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DSL 200 Scientific News Journals

You will be responsible for writing three journals throughout the duration of the term. You may choose from a list of articles available on Canvas.CLICK HERE FOR INSTRUCTIONS AND MATERIAL FOR THE JOURNALS

The assignment

For each project, you will be given a news story and a scientific journal article that goes with it, posted to Canvas by the instructor. Each of these journal articles will have been published in a reputable online magazine, newspaper, or journal. The news story may or may not be.

You will then write a short essay, 1-2 pages in length, detailing the parts of the scientific method discussed in your article and comparing that information to what was reported in the news story. Each entry will be written in a logical and professional manner using the APA template attached to the post.

The entire entry must be written IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Direct quotes of the articles are not allowed. However, when you summarize or paraphrase something from one of the articles you will need to provide an in-text APA reference. The guide to APA referencing is attached to this post.

The essay must be written entirely in third person. DO NOT USE FIRST OR SECOND PERSON. This means you cannot use the words “I”, “we”, or “you”.

What is turned in to the instructor?

For each week that a journal assignment is due, you will submit your journal entry via Canvas by its due date.

Entry Content

You will be graded on the following content that combines information you obtain from both the news story and the scientific article:

Introduction (1 paragraph)

This section identify which of the two articles was the scientific study and the subject of the scientific study. You will also identify the problem or observation that spurred the research. DO NOT LIST THE RESULTS OF THE STUDY ITSELF HERE. You will identify the hypothesis the scientists were testing. Remember that a hypothesis is a testable educated guess. Thus, it is not appropriate to pose a question here. However, while reading your articles, it can be helpful to ask yourself what explanation scientists tried to use to explain their initial observation. You will then transition into the body of the journal.

Body (~1 paragraph each)

Here, you will identify the test or experiment that was performed to address the hypothesis. You should be detailed here. It may be helpful to pull from other sources, if you do not fully understand how the experiment was conducted. After detailing how the experiment was done compared to how it reported in the media, you will transition into a discussion of the results.

In this section of your entry you will identify the experimental results that the scientists obtained. What did the scientists find after doing their experiment? Again, you can be detailed here. After detailing the results, you will transition into the conclusion sections.

The last paragraph of the body should explain the conclusion of the study. You should address whether the hypothesis was supported or rejected, and how the results led to that finding. Also provide a possible new avenue of research the scientists might pursue based on what was discovered in this study.

Evaluation (1 paragraph)

Here you will signal the end of your entry. In this section you will identify the new study about the scientific study and discuss whether or not the news story was a representative reporting of the scientific study. Did the news change anything or leave out something important from the scientific study? Summarize the important content from your entry, then you will end with a definitive final statement.

Constructing your journal entry

In addition to the criteria above, you will be graded on the quality of your writing; please write with proper grammar, punctuation, and style. The essay will be graded using the Dialogues of Learning Written Communication Rubric.

All sources (including the original 2 articles) should be properly documented. You must include an APA style reference page. Your TurnItIn score should be below 20 for this assignment.

Choose one NEWS article and its corresponding journal article for your lab journals.

1. Elephants article

Elephants

2. DDT autism article

DDT autism

3. Dolphins article

Dolphins

4. Beer Article

Beer

5. Lights and breast cancer article

Lights and breast cancer

6. Harry Potter article

Harry Potter

7. Facebook article.pdf

Facebook

8. Air quality asthma article

Air quality asthma

help with pl sql assignment

As a new ABC Consultant assigned to the XYZ Company, you have been asked to enhance the current system to include payroll processing.  Although the current employee table has monthly salary and commission columns, it does not provide any means for storing employee deductions. 

  1. You will add the tables      necessary to store employee deductions. Next you will create a payroll pre-calculation      program that will calculate the net pay for all the employees via a batch      process (a stored procedure in a package, which will call other stored      procedures within the package). Although this is not a complete payroll      system, the unit test results must be accurate. 
  2. Next you will create two      PL/SQL blocks for inserting and deleting rows from the employee deduction      table.  These PL/SQL blocks will be      passed information from host or bind variables and a third PL/SQL block      which will assign the variables defined in SQL*Plus (e.g. employee number,      dollar amount and deduction name). Since the XYZ Company wants to track      changes to the employee and employee deduction tables, you will create two      database triggers that will update audit tables when rows are changed or      deleted. 
  3. The XYZ Company also      requires a view that will display specific employee information, plus the      number of deductions for an employee.       This will be accomplished by creating a stored function that will      count the number for deductions for an employee.  This function will be invoked in the      select statement for the employee view. 

Task List:

Setup:

  1. Create the tables in the existing system. 
  2. Create a table for deductions with three columns for deduction name (PK), Salary grade minimum, salary grade maximum. You need to populate the deduction table any way you wish. Populate the table with as many deductions as you think would be appropriate to thoroughly test your application.  The salgrade min and max information will come from the salgrade table. 
  3. Create a table for employee deductions with a foreign key (name) to the deduction table, a flag that indicates if the deduction is a before tax or after tax deduction, deduction (dollar) amount and another foreign key (empno) to the employee table.   This table is an intersection table and the two foreign keys concatenated together will be the primary key of this table. 
  4. Create two audit tables, one for the employee table and one for the employee deduction table.  These audit tables should contain a unique numeric ID (assigned via a sequence), the current date, and the user id of the person that has made the change to he employee or employee deduction table, and all the columns from the source table. 
  5. Create two sequences that will be used to populate the audit tables with a unique identifier.
  6. Create a table to keep tax rates, these can be real or bogus, as long as there are at least 7 different rates ( For example, if the annual salary is 0 -10000 then a 5% tax rate, 10001 – 20000 then a 7% tax rate, etc)

Note: Data for these tables may be found in the Appendix of this Final Exam document. If you wish, you may add addition rows to these tables. 

CREATE TABLE dept (

deptno         Number(2) Primary Key,

dname         VARCHAR2(14),

loc               VARCHAR2(13));

Create table emp (

empno       NUMBER(4) Primary Key,

ename       VARCHAR2(10),

job            VARCHAR2(9),

mgr           NUMBER(4),

hiredate    DATE,

sal             NUMBER(7,2),

comm        NUMBER(7,2),

deptno       NUMBER(2));

Create table salgrade (

grade       NUMBER,

losal       NUMBER,

hisal       NUMBER);

CREATE TABLE deductions  (

      name     VARCHAR2(30),

      salary_grade_min NUMBER(2),

      salary_grade_max NUMBER(2));

CREATE TABLE emp_deductions     (

     fk_deduction                     VARCHAR2(30),

     fk_empno                          NUMBER(4),

     before_or_after_flag         CHAR(1),

      deduction_amount           NUMBER(6,2));

                       CREATE TABLE emp_audit   (

                             audit_uid               NUMBER(15),

                             change_date          DATE,

                             change_user          VARCHAR2(30),

                              action                   CHAR(1),

                              empno                  NUMBER(4),

                              ename                   VARCHAR2(10),

      job                        VARCHAR2(9),

      mgr                       NUMBER(4),

      hiredate                DATE,

      sal                         NUMBER(7,2),

     comm                    NUMBER(7,2),

    deptno                    NUMBER(2));

CREATE TABLE emp_deductions_audit    (

                              audit_uid                          NUMBER(15),

                             change_date                      DATE,

                             change_user                      VARCHAR2(30),

                              action                               CHAR(1),

                              fk_deduction                    VARCHAR2(30),

                              fk_empno                         NUMBER(4),

                              before_or_after_flag        CHAR(1),

                              deduction_amount           NUMBER(6,2));

CREATE TABLE tax_rates ( 

    percent       NUMBER(3,2),

    salary_min NUMBER(8,2),

    salary_max NUMBER(8,2));

Program Description 

  • Create      two PL/SQL blocks that will insert or delete rows from the employee      deduction table.  Include exception      processing for bad input data and verify that an employee is eligible for a      deduction based upon their salary grade.       Salary grade is determined by checking the salary grade table to      derive the employee’s salary grade.       Once you know an employee’s grade, then verify if the employee is      eligible for the deduction (e.g. 401K) via comparing it to the minimum and      maximum salary grade that is stored in the deduction table ( see      definition above).
  • Create      two database triggers that will update the employee audit table and      employee deduction audit table when rows are either changed or deleted.  Use a sequence number to assign a unique      identifier to each row as it is created in the audit table.  Capture the user ID, date of the change      or delete, and action (update or delete), plus all the fields in the      before image of the row (e.g. before it is changed or deleted).
  • Create      a function that will count the number of deductions for an employee.  Input to the function is the employee ID      and it returns the count of employee deductions.  If there aren’t any deductions for the      employee, the function returns zero.       Within the view, include the employee name, number, hire date, job,      dept number and the umber of deductions for the employee. Use the naming      standard <name>_v.  

CREATE or REPLACE VIEW show_deduction_v  AS

SELECT empno, 

   ename, 

    hiredate, 

    deptno, 

     job, 

     count_deductions(empno) deduction_cnt

FROM emp;

  • Create      a package that contains multiple stored procedures.  Only one procedure will be available to      external calls ( in the package specifications).  The other procedure will be subroutines      that are called by the main procedure in the package body.  It is okay to include stored functions      in your package that support the procedure.  The procedure will accomplish the      following steps for each employee:
  • Subtract       the before tax deductions from the monthly salary.
  • Calculate       and subtract Federal Tax and State Income using the tax table that you       created (see above).  For more of a       challenge, initially load the tax table into a PL/SQL table that resides       in memory (optional).   Use the       same rate for Federal Income Tax (FIT) and State Income Tax (SIT).
    • Exclude        other taxes  (e.g. SS)
    • Include        commission as part of the salary
  • Subtract       after tax deductions from the remaining monthly salary to       determine the net pay.
  • Use       DBMS_OUTPUT to display all deductions/calculations and net pay.  This will enable you to turn spool on       and capture all the calculations for all employees when you execute the procedure       via SQL*Plus.  

Deliverables

  • Listing      of code for every block (function, trigger, a package with procedures,      etc.) defined above.
  • Unit      test data for every block defined above (use the spool command). 

capsim presentation 1

Please make sure you play CAPSIM CAPSTONE GAME. Then answer this questions

i am gonna have a CAPSIM presentation based on 8 rounds we did ( i am gonna post 8 rounds results) i am in the CHESTER TEAM.

I am going to do the business strategy. Please help me do 2-3 pages powerpoint and the speech draft, maybe 1-2 pages.

please do it based on our performances which is our report.

https://prezi.com/-kdog5bq2swa/capsim-final-presen…

this link might be help you.

I list some of what we need to do and what i did in the powerpoint.

just ask me if you have any questions.