Consider how anomalies in data may relate to your own personal experience.

(a) Describe a situation where anomaly detection is (or has been) beneficial to you.

(b) Provide an opinion on the result in your shared situation if the anomaly were to be treated as noise instead.

Answer Questions 1-4 in the given space.

1. A Logistics Information System can be divided into two groups: planning and control. List at lest two activities/ components for each group.

2. Suggest which aspect of data analytics suits best for the following scenario and explain why:

Planning drop-off locations for troops in a combat zone. Only limited amount of historical data (about enemy movement) is available. Live drone and satellite feeds provide further data on enemy movements.

3. There are two basic varieties of data: Structured data and unstructured. Provide at least two examples for each variety of data. (Structured data must be related to supply chain/ logistics).

4. Which of the four common solution development techniques would be most suitable for following scenario? Briefly explain why (others are not suitable and why your choice is the best).

The location for a regional hub for a multi-modal shipping company is to be determined. The hub will be connecting several local transportation routes to national and international transportation routes. This hub will be a $200 million investment. Historical shipping data, economic activity forecasts, socio-economic forecast for possible site locations, forecasted operating costs etc. have been gathered.

For Question 5-8, answer the following specific questions. To earn full credit, you must submit your work files to GaVIEW.

5. [20 points] Import the Exam 1 Data.txt dataset into Excel. Answer following questions.

   1. How many total orders were shipped from origin port? What is the average weight per order?

1. Which carrier shipped highest number of units? How many units were shipped by that carrier? How many orders were shipped by that carrier?

1. Which plant shipped least weight? How many units were shipped by that plant? How many orders were shipped by that plant?

1. How many orders were shipped in 2012, 2013, and 2014?

6. [10 points] Refer to Question 5 data set. Use conditional formatting in Excel and perform following operations.

   1. Highlight the “Customers” who have ordered between 01/01/2013 and 06/30/2013 and ordered 500 or less per order. (red)

   2. Highlight the “Order ID” which have shipped from PLANT01 to PORT02. (blue)

7. [15 points] Following table shows number of picking errors made by employees during last 11 days. Number of units picked each day is also given. The warehouse manager wants to keep average number of errors per 1000 picks below 0.20. What is the maximum number of errors allowed on 12^th day if the number of units picked is 19073?

8. [15 points] A medical equipment supplier is deciding on how many units of N-95 masks should be ordered from the manufacturer for the next month. From each mask sold, they would earn $1.00 profit. If the mask is not sold within the next month, the supplier has to sell at a salvage price, that would cost them $0.75. The demand is assumed to be distributed in a discrete distribution as given in the “Exam 1 Q8.xlsx” file. The Excel file shows the profit calculation when demand is 50,000 units and when the supplier orders 50,000 units. (Profit value is given in E4). The supplier may order between 30,000-80,000 units for the next month in a multiple of 5000. The supplier wants to find out the number of units that would maximize the expected profit.

   1. Calculate the profit for each demand and order quantity combination using Excel Data Table method.

   2. Calculate the Expected profit for each order quantity.

   3. What is the order quantity that gives highest expected profit? What is the profit?

Step 1 Specific Company for All Four Projects

The companies that your instructor has assigned to you for Project 1 is the company you will use for this project. The assigned company must be used for this project and in subsequent projects in the course. Students must complete the project using the assigned company. Deviating from the assigned company will result in a zero for the project.

After reading the course material, you will complete the steps below.

Step 2 Course Materials and Research

• You are required to research information about the focal company and the internal environment for this project, You are accountable for using the course materials to support the ideas, reasoning and conclusions made. Course materials use goes beyond defining terms but is used to explain the ‘why and how’ of a situation. Using one or two in-text citations from the course materials and then relying on Internet source material will not earn many points on the assignment. A variety of source material is expected and what is presented must be relevant and applicable to the topic being discussed. Avoid merely making statements but close the loop of the discussion by explaining how something happens or why something happens, which focuses on importance and impact. In closing the loop, you will demonstrate the ability to think clearly and rationally showing an understanding of the logical connections between the ideas presented from the research, the course material and the question(s) being asked.

• Note:Your report is based on the results of the research performed and not on any prepared documentation. What this means is that you will research and draw your own conclusions that are supported by the research and the course material rather than the use any source material that puts together any of the tools or techniques whether from the Internet, for-pay websites or any pre-prepared document, video or source material. A zero will be earned for not doing your own analysis.
• Success: The analysis is based on research and not opinion. You are not making recommendations and you will not attempt to position the focal company in a better or worse light than other companies within the industry merely because you are completing an analysis on this particular company. The analysis must be based on factual information. Any conclusions drawn have to be based on factual information rather than leaps of faith. To ensure success, as stated above, you are expected to use the course materials and research on the focal company’s global industry and the focal company. Opinion does not earn credit nor does using external sources when course materials can be used. It is necessary to provide explanations (the why and how) rather than making statements. Avoid stringing one citation after another as doing so does not show detailed explanations.

Library Resources

On the main navigation bar in the classroom select, Resources and then select Library. Select Databases by Title (A – Z). Select M from the alphabet list, and then select Mergent Online. You may also use Market Line and should be looking at the focal company’s Annual Report or 10K report. You are not depending on any one resource to complete the analysis. It is impossible to complete a Porter’s Five Forces, competitive analysis or OT by using only course material.

You should not be using obscure articles, GlassDoor, or Chron or similar articles.

Research for Financial Analysis: Financial Research

Research for Industry Analysis CSI Market

UMGC library is available for providing resources and services. Seek library support for excellence in your academic pursuit.

Library Support

Extensive library resources and services are available online, 24 hours a day, seven days a week at https://www.umgc.edu/library/index.cfm to support you in your studies. The UMGC Library provides research assistance in creating search strategies, selecting relevant databases, and evaluating and citing resources in a variety of formats via its Ask a Librarian service at https://www.umgc.edu/library/libask/index.cfm.

Scholarly Research in OneSearch is allowed.

To search for only scholarly resources, you are expected to place a check mark in the space for “Scholarly journals only” before clicking search.

You should not be using obscure articles, GlassDoor, or Chron or similar articles.

Research for Financial Analysis: Financial Research

Research for Industry Analysis CSI Market

Step 3 How to Set Up the Report

• The document has to be written in Word or rtf. No other format is acceptable. No pdf files will be graded. Use 12-point font for a double-spaced report. The final product cannot be longer than 16 pages in length, which includes all tables and matrices but excludes the title page and reference page. Do no use an Appendix. Those items identified in the technical analysis should appear under the appropriate heading in the paper. It is important to format the tables/matrices to fit the report and to present the analysis in a clear concise manner.
• Create a title page with title, your name, the course number, the instructor’s name;
• Use this template to complete the project: Project 3 Template.

Step 4 Strategic Role of Corporate Strengths/Weaknesses in the Internal Strategy Analysis

There are three levels of strategy: corporate level strategy, business level strategy and functional level strategy. Corporate level strategies are related to businesses or markets the focal company successfully can compete within. Corporate level strategies affect the entire organization and are formulated by top management using input from middle and lower management. Decision making about corporate level strategies are considered complex, affect the entire company and relate to an organization’s resource capabilities. Corporate level strategies align with an organization’s mission statement and ideally are designed around goals and objectives.

Perform an analysis on:

• Corporate-level strategies
• Create a partial SWOT table and performs a SW analysis and discuss the strategic inferences/implications (Discuss what strategies would allow the company to capitalize on its major strengths and what strategies would allow the company to improve upon its major weaknesses.)
• Create an IFE matrix analysis. Make sure to explain how the matrix was developed and discuss the strategic inferences/implications
• Develop a Grand Strategy Matrix. Make sure to explain how the matrix was developed and discuss the strategic inferences/implications at a corporate level and business-unit-level.

Step 5 Strategic Role of Internal Resources/Departments/Processes

Perform an analysis on:

• Business-level strategies
  • Evaluate the company’s product line, target market
  • Identify and explain business-level strategies
• Functional-level strategies
  • Assess the company’s organizational structure, the organizational culture, marketing production, operations, finance and accounting, and R&D that can be accomplished by viewing the company’s website, interviews, and surveys.
  • Explain how these strategies align with the company’s vision and mission statements.

Step 6 Strategic Financial Analysis for the Last Reported Fiscal Year

• Use the company’s income statement and balance sheet to calculate no less than a total of ten (10) key financial ratios to the business that are relevant to the focal company. There must be a mix of four different key categories inclusive of the leverage, liquidity, profitability, and efficiency ratios so that the ratios do not all come from the same category. The specific ratios selection must come from the following categories.

• Leverage Ratios (Long term debt ratio, Total debt ratio, Debt-to-equity ratio, Times interest earned ratio, and Cash coverage ratio).
• Liquidity Ratios (Net working capital to total assets ratio, current ratio, quick ratio, and cash ratio)
• Efficiency Ratios (Asset turnover ratio, Average collection period, Inventory turnover ratio, and Days sales outstanding)
• Profitability Ratios (Net profit margin, Return on assets, and Return on equity)

• The selection of the ratios has to be relevant to the focal company so it is important to choose wisely.

• Quote industry financial average ratios that correlate to the 10 financial ratios selected for the focal company. You may find the industry averages by going to the library. If you are unable to find on your own, reach out to the librarian as these resources are readily available.

• Discuss the corporate financial standing based on a financial ratio analysis. Include whether the company’s financial ratio is a strength, a weakness or a neutral factor.

Note: If copied directly from the Internet, a zero will be assigned. When placing any table or figure in a table, it must be explained in detail.

Step 7 Composite Analysis

A composite analysis is one in which you will bring in a combination of relevant factors from the various analyses (EFE Matrix, IFE matrix, CPM matrix, SWOT, Grand Strategy Matrix and QSPM). The QSPM is a tool that helps determine the relative attractiveness of feasible alternative strategies based on the external and internal key success factors.

• Develop a Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM) analysis. Make sure to discuss how the matrix was developed and discuss the strategic inferences/implications.
• Develop a composite analysis on internal factor strategy analysis based on the qualitative and quantitative analytical outcomes from those steps above.

Explain your understanding concerning each piece listened to, so comment on what you hear, how it associates with the video lectures and/or corresponding readings from the assignment text, your impression of what you hear, any of the questions listed to encourage deeper thought you feel appropriate, etc. Musical terminology gained from the vocabulary assignments are appropriate and expected to be used in the appropriate fashion, as well as the use of complete sentences, correct grammar, spell check, and other tools at your disposal, including proper use of valuable information in the accompanying descriptions. *I want to see evidence in your reports that the clips were viewed and the descriptions were read.* Listed here are some basic ideas on what to include in your journals to help get you started: https://musicedhighlights.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/getting-our-students-to-listen/

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

Sample-2

Case Brief using IRAC method

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSIONS VS. NOCHOLAS J. GENOVESE, WILLOW CREEK INVESTMENTS, LP., AND WILLOW CREEK ADVISERS, LLC

Facts:

1. Several false oral statements were made regarding Genovese’s investments, career and professional and personal affiliations.

2. The defendants Genovese and his entity, Willow Creek Fund has raised $5.32 million dollars from at least 6 investors.

3. Genovese criminal background was purposely excluded.

Issues:

1. Did Genovese and Willow Creek Fund in fact violate Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder and…

2. Did Genovese and Willow Creek violate Sections 206(1), 206(2) and 206(4) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and 80b-6(2) and 80b6(4) and Rule 206(4)-8 thereunder ?

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

1. Describe your selected fictional client and the setting you have chosen from the options above. Select only one group for your fictional client and write a well-detailed, thick description of your client and the client’s housing conditions.

For example, “I will be describing social work with Ludmilla, a 26-year-old Russian mail order bride with limited English proficiency who was found singing on the street corner for money after she was abandoned by her husband ten months after arriving in this country. She lives in an SRO that contains….” [add your description here]. (4-5 sentences).

If you chose one or several pictures, describe how you are affected by the conditions as a social worker who is attempting to see the situation through the perspective of the client who resides in the SRO.

If you chose a quote, explain in your words what type of condition or reaction the interviewee is describing from their perspective.

2. Interpret the quote or picture, explaining what it means to you as a social worker. Defend your interpretation, supporting it with information obtained from Marsiglia and Booth (2015) and/or Lee at al. (2016). (Maximum: 3-4 sentences).

3. From your interpretation of the quote or picture in Question 2, suggest a problem that your fictional client (identified in Question #1) might experience in the environment you selected in Question 2 (1 sentence)

4. Describe a specific intervention to address the problem you suggested in Question #3. Explain how the meaning you drew from the picture or quote (Question #2) would specifically inform and guide your approach. Your recommendation can be on the micro, mezzo, or macro level. (Maximum: 3 concise, informative, descriptive sentences).

5. Choose and state one of the general cultural adaptations that Marsiglia and Booth (2015) reviewed from pages 424-426 of their article, such as content adaption to include surface and/or deep culture, cognitive adaptations, affective-motivational adaptations, etc.) that might be appropriate for your client. For example “An adaptation of [my intervention] that might apply to a [person from my selected group] is [choose from Marsiglia and Booth (2015), pp. 424-426]. (Maximum: 2 accurate, brief, and clear sentences).

6. Explain how you would use the cultural adaptation identified in Question 5 to make your intervention (described in Question #5) culturally responsive and relevant for the type of client (a SRO resident) that you selected for Question #1. State specific actions, statements, or work that you would perform if employed to intervene in this situation, using references to the learning resources to support your ideas. In other words, translate the broad description of the cultural adaptation into actions or statements you could actually do, if the situation arose.

*6.5 (Sort three numbers) Write a method with the following header to display three numbers in increasing order: public static void displaySortedNumbers( double num1, double num2, double num3) Write a test program that prompts the user to enter three numbers and invokes the method to display them in increasing order.

**6.30 (Game: craps) Craps is a popular dice game played in casinos. Write a program to play a variation of the game, as follows: Roll two dice. Each die has six faces representing values 1, 2, …, and 6, respectively. Check the sum of the two dice. If the sum is 2, 3, or 12 (called craps), you lose; if the sum is 7 or 11 (called natural), you win; if the sum is another value (i.e., 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10), a point is established. Continue to roll the dice until either a 7 or the same point value is rolled. If 7 is rolled, you lose. Otherwise, you win. Your program acts as a single player. Here are some sample runs: You rolled 5 + 6 = 11, You win; You rolled 1 + 2 = 3, You lose; You rolled 4 + 4 = 8, point is 8, You rolled 6 + 2 = 8, You win; You rolled 3 + 2 = 5, point is 5, You rolled 2 + 5 = 7, You lose

**6.32 (Game: chance of winning at craps) Revise Exercise 6.30 to run it 10,000 times and display the number of winning games.

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

Sample-2

Report: Part 1 (3 pages maximum)
Produce a word processed report containing all relevant information and results using a standard
structure for a laboratory report. Keep any preamble or background statement to a minimum. Ensure
you have a description of your experimental method, melting procedure used, stated key
calibration data for conversion of pixels (or other image reference) to standard SI units and
have noted the temperature and slag composition used in your experiments.
Report: Part 2 (2 page maximum)
Solid non-metallic particles must be removed from a liquid metal prior to solidification or they
negatively affect the solidified metals physical properties. Explain how your laboratory
measurements and laboratory measurement approach can be used to optimise the non-metallic
particle removal from the melt. Key aspects to consider will be
i. Particle type
ii. Particle size
iii. Reaction mechanism
iv. Slag composition
Use appropriate fundamental relations/equations, phase diagrams and mechanistic schematics to
answer this question.

DETAILED ASSIGNMENT

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the place where

https://www.nancymilliken.com/the-place-where-gall…

After you have explored the entries in THE PLACE WHERE gallery, choose at least three entries that you find moving or inspiring. In a journal entry of at least 500 words, analyze why they worked as well as they did. In other words, dissect the entries you choose and try to figure out why, from your perspective, they are more successful than others. You can talk about both written and visual components. Be sure to include at least one quotation from each as well as the titles (all of which begin “The place where….”).

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

Sample-2

Read the three thesis statements below about the same ad below and rank them in order of their strengths. Return to pages 118-119 in Everyone’s an Author for ideas on this. Then, write a paragraph (100+ words) about why you ranked them they way you did.

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1. This print ad featuring a cut-down tree and masked gunman training his weapon on a small tree activates fear through violent and shadowed imagery, creating an effective ad for its intended audience of teens and younger adults.

2. This print ad about political challenges with environmentalism leans too heavily on a logical fallacy of questionable cause when it suggests politicians do not care about the environment because “animals and trees don’t vote,” which might not change minds with its intended audience.

3. This print ad of a masked rifle-toting man with his gun trained on a tree engages in an extreme level of auxesis, and this dramatic overstating of the circumstances undercuts the purpose of the ad to convince the undecided about why environmental issues are not always supported by the government.

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

Sample-2