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In the research paper, use historical sources to examine “Bloomer Girl” baseball (early 1900s) within physical culture. To do so, you need to dialectically analyze the moment within its historical context and discuss its legacies within our contemporary experience. The question is designed to allow you demonstrate proficiency in research through:
• Developing a well-constructed and well-supported argument
• Appropriately applying the concept
• Conducting additional research into secondary sources
• Collecting and analyzing primary source materials
While it is necessary to describe the particulars of physical culture in the United States at the moment been focused, a good paper will link physical culture to broader concepts (i.e., race, class, gender, sexuality, capital-labor relations). It also needs to provide insight into physical culture in both the historical moment of focus and within our contemporary moment.
It is expected that you collect and utilize three (3) primary sources, which can include newspapers, autobiographies, photographs and other images, and advertisements (among other materials) generated at the moment of investigation. Beyond primary source material, it is expected that you utilize at least three (3) secondary sources.
Suggested Structure
• Introduction: present a research statement, describe your topic, and define the concepts you will be discussing. This description must clearly identify the broader significance of your topic within the context of American society and history. Concept definitions must be based within academic literature. In the introduction, you must clearly explain to the reader the structure of the research paper.
• Context: building on the introduction, you need to discuss the broader context of American society as it relates to the topic within the time period of investigation. To do so, you will only focus on the most relevant details in terms of: the state of social relations, public policy, economic relations, major events, geographic situations and/or knowledge.
• Body: In the main body of your paper, you will describe and analyze primary source materials. After you provide short descriptions of your primary source materials (1-2 sentences at most), the majority of the section must analyze how your primary source materials are embedded within their historical contexts and how they contribute to an understanding of the topic you are focusing upon.
• Discussion: you need to address the continuities and discontinuities of the topic in relation to contemporary America.
• Conclusion: a good conclusion does far more than just summarizing the paper, but engages the broader significance of your argument as it relates to American society today. To do so, you may want to engage the contemporary legacies of your topic, the relationship between sport and wider social change in America, and the location of sport within wider power struggles that have characterized America throughout its history.
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The purpose of accreditation is to ensure that institutions meet academic, fiscal, and ethical standards. Institutions also use the review process as part of their continuous improvement efforts.

To prepare:
For this Assignment, select two different regional accrediting bodies of higher education. Next, select an institution in each region so that each has similar characteristics, such as size, focus, or other attributes. Compare the institutions and their accrediting commission.

Assignment:
Write a 3- to 4-page paper in which you respond to the following:

Briefly describe each accrediting body and each institution you selected.

Describe the type of accreditation that each institution has, how long they have had it, and if they have any other forms of accreditation (such as specialty or program).

Analyze the institutions, and describe at least three reasons why accreditation is important to each.

Analyze how accreditation might contribute to these institutions’ continuous improvement efforts.

Analyze how the accreditation process differs and is similar in each region and for each institution.

Your paper should be written using scholarly language and in APA style. Provide URL links to the institutions and accrediting commissions.

Readings
Behling, L. L. (Ed.). (2014). The resource handbook for academic deans (3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Chapter 26, “Working with Regional Accreditors” (pp. 155–162)
Council for Higher Education Accreditation. (2015). Retrieved from https://www.chea.org/
Kinser, K. (2015). Is accreditation the conscience of higher education? And should it feel guilty?/Interviewer: Andrew Hibel. Retrieved from https://www.higheredjobs.com/higheredcareers/interviews.cfm?ID=237
Laureate Education (Producer). (2015b). Chair, accreditation steering committee [Multimedia file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Grand City Community

Click on the link to go into the Grand City Community and go to Grand City University, Administration Office. View the “Chair, Accreditation Steering Committee” media segment.
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The completed case report will need to be submitted via the Health of Older Adults (NURS 2024) course site
Assessment 3: case report link by the assessment due date.
Background:
In order to plan and provide optimal patient-centered nursing care, Registered Nurses need to be able to interpret clinical information and draw upon their knowledge of pathophysiology and evidence-based clinical practice. Therefore, the purpose of this assessment is to support the development of the skills needed to evaluate evidence and to develop reflection and clinical reasoning skills.
Case Report:
Based upon the Horizons Hospital & Health Service (HHHS) NURS 2024 Health of Older Adults client Mary Young, construct a case report. The case report will draw upon your knowledge of pathophysiology and relevant academic literature to support an evidence-based plan of care.
Headings and a description of the content for each section of the report have been provided. These serve as a guide for how you will present your case report; however, it is important that all sections of the report are conceptually connected. For example, your knowledge of pathophysiology and your understanding of this particular client should underpin the nursing problems that you identify which should, in turn, drive the nursing management that is relevant for this clinical situation.
The case report should include the following:
Introduction (150 words)
Introduce the client and provide a brief overview of their case. Provide an outline of the purpose and structure of the report.
You might like to think about the overview of the case study like a verbal clinical handover: what is the key information from the HHHS patient information, progress summary and medication chart that would be relevant for the plan of care for this client?
Primary admission diagnosis (200 words)
Identify the primary diagnosis for the client (i.e. the reason the client was admitted to the HHHS). Provide a brief description of the pathophysiology for the primary diagnosis.
As part of this discussion, it is important to relate the pathophysiology to client’s risk factors and relevant previous medical history.
Nursing problems (200 words)
Use your knowledge of pathophysiology and the subjective and objective data provided in the HHHS progress summary notes to identify five (5) nursing problems that may arise as a result of the client’s primary diagnosis. These problems may be actual or potential nursing problems. Provide a brief description for why these problems may arise for this client.
From these, select two (2) nursing problems as the focus for the remainder of the case report. Provide a rationale for your selection.
Nursing Management (600 words)
The nursing management should focus on the nursing assessment, nursing interventions and the role of the Registered Nurse (RN) related to medication management for this client and will address the two (2) selected nursing problems.
Nursing Problem 1: Nursing assessment, nursing intervention, medication management.
Discuss one (1) method of nursing assessment that would need to be performed related to the ongoing nursing management of this nursing problem. Provide a rationale for this type of assessment and briefly describe how this assessment would be conducted in this case.
Discuss one (1) nursing intervention that you would need to implement related to the ongoing nursing management of this nursing problem. Provide a rationale for the intervention.
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Discuss the role of the RN in the medication management related to the ongoing nursing management of this nursing problem.
Nursing Problem 2: Nursing assessment, nursing intervention,medication management.
Discuss one (1) method of nursing assessment that would need to be performed related to this nursing problem. Provide a rationale for this type of assessment and briefly describe how this assessment would be conducted in this case.
Discuss one (1) nursing intervention that you would need to implement related to the ongoing nursing management of this nursing problem. Provide a rationale for the intervention. Discuss the role of the RN in the medication management related to the ongoing nursing management of this nursing problem.
Discharge planning (250 words)
Identify five (5) issues/challenges that you may need to address for this client prior to discharge home. Discuss how you would facilitate discharge planning for this client, with consideration to two (2) of these concerns?
Conclusion (100 words)
Summarise the major findings of this case report.
References
Please refer to the Harvard Referencing System to accurately reference your case report: https:// lo.unisa.edu.au/course/view.php?id=3839
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Prepare a 5-10 page paper in which you analyze two texts; Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Everyday Use by Alice Walker. Be sure to begin by explaining the conventions of your theory’s perspective, and transition into an analysis that compares your two text selections in line with your theory’s approach. Please be sure to find outsides sources that support your claims about both your critical theory and each text. Sources must date back no further than 1980 and must fall into these categories:

2 critical peer-reviewed database articles supporting your analysis of the source material (1 per each text).
2 print sources relating to your chosen critical theory (book, magazine, or journal.)
2 web sources either about your critical theory or your selected texts (please do not utilize more than 2 web sources in the paper as a whole).
1 non-traditional or streaming media source (documentary, interview, movie, podcast, song, play, field research, etc.)
+2 texts you are doing your proposal on

ESSAYS MUST INCLUDE A THESIS STATEMENT AT THHE END OF THE INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH(essays missing a thesis statement will not receive higher that a C-).
All essays should be in proper MLA Manuscript Format and correctly site all source material both in-text and on a Works Cited page (at the end of the essay).
***Note: all source materials must be utilized in-text as well as cited on the Works Cited page.***
All essays must be between 5-10 pages in length, double spaced (page length not including the Works Cited page).
Essays should not utilize the 2nd Person Point of View, but rather utilize 1st or 3rd Person.
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The theory i have chosen is gender criticism/study.
Attached I will have the readings, an idea of how i want my paper to be written out and 4/7 works cited. The three that will be needed are; 1 non-traditional(youtube/video) 2 per reviewed database article.
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3D SYSTEMS & THE GLOBAL 3D PRINTING INDUSTRY

According to PWC, the 3D Printing industry is predicted to grow significantly from around $2.5b in 2013 to $16.2bn by 2018. Printers are getting faster and more affordable and the key industry players have invested a great deal in R&D. As some patents have expired, the global open-source has also made some refinements and improvements and widened the appeal and adaptation of 3D printing technology. Like the Internet, digital and e-commerce environment of the 1990’s, it appears that the 3D printing sector is gathering pace to produce one of the most potentially disruptive technologies of the 21st century. While the 3D printing industry has slowed, it is undergoing significant changes and global corporations outside the industry are also considering entering in the future because of the huge potential.

According to the 3D Systems case study, 3DS has made over 30 international acquisitions by 2014 (16 in 2011 alone). Other sources claim 3DS has now accumulated as much as 50 acquisitions by 2015. There is strong evidence of consolidation in the 3D printing industry and 3DS have demonstrated a very aggressive acquisitions culture. According to AT Kearney the next natural evolution in a globalising industry like 3D Printing is mergers strategy.

Critically discuss whether a leading company like 3DS should now consider a merger strategy or seek an alternative way to consolidate and grow its global 3D printing business.

In your answer you should consider the following:
¬ The merits of continuing an aggressive acquisitions strategy of smaller companies
¬ What type of merger partners would create greater global influence in the industry?
¬ Are there viable alternatives to merging?
¬ Use of relevant academic theories, concepts and practical evidence from both the supplied case and further secondary research.
 https://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology-forecast/2014/3d-printing/features/future-3d-printing.html

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2015/03/31/2015-roundup-of-3d-printing-market-forecasts-and-estimates/#5d869fdc1dc6

 https://3dprint.com

 https://3dprintingindustry.com/category/industry-insights/

 https://explainingthefuture.com/3dp_chapter1.pdf

 https://www.atkearney.com/documents/10192/5992684/3D+Printing+A+Manufacturing+Revolution.pdf/bf8f5c00-69c4-4909-858a-423e3b94bba3

 https://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology-forecast/2014/3d-printing/features/assets/pwc-3d-printing-full-series.pdf
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IMMIGRATION COURSEWORK

INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS
1. Candidates are required to answer the TWO questions in total; taking ONE question
from Section A and ONE question in Section B.
2. Both work shall be approximately 1,500 words each (excluding footnotes,
bibliography and research diary) and carry equal marks. Students must enter a word
count at the beginning of their essay. Both essays must be part of one single
submitted coursework.
Word Length for both questions: 3000 WORDS

3. Each question answered must contain a paragraph in the form of a ‘research
diary’ indicating how the research was carried out and materials were located. Each
question must contain its own bibliography.
4. Answers must contain appropriate research references with respect to the
immigration and asylum discourse through relevant book chapters, journal articles
and other material; policy papers; specific provisions of domestic legislation and
statutory instruments; articles of international and European agreements or
treaties; and relevant domestic and international jurisprudence. Failure to make
appropriate references may be penalized in the marking of answers.
5. The preferred method of citation shall be OSCOLA, with marks being awarded for
full and consistent references.

Section A ( Essay)
1. ‘The Common European Asylum System is under pressure from recent political
developments in Europe, including the imminent referendum in the United
Kingdom’.
Assess the challenges to protection of refugee rights in the United Kingdom and
Europe under the Dublin Regulations 2014, European Convention on Human
Rights 1950 and the Convention for the Status of Refugees 1951.

Section B ( Problem question)
2. Anatoly, an ethnic Russian from Ukraine, is seeking asylum in the United
Kingdom (UK). He used to work in Macedonia and entered the European Union
(EU) through Greece illegally where his spouse is seeking medical treatment. He
has a brother in Italy who is seeking asylum there and helped Anatoly come to
Europe through traffickers. United Kingdom authorities found some French
newspapers in Anatoly’s bag and an expired French visa on his Ukrainian
passport.
Advise Vasily, Anatoly’s cousin living in the UK, on the legal framework under
Dublin III Regulation and the Human Rights Act 1998 against Anatoly’s removal
from the United Kingdom.
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The Sport & Physical Activity Manager for Beckett on Sea Council is new in post (appointed 4 months ago) and has inherited a team that is low on morale after a number of staff posts were made redundant as a result of budget cuts in the previous financial year. Following these redundancies, a number of staff members successfully gained employment elsewhere which has also left a number of positions vacant within the service. The Sport & Physical Activity Manager has also just learnt that the service will face additional cuts of 10% from the service budget in the next financial year.

You are required to prepare a report that considers how she and the rest of the Sport & Physical Activity Service can respond to this situation. Your analysis should complete the following tasks:

1. Identify the key opportunities and threats within the external environment, and suggest how the service should manage and respond to them.
2. Analyse the internal environment within Beckett on Sea Sport & Physical Activity Service to identify any issues that might hamper the services ability to meet its strategic aims, and suggest solutions.
3. Identity the best way to save / cut 10% from the service’s budget in the next financial year whilst still enabling the service to deliver against its strategic aims and contribute to the achievement of Beckett on Sea Council’s strategic vision and aims.

You should follow a report format and produce a 3000 word report that addresses the following areas:

– Strategic Analysis (External & Internal Environment)
– Strategic Choices (Strategic Options and suggested strategic choices)
– Strategic Implementation (production of a set of SMART actions and performance measures)

In addition, you are expected to produce the following analyses within the report appendices:

– A PESTLE analysis
– A Cultural Web
– A SWOT analysis

These should support the discussions and analysis in your report (i.e. you should refer to them in your report) and combined be approximately 1000 words in length. These are marked as a formal part of your submission.

You may also want to include additional appendices to support your analysis such as a detailed action plan to show how you would implement your strategic choices. Any additional appendices such as this will not be included in your word count, and are optional.
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RWBI BIO0226 Assignment Two – Identifying Themes and Concerns to support Strategic Direction: a paper for the attention of the Board of Directors: Lectures Three, Four and Five

LEARNING OUTCOMES

This assignment assesses the following learning outcomes:

3. Understand the potential of an outward looking orientation for managers and the development of associated capabilities.
4. Positively engage with new and unstructured issues in a deliberate and systematic fashion.
5. Systematically assess, research and highlight dominant elements extracted from a basket of unstructured information.
6. Foster the early stages of deeper questioning and debate, hold argued positions and be open to question with peers.
7. Construct and present information in a coherent and professional format which inspires further inquiry.

1. As in assignment one, use your notes, research and presentations and then thematic analysis to identify three to four common connections, but this time based on lectures three, four and five. However, in this second assignment your arguments should be concerned with Issues of Strategic Importance, drawn from the themes, and of general value to any typical business and therefore should be addressed as a paper to the Company Board. (Strategic Direction is concerned with the long-term, beyond the financial year, and not immediate operational performance.)

2. Having identified three or four (maximum) common themes and concerns now use text books, journals and secondary research to support your unique arguments for why The Board should take note that these concerns are significant to them.

3. Therefore, the arguments offered will NOT be concerned with the practice of individual managers but more concerned with the long-term survival and performance of a company as a whole. E.g. If you identify a theme concerned with supply chain management, you should argue, using the lecture and your additional research for how supply chain management in the future is changing and why this might be a concern for businesses in general.

1. The work should offer arguments that are directly drawn from the connections and should demonstrate your unique thinking supported by evidence from academic research and previous learning from within the course. These links must be explicitly grounded in academic concepts and theory, supported by good referencing.

4. A short critical and personal reflection on your approach to questioning should contain no more than 200 words. (Using the word “I” in this section is permissible.)

The work will be assessed in three areas:

Thematic connections: The work will clearly demonstrate the building of a coherent argument built from the unstructured content from guest speaker contributions. Description should be avoided, instead critically evaluating the content that relates to a strategic perspective.

Evidenced argumentation: Assignments will give strong argued reasoning for the points raised. They will demonstrate wider reading and cite examples from the lectures in support. A wide variety of academic materials is recommended including textbooks, journal articles and reliable websites all of which should be accurately referenced. Recommended reading lists are available in the handbook but original, relevant research will be recognised.

Structured insights and reflection: There will be an appropriate level of coherency in the argument where the unstructured ideas have been brought together to offer key points along with personal reflection. Appropriate assignment format. Please make an appointment with the Academic Skills Tutors for any additional help needed with assignment writing and referencing.

Please pay close attention to the Assessment and Grading Criteria at the end of this document. These criteria will be used to provide feedback on your marked assignment.

Word Limit: 2,000 words

Notes:
Referencing your work:

The University preferred referencing style is APA 6th.
See here: https://www.hud.ac.uk/library/finding-info/apa-referencing/
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HR3029
Academic Year 2015-2016
International Human Resource Management
Assessment 2
Assignment 2 is a case analysis of 3000 words (+/- 10%).

Your assignment is to produce a report based on an international HRM case study.

Report writing
Your assignment should be in a report style. Additional guidance on how to draft a report will be given in class.
Material covered in the sessions related to the topics for the assignment should be used as a starting point. Don’t simply restate what was covered in the lecture or what you have read in the literature. Develop an analysis of the key issues using appropriate academic and practitioner material to support points or to forward the case that you are presenting.
Simple statements of opinion or prescriptive assertions are not adequate to the task: you need to back up your arguments with evidence and examples, e.g. from other case or survey studies.
If you need any further guidance, including locating or identifying appropriate academic and practitioner material, please arrange to speak to your tutor.

Case Study: Tasty Foods
Your company, Tasty Foods, based in the UK, produces a range of ready-made meals using traditional British ingredients. You are considering taking your business into Europe to take advantage of an expanding market in this type of product.
Your company needs to recruit and select new international managers to take the business forward. Two managers will be based in Germany and two managers in France and will be responsible for acquiring new business for the company.
You have been asked by your senior manager to prepare a report that will enable the company to appoint, train and develop these new international managers. You have been told that the report must be based on current best practice and should contain appropriate academic and reputable HR practitioner material.
The areas that your manager specifically wants you to address are:
 Recruitment and selection – how will you recruit and select the best managers for this international assignment?
 Training and development – what training and development will the company give to the new managers to make them effective in their new appointments?
 Performance and reward – what will be the most effective ways to manage and reward the performance of the new international managers?
Your report should include a brief executive summary (no more than one page) and a clear set of recommendations. The report template issued in class can be used to structure the report.

Please note that Tasty Foods is a fictional company and you must not make any assumptions based on material found on the Internet for any company with a similar name.

These contents should be included
—–Recruitment and selection
1. Job description & Person specification
2. Managers with experiebce ub Gernaby/ France + UK; coffee shops/ catering
3. Adertise on company website + website in Germany & France.
4. CV + covering letter (emailed)
5. 1st interview — e.g. Skype, Facetime, Viber and etc
6. Short list for 2nd interviews in person over 24 hrs (accommodation)
7. 3rd interviews — interview panel
8. Inroduction

—–Training and development
1. Agree some individual learning/ training objectives — aims
2. “Work buddy” e.g. A more experienced UK manager to talk with them weekly/ monthly — coaching & mentoring.
3. Training must link with Tasty Foods’ business objectives
4. Cultural training — to help them adapt and adjust to the host country especially with “food culture” to adapt UK culture — Europe
5. CPD

—–Performance and reward
1. Monetary & non-monetary rewards
2. % bonus linked with the business sales/ turnover in Germany / France
3. Motivation: etrinsic v intrinsic rewards
4. Team working — measurement / indicator
5. Challenging / interesting work : new goals and targets every 3-6 months
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Question 1 (25 marks)

Estimate a logistic regression classifier for the churn data set which you find on the Blackboard. You can use the software you like (e.g. SAS Enterprise Miner, Weka, SAS, SPSS, Matlab, …). Nevertheless, I would advise to use SAS Enterprise Miner, maybe in combination with Microsoft Excel to do some preprocessing. The churn indicator is the target variable. Carefully describe all steps you undertake and indicate which software you used. Make sure you don’t forget to:
• Split the data into a training set (2/3 of the observations) and a test set (1/3 of the observations). Each student should do this individually in a random way (using e.g. SAS Enterprise Miner/ Weka/Microsoft Excel). Hence, it is very implausible that students come up with the same parameter estimates! Special consideration will be given to students that come up with the same parameter estimates.
• Code the nominal variables using dummies or Weights of Evidence (note that some additional coarse classification might be needed).

• Do outlier detection and treatment (only univariate) as discussed in the lectures.
• Consider doing stepwise regression.

You should report the following:
• A short discussion of your data preprocessing steps
• Values of the estimated parameters
• A discussion of the most predictive inputs
• Classification accuracy, sensitivity and specificity on the training and test sets assuming a cut-off of 0.5
• The ROC curve and the Area Under the ROC Curve on the test set
• Accuracy Ratio on the test set

Question 2 (25 marks)

Find an academic or business paper published in 2015 or later discussing a real-life application of data mining or credit scoring. It is important that the case considered is a real-life case and not an artificial one. You can consult the following websites and journals to find an appropriate paper:

• Informs (https://www.informs.org/), e.g.
o Informs Journal on Computing
o Informs Management Science
o Informs Operations Research
• Elsevier (www.elsevier.com), e.g.
o European Journal of Operational Research
o Journal of the Operational Research Society
o Omega
o Computers and Operations Research
o Machine Learning
o Expert Systems with Applications
• Oxford University Press (https://www.oxfordjournals.org/), e.g.
o IMA Journal of Management Mathematics
• Springer
o Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

However, feel free to use other literature sources as well, as long as they are scientific, academic papers. Once you have found an appropriate paper, report the following in separate sections:
• Title, authors and complete citation (journal name, book title, issue, year, …)
• The data mining problem considered
• The data mining techniques used
• The results reported
• A critical discussion of the model and results (assumptions made, shortcomings, limitations, …)

Make sure you demonstrate that you understand what the article is all about!

Do not copy and paste from the article. Using Turnitin, this will be easily detected!

Question 3 (25 marks)

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the network of interconnected things such as electronics devices, sensors, software, IT infrastructure which create and add value by exchanging data with various stakeholders such as manufacturers, service providers, customers, other devices, etc., hereby using the World Wide Web technology stack (e.g. Wifi, IPv6, …). In terms of devices, you can think about heartbeat monitors; motion, noise or temperature sensors; smart meters measuring utility (e.g. electricity, water) consumption; etc. Some examples of applications are:
• Smart parking: automatically monitoring free parking spaces in a city;
• Smart lighting: automatically adjusting street lights to weather conditions;
• Smart traffic: optimizing driving and walking routes based upon traffic and congestion;
• Smart grid: automatically monitoring energy consumption;
• Smart supply chains: automatically monitoring goods as they move through the supply chain;
• Telematics: automatically monitoring driving behavior and linking it to insurance risk and premiums;
• …
It speaks for itself that the amount of data generated is enormous and offers an unseen potential for analytical applications.

Pick one particular type of application of IoT and discuss the following:
• how to use both predictive and descriptive analytics;
• how to evaluate the performance of the analytical models;
• key issues in post-processing and implementing the analytical models;
• important challenges and opportunities.

Question 4 (20 marks)

Explain the following concepts (don’t copy and paste from the Internet or Wikipedia):
• Information Value of a variable
• Validation data set in a decision tree context
• Outlier truncation
• LGD in the Basel context
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