Tag: Epidemiology

 Explain the basic structure of a local search algorithm and comment on two strategies to overcome its limitation.

Math/Physic/Economic/Statistic Problems

Kevin is required to transport blood urgently to a hospital located at t in the below network.

He is currently situated at s. Assume he can only travel on the roads given in the below network and has only one mode of transportation.

The travel times on roads are indicated just above each road. For example, travel time from A to B is 12 minutes.

Assume Kevin aims to take the quickest route and travel is possible only in direction of the arrow. Formulate this problem as an integer program. Clearly explain your decision variables and constraints. (20 marks)

Explain the basic structure of a local search algorithm and comment on two strategies to overcome its limitation.

Give a local search heuristic to solve the problem in part a and illustrate two iterations of your heuristic on the given network. (35 marks)

Explain briefly the basic components and the principle behind genetic algorithms.

Explain how you would construct a genetic algorithm for the problem in part a. (4

Describe the generic and employability skills developed through this work.

Research Proposal

Project Details
provide an outline of the project and relevance of the proposed work to the subject domain postgraduate programme.refer to guidelines for further details. (Maximum 500 words)

Programme of Work
Provide a detailed description of the proposed work programme. refer to guidelines for further details. (Maximum 500 words)

Employability
Describe the generic and employability skills developed through this work. (Maximum 100 words)

A Note on Funding, Ethics and Safety: Although not a required part of this assessment, when formulating your Proposal you should consider whether your research will require any particularly expensive materials (e.g. ELISA kits, antibodies, chemicals).

You should also consider whether there are any ethical implications to your research, and if so make sure you understand the procedures required to obtain approval. (Ethical approval is always required for research involving human subjects and/or human tissue).

The potential use of any hazardous procedures or materials should be taken into account and justified, and suitable control measures identified before your research takes place.

 

Discuss potential limitations of your study and suggest modifications and extensions for your study, when appropriate. End with a conclusion – what are implications of your results?

Biological psychology ans statistics

Your lab report should contain the following parts
Title page
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
References
Appendices (if applicable)

The font must be Times New Roman, size 12, and should adhere to double spacing for all sections.

The main body of your report (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion) should not exceed four pages with page margins of 2.54cm (1in) top / bottom / left / right.

make sure to indent the first line of each paragraph and not to add any extra lines between paragraphs.

Submit all parts of your report in a single file named PSY2013_Resit_LabReport_URNXXXXXXX either as a word document or pdf.

Your lab report should include:

• Title – should summarise the empirical findings from your study

• Abstract – should give an overview of the report and explain theory the study is designed on.

provide a brief outline of the study design and summarise the main findings. End the abstract with major discussion points and/or conclusions.

• Introduction – should start with some general statements on why it is important to study your question.

Provide an overview of the relevant background information that helps you to either identify the gap in the literature or illustrates a current debate around the topic.

Make sure that the rationale for your study and your research question logically follow from this overview of your background reading.

Briefly introduce the general design of your study so that your specific hypothesis / research predictions are easy to understand.

• Methods – Experimental methods are described in a concise paragraph or through an original representation that describes the flow and proper sequence of important aspects of the experimental protocol.

The methods section clearly and concisely answers the question, “what did you do?”. Photographs and/or drawings may be used to illustrate relevant aspects of the experimental methods. Here think about what is important for a reader to replicate your study.

• Results – Start with information on your data – mean and standard deviation or median and interquartile range; skew and kurtosis.

Then explore your data for outliers followed by checking the assumptions for parametric analyses.

Describe differences that appear to be present – remember you can only interpret these if they are statistically significant.

Check these differences for statistical significance using the appropriate test (parametric or non-parametric test depending on your data). Write in sentences!

• Discussion / Conclusion – Start by repeating aims of the study and summarising the main findings ( bear in mind that a reader can get a rough idea of your study reading the discussion only). Then relate these results to your hypothesis / aim and to previous studies.

If your results agree with hypotheses and with previous studies discuss the implications for the theory or scientific debate. If they disagree the you should discuss why this may be the case (e.g., difference in study design, power issues etc.).

Discuss the implications of these differences for the theory (e.g., the theory is applicable only under specific circumstances) or the scientific debate.

Discuss potential limitations of your study and suggest modifications and extensions for your study, when appropriate. End with a conclusion – what are implications of your results?

• References – References are cited within the body of the text and a complete bibliography is presented that is correctly formatted according to APA style. Only use scientific resources.

• Appendices – presents figures / charts / tables with descriptions or captions. add any other information that may be relevant e.g., information about stimuli etc.

Additional tips:
• Be brief and simple. Do not include too much prior research in your introduction. Select a few papers of high relevance and introduce them properly.

• When discussing the limitations of your study think in terms of methodological differences to previous studies that potentially could explain the differences in results.

• Define abbreviations at their first use.

• Include units of measurement (e.g., age is given in years).

1. You will be marked on the quality of your arguments in the introduction and discussion, the appropriateness of the chosen analysis and the correctness of the results presentation. You will NOT be marked on the significance of the results.

2. Figures and Tables should be referenced in the text and have appropriate legends and/or titles.

3. Include units of measurement where relevant.

4. Refer back to the tutorials and , don’t save them to last minute.

Available on SurreyLearn: ‘Psychology – Undergraduate Support’ in the folder ‘Useful Forms & Guides’, then ‘Assessment and Feedback’.

For late submissions a penalty will be applied depending on the submission time:

• Between 4:01 pm on Tuesday and 4:00 pm on Wednesday,
the penalty is -10% (percentage points = marks)

• Between 4:01 pm on Wednesday and 4:00 pm on Thursday,
the penalty is -20%

• After 4:01 pm on Thursday, the coursework will be given a zero (fail) and will not be marked.

You will receive feedback within three weeks of your submission on SurreyLearn.

You can receive additional feedback during Student Engagement and Feedback Hours

What are the current challenges on modern retail today and within the next 10 years, which may conflict with CSR principles and affect your retailers sourcing decisions?

Sustainable global sourcing report

FBUY3000 Sourcing and Supply

Sustainable Global Sourcing Report 2020/2021

Overview: To remain competitive fashion retailers need to ensure they not only develop

commercial product, but ensure they deliver to the right place at the right time, profitably.

To achieve this, retailers must develop an effective, sustainable supply chain for each product.

Task: You will assume the role of a Buyer for a named fashion retailer, your task is to source a new product (e.g. A printed shirt-dress from Next) and analyse the sourcing processes required to bring the product to market.

Write a report to demonstrate your understanding of your garment’s supply chain giving evidence of your research and critical analysis which will inform your sourcing decision-making processes.

Part one: Product Sourcing

You should include:

• Your retailer introduction
• Your retailer’s position within the market and target customer
• Your retailer’s competitors
• Your Product – include a visual picture/ spec including details such as fabrication and selling price, size breakdown and volume of order.

• A SWOT analysis of 3 countries that you could source the product from (add to your appendix). Include a wide range of PESTLE factors in this analysis.

• Critical analysis of these 3 countries, with clear reasoning as to why you chose the final country to source your product, including any advantages of any relevant trade agreements.
• Costing sheet, including currency rate, duty rates and Vat
• Critical path
• Garment Care code/ washing instructions
• Packaging considerations
• Logistics

• PLM discussion – how the product will be managed from design to launch, including quality management and how the retailer will communicate with the supplier.

Part Two: Sustainable Sourcing Strategies and good practise

In part two you should consider how you can source this product SUSTAINABLY.

Discuss what changes you would make to improve the sustainable footprint of this garment and what implications this may have on the cost of your garment and the intake margin.

In this section you should also critically analyse your chosen retailers CSR policy and bring in independent voices to the debate such as the UN SDGs, Fashion Revolution and compliance companies.

You should include:

• A critical analysis of your retailer’s CSR policies Vs a competitor

• Recommendations to improve sustainable sourcing strategies including improved technologies, new sustainable fabrics, new sourcing destinations and circular fashion models.

• Recommendations for improved efficiencies within sourcing product to help save cost in innovative ways.

• Overall you should offer 3-5 recommendations explore in depth with supporting research, images, Infographics.

Consider:

• Where is the sourcing destination of your product? What are the risks and rewards?

• Recommend an improved sourcing strategy which would optimise efficiencies across the supply chain. E.g. in terms of cost, quality management, logistics, sustainability, speed to market, reacting to sales. This could be using new technologies or systems.

• Business models or theories to support your view (e.g. Iceberg and TBL, vertical integration and quick response). Consider how can TBL be achieved?

• What are the current challenges on modern retail today and within the next 10 years, which may conflict with CSR principles and affect your retailers sourcing decisions?

• Primary research from Store Visits, Industry Visits, Interviews and Questionnaires

• Revisit the lecture and seminar material and use the materials/ articles on BB.

•  use the checklist on BB to check your work against before submission

Research:
You MUST include material from:
One journal article
2 guest lecturer quotes
One industry yearbook
Recommended reading sources

Ethical companies such as BCI, ETI, Redress, Fashion Revolution
One business theory
Primary Research

Word count: 4000 (-/+ 10%) Remember to be concise and be creative with images and infographics to save words within the word count. Additional information can be added to appendices.

Your written content should be in a formal academic style so ensure you have up levelled your language and you check your work for spelling, punctuation and grammar errors – There is software to help you do this and of course the library are also there to help!

Harvard referencing conventions to be used throughout (reference lists and citations within the text).

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of the assignment you will have met the following learning outcomes:

1. Work independently applying taught knowledge to a personally managed project set in a ‘commercial context’.

2. Demonstrate knowledge of the sourcing and supply process of textile products across international markets.

3. Demonstrate an ability to make justifiable decisions based on commercial information.

4. Demonstrate an awareness of the scope of supply chain management within the context of the textile industry and be able to demonstrate the practical application of this knowledge.

5. Demonstrate the availability to research commercial practice and compare this with theoretical concepts.

Marking Criteria:
Grading will be in accordance with the Fashion & Textiles mark descriptors (see attached sheets) and will be based on the following:

Research – 25%
As detailed above, appropriate use of referenced primary and secondary research from a variety of academic sources such as recommended books, journals, reputable websites, industry opinion pieces and guest lecturers. Work experience may provide useful primary research discussion.

Discussion of Sourcing Procedures – 30%

Demonstrating evidence of background reading supported by your own discussion including critical analysis.

You will demonstrate your knowledge of sourcing and showcase your decision making based on commercial information.

CSR critical analysis and Recommendations – 35%

Provide concepts, techniques and models used for planning, managing and improving operations and information systems in contemporary organisations across a range of business sectors

Operations and Information Management

1. Allow students to develop an in-depth understanding of the increasingly important field of operations and information management.

2. Provide students with an overview of the role and contribution of operations and information systems to a company’s strategic position.

3. To provide concepts, techniques and models used for planning, managing and improving operations and information systems in contemporary organisations across a range of business sectors

4. To equip students with the capability to apply their knowledge of operations and information management within their business and management practice or further study.

Describe any unintentional learning opportunities and or behaviours that are created by the physical design of the environment. (These can be both positive and negative behaviours of adults and children.)

Early learning environments

Describe key opportunities (affordances) that the indoor and/or outdoor setting provides for learning and play.

Here you must identify the learning and/or play AND the physical environment qualities/characteristics linked to the learning/play.

Sensory stimulation:

Cognitive learning affordances:

Physical learning / play affordances:

Social learning / play affordances:

Emotional learning affordances:

Nature connection affordances:

Describe how the indoor and/or outdoor physical environment restricts and facilitates behavior and activities:

Describe any unintentional learning opportunities and or behaviours that are created by the physical design of the environment. (These can be both positive and negative behaviours of adults and children.)

NB: Consider the theories and perspective you have been learning about and make links to them throughout your notes above.

What would be the consequences of replacing the Wednesbury test with a test based on proportionality?

What would be the consequences of replacing the Wednesbury test with a test based on proportionality?

Constitutional&Administrative Law Essay; 2:1 mark ;use cases, legislation, journals etc.

Oscola footnotes but no bibliography, sub-headings, 1000words limit incuding footnotes, end of term paper, well argued with most of relevant issues moved; 125words for intro and same for conclusion.

Uni requires usage of sources to back up the argument from the list attached below plus one source from outside.”Argument and Identification of Relevant Issues

The submission identifies the relevant issues and answers the question explicitly and critically with a sophisticated level of clarity and logic; detailed and perceptive analysis; credit will be given for originality of thought or approach.

Knowledge and understandingDemonstrates comprehensive knowledge and insightful understanding of relevant principles and uses this knowledge logically and thoroughly; drawing persuasive conclusions.

StructureExcellent throughout, with a strong and effective introduction and conclusion; discussion is organised, balanced and logical and based around clear arguments; points linked and ordered appropriately”If you have any questions,do not hesitate to contact.

Critically assess the effectiveness of the Parliamentary Ombudsman.

Critically assess the effectiveness of the Parliamentary Ombudsman

Constitutional&Administrative Law Essay; 2:1 mark;use cases, legislation, journals etc.

Oscola footnotes but no bibliography, sub-headings, 1000words limit incuding footnotes, end of term paper, well argued with most of relevant issues moved; 125words for intro and same for conclusion.

Uni requires usage of sources to back up the argument from the list attached below plus one source from outside.”Argument and Identification of Relevant Issues The submission identifies the relevant issues and answers the question explicitly and critically with a sophisticated level of clarity and logic; detailed and perceptive analysis; credit will be given for originality of thought or approach.

Knowledge and understanding Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge and insightful understanding of relevant principles and uses this knowledge logically and thoroughly; drawing persuasive conclusions.

Structure Excellent throughout, with a strong and effective introduction and conclusion; discussion is organised, balanced and logical and based around clear arguments; points linked and ordered appropriately”If you have any questions, , do not hesitate to contact.

Select an international organisation (of your choice – AIA Singapore) and identify its closest competitor (Prudential Singapore). Present the two organisations and the criteria used for the identification of the competitor.

FInancial Performance Management

Annual Report
AIA Annual Report 2020
Prudential Annual Report_2020

Question 1 (30%).

Select an international organisation (of your choice – AIA Singapore) and identify its closest competitor (Prudential Singapore). Present the two organisations and the criteria used for the identification of the competitor.

Use ratio analysis technique to evaluate the financial performance of the two organizations; draw a comparative evaluation and critically discuss the findings.

You need to access the annual financial statements of the last two years and provide details of the ratio calculations.
It is recommended to use graphs and tables to present your analysis, and cite academic literature.

Question 2 (30%). With reference to relevant literature, critically evaluate Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System.

Develop a proposed Balanced Scorecard to include critical success factors (CSF’s) for AIA Singapore.

Question 3 (30%).

Provide a critical analysis of the benefits and challenges of adopting Integrated Reporting (IR) for your selected organization (AIA Singapore).

Use academic literature and refer to the International Integrated Reporting framework to support your discussion.
Presentation (10%). Mark awarded for presentation refers to overall structure and presentation, academic style of writing, use of Harvard style for references and in text citations.

You need to use a comprehensive range of relevant (academic and professional) sources; use of online sources should be limited and the reliability of the source should be verified.

All sources need to be acknowledged and referenced properly to ensure the originality of the work. The report needs to follow the below structure and address the three questions.

Proposed structure of the Report:
1. Introduction
Introduce the scope and focus of the report (approx. 250 words)

2. Financial Performance using Ratio Analysis
Question 1 (approx. 1,000 words)

3. Balanced Scorecard
Question 2 (approx. 1,000 words)

4. Integrated Reporting
Question 3 (approx. 1,000 words)

5. Conclusions
Provide an overall conclusion based on the reflection from the report (approx. 250 words)

References

Appendix – Provide details on the calculations presented in Question 1.

The proposed structure above intends to provide a recommendation on the structure of the coursework.

This can be enriched with more sections/subsections as you consider appropriate (example abstract, executive summary, table of contents, appendices, etc.).

Write an individual research report describing a critical commentary on the project management plan focused on the project execution and dissemination stage:

Research Report

You are asked to write an individual research report describing a critical commentary on the project management plan focused on the project execution and dissemination stage:

The word count is 4,000 words (excluding references).

The report should be appropriate to your role, background or interests

To write the report, you will assume the role of a manager of a hypothetical research project that is now ready to go ‘live’ or is underway:

Remember, this module is focused primarily on the execution and dissemination stages, not the design stage, of research projects.