Month: November 2020

Accounting homework help

Problem 3—C Corporation (FORM 1120)
On November 1, 2005, Janet Morton and Kim Wong formed Pet Kingdom, Inc., to sell pets and pet supplies. Pertinent information regarding Pet Kingdom is summarized as follows:
· Pet Kingdom’s business address is 1010 Northwest Parkway, Dallas, TX 75225; its telephone number is (214) 555-2211; and its e-mail address is petkingdom@pki.com.
· The employer identification number is 11-1111111, and the principal business activity code is 453910.
· Janet and Kim each own 50% of the common stock; Janet is president and Kim is vice president of the company. No other class of stock is authorized.
· Both Janet and Kim are full-time employees of Pet Kingdom. Janet’s Social Security number is 123-45-6789, and Kim’s Social Security number is 987-65-4321.
· Pet Kingdom is an accrual method, calendar year taxpayer. Inventories are determined using FIFO and the lower of cost or market method. Pet Kingdom uses the straight-line method of depreciation for book purposes and accelerated depreciation (MACRS) for tax purposes.
· During 2018, the corporation distributed cash dividends of $306,495.
 
Pet Kingdom’s financial statements for 2019 are shown below.
 
Income Statement
 
Income
Gross Sales $4,600,000
Sales returns and allowances (160,000)
Net Sales $4,440,000
Cost of goods sold (1,840,000)
Gross Profit $2,600,000
Dividends received from stock Investments
in less-than-20%-owned U.S. corporations 35,000
Interest Income:
State bonds $12,000
Certificates of deposit 16,000 28,000
Total income $2,663,000
 
Expenses
Salaries-officers
Janet Morton $210,000
Kim Wong 210,000 $420,000
Salaries-clerical and sales 580,000
Taxes (state, local, and payroll) 190,000
Repairs and maintenance 112,000
Interest Expense:
Loan to purchase state bonds $ 7,000
Other business loans 174,000 181,000
Advertising 46,000

Accounting homework help

Problem 3—C Corporation (FORM 1120)
On November 1, 2005, Janet Morton and Kim Wong formed Pet Kingdom, Inc., to sell pets and pet supplies. Pertinent information regarding Pet Kingdom is summarized as follows:
· Pet Kingdom’s business address is 1010 Northwest Parkway, Dallas, TX 75225; its telephone number is (214) 555-2211; and its e-mail address is petkingdom@pki.com.
· The employer identification number is 11-1111111, and the principal business activity code is 453910.
· Janet and Kim each own 50% of the common stock; Janet is president and Kim is vice president of the company. No other class of stock is authorized.
· Both Janet and Kim are full-time employees of Pet Kingdom. Janet’s Social Security number is 123-45-6789, and Kim’s Social Security number is 987-65-4321.
· Pet Kingdom is an accrual method, calendar year taxpayer. Inventories are determined using FIFO and the lower of cost or market method. Pet Kingdom uses the straight-line method of depreciation for book purposes and accelerated depreciation (MACRS) for tax purposes.
· During 2018, the corporation distributed cash dividends of $306,495.
 
Pet Kingdom’s financial statements for 2019 are shown below.
 
Income Statement
 
Income
Gross Sales $4,600,000
Sales returns and allowances (160,000)
Net Sales $4,440,000
Cost of goods sold (1,840,000)
Gross Profit $2,600,000
Dividends received from stock Investments
in less-than-20%-owned U.S. corporations 35,000
Interest Income:
State bonds $12,000
Certificates of deposit 16,000 28,000
Total income $2,663,000
 
Expenses
Salaries-officers
Janet Morton $210,000
Kim Wong 210,000 $420,000
Salaries-clerical and sales 580,000
Taxes (state, local, and payroll) 190,000
Repairs and maintenance 112,000
Interest Expense:
Loan to purchase state bonds $ 7,000
Other business loans 174,000 181,000
Advertising 46,000
Rental expense 86,000
Depreciation* 80,000
Charitable contributions 30,000
Employee benefit programs 48,000
Premiums on term life insurance policies
on lives of Janet and Kim; Pet Kingdom
is the designated beneficiary 32,000
Total expenses (1,805,000)
Net Income before taxes $858,000
Federal income tax (175,875)
Net income per books $682,125
 
*Depreciation for tax purposes is $110,000. You are not provided enough detailed data to complete a Form 4562 (depreciation). If you solve this problem using H&R Block Tax Software, enter the amount of depreciation on line 20 of Form 1120.
 
Balance Sheet
 
Assets January 1, 2019 December 31, 2019
Cash $ 960,000 $ 680,000
Trade notes and accounts receivable 1,650,000 1,838,000
Inventories 2,200,000 2,424,000
Stock Investment 900,000 900,000
State bonds 300,000 300,000
Certificates of deposit 350,000 350,000
Prepaid Federal Tax -0- 3,630
Buildings and other depreciable assets 4,365,000 4,365,000
Accumulated depreciation (485,000) (565,000)
Land 650,000 650,000
Other assets 112,000 102,800
Total assets $11,002,000 $11,048,430
 
Liabilities and Equity January 1,2019 December 31, 2019
Accounts Payable $ 1,850,000 $ 1,579,800
Other current liabilities 142,000 123,000
Mortgages 3,700,000 3,660,000
Capital stock 2,000,000 2,000,000
Retained earnings 3,310,000 3,685,630
Total liabilities and equity $11,002,000 $ 11,048,430
 
During 2018, Pet Kingdom made estimated tax payments of $44,876.25 each quarter to the IRS. Prepare a Form 1120 for Pet Kingdom for tax year 2019. Suggested software: H&R BLOCK Tax Software.

Computer Science homework help

For this project, select an organization that has leveraged Cloud Computing technologies in an attempt to improve profitability or to give them a competitive advantage. Research the organization to understand the challenges that they faced and how they intended to use Cloud Computing to overcome their challenges. The paper should include the following sections each called out with a section header with proper APA formatting:
· Company Overview: The section should include the company name, the industry they are in and a general overview of the organization.
· Challenges: Discuss the challenges the organization had that limited their profitability and/or competitiveness and how they planned to leverage Cloud Computing to overcome their challenges.
· Solution: Describe the organization’s Cloud Computing implementation and the benefits they realized from the implementation. What was the result of implementing Cloud Computing? Did they meet their objectives for fall short?
· Recommendations: What recommendations would you provide to this organization to better accomplish the challenge(s)? This is from your opinion not someone else on the Internet.
· Conclusion: Summarize the most important ideas from the paper and also make recommendations or how they might have achieved even greater success.
Requirements:
The paper must adhere to APA guidelines including Title and Reference pages. There should be at least six (6) scholarly sources listed on the reference page (with in-text citations). Each source should be cited in the body of the paper to give credit where due. Per APA, the paper should use a 12-point Time New Roman font, should be double spaced throughout, and the first sentence of each paragraph should be indented .5 inches. The body of the paper should be 2000 words in length. The Title, Abstract, Table of Contents (if applicable), and Reference pages do not count towards the page count requirements. All references must be scholarly references (NOT WIKIPEDIA). Use one of the methods provided in residency for researching scholarly journals and websites.
DO NOT USE THE FOLLOWING COMPANIES:
· Equifax
· Any Cell Phone Company
· UBER
· Amazon
· Microsoft
· Adobe
· Capital One
· LinkedIn
· eBay
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Management homework help

A portfolio is built using a set of subsidiary portfolios, programs, projects, and operational activities. The selection of key components is crucial in portfolio success. What role do portfolio funding and portfolio resources play in structuring the portfolio? How is this connected to the selection and continuing evaluation of portfolio key components? Connect your post to the assigned reading from Week 5.

Week 5 Readings

Required Readings

Additional Readings

Government homework help

 The student will complete a Research Paper which will provide an in-depth and detailed chronological history of terrorism as it pertains to the United States be it domestic or international be the activity on U.S. soil or abroad. The timeline will start with the founding of the country. You may create the timeline as you wish but you might consider from founding to WWI, post WWI to 1989 or 1990, then from 1990 onward or you may wish to create one more milestone that begins in 1990 to 9/11 then post 9/11. Be sure to cover types of terrorism, tactics, event history – growth and development, issues, and our responses, national security strategies or tactics for each era. Describe the linkage / responsibilities between local, state, and federal involvement. You do not need to go into detail on each group or type but do need to illustrate the types of groups etc. Discuss Biblical relevance as well. The student will write at minimum a 5-full page research-oriented paper in current APA format. The paper must include at least 5 sources (not including the class textbook and the Bible) also use the textbook and Bible. The paper will be submitted through SafeAssign.

Management homework help

Summative Assessments
 
· Assessment 1: Individual Blog, during the Autumn period (Week 12)
 
25% TMM
 
 
 
You will write a 400 word blog every three weeks. Firstly, however, you will write a formative blog in Week two. This will be collectively discussed during a live session for formative feedback. Your summative blog will then start in Week three. This individual sustainability blog will be based on the weekly topics covered on the module. You will research the weeks’ topics and upload your own blog posts to Blackboard VLE. In each post you should give examples of sustainability concepts and/or other theories covered during the previous weeks, including the week of the blog posting. Research how these concepts relate to real life business/es (you may use your own personal experience in business or other organisations).
 
We are looking for your ability to transfer the theories/concepts you have learnt into the real world. In each post you should explain what the examples are and then explain which aspect of sustainability it relates to.
 
 
· Assessment 2: Individual Report, during Spring term (Week 20)
40% TMM: Not more than 2,500 words
 
 
Format: this is an individual report in which students are required to form a fictional company, and also identify a major sustainability challenge facing the company. In order to do this, each student will research existing companies in a chosen industry to assess their sustainability challenges. The idea is for the students to use these case study of companies as background studies for their chosen fictional companies. You should identify five key departments within the fictional company and their role in addressing the sustainability challenge identified. Examples of key departments are Marketing, Research and Development (R&D), Finance, Operations, and Human Resources.
 
Aim: A strategic action plan to improve ONE sustainability challenge (NOT scandal) faced by a fictional company (*).
(*) The use of a fictional case will allow you to have greater flexibility and freedom on what you want to focus on: e.g. you can exaggerate issues without being afraid of infringing intellectual property (IP) rights.
 
 
· Assessment 3: Individual reflective essay, during Spring term (Week 24)
35% TMM: 2000 words maximum (expected average word count: 2000 words)
 
Following up from the individual REPORT (assessment 2), each student will have to prepare and submit an individual written reflective essay summarizing the case and detailing the role of one chosen department (out of the five departments identified in summative 2) in the overall sustainable strategy action plan. You will have to demonstrate relevant research on how one of the departments of your choice (using sustainability tools and concepts) above will contribute to the overall project developed in summative 2.
 
 
 
 
Summary of summative assessments
 

Assessment Title Weight Length Due   Anticipated  
  towards   Date   Return Date  
  Final          
  grade %          
Individual Blog 25 400 words per blog Week 12    
             
             
Individual Report 40 2,500 Week 20      
Individual Reflective Essay 35 2,000 Week 24      
 
 
 
 
 
 		  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 		          
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Detailed description of the Summative Assessments
 
 
Summative Assessment 1: Individual Blog
 
Worth: 25% TMM
 
Focus: Individual Blog on all the topics and core concepts addressed until end of week 12.
 
Length: 400-word per blog, every three weeks
 
Instructions    
· In total you must write 4 blog posts – one every three weeks from week three to week twelve. However, you will write a formative blog in Week two, which will be collectively discussed during a live session for formative feedback.
· Each blog post needs to be around 400 words.  Blog posts are supposed to be concise and to the point.
· Once you have posted your blog entry you will not be able to either edit it or delete it so make sure that you are completely happy with it before you submit.
·  You need 4 blogs by Friday 18th December- the end of week 12.
Marking
· Apart from the collective formative feedback in week two, on the formative blog you should submitted in week two; your seminar tutor will give you feedback on each of your blog posts in time, to inform new subsequent blogs before they are due for submission. It is important to blog regularly – every three weeks – so that your seminar tutor has something to look at and can give you feedback. If you leave all your blog posts until the last minute then you will not have any feedback to enable you to improve and it is very unlikely that you will be able to write good posts.
· Your blog will be marked as a whole at the end of the semester by your seminar tutor – you will get one grade for the whole blog rather than individual grades for each post.
i. If posts are missing then your total possible grade will be reduced accordingly. If you have submitted four satisfactory entries then your blog will be marked out of 100. For each post which is missing, your highest possible grade will be reduced by 25 marks so if you have only submitted 3 blog posts then your blog will be marked out of 75 and so on, down to zero.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Table below provides the assessment criteria and the indicative weighting of each criteria regarding SUMMATIVE 1 (Individual Blog):
 
 

Grade Marking Criteria and Weighting
   
Choice of Example 30% Use of Theory 45% Style and Presentation 25%
 
90-100
Common Assessment Scale 8		 Expertly chosen examples which are justified and meaningful for the student and are critiqued to a professional standard. Demonstrates a highly professional level of critical analysis extending beyond the module confines. The blog posts are of a publishable standard with regards to presentation.
80-89
Common Assessment Scale 7		 Outstanding examples applied and evidence of justification and critique evident. Exceptional analysis and critique of theory offering recommendations throughout. Superior level of presentation evident in all blog posts.
70-79
Common Assessment Scale 6		 Consistent choice of excellent, relevant examples all based on students’ personal experience rather than on internet research, with discussion that moves consistently beyond description into critique and analysis. Blog posts should be about 50/50 balanced between theory and practice. Students should be confidently applying detailed elements of each week’s theory to their own example and including in their discussion some element of analysis and/or critique – what worked well / didn’t work / why was or wasn’t the sustainability example successful? Professional presentation with good attention to detail throughout. Clear evidence of thought paid to blog presentation as well as to content. Engagingly written and judiciously edited.
60-69
Common Assessment Scale 5		 At this level examples should be consistently very good and relevant, from students’ own experience and with some element of critique in the application of theory to practice. To be graded at this level we would expect to see students using slightly more sophisticated elements of each week’s theory. Students may also be introducing some element of critique into their writing at this level. Very good, professional-looking presentation with clear attention paid to elements such as spelling, layout and so on. Evidence that thought has gone into how to make the post visually appealing, and posts supported with relevant background materials.
50-59
Common Assessment Scale 4		 At this level students should be consistently choosing relevant examples which relate directly to their own personal experience rather than something they’ve just researched on the internet. Application of theory to practice may still be fairly simplistic but must have moved beyond a purely list-based approach. They should be making a reasonable attempt to link the theory to their particular example. A reasonable level of attention to presentational detail – few typos, presentational errors etc. Some thought given to blog titles, use of formatting such as subheadings, images, embedded videos etc.
40-49
Common Assessment Scale 3		 At this level students should be at least choosing a broadly relevant example each week. Examples may lack a personal element and be more focused on something they saw on the internet rather than something they directly experienced. Blogs may still tend towards the anecdotal but there must at least be some mention of theory even if its application is poor. At this level students’ application of theory to practice is likely to be fairly basic and simplistic perhaps taking a purely list-based approach, however they must at least have made some mention of theory. Style / spelling / presentation etc. may be fairly poor at this level but we would expect to see that students have at least made some effort towards thinking up interesting blog post titles, and formatting their posts appropriately.
30-39
Common Assessment Scale 2		 Posts may include poor examples that don’t relate to each week’s topic. The student may be repeatedly posting about the same topics (the ‘advert of the week’ approach to blogging) or simply using the blog to rehash what they learnt in the lecture with no additional elements that they themselves have added. Very limited application of theory to the example, or very poor application of theory to practice indicating a complete lack of understanding of the theory. The posts may purely be exercises in storytelling and anecdotes rather than an application of theory to practice. Little attention paid to style or presentational issues – for example this might include poor spelling, many typos, bad grammar, lack of editing, no images, and poor blog titles etc.
11-29
Common Assessment Scale 1		 Limited examples chosen but no link to the topic and no justification provided. Purely descriptive work with no application of theory. Extremely poor attempts made to present the blogs properly with sloppy errors throughout.
0-10
Common Assessment Scale 0		 No attempt made to include any examples. No theory mentioned and nothing provided that in any way links to the topic. No attention paid at all to present the blogs correctly.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Summative Assessment 2: Individual Report
 
Worth 40% TMM
 
Length 2,500 words
Format
This is an individual report in which students are required to form a fictional company, and also identify a major sustainability challenge facing the company. In order to do this, each student will research existing companies in a chosen industry to assess their sustainability challenges. The idea is for the students to use these case study of companies as background studies for their chosen fictional companies.
Aim: A strategic action plan to improve ONE sustainability challenge (NOT scandal) faced by a fictional company (*).
(*) The use of a fictional case will allow you to have greater flexibility and freedom on what you want to focus on: e.g. you can exaggerate issues without being afraid of infringing intellectual property (IP) rights.
Research process: In order to develop your fictional company, you are expected to do an adequate amount of analytical research of existing companies within a chosen sector, in order to identify the major sustainability challenges they face. For instance, if you decide to develop a fictional car company, then you are expected to draw ideas from existing car companies such as Volkswagen, Ford, Mazda, etc. Or if you wish to develop a case on fashion retail, you will draw ideas from companies such as Zara, H&M, etc.
You have to focus on a Sustainability procedural, operational, or mindset issue identified as a matter of business priority; ‘scandals’ are not accepted in this assignment.
So, as initial research process, you are expected to:
i. Select the sector
ii. Select a few companies within that sector to inform your analysis. You will have to acknowledge and list all the companies you drew ideas from in a formal written Disclaimer at the start or at the end of the presentation.
iii. Research and list the major sustainability issues these companies & sector are facing
iv. Inspired on the cases analyzed, build your fictional company. This should include sections such as the company’s vision and mission; objectives; five key departments within the company and their role in addressing the sustainability challenge identified.(e.g. Marketing, Research and Development (R&D), Finance, Operations, Human Resources) ; and mid/to long-term strategic plan of the company. More support and specific guidelines on individual roles and group synergy will be provided in the seminars/scheduled tutorials.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
INDICATIVE STRUCTURE:
1. Brief overview of case
Start with a brief overview of the fictional company’s vision, aims and objectives and the identified challenge to address. Provide an overview of the case study companies researched, including their sustainability challenges presented as materiality matrices. This should be followed by your own fictional company’s sustainability challenges, and then identify the (ONE) most pressing of the challenges you aim to tackle. This should be summarised as a materiality chart (materiality matrix).
2. Strategic plan
Propose a strategic plan to improve the sustainability issue identified. Use a visual project chart and timeline (e.g. a Gantt chart) to briefly identify the milestones to be achieved. Do not overdo the number of milestones: this is an exercise, so two or three milestones are more than enough to demonstrate that you know how to apply the basic management tools used in a project. Remember to identify which TASKS will have to be accomplished to contribute to each of the identified milestone, how long and specifically when the overall project and each task take place. Justify the tasks identified using general management and sustainability concepts and tools (frameworks, models, metrics, procedures, etc. such as: SMART, or TROPICS, or a Sustainability model such as Silvius and Schipper’s, or The Phase Model by Dunphy, Griffiths and Benn, or any other model you like) that will be relevant to apply during the planning, implementation and monitoring of each task. Explain how the change will be monitored and evaluated: i.e. the list of the key performance indicators (KPIs) and other measures that will help check the progress of the overall sustainable strategy action plan.
3. Material and human resources need
Identify the material resources (equipment, raw material, energy, water, logistics, etc.) that will be required per task, with an estimate budget (rough estimate but as realistic as possible)
Identify the human resources/human capital that will be required per task, with an estimate budget set as [person-month] This is the equivalent of how many hours per month out of their own stipulated contract hours will each person be directly involved working in this project, with the estimated cost (depending on their salary). Example: if you need person B to be involved 2 days per week over the next 7 months in this project (i.e. a total of 2 days x 4 weeks x 7 months = 56 hours overall, and taking into account that the person’s salary is £30,000 per year (= roughly 575 per week = roughly 19 per hour) then, in the overall budget, this person B will account for an expense of £1064.
4. Final remarks
Write a relevant set of final remarks, and ideally setting new targets for further developments for the
department/company in the near future.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Marking criteria:
 
The Table below provides the assessment criteria and the indicative weighting of each criteria regarding SUMMATIVE 2 (Individual Report):
 

MARKING CRITERIA Indicative %
FOR SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT 2 weighting
(Individual Report)  
   
Demonstrated analysis and development of the fictional case 30
   
Application of relevant sustainability concepts and tools (e.g. concepts, 30
frameworks, models, indicators, etc.)  
Structure and coherence of the presentation, and alignment with the requirements 15
   
Demonstrated evaluation of the feasibility of the action plan, and insightful use of relevant arguments sustaining the plan 15
   
Bibliography and Acknowledgements 10
   

 
 
 
Reminder: IF you include a section called ‘Conclusion’, OR if you write ‘IN conclusion..’ or ‘To conclude…’
 
you will be penalized -2%. You may use a final section named ‘Concluding remarks’, for example.
 
 

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Summative Assessment 3: Individual Reflective Essay (based on Summative 2)
 
 
Worth 35% TMM
 
Format: Individual Reflective Essay
 
Length: 2000 words maximum (expected average word count: 2000 words)
 
Part 1:
Following up from the individual REPORT (assessment 2), each student will have to prepare and submit an individual written reflective essay summarizing the case and detailing the role of one chosen department (out of the five departments identified in summative 2) in the overall sustainable strategy action plan. You will have to demonstrate relevant research on how one of the departments of your choice (using sustainability tools and concepts) above will contribute to the overall project developed in summative 2.
Part 2: You will also reflect on the overall project. Your reflection will include the following:
· Description – What is the concept, idea or theory you are reflecting on?
· Analysis – Are there aspects you found particularly interesting or challenging? Does it tie in with anything you have learned in the past? Has it changed the way you think, or affirmed something you already knew?
· Outcomes or Action – What else might you need to find out? Do you have any questions? How might you incorporate or apply these ideas in the future, perhaps in your professional life?
 
 
 
 

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The Table below provides the assessment criteria and the indicative weighting of each criteria regarding SUMMATIVE 3 (Individual Reflective Essay):
 

MARKING CRITERIA Indicative
FOR SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT 3 %
(Individual Report) weighting
   
Coherence and consistency of the overall essay, including summary of Summative 2 15
   
Clear analysis of the role and contribution of the chosen department’s contribution to the aim and objectives of the fictional company 25
   
   
Demonstrated understanding and application of sustainability concepts and 25
tools to inform best practice  
   
Reflection 25
   
Bibliography and Acknowledgements 10
   

 
 
 
 
 
Mapping of assessment tasks for the module
 
 

  Assessment tasks       Module Learning outcomes        
                                           
        1     2     3     4     5     6    
                                           
                                           
Assessment 1: Individual Blog   ✓           ✓         ✓        
                                 
Assessment 2: Individual Report   ✓     ✓   ✓               ✓  
                                 
Assessment 3: Individual Reflective Essay   ✓     ✓         ✓         ✓  
                                           

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Note: We use Regent’s Common Assessment Scale as follows
 
 

Band Conversion scale for UG Programmes Conversion scale for PG Programmes Generic descriptors
8 90 – 100 90 – 100 All learning outcomes and task specifications have been achieved to an exceptionally high standard (according to the level of study).
 
The outcome of the assessment task is presentable in a professional context and may extend practical or theoretical knowledge in the field. It displays an exceptionally high level of understanding, evaluation, insight, analysis, reflection and/or criticality (according
to the level of study), and connections are developed both within and beyond the task set.
 
The work’s organisation, structure and presentation are developed to an exceptionally high standard.
7 80 – 89 80 – 89 All learning outcomes and task specifications have been achieved to an outstanding standard (according to the level of study).
 
The outcome of the assessment demonstrates an outstanding display of understanding, exploration, evaluation, insight, analysis, reflection, criticality and/or research (according to the level of study). Connections are developed both within and beyond the task set.
 
The work’s organisation, structure and presentation are developed to an outstanding standard.
6 70 – 79 70 – 79 All learning outcomes and task specifications have been achieved to high standard (according to the level of study). The outcome of the assessment demonstrates an excellent display of understanding, exploration, evaluation, insight analysis, reflection, criticality and/or research (according to the level of study), and connections are developed both within and beyond the task set.
 
The work’s organisation, structure and presentation may be developed to an excellent standard.
5 60 – 69 60 – 69 All learning outcomes have been achieved at a good and some to a very good standard (according to the level of study).
 
The outcome of the assessment demonstrates a very good level of understanding, exploration, evaluation, analysis, reflection, criticality, some insight and/or very good research (according to the level of study), and connections are established within the task set, and in some cases reaching beyond.
 
The work’s organisation, structure and presentation may be developed to a very good standard.
4 50 – 59 55 – 59 Most learning outcomes have been met at a good standard (according to the level of study).
 
The outcome of the assessment demonstrates a good understanding, exploration, evaluation, analysis, and some reflection, criticality and/or appropriate research. (According to the level of study)
 
The work’s organisation, structure and presentation may be appropriately developed.
3 40 – 49 50 – 54 All learning outcomes have been met to a minimum satisfactory standard (according to the level of study).
 
The outcome of the assessment shows an adequate understanding, of major ideas, with little insight and basic research. Limited level of analysis, reflection and/or criticality (according to the level of study).
 
The outcome of the task shows ability to paraphrase concepts and theories, with limited ability to make connections.
 
The work may be disorganised, and the structure and presentation may be barely adequate.
2 30 – 39 36 – 49 Most learning outcomes have almost been met, whilst the rest have not (according to the level of study).
 
The outcome of the assessment shows a limited understanding of major ideas, with little insight, very basic research, and very limited ability to make connections. No analysis, reflection and/or criticality (according to the level of study)
 
The work may be disorganised, and the structure and presentation may be barely adequate.
1 11 – 29 21 – 35 The majority of the learning outcomes have not been met (according to the Level). The outcome of the assessment task is incomplete, flawed, very limited and/or presents significant inaccuracies.
 
The outcome of the assessment shows very limited understanding with no insight, and very limited ability to make connections within basic ideas in the field, very fragmented. Lacks research. No analysis, reflection or criticality (according to the level of study)
 
The work is disorganised, and unstructured. Presentation is barely adequate.
0 0 – 10 0 – 20 None of the learning outcomes have been met. The task has not been addressed by the student, or there is no assessable task.
 
The outcome of the assessment shows no understanding of basic ideas, with no insight and shows no ability to make connections within basic ideas in the field, or the connections are completely irrelevant. Lacks research. No understanding, analysis, reflection nor criticality.
 
The work completely lacks organisation and structure. Presentation is completely inadequate.

 
 
 
 

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Civil Engineering homework help

 Role Description: Architect
You may make the following assumptions:

  • The case is in mediation.
  • The state of Colorado spent $850,000 to correct surface drainage problems around the facility and to repair interior walls and floors damages by swelling soils.
  • The contractor has already made a settlement with the state of Colorado.  No details of that settlement are known.

Your role is to protect the interests of your company.  You are concerned both about the cost of a settlement and the reputation of your company.  You realize there may have been some shortcomings in your design, but you feel most of the blame lies with the contractor.  You’re frustrated that the terms of the settlement the contractor made with the State are not being made available; specifically, you are not sure if the State has already recovered their costs from the contractor and now they are coming after you for more money).
You never really have understood geotechnical engineers; their guidance and recommendations are confusing.  You have an incentive to settle the disputed during mediation.  You want to avoid a court battle which will cost you more in legal fees, take a long time, and perhaps tarnish the reputation of your firm further.  You’ll go for a settlement you find fair, but you won’t take all the blame. However, your goal is to maintain your firm’s reputation and kept the amount of the settlement as low as possible.
Preparation
In order to prepare for the negotiation, prepare a list of facts both for and against each of the three parties in the mediation.

  1. Owner
  2. Architect
  3. Geotechnical Engineer
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Nursing homework help

What type of drug should you prescribe based on your patient’s diagnosis? How much of the drug should the patient receive? How often should the drug be administered? When should the drug not be prescribed? Are there individual patient factors that could create complications when taking the drug? Should you be prescribing drugs to this patient? How might different state regulations affect the prescribing of this drug to this patient?
These are some of the questions you might consider when selecting a treatment plan for a patient.
As an advanced practice nurse prescribing drugs, you are held accountable for people’s lives every day. Patients and their families will often place trust in you because of your position. With this trust comes power and responsibility, as well as an ethical and legal obligation to “do no harm.” It is important that you are aware of current professional, legal, and ethical standards for advanced practice nurses with prescriptive authority. Additionally, it is important to ensure that the treatment plans and administration/prescribing of drugs is in accordance with the regulations of the state in which you practice. Understanding how these regulations may affect the prescribing of certain drugs in different states may have a significant impact on your patient’s treatment plan. In this Assignment, you explore ethical and legal implications of scenarios and consider how to appropriately respond.

To Prepare

Scenario 1:    You see another nurse practitioner writing a prescription for her husband, who is not a patient of the nurse practitioner.  The prescription is for a narcotic.  You can’t decide whether or not to report the incident.

  • Review the scenario assigned.
  • Search specific laws and standards for prescribing prescription drugs and for addressing medication errors for your state (Texas) or region, and reflect on these as you review the scenario assigned by your Instructor.
  • Consider the ethical and legal implications of the scenario for all stakeholders involved, such as the prescriber, pharmacist, patient, and patient’s family.
  • Think about two strategies that you, as an advanced practice nurse, would use to guide your ethically and legally responsible decision-making in this scenario, including whether you would disclose any medication errors.

Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

  • Explain the ethical and legal implications of the scenario you selected on all stakeholders involved, such as the prescriber, pharmacist, patient, and patient’s family.
  • Describe strategies to address disclosure and nondisclosure as identified in the scenario you selected. Be sure to reference laws specific to your state (Texas)
  • Explain two strategies that you, as an advanced practice nurse, would use to guide your decision making in this scenario, including whether you would disclose your error. Be sure to justify your explanation.
  • Explain the process of writing prescriptions, including strategies to minimize medication errors.

Computer Science homework help

CSE 4360 / 5364 – Autonomous Robots Homework 2: Computer Vision
CSE 4360 / 5364 – Autonomous Robots
Homework 2- Fall 2020
Due Date: Dec. 1 2020 Problems marked with ∗ are mandatory only for students of CSE 5364 but will be graded for extra
credit for students of CSE 4360.
Edge Detection, Template Matching, and Blob Coloring
Basic feature extraction and region growing techniques are important steps in the first stages of im-
age processing. In this homework assignment you are going to implement edge detection, template
matching, and blob coloring as basic techniques.
Programming will follow the same procedure as in the last assignment. You are provided with a C
library containing facilities to display images which will link with the file process image.c. Your code
for the assignment should be written in this file in the function process image(image, size, proc img).
To start, you have download the appropriate code repository for your machine. This directory contains
the following files:
Imakefile This file is used to create a machine specific Makefile by typing xmkmf.
process image.c This is the file you have to edit in order to implement your visual routines.
lib/libCamera.a This library contains the graphical interface.
pictures A directory containing a number of example images.
The Image Processing Environment
To generate the vision program you have to type make. This will create the graphical image interface
Vision. This interface should look as follows:
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The graphical interface consists of two separate windows containing a set of buttons and the actual
image display window. The most important features for this assignment are the Load, Save, and
Process buttons. Load will open a small window to enter the name of an image file for processing.
Save permits to save a processed image to a file. There are some peculiarities to this interface. Do not
hit return after entering the name of a file. This will simply insert a new line into the filename. To
load (or save) the file you have to press the ok button in the filename window.
The image files used here consist of 2 integers indicating the width and height of the image in pixels
followed by the array of pixel values (each pixel is an unsigned char, i.e 0 – 255). A number of
image files can be found in the pictures directory. If you want you can also add your own pictures (a
description of how to convert images into this format is given below).
The Process button will call the function process image (your routine) and the resulting processed
image will be displayed. The original image is overwritten and the processed image can be saved
using the Save button.
Generating your own Images (Only in Linux Version)
A number of test images are provided in the pictures subdirectory. However, you can also add your
own images. For this purpose, a conversion program that runs on Linux (including Omega.uta.edu)
is provided. The program xv cam allows you to transform a large number of image formats into the
format used here (LPR format). To do this, just load your favorite image and save it in the LPR format.
The only fact to consider is that the image interface will not use anything beyond a 512×512 image
resolution (the rest of the image will be truncated when loading it into the Vision program.
In the same way a processed image can be converted into your favorite image format (such as GIF or
JPEG).
The Assignment
In this assignment you are to implement three basic vision processing techniques. To implement
these you have to write the required routines as the function process image(). This function has the
following structure:
void process_image(image, size, proc_img)
unsigned char image[DIM][DIM];
int size[2];
unsigned char proc_img[DIM][DIM];
{
…
}
The parameters of this function are image which is the original image, size which is the width and
height of this image, and proc img which is the image resulting from your processing. If this resulting
image does not have the same dimensions as the original image, then you have to update size to the
dimensions of the new image.
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1. Implement Edge Detection Using Sobel Templates
Edge detection is one of the most basic feature extraction techniques. One of the most common
techniques is using convolution with edge templates representing different directional edges
with Sobel templates among the most frequently used.
3×3 Sobel templates for vertical and horizontal edges are represented as:
vertical:



−1 0 1
−2 0 2
−1 0 1


 , horizontal:



−1 −2 −1
0 0 0
1 2 1



For this part you are to implement edge detection using convolution with the two Sobel tem-
plates above. Your code, after computing the convolution, should display the resulting feature
map in the result image (you will have to normalize the convolution results to fall into the range
between 0 and 255). Edge detection with each of the templates should be performed separately.
You should hand in a short description, the code (submitted electronically), and printouts of
the images resulting from your processing (one for each of the two edge orientation templates)
applied to the Nedderman Hall and the chess board images, nedderman.lpr and chess.lpr.
2. Implement Template Matching Using Normalized Convolution
Implement normalized convolution for template matching. To do this you should rename the
process image.c file from the previous part of the assignment and write a new proc img func-
tion. Your routine has to permit specifying a region of the image which will subsequently be
used as the template (thus finding all instances of similar objects in the image). Using this tem-
plate you are to implement template matching using normalized cross correlation (convolution
which adjusts for the image and template means as well as for the image and template variances
– i.e. contrast). You can either use global or local image normalization. As in the previous part,
you should write the result of the convolution back into the result image, normalizing the values
to be between 0 and 255 (and of the correct data type).
You can select a portion of the image using the mouse. Pressing the left mouse button will
set one corner of a rectangle and releasing the button will set the opposite corner. The image
coordinates of this rectangle can be read from the variable roi, where roi.x and roi.y are the left
upper corner and roi.width and roi.height are the width and height of the selected rectangle.
Again, you should hand in a short description, the code (submitted electronically), and printouts
of the images resulting from your processing applied to the Nedderman Hall and the chess board
images, nedderman.lpr and chess.lpr.
3.∗ Implement Segmentation Using Blob Coloring
Here you have to implement blob coloring to identify regions with a common intensity in the
image. To do this you should again rename the process image.c file from the previous part of
the assignment and write a new proc img function which performs blob coloring. The result of
this operation should consist of a number of regions, each with its own, unique color (intensity).
Again you should hand in a short description, the code (submitted electronically), and the result
of your algorithm on the image blocks2.lpr from the pictures directory.
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Criminal homework help

Create a Code of Ethics Plan

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Instructions

Imagine that you were hired as the police chief for the Small Town police department. Small Town is a community of about 2,000 citizens in a rural area. Your police department consists of 20 sworn officers and 10 civilian support personnel.
Talking to the citizens and assessing the citizen complaints and internal affairs files, you discover several ethical violations.

  • While on duty, police officers attend to personal business such as shopping and dropping and picking up kids from school, resulting in longer response times to 911 calls.
  • During lunchtime, patrol vehicles are parked at the same restaurant because the owner provides free lunches to police.
  • An anonymous caller reported that Officer Frank racially profiles all minorities driving on Main Street on Friday nights. He stops only vehicles driven by Hispanics and African Americans, and then searches their vehicles without probable cause.
  • Officers can work additional security details at the local high school football games. You examine the shift schedule and notice that Officers Hall and Jones signed up and are being paid for the detail at the high school football game, while also being paid for their regular patrol shift, thus double dipping on pay.
  • You learn that the two narcotics officers are taking bribes from the local drug dealer to avoid patrolling the area when the drug deals are being made.

Using your critical thinking and knowledge from this course, you present solutions to solve these problems and to transform the agency into an ethical law enforcement agency.
The assignment is three-fold:

  1. PowerPoint Presentation
  • Create a Code of Ethics for all employees, sworn officers, and civilian personnel. Be sure to use the knowledge from the course, including all aspects of the acceptable ethical behavior of law enforcement officers. Consider the ethics system and ethical theories that you discussed in Week 1.
  1. Video
  • Create a short video that introduces your code of ethics. The video should be about 3 minutes in length and contain the key concepts of your code of ethics. You may use technology to create and upload your video.
  1. Action Plan
  • Design a 10 to 12-page action plan to implement the Code of Ethics. These elements are required for the action plan for the code of ethics:
    • Ensure all personnel is aware of the Code of Ethics and the consequences of violations.
    • Incorporate enforcement methods for violations of the Code of Ethics.
    • Create a breach of violation of the code of ethics letter. Choose one of the unethical behaviors listed in the scenario as an example.
    • Improve ethics training provided to the officers. Provide two options for ethics training, and then explain why you chose that type of training.
    • Generate an assessment to measure the officer’s ethical behavior in the future.

Length: 15 pages excluding the reference page
References: Include a minimum of twenty scholarly resources.
Your essay should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect graduate-level writing and APA standards