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discuss what you believe to be the most important role of policing in countering violent extremism in the United States./Compare and contrast transnational crime and international crime to determine the impact each has on global security and our security

discuss what you believe to be the most important role of policing in countering violent extremism in the United States./Compare and contrast transnational crime and
international crime to determine the impact each has on global security and our security
1. discuss what you believe to be the most important role of policing in countering violent extremism in the United States.

2.Compare and contrast transnational crime and international crime to determine the impact each has on global security and our security here in the U.S.

Computer Science.// artificial intelligence

Computer Science.// artificial intelligence
Portfolio Prompt Nine
Write a paper that defends whether artificial intelligence can truly exist. This will require a definition of what true artificial intelligence is.

As always you will be graded on completeness of your answer, grammar, and spelling. The text of the paper must be 3 pages, double spaced, 11 pt. Times New Roman font
with default margins

Feel free to be creative in your answers. You can include your own pictures, stories, poetry, music…

Create an Excel worksheet and chart as shown below. Save the worksheet with the name: Budget – your own name. The final product should contain the appropriate

Create an Excel worksheet and chart as shown below. Save the worksheet with the name: Budget – your own name. The final product should contain the appropriate
functions and formulas. In addition, use absolute addressing where appropriate. Format as f

Rename the sheet tab Semi-Annual Budget and delete the other sheets.
Enter the worksheet title in cell A1 and merge and center it using cells A1-I1.
You can use any font but increase the font size of the worksheet title; any size just bigger.
Boldface column headings, row headings and total headings.
Cells A1-I1 should be formatted with a thick box border.
Cells A1-I1 should be formatted with a background color (you can use any color).
The row headings should be left-aligned.
The column headings should be centered.
The column heading in cell I3 should be wrapped to two lines.
Cells A12-I12 should include a top and bottom border.
Cells A17-H18 should be formatted with a background color (use the same color as above).
The numbers in columns B-H should be formatted with a floating $ and two decimal places.
Increase the height of row 13 relative to the other rows.
The percentages should be formatted with one decimal place.
Format, position and size the chart as shown.
Do not include a chart title.
The data labels on the chart should include only the percentages and be positioned outside each slice showing the leader lines.
Boldface the data labels and the legend and position the legend to the right of the chart as shown.
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Computer Science.

Computer Science.

As this class has focused on some ideas of what computer science can do it should be apparent that there are a wide variety of jobs related to the study of this
discipline. There are several links and ideas above. Pick 2 of these or find others, then find the following information about those careers:

1. Job description

2. Job responsibilities

3. Education requirements

4. Salary scale

Buisness Decision making process

Buisness Decision making process
Identify a business problem or opportunity at a company where you work or with which you’re familiar. This will be a business problem that you use for the individual
assignments in Weeks 3 to 5. It should be a problem/opportunity for which gathering and analyzing some type of data would help you understand the problem/opportunity
better.
Identify a research variable within the problem/opportunity that could be measured with some type of data collection.
Consider methods for collecting a suitable sample of either qualitative or quantitative data for the variable.
Consider how you will know if the data collection method would be valid and reliable.
Develop a 1,050-word analysis to describe a company, problem, and variable.
Include in your submission:
Identify the name and description of the selected company.
Describe the problem at that company.
Identify one research variable from that problem.
Describe the methods you would use for collecting a suitable sample of either qualitative or quantitative data for the variable (Note: do not actually collect any
data).
Analyze how you will know if the data collection method would generate valid and reliable data (Note: do not actually collect any data).
Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

accounting information system failure and best practices Migrating to a new accounting information system

accounting information system failure and best practices

Migrating to a new accounting information system
Migrating to a new accounting information system is not an easy task. Many firms have struggled with this process, even though our textbook makes the process seem
quite straightforward. Recently, IBM recapped some of the lessons learned in migrating to a new accounting information system within the federal government. These
lessons can be applied to any accounting information system project. Others have developed their own recommendations for best practices and lessons learned involving
implementing accounting information systems. However, in order to appreciate what IBM and others are proposing, we need to apply lessons learned to a real-life
situation involving the failure to implement an accounting system properly.

For this assignment, research the Internet or School databases for information related to a real-life accounting information system failure and best practices, as well
as lessons learned from implementing the accounting system. In addition to information that you may find during your research, please use the following IBM article to
complete the assignment: (http://www.businessofgovernment.org/article/what-we-know-now-lessons-learned-implementing-federal-financial-systems-projects).

Write a ten to twelve (10-12) page paper in which you:

1. Identify three to five (3-5) factors that contributed to the accounting information system failure within the business that you have identified. Indicate the
impact to the business. Provide support for your rationale.
2. Assess senior management responsibility for the failure in question. Specify what the senior management could have done differently to avoid the failure. Provide
support for your rationale.
3. Evaluate whether the most significant failure occurred within the system design, implementation, or operational phase of the process. Indicate what the company
could have done to avoid the failed outcome. Provide support for your rationale.
4. Evaluate how implementing best practices would have reduced the chances for failure. Provide support for your rationale.
5. Based on your research, develop a list of between four (4) and six (6) best practices that organizations should use today to reduce the chances for failure.
Provide support for your rationale.
6. Using the information provided by IBM and others, indicate which of the principles designed to provide insight into effective and efficient strategies on how to
best deploy financial management systems, which were outlined within the related article, should serve as an example of what not to do when establishing the foundation
for a firm to follow. Your proposed foundation should consist of at least two (2) principles, but no more than six (6). Provide support for your rationale.
7. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

· Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-
specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
· Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the
reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

· Analyze the business activities that comprise an accounting information system to determine the information needs to support decision-making function.
· Examine the phases of the systems development life cycle and key issues related to systems analysis.
· Analyze the systems design, implementation, and operational process.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in accounting information systems.
· Write clearly and concisely about accounting information systems using proper writing mechanics.

Health Care Systems and Delivery Methods

Health Care Systems and Delivery Methods
After viewing all of the videos/audio/resources to gain an in-depth understanding of some of the key issues faced over the past 7 years in health care delivery and how
other countries have approached health care delivery write a report addressing the following:
After viewing all of the videos/audio/resources to gain an in-depth understanding of some of the key issues faced over the past 7 years in health care delivery and how
other countries have approached health care delivery write a report addressing the following:
HCM 330
Assignment 2: Expanding Your View of Health Care Systems and Delivery Methods
Expand your knowledge base and challenge your views by reviewing all of the following videos
and audio links.
In the 2008 documentary, Sick Around The World the focus was on the debate over health care, what might the
United States learn from the successes and failures of five other capitalist democracies? How do we begin to face
the urgent choices needed to reform health care in the U.S.? Access FRONTLINE Documentary at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/view/main.html and watch the listed video
segments:
1 – Great Britain: A Leader in Preventive Medicine
2 – Japan: Universal Coverage, No Gatekeepers
3 – Germany: A Popular, Largely Market-Based System
4 – Taiwan: A New System They Copied From Others
5 – Switzerland: Its Former System Resembled Ours
How are these countries doing now?
Global Health Observatory (GHO) data – http://www.who.int/gho/countries/en/
What Would Happen If Health Care in the U.S. Improved? – http://www.commonwealthfund.org/interactives-anddata/us-compare-interactive#?ind=1
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, 2014 Update: How the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally –
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2014/jun/mirror-mirror
In 2012, as Congress continued to battle the U.S. budget deficit, policy-makers turned their attention to one of the
largest driving forces behind the nation’s debt – government health care spending, much of it encouraged by what
other countries were doing. Access NEED TO KNOW: Money and Medicine at
http://www.pbs.org/video/2283573727/ and watch the video. The focus of health care reform shifts from access
to care to cost of care, and studies suggested that a third of all health care expenditures were unnecessary.
Access The Good News in American Medicine at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tchd5wBTsOQ or
http://www.pbs.org/video/2198039605/ and watch the video. Doctors and hospitals all over the U.S. are finding
ways to cut health care costs while still providing excellent care through several low-cost, high-quality regions in
the U.S. So why cannot we not apply this nationwide?
It is now 2017, and the same debate over health care continues, what might the United States learn from the
successes and failures of other democracies? How does the U.S. healthcare system compare to health systems of
other high-income countries, and how has it fared over time? Access Animated Video: Health of the Healthcare
System at http://www.healthsystemtracker.org/health-of-the-healthcare-system/ and access and listen to audio:
U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective: Spending, Use of Services, Prices, and Health in 13 Countries at
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2015/oct/us-health-care-from-a-global-perspective
After viewing all of the videos/audio/resources listed above to gain an in-depth understanding
of some of the key issues faced over the past 7 years in health care delivery and how other
countries have approached health care delivery write a report addressing the following:
1) What are the strengths (best points of a system) and weaknesses (problems of a system) of
the different health care delivery systems you have reviewed above (including the U.S.)?
2) How is health insurance and care managed in the different countries reviewed
above
(including the U.S.)?
3) How are health care services paid for in the different countries reviewed above (including the
U.S.)?
4) What percent of each country’s Gross Domestic Product is spent on health care?
5) Looking at how much health care cost across many countries, why do you think delivering
health care in the United States cost so much?
Prepare a written 4-5 page report addressing all of the questions above. If a source other than a
link or source listed above needs to be cited, it should be listed at the end of the paper. Any
statistics or facts need to have a source referenced. The body of the paper is to be double
spaced with one inch margins using a 12-point font. The 4-5 page requirement refers to the
body of the paper, a separate title page and reference page should be used and do not count
towards the page requirement. Use general APA style, no abstract needed.
Health Care Systems and Delivery Methods
After viewing all of the videos/audio/resources to gain an in-depth understanding of some of the key issues faced over the past 7 years in health care delivery and how
other countries have approached health care delivery write a report addressing the following:
After viewing all of the videos/audio/resources to gain an in-depth understanding of some of the key issues faced over the past 7 years in health care delivery and how
other countries have approached health care delivery write a report addressing the following:
HCM 330
Assignment 2: Expanding Your View of Health Care Systems and Delivery Methods
Expand your knowledge base and challenge your views by reviewing all of the following videos
and audio links.
In the 2008 documentary, Sick Around The World the focus was on the debate over health care, what might the
United States learn from the successes and failures of five other capitalist democracies? How do we begin to face
the urgent choices needed to reform health care in the U.S.? Access FRONTLINE Documentary at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/view/main.html and watch the listed video
segments:
1 – Great Britain: A Leader in Preventive Medicine
2 – Japan: Universal Coverage, No Gatekeepers
3 – Germany: A Popular, Largely Market-Based System
4 – Taiwan: A New System They Copied From Others
5 – Switzerland: Its Former System Resembled Ours
How are these countries doing now?
Global Health Observatory (GHO) data – http://www.who.int/gho/countries/en/
What Would Happen If Health Care in the U.S. Improved? – http://www.commonwealthfund.org/interactives-anddata/us-compare-interactive#?ind=1
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, 2014 Update: How the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally –
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2014/jun/mirror-mirror
In 2012, as Congress continued to battle the U.S. budget deficit, policy-makers turned their attention to one of the
largest driving forces behind the nation’s debt – government health care spending, much of it encouraged by what
other countries were doing. Access NEED TO KNOW: Money and Medicine at
http://www.pbs.org/video/2283573727/ and watch the video. The focus of health care reform shifts from access
to care to cost of care, and studies suggested that a third of all health care expenditures were unnecessary.
Access The Good News in American Medicine at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tchd5wBTsOQ or
http://www.pbs.org/video/2198039605/ and watch the video. Doctors and hospitals all over the U.S. are finding
ways to cut health care costs while still providing excellent care through several low-cost, high-quality regions in
the U.S. So why cannot we not apply this nationwide?
It is now 2017, and the same debate over health care continues, what might the United States learn from the
successes and failures of other democracies? How does the U.S. healthcare system compare to health systems of
other high-income countries, and how has it fared over time? Access Animated Video: Health of the Healthcare
System at http://www.healthsystemtracker.org/health-of-the-healthcare-system/ and access and listen to audio:
U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective: Spending, Use of Services, Prices, and Health in 13 Countries at
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2015/oct/us-health-care-from-a-global-perspective
After viewing all of the videos/audio/resources listed above to gain an in-depth understanding
of some of the key issues faced over the past 7 years in health care delivery and how other
countries have approached health care delivery write a report addressing the following:
1) What are the strengths (best points of a system) and weaknesses (problems of a system) of
the different health care delivery systems you have reviewed above (including the U.S.)?
2) How is health insurance and care managed in the different countries reviewed
above
(including the U.S.)?
3) How are health care services paid for in the different countries reviewed above (including the
U.S.)?
4) What percent of each country’s Gross Domestic Product is spent on health care?
5) Looking at how much health care cost across many countries, why do you think delivering
health care in the United States cost so much?
Prepare a written 4-5 page report addressing all of the questions above. If a source other than a
link or source listed above needs to be cited, it should be listed at the end of the paper. Any
statistics or facts need to have a source referenced. The body of the paper is to be double
spaced with one inch margins using a 12-point font. The 4-5 page requirement refers to the
body of the paper, a separate title page and reference page should be used and do not count
towards the page requirement. Use general APA style, no abstract needed.

research papers

research papers
Part 3: Folklore, Myths and Superstitions

Now it is time to research the folklore, myths and stories that have built up around your chosen herb. This is fun and often very colorful, but has a serious side to
it as well. To critically think, you must be able to separate entertaining and possibly traditional cultural practices from serious fact-based effectiveness.

Format for Plant Project, Part 3: This section will include the following and each of these should have headings bolded and underlined:

Title Page including your name, date, chosen herb, and word count
Short introduction
Stories, Myths, Superstitions about your chosen plant
Identify clearly the cultural origin of the story
Reference citations
Include pictures as illustrations. Make sure they are integrated nicely in the text, not separate or all at the end. Also make sure they are an appropriate size.

forecasting techniques

forecasting techniques

There are various ways of forecasting the schedule and cost of a project. You know that the forecasting techniques that you use and their accuracy will affect the
CIO’s perspective on your work. Your CIO would now like for you to address the following issues in a presentation for the various staff members involved in the
project:

What are the advantages of inflating a project based on PERT estimating or incorporating risk?
What are the disadvantages of inflating a project based on PERT estimating or incorporating risk?
How does this technique compare with estimating or forecasting techniques you have used in the past?

Your organization has just completed the Initiation Process for implementing an Email System Upgrade. It was identified in a recent meeting with management leaders
from the Sales, Consulting and IT departments that the current email system is causing significant amount of business interruptions and must be updated immediately.
You have been assigned the role of project manager to develop the project schedule and budget. As project manager, you are responsible for implementing and enforcing
the project schedule and its estimates, expected costs, and the techniques and methods that will be chosen to execute and control the project. The project is being
initiated with the following initial project scope in mind:
• There are five email systems currently being used across twelve departments and offices. These will be replaced and consolidated into one email system.
• New Email Standards and Protocols will be established and training provided to all departments.
• All 2000 current email users will be converted to the new system, and 500 new users that did not have email before will be added.
• Users will have both LAN and remote access to email.
• Help desk and support infrastructure will be set-up to accommodate the new system.
• Equipment will be salvaged.
User PCs will be upgraded to accommodate the new email system.

Counterargument Paper PHI103

Counterargument Paper
PHI103
Counterargument Paper
This paper assignment expands upon your Week One Assignment and prepares you for the Final Paper. The expansion is to learn to improve one’s argument after
investigating and fairly representing the opposite point of view. The main new tasks are to revise your previous argument created in Week One, to present a
counterargument (an argument for a contrary conclusion), and to develop an objection to your original argument.
Here are the steps to prepare to write the counterargument paper:
Begin reviewing your previous paper paying particular attention to suggestions for improvement made by your instructor.
Revise your argument, improving it as much as possible, accounting for any suggestions and in light of further material you have learned in the course. If your
argument is inductive, make sure that it is strong. If your argument is deductive, make sure that it is valid.
Construct what you take to be the strongest possible argument for a conclusion contrary to the one you argued for in your Week One paper. This is your counterargument.
This should be based on careful thought and appropriate research.
Consider the primary points of disagreement between the point of view of your original argument and that of the counterargument.
Think about what you take to be the strongest objection to your original argument and how you might answer the objection while being fair to both sides. Search in the
Ashford University Library for quality academic sources that support some aspect of your argument or counterargument.
In your paper,
Present a revised argument in standard form, with each premise and the conclusion on a separate line.
Present a counterargument in standard form, with each premise and the conclusion on a separate line.
Provide support for each premise of your counterargument. Clarify the meaning of the premise and supporting evidence for the premise.
Pay special attention to those premises that could be seen as controversial. Evidence may include academic research sources, supporting arguments, or other ways of
demonstrating the truth of the premise (for more ideas about how to support the truth of premises take a look at the instructor guidance for this week). This section
should include at least one scholarly research source. For guidance about how to develop a conclusion see the Ashford Writing Center’s Introductions and Conclusions.
Explain how the conclusion of the counterargument follows from its premises. [One paragraph]
Discuss the primary points of disagreement between sincere and intelligent proponents of both sides. [One to two paragraphs]
For example, you might list any premises or background assumptions on which you think such proponents would disagree and briefly state what you see as the source of
the disagreement, you could give a brief explanation of any reasoning that you think each side would find objectionable, or you could do a combination of these.
Present the best objection to your original argument. Clearly indicate what part of the argument your objection is aimed at, and provide a paragraph of supporting
evidence for the objection. Reference at least one scholarly research source. [One to two paragraphs]
See the “Practicing Effective Criticism” section of Chapter 9 of your primary textbook for more information about how to present an objection.
For further instruction on how to create arguments, see the How to Construct a Valid Main Argument and Tips for Creating an Inductively Strong Argument documents as
well as the video Constructing Valid Arguments.
For an example of how to complete this paper, take a look at the following Week Three Annotated Example. Let your instructor know if you have questions about how to
complete this paper.