1. McNemar Test- Determine whether participants with low self este.docx

1. McNemar Test- Determine whether participants with low self
esteem before a series of counseling sessions decreased after
counseling.
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and 11 men, the success of a treatment is recorded (1 =
successful, 0 =no success). Is there a difference between the
success rate in men and women?
3. Chi-Square one-sample test- this test could be used to
determine if a bag of marbles contains equal portions of colors.
Ex: blue, red, yellow, green (equal number of each)
4. Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test-
5. The sign test or median test- 15 patients with memory loss
are tested on the percentage of memory loss. Is therapy an
effective method compared with the expected median memory
loss over the same period of time of 20%?
6. Mann-Whitney Test-Is an off brand laundry detergent as
effective as a name brnad detergent?
NATS1795 Term Project: News Brief Form
ARTICLE INFORMATION (include title, publication date and
URL)
A New Fleet Of Robot Asteroid Prospectors Will Launch By
2015, 1/22/2013, http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-
01/new-fleet-cubesat-asteroid-prospectors-will-fly-near-earth-
space-rocks-2015
NEWS BRIEF RECIPIENT (include name, title and
organization)

Charles F. Bolden Jr., Administrator, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA)
NEWS SUMMARY (250 words minimum)
It was recently reported that a new company called Deep Space
Industries (DSI) is planning a series of missions to mine
asteroids as early as 2015. DSI is the 2nd company to unveil
such plans, the first being competitor Planetary Resources
(PRI), which formed in the spring of 2012 and receives funding
from such high-profile personalities as filmmaker James
Cameron, the founders and CEO of Google, and the son of
former presidential candidate Ross Perot.
DSI’s ultimate goal is to mine asteroids for materials which can
fuel their “MicroGravity Foundry”, which is essentially a 3D
printer in space. 3D printers are capable of producing three
dimensional metal objects by laying down successive layers of
material and are already in use in a number of industries.1 DSI
claims that by placing this technology in the proximity of
asteroids, it could serve as a factory for manufacturing parts for
communication satellites, space stations and future space
missions. The company also states that asteroid mining could
provide a source of fuel for satellites.
DSI intends to achieve its objective by beginning with a series
of surveillance missions planned for 2015-2020. These will
begin with two sets of small satellites, which will study the
chemical compositions of Near-Earth Asteroids (ie, asteroids
with orbits that pass within ~195 million km of the Sun and may
therefore be capable of intersecting Earth’s path2 ). The next set
of missions includes a fleet of 70-pound unmanned space crafts
(called “Dragonflies”), which will fly to selected asteroids and
extract 60 to 150 pounds of space rock, then return the samples
to Earth for detailed analysis. (NASA’s former space shuttle
had a carrying capacity of 32,000 lbs, so the retrieval of 150
pounds of cargo is small by comparison)3.
RECOMMENDATIONS: (250 words minimum)

I am bringing this news to your attention because I feel that the
public should be deeply concerned about asteroid missions
being in the hands of private organizations. The extinction of
the dinosaurs shows us that asteroids have the potential to cause
massive damage to our planet and to threaten the survival of the
human race. Attempts to land on and mine asteroids should
therefore be treated with the utmost caution. Of particular
concern is the possibility that a mining expedition could lead to
the altering of an asteroid’s orbit, sending it on a possible
collision course with other spacecraft or Earth itself. Even a
collision with another asteroid is potentially hazardous as the
debris could be sent on a deadly path toward Earth.
With such grave consequences at stake, the most prudent course
of action is to entrust the supervision of asteroid missions to
publicly-funded, government-regulated organizations such as
NASA or the European Space Agency (ESA). Not only do these
agencies have the proven expertise to handle such pioneering
efforts, but they are also subject to rigorous safety
requirements. Certainly, private companies could be allowed to
provide funding and resources, to propose future endeavours
and to receive a share of the proceeds, but the direction of the
missions should be left in the hands of agencies which are more
accountable to the general public. Given that commercial
activity in space is clearly becoming a reality, organizations
such as NASA need to appeal to their countries’ governments to
be granted a supervisory role in all futures missions to mine
asteroids.
WORKS CITED (Optional)
1 Wikipedia contributors. "3D printing." Wikipedia, The Free
Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 5 Sep. 2013.
Web. 6 Sep. 2013.
2 Wikipedia contributors. "Near Earth object." Wikipedia, The
Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 17 Aug.
2014. Web. 8 Sep. 2014.

3 Wikipedia contributors. "Space Shuttle." Wikipedia, The Free
Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 6 Sep. 2013.
Web. 6 Sep. 2013.
SC/�ATS1945A 6.0 FW2014-15 Physics & Technology for
World Leaders
�EWS BRIEFS: I�STRUCTIO�S
Please read all of the information below carefully before
beginning your assignment.
PURPOSE OF THIS ASSIG�ME�T: To improve your scientific
literacy and critical thinking in
topics pertaining to Physics and Technology.
I�TRODUCTIO�: Every 2-3 weeks, you are required to read a
recent article on physics or
technology from one of the newspapers or magazines listed in
the instructions below. You will then
act as a concerned citizen and write a report on the article for
the purpose of briefing a public figure
on the contents of the article and raising issues that the public
figure should be concerned with. The
due dates for each news brief are posted here.

I�STRUCTIO�S: For each news brief, follow the steps below.
1. Choose your article: Your article must pertain to a topic that
is covered in our textbook and
must be chosen from one of the following sources:
• Discover Magazine: discovermagazine.com/
• Scientific American:
www.scientificamerican.com/section.cfm?id=news
• The Economist (Science and Technology):
www.economist.com/science-technology
• New York Times (Science):
www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html
• BBC (Science and Environment):
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_and_environment
• Nature (News): http://www.nature.com/news/index.html (Be
sure to choose from the ‘�ews’
column and not from the ‘Opinion’ column.)
You can use the same source for all articles, or you can use a
different source for each article.
News briefs due in the Fall term must be based on articles that
have been published on or after
August 1, 2014. News briefs due in the Winter term must be
based on articles that have been
published on or after December 1, 2014.

TIP: Writing about a topic is much easier when you are
discussing something that you are
passionate about. When choosing your articles, try to choose
something that you feel a strong
reaction to (either positive or negative) when you read it.
2. Submit the Article Information Form: For each news brief,
click on the Article Information
Form link in the News Brief section of our Moodle site and
complete the form. This form
requires you to enter your article’s title, publication date,
publication source (Nature, Scientific
American, etc), URL and topic. The allowable topics are the 13
chapters in our course textbook.
3. Write your news brief: For each of your news briefs,
download the News Brief Submission
Form. (A link to this form can also be found in the News Brief
section of our Moodle site). Save
the form as a new file and be sure to give the file a unique name
so that you don’t overwrite any
of your other versions of this form. Next, complete the form by
filling in the following sections:
ARTICLE I�FORMATIO�: Enter the title of your article, the
publication date and the

URL.
�EWS BRIEF RECIPIE�T: Choose the public figure for whom
your news brief is
intended. The recipient should have some influence over the
issues in the article. For
NATS1945 FW201415 • News Brief Instructions • Page 1 of 4
example, you could choose a politician in a city, province, state,
or country which is effected
by the issues. Or, you could choose an activist, an industry
leader or CEO of an organization
that may be effected by, or the cause of, the issues in the
article. You are welcome to be
creative in your selection – for example, you could choose an
actor, a musician or an athlete
who is known for speaking out on the issues in the article.
�EWS SUMMARY (250 words minimum): Summarize the
events in your article. Your
summary must be comprehensible to someone with no scientific
background, regardless of
the true background of your chosen recipient. Acronyms must
be defined and technical lingo
must be explained in layperson’s terms, which means that you

may need to look up
unfamiliar words using an encyclopaedic source such as
Wikipedia (see the “Note” below for
referencing external information).
RECOMME�DATIO�S (250 words minimum): Explain why
you think the recipient
should be concerned with the contents of the article, and
describe the specific actions that you
think the recipient should take. Actions could include sanctions,
a change in company policy,
the passing of a bill, a public protest, a letter-writing campaign,
a performance to increase
public awareness, etc. You can be creative here, but be sure to
provide a justification for your
recommendations. Your arguments do not need to be infallible,
but they do need to be
reasonable and thoughtful. In addition, be sure to address the
specific issues or events in your
article, as opposed to the broad topic in general.
TIP: A completed News Brief Submission Form from a previous
term is provided in the News
Brief section of our Moodle site as an example
�OTE: Be sure to save your work periodically while completing

the News Brief Submission
Form.
�OTE: If you include any facts or figures that are not given in
your article, you will need to
provide your source. Information obtained from sources outside
the article must be followed by
an in-text citation, and the full bibliographic reference for the
citation must be listed in MLA
format under a WORKS CITED section at the end of your
report. Examples of this are provided
in the sample at the end of this document. The MLA format for
web pages can be found here.
Citations to Wikipedia pages can be generated by clicking on
the “Cite this page” link on the
relevant page, then scrolling down to the citation listed under
“MLA style”.
4. Submit your report: When you’ve completed the form and
edited your writing, go to the News
Brief section of our Moodle site and click on the appropriate
‘�ews Brief Upload’ link, then
click on the ‘Submit Paper’ link to upload your completed form.
�OTE: Late reports will incur a 10% penalty per day. Technical
difficulties are not an

acceptable excuse for missing deadlines. Be sure to attempt
your submission at least 48 hours
before the deadline so you have time to resolve any technical
problems that may arise. If you are
not able to upload your form, email your completed form to the
professor before the deadline.
Please do not email your file unless you are sure that your
submission has failed.
5. Check your similarity score: A few hours after uploading
your News Brief Submission Form,
your report will be assigned a “Similarity” score. This is the
percentage of your content that
matches existing sources, such as web sites or other students’
papers. A similarity score of 0%-
10% is normal for the News Brief Submission Form. If your
Similarity score is greater than 10%,
you should click on the link to your report in the ‘Similarity’
column. This will display your
report in the TurnItIn Document Viewer. Text that has been
matched with existing sources will
be highlighted. If the highlighted sections are primarily lists of
names or places, then no revisions

are necessary. However, if the highlighted sections contain
complete sentences from an existing
source, you should rewrite the sentence in your own words to
avoid losing marks. Revised files
can be resubmitted up to the deadline.
�OTE: If you submit your News Brief Submission Form within
48 hours of the due date, the
similarity report might not be completed by the deadline. This
does not mean that your report is
late, but it does mean that you will not be able to revise your
report if the similarity score is high.
So, try not to wait until the due date to submit your report.
IMPORTA�T REQUIREME�TS
� Your reports must be submitted using the News Brief
Submission Form. If you submit a
different document, a 1-mark penalty will be applied and your
report will not be marked until
it is submitted correctly.
� The Article Information Form must be submitted before the
due date of the corresponding
News Brief. If the Article Information Form is missing, a
1-mark penalty will be applied and
your report will not be marked until it is submitted correctly.

� Your reports must be written using full sentences (ie,
point-form answers are not acceptable)
and each section must have the minimum word count specified
in the instructions above.
There is no penalty for exceeding the minimum word count as
long as your content is
relevant.
� Your article topic must pertain to one of the topics in our
course textbook and the articles
must come from one of the allowable sources listed above.
Furthermore, your article must be
a genuine news article as opposed to a blog or opinion piece. If
these requirements are not
met, a 1-mark penalty will be applied. If you are not sure
whether your chosen article is
suitable, email the article link to the professor for confirmation.
� Your articles must be have been published on or after the
dates specified in the instructions.
If this requirement is not met, a 1-mark penalty will be applied.
� Your writing is expected to be free of spelling and
grammatical errors. Be sure to edit your
work carefully using a spelling and grammar checker. If this
requirement is not met, a
1-mark penalty will be applied. If you do not have experience
with editing your work, you
should consult your faculty’s Writing Centre. (E.g., information

about the Writing Centre in
the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies can be
found at
www.yorku.ca/laps/writ/centre/ ). If English is your second
language, you can get writing
assistance from the ESL Open Learning Centre
(www.yorku.ca/eslolc/keele/default.asp ).
These support services are free for York students.
� Your chosen articles cannot be about the exact same research
or event, but they can be about
the same topic. If you submit more than one report on the exact
same research or event, only
one of your reports will be marked.
� Your writing must be comprehensible to readers with no
science background. This means
that all scientific terms or concepts used in the article must be
defined or explained.
� VERY VERY IMPORTANT: Your reports must be in YOUR
OWN WORDS. Any quoting
from the article or other sources will not count toward your
total word count.
PLAGIARSM: All reports will be checked for plagiarism of
external sources as well as of other

students’ reports from the entire term. Severe penalties will be
applied to writing that has been copied
and pasted from another source. Student should be aware that
plagiarism is a major academic offence
and carries serious penalties, ranging from a failing grade on
the work in question to a failing grade
in the course. Students who have not conducted University-level
research projects are encouraged to
refer to York ’s Academic Integrity Tutorial. This is a very
useful tutorial for learning the important
distinction between presenting someone else’s work and
plagiarizing their work.
EVALUTIO� & FEEDBACK: Each news brief is given a grade
out of 8 marks, as follows: each of
the 2 sections are given a mark out of 4, where 4 = excellent, 3
= very good but room for
improvement, 2 = satisfactory, 1 = insufficient effort, and 0 =
no submission. To receive a perfect
score, the report must meet all of the Important Requirements
listed above, and the information in the
report must be correct, clear, sufficient in length and depth,
comprehensible to someone with no
science background and in the student’s own words. In addition,
concerns and recommendations

must be thoughtful, relevant and must pertain to the specific
issues in the article.
The reports are marked by 5 teaching assistants (TAs). The 8
reports from each student are
distributed among the TAs so that each student is evaluated by
each TA at least once. Students can
expect to see their marks and feedback approximately 3 weeks
after each due date.
The mark breakdown and feedback can be viewed as follows:
1. From the ‘�ews Brief Upload’ link, click on the link to your
submitted file in the ‘Grade’
column. This will open your report in the TurnItIn Document
Viewer. You should now see
various comment boxes throughout your paper. If you place the
mouse over a comment box,
you'll see what it says.
2. At the bottom-right corner of the Viewer, you'll see 4 icon
buttons. Click on the right-most
button. This will open up the rubric, where you can see your
marks for each component of the
report.
PLEASE �OTE: While we appreciate that students are anxious
to see their marks and feedback,

please be aware that high-quality and thorough marking of
written assignments is a time-consuming
process and requires patience. Students are therefore asked to
refrain from requesting their marks. A
course announcement will be posted when the marking has been
completed for each set of reports.
E�JOY, A�D HAPPY READI�G!
NATS1945 News Brief Submission Form
STUDENT INFORMATION
First Name Last Name
Student ID
ARTICLE INFORMATION
Article Title
Article Date
(mm/dd/yyyy)
Article Source Discover Magazine
Scientific American
The Economist (Science and Technology)
New York Times (Science)

BBC (Science and Environment)
Nature (News)
Other
Article URL
(include http://)
Article Subject Chapter 1: Energy and Power
Chapter 2: Atoms and Heat
Chapter 3: Gravity, Force and Space
Chapter 4: Nuclei and Radioactivity
Chapter 5: Reactions, Reactors and Bombs
Chapter 6: Electricity and Magnetism
Chapter 7: Waves
Chapter 8: Light
Chapter 9: Invisible Light
Chapter 10: Climate Change
Chapter 11: Quantum Physics
Chapter 12: Relativity
Chapter 13: The Universe
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NATS1945 Term Project: News Brief Form
ARTICLE INFORMATION (include title, publication date and
URL)
NEWS BRIEF RECIPIENT (include name, title and
organization)
NEWS SUMMARY (250 words minimum)
RECOMMENDATIONS: (250 words minimum)
WORKS CITED (Optional)

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