American Institutional Legitimacy: The Stock Market and Beyond The Stock Market is something our culture sees as a jack pot but when they lose people see it as the worst thing ever invented. Jonathan is one of the people who sees it as a jackpot and is able to see that it can be more than just that. What Jonathan was trying to legitimate was the pump and dump system. It is where someone buys something for a ridiculously low amount and then sells it at a very high price. For example how amusement
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Operational Risk measurement This is defined as “the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems or from external events. This includes legal risk, but excludes strategic and reputation risk”.9 Such risks are likely to be significant in Islamic Banks due to specific contractual features and the general legal environment. Specific aspects that could raise operational risks in Islamic banks include the following: (1) The cancellation risks
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additional data, Lisa decided to do some preliminary analysis of the data already collected. Managerial Report 1. Use appropriate descriptive statistics to summarize the data on assets and yields for the money market funds. 2. Develop a 95% confidence interval estimate of the mean assets, mean 7-day yield, and mean 30-day yield for the population of money market funds. Provide a managerial interpretation of each interval estimate 3. Discuss the implication of your findings in terms of how Lisa
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days (two years), which we think should be enough to reach the steady-state. When we run the model with these settings, we get that the mean of the main response variable - average cost - is 568.4 and the half width is equal to 2.37. Although the confidence interval is not extremely wide taking into account the relatively high value of mean, we still perform a check whether it is possible to get more precise results by using common random numbers. To figure out if the model would benefit from the use
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Abstract Senior citizens are such popular targets for white-collar scam artists. Some factors are the growing number of seniors in the population and seniors concerns to increase their income from investments and improve their health. The scams profiled include home-improvement projects, where a person takes the victim's money but does not perform the work promised; investment frauds and controlling their money for the future; and health and medical scams, which promise the equipment and service
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Victom of an Organized Cybercrimes Scenario: You are a victim of an online scam in which the attacker installed a trojan that locked my computer, and offered me a virus removal program to fix my computer for $50. You accepted, and the attacker charged your account $6000 for 6 Surf boards. What laws were violated? What actions did you commit that you should not have committed? How can you remedy and prevent this from occurring again?1 The attacker can be charged with the following Violations:
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Summer Road Trips: A Comparison of Younger & Older Drivers ------------------------------------------------- 1. Introduction Summer is the best time to travel for many people as the weather gets warmer and children are finishing up the school year. With summer right around the corner, my wife and I have started to plan out the trips that we want to take. Though one of the trips will
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proportion lies inside it. How would you explain 95% confidence to a layman? Suppose a professor of IIMA thinks that true proportion is 0.3. Are you ready to accept the professor’s perception based on your data at 99% confidence level? Solution – 1 Sample Size n = 100 (male smokers) p = 0.2 Sd (P) = √(pq / n) = .04 95% confidence interval of p = 0.2 ± 2 x 0.04 = 0.08 to 0.32 Explanation to a layman – 95% confidence means that if the sampling experiment i.e. selection
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ratings by gender: 13 of the 87 events went passed the 99% confidence limit * The regression linear graph represents a linear correlation, which shows the slope of women’s LCU magnitude was average but greater than men by 17% * LCU ratings by age: when young was compared to middle aged about 4 events went passed the confidence limits * When middle age was compared with older subjects, then about 16 events went passed the confidence limits * When the young were compared to the older
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