Modern cryptography: public and private-key cryptosystems, the DES and AES cryptosystems, powers modulo m (Fermat’s and Euler’s theorems, primitive roots and discrete logarithms), the Rivest-Shamir-Adelman (RSA) cryptosystem, secure key exchange (Diffie-Hellman and ElGamal), primality and compositeness testing, factoring algorithms.

Assignment 3: Public Administrative Environments
Due Week 8 and worth 280 points

The City Manager has contacted you regarding the following issues concerning various governmental departments and external stakeholders:

·         In the past year, citizen, department, and outside stakeholder complaints have been filed against the Department of Health administrators. Such complaints cited unprofessional leadership, unethical practices, insufficient customer and patient care, poor fire and emergency response time, and inability to implement change and resolve conflict within and amongst subordinates and staff. The Department of Health is composed of the following agencies:

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·         Social Services,

·         Fire and Emergency Management, and

·         Human Services.

·         The School Board has a collaborative relationship with various government departments. In the last two (2) months, the School Board has charged department directors with failure to work collaboratively with the School Board on its efforts to:

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·         Meet federal mandates regarding reformation of new policy issues that will impact the leadership of the Department of Redevelopment and Housing, the State Department of Education, and the State Department of Housing and Urban Development.

·         Support the academic leadership of secondary school principals by providing specific student data from the Department of Juvenile Relations, in an attempt to improve student retention and performance toward increase graduation rates.

Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Use the basic outline below to draft your paper. Organize your responses to each question (except Question 5) under the following section headings:

·         Public Leadership in a Health Environment (for Question 1)

·         Public Leadership in an Educational Environment (for Question 2)

·         Public  Leadership in Government Operations (for Question 3)

·         Improving Public Leadership Styles (for Question 4)

Write a seven to eight (7-8) page paper in which you:

1.       Determine one (1) specific leadership theory and two to three (2-3) public leader styles that would be most beneficial for the Director of Public Health and related agencies in addressing the issues. Provide a rationale to support your response.

2.       Recommend one (1) specific leadership theory and two (2) public leader styles that would be most beneficial for the School Board in addressing the issues presented. Provide a rationale for your response.

3.       Determine the essential manner in which the leadership from the Department of Public Health, the School Board, and the various other government departments impacts the leadership of the City Manager’s and his or her ability to carry out government operations.

4.       Recommend two (2) strategies that a public leader could use in order to overcome the weaknesses inherent in his / her leadership style(s).

5.       Include at least four (4) peer-reviewed references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook. Note: Appropriate peer-reviewed references include scholarly articles and governmental Websites. Wikipedia, other wikis, and any other websites ending in anything other than “.gov” do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

·         Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

·         Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

 

 

Identifying sentence fragments, determine which of the following word groups are sentence fragments and which are complete sentences. 1. If your parents think today’s fashions are weird. 2. They should see the clothes people wore in the middle ages. 3. Patterns of floral or geometric shapes popular. 4. Liked clothes that were half one color and half another. 5. Might have one green leg and one red leg. 6. People often heavy leather belts decorated with metal and jewels. 7. Edges of clothing into shapes called dagges. 8. Sleeves with streamers that were two or three feet long. 9. Shoes had long toes that were padded to retain their shape. 10. Tights of velvet or silk. 11. When clothes were edged and lined in fur. 12. Layers very common in medieval clothing. 13. Was a way of displaying wealth. 14. The more clothes a person could afford to wear, the wealthier that person was. 15. Might wear a short sleeved tunic over a long sleeved tunic, with a sleeveless man tie over all. 16. The usual head covering for men a hood with an attached shoulder cape and a long extended point, like a tail. 17. Women wore a neckcloth pinned to their braids, hiding their hair. 18. On top of the head, would wear a veil, a linen crown, or a small, round hat. 19. In the later middle ages, women wore jeweled metal nets over their coiled braids. 20. Current fashions a little boring in comparison. 21. Antarctica has the highest average elevation of the seven continents. 22. No native people on Antarctica. 23. Because it is too cold. 24. Although scientists and other works live in Antarctica for about a year at a time. 25. These people there to study many things. 26. Examine the ozone layer, sleep patterns, and fish survival in subzero temperature. 27. Ninety five percent of antarctica covered with ice. 28. Antarctica approximately 70 percent of the world’s fresh water in its ice. 29. Even though Antarctica is covered in ice and snow, it can be considered a desert. 30. A desert an area that gets very little precipitation. 31. Antarctica receives only two inches of rain each year. 32. Also has very high winds. 33. Sometimes winds as high as 200 miles per hour. 34. Many animals in the ocean around Antarctica. 35. Include whales and seals. 36. One type of bird found on Antarctica is the penguin. 37. Antarctica so isolated that its snow and ice are very pure. 38. The continent is far away from pollution. 39. A mountain range across the continent. 40. Antartica’s mount erbus an active volcano.

Recalling the definitions of risk premiums from Chapter 8 and using the Treasury bill return in Table 12.4 as an approximation to the nominal risk-free rate, what is the risk premium from investing in each of the other asset classes listed in Table 12.4?