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A variation of the round-robin scheduler is the regressive round-robin scheduler. This scheduler assigns each process...

A variation of the round-robin scheduler is the regressive round-robin scheduler. This scheduler assigns each process a time quantum and a priority. The initial value of a time quantum is 50 milliseconds. However, every time a process has been allocated the CPU and uses its entire time quantum (does not block for I/O), 10 milliseconds is added to its time quantum, and its priority level is boosted. (The time quantum for a process can be increased to a maximum of 100 milliseconds.) When a process blocks before using its entire time quantum, its time quantum is reduced by 5 milliseconds, but its priority remains the same. What type of process (CPU-bound or I/O-bound) does the regressive round-robin scheduler favor? Explain.

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Attendance at Orlando's newest Disneylike attraction, Lego World, has been as follows Quarter Guests (in thousands)...

Attendance at Orlandos newest Disneylike attraction, Lego World, has been as follows Guests (in thousands) 63 89 155 Guests (in thousands) 125 51 94 161 210 97 Quarter Quarter Winter Year 1 Spring Year 1 Summer Year 1 Fall Year 1 Winter Year 2 Spring Year 2 Summer Year 2 Fall Year 2 Winter Year 3 Spring Year 3 Summer Year 3 Fall Year 3 65 84. Based on the given attendance, the seasonal indices for each of the seasons are (round your responses to three decimal places) Season Index Winter Spring Summer Fall

Attendance at Orlando's newest Disneylike attraction, Lego World, has been as follows
Quarter Guests (in thousands) Quarter Guests (in thousands)
Winter Year 1 63 Summer Year 2 125
Spring Year 1 89 Fall Year 2 51
Summer Year 1 155 Winter Year 3 94
Fall Year 1 77 Spring Year 3 161
Winter Year 2 65 Summer Year 3 210
Spring Year 2 84 Fall Year 3 97
 
Based on the given attendance, the seasonal indices for each of the seasons are (round your responses to three decimal places)
Season Index
Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall

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Nationwide Auto Parts uses a periodic review inventory control system for one of its stock items....

Nationwide Auto Parts uses a periodic review inventory control system for one of its stock items. The review interval is 12 ​weeks, and the lead time for receiving the materials ordered from its wholesaler is 4 weeks. Weekly demand is normally​ distributed, with a mean of 125 units and a standard deviation of 25 units. Refer to the standard normal table LOADING... for​ z-values. a. What is the average and the standard deviation of demand during the protection​ interval? The average demand during the protection interval is nothing units. ​(Enter your response as an​ integer.)

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You want to test your current security configuration. Which method would you use to avoid detection?...

  1. You want to test your current security configuration. Which method would you use to avoid detection?
  1. Active reconnaissance
  2. Passive reconnaissance
  3. Credentialed vulnerability scan
  4. All of these

  1. You are formulating a vulnerability assessment to be performed by security analysis. Nmap is one of the tools to be used, what information will you expect the program provide about the target host(S)?
  1. Device
  2. Topology
  3. Service
  4. All of these

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Consider again the company making tires for bikes is concerned about the exact width of their cyclocross tires.

Consider again the company making tires for bikes is concerned about the exact width of their cyclocross tires. The company has a lower specification limit of 22.6 mm and an upper specification limit of 22.8 mm. The standard deviation is 0.16 mm and the mean is 22.7 mm.


a. What is the probability that a tire will be too narrow? 

b. What is the probability that a tire will be too wide? 

c. What is the probability that a tire will be defective?

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The following gives the number of pints of type A blood used at Woodlawn Hospital in the past 6 weeks.


The following gives the number of pints of type A blood used at Woodlawn Hospital in the past 6 weeks.

WEEK OFPINTS USED
August 31360
September 7389
September 14410
September 21381
September 28368
October 5374

a. Forecast the demand for the week of October 12 using a 3-week moving average.
b. Use a 3-week weighted moving average, with weights of .1, .3, and .6 using .6 for the most recent week. * Then, forecast demand for the week of October 12.
c. Compute the forecast for the week of October 12 using exponential smoothing with a forecast for August 31 of 360 and a=.2

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A horizontal force of P = 56kN is applied to joint C. Each pin has a diameter of 25 mm and is subjected to double she...

A horizontal force of P = 56kN is applied to joint C. Each pin has a diameter of 25 mm and is subjected to double shear.


Determine the average shear stress developed in pin Aof the truss.

A horizontal force of P = 56kN is applied to joint

A horizontal force of P = 56kN is applied to joint C. Each pin has a diameter of 25 mm and is subjected to double shear. Determine the average shear stress developed in pin Aof the truss.

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​Consider again that the company making tires for bikes is concerned about the exact width of its cyclocross tires

Consider again that the company making tires for bikes is concerned about the exact width of its cyclocross tires. The company has a lower specification limit of 22.8 mm and an upper specification limit of 23.2 mm. The standard deviation is 0.15 mm and the mean is 23 mm. The company now wants to reduce its defect probability as 0.01. To what level would it have to reduce the standard deviation in the process to meet this target?


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George Kyparisis owns a company that manufactures sailboats. Actual demand for George's sailboats during each of...

George Kyparisis owns a company that manufactures sailboats. Actual demand for George's sailboats during each of the past four seasons was as follows: 

Season1234
Winter1,4401,2401,000960
Spring1,5001,4401,6401,540
Summer1,0002,1002,0402,000
Fall640750670520

George has forecasted that annual demand for his sailboats in year 5 will equal 6,500 sailboats. 

Based on the given data and using the multiplicative seasonal model, the demand level for George's sailboats in the spring of year 5 will be _______  sailboats (enter a whole number).

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An axial flow fan 1.83 m diameter is designed to run at a speed of 1400 rev/min with an average axial air velocity of 12.2 m/s


An axial flow fan 1.83 m diameter is designed to run at a speed of 1400 rev/min with an average axial air velocity of 12.2 m/s. A quarter scale model has been built to obtain a check on the design and the rotational speed of the model fan is 4200 rev/min. Determine the axial air velocity of the model so that dynamical similarity with the full-scale fan is preserved. The effects of Reynolds number change may be neglected. 


A sufficiently large pressure vessel becomes available in which the complete model can be placed and tested under conditions of complete similarity. The viscosity of the air is independent of pressure and the temperature is maintained constant. At what pressure must the model be tested?


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What is the economic production quantity?

Race One Motors is an Indonesian car manufacturer. At its largest manufacturing facility, in Jakarta, the company produces subcomponents at a rate of 305 per day, and it uses these subcomponents at a rate of 12,700 per year (of 250 working days). Holding costs are $3 per item per year, and ordering costs are $31 per order. 


a) What is the economic production quantity? 561.21 units (round your response to two decimal places). 

b) How many production runs per year will be made? 22.63 production runs (round your response to two decimal places) 

c) What will be the maximum inventory level? 467.71 units (round your response to two decimal places). 

d) What percentage of time will the facility be producing components? 16.66 % enter your response as a percentage rounded o two decimal laces 

e) What is the annual cost of ordering and holding inventory? $ 701.57 (round your response to two decimal places)

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(Yoggo Soft Drink) A small, privately owned Asian company is producing a private-label soft drink, Yoggo....

(Yoggo Soft Drink) A small, privately owned Asian company is producing a private-label soft drink, Yoggo. A machine-paced line puts the soft drinks into plastic bottles and then packages the bottles into boxes holding 10 bottles each. The machine-paced line is com-prised of the following four steps: (1) the bottling machine takes 1 second to fill a bottle, (2) the lid machine takes 3 seconds to cover the bottle with a lid, (3) a labeling machine takes 5 seconds to apply a label to a bottle, and (4) the packaging machine takes 4 seconds to place a bottle into a box. When a box has been filled with 10 bottles, a worker tending the packaging machine removes the filled box and replaces it with an empty box. Assume that the time for the worker to remove a filled box and replace it with an empty box is neg-ligible and hence does not affect the capacity of the line. At step 3 there are two labeling machines that each process alternating bottles; that is, the first machine processes bottles 1, 3, 5, . . . and the second machine processes bottles 2, 4, 6, . . . . Problem data are sum-marized in the table following.


a. What is the process capacity (bottles/hour) for the machine-paced line?

b. What is the bottleneck in the process?

c. If one more identical labeling machine is added to the process, how much is the increase in the process capacity going to be (in terms of bottles/hour)?

d. What is the implied utilization of the packaging machine if the demand rate is 60 boxes/ hour? Recall that a box consists of 10 bottles.

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Suppose that a disk drive has 6,000 cylinders, numbered 0 to 5999. The drive is currently...

Suppose that a disk drive has 6,000 cylinders, numbered 0 to 5999. The drive is currently serving a request at cylinder 3150, and the previous request was at cylinder 1805 (Hint: this indicates the reading head's moving direction). The queue of pending requests, in FIFO order, is: 

3511, 2332, 2800, 3192, 658, 1296, 1918, 1356, 5936, 2527 

Starting from the current head position, what is the total distance in cylinders) that the disk arm moves to satisfy all the pending requests for each of the following disk-scheduling algorithms? 

a. FCFS 

b. SSTF 

c. SCAN 

d. LOOK 

e. C-SCAN 

f. c-LOOK

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​The actual demand for the patients at Omaha Emergency Medical Clinic for the first 6 weeks of this year follows:

The actual demand for the patients at Omaha Emergency Medical Clinic for the first 6 weeks of this year follows: 

WEEKACTUAL NO. OF PATIENTS
165
262
370
448
563
652

Clinic administrator Marc Schniederjans wants you to forecast patient demand at the clinic for week 7 by using this data. You decide to use a weighted moving average method to find this fore-cast. Your method uses four actual demand levels, with weights of 0.333 on the present period, 0.25 one period ago, 0.25 two periods ago, and 0.167 three periods ago. 

a) What is the value of your forecast? 

b) If instead the weights were 20, 15, 15, and 10, respectively, how would the forecast change? Explain why.

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Brine (specific gravity 1.20) is flowing through a standard 80-mm pipe at a maximum rate...

20.28. Brine (specific gravity 1.20) is flowing through a standard 80-mm pipe at a maximum rate of 0.9 m3/min. In order to me

Brine (specific gravity 1.20) is flowing through a standard 80-mm pipe at a maximum rate of 0.9 m3/min. In order to measure the rate of flow, a sharp-edged orifice, connected to a simple U-manometer is to be installed. The maximum reading of the manometer is to be 400 mm Hg. What size orifice should be installed? Repeat, assuming a venturi meter is used instead of an orifice.

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