During the global recession of 2008 and 2009, there were many accusations of unethical behavior by Wall Street executives, financial managers, and other corporate officers. At that time, an article appeared that suggested that part of the reason for such unethical business behavior may stem from the fact that cheating has become more prevalent among business students. The article reported that 86% of business students admitted to cheating at some time during their academic career as compared to 77% of non-business students.

Cheating has been a concern of the dean of the College of Business at Rocky University for several years. Some faculty members in the college believe that cheating is more widespread at Rocky than at other universities, while other faculty members think that cheating is not a major problem in the college. To resolve some of these issues, the dean commissioned a study to assess the current ethical behavior of business students at Rocky. As part of this study, an anonymous exit survey was administered to a sample of 90 business students from this year’s graduating class. Responses to the following questions were used to obtain data regarding three types of cheating.

During your time at Rocky, did you ever present work copied off the Internet as your own?

During your time at Rocky, did you ever copy answers off another student’s exam?

During your time at Rocky, did you ever collaborate with other students on projects that were supposed to be completed individually?

Any student who answered yes to one or more of these questions was considered to have been involved in some type of cheating. The complete data set is in the file named Rocky.

Managerial Report

Prepare a report (see below) for the dean of the college that summarizes your assessment of the nature of cheating by business students at Rocky University. Be sure to include the following seven (7) items in your report.

1. To summarize the data, compute the proportion of all students the proportion of all male students, and the proportion of all female students that presented
   

   a. Work copied off the internet as their own

   b. Copied answers off another student’s exam

   c. Collaborated with other students on projects that were supposed to be completed individually. 

Then comment on your findings.

1. Develop 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of all students, the proportion of all male students, and the proportion of all female students who were involved in some type of cheating.
2. Develop 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of all students, the proportion of all male students, and the proportion of all female students who were involved in copying off the internet.
3. Develop 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of all students, the proportion of all male students, and the proportion of all female students who were involved in copying off another’s exam.
4. Develop 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of all students, the proportion of all male students, and the proportion of all female students who were involved in collaborating on individual project.
5. Conduct a hypothesis test to determine if the proportion of all business students at Rocky University who were not involved in some type of cheating is less than that of all business students elsewhere.  Use α = 0.05.
6. What advice would you give to the dean based upon your analysis of the data?

Write a report that adheres to the Written Assignment Requirements under the heading . Items that should be included, but are not limited to are a title page, an introduction, a body which answers the questions posed in the problem and a conclusion paragraph that addresses your findings and what you have determined from the data and your analysis.  As with all written assignments you should have in-text citations and a reference page too.  Please include any tables of calculations, calculated values and graphs associated with this problem in the body. 

NOTE:  Submitting your Excel file will aid in grading with partial credit if errors are found in the paper.

Be sure that your report contains the following:

• An introduction
• A body of the paper that answers the questions posed in the problem and calculations and graphs associated with this problem. 
• A conclusion paragraph that addresses your findings and what you have determined from the data and your analysis. 

 

Student	Copied from Internet	Copied on Exam	Collaborated on Individual Project	Gender
1	NO	NO	YES	Female
2	YES	YES	NO	Male
3	YES	NO	NO	Male
4	YES	YES	YES	Female
5	YES	YES	NO	Male
6	YES	YES	NO	Female
7	NO	NO	YES	Male
8	NO	NO	NO	Female
9	NO	NO	YES	Female
10	NO	NO	NO	Female
11	NO	NO	NO	Male
12	NO	YES	NO	Female
13	NO	YES	YES	Male
14	NO	NO	YES	Male
15	NO	YES	YES	Female
16	NO	YES	NO	Female
17	NO	YES	YES	Female
18	NO	YES	NO	Female
19	YES	YES	YES	Male
20	NO	YES	YES	Male
21	YES	NO	NO	Male
22	NO	YES	YES	Female
23	NO	YES	NO	Male
24	NO	NO	YES	Female
25	YES	YES	YES	Male
26	YES	YES	NO	Female
27	YES	NO	NO	Male
28	NO	NO	YES	Female
29	YES	YES	NO	Female
30	YES	NO	YES	Female
31	NO	YES	NO	Female
32	YES	YES	YES	Male
33	YES	YES	NO	Female
34	NO	NO	NO	Female
35	NO	YES	NO	Female
36	NO	YES	NO	Male
37	NO	NO	NO	Male
38	NO	YES	YES	Male
39	YES	NO	YES	Female
40	NO	NO	NO	Female
41	YES	NO	NO	Male
42	NO	NO	NO	Male
43	YES	YES	YES	Female
44	NO	YES	YES	Male
45	YES	NO	YES	Female
46	YES	YES	YES	Male
47	NO	YES	NO	Male
48	NO	YES	NO	Female
49	NO	YES	YES	Female
50	NO	NO	YES	Male
51	YES	YES	NO	Male
52	YES	NO	NO	Female
53	YES	NO	YES	Female
54	NO	YES	YES	Female
55	NO	NO	NO	Male
56	NO	NO	NO	Female
57	YES	YES	NO	Female
58	NO	NO	NO	Male
59	YES	NO	YES	Female
60	YES	YES	NO	Female
61	NO	YES	NO	Male
62	YES	NO	YES	Male
63	NO	NO	YES	Female
64	NO	NO	YES	Male
65	YES	NO	NO	Male
66	YES	NO	YES	Male
67	NO	YES	YES	Male
68	NO	NO	NO	Female
69	NO	NO	YES	Female
70	NO	YES	YES	Male
71	NO	YES	YES	Male
72	NO	NO	YES	Male
73	NO	YES	NO	Male
74	NO	NO	NO	Male
75	YES	NO	NO	Male
76	YES	NO	YES	Female
77	NO	NO	YES	Female
78	NO	NO	YES	Female
79	YES	YES	YES	Male
80	NO	YES	YES	Male
81	NO	NO	YES	Male
82	YES	YES	NO	Male
83	YES	YES	YES	Female
84	NO	YES	YES	Male
85	NO	YES	YES	Male
86	NO	NO	YES	Male
87	NO	NO	YES	Male
88	YES	YES	YES	Male
89	NO	YES	YES	Male
90	90 NO	NO	NO	Male

 

Unit Assignments

 

Unit IV Project

 

Perform a critical review of the following NIOSH Publication:

 

Cheung, Z., Feletto, M., Galante, J., & Waters, T. (2007). Ergonomic guidelines for manual material handling (DHHS [NIOSH] Publication No. 2007-131). Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2007-131/pdfs/2007-131.pdf

 

Click here to access a PDF of the NIOSH Publication No. 2007-131.

 

You must specifically summarize and analyze the following information in the indicated NIOSH publication:

 

 Engineering and administrative improvements

 

 Proactive action plan

 

 The three improvement options mentioned in the publication

 

 

 

However, you may also discuss any other topics you find interesting in publication.

 

The project must include, at minimum, the following components:

 

1. Introduction

 

2. Engineering and Administrative Improvements

 

3. Proactive Action Plan

 

4. Improvement Options

 

5. Summary of your own opinions and comments on what you learned from the publication.

 

 

 

Instructions

 

Your answer to this assignment must be three to five pages, double spaced, and 12 point font (separate title page and reference page are not included in the page length). CSU requires that students use APA style for papers and projects. Therefore, the APA rules for formatting, quoting, paraphrasing, citing, and listing of sources are to be followed. A document titled “Citation Guide” is available for you to download in the Learning Resources area of the myCSU Student Portal. It may also be accessed from the Student Resources link on the Course Menu of Blackboard.

 

Task Type: Individual Project   Deliverable Length: 1 page   
Points Possible: 100   Due Date: 7/14/2014 11:59:59 PM  CT [removed]   

Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will be due by Monday and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.

Student Instructions

For each assignment, you will use the M.U.S.E. link to complete the lab.

In this lab, you will see the time progression of industrialization and human development to help you write up a scientific paper that centers on the following:

• If current human development does not change, will groundwater sustainability be affected?

Human Impacts on the Sustainability of Groundwater

Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that is needed for survival and well-being depends either directly or indirectly on the natural environment. Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, while also helping to fulfill the social and economic requirements of present and future generations.

Using the M.U.S.E. link, review the background information and gather your data.

Use the Lab 1 worksheet for assignment instructions and data collection.

Please submit your assignment.

Click on Student Expectations to view the expectations for this assignment.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Course Materials

Extra Solar Planets Lab

1. There are two types of planets in the solar system, terrestrial planets (like the Earth) and gas giants (like Jupiter). How do the mass, radius, and densities of these planetary types differ?
2. Let’s say you discover a planet that’s 50 times the mass of the Earth.Even without visiting the planet, what might you presume about the planet (what will its general characteristics be)?
3. How do the distances from the Sun differ for terrestrial and Jovian planets?
4. Go to the Web site for the Extrasolar Planet http://exoplanet.eu/  Look through the page. How many planets have been discovered to date?

                        Click on the “Catalog” icon. Choose Candidates detected by Radial Velocity from the pull down Planet menu.  Look through many of the discoveries.  Are these planets similar in mass or are they all very different? (Note that masses are given in Jupiter Masses, thus a 1 value is equal to Jupiter’s mass.)

The masses of the planets detected by radial velocity seem to flucuatte greatly. They are not all similar.

                        Why do we mainly see only mass values?  (Think about the Radial Velocity detection method and what information it gives us about a planet.)

                        Choose Candidates detected by “Transiting Planets”.  Do these planets seem to be any different from the “radial velocity” planets?

                        Why do we see both mass and radius on many of these?  (Talk about the detection method.)

                        Click on the Diagrams button from the very top nav bar. You will see scatter plots or histograms of the properties of the candidates (for example, the numbers of objects in given ranges of mass).Select the Histogram Plot mode (near top right).  Select various properties to plot from the pull down menu and observe the results (e.g. orbital period, planet radius, planet mass, etc.). You don’t need to change any other settings.

Answer the following questions:

1.      Are most of the planets found using this method more massive or less massive than Jupiter?  Note again that the unit “MJ” means “Jupiter masses”.

2.      Do most of these planets have orbital periods that are shorter or longer than a year?

3.      Are most of the planets closer to or farther from their stars than the Earth is to the Sun?

4.      Now select the Scatter plot mode (top right).  Here you can look at the relationship between different planetary and stellar parameters for ALL planets that have been found.Inspect (see question below) the plot for PLOT 1: “Semi-Major Axis” versus “Planetary Mass,”;  using a linear scale for both axes (change the range of the x-axis to better see the data in certain areas of the plot, like min= 0, max = 10, and then max = 5, max = 2, and so on). 

PLOT 2: “Semi-Major Axis” versus “Orbital Eccentricity,” choose x-axis min= 0, max = 10;

PLOT 3a: “Planetary Mass” versus “Planetary Radius” choose x-axis min= 0, max = 5, notice that our Jupiter would be found at (1,1) on the plot.  How are these planets different from our Jupiter? 

PLOT 3b: keeping the variables the same, change the x-axis min= 0, max = 1, these are all the planets equal to or smaller than Jupiter.  How do these planets compare to the ones in our Solar System?

PLOT 3c: keeping the variables the same, change the x-axis min= 0, max = .1, these are all the planets similar to Earth-size, Earth would be at the point (.003,.09), very near the bottom left corner.  How do these planets compare to the terrestrial planets in our Solar System?

5.      Do you notice any patterns or clumps? What does this tell us about the planets we’ve found?  Describe patterns for each plot listed above, be sure to label your answer to each plot.

6.      Research what the “Habitable Zone” is for a star and define it in your own words(provide your reference).

 

a.       Where is the Habitable Zone in our own Solary System?

 

b.      What kind of life would we expect to be in this “Habitable Zone” around other stars?

 

 

c.       What would it take for life to survive outside of a planet’s Habitable Zone? Explain. (What physical processes might be going on?)

 

d.      Are there places in our own Solar System outside the Habitable Zone where we theorize life might exist?  Explain, try to be specific in your locations.

                        Write a summary that includes a short comparison between the properties of the planets in our Solar System that you studied above to the properties of the extrasolar planets you studied here.  What conclusions can you draw about Earth-sized planets, are they rare or numerous?

 

Make sure to include all references.

 

 

Choose a location and do the following

1. An abstract (overview of your work and conclusion)
2. An introduction (that will provide a statement of objective and justification for the watershed and time period selected)
3. Descriptive information on the watershed (size, location, land cover) and data sources
4. Hydrological analysis of this watershed (real precipitation and flow data for the specific watershed must be presented, and this part must include detailed calculation between precipitation and runoff flow).
5. Results, discussion of results, including discussion of scientific articles that provide relevant explanation for any of the patterns observed. 
6. References (including all citations you used in your report)

 

The paper should be about 12 pages (Time new roman, 12) in length. 

 

Grading Standards:

 

1. The project will account for 20% of your overall grade. The written report will be double-spaced. The first part should concisely describe the nature of the problem that will be addressed.
2. Components of Project
1. Well-organized structure ( 5 pts)
2. Abstract (10 pts)
3. Introduction (20 pts)

 

                                                               i.       Statement of objective (5 pts)

 

                                                             ii.      Justification of the watershed you selected (5 pts)

 

                                                            iii.      Literature review of hydrologic analysis of the watershed (5 pts)

 

                                                           iv.      Quality of writing (5 pts)

 

1. Descriptive information on the watershed (size, location, land cover, show a decent geographical map, 10pts) and data sources (5 pts). (15 pts)
2. Hydrological analysis of this watershed (25 pts)

 

                                                               i.      Real precipitation and flow data in a table for the specific watershed (10 pts)

 

                                                             ii.      Detailed calculation of precipitation, runoff flow and other hydrological processes (e.g., IDF curve development). (15 pts)

 

1. Results and Conclusions (20 pts)

 

                                                               i.      Results analysis of your calculation including some figures such as hydrographhyetograph, IDF curves (for design concerns) etc.(10 pts)

 

                                                             ii.      Show your conclusion based on your analysis (5 pts)

 

1. References (5 pts)