AMP Course Works Samples For Students

Part I

Original DNA Strand:

3’-TACCCTTTAGTAGCCACT-5’

Transcription (base sequence of RNA):

5’-UTGGGUUUTCUTCGGTGU-3’

Translation (amino acid sequence):

3’-TACCCTTTAGTAGCCACT-5’

What is the significance of the first and last codons?

Explanation: The first and last codons are very essential in that they dictate and command the direction of the transcription and synthesis of mRNA from the 5’ end towards the 3’ ends. Additionally, the first and last codons act like terminal points where protein synthesis begins and where it actually ends hence these codons actually determine the size of the animo acids produced which determine the type of and size of protein synthesized (Hartl, 2011).

What meaning do these codons have for protein synthesis?

Explanation: These codons are ...

Company Description

Tottenham Hotspur Plc is engaged in the operation of a professional football club in England together with related commercial activities. The Company has two segments: football and property. In addition, the Company continues to acquire numerous properties with a view to a new stadium development.

The sponsors of the club include Autonomy, Investec, Puma, Thomas Cook Sport, Sporting bet, Carlsberg, TNT, EA Sports and Glyn Hopkin. The Company's Tottenham Tribute Trust is an organisation that reaches out to members of the Spurs family who are fighting hard times either financially, medically or both. The clubs patron includes Chigwell Construction (London) Ltd is a ...

Using a context familiar to you, such as Hong Kong, please describe the concept of empowerment by listing the challenges and feasible solutions to achieve gender educational equality in education enrolment, completion, and educational outcomes (contribution to women's socioeconomic status).

The gender inequality of education in Hong Kong has a huge effect on the socioeconomic status of women after leaving school. A US survey shows that 80% of female workers in Hong Kong believe that they are discriminated against because of their gender and it still generally accepted that sons are prioritised over daughters in terms of finance and inheritance. Whilst ...

The theory asserts that conflict in the families is a very normal occurrence .Conflict theories view family as a class in society, which one of the group is oppressing others (Otomar & Wehr, 2002). Debatably, a family is not just a social entity of children and married couples. It is a social group in which its members are linked to each other through marriage, ancestry, living together and adoption .In addition they care for each other and share economically. Family is just but a section of society. Conflict theories have variety of roots from systematic approach of society by Marxist and intra-psychic approach of individuals ...

Technology has been in use for many years past, but its initial application was in technical and scientific fields. However, the business culture has so far changed everything. With investors seeking for means to increase their sales and marketing objectives, technology has emerged as one of the most effective tools for business growth. E-Business is the integration of internet with management in order to increase productivity, sell brand name, increase sales or perform any other business oriented task. Its adaptability and ease of application has made many business individuals and to embrace the strategy in order to succeed. Nigeria ...

Introduction

Background check, also referred to as background investigation, is the procedure for obtaining criminal records, business records and records pertaining to finance in particular occasions like employment investigation of a person.

These checks are usually required by potential employers on job seekers, in particular candidates applying for positions of high trust expectation, for instance school, sanatorium, a bank or a position in government. The checks are usually carried out by an agency of the government for a supposed charge, but can also be carried out by a personal company. The required information of a background check specifically embraces previous employment substantiation, credit score and unlawful ...

Q1- Management

As an IT security professional, speculate as to what might be the biggest challenge to your management of the technology used to secure your systems.

Information security is the aspect that is concerned with protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access. The main goals of an information security system are to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information. Information security management system is a set of policies which are concerned with information security management or IT related risks. (Bernard et al, 2000) There are several technologies which are used to manage the information security systems. The technologies include ...

Question 1
Performance appraisal is a process by which the job performance of certain employees is evaluated by the corresponding supervisor or managers. The evaluation is mostly based on the basis of quantity, quality, time and cost all in relation to the concerned occupation. This strategy is very vital in its application especially in the health sector. The fact that employees know what is expected of them by the management enhances impeccability in their respective undertakings (Fallon & McConell, 2007, p 33). The ripple effect of this undertaking is that the health sector will experience better results from the workforce. ...

Introduction

Several companies such as apple, Sony, RIM, Barnes and Noble, Motorola and Kindle have released e-reader gadgets, a situation that has led to heightened competition. Competition in the e-reader market has benefited the customer by providing more choices at competitive prices. These companies have developed competitive gadgets which are bundled with attractive user packages. This paper compares the effectiveness of the iPad, the Nook and Kindle as e-readers.

Portability

Customers looking for e-book readers often consider the size, price and the functionality of the device. Size is of particular concern because large and heavy devices are less portable and difficult to ...

ANALYSIS TOOLS

Owners of businesses are always looking for the best ways to make their business decisions. Accounting information is one of the tools that can be of great help to business managers in making decisions concerning the operations of the business (Bragg, 2011). In accounting, analysis refers to the assessment of the profitability, viability and stability of a business. These assessments are carried out by professionals in the accounting arm of the business; they prepare reports using ratios that make use of the information acquired from the financial statements and other reports of the company. These are then presented to the ...

It depends on what the business is trying to accomplish that decides which strategy to use. The businesses have to think about what their customer wants or needs and how their competitors are reacting to the situation. Timing is another important factor. Whatever strategy – all need creativity. An ability to design a practical strategy is crucial to reaching the business goals due to the competition that now exists. Therefore the manager must understand and use well the assets the company has as resources. Strategy means setting up the process that will best reach the goals effectively and efficiently; clearly ...

Nation-State and Transnationalism

The nation-state is a sovereign entity governing a territory. The state is a political entity while the nation itself is a cultural entity. There are several characteristics which define a nation state and these include having a defined territory, some form of government which is organized, self rule in that they are sovereign against foreign interference and there exists a population of people who share a national identity and customs. These customs give a nation state a common identity. Thus, a nation state one that has a self identity and derives its legitimacy as a result of the sovereignty. The nation identifies people with common ancestry and culture such as the people ...

1) In a diverse classroom, classrooms are far more difficult to manage than in a traditional classroom. Cultural differences can lead to rifts between students, not to mention teacher-student conflicts. However, there are many strategies that can come in handy to increase levels of participation and academic achievement in diverse classrooms.

One of these is maintaining and encouraging respect for the diversity of the classroom. (Shobe 2003, p. 1) Students will not put forth their best efforts if they feel they are not heard and respected within the classroom environment. In a respectful classroom, diverse students can avoid feeling threatened by cultural ...

Q 1- Current event

Locate a recent news item (less than one month old) that deals with an issue of Data Security. Summarize the data security incident and then state what principle(s) of data security was violated or ignored. Include a link to the news item. (http://blog.alertsec.com/2011/03/new-data-breach-incident-at-leicester-city-council/)
Data Security: Data security is very important as it ensures that data of a given company or institution is protected against the deliberate or accidental access of data by unauthorized people. Breaching of data security can bring a company or an institution down to its knees. Care should therefore be taken to ensure that data security is taken ...

When picking a college to attend, a prospective student can have an incredibly hard time deciding what they want, and what will be best for them. One of the biggest considerations to make is the size of the campus itself; picking a large or small campus can very much dictate how the next few years of your education are spent. There are a lot of factors to consider as this decision is weighed; many of them depend on your own needs as per your education. In this essay, we will examine the virtues and detriments of small versus large college campuses. It is ...

Question 1

The terminology business cycle is used to denote the fluctuations in the economy in production or any other economic activities over a given period of time. These fluctuations occur around a long-term expansion trend and often involve changes over time between periods of high and vigorous growth and periods of relative stagnation (Tvede, 2006, p 7). The components of a business cycle include boom, recession and recovery. Boom refers to the economic period where businesses are experiencing large sales which results in high profit margins. During this period, the levels of employment are relatively high (Freiber, J. & Freiberg, K., 2007, p 41). Business ...

Question One

Jenkins’ discussion of global convergence and pop cosmopolitanism, focuses on the idea of the world’s youth seeking to be a part of a wider, global community. He first discusses the concept of internet phenomena by introducing the ‘Bert Is Evil’ franchise, created by a Filipino high school student: “[he] created a Photoshop collage of Sesame Street’s Bert interacting with terrorist leader, Osama Bin Laden.” (Jenkins 114) As a result of posting this image and various other similar ones to his homepage, the student found his work being utilised by terrorist, anti-American forces. Undoubtedly, the student did not intend to assist the terrorist ...

Limitations of the Internal Control Systems

According to SA 400/AAS-6 Risk Assessments and Internal Controls, internal control systems can provide only reasonable, but not absolute, assurance that the objectives of internal controls are achieved because of the following inherent limitations (Ainapure& Ainapure, 2009)
Managements may attempt to keep the cost of an internal control below its expected benefits

Most internal controls are directed at usual transactions

There is a possibility of human error due to carelessness, misunderstanding, lack of knowledge etc.

There may be collusion among employees and/ or outsiders.
A person responsible for exercising an internal control may abuse that responsibility.
Procedures may become inadequate due to changes in conditions.
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Availability Bias: Availability bias occurs when whereby beings behave in certain ways in their environment. For example people tend to judge the probability of something occurring based on the first outcomes that comes to the mind that is the more memorable or vivid event. For example in the media there are a lot of cases of kidnapping and plane crashes. People assume that these events are common yet they are rare.

Egocentrism Bias: Occurs when an individual tends to judge that he is better than others. For example, the person sees himself as more charitable to help the poor or ...

Karl Marx discussed society in terms of class with an emphasis on there being a class divide. He was interested in how classes formed within capitalism and he defined class by the means of production, in terms of makes a product and who buys the product: the proletariat or the bourgeoisie. Capitalist society exists to make profit and to do that, capitalists keep the cost of labor down by not paying their workers enough. Marx felt that this manipulation was unfair and was completely opposed to the idea of capitalism because of its effect on its workers.

More modern Marxist theory ...

Accounting Cycles

Adjusting Entries: These are entries made at the end of an accounting year usually at the end of year. These are journal entries to ensure incomes and expenses are allocated in the period that they were earned and incurred respectively. The money may not have been received or paid out in the particular period but the expenses and income are accounted for in the particular year they were earned or incurred. This is known as accrual accounting. It is also the principle of matching principle since revenue and associated costs are accounted for in the same accounting period. There ...

For last 10 years, Arena Simulation Software, is in use by people as a method for analyzing different communication networks. The joint collaboration between Cambridge University, UK and Silicon Valley, USA have resulted in the development of this software program. The initial aim of the project was to develop a different kind of system that can combine job costing and accounting system, together. It was later sold to the BP, BAE systems and John Lewis firms (Kelton, 2006). Arena Simulation Software is specialized program, which is designed to operate through the modeling systems. It is designed by Rockwell automation to operate ...