This is a required assignment for everyone in the class. Failure to complete it and post it will lower your grade one letter grade.  

It is outlined on the course syllabus which is under Course Information on the left.  

You will be able to complete the first three parts of this assignment after completing chapter 3.  I want this part in draft early in the term. See the syllabus for parts 1-2-3. 

The fourth part is not possible until chapter 18 has been completed. 

You can, however, choose a product now that is available in another country, like a Big Mac or any product that is sold in both the United States and the country you choose!  You will have to find the price of that product in that country, and here as well.  Then, in November depending on when you will turn it in, you will find the nominal exchange rate for the two currencies. I have created a link to aide you under External Links.  You will choose your country and the currency converter will do it for you.  Once you have that conversion, there is a formula in chapter 18 on the presentation option of the power points. This formula is used to calculate the REAL exchange rate.  It is also explained below.   Once you have the price of the product here in the United States and the price of the same product in the country you chose for the required assignment, and the nominal exchange rate for the two currencies using the currency converter under External Links, you will be able to use the formula to find the real exchange rate. 

Once chapter 18 is completed, you can do part 4. 

After completing the calculation to find the real exchange rate using the formula below, you will write an analysis statement defining your results. 

HERE IS THE “analysis statement” YOU MUST use after the calculation to safeguard against misinterpretation of the real exchange rate.  YOU must use the statement BELOW. 

Correct interpretation

 example: 

This example is from chapter 18, slides 25, 26,and 27 of the

 presentation view format. The slides preceding and following

 explain this concept.

 Substitute YOUR country, YOUR product, and YOUR

real exchange rate where it says: Big Mac, Japanese, and .75

 Big Mac’s in Japan in the example.

“To buy a Big Mac in the U.S., a Japanese citizen must give up an

amount that could

 purchase .75 Big Mac’s in Japan. “

This should be the INTERPRETATION OR ANALYSIS statement that follows your calculation!

This is the formula: 

real exchange rate= e x P / P*

 where e is the nominal exchange rate from the Currency Converter under External Links,

where P is the price in the U. S. in dollars,

and P* is the price of the product in the country you chose in that currency.

The x means times or multiply and / means divided by. 

YOU MUST MULTIPLY THE NOMINAL RATE YOU FIND ON THE CURRENCY CONVERTER TIMES THE PRICE IN THE U.S., WHEN YOU HAVE THAT ANSWER, THEN DIVIDE BY THE PRICE IN THAT CURRENCY. 

Write a one page research paper in which you discuss the payroll process for an organization. Choose an existing company or other organization and speculate the payroll process best suited for that organization based on information you can find on using library resources. Databases you might consider searching would be Business Source Complete via EBSCO, Business via ProQuest, or a general education database like Academic Search Complete.

Start your paper with an introduction that includes a very brief description of the organization you chose. Your description should mention the purpose of the organization and the approximate number of employees. Is it a local company, national company, or international company? Your introductions should be approximately three sentences. Your first sentence should be a concise description of the company. The last two sentences should tell the reader what the paper is about. Avoid using “I”, “my”, “the paper”, or “this paper” in your sentences. Every sentence should start with a subject, which is some aspect of the topic of the paper. For example, “The payroll process . . . .” or “The company should . . .”

After you speculate the appropriate payroll system, describe the payroll process the company would use in some detail in the body of the paper. Would the company use a manual system, an automated system, a payroll service, or some combination? What steps does the payroll process include? This is the discussion or body of the paper and should include proper headings. This is a very short paper (1 page), so you will likely have room for only one or two heading at most. Keep the paragraphs short and concise. Note that a paragraph must include at least three sentences at a minimum.

Be sure to include a concluding paragraph. The basic structure of a conclusion is a summary of the main points. Each section of the discussion represents a main point. Write one sentence to concisely summarize the pain point and end the conclusion with a final thought. The concluding paragraph should be at least three sentences.

Keep in mind that this is a research paper; and, as such, should be informed by your research sources. Include a minimum of three references in your paper. Your textbook can count as one of your sources. You will also need to include a reference page with this paper.

Again, your paper should be approximately a page in length, not including the cover page and the references. Be sure to:

• include an introductory paragraph at the beginning and a concluding paragraph at the end
• use subject headings to label the body of your paper as appropriate
• to include APA citations to support your assertions and to inform your paper

Question 1:  (15 marks)

Suppose you have joined a search engine development team to design a search algorithm based on both the Vector model and the Boolean model. You have collected the following documents (unstructured) and plan to apply an index technique to convert them into an inverted index. 

Doc 1：Information retrieval is the activity of obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other content-based indexing.

Doc 2：Information retrieval is finding material of an unstructured nature that satisfies an information need from within large collections

Doc 3：Information systems is the study of complementary networks of hardware and software that people and organizations use to collect, filter, process, create, and distribute data. In the process of creating the inverted index, please complete the following steps: 

a. Remove all stop words and punctuation, and then apply Porter’s stemming algorithm to the documents. The list of stop words for this task is provided as follows: Is, The, Of, To, An, A, From, Can, Be, On, Or, That, Within, And, Use

b. Create a merged inverted list including the within-document frequencies for each term.

c. Use the index created in part (b) to create a dictionary and the related posting file. 

 d. You may like to test the inverted index by using the following keywords: information, system, index 

 e. Please design three Boolean queries, (for example, web AND search) and list the relevant documents for each query.

 f. Please use the Vector model to query on the inverted index, and compare the result with the Boolean model. (Hint: you can use cosine similarity and set a similarity threshold). Question 2 (IR Evaluation) (15 marks)

Question 2 (IR Evaluation) (15 marks) 

In this question, you are required to evaluate the performance of different search engines. 

 First, please find two search engines you are familiar with, such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, etc. 

 Second, please choose one target from the following list, and design two queries to search in both search engines. So both query 1 and query 2 have to be tested in both search engines. 

 i. Target 1: obtain the course information for S779. 

 ii. Target 2: obtain the price of the new Samsung Tablet. 

 iii. Target 3: obtain the manual of installing tera term. 

 iv. Target 4: obtain the oracle SQL tutorial. 

 v. Target 5: obtain the price of new Xbox one. 

 Third, select the first 20 results in both search engines, if they return the target, then mark them as relevant documents, otherwise, they are irrelevant. Assume that you have 14 relevant documents in total (retrieved and not-retrieved). 

 The following questions are based on your search results. 

a) List your target, results and designed search queries (You can use any keywords you think are related to the target). 

Get the precision and recall values for 20 documents for query 1 in search engine 1. Interpolate them to 11 standard recall levels. Then plot them into a chart. 

Get the precision and recall values for 20 documents for query 2 in search engine 1. Interpolate them to 11 standard recall levels. Then plot them into the same chart as above. 

Now find the average precision of query 1 and query 2 for search engine 1 and plot it into the same chart.

So you will have total of 3 curves in one single chart. 

b) List your target, results and designed search queries 

 Get the precision and recall values for 20 documents for query 1 in search engine 2. Interpolate them to 11 standard recall levels. Then plot them into a chart. 

 Get the precision and recall values for 20 documents for query 2 in search engine 2. Interpolate them to 11 standard recall levels. Then plot them into the same chart as above. 

Now find the average precision of query 1 and query 2 for search engine 2 and plot it into the same chart. So, you will have total of 3 curves in one single chart, separate to that of part (a). Plot the averages for Search Engine 1 and Search Engine 2 on a separate chart, and compare the algorithms in terms of precision and recall. Which search engine do you think is superior? Why?

Elena has sponsored, and participated in a barbeque team for the last ten years. The team enters several contests a year, but has never come close to turning a profit. Elena has told you she doesn’t really care if the team makes any money, she just enjoys being able to get away from work and unwind at contests. Which of the following is most accurate?

Elena may deduct all of the expenses associated with the team
Elena may only deduct her proportional share of the expenses o the team
Elena may never deduct any of the expenses of the team
This activity is likely a hoppy for Elena, and her deductions may be limited.

A taxpayer in the 25% bracket before considering the sale, sold for a gain of $10,000 a residential building, purchased and put into service March 2010 (The sale of land is not included in this question.) No other residential real property was sold in this tax year. The depreciation taken or allowed is $15,635. What is the amount and nature of the gain or loss?

$10,000 gain taxed at a maximum of 15%
$10,000 gain taxed at a maximum f 25% (or 33% if the gain pushes the taxpayer into a higher tax bracket).
$10,000 gain taxed at a maximum of 25%
$15,635 gained taxed at a maximum of 25%

Which of the following taxpayers would be most likely to benefit from an installment sale?

Business-use land, sold for a gain
A business-use car, sold at a net gain which was less than the amount of depreciation claimed
Rental Property, sold at a gain less than the amount of depreciation allowed
A fishing boat, sold a net loss.

Leon owns a hobby shop specializing in the sale of kites. Which of the following should Not be included in his inventory.

Four crates of kite string for sale to customers
An assembled kite displayed in his ship. The kite is for sale
Seven EX-launch kite catapults Leon is selling on consignment for his friend.
13 Sky Warrior decal kits held for sale to customers

What is the IRS method of allocating expenses between rental use and personal use?

All expenses allocated as a percentage of rental-use days to total days owned
All expenses allocated as a percentage of rental-use days to total days used.
Mortgage interest, mortgage insurance premiums, real estate taxes, and casualty losses allocated as a percentage of rental-use days to total days.
Mortgage interest and real estate taxes allocated as percentage of rental-use days to total days used.

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What is the present value of a 15 year Treasury bond that will pay $10,000 at maturity with an average annual rate of return of 4.25%?
The present value of a 15 year Treasury bond that will pay $10,000 at maturity with an average annual rate of return of 4.25% will be 

Question 1
Expanded definitions commonly include history, examples, and:

A. etymology.
B. synonyms.
C. stipulations.
D. drawings and illustrations.
 
 
Question 2
A(n) __________ is a mini-dictionary usually located either at the beginning or end of a technical document.

A. sidebar
B. glossary
C. appendix
D. online help link
 
 
Question 3
When documents are lengthy and audience’s backgrounds are widely varied, __________ can be created and placed at the end of the document to provide operational and expanded definitions of critical concepts; they can be used by those who need additional information and ignored by readers who do not need the explanations.

A. appendices
B. sidebars
C. footnotes
D. information notes
 
 
Question 4
Which of the following statements is NOT true about technical descriptions?

A. Technical descriptions provide accurate information about physical features, but they rarely have any further impact.
B. Sometimes technical descriptions constitute an entire document.
C. Most of the time, technical descriptions are limited to a single segment of a longer document or presentation.
D. Technical descriptions provide verifiable information that corresponds to assumed questions, such as What is it? What does it look like?