Debate has emerged and raged on regarding many African countries including Ghana not making rapid economic progress in an emerging knowledge economy. Poverty exists in spite of development being driven by technology, fuelled by information and powered by knowledge, and, many are oblivious to the reality that information and communication technology (ICT) cuts across all aspects of our lives.
We take a queue from the ICT driven economic experiences of the United States during the dot com boom and developments in Finland and other Western economies. We are informed by issues of globalization, the knowledge economy and the transformation of business processes using ICT in India, China, Korea and Malaysia. Close to us in Africa we are encouraged by economic growth using ICT in Rwanda and South Africa.
Pundits have argued that illiteracy is to be blamed, and mathematics and science education needs to be prioritized. Others say it is in our attitude fashioned by our past which does not relate development as an independent variable relative to other variables such as technology. While some view our challenges as lack of leadership to implement sustainable ICT policies and strategies at a macro and micro level, many argue that development of a nation’s economy has much to do with input from ICT personnel. They do not only belong to the domain of personnel with tacit knowledge of engineers who should provide infrastructure but such need to study policies that determine development
a.
i. As a person in charge of IT in a government department in Ghana, what indicators will you use to convince your colleagues that there was a need to take steps to usher this country quickly into a knowledge economy?
ii. What software option will you recommend to your ministry? Open source or Microsoft as proprietary software? Provide reasons for your recommendation.
iii. List FIVE (5) ways of how the TPS can be of use to a government department.
b.
i. What challenges are government organizations likely to face in deploying ICT to change their operations?
ii. Which communication medium would you recommend for a government department, a cable, wireless or something else? Justify your recommendation

Improve the sustainability in Transportation System

Discuss how to improve the sustainability in transportation in Thailand from different aspects, including:
a) Environmental protection
b) Social development
c) Environmental protection
You should suggest how to improve the existing transport planning/facilities in 375 words.

Please use python.
Step a: Create two dataframes df1 and df2 as follows:

Step b: Create a new dataframe df which is the summation of df1 and df2;

Step c: Subtract all columns of df by the half of column 'C' in df1; (Remark: the values in df should be updated)

Step d: Replace the NaN in df by 10; (Remark: the values in df should be updated)

Step e: Use df.apply() to calculate the summation of the numbers in each row of df, and show the result. (Remark: the result should be a vector of four values)

part 1: It is recommended that drinking water contain 1.6 ppm fluoride (F^?) for prevention of tooth decay. Consider a reservoir with a diameter of 4.50???10² m and a depth of 14.3 m. (The volume is ?r²h, where r is the radius and h is the height.) How many grams of F^? should be added to give 1.6 ppm?

part 2: Fluoride is provided by hydrogen hexafluorosilicate, H₂SiF₆. How many grams of H₂SiF₆ contain this much F^??

PH experiment:

What is one real-world or practical application for this experiment or portion of this experiment?

Define the following: abscissa, acid, base, endpoint, equivalence point, neutralization, pH, pKa, mono- protic acid, polyprotic acid, ordinate, strong acid, strong base, and weak acid.

Draw the structure of each of the acids in Table 1.

Produce data tables for each of your runs. Leave room in your notebook for lots of data. Record the actual volume of titrant and solution pH as you conduct the experiment.

Identify all potentially hazardous steps in your procedure. In your own words, explain what safety precautions should be taken and why.

Consider the titration of 0.050 M HCl with 0.050 M NaOH. Calculate the pH: (a) of the pure HCl solution; (b) of 25.00 mL acid plus 12.50 mL base; (c) at the equivalence point; and (d) of 25.00 mL acid and 37.50 mL base.

Consider the titration of 0.050 M NaOH with 0.050 M HCl. Calculate the pH: (a) of the pure NaOH solution; (b) of 25.00 mL base plus 12.50 mL acid; (c) at the equivalence point; and (d) of 25.00 mL base and 37.50 mL acid.

In one experiment, an unknown acid was titrated with NaOH. The pH at the equivalence point was 7.75. Was the unknown acid strong or weak? Explain. Hint: The pH of pure water at room temperature is 7.

A 25.0 mL sample of 0.175 M HClO(aq) is titrated with 0.100 M NaOH(aq). What is the pH of a solution after the addition of 25.0 mL of NaOH? (K_aof HClO = 3.5

A -8.50 nC point charge and a +17.0nC point charge are 14.5 cm apart on the x-axis.

a)What is the electric potential at the point on the x-axis where the electric field is zero?

b)What is the magnitude of the electric field at the point on the x-axis, between the charges, where the electric potential is zero?

Suppose, household color TVs are replaced at an average age of μ = 8.4 years after purchase, and the (95% of data) range was from 5.0 to 11.8 years. Thus, the range was 11.8 – 5.0 = 6.8 years. Let x be the age (in years) at which a color TV is replaced. Assume that x has a distribution that is approximately normal. (a) The empirical rule indicates that for a symmetrical and bell-shaped distribution, approximately 95% of the data lies within two standard deviations of the mean. Therefore, a 95% range of data values extending from μ – 2σ to μ + 2σ is often used for "commonly occurring" data values. Note that the interval from μ – 2σ to μ + 2σ is 4σ in length. This leads to a "rule of thumb" for estimating the standard deviation from a 95% range of data values. Estimating the standard deviation For a symmetric, bell-shaped distribution, standard deviation ≈ range 4 ≈ high value – low value 4 where it is estimated that about 95% of the commonly occurring data values fall into this range. Use this "rule of thumb" to approximate the standard deviation of x values, where x is the age (in years) at which a color TV is replaced. (Round your answer to one decimal place.) yrs (b) What is the probability that someone will keep a color TV more than 5 years before replacement? (Round your answer to four decimal places.) (c) What is the probability that someone will keep a color TV fewer than 10 years before replacement? (Round your answer to four decimal places.) (d) Assume that the average life of a color TV is 8.4 years with a standard deviation of 1.7 years before it breaks. Suppose that a company guarantees color TVs and will replace a TV that breaks while under guarantee with a new one. However, the company does not want to replace more than 6% of the TVs under guarantee. For how long should the guarantee be made (rounded to the nearest tenth of a year)? yrs

prove or disprove these three interval greedy algorithm underneath if it is an optimal greedy strategy.

(a) earliest finish time first

(b) shortest interval first

(c) fewest conflicts first

A clinic developed a diet to impact body mass (fat and muscle). A nutritionist in the clinic hypothesizes that heavier individuals on the diet will predict more body fat. Below are the data for a sample of clients from the clinic. Weight is measured in kilograms (kg) and percentage body fat is estimated through skinfold measurement. What can the nutritionist conclude with α = 0.01?

a.) Compute the statistic selected:

b.) Compute the appropriate test statistic(s) to make a decision about H₀.
(Hint: Make sure to write down the null and alternative hypotheses to help solve the problem.)
Critical value =

Make an interpretation based on the results.

More weight of individuals on the diet significantly predicts more body fat.

The weight of individuals on the diet does not significantly predict body fat.

Windows monitoring tools are essential to the Windows Systems Administrator. Three software tools that are essential are: Task Manager, Event Viewer and Resource Monitor. Create a short PPT presentation of at least six slides (or more) for a 15-minute Windows Administrators Lunch and Learn session on the use of these three tools using the following requirements:

1) A slide with the description of each tool (one slide per tool)

2) Show how to measure CPU, Memory and Network Activity in Task Manager

3) Demonstrate how to find different events of different severities in Event Viewer.

4) Discuss the four elements of Resource Monitor – CPU, Disk, Network and Memory and how it can be used in real time and to review historical logs.

(1) Which pattern, single-slit or double-slit, gives a more accurate determination of wavelength or do they both give equally accurate values? Defend your answer.

(2) From you superimposed single and double slit patterns, what can you conclude about the influences of the slit width, and the slit separation, or the double slit pattern?

QUESTION 6

1. Suppose a monopsonist is currently employing 10 workers and pays each of them $5. The wage paid to the additional worker is $7, and then the marginal expense of the 11^th worker is.

   		$50
   		$70
   		$77
   		$27

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QUESTION 7

1. Consider the simple leisure model in which the individual chooses between leisure (L) and money income (M). The marginal utility of leisure (MU_L) is 15 and the marginal utility of money (MU_M) is 3. At the optimum, the wage rate

   		$45
   		$0.20
   		$5
   		$15

2 points   

QUESTION 8

1. A curve that shows all of the alternative consumption bundles that the worker likes equally well is called

   		A budget constraint.
   		An indifference curve
   		An individual demand curve
   		A consumption bundle curve

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QUESTION 9

1. The budget set is _________ related to the nonlabor income and is __________ related to the wage.

   		positively and positively.
   		positively and negatively
   		negatively and positively.
   		negatively and negatively.

2 points   

QUESTION 10

1. The theory of household production assumes that the family derives utility from

   		income.
   		time spent in home production.
   		market purchased goods.
   		commodities ( meals, clean house, growth of children) produced by the family or purchased with family income.

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QUESTION 11

1. Marginal utility is

   		the change in a consumer's utility resulting from the addition of a very small amount of some good.
   		the total utility a resulting from consuming some good, divided by the amount consumed.
   		the change in a consumer's utility resulting from the addition of a very small amount of some good, divided by the amount added.
   		the change in a consumer's utility resulting from the addition of a very small amount of some good, divided by the total amount being consumed.

The relation between the real and the nominal interest rates is given by

                                                                   r=i-πe

1. Suppose that the nominal interest rate is 0.05. Compute the real interest rate
   1. when the expected inflation rate is 0.07.
   2. when the expected inflation rate is 0.05.
   3. when the expected inflation rate is 0.03.
   4. The nominal interest rate is subject to the zero lower bound constraint. Find the lowest real interest rate
      1. when the expected inflation rate is 0.03.
      2. when the expected inflation rate is 0.01.
      3. when the expected inflation rate is -0.03.
      4. when the expected inflation rate is -0.05.