From the article: “Pocantico Hills Central School District has installed two 30-by-30-foot tents as additional classrooms at its campus in New York’s Westchester County. The district’s… students are set to begin full-time, in-person classes next week. It has purchased extra desks to replace tables, upgraded filters in its ventilation system and installed standalong air filters in every classroom.” Is this an example of a short run or a long run production response by the Pocantico Hills Central School District? Explain your answer.

(chapter 14: capitalism and the economy ( you may ask yourself /Dalton Conley /sixth edition ))
How has technology changed our relationship to work? How have the internet and cell phone technology changed our relationship between home and work? Do a little googling on how people are navigating the “work from home” or “school from home” new realities? What have you learned? What are the issues that the journalists or bloggers point to as affecting our “work-home” and/or “school-home” relationship? How are individuals finding solutions to these issues?

At a local business school, it is typical for some fraction of students to pass an Accounting certification exam. Recently, funding was used to develop a new program that was designed to increase the proportion of students who pass the exam. The school that developed this program studied 475 students and found that the percentage of students who passed the certification increased to 72% with a 95% confidence interval of [.68, .76]. The hypothesis test, H0: No improvement / same rate as always vs. H1: The intervention changed the passing rate, was rejected with a p-value of .046.  

1. Explain what the​ p-value means in this context.

   1. Someone says that they thought that the original pass rate was 67%. If that were true, what would you tell them about the efficacy of the program? Phrase the conclusion properly.

   2. If the alternative hypothesis had been, H1: The intervention increased the passing rate, would the p-value change? If so, how? Would you more or less strongly recommend adoption of the new program?   

   3. Even though this program has been shown to be better​ in that it is “statistically significant”, are there reasons that the school should not adopt it?

   4. What is the relationship between the p-value and the confidence interval?   

43.Which of the following statements about determinants of sexual orientation is true? a.Sons become homosexual when raised by a domineering mother and a weak father. b.Children raised by homosexual and lesbian parents usually end up adopting their parents' sexual orientation. c.Homosexual and lesbian adults were, as children, seduced by an older person of their sex. c.Biology plays an important role in determining a person's sexual orientation. 44.Date rape is least likely to occur when a.the woman has a clear and consistent sexual policy. b..the individuals involved have traditional sex-role orientations. c..the couple has previously had sex. d..the woman reasons with the man but does not struggle or scream. 45.Steve has always enjoyed sports, is going to college on a basketball scholarship, and now thinks he might want to have a career in coaching. He has talked with his high school and college coaches about the opportunities available at different levels. Steve liked working with high school students at summer basketball camps, and he decided to major in education in order to be prepared to teach and coach at the high school level. Steve is in Super's phase of career development. a.specification b.crystallization c.establishment d.implementation 46.Sarah is task-oriented and enjoys thinking about abstract relations. She would best be described as having a(n) personality type. a.realistic b.enterprising conventional d,investigative 47.When students work over 15 hours a week during the school year, a.they learn good work habits and usually get better grades than students who do not work. b.they spend less time studying and tend to get lower grades than students who do not work. c.their grades are not usually affected, either positively or negatively. d.boys' grades tend to suffer but girls' grades tend to improve 48..Which of the following substances is most likely to be used by adolescents? a.marijuana b.cocaine c.amphetamines d.alcohol 49.Depression a.is associated with increased levels of norepinephrine and serotonin. b.is more common in males than in females. c.can be triggered by feelings of learned helplessness. d..cannot be treated successfully 50.Which of the teenagers described below is most at risk for becoming a juvenile delinquent? a.Jared, who is from a middle-class environment and wants the best electronic equipment he can find. b.Lyle, whose mother is always home after school because she doesn't trust Lyle to stay home alone. c.Wayne, whose parents consistently discipline him whenever he breaks a house rule, which is at least once a week. d.Jake, who is very impulsive and tends to act before he thinks.

The average weight of American adults increased by about 10 pounds in the 1990s. In November of 2004, it was reported that U.S. airlines spent $275 million more in fuel costs to transport this additional weight. Under what circumstances would this increased cost be an externality of obesity, and under what circumstances would it not be an externality?

A perpetuum mobile (Latin for "perpetual motion machine") is an apparatus capable of doing work without supply of energy. It has been the dream of inventors since ancient times and continues to pop up in sketches and drawings of would-be inventors every now and then but in 1775 the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris issued the statement that the Academy "will no longer accept or deal with proposals concerning perpetual motion". (Why?)

3) According to the Asian Development Bank Institute paper by K.C. Fung, Alicia Garcia-Herrero and Francis Ng, discuss in details the theoretical approaches associated with foreign direct investment (FDI) in cross-border infrastructure projects. Pick one case study of transnational infrastructure project from either Southeast Asia, Latin America or Eastern Europe and discuss in details.

how to use the four business cycle theories of new keynesianism, real business cycle theory, monetarist theory and Austrian school to respectively explain the occurrence of the great recession and whether appropriate fiscal and monetary policy measures have been taken?