Briefly discuss how the Internet and popular music have encroached into Russian culture since the late 1990s. Have these changes been received equally well by all of the Russian people? If not, who is more resistant to change, and why?

in the 1990s, Microsoft battled Netscape over market share for their web browsers, called internet Explorer and Navigator use this example to analyse whether there are multiple equilibria and, if so, why one equilibrium might emerge in preference to the others.

1. What happened in the 1990s that explains the small decrease in the size of the U.S. Treasury markets pre-2000?
2. What happened in the early 2000s that reversed this decrease?
3. What caused that large growth in the Treasury market starting in 2007/2008?

Facts: Casey Jones is a 2012 graduate of Tulane University Law School and admitted to practice law in the state of Louisiana. He has been employed by the family general practice law firm of Jones, Jones, and Jones since graduating law school. The firm’s three partners are Casey’s mother, father and uncle. Casey is one of seven other lawyer associates in the firm, which includes a cousin, and five other unrelated persons. There are also 5 non-lawyer clerical staff. No one at the firm has any specialized training in tax matters, but Casey has been trying to handle at least some simple tax issues for the firm. The partners had decided that it would be very good for business if they could establish a tax practice specialty within the firm. As a result, the firm sent Casey to the LL.M (tax) program at the NYU law school to earn an LL.M. degree in taxation. He attended from September 2018 to June 2019, at which time he graduated with the degree of Master of Laws in Taxation (LL.M). While he attended the program in New York the firm continued to pay him his $125,000. per year salary, his tuition and fees of $63,000 and $34,000 of living expense for rent and food at one of the NYU Law School dormitories, as well as his travel expenses to and from New York. Half was paid in 2018 and 2019. Upon graduation he returned to his firm’s New Orleans offices where he worked to establish their tax department. It is now time to file his return for 2019.

Questions:

1. What are the tax effects, if any, of these transactions on Casey and his law firm?

2. Would the result be any different if Casey were a CPA graduate of Tulane’s business school with a BA degree in accounting, and the degree he earned at NYU was a Masters in Tax in accounting in their business school, and Jones, Jones and Jones was a CPA firm?

The 8-year-old girl who was naughty.

8-year-old girl brought to her pediatrician by her 26-year-old mother • Chief complaint: fever and sore throat Psychiatric History • While evaluating the patient for an upper respiratory infection, the pediatrician asks if school is going well • The patient responds “yes” but in the background the mother shakes her head “no” • The mother states that her daughter is negative and defi ant at home and she has similar reports, mostly of disobedience, from her teacher at school • The patient has had temper tantrums since age 5 but these have decreased over the past 3 years, especially the past year • Still angry and resentful since her little sister was born 6 years ago • Academic problems • Fights with other children, mostly arguments and harsh words with other girls at school Social and Personal History • Goes to public school • Has a younger sister age 6 • Does not see her father much, lives in a nearby city • Not many friends • Spends most of her time with her sister and either her mother or her maternal grandmother who helps with after school supervision and baby sitting

• List three questions you might ask the patient if he or she were in your office. Provide a rationale for why you might ask these questions.
• Identify people in the patient’s life you would need to speak to or get feedback from to further assess the patient’s situation. Include specific questions you might ask these people and why.
• Explain what physical exams and diagnostic tests would be appropriate for the patient and how the results would be used.
• List three differential diagnoses for the patient. Identify the one that you think is most likely and explain why.
• List two pharmacologic agents and their dosing that would be appropriate for the patient’s ADHD therapy based on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. From a mechanism of action perspective, provide a rationale for why you might choose one agent over the other.
• If your assigned case includes “check points” (i.e., follow-up data at week 4, 8, 12, etc.), indicate any therapeutic changes that you might make based on the data provided.
• Explain “lessons learned” from this case study, including how you might apply this case to your own practice when providing care to patients with similar clinical presentations.

Jack, age 66, and Jill, age 59, are married and file a joint return. During the year they received: o $262,000 in wages o $2,000 in interest on their savings account o $1,500 in interest from City of Boston Bonds They paid: o $3,000 in student loan interest o $8,000 in mortgage interest o $5,000 in charitable donations o $3,000 in real estate taxes o 4,000 in state income taxes They support Jack’s mother since she has no income. She lives in an assisted living center in town because she is legally blind. They also support their daughter Lauren who lives with them while she goes to school full-time. She is 26 years old and has a part-time job waitressing once a week where she earns $3,000. What is Jack and Jill’s taxable income and tax due/(refund)?

A state highway goes through a small town where the posted speed limit drops down to 40MPH, but which out of town drivers don’t observe very carefully. Based on historical data, it is known that passenger car speeds going through the city are normally distributed with a mean of 47 mph and a standard deviation of 4MPH. Truck speeds are found to be normally distributed with a mean of 45MPH and a standard deviation of 6MPH. The town installed a speed camera and wants to set a threshold for triggering the camera to issue citations. If the camera is triggered, the driver is mailed a flat $50 ticket for cars and a flat $75 for trucks. On average 100 cars and 25 trucks go through the city in a day.

1. If the town sets the camera triggering speed at 50MPH, how much revenue will it make in a month (assume a month has 30 days)
2. The town wants to set the triggering speed at a value such that the fastest 10% of truck drivers get ticketed. At what value should they set the trigger?
3. At this trigger value, what percentage of cars are ticketed and what is the monthly revenue for the city?

How did colonialism affect Latin America’s future development outcomes? Describe some of the main products extracted during the colonial period and some of the institutions affecting the factors of production. Discuss two institutions and how they affected future inequality and growth patterns in the region or a country of your choice.

How did colonialism affect Latin America’s future development outcomes? Describe some of the main products extracted during the colonial period and some of the institutions affecting the factors of production. Discuss two institutions and how they affected future inequality and growth patterns in the region or a country of your choice.