What is meant by “evolutionary change”; meaning what is it and how would you know when it has occurred?

Discussion Topic 1
Natural Selection

A novel fungicide is introduced and widely applied to cereal crops. After five years, resistant genotypes of the fungal pathogen are detected at a frequency of about 1%; resistance is widely distributed across the pathogen’s range. Within two years, these have become so common that the fungicide becomes worthless.

Explain how this pattern can be explained by the basic features of natural selection. Include in your answer:

A brief description of what natural selection is.
The conditions that must be met in order for natural selection to occur.
How natural selection explains the scenario above.

Discussion Topic 2
Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change

This unit we are learning that there are several mechanisms that lead to evolutionary change within a population or species: mutation, migration, genetic drift, non-random breeding and natural selection.

What is meant by “evolutionary change”; meaning what is it and how would you know when it has occurred?
Select two of the mechanisms listed above and explain how each can lead to evolutionary change as defined in Q#1. Be specific and use an example of each.

What everyday activity or product have you chosen to present? Why did you choose this activity or product? Why is it important?

After learning about several ways in which our everyday actions impact climate change, choose one action to conduct more research on and create a PowerPoint presentation to tell us more! Use the unit material and reliable online resources to gather more information.

There are several ideas with information throughout the unit but there is even more information out in the world! Think about what you do every day, and how the activity uses energy or natural resources. Think about a product you buy—how it was made, what natural resources were used to make it? You can also do a quick google search of “everyday activities that effect the environment” and start reading some articles for more ideas.

Remember to use reliable sources from the Internet. There is a lot of misinformation out there and finding reliable information can be difficult. The best sources of reference material for your presentation are scientific journals found in the CSU Online Library databases. Click here for a biology research tutorial that demonstrates how to locate library resources relating to biology You can also find reliable statistics at organization websites listed in the Unit under “Combat Climate Change.”

Your presentation must include:

1. What everyday activity or product have you chosen to present? Why did you choose this activity or product? Why is it important?

2. Connect the activity/product to its impact on the environment and climate change.

How does doing the activity or making the product use natural resources, disrupt habitat, impact wildlife or other effects on the environment?

3. Report data and statistics, with references, on how this activity/product effects the environment.

4. What can people do to decrease the activity/product’s impact on the environment?

Be sure to follow the formatting and guidelines provided below:

Include at least three visual aids.

Include three reliable references, and at least one source must come from the CSU Online Library.

Business Ethics, Environmental Sustainability and Governance

QUESTIONS:

SECTION 1 (45 points)

• Define the concept of Code of Ethics, and critically evaluate its effectiveness in managing business ethics (15 points).
• Define what Agency Theory is and critically evaluate its possible problems. (15 points)
• Critically evaluate what Sustainability marketing is, and what makes it important? (15 Points)

SECTION 2 (55 points)

(Read the below case carefully, and answer the questions followed.)

CASE:

You are the board director of Z-Med, a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in London, UK.  The company’s Research & Development department is working on a novel breast cancer drug. The drug could provide breakthrough treatment for millions of women in the company’s core markets in Europe and the US and is likely to be a source of high revenue for Z-Med which has recently seen a fall in profits and resulting drop in share price.

In order to have approval, company still needs to conduct further trials to test for the effectiveness and safety of the drug. However, in Europe these kinds of clinical trials are rather lengthy and very costly to conduct, due to the strict regulatory environment.

In a board meeting, the CEO of Z-Med suggests carrying out a large part of the trials in country X, a developing country in Asia, whose government provides more favourable conditions for clinical trials. The government of country X regards international drug trails as a cheap way of providing treatment for poor people who cannot afford to buy drugs or other kinds of medical treatment. Furthermore, in country X, a significant proportion of poor women suffer from breast cancer; and therefore, it will be relatively easy to recruit participant for the trial.

The company has no plans to make the drug available below market price in country X after its approval. Also, at the current stage of the drug’s development the Research & Development department cannot yet rule out the occurrence of harmful side effects, even though they believe that the likelihood of this happening is very low.

The CEO’s suggestion sounds like a tough call for you to endorse!!!

Questions:

2.1 Identify key stakeholders in the above case and explain what the ethical issues around each stakeholder are. (10 points)

2.2 Critically evaluate the case using TWO of the following ethical theories: Utilitarianism, Kantianism, Rights and Justice, Virtue ethics. (30 points)

2.3 If you were the board director, what would you do? Explain your opinion with proper justification. (15 points)

”The role of tourism and climate change” ”challenges and future of tourism incorporating sustainability agenda”

Hello, i need a Poster about the company MSC Cruises in the U.K, i did a research paper about ”Tourism and climate change” and now i need to do a poster that informs stakeholders about the challenges and future of tourism incorporating sustainability agenda for a company i used in the research, it needs to have charts and swot analysis. You will have everything you need to do in the files that i will upload, i have a poster template(you can modify it),and to be harvard referenced. Keep it simple. Thank you so much

Make a deposit into someone’s Emotional Bank Account today

Use Habit 4 from Sean Covey book and the reflexive writing model i.e the WHAT, So What, & Now What.

Describe the Challenges and Opportunities in Contemporary Health Care

Short Paper: Describe the Challenges and Opportunities in Contemporary Health Care

Please describe what you feel are the most important challenges in a 2-3 page paper on this topic. All papers must be APA formatted, and must also include a title page and reference page.

Can investigative psychology make pragmatic contributions to criminal investigations?

By contributions, I am referring to any advancements in knowledge that can help improve the efficiency of investigations (think about the investigative cycle and how any stage could be improved).

I purposely use the term ‘pragmatic’ because we also want to know if the knowledge generated from IP research is applicable to the real-world (e.g., can Dragnet really reduce search costs, is the IP approach to profiling more accurate than guess-work?).

To answer this question, you need to dig deep into the literature and find research that evaluates the effectiveness of IP-related approaches to criminal investigations.

Potential topics:

Offender Profiling

Crime Linkage

Geographical Offender Profiling


Structure:

Introduction

Explain the fundamental principles of IP and how it emerged (learning outcome 1) (Approx. 300)

Main body

Explain the IP approach to criminal investigations (i.e., criminal differentiation, crime linkage, GOP,

suspect elicitation and prioritisation, A-C equation- you do not have to cover it all). (Approx. 600)

Evaluating the effectiveness of IP. Draw on a plethora of empirical literature to appraise the efficacy

of the Investigative Psychology approach. Highlight the strengths and limitations. (Approx. 850)

The above two points could be merged together.

Conclusion

Sum up your findings and consider directions for future research (Approx. 250)

Assignment brief attached below

Conduct a SWOT analysis by analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, application opportunities, and threats from competitors of the chosen topic.

Term Paper: Networking

Select one of the following topics in which you will base your responses in the form of a term paper:

Network Neutrality

Web2.0

Wireless Technology

Broadband Convergence

U.S. Telecommunication Policy

Internet Security

IPv6

WWAN

WLAN

DNSSEC

WAN

Write a fully developed paper in which you:

1. Compose an executive summary highlighting the paper’s contents and reasoning for your chosen topic.

2. Conduct a SWOT analysis by analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, application opportunities, and threats from competitors of the chosen topic.

3. Evaluate the current ethical and legal concerns surrounding your topic.

4. Select one ethical or legal concern surrounding your topic, take a position on the issue, and provide rationale.

5. Analyze the improvements over the last two years to your communication technology topic, and suggest an improvement based on its current usage.

6. Predict the future role of the communication technology you’ve selected for both personal and commercial use.

7. Create a diagram that illustrates the communication structure of your chosen technology in Visio or its open source alternative software. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.

8. Use at least eight quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.

How does multitasking confuse the resource availability of project team personnel?

Instructions:

In this assignment, read Case Study 12.1 – The Problems of Multitasking located in the Pinto (2009) text.

Present a case analysis 2500 word paper in length, not including the cover page and reference section.
Your discussion is to wrap around questions one through three (1-3) below.
You are to use a minimum of 7 sources as is required in accordance with APA standards.
CASE STUDY 12.1 The Problems of Multitasking An eastern U.S. financial services company found itself way behind schedule and over budget on an important strategic program. Both the budget and schedule baselines had begun slipping almost from the beginning, and as the project progressed, the lags became severe enough to require the company to call in expert help in the form of a project management consulting firm. After investigating the organization’s operations, the consulting firm determined that the primary source of problems both with this project in particular and the company’s project management practices in general was a serious failure to accurately forecast resource requirements. In the words of one of the consultants, “Not enough full-time [human] resources had been dedicated to the program.” The biggest problem was the fact that too many of the project team members were working on two or more projects simultaneously—a clear example of multitasking. Unfortunately, the program’s leaders developed their ambitious schedule without reflecting on the availability of resources to support the project milestones. With their excessive outside responsibilities, no one was willing to take direct ownership of their work on the program, people were juggling assignments, and everyone was getting farther behind in all the work. Again, in the words of the consultant, “Project issues would come up and there would be nobody there to handle them [in a timely fashion].” Those little issues, left unattended, eventually grew to become big problems. The schedule continued to lag, and employee morale began to bottom out. Following their recognition of the problem, the first step made by the consultants was to get top management to renegotiate the work assignments with the project team. First, the core team members were freed from other responsibilities so they could devote their full-time attention to the program. Then, other support members of the project were released from multitasking duties and assigned to the project on a full-time or near full-time basis as well. The result, coupled with other suggested changes by the consultants, was to finally match up the project’s schedule and activity duration estimates with a realistic understanding of resources needs and availability. In short, the program was put back on track because it was finally resource-leveled, particularly through creating full-time work assignments for the project team that accurately reflected the need to link resource management with scheduling.

Questions 1. How does multitasking confuse the resource availability of project team personnel?

2. “In modern organizations, it is impossible to eliminate multitasking for the average employee.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why?

3. Because of the problems of multitasking, project managers must remember that there is a difference between an activity’s duration and the project calendar. In other words, 40 hours of work on a project task is not the same thing as one week on the baseline schedule. Please comment on this concept. Why does multitasking “decouple” activity duration estimates from the project schedule?

What trend do you see takes place to the confidence interval as the confidence level rises? Explain mathematically why that takes place.

You will complete a Course Project in this course that will span two weeks. The final project is due the Sunday of Week 7. The project is broken into two parts. You will complete Part I in Week 6 and Part II in Week 7. In Week 6, Confidence Intervals will be explored and in Week 7 Hypothesis testing will be explored.

A confidence interval is a defined range of values such that there is a specified probability that the value of a parameter lies within the interval.

In Part I of this project, you will pick a topic, complete research and provide a write-up that includes calculations. Round all values to two decimal places when appropriate.

Deliverables

Choose a Topic where you can gather at least 50 pieces of data.
Examples of Topics

The Golden Gate Warriors Points Per Game in 2016 (use the points scored in the first 50 games).
High School Graduation Rates by State (use the graduation rates for all 50 states)
Average Tuition Rates in the US (You have to find the tuition rates of 50 college/universities).
The prices of a hotel room per night in a major city (You have to find the price of the same night of hotels in one city).
Weights of 50 babies at birth.
Write at least a 1-Page Report
Open a Word Document

Introduction–Provide a description of your topic and cite where you found your data.
Sample Data—Include a 5×10 table including your 50 values in your report. You must provide ALL of your sample data.
Problem Computations—For the topic you chose, you must answer the following:
Determine the mean and standard deviation of your sample.
Find the 80%, 95%, and 99% confidence intervals.
Make sure to list the margin of error for the 80%, 95%, and 99% confidence interval.
Create your own confidence interval (you cannot use 80%, 95%, and 99%) and make sure to show your work. Make sure to list the margin of error.
Problem Analysis—Write a half-page reflection.
What trend do you see takes place to the confidence interval as the confidence level rises? Explain mathematically why that takes place.
Provide a sentence for each confidence interval created in part c) which explains what the confidence interval means in context of topic of your project.
Explain how Part I of the project has helped you understand confidence intervals better?
How did this project help you understand statistics better?