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Read the “Ice-Fili” case in your coursepack and answer the following questions:
1. How structurally attractive is the Russian ice cream market?
2. Does Ice-Fili have a sustainable competitive advantage?
3. In the Russian ice cream market, what determines willingness to pay? What
determines cost? Given your discussion, what are the potential sources of competitive advantage in this industry?
4. How well positioned is Ice-Fili relative to its key competitors?
5. What strategic options does Ice-Fili have? What do you recommend? Use your
analyses in 1-4 to develop recommendations.

https://telescopius.com/telescope-simulator

Telescopius is intended to allow astronomers to frame deep sky objects (nebulas, galaxies, and star clusters) for taking images. The images shown are long exposures with cameras made for astronomy. They do not usually look like you would see looking through a telescope, especially from light-polluted Miami skies.

Telescopius does not include the sun, moon, and planets and cannot be used to simulate daytime observations. Because of that, you should enter 9:00 PM EST or do the observation at night and record that time.

Fill in the table on the lab report with the information from the pictures below. In the first picture, the telescope on the top left shows the telescope make first, followed by the telescope type, the focal length, the focal ratio (which you don’t need to record), and the diameter. The same information is on the front of the telescope on the right but in different places.

Smaller Telescope. Make: Stellarvue, Type: Refractor, Aperture: 80 mm, Focal Length: 300 mm

The top image shows the focal length (FL) of the eyepieces. The bottom one indicates the field of view (FOV). The Hyperion eyepieces do not show (FOV); they are 68°.

Open the file observing list. These objects are all visible from the FIU Observatory this time of year. Choose an object from the list and enter its name (e.g., “M31, NGC 224 or Andromeda Galaxy for the second object) in the field at the top of the telescopius website where it says, “Go to object.” M and NGC stand for Messier and New General Catalogue, respectively, and are catalogs of astronomical objects. Any of the designations in the first four columns are valid names. If one object doesn’t work with Telescopius, try another one. Of course, you are welcome to look at other objects, including those not on the list, but please choose two objects from it for your report.

At the top of the object’s image, click on “eyepiece” to get a circle representing the eyepiece’s field of view. Click on the telescope icon at the top of the icons at the left of the image and enter the focal length of one of the telescopes above. Click on the eyepiece icon immediately below it and enter the eyepiece’s focal length and FOV. The telescopes in this file are what we usually use on campus for observations.

Indicate one of them on the form under observation 1 with the eyepiece and telescope number. Note the magnification shown, or you can calculate it by dividing the focal length of the telescope by the focal length of the eyepiece and entering it in the lab report. Enter the object name and object type. From the data at the right of the page, record the celestial coordinates; Right Ascension (RA) and Declination (Dec). Find the graph showing the altitude of the object above the horizon. It is blue and black with orange vertical bars, a pink curve, and a white dot. You should click on one of the icons on the left of the image to show it. Drag the white dot until the time displayed matches the time entered at the top of the lab report. Enter the altitude shown.

Repeat the process for a different object for observation 2.

Feel free to explore the Telescopius website further.

Please articulate your career goals and your motivation for pursuing a graduate degree at the University in Maekting. Discuss your specific interests and how earning an advanced degree in Marketing will help you achieve these goals. Describe the courses, jobs, professors, research, service projects, internships or professional and/or volunteer activities that have shaped your aspirations. Describe how this program at the University will help you reach your goals. Demonstrate your motivation and capacity to succeed.

Being able to forecast future cash receipts and future cash disbursements is critical in being able to determine if and when you might be facing a cash crunch or a cash surplus. Since cash is the lifeblood of a business, properly monitoring cash inflows and outflows is critical to keeping your business running smoothly and without disruption.

Imagine you are part of a growing company. You are feeling a little bit of a cash squeeze as you purchase and pay for inventory often before you are able to sell it. You can see that your cash reserves are slowly dwindling, and eventually you may need some external financing. As you consider visiting your local banker for a loan, you realize that the banker will need information relating to when and how the bank loan will be repaid.

Respond to the following:
* If you were the banker, what information would you want from a company to evaluate their riskiness and
their ability to repay a loan?
* What specific information would you need to begin a cash receipts forecast? Identify three items that
would be helpful.

1-Why do investigators go to the trouble of using objective criteria for verifying the attainment of VO2max, rather than just taking the highest value obtained during a GXT?

Be specific.

2-You have now learned about a few different max tests. Do you think there are certain situations where one test would be a better choice over the other? What considerations should you keep in mind Explain what these situations may be in detail (4-6 sentences).

3-Name 2 pros (advantages) and 2 cons (disadvantages) of the tests we performed in this lab. Be specific. such as Generic ramp cycle test and the Generic ramp treadmill

Term Project The Museum of Future Urban Landscape Histories

PREAMBLE
History is an interpretive exercise of projecting oneself into the past—sometimes a familiar landscape, but often strange territory—in order to observe, understand, or explain its patterns, processes, and possibilities in the present. The processes of history both look backwards and forwards in time, with an eye, ear, hand, foot to the future. It is a space of continuities and disjunctures and always subject to the contingencies, ideologies, subjectivities, and limits of present knowledge. History provides poignant and powerful insights into the entangled chronologies that constitute our own lives and those of the individuals, cultures, ideas, and geographies in other lifetimes and geographies. Histories are material, descriptive, interpretative, social, and always environmental. Even if tacit, histories always presume a future: a future reader, a future discovery, a future counter-argument. The Museum of Future Urban Landscape Histories asks you to investigate the nature of the city (metaphorically and materially) and interrogate urban histories. How can studying historical cities help us articulate the patterns of the past, better understand how those patterns influence the dynamics of the present, and project a future for urban spaces?

DESCRIPTION
Through this city history project, you will dig deep into the environmental history of a city of your choice to investigate the ecological, social, and ideological factors that have formed and informed the shape and disposition of peoples and places. Your “city” project will investigate a specific urban center through different scales (geographic, chronological) and lenses: materialities (substances, structures), sites (specific places eg Ganges River, Tahir Square, Joubert Park or place typologies eg alleyways, bioswales, allotment gardens), events | voices (personal, collective), flows /processes (of people, resources, ideas, energy), and ideas (political, social, cultural). Your project will deploy both text and a multimedia tool, or visualization, (virtual I web, physical l model, carto/graphic, literary, sound l podcast, video, game) to create an urban exhibit | space that situates your city in its past in order to help us understand its possible future. What have been the major enviro-social drivers of this place? What are the distinctive infrastructural patterns and how were they derived? How have people shaped this place? How have environment and the more-than-human influenced city form, human values and activities? How have they changed over time? How have different historical and contemporary voices “described” this place and what are the differences in approaches, biases, theoretical frameworks (materialist, social, Marxist, post|colonial (subaltern), feminist, microhistory, big history, etc.) that inform scholarship? What does this city’s past potentially tell about its future? Your interrogation will comprise a written document of ten (10) pages with citations (in-text or footnotes), plus bibliography (or Works Cited) in which you articulate the main characteristics, arguments, events, processes, and materials with a mind to the themes we are exploring throughout the quarter. Your paper and visualization must both describe and argue the nature of your city and its production, consumption, and interpretation and make explicit what this history can potentially tell us about its future.

INSPIRATIONS
The Museum of Jurassic Technology offers visitors both fascinating insights into the minutiae of past histories of institutions, individuals, and phenomena. The venue also questions the role of the museum in society and the ways in which we formalize and disseminate knowledge. Use your virtual exploration (if you have not had the pleasure) as a touchstone in your thinking about your exhibit piece. http://www.mjt.org/themainpage/main2.html

DELIVERABLES
Develop in tandem with your interpretative exhibit piece (visualization) and a 10-page “script” (major arguments, key components including citations using Chicago or MLA style). You may work with a partner if you choose to do so.

PART I Cartographic Cities: Mapping Ideologies, Ideas and Instantiations (Proposal)

This is your research proposal. Select and “map” the outlines of a city of your choice. You are encouraged to select an urban center that is meaningful to you and about which you wish to know more, as part of investigations in other classes or thesis work, and/or as a result of prior or future interest or travel. What are important historic issues asked by scholars regarding the intersections of people, nature and the urban? What are the key spaces (sites), features, events, processes, and ideas you might investigate more deeply? In the creation of your proposal “map” you are encouraged to be creative and analytical, recalling the ways in which maps have been used historically to orient people geographically, chronologically, and ideologically. In addition to your “map,” develop a 300-word abstract and provide a preliminary bibliography of potential academic writing and other resources—online history projects OMEKA, city films, graphic novels, speculative fiction, podcasts—that work in tandem with your map. Your “mapping” can be handdrawn, computer-generated, or a combination. The “map” should be at least 36×24 inches. We will do a pin-up of your maps in class and share preliminary geographies, ideas, and directions. Be thinking about a possible city as soon as possible.

PART II Exhibiting an Idea (draft of media)

Determine what medium you wish to work in to develop your future urban history exhibit visualization and create a preliminary (messy) draft. As you continue to develop your ideas, revisit Theibault’s discussion of visualizations in which he encourages us to think about representational forms less as “illustrations” and more as “arguments.” Think about your medium and its own inherent qualities, as both a tool of communication and dissemination of a public history of your city, as well as a “dialectical partner” to your words. What can a visualization do that words on paper (virtual or otherwise) cannot? What are the limitations? How will you exhibit your city? As a model | sculpture on a pedestal? As a banner? As a continuous looping video? As an interactive game (analog or digital)? A graphic novel? An installation? What will an audience learn from or respond to in your work

PART III Drafting | Draughting (draft of text)

Develop your written draft (at least 6 pages) to share with a classmate for discussion, editing, and feedback. Bring a paper copy to class to share. Your draft should contain your questions/arguments, bibliography, and substantial progress in your thinking about why your city is what it is based upon your understanding of its history, and how you this might help us understand what its (uncertain) future might be?

In this course, you learned rapidly changing technologies have a drastic impact on nursing and healthcare. During this course both current and emerging technologies support safety practice environments have been addressed. These technologies can optimize patient safety, cost-effectiveness, and health outcomes.

For the assignment, you are to propose either a change to an existing technological tool/
advance/innovation used in a healthcare system or propose a new one related to nursing. Some ideas include, but are not limited to:
artificial intelligence
Telemedicine
vein finders
blood analyzers
cloud
automated medication administration systems
block chains

Remember, it is through technology in healthcare, care is reshaped. Care is transformed
not only in the hospital setting, but in the rural settings as well.

As you are building the presentation, imagine presenting the change to the board of
organizational healthcare stakeholders for approval. With a formal presentation, the usage of speaker notes is necessary. The speaker notes include the information not included on
the slide. The same writing requirements are applied to the speaker notes. Please include
any relevant citations in APA format. Each slide should contain speaker notes with
adequate information for presentation purposes.

The PowerPoint presentation should include the following:

Be 15-20 slides in length, not including the title slide and reference slides.

The title slide should list the name of the protocol, the date, and the name of the
assignment.

The reference slides should provide all references in APA format.

Each slide should include speaker notes with appropriate APA format.

Slides ideas might include: introduction, history, literature review, need, proposal idea,
implementation strategies, evaluation ideas, financial implications, conclusion.

A minimum of five recent (within the last 5 years), scholarly, peer-reviewed articles are required.

Select professional backgrounds, coloring, and fonts. No more than two slides should be
visuals. Pictures, charts, and visual may be used but should be used to accentuate the
content not replace it. Clip art and animation is encouraged to enhance the presentation.

After completing the Week 3 Full of Fallacies assignment, where we used logical fallacies to manipulate the audience in an advertisement, in Week 5 we will do the opposite. No fallacies allowed.
We’ll use well-structured arguments to persuade the audience of what we believe to be the truth using evidence from authoritative, unbiased sources as justification.
Choose an issue you’d like to convince other people of and find sources that will be the foundation for the Week 7 Infographic. Use the attached Source Evaluation Worksheet to complete this assignment (CO1).
Part I: Choose a topic.
Describe the topic, concept, idea, or approach that is going to be the central idea of the Week 7 Infographic. There is no minimum word count but please use several well thought-out sentences to make your point.
Part II: Source Evaluation Worksheet
Find a minimum of three (3) sources; two (2) academic sources from the APUS library and one (1) article (quality online or newspaper article).
Annotate your list of sources, i.e. explain what you hope to get out of these readings and how it will help you argue your point.
For this assignment, do not use the website sources you used in the Week 3 Discussion.
Follow the format found in the Source Evaluation Worksheet.
Consider the following:
Please upload the completed Source Evaluation Worksheet and write directly into it.
Be detailed and precise when completing the worksheet.
Your annotation of your sources should be in your own words with some quotations from your source.
For grading expectations, please see the Source Evaluation rubric.

The specific questions and forms are in the pdf file, the file name is Questions, please use the knowledge in the pdf to answer these questions, word and excel files are the conditional information needed to answer the questions

PART A: INDUSTRY ANALYSIS (30 marks)
By using your historical market data you are required to perform a
market analysis of the Capesize vessels in order to evaluate the new
investment. Specifically, you are requested to address the following
questions:
1. In the specific market of the Capesize vessels, describe and explain
how the 4 shipping markets (freight, sales & purchase, newbuilding,
demolition) have historically evolved and how they interact among
themselves. Make sure you discuss both ups and downs and how one
provokes the other. Present the appropriate graphs with historical
information to support your discussion.
2. Comment on the specific timing in the shipping cycle that the
particular investment takes place (end of year 2019). Where in the
shipping cycle you think we are? Regarding the CAPE vessel that you
purchase, how do you expect its market value and its freight rates to
develop in the future? Justify your response.
3. 6 months after the investment (summer of 2020) there is a
geopolitical tension in the Middle East. Political analysts comment
that a war is about to break out which will result into the closure of
the Canal of Suez. Hostilities are expected to prolong for many
months. Vessels will have to circumvent the continent of Africa as the
Canal will be no more available for shipping. Demand for international
trade is expected to remain the same. How would you expect the
freight rates for the vessels of our investor to be affected if the war
really takes place? Explain why. How the four shipping markets might
develop in the long-run because of this event

PART B: CREDIT ANALYSIS (40 marks)
Note the following additional information:
• Cape (Vessel 2) acquisition and loan drawdown took place in
January 1st 2020.
• To simplify calculations, assume that first loan instalment payment
takes place on 31 March 2020.
• Assumed revenue days of 355 per vessel per year.
• Expenses growth rate (for operating expenses and administrative
expenses) 2.0% per year.
• Administrative expenses: 500,000 in 2020, thereafter increased by
expense growth rate.
• Assumed LIBOR of 1.50%, same throughout the projected period.
• The commitment fee is zero since the drawdown of the full loan
amount took place immediately.
• Special surveys are expensed in the same year that they occur
(they are not capitalized).
• Dividend policy of the company is to distribute 300,000 per year to
the shareholders.
• Assuming that you are working from the Bank’s perspective, your
approach on future market developments is conservative.
Accordingly, your assumption on the freight rates for the open days
should be the lower 25% bracket of your historical data at the time you
do the calculation for 1yr time charter rates. This means that in the
historical freight distribution (ranking historical freights from lower to
higher) you select that historical freight rate having 25% of observations
lower and 75% higher. Remember that we are standing at Dec 2019.
Mkt value 31/12/2021
Vessel 1 (PMX) 13,000,000
Vessel 2 (CAPE) 30,000,000

How would you expect that the balloon (last payment) of the loan of
SIGMA bank, funding the new acquisition of the Cape vessel, will be
paid out? Do you see any risk for a payment default at that time?
2. Identify in the loan term sheet all those terms that protect the bank
from a potential adverse behavior of the Borrower. Explain how each
of these terms provide this protection.
3. Do a stress scenario by using the absolute worse historical freights of
your historical data for the open days of your model. Discuss the result
in terms of your cash flow generation. What are the implications for
the need to refinance the maturity of the loan of the Cape Vessel
(Vessel 2) after 5 years with a new loan?
4. Discuss how you may use the ability to trade in the FFA market (see
below FFA prices) in order to minimize the above risk.
FFA curve
2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
PMX 11,220 10,392 10,311 10,095 10,050
CAPE 13,885 12,213 12,841 13,009 12,900
5. Based on your stress analysis, suggest possible modifications to the
loan to enhance its credit standing in the absence of any additional
guarantee

In this assessment you are required to analyse an ancient text, Apollodorus’ account of the Athenians’ autochthonous origins (from The Library Book 3, Chapter XIV). This is included in your readings for week 4 (pages 9-18)(Pages in text 77-95). Pay particular attention to the processes that are involved in Athens’ beginnings. What implicit, or explicit, claims are being made? What does this reflect or suggest about Athenian culture, identity, or political culture.

In week 4 you’ll also be visiting the Acropolis, in Virtual Reality, so we also want you to reflect on the iterative relationship between text and place. This is so that you might consider how the site influences the way you understand the text, or perhaps even more importantly, how the text helps you appreciate the site.

Please note!

This is not a research essay. This means you’re not expected to do additional research. If you do this anyway, out of fairness to everyone else, it won’t be rewarded. You are expected to make full use of the primary source, and the other readings for the week. The main thing we’re looking for is your analysis of the text and how it interplays with the site. As a work of analysis, whenever you make a point about the text, it’s important to cite and/or quote the exact part of the text that you’re commenting on. You’ll notice that scholars do this all the time in most of the journal articles we are looking at.

Citations

Textual citations should be in-text and use the standard abbreviations as set out in the Oxford Classical Dictionary.Links to an external site. In this case it would look like (Apollod., Bibl. 3.14.1). This would refer to the first paragraph in section 14 of book 3, which starts with “Cecrops, a son of the soil… Please italicise the title of the text (Bibl.) along with any Greek or Latin terms if you use them.

Other citations, such as to modern work of scholarship, must be put in footnotes and use Chicago style. These must not be put in-text. If you’re unfamiliar with Chicago style, go to the Library Re.Cite. tool to learn what to do.

There will be time to discuss this task in the first weeks, so please make sure to raise any questions with your tutor nice and early.

Some other basics

The standard 10% rule applies – ie. you may go slightly under or over the word count.
You are welcome to include images in your paper.
Quotations from the primary source and references are not included in the word count. Direct quotes from secondary sources are though, so use them very sparingly.
Late work is penalised at 10% per day. If more time is required please consult with your tutor directly. Please note that the teaching team have weeknights and weekends also, so don’t expect a reply outside of standard business hours.
Presentation matters, so be sure to check and double check your work.
In this assessment you are required to analyse an ancient text, Apollodorus’ account of the Athenians’ autochthonous origins (from The Library Book 3, Chapter XIV). This is included in your readings for week 4 (pages 9-18). Pay particular attention to the processes that are involved in Athens’ beginnings. What implicit, or explicit, claims are being made? What does this reflect or suggest about Athenian culture, identity, or political culture.

Please note!

This is not a research essay. This means you’re not expected to do additional research. If you do this anyway, out of fairness to everyone else, it won’t be rewarded. You are expected to make full use of the primary source, and the other readings for the week. The main thing we’re looking for is your analysis of the text and how it interplays with the site. As a work of analysis, whenever you make a point about the text, it’s important to cite and/or quote the exact part of the text that you’re commenting on. You’ll notice that scholars do this all the time in most of the journal articles we are looking at.

Citations

Textual citations should be in-text and use the standard abbreviations as set out in the Oxford Classical Dictionary.Links to an external site. In this case it would look like (Apollod., Bibl. 3.14.1). This would refer to the first paragraph in section 14 of book 3, which starts with “Cecrops, a son of the soil… Please italicise the title of the text (Bibl.) along with any Greek or Latin terms if you use them.

Other citations, such as to modern work of scholarship, must be put in footnotes and use Chicago style. These must not be put in-text. If you’re unfamiliar with Chicago style, go to the Library Re.Cite. tool to learn what to do.

There will be time to discuss this task in the first weeks, so please make sure to raise any questions with your tutor nice and early.

Some other basics

The standard 10% rule applies – ie. you may go slightly under or over the word count.
You are welcome to include images in your paper.
Quotations from the primary source and references are not included in the word count. Direct quotes from secondary sources are though, so use them very sparingly.
Late work is penalised at 10% per day. If more time is required please consult with your tutor directly. Please note that the teaching team have weeknights and weekends also, so don’t expect a reply outside of standard business hours.
Presentation matters, so be sure to check and double check your work.