Explain how the Commander, US Indo-Pacific Command supports at least two national interests contained in the 2021 Interim National Security Strategic Guidance (NSSG).

Answer all three elements of the question below in a single essay (600-850 words):
See attached document (2021 Interim National Security Strategic Guidance (NSSG)); identifies
potential threats, opportunities, and challenges in the global security landscape and national interests.
Questions:
1. Describe and justify which one of these threats, opportunities, or challenges you believe is the most
significant to the Commander, US Indo-Pacific Command? See attached document (Commander’s
2021 Posture Statement_Indo Pacific Command)
2. Explain how the Commander, US Indo-Pacific Command supports at least two national interests
contained in the 2021 Interim National Security Strategic Guidance (NSSG).
3. Describe how a US Indo-Pacific Command security cooperation activity (not included in previous
answers) links to a national interest identified in the 2021 Interim National Security Strategic
Guidance (NSSG).

What characteristics of the case study demonstrate that this is an ill-structured problem?

Ill-Structured Problem
Ill-structured problems (ISPs) have no clear goals or constraints and often involve ethical dilemmas. In fact, ISPs are highly dependent on context as well as the perspective of those who are solving the problem. In approaching an ill-structured problem, educational leaders must attend to alternative points of view and create arguments to justify the proposed solution. The purpose of this case study is to respond to an ill-structured problem with a potential solution.
After reading the case study “Discrimination or Background Knowledge, Part I” found at the end of Chapter 1, respond to the following questions:
• What characteristics of the case study demonstrate that this is an ill-structured problem?
• What ISLLC standards are applicable to this case study and how would you justify your explanation using the text?
• Acknowledging the legal and ethical issues surrounding this case, how would you professionally respond to the following groups to begin to uncover a solution without adding “fuel to the fire”?
o How might you respond to the minority parents who feel their children have been denied access?
o How would you respond to the principals who feel students of color do not have proper study skills?
The Journal
• Must be at least 1.5 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
o Title of paper
o Student’s name
o Course name and number
o Instructor’s name
o Date submitted
• Must use at least one outside source in addition to the course text.
o The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Writing Center.
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center.
Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Discuss about why you are the perfect candidate. Sell yourself

UCL MSc Global Prosperity Personal Statement Template 2
Course link (must read): https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/taught-degrees/global-prosperity-msc

Paragraph 1 & 2:
– https://seriouslydifferent.org/
– Using the link above, pick and discuss a specific issue that relates to the work that has been done by the faculty (Institute for Global Prosperity). Or it can be some other areas of global challenges affecting global prosperity
– What is your view on that, how did that relate to a personal experience, and why that inspired you to pursue MSc Global Prosperity?
– This paragraph should demonstrate that you have done the research into the research and content taught by the faculty. It should also show your critical thinking skills in evaluating current global issues.

Paragraph 3:
– Discuss about why you are the perfect candidate. Sell yourself
– Undergraduate background: Major: Finance at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. (I initially majored in supply chain and marketing science but switched to major in Finance).
– You need to link the academic background to this course.
– Please discuss in details a project done during my undergraduate programme that can relate to this course, mainly demonstrate social study research skill

Paragraph 4:
– Discuss about an internship experience that helped transformed the way I think about prosperity. Relate this to the content available at the course website.

Paragraph 5:
– Discuss about why study at UCL Institute for Global Prosperity
– Pick and research on one particular researcher at UCL, what do you admire about his work (e.g. methodology, contribution).

Is the left-right ideology similar on average for those who did and not answer the item NatFrEst?

Final Coursework
Quantitative Data Analysis (POLS0083)

Section 1
Public perceptions of benefit fraud
Trust in social welfare institutions relies on how the public perceives of the deservingness of recipients of such
benefits. In particular, notions of so-called ‘benefit cheats’ erodes public confidence in social welfare.
Past surveys have shown that the public tend to greatly over-estimate the financial scale of benefit fraud. For
example, a 2013 Ipsos MORI study found that on average, respondents guessed that £24 out of every £100
in benefit claims is done fraudulently, whereas the official estimate is around £0.70 of every £100.
In this section, we explore public perceptions about fraudulently claiming benefits, and in particular, about
how widespread false benefits claims are. More specifically, we will examine whether certain socio-demographic
characteristics are associated with public perceptions about how widely false benefit claims are made in the
UK.
We will use part of the British Social Attitudes (BSA) data set on poverty and wealth, which you can download
as bsa-poverty.csv from the POLS0083 Moodle page. The data set contains the following variables:
Variable name Description
NatFrEst Answer to the question “Out of every 100 people receiving benefits in Britain,
how many have broken the law by giving false information to support their
claim?”
leftrigh Five-point left-right ideological scale, with 0 to the left and 4 to the right
RSex Sex of respondent, 1 if male or 0 if female
HEdQual3 Completed university degree, 1 if the respondent completed degree or 0 if not
You can load the data set by using the following command:
bsa <- read.csv("data/bsa-poverty.csv") Questions (42 Marks) 1. How many individuals are included in the data set? 2. Is the left-right ideology similar on average for those who did and not answer the item NatFrEst? 3. Calculate the median of the variable NatFrEst. What does this tell us about the distribution of perceptions about fraudulent benefits claims? 4. Create a histogram for NatFrEst and interpret it. What does this tell us about public perceptions about fraudulent benefits claims? 5. We are interested in seeing whether there is a relationship between a person’s left-right orientation and how widespread they think fraudulent benefit claims are. Fit the relevant simple linear regression model and interpret the substantive significance of the estimated slope coefficient. You do not need to discuss statistical significance. 6. State a null and an alternative hypothesis for the estimated slope coefficient, decide whether to reject the null hypothesis, and provide a conclusion. 7. How is your conclusion in Question 6 related to Type I and Type II error? 8. We now add whether the respondent completed a university degree and respondent sex to our analysis. Interpret the estimated coefficient for the left-right orientation. Does your answer to the question about the relationship between a person’s left-right orientation and NatFrEst change? If so, how? 9. Calculate and interpret the 99% confidence interval for the estimated coefficient for completing a university degree from the model you fitted in Question 8. What does the estimated standard error tell 2 us? 10. Finally, we are interested in whether the relationship between left-right orientation and perceptions of how widespread benefit fraud is also depends on an individual’s education level. a. Add the relevant interaction term to your regression model and display your results. b. Assess the model fit for this regression model. c. Interpret the estimated interaction term and discuss its substantive and statistical significance. d. Interpret the intercept and its statistical significance. Is the intercept meaningful in this regression model? e. Visually represent the results from the regression model using four lines (one each for male respondents with a university degree, female respondents with a university degree, male respondents without a university degree and female respondents without a university degree) and describe what your graph shows. 3 Section 2 Dystopian fiction and willingness to justify radical political action We now look at part of the recent study by Jones and Paris (2018), who conducted a series of survey experiments to examine whether exposure to dystopian fiction affects an individual’s political beliefs. They define dystopian fiction as “portray[ing] a dark and disturbing world dominated by an overwhelmingly powerful. . . controlling entity that acts to undermine core values”. In particular, the authors hypothesised that exposure to dystopian fiction would lead to higher support for more radical political action, especially for more violent action. In the first study, the authors randomly assigned the US-based respondents into two groups. Respondents assigned to the treatment group first read an excerpt from the first book in Hunger Games, and then watched a 17-minute video with various violent scenes from the Hunger Games films. Respondents assigned to the control group were not exposed to any media. The premise of Hunger Games is that an overwhelmingly powerful government forces individuals to take part in a contest where the participants are forced to kill each other until only one survivor remains. The outcome variables are a series of attitudinal items about willingness to justify different disruptive activities: civil disobedience, damaging government property, cyberattacks on government websites, armed rebellion, and violent protest. The data file you will use, which can be downloaded on the POLS0083 Moodle page, is titled dystopia.csv. The data includes the following variables: Variable name Description hgindic Treatment group, with 1 for those exposed to Hunger Games and 0 for the control group j_disobed How much civil diobedience can be justified, on a 0-1 scale j_damage How much damaging government property can be justified, on a 0-1 scale j_cyber How much cyberattacks on government websites can be justified, on a 0-1 scale j_rebel How much armed rebellion can be justified, on a 0-1 scale j_violent How much violent protest can be justified, on a 0-1 scale female Respondent sex, with 1 as female and 0 as male ideo Respondent left-right ideological orientation, with higher scores indicating the right, on a 1-6 scale You can load the data set by using the following command: dystopia <- read.csv("data/dystopia.csv") Questions (33 Marks) 1. What are the proportions of female respondents within the treatment and control groups? 2. We are interested in the outcome variables for civil disobedience and armed rebellion. For each of these outcome variables: a. Create a boxplot for each treatment group and interpret the results. b. Calculate difference in means by treatment group and interpret the results. You do not need to discuss statistical significance. c. Conduct the appropriate hypothesis test and interpret the results for the difference in means. 4 3. In the current study, in which two ways can we understand the population from which the sample is drawn? 4. With what assumptions can we interpret the results from Question 2 as causal? 5. Fit a regression model for each outcome variable with the treatment group, sex, and ideology. Does the estimated difference in means change? What does this tell us about the randomisation of treatment in this study? 6. Do your results support the authors’ hypothesis about the link between dystopian fiction and willingness to support radical political action? State your conclusions in terms of substantial and statistical significance. 5 Section 3 Direct democracy and citizens’ local support Does direct democracy (such as local referendums) increase satisfaction with local policies and governmental institutions? Marien and Kern (2018) explore this question in their article “The Winner Takes It All: Revisiting the Effect of Direct Democracy on Citizens’ Political Support”. Drawing on the existing literature, the authors argue that direct democratic instruments have short-term positive effects on satisfaction with local policies and institutions, since they increase the perceived fairness of decision-making and ability to influence political outcomes among the electorate. To test their hypothesis, the authors conducted multiple surveys during the spring of 2015, when the Belgian city Mechelen conducted a referendum on traffic circulation, after citizens had objected to the local government’s initial plans. The researchers collected survey data before and after the referendum took place both from a sample of local residents in Mechelen who lived in neighbourhoods affected by the traffic diversion plans (treatment group) and from a sample of residents of a similar neighbourhood in Mechelen not affected by the traffic circulation plans (control group). The data file you will use, which can be downloaded on the POLS0083 Moodle page, is titled referendum.csv. The data includes the following variables: Variable name Description idresp Respondent ID neighb Neighbourhood, 1 as the treatment group and 0 as the control w1_byear Respondent birth year primary Highest level of education completed - primary - with 1 Yes and 0 No secondary Highest level of education completed - secondary - with 1 Yes and 0 No tertiary Highest level of education completed - tertiary - with 1 Yes and 0 No w1_trust_general General level of trust on a 0-10 scale, with higher scores meaning more trust, before the referendum w1_pol_interest Political interest on a 0-10 scale, with higher scores meaning more interest, before the referendum w1_democracy_satis Democratic satisfaction on a 0-10 scale, before the referendum, with higher scores meaning higher satisfaction w2_democracy_satis Democratic satisfaction on a 0-10 scale, after the referendum, with higher scores meaning higher satisfaction You can load the data set by using the following command: referendum <- read.csv("data/referendum.csv") Questions (25 Marks) 1. Is the average level of democratic satisfaction before the referendum significantly different (statistically and substantively) between respondents in the treatment and control groups? 2. Provide some evidence that the treatment and control neighbourhoods are similar in terms of respondent characteristics before the referendum took place. 3. Focusing on the respondents living in a neighbourhood affected by the government’s plan on traffic circulation, use a before-after design to estimate the average treatment effect. Is this difference significant both statistically and substatively? 4. With what assumptions can we consider the results of Question 3 as causal? 6 5. Calculate and interpret the difference-in-differences for democratic satisfaction for the two neighbourhoods and interpret your results. 6. Do the results in Question 5 support the authors’ hypothesis about the link between direct democracy and citizens’ perceptions about democracy? Why or why not? 7. With what assumptions can we consider the results of Question 6 as causal? 7

Why do stories matter? We begin the first readings in our World Literature class with the Creation Story in Genesis. How do we as humans relate to these stories and why do we need them in our lives? How do these stories enrich us socially, intellectually, and culturally?

As children we grew up listening to stories, watching shows on television screens that would weave stories of characters whom we loved, and we would make up stories of our own lives.

Why do stories matter? We begin the first readings in our World Literature class with the Creation Story in Genesis. How do we as humans relate to these stories and why do we need them in our lives? How do these stories enrich us socially, intellectually, and culturally?

Summarize the five-step revenue recognition standards as presented in Chapter 4 of the textbook.

Read the article “Revenue Recognition Guidance and the Potential for Fraud and Abuse,” located in the Topic resources. In addition, refer to the Starbucks Financial Data – SEC Filings, Form 10-K for the most recent fiscal year and locate the note on revenue recognition in the notes to the financial statements. Provide a 500 words paper addressing the following items:

Summarize the five-step revenue recognition standards as presented in Chapter 4 of the textbook.
Refer to the Starbucks Form 10-K and provide examples of how Starbucks follows the five-step revenue recognition model.
Refer to the article “Revenue Recognition Guidance and the Potential for Fraud and Abuse” and discuss how the five-step revenue recognition model may prevent Starbucks from committing financial statement fraud. Provide examples to support your points. Note in the article that there are subheadings for “Fraud and Abuses” and “Implications of New Guidance;” these may provide some helpful ideas for this portion of the assignment.

https://investor.starbucks.com/financial-data/sec-filings/default.aspx

Identify the independent & dependent variable(s) for this study.

General Requirements – Identifying Variables:
In a study investigating the effects of humor on memory, Schmidt showed participants a list of sentences, half of which were humorous and half were non-humorous. Schmidt found that participants consistently recalled more of the humorous sentences than the non-humorous sentences, demonstrating that the use of humor increased participants’ recall of sentences.

Directions – In an essay (250-500 words), address the following items:

· Identify the independent & dependent variable(s) for this study.

· Describe the scale of measurement used for the independent variable.

· Describe the scale of measurement used for the dependent variable.

· State the purpose of the research (i.e. Schmidt’s purpose was to examine the effects of humor on memory),

· State the research question (i.e. Schmidt’s research question was: What are the effects of humor on memory?),

· State the independent variable and the dependent variable for your study.

References attached

Schmidt, S.R. (1994). Effects of humor on sentence memory. Journal of Experimental Pyschology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20(4), 953-967.

Ulloth, J.K. (2003). Guidelines for developing and implementing humor in nursing classrooms. Journal of Nursing Education, 42(1), 35-37.

White, G. W. (2001). Teachers’ report of how they used humor with students perceived use of such humor. Education, 122(2), 337-348.

Why does your HR function exist? What do you want for your customers and how can HR provide that?

Use your analysis to write your own HR mission statement for your fictional company. Consider the following questions when evaluating and formulating your mission statement. Keep in mind that good mission statements are short, clear, concise, & brief hard-hitting comments on your mission.

? Why does your HR function exist? What do you want for your customers and how can HR provide that?
? Who are your customers and what can you do for them that will enrich their lives and contribute to their success, both present and future?
? What image of your function do you want to convey internally and externally? Customers, employees and the public will all have perceptions of your company. How will HR help create the desired picture?
? What level of service do you provide to employees and the company? Don’t be vague; define what will make your service extraordinary.
? What kind of relationships will your HR function maintain with customers? Every company function is in partnership with its customers. When you succeed, so do they.
? What underlying philosophies or values guided your responses to the previous questions? Some mission statements choose to list these separately (as core values or vision). Writing them down clarifies the “why” behind your mission.
? Does your HR function’s mission statement describe and support what your company will do and why it will do it (the company’s core values)?
There is a minimum requirement of 500 words for this assignment. The paper must be in APA format (See pages 13 – 15 in the CSU Citation Guide). Any sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in APA format.

What are the factors that make long-term care unique compared to a hospital?

Prompt: Thus far in the course, the primary focus has been on hospitals within the healthcare industry. For this short paper, you will consider the economic issues related to long-term care facilities.

In this assignment, consider the following questions related to long-term care facilities:

? What are the factors that make long-term care unique compared to a hospital?
? What is the effect of Certificate of Need (CON) on the economics of long-term care economic decision making and how is this different from that of a
hospital?
? What does the forecast of supply and demand for the long-term care industry look like for the next 25 years and how should that impact decision
making?
? Should the U.S. government cover the costs for the elderly in the middle and wealthy classes?

Identify at least four different areas where there could be potential accounting fraud in a company

For this assignment, you will represent a company that does not currently have an accounting information system (AIS) established. Make sure you clearly identify the business line, product type, and market position.

Read this article before you begin:

Instructions
Write a 3–4-page paper in which you:

Identify at least four different areas where there could be potential accounting fraud in a company. Make sure you elaborate on your reasoning for why accounting fraud could occur as well as the financial implications on the organization.
Design a method of detection and a method of limiting the possible financial fraud. Provide support for your arguments and rationale using support from your text and supplemental readings.
Provide support for arguments and rationale using AIS knowledge and recent AIS literature.
Draft a one-page recommendation at the end of the document directed to the CEO explaining the findings, recommendations, and benefits of installing an accounting information system. Make sure you are specific in your recommendations. This is an additional page and not included in the original 3–4-page paper.
Use at least three quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.