What happens if an established energy-drink company decides to enter the antienergy space? How does the marketing game change for a company like Slow Cow

In reverse osmosis, water flows out of a salt solution until the osmotic pressure of the solution equals the applied pressure. If a pressure of 48.0 bar is applied to seawater, what will be the final concentration of the seawater at 20

- Please Provide an analysis from the economic point of view on the demand of the Amazon kindle based on this article, Thanks

Amazon New Kindle Fire Versus Apple iPad

Apple’s iPad has so dominated the tablet-computer market that one Silicon Valley venture capitalist recently told me that “there is no tablet market—there is an iPad market, and then some hangers-on.”

But all that just changed with the introduction of the new Amazon Kindle Fire, a seven-inch tablet that costs only $199—less than half the price of the entry-level iPad, which boasts a 9.7-inch screen and costs $499.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos introduced the Kindle Fire at a lavish event in New York City, where he described it as “an unbelievable value.” “We’re building premium products at nonpremium prices,” he said.

The Kindle Fire, which will ship Nov. 15, boasts some clever touches, including a speedy new Web browser that Amazon’s engineers invented.

Amazon in the past has downplayed its rivalry with Apple, saying that Kindle and iPad were meant for different kinds of users.

But now the battle has shifted into open warfare, with Bezos even mocking Apple for forcing users to sync their iPads by connecting the device to a computer with a cable, calling that “a broken model.”

In other words, make no mistake: this is war. And the stakes could not be higher. Amazon and Apple are fighting to see who will control the world of digital media.

Amazon began on the content side, and Apple began on the device side. But now they’ve met in the middle.

Unlike all of the other tablets that have tried (and failed) to compete against the iPad, the Kindle Fire comes with the same secret weapon that has made the iPad such a hit: immediate access to an electronic store selling digitized books, movies, and music.

The Kindle Fire comes loaded with software that lets you buy digital content from Amazon with the click of a button. You can think of it as a digital shopping cart that lets you scan the shelves at Amazon and grab whatever you like.

Another plus: Whatever content you buy is automatically backed up in Amazon’s cloud servers. You can delete it and get it back whenever you want. Unlike the iPad, which has to be synced to a computer via a cable, the Kindle Fire syncs wirelessly.

Since the Kindle Fire runs Google’s Android operating system, it can download apps from Amazon’s Android App store. Amazon also introduced a speedy new Web browser, called Amazon Silk, that splits work into two pieces—a lot gets done on Amazon’s servers, and a little gets done on the device itself, the result being that pages flash up really quickly.

Another clever move is that Amazon has tied Kindle Fire to its Prime service, which for $79 a year lets customers get free shipping on packages and free streaming of movies and TV shows from Amazon. Buy a Kindle Fire and you get a 30-day free trial subscription to Prime.

There are still some shortcomings. The Kindle Fire has no camera or microphone, and can only work on WiFi, as it lacks support for 3G networking. The Kindle Fire comes with only 8 gigabytes of memory, versus 16 for the low-end iPad—but Amazon lets you store any content you purchase on its servers, at no charge.

Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, a Silicon Valley research firm, calls the Kindle Fire “a game changer” and says it will be “an important product for Amazon and for the industry.”

But Bajarin says the smaller screen on the Kindle Fire makes it unable to really compete against the iPad. “This is not an iPad killer,” Bajarin says. “There is no such thing.”

Bajarin says the Kindle Fire will appeal to people whose main use for a tablet involves reading books and who consider computer-like functions (email, Web browsing) and movie watching to be secondary needs.

Amazon’s previous Kindles have been smaller, simpler devices, with black-and-white screens meant only for reading. They use E Ink, a technology that is great for reading text, even in direct sunlight, and also uses very little battery power.

Until today Kindle prices started at $114, but now Amazon has slashed the price of a basic Kindle to $79. Amazon also introduced today the Kindle Touch, a black-and-white Kindle with a touchscreen that sells for $99, and the Kindle Touch 3G, which has free 3G wireless service and costs $149.

Amazon won’t say how many Kindles it has sold, but in the past the company has claimed Kindle was the top-selling electronic device in its store.

The first Kindle came out in 2007. It was the coolest gadget around—until the iPad arrived in 2010 and became a smash hit. The iPad 2 shipped in March of this year, adding a camera and a faster processor. Apple has sold nearly 30 million iPads so far, and since it came out Amazon has tried to market the Kindle by touting the virtues of its black-and-white screen, which is easier on the eyes than the bright, back-lit LCD screen on the iPad.

The argument was that iPad was great for browsing the Web or watching a movie, but nobody would read a novel on it because their eyes would get sore. Somehow, a lot of people seem not to care, and are happy to read books on an iPad.

Pundits have long expected that Amazon would roll out a full-color tablet. The newly announced seven-inch model may just be a start. Some analysts expect Amazon to introduce a bigger tablet, one more comparable to the iPad, sometime in the next year.

Can the Kindle Fire—this one, or a larger version in the future—really become a credible rival to Apple’s iPad? Can it escape the fate that has doomed other iPad-wannabes, from Samsung, Motorola, and Research in Motion to HP?

Investors seem to think so. Amazon shares were up $5, to $229, Wednesday morning on the news of the launch. Whether customers will react with as much enthusiasm remains to be seen.

As for me, I’m going to place my pre-order as soon as I click “send” on this story.

You are a primary researcher. Select a topic of interest. Form a research question that you will ask 25 people. The question should generate a range of quantitative data. Some examples are: “ On average, how many minutes a day do you spend texting?” or “ How many inches tall are you?” Note: Research question should start with “How often...” or, “On average, how many...” Do not ask a question like, “Do you like chocolate?” because responses are “yes” or “no . ” You need numbers. Note: Be specific. Do not ask “How many bottles of water do you drink?” Instead ask, “On average, how many 8 -oz. glasses of water do you drink in a day?” You need to collect numerical data. Your question should be clear, concise and unbiased. Part of your Discussion Board posting this week will be your research question. Your research question must be approved by instructor. Required: 1. List your raw data results in a column in Excel. 2. Construct a relative frequency distribution of your data. Remember each class should have the same width, for example class es of 0 to 5, 6 to 10, 11 to 15 etc. 3. Using Excel, calculate the mean and standard deviation of your distribution and interpret their meanings. 4. Calculate a 95 percent confidence interval for the mean of your distribution using the t-distribution and your sample standard deviation. 5. Comment on your results – what have you observed? This is important so think and write carefully Format: Use Excel Worksheets and text dialog boxes where appropriate with size 12 font.

Suppose the productivity of capital and labour are as shown in the accompanying table. The output of these factors sells in a perfectly competitive market for $1 per unit. Both capital and labor are hired under perfectly competitive conditions at $15 and $10, respectively.

a. What is the least‐cost combination of labour and capital the firm should employ in producing 96 units of output? Explain.

b. What is the profit‐maximizing combination of labor and capital the firm should use? Explain. What is the resulting level of output? What is the economic profit?

1. Is acetyl salicylic acid able to go from aqueous to organic solution under acidic conditions? What about basic conditions?

Expain

2. is apririn more likely to pass through the hydrophilic cell membrane in the stomach or in the small intestine?

Provide a reason

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How many of the following chemical formulas for the following species have an incorrect name listed? chemical formula name [Pt(H2O)4][PtCl6] tetraaquaplatinum(Ⅱ) hexachloroplatinate(Ⅳ) [Cu(NH3)4]Cl2 tetraamminecopper(Ⅱ) chloride [Co(H2O)4(NH3)(OH)]Cl2 amminetetraaquahydroxocobalt(Ⅲ) chloride Na3[RhCl6] sodiumrhodium(Ⅲ) hexachloride

Design a simple C program using ordinary pipes in which a parent and child processes
exchange greeting messages. For example, the parent process may send the message
“Hello child have you complete the task”, and the child process may return “Yes
Parent I have completed the task”. Use Unix/Linux pipes to write this program.

Caesar’s cipher is a very well known and simple encryption scheme. The point of an encryption scheme is to transform a message so that only those authorized will be able to read it. Caesar’s cipher conceals a message by replacing each letter in the original message (the plaintext), by a letter corresponding to a certain number of letters to the right on the alphabet. Of course, the message can be retrieved by replacing each letter in the encoded message (the ciphertext) with the letter corresponding to the same number of position to the left on the alphabet. To achieve this, the cipher has a key that needs to be kept private. Only those with the key can encode and decode a message. Such a key determines the shift that needs to be performed on each letter. For example, here is how a string containing the entire alphabet will be encrypted using a key equal to 3: Original: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Encrypted: defghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabc Vigen`ere’s cipher is a slightly more complex encryption scheme, also used to transform a message. Thekey of this cipher consists of a word and the cipher works by applying multiple Caesar ciphers based on the letters of the keyword. Each letter can be associated with a number corresponding to its position in the English alphabet (counting from 0). For instance, the letter ‘a’ is associated to 0, ‘c’ to 2, and ‘z’ to 25. Therefore, the keyword of the cipher will provide as many integers as letters in the word and these integers will be used to implement different Caesar ciphers. Let’s see how: suppose the message to encrypt is “elephants” and the keyword is “rats”. The first thing to do is to repeat the keyword until its length matches the one of the message. Message: e l e p h a n t s Keyword: r a t s r a t s r Now, each letter of “ratsratsr” is associated to both a letter in the message and an integer. We can encrypt each letter of the message using a Caesar cipher where the key corresponds to the integer associated to it through the keyword. In this case ‘r’ corresponds to 17, so the first letter of the message which is an ‘e’ will be encrypted using a ‘v’, the second letter ‘l’ as an ‘l’ since ‘a’ is associated to 0, and so on. The entire message will be encrypted as “vlxhyaglj”. The goal of this exercise is to write several methods in order to create a program that encodes and decodes messages using Caesar’s and Vigen`ere’s ciphers. For the purpose of this exercise we will only consider messages written using lower case letters and blank spaces. All the code for this question must be placed in a file named Cipher.java. 2a. Encoding a character Let’s start by writing a simple method called charRightShift which takes a character and an integer n as inputs, and returns a character. The method should verify that the integer is a number between 0 and 25 (both included). If that’s not the case, the method should print out an error message and return the character with ASCII value 0. Note that ASCII value 0 is not ’0’, but is the char that maps to the value 0! Otherwise, if the character received as input is a lower case letter of the English alphabet, the method will return the letter of the alphabet which is n positions to the right on the alphabet. If the character received as input is not a lower case letter of the English alphabet, then the method returns the character itself with no modification. For example: • charRightShift(‘g’, 2 ) returns ‘i’, • charRightShift(‘#’, 2 ) returns ‘#’, and • charRightShift(‘h’, 32 ) returns the character with ASCII 0 and prints an error message. 2b. Decoding a character Write a method charLeftShift which practically reverses what the previous method does. This method also takes a character and an integer n as inputs, and returns a character. The method should verify that the integer is a number between 0 and 25 (both included). If that’s not the case it should print out an error message and return the character with ASCII value 0. Note that ASCII value 0 is not ’0’, but is the char that maps to the value 0! Otherwise, if the character received as input is a lower case letter of the English alphabet, the method will return the letter of the alphabet which is n positions to the left on the alphabet. If the character received as input is not a lower case letter of the English alphabet, then the method returns the character itself with no modification. For example: • charLeftShift(‘i’, 2 ) returns ‘g’, • charLeftShift(‘#’, 2 ) returns ‘#’, and Page 6 • charLeftShift(‘h’, 32 ) returns the character with ASCII 0 and prints an error message. Note: The two methods above are very similar. This suggests that you write one common method charShift which contains the shifting logic and can shift both left and right. Then charRightShift can simply call charShift with a positive n, and charLeftShift can call charShift with a negative version of n. 2c. Caesar’s cipher - Encoding Write a method caesarEncode that takes a String message and an int key as inputs and returns the string obtained by encrypting message using the Caesar’s cipher with key equal to key. To create the encrypted string you need to replace each letter in message, by the letter corresponding to key letters to the right on the alphabet. You should call and use charRightShift appropriately in order to get full points. The input key must be an integer from 0 to 25 (included). Your method should print out an error message and return the empty string if that’s not the case. For the purpose of this exercise you can assume that the strings to encrypt will only contain letters from the English alphabet in lower case and blank spaces. Blank spaces don’t get modified by the encryption. For example, caesarEncode(‘‘cats and dogs’’, 5) should return ‘‘hfyx fsi itlx’’. 2d. Caesar’s cipher - Decoding Write a method caesarDecode that takes a String message and an int key as inputs and retunrs the string obtained by decrypting message using the Caesar’s cipher with key equal to key. To decrypt the string you need to replace each letter in message, by the letter corresponding to key letters to the left on the alphabet. To get full points, you should call and use the method charLeftShift appropriately. As for caesarEncode, the key must be a number between 0 and 25. Your method should print an error message and return an empty string if that’s not the case. More over, you can expect strings to contain only lower case letters from the English alphabet and blank spaces which will not be modified by the decryption (as they were not modified by the encryption). For example, caesarDecode(‘‘hfyx fsi itlx’’, 5) should return ‘‘cats and dogs’’. 2e. From String to keys Write a method called obtainKeys which takes a String as input and returns an array of integers. The size of the array will be equal to the length of the String. The elements of the array correspond to the position (counting from 0) of each character in the String as a letter of the English alphabet. For instance obtainKeys(‘‘hello’’) returns [7, 4, 11, 11, 14]. For the purpose of this exercise you can assume that the input String to this method will only contain lower case letters of the English alphabet. 2f. Vigen`ere’s cipher - Encoding Write a method vigenereEncode that takes a String message and a String keyword as inputs and returns the string obtained by encrypting message using the Vigen`ere’s cipher with key equal to keyword. Remember that this cipher first associates each letter of the keyword to a letter of the message. Then it shifts (to the right) each letter of the message by the number of positions determined by the corresponding letter in the keyword. Use the methods obtainKeys and charRightShift appropriately in order to implement the encryption.The input keyword must contain only characters from the lower case English alphabet. Your method should print out an error message and return the empty string if that’s not the case. For the purpose of this exercise you can assume that the strings to encrypt will only contain letters from the English alphabet in lower case and blank spaces. Blank spaces don’t get modified by the encryption. For example, vigenereEncode(‘‘elephants and hippos’’, ‘‘rats’’) should return ‘‘vlxhyaglj tfu aagphk’’. 2g. Vigen`ere’s cipher - Decoding Finally, write a method vigenereDecode that takes a String message and a String keyword as inputs and returns the string obtained by decrypting the message using the Vigen`ere’s cipher with key equal to keyword. Remember that this cipher first associates each letter of the keyword to a letter of the message. Then it shifts (to the left) each letter of the message by the number of positions determined by the corresponding letter in the keyword. Use the methods obtainKeys and charLeftShift appropriately in order to implement the decryption. Again, the input keyword must contain only characters from the lower case English alphabet. Your method should print out an error message and return the empty string if that’s not the case. For the purpose of this exercise you can assume that the strings to decrypt will only contain letters from the English alphabet in lower case and blank spaces. For example, vigenereDecode(‘‘vlxhyaglj tfu aagphk’’, ‘‘rats’’) should return ‘‘elephants and hippos’’.

What is the concentration of free Ni 2+ in a solution (pH 12.00) prepared by mixing 50.0 mL of 0.250 M Ga(NO3)3, 40.0 mL of 0.250 M Ni(NO3)2 and 30.0 mL of 1.00 M EDTA?

Forecasted Statements and Ratios

Upton Computers makes bulk purchases of small computers, stocks them in conveniently located warehouses, ships them to its chain of retail stores, and has a staff to advise customers and help them set up their new computers. Upton's balance sheet as of December 31, 2018, is shown here (millions of dollars):

Sales for 2018 were $450 million and net income for the year was $13.5 million, so the firm's profit margin was 3.0%. Upton paid dividends of $5.4 million to common stockholders, so its payout ratio was 40%. Its tax rate was 40%, and it operated at full capacity. Assume that all assets/sales ratios, (spontaneous liabilities)/sales ratios, the profit margin, and the payout ratio remain constant in 2019. Do not round intermediate calculations.

1. If sales are projected to increase by $100 million, or 22.222222%, during 2019, use the AFN equation to determine Upton's projected external capital requirements. Enter your answers in millions. For example, an answer of $10,550,000 should be entered as 10.55. Round your answer to two decimal places.
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2. Using the AFN equation, determine Upton's self-supporting growth rate. That is, what is the maximum growth rate the firm can achieve without having to employ nonspontaneous external funds? Round your answer to two decimal places.
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3. Use the forecasted financial statement method to forecast Upton's balance sheet for December 31, 2019. Assume that all additional external capital is raised as a line of credit at the end of the year and is reflected (because the debt is added at the end of the year, there will be no additional interest expense due to the new debt).
   Assume Upton's profit margin and dividend payout ratio will be the same in 2019 as they were in 2018. What is the amount of the line of credit reported on the 2019 forecasted balance sheets? (Hint: You don't need to forecast the income statements because the line of credit is taken out on last day of the year and you are given the projected sales, profit margin, and dividend payout ratio; these figures allow you to calculate the 2019 addition to retained earnings for the balance sheet without actually constructing a full income statement.) Round your answers to two decimal places.

   Upton Computers Pro Forma Balance Sheet December 31, 2019 (Millions of Dollars)
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   Receivables	$
   Inventories	$
   Total current assets	$
   Net fixed assets	$
   Total assets	$
   Accounts payable	$
   Notes payable	$
   Line of credit	$
   Accruals	$
   Total current liabilities	$
   Mortgage loan	$
   Common stock	$
   Retained earnings	$
   Total liabilities and equity	$

A straight, nonconducting plastic wire 7.00 cmlong carries a charge density of 100 nC/mdistributed uniformly along its length. It is lying on a horizontal tabletop.

Find the magnitude and direction of the electric field this wire produces at a point 4.00 cm directly above its midpoint.

If the wire is now bent into a circle lying flat on the table, find the magnitude and direction of the electric field it produces at a point 4.00 cm directly above its center.

A block of alloy with a mass of 19.56g and a temperature of 21.25 Celsius is placed in a calorimeter containing 50.00g of methanol at 95.56 Celcius. If the final temperature of the alloy and methanol is 63.35 Celcius, calculate the specific heat capacity of the metal. The specific heat capacity of methanol is 2.48 JK-1g-1. Ignore the heat capacity of the container.

I got 4.86 as the answer, but the textbook says is 4.36....

The following information is used to answer problems 1 through 5:

The following transactions occurred in April:

1) Materials purchased: $225,000

2) Materials requisitioned: $210,000.

• $25,000 of the materials could not be traced to any specific job.
• $35,000 were direct to Job 101.
• $80,000 were direct to Job 102
• $70,000 were direct to Job 103

3) Factory payroll for April: $100,000.

• $10,000 of the labor could not be traced to any specific job
• $20,000 was direct to Job 101.
• $40,000 was direct to Job 102
• $30,000 was direct to Job 103

4) All other factory costs incurred in April: $60,000

5) The basis for allocating overhead to production is machine hours. At the beginning of the year, it was estimated that the company would incur the following amounts for the year:

• Estimated total overhead costs: $900,000
• Estimated total machine hours: 125,000 hours

6) During April, 13,500 machine hours were traced to the following jobs:

• Job 101: 4,000 machine hours
• Job 102: 6,500 machine hours
• Job 103: 3,000 machine hours

What was the predetermined overhead application rate?

$__.__ per machine hour. Use two decimals when recording your answer.

What is the amount of over or underapplied overhead for April?
(If the amount is underapplied (dr), show it as a positive number. If the amount is overapplied, show it as a negative number (cr). Round your answer to a whole number (no decimals).)

What is the direct materials cost of Job 101?

What is the direct labor cost for Job 101?

What is the amount of factory overhead applied to Job 101?

When does cheap talk have an effect? When is it ineffective? Which of the following examples of cheap talk will most likely have an effect? Explain your answers.

a. Boeing and Airbus, the two dominant producers of large passenger planes, realize that both their profits would increase if they both submitted high-price offers to airline companies looking to purchase planes. Boeing’s managers announce that going forward they will submit only high-price offers that allow Boeing to make a large profit.

b. You are the manager of an oil exploration company. You have won an auction for a potential oil field that is immediately adjacent to a field owned by a competitor. You are considering whether to test drill on your field when your competitors managers announce plans to test drill on their field very near your property.

c. You are an executive for a local home builder. You and another competitor own land on which you could build either a few high-end homes or many affordable homes. You believe that if you both build high-end homes or both build affordable homes, the profits of both firms will be lower because the two of you will glut the market. Your rival’s managers announce that they will build affordable homes on their property.