Assignment 3: Demand and Supply

The use of E-Books has increased in recent years, especially with the advent of mobile E-Readers.  A marketing research firm recently developed the following supply and demand schedules for E-books:

Price/E-Book	Quantity Demanded	Quantity Supplied
$18	4000	10,000
16	5000	9500
14	6000	9000
12	7000	8500
10	8000	8000
9	9000	7500
8	10000	7000
7	11000	6500
6	12000	6000
5	13000	5500
4	14000	5000
2	15000	4500

Assignment Guidelines:

Using Microsoft (MS) Excel, construct a graph showing supply and demand in the E-Book market based on the data above. (Save this file because you will re-work it later in the assignment.) When finished, copy and paste or import your graph into an MS Word document.

(Tutorials for working with MS Excel and MS Word can be found through the Tutoring Services and Tutorials link at the top of the page.)

In your MS Word document, below your imported graph, respond to the following:

1. Explain how the Laws of Supply and Demand are illustrated in this graph.
2. Describe the equilibrium price and quantity in this market.
3. Assume that the government imposes a price floor of $12 in the E-Book market. Explain what would happen in this market.
4. Assume that the price floor is removed and a price ceiling is imposed at $6. Explain what would happen in this market.
5. Now, assume that the price of E-Readers (used with E-Books) drops from $60 by fifty percent. How would this change impact the demand for E-Books? Explain your answer. Then, reconstruct your original graph to show this change and place it in your MS Word document below your explanation.

question 1.  What role do carbohydrates play in the diet?

 

question 2 Carbohydrates are broken down into monosaccharides and disaccharides and polysaccharides. Describe each group and describe lactose intolerance? Why are we being encouraged to decrease our intake of high-fructose corn syrup?

question 3. How many grams of CHO are recommended for the brain to function on a daily basis?

 

question 4. What are the benefits of regular physical activity?

 

question 5. What is the difference between physical activity, exercise and physical fitness and why is it important to engage in physical activity?

 

 

question 6 What is the difference between physical activity, exercise and physical fitness and why is it important to engage in physical activity?

 

• Two of following question

1. When an action researcher is dealing with an organization that is under organized, what are key steps in the change process? Explain.
2. Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to recognize and express emotions appropriately, to use emotions in decisions, and to regulate emotions. Why does this matter in organizations? Explain.

 

1) Go to  www.gsk.com

. What key events represent the romantic view of leadership and what events describe the external control perspective leadership?

 

2) Go to www.kroger.com and determine which of the five forces that drive competition affect this company’s profitability.

 

3) What are the ethical implications of an organization with overzealous procurement practices; consider internal and external stakeholders in your response.

 

4) Choose a company you know relatively well. In what ways does this company use technology to leverage its human capital for strategic purposes? Explain and support your response. In each instance above, provide the corresponding definition either from textbook or from an academically reliable source using APA conventions.

 

 

Media:

• Video: Laureate Education (Producer). (n.d.). The early childhood professional [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

  Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 20 minutes.

  Noted early childhood expert Barbara Bowman speaks to a group of early childhood educators about the attributes of early childhood professionals, characteristics of the early childhood profession, and some of the major changes that have transformed early childhood education in this country.

 

Video: Laureate Education (Producer). (n.d.). A call for leadership [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 9 minutes.

Barbara Bowman explains the need for early childhood professionals to become active leaders in classrooms, schools, programs, and society.

 

Optional Resources

• Web Article: Early Childhood Leaders on Leadership

  http://www.naeyc.org/files/yc/file/200501/Scott.pdf

• Web Site: The National Children’s Advocacy Center

  http://www.nationalcac.org/

• Web Site: Children Now

  http://www.childrennow.org/index.php/

• Web Site: National-Louis University’s McCormick Tribune Center for Early Childhood Leadership

  http://cecl.nl.edu/

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Researchers who investigate the causes of specific health problems look at a wide range of influences on several different levels. For instance, if researchers were investigating obesity at the individual level, they could examine eating habits and frequency of sedentary activities like TV watching. If the health problems also are population wide, as obesity is, it is important from a public health standpoint to focus on community-level factors such as availability of healthy foods and recreational facilities.

Communities and organizations have personalities and can resist change in a manner similar to how individuals can become set in their ways. Have you ever been part of a group where the social norms created pressure to behave a certain way? One possible strategy for changing behaviors is to address a community or organization rather than individuals. For this you would use theories geared to groups rather than to individuals.

The article by Krug et al. in the Learning Resources discusses violence and health and explores how the causes of violence can be viewed at many different levels. Although violence is commonly thought of as happening between individuals, community-level factors may be adding to the problem:

“The third level explores the community context—i.e., schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods. Risk at this level may be affected by factors such as the existence of a local drug trade, the absence of social networks, and poverty. All these factors have been shown to be important in several types of violence” (Krug et al., 2002, p. 1085).

For this Discussion, consider community level factors that might contribute to injury-related public health problem that is present in a country or a community with these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 4 a description of the injury-related public health problem you selected. Include incidence rates for this problem in the country or community you selected and a description of populations at risk for it. Then, explain which community-level factors might influence increased risk for injury in its population. Identify and briefly describe an organization (e.g., school, workplace) in which violence might be a chronic issue in that country or community

Consider the role of change agents (i.e., a person or group that indirectly or directly facilitates change) as you apply the Stage Theory of Organizational Change to the topic of violence.

2 pages and 4 references within lat 7 years

Consider the following scenario: A mother is pressured by her children to start exercising every day because they had learned about the need for it in school. The mother usually tries to set an example for her children, but in this case her children are setting the example for her. This is an illustration of observational learning, where behaviors are acquired by seeing them in another person. Observational learning is one of the many useful concepts in the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) that apply directly to health behaviors.

For this Discussion, you apply the concepts of SCT to an environmental health behavior. You may choose one of these examples or your own topic: recycling; responsible energy use (e.g., compact fluorescent [CFL]/light-emitting diode [LED] lightbulbs, phantom loads); use of bottled water; use of alternative energy sources (e.g., wind, solar); consumption of locally grown food; reducing use of personal vehicles. Note also Table 5 in Theory at a Glance (NCI, 2005), which has some good examples of potential change strategies that could be applied to your topic.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 4 a description of a possible intervention to change an environment-related health behavior. Then, explain how you might apply SCT in the environmental health topic you selected. Finally, describe at least two intended results/outcomes of your intervention.

In RSCH 8301, you used NVivo software to assist with organizing and coding data you collected. However, you may be wondering if that is the only software package available to qualitative researchers and whether you even need to use a software package for your Dissertation.

Consider the Discussion topic for this week on organizing and tracking data as well as the Dissertation Rubric criteria on these topics.

To prepare for this Application:

• Review this week’s required readings about computer programs available for qualitative research.
• Investigate software packages other than NVivo that are available to qualitative researchers.
• Select at least two software packages and compare them to NVivo.
• Do you believe you will need to use a software package for your  project If so, would any of the three software tools you investigated for this assignment be appropriate? Why?

The assignment:

• Craft a 3- page paper and 5 references in which you do the following:
• • Compare and contrast software tools for managing and analyzing qualitative data.
  • Conclude by stating whether you believe you will need to use a software package for your dproject and, if so, whether any of the three software tools analyzed in this assignment would be appropriate.

Identify statistical hypotheses/tests that could be used to provide useful information for your research.

• Comparing the means or proportions of one group to a population or of two or more groups
• Calculating correlation and regression between two (or more) quantitative variables

If possible, complete some or all of the analysis this week so you can get instructor feedback. If not, plan to discuss your proposed analysis in class and complete in the week 5 final report.

Create a timeline in which you discuss 3-4 important health care laws, regulations, or policies throughout the years that have impacted health care today.

Include the following in your timeline discussion:

• Identify the law, policy, or regulation selected.
• Explain what influenced the law, policy, or regulation selected.
• Describe the impact the law, policy or regulation had on health care today.
• APA format