Product development

EXHIBIT 1-3Attributes of five products and their associated development efforts. All figures are approximate, based on publicly available information and company sources.

Chapter 1: Exercise 2

Create a set of scatter charts by plotting each of the rows in Exhibit 1-3 against the development cost row. For each one, explain why there is or is not any correlation. (For example, you would first plot “annual production volume” versus “development cost” and explain why there seems to be no correlation. Then repeat for each of the remaining rows.)

Chapter 2: Exercise 2, Thought Question 2

Define a process for finding a job. For what types of endeavor does a well-defined process enhance performance?
Is there an analogy between a university and a product development organization? Is a university a functional or project organization?

Application of correction theories of punishment

Short Assignment: Applying Correctional Theories to Practice

For each type of punishment, sanction, or sentence listed in the table below, identify which correctional theory or theories might be used to justify the use of this form of social control. In some cases, more than one theory could be used to justify a given punishment strategy. Individually decide how/why it is consistent with one or more of the six primary theories of punishment discussed in the class lecture notes (e.g., please justify each punishment type with the corresponding theory/ies) The six correctional theories we have discussed include: retribution/just deserts; deterrence; incapacitation; restoration; rehabilitation; and prevention/early intervention.

Layout decisions Operations Management homework help

Prepare at least two pages to write about A and B topics, one page for each:
(A) Layout decisions affect a wide range of facilities, from factories, supermarkets, offices, department stores, and warehouses, to malls, parking lots and garages, and kitchens. Layout is also important in the design of some products such as the interiors of automobiles and the arrangement of components inside computers and other electronic devices. Select three different items from this list, or other similar items, and explain for each what the four or five key considerations for layout design are. Make sure that you support your answers with research (APA format)

(B) What trade-offs are involved in deciding to have a single large, centrally located facility instead of several smaller, dispersed facilities? Who needs to be involved in this decision? And, how can technology facilitate an optimal decision in the present circumstance? Visit the web and identify an organisation that made similar decisions. If you can, tell us how they made the decision.

outbreak investigation

Outbreak Investigation

On February 7, 2018, a nurse employed at the Flinn Corporation noticed an increase in the number of employees who were sick. She was concerned that there may be a Salmonella outbreak at the company. She has interviewed each of the employees at the corporation. She has taken samples and sent them out for testing but has not received the results. She asks you, the local epidemiologist, to investigate to see if an outbreak exists and if so what the source of the outbreak is. You follow the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s steps in outbreak investigation (https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson6/section1.html) and report your findings to her. Please note that we will not address all outbreak investigation steps in this assignment.

Use the attached Excel worksheet to produce graphs and statistics to answer the questions below. Submit your report as a Word doc (PDF file format is not allowed for this final assignment) and include figures and tables you generate. The report should be easy to follow and interpret and should be written as an academic paper in proper APA formatting.

1. Look at the Excel Spreadsheet attached. There are 3 worksheets (see tabs on bottom of page – “Nurse’s Interview”, “Epi Curve”, “Retrospective Cohort Study”). The first sheet “Nurse’s Interview” has a line list of employees who work at Flinn Corporation. This sheet represents the data the nurse has collected from those employees in an interview. Do you think that an outbreak exists? Why would you recommend to further investigate? Discuss your reasoning. (Step 2: Establish outbreak)

2. Research salmonellosis using academic sources. Are the symptoms that the ill employees exhibit consistent with salmonellosis? Provide a brief summary (1-2 paragraphs) of the disease and discuss the chain of infection for this disease. Use in-text citations in proper APA format and include all sources in your reference section. (Step 3: Verify diagnosis)

3. Identify the percentage of ill employees with each symptom. For example, 1 out of 12 ill employees had blood in stool (Bs) = 8.3%. (Step 4: Working case definition)

4. Conduct descriptive epidemiology (Step 6). Describe the characteristics of the ill employees to determine trends and risk factors.

a. Person – Calculate the percentage of ill employees that are male/female. Determine the mean age of the ill employees.

b. Place – What percentage of ill employees ate at the cafeteria? What percentage of well employees ate at the cafeteria?

c. Time – Using the data collected in the Nurse’s Interview, fill in the column “# of cases” in the “Epi Curve” worksheet. Use 0 if there are no cases. As you fill in the data, the graph will automatically generate. Choose an appropriate title for the graph. Copy and paste graph into your report. What type of epidemic curve is it ? (Hint: read https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson6/section2.html#step6)

5. Based on the information you have gathered, you have developed an hypothesis that there is a food being served at the cafeteria that is causing the employees to become ill. You need to further test this hypothesis by conducting a retrospective cohort study (Step 8). Use the worksheet “Retrospective Cohort Study” to calculate attack rates and risk ratios. The first food item Baked Chicken is done for you. You can also consult https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson6/section2.html#step8 for help. Report the Risk ratio for each food item. Based on risk ratios, which is food is most likely to be the source of the illness? Explain.

6. Based on your findings, what would you recommend for prevention and control measures? Apply food safety principles from academic sources to discuss further prevention of Salmonella outbreaks in the cafeteria. (Step 11) Use in-text citations and include sources in reference section.

Biology Quiz

· Question 1
The genome of Mycoplasma genitalium is about _______ genes in size.

· Question 2
Romans 8 describes modern living organisms as

· Question 3
The role of the barbule in the primary flight feather is to

· Question 4
Charles Darwin’s view of the species was

· Question 5
Which of the following is a basic evolutionary advance needed to convert a down-like feather into a primary flight feather.

· Question 6
One important value that disruptive selection can have to a natural population is that it

Selected Answer:

will remove from the population all individuals whose behavioral traits vary greatly from the populational norms.

· Question 7
One major problem with the speculation that the origin of life occurred at geothermal vent is that

Selected Answer:

no one has ever seen any life forms near these geothermal vents.

· Question 8
One advantage associated with viewing RNA as the original site of information storage in the primitive cell is that RNA

· Question 9
Which of the following organisms were not observed by Charles Darwin while reading and voyaging the world?

· Question 10
Directional selection has been used to

Selected Answer:

create many new useful genes in agriculturally important plants.

· Question 11

3.2 out of 3.2 points

Natural selection is an “expensive” process. This is true because

· Question 12
Could RNA have been the original site of information storage in the primitive cell? A difficult problem with this possibility is that

· Question 13
Which of the following represents three classes of mutations, each of which affects the evolutionary process differently?

· Question 14
3.2 out of 3.2 points

The Design theorist comes to the conclusion that most mutations occurring today are harmful because

· Question 15
Charles Darwin believed that whole new species originated as a result of

· Question 16
Both the theist and the naturalist come to the conclusion that most mutations occurring today are harmful because

Selected Answer:

background radiation levels and mutagenic chemical concentrations are higher now than previously.

· Question 17
Which stage of life history implied in the early pages of the Genesis record appears least likely to involve any biological change in populations with time?

· Question 18
The term _________ represents a predictive theory of how a species might change with time, whereas the term ________ assumes that nature can create whole new structures and organisms.

· Question 19
Which of the following represents an observation Charles Darwin made while reading and voyaging the world?

· Question 20
Which of the following classes of mutations accumulate silently in the DNA having no obvious effect on one’s ability to reproduce?

Selected Answer:

structural gene mutations

· Question 21
In the early pages of the Genesis record, the first stage of life history could best be described as

Selected Answer:

the creation existing in completed form.

· Question 22
During the formation of a feather which of the following structures appears as a result of early induction events within the dermal layer of the wing surface?

· Question 23
Sometimes a force within the environment reduces the reproductive ability of one variety of individual in a species compared to that of another variety. This force is termed

· Question 24
The potential power of directional selection cannot be demonstrated in a real population if

· Question 25
Mycoplasma genitalium is well known for the _________ infections it causes.

complete the metarasa mental muscle diagram indicator (mmdi)

Please complete the Metarasa Mental Muscle Diagram Indicator (MMDI) Personality Test to identify your profile. You will explore the relationship between leadership styles and the MMDI profile. For more information about this topic, please visit:

Team Technology. (2020). Leadership styles. Retrieved from http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/leadership-styles….

For this assignment you will write a paper and reflect on your understanding of your personality type (based on your MMDI profile), with an emphasis on how it relates to various leadership and management styles. Identify your strengths and compare these to leadership and management styles. How can your leadership style contribute or detract from your success as a leader? How does your MMDI profile relate to your goals, and to the mission and vision of various types of Higher Education institutions? What type of institution do you feel is the best fit for you and why?

Employment Settings Research

· Describe occupational therapy employment settings in our geographical area (South Florida).

· Identify the varied roles of the Occupational Therapy Assistant (e.g., practitioner, educator, research assistant, consultant).

· Identify and explain potential clients’ contextual factors, current policy issues, and socioeconomic, political, geographic, and demographic factors on the delivery of occupational therapy services for person, groups, populations, and social systems as they relate to the practice of occupational therapy.

· Select and employment setting in Occupational Therapy. Employment Setting may include Consultative Practice, Home Health, Hospitals, Pediatric Clinics, Hippo therapy, Outpatient Rehabilitation, etc. (Pick one of them)

· To demonstrate knowledge, understanding, and appreciation, describe the type(s) of clients served, the role(s) of the Occupational Therapy Assistant in this setting and level of care provided.

· Provide an understanding as to the scope, breadth of employability in Occupational Therapy (e.g., income) and specific business aspects of Occupational Therapy Practice.

· As an added measure, review a geographical area of interest outside of Florida of current to compare and contrast the employability and scope/breadth of the varied roles of the Occupational Therapy Assistant (e.g., practitioner, educator, research assistant)

Important

· Attach an article from your research to support your employment setting.

Research methods

First, review your two assessments. Second, respond to the following questions for the two methods.

3. TOSA (3-4 year olds) (Review the instructions, and watch the video of the child doing the task)

· Briefly describe this measure in three to four sentences.

· What are the strengths of this measure?

· What are the limitations of this measure?

· What kind of information with this measure be good for?

· What is this measure not good for?

· What would be an example of a research question that you could answer with this measure? Make sure to consider the age of the children in your question.

5. Stroop Task (6-12 Years) (Review Instruction sheet and video of a child doing the task. You can run the computerized demo of this yourself in the participation section)

· Briefly describe this measure in three to four sentences.

· What are the strengths of this measure?

· What are the limitations of this measure?

· What kind of information with this measure be good for?

· What is this measure not good for?

· What would be an example of a research question that you could answer with this measure? Make sure to consider the age of the children in your question.

Dianrong case study

Please read the Dianrong case study (see HBS Coursepack) and answer the following questions with substantive answers in a cohesive essay. Your paper should be at least 3 pages in length. Use proper grammar, spelling, citations, etc.

1. What are the trade offs that Dianrong is facing? How should the company prioritize its objectives? What should Soul Htite do?2. As detailed in Exhibit 1 of the case, there are different collaboration models that Dianrong has adopted in working with various parties on technological development. How should the company decide on the nature of collaboration for technological developments in the future (via organic and in-house developments, partnerships, joint ventures, or acquisitions)?3. Assuming that the company manages to raise an additional US$100 million, how should Dianrong allocate the capital across its many business units to maximize value in the long run? Should the company spend the money on internal R&D initiatives or M&A pursuits? Or both?4. How should the company work with the local regulations in China? Should the company focus on reviving the P2 industry in China in the process? If so, how?5. Are there other technologies that Dianrong should consider adding to its already expansive portfolio of technologies? In contrast, are there technologies that may seem redundant at the firm at the moment? How should Dianrong manage this to improve its competitive edge with its “technology DNA?”

Computing and programming (coding)

Q1: A design task involves finding values for three variables. Each variable can take two values. How many solutions are possible? If each solution requires 1 second to be evaluated on a computer, how long does it take to evaluate all solutions? If the number of variables increases to 30, how long does it take to evaluate all solutions? Show your work.Q2: In sorting, stability is defined as the ability of a sorting algorithm to preserve the relative order of equal keys in a file. See illustration below. Comment on the stability of insertion sort and selection sort. Explain why they are stable or non-stable. Q3: Explain the difference between a compiler and an interpreter with your own words Q4:Complete the following Python exercises and include screenshots of your code and execution.

Include a screenshot of the execution of a simple line of code (e.g., print(“Hello World”)) on a Python installation on your machine.
Write a program to prompt the user for hours and rate per hour to compute gross pay.
Rewrite your pay computation to give the employee 1.5 times the hourly rate for hours worked above 40 hours.
Q5 Write a program to prompt for a score between 0.0 and 1.0. If the score is out of range, print an error message. If the score is between 0.0 and 1.0, print a grade using the following table: Score Grade>= 0.9 A>= 0.8 B>= 0.7 C>= 0.6 D< 0.6 FQ6: Write a program which repeatedly reads numbers until the user enters “done”. Once “done” is entered, print out the total, count, and average of the numbers. If the user enters anything other than a number, detect their mistake using try and except and print an error message and skip to the next number.
Enter a number: 4Enter a number: 5Enter a number: bad data Invalid input Enter a number: 7Enter a number: done16 3 5.333333333333333
Q7: Take the following Python code that stores a string:`str=”X-DSPAM-Confidence:0.8475″Use find and string slicing to extract the portion of the string after the colon character and then use the float function to convert the extracted string into a floating point number.