Discuss Brain Structures and Functions.

For this assignment, you are tasked with completing a 6-8-page paper that addresses the major structures of the brain and the influence these have on cognition and learning. By completing this assignment, you will demonstrate (a) an understanding of the major brain structures, (b) fluency in the processes that occur within the brain, leading to the learning of specific behaviors, and (c) the connections of the relationships required between major brain structures and cognitive functions to facilitate the learning process.

Critically analyse the financial performance and position of the Companies from the Board’s perspective.

QUESTION 2ASSIGNMENT QUESTION IAG (International Airlines Group) Profile: (http://www.iairgroup.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=240949&p=aboutoverview) International Airlines Group is one of the world′s largest airline groups with 533 aircraft flying to 274 destinations and carrying almost 95 million passengers each year. It is the third largest group in Europe and the sixth largest in the world, based on revenue. Formed in January 2011, IAG is the parent company of Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia and Vueling. It is a Spanish registered company with shares traded on the London Stock Exchange and Spanish Stock Exchanges. The corporate head office for IAG is in London, UK. IAG combines leading airlines in Ireland, the UK and Spain, enabling them to enhance their presence in the aviation market while retaining their individual brands and current operations. The airlines′ customers benefit from a larger combined network for both passengers and cargo and a greater ability to invest in new products and services through improved financial robustness. The airline industry is moving gradually towards consolidation though some regulatory restrictions still prevail. IAG′s mission is to play its full role in future industry consolidation both on a regional and global scale. British Airways and Iberia are members of the oneworld alliance Assignment requirements IAG would like to acquire another airline for the Group in the next 2 to 3 years. •You are asked to present a critical analysis of an airline of your choosing for the Board’s consideration. Your analysis should be presented to the Board as a Report using the latest two annual reports of British Airways (GROUP), for comparison, and your chosen airline. The Report must address the following: i.Critically analyse the financial performance and position of the Companies from the Board’s perspective. You are expected to select and calculate exactly 10 ratios of your choice over each of the three-year periods for this purpose. Explain, with reasons, if the airline you have chosen to analyse and compare with British Airways is a worthy prospective investment for the Group. If your in-depth analysis leads you to conclude it is not, you will not be penalised for your choice, but will be expected to advise the Board accordingly. Word limit: 1,200 words (excluding appendices) What counts towards the word limits? Footnotes, except where these are used ONLY to give references to your sources. The use of footnotes to expand upon points you have made in the body of your report will count towards the word limit. Appendices – except where these merely reproduce material from your sources / ratio calculations / tables / graphs / diagrams Any additional explanation of terms / glossaries etc. WILL count towards the word limit. Any tables pasted as picture (.jpeg for example) will be reviewed by the marker and word count added to the main body of the text. What does not count towards the word limit? Appendices exceptions noted above. Brief quotes – about 5 lines is the maximum acceptable for each quote, and you should not have more than 6 quotes in your essay. You don’t need to include any at all if you don’t want to. If you do use quotes, it is important that you have a good reason for including it – the quote must be properly introduced and you must make some comments on each one.

Write an orignal essay on each of the six UCMP biome groupings drawing information from both sites.

Write an orignal essay on each of the six UCMP biome groupings drawing information from both sites. Do not copy-and-paste any information. Include in each essay the physical features that define the biome, where the biome occurs on Earth, the common features of the subgroups that allow the UCMP to group them into one of the six biomes, and the most common characteristics of organisms that are adaptations for success. Open Lab Reort 02 (a Word .doc file), enter your desсrіptions under the headings provided, and save and submit the file to Turnitin.com under ″Lab 02″. Organize your paragraphs in the following sequence with the following headers for each essay: 1. Freshwater 2. Marine 3. Desert 4. Forest 5. Grassland 6. Tundra List, but do not write about, the subgroups; write about the common features that unite the six encompassing biome groups. Each essay should be about 250 words with the total length of the report being about 1,500 words. If the total of all six essays is over 1,000 words, you will not be penalized for length. Do not include a References section since you will be using ONLY the UCMP and MBG sites as source material.