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Instructions

Waterways (Chapter 27) 

For this assignment, you will apply what you have learned from the unit lesson and required unit resources. The Waterways (WP27) case is located on page 27-35 of the textbook. 

Waterways puts much emphasis on cash flow when it plans for capital investments. The company chose its discount rate of 8% based on the rate of return that it must pay its owners and creditors. Using that rate, Waterways then uses different methods to determine the best decisions for making capital outlays. 

This year, Waterways is considering buying five new backhoes to replace the backhoes it now has. The new backhoes are faster, cost less to run, provide for more accurate trench digging, have comfort features for the operators, and have 1-year maintenance agreements to go with them. The old backhoes are working just fine, but they do require considerable maintenance. The backhoe operators are very familiar with the old backhoes and would need to learn some new skills to use the new backhoes. 

The following information is available to use in deciding whether to purchase the new backhoes. 

Information Old Backhoes New Backhoes Purchase cost when new$90,000 $200,000 Salvage value now $42,000 Investment in major overhaul needed in next year$55,000 Salvage value in 8 years $15,000 $90,000 Remaining life 8 years 8 years Net cash flow generated each year $30,425 $43,900 

Instructions: 

• In the following methods, evaluate whether to purchase the new equipment or to overhaul the old equipment. (Hint: For the old machine, the initial investment is the cost of the overhaul. For the new machine, subtract the salvage value of the old machine to determine the initial cost of the investment.) 
  • Use the net present value method for buying new or keeping the old. 
  • Use the payback method for each choice. (Hint: For the old machine, evaluate the payback of an overhaul.) 
  • Compare the profitability index for each choice. 
  • Compare the internal rate of return for each choice to the required 8% discount rate. 
• Are there any intangible benefits or negatives that would influence this decision? 
• What decision would you make, and why? 

Write your responses to these questions in a Word document. Your paper should be a minimum of two pages in length. You are not required to support your assignment with outside sources; however, if you do, adhere to APA Style when creating citations and references. 

Resources

The following resource(s) may help you with this assignment.

• CSU Online Library Research Guide
• Submit Math Center Request
• Submit Writing Center Request

  Nurse-scholars have a significant obligation to their community as well. Their work must have academic and professional integrity. Their efforts are designed to add to the body of knowledge, advance the profession, and ultimately help in the care of patients. Work that lacks integrity is subject to erode quickly or worse.

Fortunately, there are strategies and tools that can help ensure integrity in academic and professional work. This Assignment asks you to consider these tools and how you might apply them to your own work.

In this Assignment you will continue developing your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan by appending the original document you began in the previous assignment.

To Prepare:

• Reflect on the strategies presented in the Resources for this Module in support of academic style, integrity, and scholarly ethics.
• Reflect on the connection between academic and professional integrity.

The Assignment:

Part 3, Section 1: Writing Sample: The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity

Using the Academic and Professional Success Development Template you began in Module 1 and expanded in Module 2, write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis that includes the following:

• Explanation for the relationship between academic integrity and writing
• Explanation for the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics
• Cite at least two resources that support your arguments, being sure to use proper APA formatting.
• Use Grammarly and SafeAssign to improve the product.
• Explain how Grammarly, Safe Assign, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity.

Part 3, Section 2: Strategies for Maintaining Integrity of Work

Expand on your thoughts from Section 1 by:

Identifying and describing strategies you intend to pursue to maintain integrity and ethics of your: 

• (1) academic work as a student of the MSN program and 
• (2) professional work as a nurse throughout your career. Include a review of resources and approaches you propose to use as a student and a professional.

Review the Case Opener at the beginning of Chapter 8: Technology Companies at War, as well as this article on a Supreme Court decision in the Samsung/Apple Patent Litigation.

Samsung and Apple continue to fight to protect their rights to their intellectual property, just as any company fights to protect the real, personal, and intellectual property on which its business, revenues, and reputation are based. These same property issues are at stake in the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries where patents on medicines, medical devices, cutting-edge genomic therapies, etc. form much of a company’s livelihood.

For this discussion board, respond to the 3 questions in the Business Ethics Flashpoint 8.1 in your text. Your response must explain how you balance the interests at stake, including:

• How should a for-profit corporation balance its business needs with the needs of its customers?
• Lives depend on products created by some companies. Do these companies have a greater responsibility to work to benefit the consumer more than themselves?
• Look at the issue from a Biblical worldview. How would you respond if you were running such a company?

Your thread must explain how you balance the interests at stake including:

• Creator v. Consumer in the creation and management of intellectual property
  • Profit and return on investment for company owners/shareholders
  • Continuing existence of the company
  • Protecting intellectual property of the company
  • Needs of patients, practitioners, and society
• Biblical support and guidance for your positions
• Any other legal and ethical concepts you believe may be relevant

Discussion 1

 In your initial post, explain what the biggest challenge you faced was when trying to find sources? What challenges did you encounter in trying to analyze a scientific source? How did you overcome them? Use specific examples in your post.

 In response to Samiayah and Jerry post, describe how the challenges they faced compared to your own. What similarities and differences did you find? Share your tips for dealing with any issues you faced.

Samaiyah post

The challenge, I encountered with my topic of GMOs, was not finding a lot of research about the bad effects it’s having on the human body as to diseases and illnesses long-term, etc.  However, I found many resources and concerns how “most reliable evidence produced to date shows that currently available GM food is at least as safe as non-GMO food. (https://royalsociwty.org/topics-policy/projects/g…) Since GMOs have been around only for 20 years, therefore, I believe it may be premature to say it is safe, believing natural is nothing artificial or synthetic or processed is nutritionally a better way, for health, preventing diseases, illness, and food allergic reactions.

There must be long-term side effects out there to be discovered about GMOs but finding them are challenges. According to authors Arcieri, Margherita article; Spread and Potential Risks of Genetically Modified Organisms, here the overall main concerns with GMOs  article wrote,  “Among the arguments used more frequently to support the use of GMOs, is the need to fight hunger, to ensure the supply of food to a growing world population and the fight against climate change.” (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aaspro.2016.02.072)

I hope I will overcome this challenge by researching database lists on the science websites, biased and unbiased interpretations on GMOs from Shapiro Library’s, reliable sources, and other credible sources.

Jerry post

   I have chosen to do my research on GMO plants for the purpose of determining if the use of these items create enough benefits to overcome the problems that they create. In doing my research I have discovered that there is going to be a lot of effort needed to decipher the scientific papers on this subject. I am not finding much information about the negative effects yet, but I have just started my research. I think because the process is relatively new it will just take looking at more periodicals to acquire credible information. The challenge from this will be validating the credentials of each individual article in order to include information that has a true value to my subject matter. I think reading the information more than one time through and looking up the unknown words will be the easiest way to process what I have read in order to formulate a credible opinion.  

 Select from the following list four (4) topics and discuss. Use only 50-words max per topic to discuss and present your answer.  The discussion questions this week are from Chapter’s 3-5  (Jamsa, 2013).Chapter 3 topics:

• Define and describe PaaS.
• List the benefits of PaaS solutions.
• Describe potential disadvantages of PaaS.
• Describe how a cloud-based database management system differs from an on-site database.
• List the computing resources normally provided with a PaaS.

Chapter 4 topics:

• Define and describe IaaS.
• Define and describe system redundancy. Discuss how you might use IaaS to implement a redundancy plan.
• Define and describe load balancing. Discuss how you might use IaaS to implement load balancing.
• Define and describe NAS. Assume you must implement a shared file system within the cloud. What company would you select? Why? What costs should your client expect to pay for cloud-based data on a gigabyte (GB) basis?
• Define and describe colocation. Discuss how you might use IaaS to implement colocation.
• Compare and contrast a cloud-based disk storage device (with a file system) with a cloud based database.
• Compare and contrast physical, dedicated virtual, and shared virtual servers. Search the web for companies that provide each. What cost should a customer expect to pay for each?

Chapter 5 topics:

• Define and describe SSO.
• Define and describe IDaaS.
• Define SAML and describe its purpose.
• Define and describe provisioning.
• Define and describe FIDM.
• List factors that make mobile ID management difficult.