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Before you consider scaling, you should understand your system performance and potential system bottlenecks. https://webpagetest.org/ evaluates your site and creates a detailed report. The report helps identify images you can further compress and the impact of your system caches, as well as potential benefits of compressing text.

Use WebPagetest to evaluate two or more websites. In one page, discuss how the report’s findings align with your user experience.

Provide an example of a semi-structured decision you make on a daily basis and explain what inputs would be necessary to provide assistance in making the decision. Build your own DSS using a spreadsheet that would help you make that decision.

1. What are your research interests in the area of Information Technology? Why are you inspired to research in this area, and why do you think it is essential to research in this area?

2. Why did you select a PhD in Information Technology? Why did you choose the University of the Cumberland?

3. As an individual, what are your strengths and weaknesses, and how will they impact you as a Ph.D. IT student?

4. Where do you see the future of Information Technology going, and where do you see yourself in this mix after obtaining a PhD in Information Technology from UC?

The European desire for trade with the East (India, China, Japan, etc.) motivated them to search for alternatives to Islamic dominated trade routes. This inadvertently lead to the discovery of the New World, the development of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and to radical change in the nations of the Far East. Discuss ONE of the following topics in detail:

A. Compare and Contrast Japan in the late 1900s with China’s experience during the same period.

B. Discuss the shifting balances of power and commerce in the Islamic World 1500- 1800.

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3. Compare and Contrast the experiences of Latin America during the 1900s with that of the United states during the same period.

Provide the name of the company and devote at least one (1) page describing its (a) organizational structure, (b) the product or products manufactured, (c) their societal impact or ethical issues they have encountered, and (d) the markets it serves.

Identify the method of calculating manufacturing cost for the company.

Determine if the cost method the company has chosen is most appropriate and explain three (3) reasons why the method is appropriate.

If you decide the cost method the company has chosen is not appropriate, write a recommendation as if you are sending it to the company for real and discuss three (3) reasons to support your recommendation.

Suppose your selected company is planning to launch a new product. The target profit for this new product is roughly 1/12 the entire company’s most recently reported annual profit (before taxes). The fixed cost for the new product is estimated to be about 40% of the most recently reported annual cost of goods sold. The contribution margin per unit is smaller by a factor of 20 of the new product’s fixed cost. How many units must be sold for the new product line to breakeven? You must show ALL your assumptions and calculations.

While servant leadership is often associated with Christianity and the Bible, one could argue that it is compatible with most religions and philosophies and that it transcends cultures. This assignment presents you with an opportunity to explore other cultures, philosophies, and religions and asks you to think critically about how servant leadership practices are apparent in other religions and cultures.

Select ONE cultural context and select ONE religious viewpoint. You may NOT select Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, or Christianity, including any of its denominations or traditions such as Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism.

Examine how the principles of servant leadership are evident in that chosen culture and in that chosen religion. In an essay, identify similarities and differences between servant leadership’s philosophies and the values evident in the selected cultural context and religious viewpoints. Be sure to provide specific examples of practices and/or values in your discussion.

You are required to locate a total of four articles that address servant leadership in your chosen cultural context and religious viewpoint. Two of the articles should examine servant leadership from a different cultural perspective and two articles should examine servant leadership from a different religious perspective. Be sure to select academic articles from reputable sources that are 10-20 pages in length. Include information from the articles in your discussion.

Launch Capsim’s Footrace – Getting Started. Complete the “Getting Started” assignments and four footrace practice rounds with thought, consideration and quality decisions, and three-page analysis of decisions, financial and strategic results is required for credit. Your analysis must address all of the following for credit to be considered:

1. Getting Started Assignments including Situation Analysis (40%)
2. What strategy did you attempt to employ? (10%)
3. Determine reasons for your results: (40%)
4. In the four practice rounds, what was your company: dollar sales each round? Contribution Margin for each round? Stock Price for each of the four rounds?
5. Compare customer priorities and to your product specifications, price, marketing dollars, awareness, accessibility, and customer surveys verses those of your close competitors. In what segments did your products do well (as understood by the comparisons) and why?
6. In what segments did your products not do well and why (compare customer priorities, your product specifications, price, marketing, awareness, accessibility, and customer surveys verses those of competitors)?
7. Were your sales forecasts accurate?
8. What investments in new products, in production capacity, in automation did you make for each year?
9. Were your finance decisions congruent with your operational needs? Any emergency loans?
10. Did you issue stock and/or issue bonds? When and how much?
11. Which decisions were effective and which decisions were not effective?
12. Describe your personal learning experience (10%)

Meaning-Making Forums 1-4 are this course’s unique final project. Be fully engaged in Phase Four! After reviewing the readings, presentations, lecture notes, articles, and web-engagements, and previous assignments, artificially move your predetermined careseeker (i.e., Crossroads’ Careseekers: Bruce, Joshua, Brody, Justin, or Melissa) through Phase Four.

NOTE: These research-based forums require that you draw upon ALL of the course readings and learning activities to date, in order to substantively develop each phase in our Solution-based, Short-term, Pastoral Counseling (SbStPC) process.  Noticeably support each core assertion.

• Rapport and Relational Alignment. Briefly explain how you will maintain rapport and check your relational alignment (i.e., use DISC language) in order to support forward progress.
• Phase Four Distinctive Features. Narrate movement of careseeker through Phase Four’s distinctive features (i.e., purpose, goal, chief aim, role/responsibility, use of guiding assumptions) and apply pertinent insights and techniques from ALL the readings, previous assignments, and the Bible.
• Supportive Feedback Break. In light of your careseeker’s unique journey, what insight(s), technique(s), and resource(s) will you need to reinforce in order to support his/her forward progress in community?
• Phase 4 Marker. Describe a marker that indicates successful disengagement from counseling is underway.
• Food for Thought? In what ways do Hebrews 10: 24-25 and the following websites, inform how to prepare your ministry or agency based context for effective Phase 4 connections?

Research a current health policy of your choice and discuss why you find it relevant to you personally and the population.