When you studied negligence last week, you learned that a company is responsible for the negligent acts of employees.  The Imperial Sugar disaster appears to involve a variety of negligent acts by employees.  The company faced 45 separate lawsuits filed by injured employees or their families.

One case involved a 19 year old  college student (and football player) who had a full and active life prior to the accident.  On the day of the explosion, he was working  in the building as a janitor. He was burned over 85% of his body, spent six months in a medically induced coma, and had more than 70 surgeries in the two years following the disaster, creating $17 million in medical expenses.  The recovery process for burn victims is very long, difficult, and painful.  When this student left the hospital, his parents had to help him with daily activities like getting dressed.

Damages in a negligence case are meant to put a victim back into the position they were in before the accident.  Juries are required to determine what about money will accomplish that goal.  It must be a specific dollar amount that is awarded at the conclusion of the lawsuit so juries anticipate what the future holds for the victim in terms of medical care, employment, and other areas of life that are changed as a result of the injuries.  In addition to the damages awarded based on the needs of the victim, sometimes a jury will award punitive damages that are meant to punish the person responsible for the negligence and to discourage other people from being careless.

Imagine that you are a juror hearing this case.  Please post the specific dollar amount you would award in damages and then explain what lead you to choose that particular number.  After you have posted, compare your response with your classmates and comment on the differences in your approaches to resolving this case.

Burn victims in Ga. face long recovery

Details:

The purpose of this assignment is to apply simple regression
concepts, interpret simple regression analysis models, and justify
business predictions based upon the analysis.

For this assignment, you will use the “Trucks” dataset. You will use
SPSS to analyze the dataset and address the questions presented.
Findings should be presented in a Word document along with the SPSS
outputs.

The business characteristics of n = 250 U.S. trucking and delivery
companies for calendar year 2011 were recorded. Among the
characteristics studied were the number of drivers and the number of
trucks (power units) each company employed.

Part 1:

Given that the data consists of counts and range of counts is large, a
natural log transformation is usually performed to improve the linear
model results. Apply a natural log transform to both variables and then
plot the Y = log(Trucks) vs. X = log(Drivers).

Is there a linear relationship? Justify your answer by providing the SPSS output as an illustration.

Part 2:

Build a simple linear model by regressing Y on X and testing whether
or not a relationship exists between the number of drivers and the
number of trucks. Address the following questions in your written
response:

1. After fitting the model, plot the standardized residuals (on
   vertical axis) vs. the standardize predictions (on horizontal axis). Is
   there a pattern? How would you interpret the pattern or lack of pattern?
2. After fitting the model, derive the normal probability plot and interpret what the plot means.
3. What is the coefficient of determination, R², of the model? How would you interpret the R²?
4. What is the estimate of β₁? How would you interpret the estimate of β₁?
5. Is the estimate of β₁ significantly different than 0? Assume an α = 0.01.
6. What is a 95% confidence interval for β₁? How would you interpret the 95% confidence interval for β₁?
7. If a new trucking and delivery company with 4,900 drivers were to be
   formed, how many trucks would you expect the company would employ based
   on the model?

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

This assignment uses a grading rubric. Please review the rubric prior
to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations
for successful completion.

Unit VII Project

This is a two-part assignment where you are being asked to create an organizational chart. Use the information from the textbook, and relate each chart to your department or the department that protects your community if you are currently not in the fire service.

Part 1: Create an organizational chart depicting the rank structure within your department or your local department. Start from the fire chief down to the newest recruit, and include any and all divisions within the organization. Also, provide a one-page summary defining the role of national, state, and local support organizations in the organizational design and command structure of the local department. Part I should be two pages long (one page for the organizational chart, and one page for the summary).

Part 2: Create an organizational chart for one of the following functional areas of the incident management system (IMS): planning, logistics, or administration/finance. Use both the textbook and outside sources to break one of these functions into its basic subunits. In a minimum of one page for the chosen function and each subunit, provide an explanation of the duties assigned to that function within that area of responsibility. Part II should be two pages long (one page for the organizational chart and one page for the explanation).

Parts 1 and 2 should be combined and submitted as one document. The completed assignment should be a total of four pages. You must use your textbook and at least two academic sources to complete this assignment. Any information from those sources should be cited and reference according to APA style.

Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Assignment 2: Structural Modeling and Behavior Modeling

Refer to the functional model you verified and validated for ABS in the Week 4 assignment to complete this assignment.

Based on your performance, ABS management was so satisfied that it wants you to develop both the structural and behavior models. This way, ABS can fully understand both the interaction that would take place between the users and the system, and the system itself in greater detail.

Note: You may create and / or assume all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write a four page paper in which you:

1. Create Class-Responsibility-Collaboration (CRC) cards and a class diagram based on the functional models through the use of graphical tools in Microsoft Word or Visio, or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
2. Identify each use case in the functional model and create a sequence and communication diagram for each scenario of each use case identified through the use of graphical tools in Microsoft Word or Visio, or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
3. Create a behavioral state machine for each of the complex classes in the class diagram.
4. Perform a CRUDE analysis to show the interactivity of the objects in the system.
5. Perform a verification and validation walk-through of each:
   1. Functional model
   2. Structural model
   3. Behavioral model
6. Revise the requirements document created in Assignment 1 with additional information found in this assignment and document the assumptions.
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 format

• Annotated BibliographyIn preparation for your final paper it will be important that you locate a number of journal articles which focus on the treatment of addictive behaviors. For this annotated bibliography you will need to locate at least 5 relevant journal articles from Keiser’s online library.

  What is an annotated bibliography?It is an organized list of sources (referenced in APA format), such as books, journals, newspapers, magazines, reputable web pages, etc., each of which is followed by a summary or description of the source.Annotations may consist of all or part of the following list of items, depending on the purpose of the bibliography:

  • describe the content (focus) of the source
  • describe the usefulness of the source
  • evaluate the reliability of the source
  • discuss any conclusions the author(s) may have made
  • note key points from the article relevant to your final project
  • describe your reaction to the sourceWhat does an annotated bibliography look like?The following in an example source from an annotated bibliography:Waite, L. J., Goldschneider, F. K., & Witsberger, C. (1986). Nonfamily living and the erosion of traditional family orientations among young adults. American Sociological Review, 51 (4), 541-554.The authors, researchers at the Rand Corporation and Brown University, use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Young Men to test their hypothesis that nonfamily living by young adults alters their attitudes, values, plans, and expectations, moving them away from their belief in traditional sex roles. They find their hypothesis strongly supported in young females, while the effects were fewer in studies of young males. Increasing the time away from parents before marrying increased individualism, self-sufficiency, and changes in attitudes about families. In contrast, an earlier study by Williams cited below shows no significant gender differences in sex role attitudes as a result of nonfamily living.You will write a description paragraph like the one above for each of your resources. Be sure that you do not plagiarize! Use your own words and/or properly quote any borrowed work.