Case Questions

Put yourself in the role of the recall coordinator for Ford Motor Co. It’s 1973, and field reports have been coming in about rear-end collisions, fires, and fatalities. You must decide whether to recall the automobile. What will you decide?

1. Identify the relevant facts, pertinent ethical issues, and points of ethical conflict. (1.25 Marks)

2. Identify the relevant affected parties, the possible consequences of alternative courses of action. (1.25 Marks)

3. Identify relevant obligations, the relevant community standards that should guide you as a person of integrity, and Check your gut. (2.5 Marks)

Other than life after death, can you think of some other motivating for concern for the separation of the soul from the body? Plato has one, do you think his works?

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1. Do you agree with Bock that star performers should get a lot more—not just a little more—than average performers? If someone earning a 3 on Google’s evaluation system gets a 2 percent raise, what should employees earning 4’s and 5’s get? (1.25 Marks )

2. Given the budget issues created by giving star performers more, should someone earning a 3 get a 2 percent raise—or should they get less? What are the arguments for and against a 2 percent raise level for average performers? (1.25 Marks )

3. Consider all the things Google’s People Operations group does to motivate its employees. Which motivation theories do they seem to be leveraging, and how? (1.25 Marks )

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1. What is the time and space complexity of fuzzy c-means? Of SOM? How do these complexities compare to those of K-means? (Chapter 8)

2. Compare the membership weights and probabilities of Figures 8.1 (626 page) and 8.4 (635 page), which come, respectively, from applying fuzzy and EM clustering to the same set of data points. What differences do you detect, and how might you explain these differences? (Chapter 8)

3. Discuss techniques for combining multiple anomaly detection techniques to improve the identification of anomalous objects. Consider both supervised and unsupervised cases. (Chapter 9)

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Reflect on the assigned readings for Week 6 and then type a two page paper regarding what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding. Define and describe what you thought was worthy of your understanding in half a page, and then explain why you felt it was important, how you will use it, and/or how important it is in project planning. After submitting your two page paper as an initial post in the “Reflection and Discussion Forum,” then type at least two peer replies in response to your classmates posts (200 word minimum each).

2)A project to put on a major international sporting competition has the following major deliverables: Sports Venues, Athlete Accommodation, Volunteer Organization, Security, Events, and Publicity (which has already been broken down into pre-event publicity and post-event publicity.) Prepare a WBS for any single major deliverable on the list. Remember the 100 percent rule, and number your objectives.

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1. What did the adhesion experiments in Fig. 5 and Fig. 6 reveal about CLP’s function? Utilize the terms heterophilic and homophilic interactions in your explanation.

2. If molecular techniques for T. vaginalis are not limited, what is a loss of function experiment you would propose to further investigate your research question of interest which mutating the calcium-binding domain in CLP? What readout/result would you assess and what would this experiment help you discover?

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Use R to define a data sequence t = seq (2015,2018, length=100), and then plot the following two functions on the same figure: y = sin(2π(t − 0.1)) and y = cos2 (2πt).

Use R to define a data sequence t = seq (2015,2018, length=100), and then plot the following two functions on the same figure: y = sin(2π(t − 0.1)) and y = cos2 (2πt).

Use R to define a data sequence t = seq (2015,2018, length=100), and then plot the following two functions on the same figure: y = sin(2π(t − 0.1)) and y = cos2 (2πt).

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You have an option to purchase all of the assets of the Overland Railroad for $2.5 billion. The option expires in nine months. You estimate Overland’s current (month 0) present value (PV) as $2.7 billion. Overland generates after-tax free cash flow (FCF) of $50 million at the end of each quarter (i.e., at the end of each three-month period). If you exercise your option at the start of the quarter, that quarter’s cash flow is paid out to you. If you do not exercise, the cash flow goes to Overland’s current owners.

In each quarter, Overland’s PV either increases by 10% or decreases by 9.09%. This PV includes the quarterly FCF of $50 million. After the $50 million is paid out, PV drops by $50 million. Thus, the binomial tree for the first quarter is (figures in millions):

The risk-free interest rate is 2% per quarter.

1. Build a binomial tree for Overland, with one up or down change for each three-month period (three steps to cover your nine-month option).

2. Suppose you can only exercise your option now, or after nine months (not at month 3 or 6). Would you exercise now?

3. Suppose you can exercise now, or at month 3, 6, or 9. What is your option worth today? Should you exercise today, or wait?

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It is impossible to manage processes that are geographically dispersed without utilizing modern Enterprise Systems. Justify your answer.

It is impossible to manage processes that are geographically dispersed without utilizing modern Enterprise Systems. Justify your answer.

It is impossible to manage processes that are geographically dispersed without utilizing modern Enterprise Systems. Justify your answer.

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Business Case for Designing a New Smart Home

Currently there are a variety of smart phones available on the market, targeting different levels of budget. Unfortunately, none of these products cater to environmental concerns such as the recyclability of the phones and the ethical sourcing of raw materials. This project is sponsored by the Australian Computer Society. The aim of this project is to design a new smart phone:

• whose raw materials would be sourced from ethical sources.
• whose design and build would incorporate the use of recycled material.
• which would be easier to recycle once it has reached end of life.
• whose battery, when discarded, would not cause any environmental issues.

Currently there are no other environmentally friendly alternative solutions. All the smart phones that are currently available on the market are harmful to nature.

Potential risks and issues that might be faced are:

• not having the necessary expertise.
• not delivering the final product on time.
• technological advances do not permit such a product

Project Scope for Designing a new Smart Phone

Requirements

The new smart phone needs to cater for environmental concerns, such that it needs to be

• recyclable.
• made from recyclable raw materials.
• made from ethically sourced materials.
• be affordable.
• energy efficient.
• a battery that does not cause environmental harm if discarded.

Project Scope Statement

To design a new Smart Phone that is environmentally friendly.

The project deliverables for the new smart phone are:

• An LCD touch screen front display.
• A minimum battery life of 24 hours.
• Wi-Fi capabilities.
• 4G capabilities.

The technical requirements are listed below.

• The new smart phone must meet all safety codes.
• The new smart phone must meet all IEEE criteria for Wi-Fi and 4G.
• A 150 x 70 x 10 mm body.
• A maximum weight of 175 g.
• A 720 x 1280 pixels display.
• A 12 MP font camera.
• An 8 MP back camera.

Limits and Exclusions:

• The final product must be finished within the project deadline.
• The final product needs to easily integrate with other technological products.
• The final product must be affordable.

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