planning to receive refugees or asylum seekers?

2)      ‘2) Religion has nothing to do with politics’ Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer showing that you have thought about more than one point of view

 

3)      3) ‘Projects which faith communities organise have no effect on local communities. They just make believers feel good’ Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer showing that you have thought about more than one point of view

What romantic ideas does it express, and how does the structure of the poem reinforce the meaning?