prepare a report that critically evaluates one retailer’s responses to a current retail market issue in comparison with one or more retailers in the same retail sector as your chosen retailer.

Instructions for Summative Assessment

Your assessment for this module takes the form of a report:

You are required to prepare a report that critically evaluates one retailer’s responses to a current retail market issue in comparison with one or more retailers in the same retail sector as your chosen retailer. The focus of the report is an examination, in depth, of the relationships between theory and current retail activities.

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Note that the topic of your report must be based one of the topic areas discussed in the module, i.e. one of the issues below faced by retailers:

• Retail Branding
• Etailing, Omnichannel retailing, and E-loyalty
• Global Retailing
• Global sourcing
• Shopping Malls and the Future of the High Streets
• Customer Relationship Management and Loyalty
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability
• Social marketing, supply chain issues, and Fair Trade focusing on food

The grading criteria and their weighting for the Assignment are as follows:

1. Content, breadth and relevance of research 35%
2. Level of analysis/application of theory 35%
3. Conclusions/ discussion/ policy recommendations 20%
4. Presentation, clarity, structure, grammar, correct referencing 10%

You are advised to allocate your efforts accordingly. For more details see the grading criteria grid below.

The word limit for this assessment is 3,000 words

Do you think the policy or program to deal with this scarce resource will allow for more sustainability or not?

Description

Project In this paper, you will be investigating your local area or state and identify one scarce resource. Please identify an environmental policy or program you plan to examine in the paper that has been used to deal with this scarce resource. Make sure that the proposed topic has a sustainability component to it. Define the policy or program, discuss its importance/relevance, outline its scope and objectives, and identify the stakeholders that are in the project. Do you think the policy or program to deal with this scarce resource will allow for more sustainability or not? What are your recommendations given all of the research you have done? Do you agree with the regulations/laws that have been proposed to help bring about sustainability? This paper should be five pages in length, which does not include your title and reference page that should be in APA formatting. You will need to make sure that you have at least 5 academic sources in your paper that are clearly noted to help either support or refute your position. You will need to include either one graph or table in your paper to present the data you are working with. Please submit a three to five page paper; this does not include your title page nor your reference page. The project should address all questions listed above. The project should be in APA Format and incorporate research and sources should be credited using APA format. Academic research should include text books, journals, articles and organizational resources. WRITING EXPECTATIONS All written submissions should be submitted in a font and page set-up that is readable and neat. It is recommended that students try to adhere to a consistent format, which is described below. Typewritten in double-spaced format with a readable style and font and submitted inside the electronic classroom (unless classroom access is not possible and other arrangements have been approved by the professor). Arial 12-point font or Times New Roman styles. Page margins Top, Bottom, Left Side and Right Side = 1 inch, with reasonable accommodation being made for special situations and online submission variances. CITATION AND REFERENCE STYLE Assignments completed in a narrative essay or composition format must follow APA format. PLAGIARISM 1. All students are expected to commit to the highest level of academic honesty and personal integrity. 2. Students are required to use turnitin.com for written assignments and submit the results with their assignments. 3. If students do not do use turnitin.com , the instructor will accomplish this. 4. Students do not receive a grade for plagiarized work. 5. All incidents of plagiarism are reported to academics for the proper academic sanctions. 6. Instructions for using turnitin.com are in the course material link. Submission of assignments and grading Be sure to turn in assignments and exams on time. I will be grading assignments continuously throughout each week. It is preferred that students visit the class each week and submit assignments during the week they are due. Note: Review the Late Assignments section below. Turnitin: Plagiarism Prevention Software Turnitin is a web-based plagiarism prevention application licensed, for campus use, through the APUS Online Library. The University makes available TurnItIn software to assist students in making proper attributions and avoid plagiarism. Be aware that professors may require Turnitin as part of their grading and evaluation procedures. All students can signup for an APUS student profile. With an APUS student profile, students can submit class assignments, as directed by instructors. Students also can use Turnitin outside of enrolled courses, as a learning tool, uploading and checking their work to avoid instances of inadvertent plagiarism

Choose one of the following organisations upon which to base your answer and Write a report.

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES: • This assignment must be completed individually. • You must use the Harvard referencing system. • Your work must indicate the number of words you have used. You must not exceed the specified maximum number of words. When a written assessment is marked, the excessive use of words beyond the word limit is reflected in the academic judgement of the piece of work which results in a lower mark being awarded for the piece of work (regulation 6.74). • Submissions are to be made anonymously. Do not write your name anywhere on your work. • Write your student ID number at the top of every page. • Where the assignment comprises more than one task, all tasks must be submitted in a single document. • You must number all pages. • No extensions nor late submissions are available for this assessment. Mitigation: The deadline for submission of mitigation in relation to this assignment is no later than five working days after the submission date of this work. Please contact the Director of Studies Team – D See rules 6.112 – 6.141: http://web.anglia.ac.uk/anet/academic/public/academic_regs.pdf 2 ASSESSMENT TASK

Choose one of the following organisations upon which to base your answer:

1. Honest Burgers Ltd https://www.honestburgers.co.uk/ 2. WRG Events https://www.wrglive.com/ 3. TransferWise https://wise.com/ 4. Kuur Therapeutics Ltd https://kuurtx.com/ 5. Cunard Line https://www.cunard.com 6. Marie Curie Foundation https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/ 7. ABC Day Nurseries http://www.abcnurseries.com/

Write a report with the following sections 1.0 TITLE PAGE 2.0 SUMMARY 3.0 CONTENTS 4.0 MAIN BODY 4.1. Strategic Issues 4.2. Challenges 4.3. Solutions 4.4. Implementation 5.0 CONCLUSIONS 6.0 RECOMMENDATIONS 7.0 APPENDICES FORMAT OF SUBMISSION • You should include a minimum of 20 appropriate sources within your work to support your answer. • You should include an ARU Harvard-formatted reference list at the end of the submission, that includes all cited sources. • You should proofread your work prior to submission to reduce likelihood of errors.

critically examine the relationship between the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb and influence on modern day Islamist jihadi groups.

8 pages + well-structured + cited references

Description

This dissertation will critically examine the relationship between the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb and influence on modern day Islamist jihadi groups. Qubt was a significant authority who has influenced the likes of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. This thesis is a very contentious topic to discuss in terms of gaining a understanding of where Islamist ideas and influences stems from. The research will include an analysis of primary and secondary sources. The aim of the dissertation is to evaluate how Islamist groups are products of Qutb’s thoughts. This will be contrasted with the ideas of left wing individuals such as Amina Wadud and Hasan Hanafi who used Qutb’s work in a positive light. The main aim is to find and come to a firm conclusion that Sayyid Qubt’s ideas and thought was one that can be misinterpreted by others.

For each of the studies, how did Golub, Gilbert, and Wilson (2009) operationally define the positive expectations?

Description

For this assignment – answer the following based on this article summarized in Chapter 4

“In the two laboratory studies, participants were asked to complete a personality assessment and were then led to have either positive, negative, or no expectations about the results. Participants’ affective (emotional) state was assessed prior to—and directly after—hearing a negative (in the case of study 1a) or positive (in the case of study 1b) outcome. In the field study, participants were undergraduate introductory psychology students who were asked about their expectations of their performance in an upcoming exam. Then, a day after the exam, positive and negative emotion were assessed. Taken together, the results of these three studies suggest that anticipating bad outcomes may be an ineffective path to positive emotion.” Locate and read the article: Suggest you try to see if you can find this with Library/Research/ProQuest? Golub, S. A., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2009). Anticipating one’s troubles: The costs and benefits of negative expectations. Emotion, 9, 227–281. doi:10.1037/a0014716

Then, after reading the article, consider the following:

1.For each of the studies, how did Golub, Gilbert, and Wilson (2009) operationally define the positive expectations?

2.How did they operationally define affect? 3.In experiments 1a and 1b, what were the independent variable(s)? What where the dependent variable(s)? 4.This article includes three different studies. What are the advantages to using multiple methods? 5. On what basis did the authors conclude, “Our studies suggest that the affective benefits of negative expectations may be more elusive than their costs” (p. 280)? 6.Evaluate the external validity of the 2 experiments and field study conducted by Golub, Gilbert, & Wilson (2009) 7.How good do you think was the internal validity of this research?”

Critically evaluate theories of reflective practice

Topic:

1.1 Critically evaluate theories of reflective practice

1.2 Analyse principles of reflective practice

2.1. Evaluate methods used to reflect on professional practice

2.2 – Critically evaluate the application of reflective practice methods on own professional practice.

In terms of quantification, how do you know your peptide will be ionised efficiently.

BMS4137 formative and summative assessment – further guidance This document is designed to provide you with further guidance on writing your reports on “The use of LC-MS for the routine quantitative measurement of serum protein hormones in the clinical laboratory”. This guidance is largely based on the feedback I have provided for the formative version that many of you have submitted. General guidance 1. Read the question. The question asks specifically about routine quantitative measurement of serum protein hormones. You need to focus your report on the four keywords highlighted. Therefore, do not write about hormones that are not proteins 2. Read the question The question asks specifically about routine quantitative measurement of serum protein hormones. Therefore, do not write about the use of LC-MS to characterise protein structure. 3. Read the question The question asks specifically about routine quantitative measurement of serum protein hormones. Serum contains vast amounts of many hundreds of different proteins. Therefore, measurement of a specific protein from serum itself presents an obvious and significant challenge which must be acknowledged in your reports. 4. Be precise in your writing A number of you mention in your reports that LC-MS is very reliable or sensitive. These are very specific terms but you have used them in a very non-specific way to indicate that LC-MS is in some way “good”. A sensitive method is generally one where the limits of quantification are relatively low. In other words, a method is able to quantify low concentrations of a molecule relative to other methods. This is not generally the case for measuring protein hormones in serum. However, if you wish to assert that this is the case then you must provide some evidence to support this assertion. A reliable method is one which produces consistent results at a useful range of concentration. This is related to the precision of the assay. Again, if you wish to assert this then you must provide some evidence to support this. Challenge 1 and 2 – isoforms 1. Protein hormones may exist in many isoforms. Remember, there are many different types of isoforms. These may be due to post-translational modification, may be the result of alternative splice variants at the gene level or they may be dimers, trimers etc. 2. You should think about the implications of this range of isoforms. Remember, the point is to use LC-MS for the routine quantitative measurement of protein hormones in serum. Therefore, it is not relevant to point out that LC-MS may be able to detect different isoforms. The implication of these isoforms are many. You should bear in mind that these hormones are being measured in order to aid diagnosis and treatment or to inform prognosis. This raises a number of questions. For example, is detection of lots of isoforms likely to help diagnosis etc.? Which isoforms are bioactive and contribute to normal endocrine function? You will need to search the literature for relevant examples Challenge 3 – Enzymatic cleavage 1. Why is it done? It would be really useful if you explain why enzymatic cleavage is required for protein measurement. This related to their molecular weights. 2. What is done with the resulting peptides? You then need to identify an signature peptide which you will use for quantification. There are several features of this peptide which you should consider to allow it to be used as a measure of protein concentration. See link below for further information: https://www.labome.com/method/Quantitative-Bioanalysis-of-Proteins-by-MassSpectrometry.html 3. You may also consider the efficiency of enzymatic cleavage. Remember this is about quantitative measurement of protein hormones in serum. Serum contains many hundreds/thousands of proteins. This may well affect the efficiency 4. In terms of quantification, how do you know your peptide will be ionised efficiently. This may mean an internal standard is needed. How does this work? You will need to search the literature for relevant information Challenge 4 – extraction A major issue, as I mentioned several times already, is that you are trying to quantify levels of a single protein (hormone) in a mixture of many hundreds/thousands of other proteins. This is why an extraction or other type of sample preparation is used. You must consider then how you would try to separate your protein of interest from all these others. You may find some useful information about this in the attachment MS peptides extraction.pdf Challenge 5 – Clinical requirements A number of you have stressed the need for rapid turnaround of results. This is indeed an important consideration. However, there are other aspects to think about. This question relates to a number of issues that you should have already considered. These hormones are being measured in order to aid diagnosis and treatment or to inform prognosis. However, it is done, the methodology should enable this to happen and there are a number of aspects of LC-MS that make this problematic.. You will need to search the literature for relevant information

Do you think that you can use natural law to argue against the legitimacy of slavery?

Description Assignment-Identify the parties and the moral issue(s) at stake. Concentrate on identifying the rights that are at stake. Are they liberty rights? Claim rights? If claim rights, against whom are the claims addressed? see if there are any duties of natural law that you think are relevant. Part I Identify the parties and the moral issue(s) at stake, keeping an eye out for similarities that it shares with the other cases. Concentrate on identifying the rights that are at stake. Are they liberty rights? Claim rights? If claim rights, against whom are the claims addressed? any duties of natural law that you think are relevant. Coursework-A large grocery chain orders its personnel department to screen out all grocery clerk’s applicants who have a prison record, a history of alcohol/drug abuse or mental illness or a problem with obesity. Part II The notion of liberty rights evolved out of medieval scholars’ reinterpretation of Roman law on the various forms of relation one can bear to property. The notion of a right that was developed was one that asserted an area of control over one’s life and was likened to the strongest form of property ownership recognized in Roman law. Do you believe you are related to yourself as to property? What are the implications of this view? Do you think that you can use natural law to argue against the legitimacy of slavery? Why or why not?’ Provide your answer to that question here. sources:Burnor, Richard, and Yvonne Raley. Ethical Choices: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy with Cases., 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. . Ruggiero, Vincent Ryan. Thinking Critically About Ethical Issues. 10th ed. New York: McGrawHill, 2020. Print

Discuss the relevance of health policy in relation to the case study.

You are asked to write a report on an aspect of an clinical care scenario.

The report has to cover the following aspects

1. A brief summary of the clinical decisions made.
2. A discussion of the pathophysiology and pharmacology relevant to the episode of care
3. The importance of person-centred care and involving patients in their decisions around the planning and implementation of their care.
4. Discuss the relevance of health policy in relation to the case study.
5. Critical discussion and evidence to support or refute the decisions that were made
6. Evaluating the effect of the decision

Discuss the main patient population the nursing role will serve (school-aged children, etc).

Description Topic is Hospice RN… APA format 7th edition….Include headings (level one, in bold, and centered) and correctly formatted reference citations in-text and on the reference page. **** minimum of 4 references, scholarly sources (nursing journals, etc.) Use only web sources from .org, .edu, or .gov. Resources from .com sources are not acceptable and should not be included.***minimum of 3.5 pages*** Introduction to Paper (10%) Begin the paper with an introduction to the topic, briefly stating what will be covered in the purpose statement such as The purpose of this paper is……….. Educational Background, licensing, certification required and experience needed for the role (20%) Discuss the required educational background (BSN, MSN, etc ) additional licenses/certification needed, (PHN, etc) exams for licensing/certifications, and specific nursing experience expected (years of experience as an RN). The patient population served including the setting/environment (20%) Discuss the main patient population the nursing role will serve (school-aged children, etc). Approximately how many specific patients/clients will the nurse reach? What are the setting (school, clinic, etc) and main environment for serving the population? Professional duties of the role, including additional professionals who may be part of the interdisciplinary team (20%) Discuss the main duties of the nurse role and other healthcare professionals (social worker, etc) who may collaborate/partner with the nurse providing care/services to the patient/client population. Importance of the role and projected need for the future (20%) Project ahead approximately 5-10 years and discuss the importance of the role as an advocate and the projected needs of the population in the future. Include actual data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, including the state of California. Conclusion/Summary (5%) Finish the paper with a summary of what was covered and a conclusion with any additional thoughts and insight gained on the nursing role.