1. Does Appstore provide a two-sided placorm.? If yes, are there the same side and cross-side network effects? Please 2. Does Appstore operate in a market that exhibits “winner take all” dynamics?

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n every Friday.
1. Use Market Basket Analysis (Support, Confidence, and LiM) to compare two cases.
o Case 1: Consumer who bought potato chips also bought milk Case 2: Consumer who bought
soda also bought milk
o What does the result in a) imply? Please interpret the results in a).
2. Based on the results in a), suggest a strategy which the store owner could implement to increase sales of
milk.
Question 2: (10 pts.)
You are selling a soMware product called “Link” which is available in high- and low-quality versions
called Link Professional and Link Home respec8vely. You have 2 units of Link Professional and 2 units of
Link Home.
There are 2 poten8al customers, each of whom is interested in buying 1 unit of Link (either Link
Professional or Home but not both). Suppose that your objec8ve is to maximize the total revenue from
selling the soMware. Further, you do not know the iden8ty of either buyer and you must sell by pos8ng
one price for Link Professional and another price for Link Home. Each buyer seeks to maximize her
consumer surplus and may buy Link Professional or Link Home or neither depending on the prices that
you post. Please show all intermediate steps and clearly explain your reasoning.
1. What is the op8mal price and resul8ng revenue under the following scenario? What (if anything) would
each customer buy?
2. If you could iden8fy each buyer and make targeted offers, what price would you offer to each and how
much revenue would you earn? What (if anything) would each customer buy?
Scenario The willingness to pay (WTP) of the 2 poten8al buyers is:
Question 3: (10 pts.)
Read part of 2013 Macworld ar8cle about Appstore below to answer the following ques8ons:
1. Does Appstore provide a two-sided placorm.? If yes, are there the same side and cross-side
network effects? Please
2. Does Appstore operate in a market that exhibits “winner take all” dynamics?
The App Store turns five: A look back andforward
By Lex Friedman Jul 8, 2013
Five years ago, the App Store was born. A million apps, billions of dollars, and an uncountably high number of Angry Birds
later, the store is unques8onably a smashing, unrivaled success. These days, customers download more than 800 apps every
single second.
When the iPhone launched in 2007, Steve Jobs famously told developers that they could write “apps” for the device by
crea8ng Web apps. Developers mostly scoffed at that pronouncement
—some went so far as to jailbreak their phones just so they could play around with crea8ng soMware for the revolu8onary
new device.
Respite came in March 2008, when Apple laid out the roadmap for iOS development—including a soMware development kit
(SDK) for programmers to write their own apps—and announced that it would provide a storefront through which
developers could sell their soMware.
The App Store launched on July 10, 2008, with a whopping 552 apps on its virtual shelves; the most common prices were $1
and $10, and there were a mere 135 free apps.
In the intervening years, the App Store has made some developers fabulously wealthy; gave some a new, stable career; and
leM others with broken dreams and disappointments. But owners of iOS devices didn’t focus on the App Store lonery—they
simply cheered the many awesome new abili8es their devices gained.
This is the story of the App Store’s success; it’s a success that has come in the face of plenty of issues with the store, many of
which persist even to today. But more on that in a bit.
Not so humble beginnings
Among those 552 launch apps were many that s8ll grace our home screens: MLB.com At Bat, Facebook, Yelp, Shazam, and
Super Monkey Ball, to name a few. The App Store launched simultaneously in 62 countries; then, as now, it was accessible
from a devoted iOS app, or as a feature sort of crammed into iTunes.
The App Store’s first weekend saw more than 10 million app downloads. Less than a month later, Sega’s Super Monkey Ball
hit 300,000 downloads, neong Sega $3 million and Apple more than $1 million of its own, thanks to the store’s 70/30
revenue split.
By September, the store had surpassed 100 million downloads, and when the end of 2008 rolled around, the most
downloaded app of the year, with 5 million downloads, was Facebook. Of course, since that par8cular app was (and
remains) free of charge, those downloads didn’t translate directly into dollars for Facebook or Apple. But as the App Store’s
fortunes rose, so too did the iPhone’s, and later the iPad’s. And Facebook’s mobile usage went through the roof.
This is a part of the ar8cle on MacWorld. You may read full ar8cle on The App Store turns five: A look back and forward.

Explain the concept of a knowledge worker. Define and explain nursing informatics and highlight the role of a nurse leader as a knowledge worker.

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The term “knowledge worker” was first coined by management consultant and author Peter Drucker in his book, The Landmarks of Tomorrow (1959). Drucker defined knowledge workers as high-level workers who apply theoretical and analytical knowledge, acquired through formal training, to develop products and services. Does this sound familiar?

Nurses are very much knowledge workers. What has changed since Drucker’s time are the ways that knowledge can be acquired. The volume of data that can now be generated and the tools used to access this data have evolved significantly in recent years and helped healthcare professionals (among many others) to assume the role of knowledge worker in new and powerful ways.

In this Assignment, you will consider the evolving role of the nurse leader and how this evolution has led nurse leaders to assume the role of knowledge worker. You will prepare a PowerPoint presentation with an infographic (graphic that visually represents information, data, or knowledge. Infographics are intended to present information quickly and clearly.) to educate others on the role of nurse as knowledge worker.

Reference: Drucker, P. (1959). The landmarks of tomorrow. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.

To Prepare:

  • Review the concepts of informatics as presented in the Resources.
  • Reflect on the role of a nurse leader as a knowledge worker.
  • Consider how knowledge may be informed by data that is collected/accessed.

The Assignment:

  • Explain the concept of a knowledge worker.
  • Define and explain nursing informatics and highlight the role of a nurse leader as a knowledge worker.
  • Include one slide that visually represents the role of a nurse leader as knowledge worker.
  • Your PowerPoint should Include the hypothetical scenario you originally shared in the Discussion Forum. Include your examination of the data that you could use, how the data might be accessed/collected, and what knowledge might be derived from that data. Be sure to incorporate feedback received from your colleagues’ responses.

There are many countercultures in the world. Name one of them and explain why you believe they fit into this category. Each person in society has a status. What is your status? In addition, do you believe you were given this status? Explain why or why not.

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Remember to submit your work following the file naming convention FirstInitial.LastName_M01.docx. For example, J.Smith_M01.docx. Remember that it is not necessary to manually type in the file extension; it will automatically append.

Start by reading and following these instructions:

1. Quickly skim the questions or assignment below and the assignment rubric to help you focus.

2. Read the required chapter(s) of the textbook and any additional recommended resources. Some answers may require you to do additional research on the Internet or in other reference sources. Choose your sources carefully.

3. Consider the discussion and the any insights you gained from it.

4. Create your Assignment submission and be sure to cite your sources, use APA style as required, check your spelling.

Assignment:

Write a 800-1500 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point. There should be four sections, one for each bullet below. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Support your ideas with at least three (3) citations in your essay. Make sure to reference the citations using the APA writing style for the essay. The cover page and reference page do not count towards the minimum word amount.

  • There are many countercultures in the world. Name one of them and explain why you believe they fit into this category.
  • Each person in society has a status. What is your status? In addition, do you believe you were given this status? Explain why or why not.
  • It is said that we all learn by experience. Or do we? There are three theories of socialization. Think of a personal situation where it was a “learning experience” and describe the outcome based on the theories of socialization.
  • We all experience the stages of the Life Course — some more than others. At this point in your life, you may be in the Young Adulthood or Middle Adulthood stage. Thinking into the future, how do you see your Life Course playing out? Describe it using each of the remaining phases.

Your company sells exercise clothing and equipment on the Internet. To design the clothing, you collect data on the physical characteristics of your different types of customers. Here are the weights (in kilograms) for a sample of 25 male runners

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This is a take-home final exam. Please complete the exam on your own! You will perform some
operations in Excel. Please make a pdf file with your answers to the following 5 questions
amounting to 30 points. Submit both the pdf file and your Excel file on Canvas. No late
submissions will be accepted. The grade will be evaluated based on both final answers and
calculation steps.
Question 1. (7pts)
Your company sells exercise clothing and equipment on the Internet. To design the clothing, you
collect data on the physical characteristics of your different types of customers. Here are the
weights (in kilograms) for a sample of 25 male runners (You can also see the data in Sheet 1 of
the excel file “Final”). Assume that these runners can be viewed as a random sample of your
potential male customers.
62.5 68.7 61.8 63.2 53.1 62.3 59.7 55.4 58.9 60.9 69.2 63.7 67.8
65.6 65.5 56.0 57.8 66.0 62.9 53.6 65.0 55.8 60.4 69.3 62.1
Suppose the standard deviation of the population is known to be σ = 4.5 kg. Answer Parts a) ~ d).
a) What is ̅
, the standard deviation of ̅?
b) Give a 95% confidence interval for , the mean of the population from which the sample is
drawn.
c) Will the interval contain the weights of approximately 95% of similar runners? Explain your
answer.
d) If you want the 95% margin of error to be 1 kg or less, what sample size would you use?
Suppose that the standard deviation of the population is unknown. Answer Parts e) ~ g).
e) What is ̅
, the standard error of ̅?
f) Give a 95% confidence interval for , the mean of the population from which the sample is
drawn. (Hint: at first find the degrees of freedom)
g) You want to test H0: = 61.3 kg versus Ha: ≠ 61.3 kg. Do you reject H0 at the 5% significance
level?
Question 2. (3pts)
The Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes (SSHA) is a psychological test designed to measure the
motivation, study habits, and attitudes toward learning of college students. These factors, along
with ability, are important in explaining success in school. Scores on the SSHA range from 0 to
200. A selective private college gives the SSHA to an SRS of both male and female first-year
students.
The scores for the women are as follows:
156 109 137 115 152 140 154 178 111
123 126 126 137 165 165 129 200 150
Here are the scores of the men:
118 140 114 91 180 115 126 92 169 139
121 132 75 88 113 151 70 115 187 114
You can also find these data in Sheet 2 of the excel file “Final”.
Most studies have found that the mean SSHA score for men is lower than the mean score in a
comparable group of women. Test this supposition here. That is, state the null and alternative
hypotheses, carry out the test and obtain a P-value, and give your conclusion. (Hint: you can use
the Excel function “t-Test: Two-Sample Assuming Unequal Variances” in “Data Analysis”)
Question 3. (4pts)
A cell phone manufacturer would like to know what proportion of its customers are dissatisfied
with the service received from their local distributor. The customer relations department will
survey a random sample of customers.
a) Find the sample size needed if the margin of error of the 95% confidence interval is to be 0.02
or less.
b) Suppose the sample size is 2500 and 12% of the sample say that they are dissatisfied. What is
the margin of error of the 95% confidence interval?
c) You want to test the null hypothesis that the population proportion is 0.10 using a two-sided test
with α = 0.05. Give the test statistic, P-value, and your conclusion.
Question 4. (7pts)
Did Utah Jazz have a home field advantage? In the 2018-2019 NBA regular season, Utah Jazz
played 41 games at home and 41 games away. They won 29 of their home games and 21 of the
games played away. We can consider these games as samples from potentially large populations
of games played at home and away. Please round any numerical answers to 4 decimal places.
a) Find the proportion of wins for the home games. Do the same for the away games.
b) Find the standard error needed to compute a confidence interval for the difference in the
proportions.
c) Compute a 99% confidence interval for the difference between the probability that the Jazz win
at home and the probability that they win when on the road.
d) Most people think that it is easier to win at home than away. State null and alternative
hypotheses to test this supposition.
e) Combining all of the games played, what proportion did the Jazz win?
f) Find the standard error needed for testing that the probability of winning is the same at home
and away.
g) Compute the z statistic and its P-value. What conclusion do you draw?
Question 5. (9pts)
We want to study whether there is a tradeoff between the time spent sleeping per week and the
time spent in paid work. The data are in Sheet 3 of the excel file “Final”. We will estimate the
following model:
= 0 + 1 +
where sleep is minutes spent sleeping at night per week and totwrk is total minutes worked during
the week.
a) What is the response variable and what is the explanatory variable?
b) Draw a scatterplot with the explanatory variable on the horizontal axis and the response variable
on the vertical axis.
c) Describe the relationship between sleep and totwrk. Is a linear relationship reasonable? Explain
your answer.
d) Run the regression in Excel. Remember to check the “Residual Plots”.
e) Does the residual plot suggest that the data fit a linear model? Why?
f) Is the slope statistically different from 0 at the 5% level? Why?
g) Is the intercept meaningful in this case? Why?
h) The standard error for estimating the mean response when the explanatory variable x takes the
value x
*
is
̂ = √
1

+
(
∗ − ̅)
2
∑( − ̅)
2
Explain why the prediction is most accurate near the mean of the explanatory variable.
i) Find the mean of totwrk. What is the predicted mean sleep time per week when to

Do learn the medium(s) of each work – hardware, software, other materials/mediums used, type of artwork i.e. software driven sculpture, installation, and be familiar with concepts from Lecture and used by Paul, and other theorists pitched at you this semester to describe them. (this is the first approach to studying)

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  • Lorna” by Lynn Hershman-Leeson, 1972. (Week 12 Resource Page video)

Lorna

https://youtu.be/erSDdku0edI

  • “Color Panel v. 1.0” by John Simon, 1999. (Week 11 slides)
  • “Super Mario Clouds” by Cory Arcangle, 2002. (Week 11 slides)
  • “America’s Got No Talent” by J. Bruckner-Cohen & K. Moriwaki (Week 11 slides)
  • “Third Ear” by Stelarc, 2006 onward. (Week 15 slides and resources)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s80ZjumSA08&feature=youtu.be 

  • “Unexpected Growth” by Tamiko Thiel, 2016. (Week 14 slides)

Do learn the medium(s) of each work – hardware, software, other materials/mediums used, type of artwork i.e. software driven sculpture, installation, and be familiar with concepts from Lecture and used by Paul, and other theorists pitched at you this semester to describe them. (this is the first approach to studying)

Most have video link in the Lecture Slides from that week or under Resources. Otherwise, amass any Lecture notes, good articles you can find from art resources, and collections such as Electronic Arts Intermix, art.net, NYMOMA, Whitney Museum “Programmed” exhibition (2018-19)  curated by Christiane Paul to source information on the artworks. These artists also all have websites.

Now that you have learned about deconstructive criticism ( ciritical theory toady), you should read this theory and apply the theory as a means of analyzing one of the novel (what lies between us) you have read.

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Now that you have learned about deconstructive criticism ( ciritical theory toady), you should read this theory and apply the theory as a means of analyzing one of the novel (what lies between us) you have read. There is no professor assigned prompt for this essay. This class is Advanced Composition and Critical Thinking, and part of being an advanced writer and a critical thinker is being able to come up with your own topic and thesis with certain parameters. You have to figure out what it is you want us to know about the novel when analyzed the particular lens of a particular theory.

please read both books: “ciritical theory today” and “what lies between us”, i will upload the cover page to know the book

there is deconstructive criticism in ciritical “theory toady” book, use this theory to write about this book “ what lies between us”.

i have some questions it might help u to write this essay, u can Includes the answers of the questions in the essay. this question for my class weekly discussion:

Below are a series of questions taken from your textbook that a Deconstructive critic might ask about a text. In response to one of these questions, post a statement about a novel.

1. How can we use the various conflicting interpretations a text produces
(the “play of meanings”) or find the various ways in which the text doesn’t
answer the questions it seems to answer, to demonstrate the instability of
language and the undecidability of meaning? (Remember that deconstruc‑
tion uses the word undecidability in a special way. See page 259.)

2. What ideology does the text seem to promote—what is its main theme—
and how does conflicting evidence in the text show the limitations of that
ideology? We can usually discover a text’s overt ideological project by find‑
ing the binary opposition(s) that structure the text’s main theme(s).

Since this paper focuses on the persuasive nature of writing, during the process of drafting and revising, you will need to develop a specific thesis statement and support for it based on the kinds of sources you find.

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Argumentative Essay
Final Essay Due: December 21 (Monday) 2 PM EST (25% of your final grade)
NOTE: See the next page for the topics you can choose.
This assignment asks you to produce an argumentative essay (1000-1250 words) that makes and
supports a claim related to a topic from one of the readings we read for this class. In other
words, unlike the critical response assignment, your job this time is to express an opinion about
the subject matter, not to explain and examine the efficiency of the rhetorical strategies used in
a certain article.
Since this paper focuses on the persuasive nature of writing, during the process of drafting and
revising, you will need to develop a specific thesis statement and support for it based on the
kinds of sources you find. Use at least three outside sources to develop your argument, one of
which must be a scholarly source.
1 A part of your job is to discover the kinds of arguments that
are possible to make. Another part of your job is to figure out how to develop a claim that can be
supported with the resources you find. Whenever necessary, you can use direct quotations to
elucidate your point; however, do NOT use block quotations (an indented quotation that is more
than 4 lines) in your essay.
All the outside sources must be documented in MLA style, with in-text citations and a Works
Cited page. The Works Cited page does NOT count toward the word count. All pages should be
numbered and your name should be printed on each page. On the top of the first page, put your
name, my name, the course number (ENG 1100), and the date of submission. Your essay should
be word-processed in 2.0 line spacing and 12-point Times New Roman, with 1″ margin.
Please feel free to e-mail me (pclavin@ccm.edu) if you have any questions.
1 Academic sources, also called scholarly sources, are sources which can include books, academic journal articles,
and published expert reports. The content in academic sources has usually been peer-reviewed, which means that
it’s been reviewed by experts on its topic for accuracy and quality before being published.
ENG 111 2
Topics You Can Choose for This Assignment
NOTE: These articles can be used as outside sources. These are not scholarly sources.
1) Blue-collar intelligence
➔ The topic is related to Mike Rose’s “Blue-Collar Brilliance”
2) Bilingual education
➔ The topic is related to Maxine Hong Kingston’s “Tongue-Tied, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s
“Decolonizing the Mind,” and Richard Rodriguez’s “Aria”
3) Objectivity in writing (e.g. legal/historical writing, the use of “I”)
➔ The topic is related to Patricia Williams’s “The Death of the Profane”
4) English as the official language of the U.S.
➔ The topic is related to Dennis Baron’s “Lingua Blanka”
5) Linguistic purism in English (i.e. using “plain English”)
➔ The topic is related to George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”
6) The effects of race, class, and/or gender on language use
➔ The topic is related to Jaswinder Bolina’s “Writing like a White Guy”
7) Digital literacy (e.g. cognitive changes in reading, technology in learning, computer literacy)
➔ The topic is related to Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Judith Newman’s
“To Siri, with Love,” and Tasneem Raja’s “Is Coding the New Literacy?”

In you research paper, I want you to choose  a philosopher (of your choice) which we have not covered in the course, discuss his political theory, and try to approach it (maybe contrast it) with one or more of the philosophers we covered (plato, Aristotle, alfarabi, ibn khaldoun, st. augustiene, st. thomas, martin luther, machiavelli, thomas hobbes, john locke, hegel, and marx.)

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Topic: Over this course we have discussed the philosophy of several ,major political thinkers. In you research paper, I want you to choose  a philosopher (of your choice) which we have not covered in the course, discuss his political theory, and try to approach it (maybe contrast it) with one or more of the philosophers we covered (plato, Aristotle, alfarabi, ibn khaldoun, st. augustiene, st. thomas, martin luther, machiavelli, thomas hobbes, john locke, hegel, and marx.)

800-1000 words.

any referencing style is acceptable as long as it is an internationally recognized one.

any font is acceptable.

minimum resources: 4 online (considering the lockdown I know you might not be able to access libraries and books)

discuss the Germanic invasions into the empire. What is the author’s argument? How might one counter his arguments?

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Discussion Board Forum 4 – Module/Week 7 — Rome and “The Barbarians” – HIEU 322 – Roman Civilization

You are required to create a thread in response to the provided promptly. Each thread must be at least 125 words.

Topic: Rome and the Barbarians

Using the website in the Reading & Study folder, discuss the Germanic invasions into the empire. What is the author’s argument? How might one counter his arguments?

Rome’s Final Conquest: The Barbarians – PDF (Link 2, if 1st don’t work – https://gofile.io/d/ClVjf3)

History of the Roman People – This link to access the Ward et al. e-book. – PDF (eBook ISBN9781315511214) – (Link 2, if 1st don’t work – https://gofile.io/d/ClVjf3) – Textbook Readings: Ward et al.: ch. 35

You are part of the company’s “Reporting and Communications Division”, and you were approached by a prospective client who is scanning suitable companies to help them produce their first sustainability report.

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This module will have a “live project” as assessment, where we will be working with a real company to produce a sample of a Sustainability Report for the organisation.  The assessment is based on a role-playing project scenario in collaboration with the ‘client’ company, and contributes to 100% of the overall mark for the module.

The assignment is composed of two separate but complementary documents:

  1. a mock ‘sustainability report’ sample for the client;
  2. an accompanying discussion paper, where you explain your decisions behind what you presented in your mock report.

The overall wordcount across the two elements should not exceed 4000 words.  Full details of the assessment are contained in the “Assignment Brief“, but see below an introduction to the working ‘project scenario’ that you will be working on.

The deadline for the submission of the assessment will be on the 11th of January, 2021. (date was previously the 6th of January, but this has been changed).

Project Scenario

Your role:

You work for a sustainability consultancy company, providing services in sustainability strategy, benchmarking, reporting and communication. You are part of the company’s “Reporting and Communications Division”, and you were approached by a prospective client who is scanning suitable companies to help them produce their first sustainability report. To help them select the right company to partner with, the client sent a similar brief to various prospective companies with instructions for the production of a ‘mock’ or ‘sample’ section of a report. This aims to help the client assess the quality of your work, reporting advice and insights, your understanding of the company, and overall ability to produce a high quality and effective sustainability report. The client will then use the ‘samples’ received to determine which company(ies) to shortlist and proceed to the next stage of conversations.

Your client: Young’s Seafood Ltd.

Young’s is a British producer and distributor of frozen, fresh, and chilled seafood. The company was founded in 1805 and has been in continuous growth since, being today the UK’s biggest specialist seafood brand. For more than 50 years the company has been based in Grimsby – one of Europe’s oldest fishing ports – where it currently employs around 1700 members of the community, and is the town’s largest employer. The company has launched a ‘Fish for Life’ initiative, where it has committed to responsible sourcing and to doing business “in a responsible, sustainable manner that protects our industry and the environment”. Recently the company became part of the wider ‘Eight Fifty Food Group’ parent company, that also owns other food companies. Until now Young’s has never published a sustainability report. However, with increasing expectations from investors and other stakeholders for companies to disclose on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria, Young’s is currently considering producing its first public Sustainability Report.