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A junior mining company called “Copper Corp” has obtained the rights to explore and mine a lease in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Copper corp has recently signed a contract to supply a copper refinery in China with 20,000 tonnes/annum of copper in concentrate, and therefore requires a process plant design to produce this quantity of product. The refinery will pay Copper Corp 80% of the value of copper in the concentrate based on the current LME (London Metals Exchange) price. The refinery will not pay anything for any gold supplied with the copper concentrate, however there are many dealers in Kalgoorlie who are willing to buy gravity gold at 80% of the current gold price from neighboring mines.

The mine will have an expected lifespan of 14 years.

All the below mentioned engineering tasks must be done in the project report :

Chemical Engineering:
Using the supplied metallurgical test work results, develop a flowsheet to treat the ore and produce a copper concentrate, and, if possible a separate gold concentrate. The deliverables needed are a design criteria, process flow diagram, mass balance and equipment list, with preliminary equipment sizings of the major equipment. Supplied metallurgical test work: Ore mineralogy and elemental analysis, Grade/recovery curves for various beneficiation processes such as flotation, gravity separation and magnetic separation at various ore particle sizes

References:
• Ullman
• Wills
• Perry

Mechanical Engineering:
Mechanical engineers are required to size the pumps and main process lines. They are also required to select the appropriate material for the piping in the tailings area.

Electrical Power:
The process plant will need to generate its own power, as the nearby power line is already at full capacity. It is estimated that the process plant will require around 10 MW of power. Design the generation and transmission system to supply the process plant with 10 MW of power.

Civil Engineering:
Civil engineers are required to design the foundations and support structure for the tailings thickener, tailings pumps and tailings line to the Tailings dam. They are also required to design
the tailings dam to safely contain the tails stream from the first 4 years of operation.

Control and Instrumentation:
Control and instrumentation engineers are required to determine the control philosophy for the tailings area and recommend an instrumentation regime. “Copper corp” have stated that they
prefer an automated system rather than a manual system due to the high labour costs in regional Western Australia. Enough instrumentation must be included to run the plant as automatically as possible, without going overboard.

All disciplines:

P&ID:
A Piping and Instrumentation Diagram for the tailings area is required. All disciplines need to work together to provide their input into the P&ID.

Logistics:
The product needs to be transported to the port at Esperance. Give a qualitative description of how the product will be transported to Esperance. For each transport option chosen, the relative costs, flexibility of the option and the environmental and social impacts need to be discussed.

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I am a final year engineering student doing Masters in Electrical Power Engineering. I am writing this email to briefly introduce what i exactly expect to be in there in my engineering report. Project Title : Feasibility Study of Copper Concentrator. Project Aim : A junior mining company called “Copper Corp” has obtained the rights to explore and mine a lease in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Copper corp has recently signed a contract to supply a copper refinery in China with 20,000 tonnes/annum of copper in concentrate, and therefore requires a process plant design to produce this quantity of product. The refinery will pay Copper Corp 80% of the value of copper in the concentrate based on the current LME (London Metals Exchange) price. The refinery will not pay anything for any gold supplied with the copper concentrate, however there are many dealers in Kalgoorlie who are willing to buy gravity gold at 80% of the current gold price from neighboring mines. The mine will have an expected lifespan of 14 years. Tasks to be done are: Chemical Engineering: Using the supplied metallurgical test work results, develop a flowsheet to treat the ore and produce a copper concentrate, and, if possible a separate gold concentrate. The deliverables needed are a design criteria, process flow diagram, mass balance and equipment list, with preliminary equipment sizings of the major equipment. Supplied metallurgical test work: Ore mineralogy and elemental analysis, Grade/recovery curves for various beneficiation processes such as flotation, gravity separation and magnetic separation at various ore particle sizes References: · Ullman · Wills · Perry Mechanical Engineering: Mechanical engineers are required to size the pumps and main process lines. They are also required to select the appropriate material for the piping in the tailings area. Electrical Power: The process plant will need to generate its own power, as the nearby power line is already at full capacity. It is estimated that the process plant will require around 10 MW of power. Design the generation and transmission system to supply the process plant with 10 MW of power. Civil Engineering: Civil engineers are required to design the foundations and support structure for the tailings thickener, tailings pumps and tailings line to the Tailings dam. They are also required to design the tailings dam to safely contain the tails stream from the first 4 years of operation. Control and Instrumentation: Control and instrumentation engineers are required to determine the control philosophy for the tailings area and recommend an instrumentation regime. “Copper corp” have stated that they prefer an automated system rather than a manual system due to the high labour costs in regional Western Australia. Enough instrumentation must be included to run the plant as automatically as possible, without going overboard. All disciplines: P&ID: A Piping and Instrumentation Diagram for the tailings area is required. All disciplines need to work together to provide their input into the P&ID. Logistics: The product needs to be transported to the port at Esperance. Give a qualitative description of how the product will be transported to Esperance. For each transport option chosen, the relative costs, flexibility of the option and the environmental and social impacts need to be discussed. IMP NOTE: The most important topics to be covered are; – Copper price forecast – Financial analysis of entire project including the Profitability – Copper process flow reseach – Gravity gold process research – PID (Pipeline & Instrumentation Diagram) of Copper process – Design criteria of process equipment – cost estimate of mechanical equipment – design of electricity power generation plant – design foundation and support structure of tailings thickener – Design foundation and support structure of tailing pumps – Design instrumentation regime It;s my humble request that please keep the work plagarisim free at all times.

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This Assignment builds on assignment 2 which already attached. You will be provided with:
• resources relating to commonly used CPI tools
• a CPI template that they must type their CPI paper into.
You will be required to use the online library databases to locate a minimum of eight (8) secondary literature sources that closely relate to their nursing issue from the attached Assignment . For example:
• systematic literature review, Cochrane review
• practice guidelines
• clinical protocol or guideline
• government report
• position paper of guideline from a reliable web-based resource (e.g. The Heart Foundation or the ARC etc).
You are permitted to use the same sources they used in Assignment 2 if they were secondary sources.
You will be required to construct a CPI report using the supplied template (available). In order to pass this assignment, students must successfully address each of the criteria outlined on the Assignment marking rubric which is available.

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• Overview and Guiding Propositions(s) Described in Theory
• Application of Theory to Your Study’s/Project’s Focus
Methodology
• Sample/Setting: Number and criteria for inclusion and description of place in which data will be collected.
• Sampling Strategy
• Research design: Type (e.g., Quasi-Experimental), description and rationale for selection.
• Instruments: Description, validity and reliability estimates, which have been performed (on a pre-established measure). Include plans for testing validity and reliability of generating your own instrument(s).
• Description of the Intervention
Post your assignment to the W4: Assignment 2 Dropbox.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria Maximum Points
Theoretical Framework is described and includes overview and guiding propositions. 10
Application of theory to proposed study is explained fully. 10
Sample discussion includes justification for number of subjects and criteria for inclusion/exclusion 5
Setting Discussion includes an overview and rationale for setting location 5
Sampling Strategy is fully explained and appropriate to the study focus. 5
Research design is described in detail and is appropriate to answer the research question. 5
Followed APA guidelines for writing style, spelling and grammar, and citation of sources. 10

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“When I was selling in bazaars I noticed that people gave me bad looks. I felt inside that people thought that I was selling because I needed money. But after I opened my own shop, things changed for the better” (P 3).
“My married daughter told me one day that her husband’s family asked her: Is your mother working as a seller? It was as if I am doing something to be ashamed of” (P 4).
However, this was not the case with other women entrepreneurs who run a beauty centre or work as designers. “I didn’t face any problems with society’s attitude” (P 6).
Furthermore, gender stereotypes can be seen as challenges that face Saudi women entrepreneurs. Some of the women interviewed have faced difficulties in convincing their families to accept the idea of starting a business. Some women reported that their families did not accept the idea of starting a business and they did not take their work seriously.

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“[One] way of describing the structure of argument was introduced by the philosopher Stephen Toulmin…. Toulmin observed that although formal Logic is effective for analyzing highly specialized arguments, it is inadequate for describing the arguments that occur in everyday life. Although Toulmin was primarily concerned with the structures of arguments at the level of sentences or paragraphs, his model is also useful when dealing with longer arguments.
In its simplest terms, a Toulmin argument has three parts—the claim, the grounds and the warrant. The claim is the main point of the essay—usually stated as a thesis. The grounds are the evidence that a writer uses to support the claim. The warrant is the inference—either stated or implied—that connects the claim to the grounds.
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Real arguments—those that you encounter in print or online every day—are not as simple as the three-part model…. To be convincing, arguments often contain additional elements. To account for the demands of everyday debates, Toulmin expanded his model [to include the following]: Claim…Reason…Warrant…Backing…Grounds…Qualifiers…and…Rebuttals.”

– Practical Argument 2nd Edition

Using the above as a guideline, your assignment is to write a Toulmin essay that addresses (directly or indirectly) the following prompt: Videogames are changing the world. Perhaps you feel that this is a positive or a negative change, but you should clearly and narrowly define how they are changing the world, and what that means. Feel free to use examples of how they have already changed the world as well as examples of how they might possibly in the future; but above all, make sure that you have good sources that back up your claim.
You may use any of the games and essays we have talked about in this class, but you are also able to use any other games or essays as well (if you use a game not from our syllabus, you MUST give me a heads up that you are using it beforehand so that I have time to familiarize myself with it).
This essay will be 1,300-2,000 words long, and MUST include AT LEAST four different sources. More are highly encouraged. Standard MLA formatting is required. As always, I want to encourage you to think outside of the box about how you can use the lessons and examples that you have learned in our class and apply them in novel and interesting ways.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
This is a very broad prompt. Do not write a very broad essay. You don’t have the space to address such a wide issue at face value. Rather, you should concentrate on how videogames are changing the world through a SPECIFIC instance/topic/category/etc. and elaborate on why that is important. For instance, Jane McGonigal, in the TED talk we watched, argues the narrow topic that games should be played more often, as they foster useful attributes, Simon Ferrari argues that games inherently foster a kind of self-literacy and Clint Hocking argues that they are best when generating procedural experiences. Use specific, narrow arguments to make your point.

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“The module will be assessed 100% by an individual coursework, in which the students will analyse a case study and present their findings in a report.”
This document specifies the requirements you should follow in selecting an appropriate case study and how you should report your findings.
1 Selecting a Case Study
If you are wishing to obtain a mark of 60%+ (ie a first or 2i) you should select your own case study. However if your aspirations are lower and you are happy with a mark of 40% to 60% you are advised to consider the example case study.
If selecting your own case study, a self assessment task has been created where you can post the details about the case study you have are thinking of selecting.
The intention of this task is to allow you to receive feedback on the viability of your proposed case study and will enable me to provide advice as to issues you may need to consider and alternative sources of data.

In selecting a Case study you should consider the following:

1. Availability of suitable data
The data should be publicly available (ideally in electronic form) and ideally should have comparable information for more than one year. Data can come from multiple sources (see examples above). There will need to be data on both the resources used (inputs such as Number and/or cost of staff) and successful production (outputs for example revenue and or number of products sold)

2. Sufficient decision making units for comparisons
What constitutes a sufficient number will depend on the number of inputs and outputs in the DEA models you are using. For the purposes of the coursework you may have a small number of Decision Making Units (DMUs) as long as you consider their performance over several time periods (eg, 15-25 DMUs with 5 to10 years of annual data) or a larger dataset over a shorter period (eg 200 DMUs over two years of annual data).You should have more than one year’s data.

3. Personal interest
You will be spending a considerable amount of time analyzing the data and writing up your report so pick an area that interests you!

4. Ability to demonstrate understanding of the whole DEA module
Pick something which is quite rich in alternative data, so that you can compare alternative models of performance; perhaps where league tables or some other measure of performance is already used so you can compare you results with these. Having data for (mostly) the same DMUs over several years allows you to look at changes over time. You should consider some other groupings of the DMUs (say rural or urban, private or public ownership)

So do not jump to make a selection too quickly, first do some research to find out what data might be available. But also do not spend all your time choosing, you are best making your choice and sticking too it as long as data is available.

You are best writing the report as you go along, that way you can use the surgery sessions to get feedback on your progress. Some tips on where to start are available in blackboard.

There is also a second self and peer assessment task to ensure you have located some appropriate data and have looked at some simple DEA models and obtained feedback to ensure you are on the right track.

2 The Form and Content of the Report

The report that you hand in should be a report on the efficiency of the operations of your case study organization(s) for one of its stakeholders. You should not assume that the stakeholder understands the Data Envelopment Analysis technique and so will need to explain it to the reader (but should include technical details in an appendix). The following is intended as a possible outline for your report it also gives a guideline as to the number of words expected, some variation from this guideline is expected depending on your actual case study.

1. General introduction (250-750 words).
Here you introduce the operations you are studying and what good performance might mean for them. If there is already a method of performance measurement used you should discuss it.
2. Introduction to the Data Envelopment Analysis technique (500-1500 words).
Introduce DEA using simple model(s) that can be shown graphically, using real data from your case study. Show how DEA may be preferred to league tables, rating classifications or ratio measures for your case study organization(s).
3. Exploratory Data Analysis & Model Specification (250-750 words).
In this section you summarize what data is available and could be used in performance analysis. You then justify the inputs and outputs you are going to use in your DEA model(s), also whether input or output orientation is used.
4. Results of DEA analysis for at least one time period (1000-2000 words).
Discuss the targets for inefficient DMUs, and identify their efficient Peers. Compare the results with other methods of performance measurement.
5. Consideration of different groups and/or time periods (750-1500 words).
Here you can examine the Malmquist index (and its decomposition) to see how efficiency has changed over time. Statistics can also be examined to identify efficiency differences between groups of DMUs. Again it is worth using simple models that can be shown graphically to illustrate this (this may well be in addition to your actual models).
6. Overall Conclusions (150-300 words)
Summarize your results here.
7. Appendix
Either give the data here and also include output from the DEA software you have used.

 
3 Marking scheme

The marks are entirely on your final report so the peer and self assessment tasks are learning experiences which ensure that you know you are progressing. The final report is assessed on the following criteria.

Understanding of case study (20%)
The mark here based on your introduction and the specification of the DEA models, and to some extent the conclusions. Have you demonstrated you understand for your case study what constitutes good performance?

Understanding of Basic DEA technique (30%)
The mark here is based on the specification of your DEA models (do the inputs and outputs make sense), explanations of simple graphs of the limited DEA models for your case study and the interpretation of the computer output for more realistic DEA models for a single time period.

More advanced aspects of DEA (25%)
The marks here will depend on your case study but reward is given here for coping with technical difficulties in applying DEA (eg negative values and or restrictions on weights), and your analysis of changes over time and/or between groups as appropriate.

Use of statistical tests etc. (15%)
The marks here are based on the use of statistics as exploratory data analysis to determine sensible DEA models and for the use of statistics in examining the changes over time and/or between groups

Presentation, spelling, grammar etc. (10%)

Originality is also rewarded it will be difficult to attain very high marks if your case study is very close to an example which has been considered in detail in class.

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In Part 3 you will construct a draft of you rhetorical analysis paper, based on the thesis and outline you wrote in Part 2. Remember, the goal of this assignment is to describe how the author communicates with the reader, and whether or not the strategies and techniques that they employ to achieve their goal are successful. Your paper should not include your personal beliefs and feelings, or statements that are unsupported by evidence.

Deliverables
(1) A cohesive paper, one to two pages in length (900-1200 words), single-spaced. Your paper should include a creative and appropriate title and the article’s citation, in addition to the following parts.

A. Introduction
The introduction of your paper may include some information from your revised abstract and summary (Part 1), and must include your thesis from Part 2. You will need to incorporate your thesis into a paragraph that introduces the reader to both your paper, and to a lesser degree the article, as well as what you intend to accomplish in your paper. Be sure that you introduction is logical, concise, and flows seamlessly and logically with the rest of your paper. The following ideas may help guide you in writing an introduction.

Place your writing in the larger conversation about rhetoric. Remember your paper is about effective communication, and not about the topic of your article.
Introduce the article you plan to analyze. Name the writer, title of the piece, and, where the piece originally appeared, but incorporate it into the flow of the introduction.
Identify the rhetorical strategies that you have decided to discuss and indicate, in general terms, how they function to promote the author’s purpose in relation to the intended audience.
Incorporate a brief summary of the article to help your audience understand the main points of the article being analyzed. (This is optional, but may be useful for readers)

B. Body
Each paragraph in the body of your paper should generally consist of its own topic sentence and unified focus, which flows together logically with the rest of the paper. For the purpose of this analysis, consider writing one paragraph on each of the rhetorical strategies you identified in Part 2, and providing two to three examples of the use of this strategy from the article. The following list may be useful in helping you develop these paragraphs.

Define the rhetorical strategy. (On that same note, be sure you understand the rhetorical strategy you have identified.)
Quote or paraphrase examples that illustrate the writer’s use of the strategy (two or three examples are probably sufficient). Try to avoid the overuse of direct quotes that are long – use phrases or words instead.
Explain how or why the example illustrates the strategy and how the strategy contributes to the writer’s purpose.
If you find that you need more than one paragraph to explain a single strategy, particularly if you have several examples of the same strategy, be sure to use transitions at the beginning of the new paragraph that make it clear you are still discussing the same strategy.

C. Conclusion
The purpose of the conclusion is to briefly summarize the main points of the analysis and explain the significance of your analysis. Questions for considering the significance of your topic include:

Do the rhetorical strategies that you discuss construct (or fail to construct) a persuasive argument for you? Do you think they were successful for the writer’s intended audience (if written for a specific audience)?
Can you generalize about the role of rhetorical strategies in producing persuasive writing?

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Suppose you are a CPA hired to represent a client that is currently under examination by the IRS. The client is the president and 95% shareholder of a building supply sales and warehousing business. He also owns 50% of the stock of a construction company. The client’s son owns the remaining 50% of the stock of the construction company. The client has received a Notice of Proposed Adjustments (NPA) on three (3) significant issues related to the building supply business for the years under examination. The issues identified in the NPA are unreasonable compensation, stock redemptions, and a rental loss. Additional facts regarding the issues are reflected below:

Unreasonable compensation: The taxpayer receives a salary of $10 million composed of a $5 million base salary plus 5% of gross receipts not to exceed $5 million. The total gross receipts of the building supply business are $300 million. The NPA by the IRS disallows the salary based on 5% of gross receipts as a constructive dividend.

Stock redemptions: During the audit period, the construction company redeemed 50% of the outstanding stock owned by the client and 50% of the stock owned by the client’s son, leaving each with the same ownership percentage of 50%. The IRS treated the redemption as a distribution under Section 301 of the IRC.
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Rental loss: The rental loss results from a building leased to the construction company owned by the client and his son.

Use the Internet to research the rules and income tax laws regarding unreasonable compensation, stock redemptions treated as dividends and related party losses. Be sure to use the six (6) step tax research process

Write a three (3) page paper in which you:
1. Based on your research and the facts stated in the scenario, prepare a recommendation for the client in which you advise either acceptance of the proposed adjustments or further appeal of the issue based on the potential for prevailing on appeal.
2. Create a tax plan for the future redemption of the client’s stock owned in the construction company that will not be taxed according to Section 301 of the IRC.
3. Propose a strategy for the client to receive similar amounts in compensation in the future and avoid the taxation as a constructive dividend.
4. Use the six (6) step tax research process to record your research for communications to the client.

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The paper must include:
– Cover page,
– Abstract,
– Table of content,
– List of figures/table,
– Executive summary (no more than a page),
– Main text (intro, development and conclusion),
– List of references.

• The main text should be 12 to 15 pages

• You will use the American Medical Association (AMA) style for your
references:
– Often used by researchers in other disciplines than
Medical Sciences, including chemical engineering.
– Style:
• http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1547-
5905/homepage/ForAuthors.html
“It should be listed in numerical order in the order in which they are cited in the text. Give the complete information, including names of all authors, titles of the article and periodicals or books, numbers of pages and volumes, and publication years. Authors should use the AMA style to format their references.”

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Complete Exercise 20 in Statistics for Health Care Research: A Practical Workbook.

In order to receive full credit on calculated answers, please show your work. (Use Word’s equation editor, etc., and/or provide a short written description as to how you obtained the final result.)

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