A steam power plant operates on a regenerative Rankine cycle with two feedwater heaters, one closed and one open. Steam enters the turbine at 12.5 MPa and 550ºC and exhausts to the condenser at 10 kPa. Steam is extracted from the turbine at 1 MPa for the closed feedwater heater and 0.8 MPa for the open one. The feedwater is heated to the condensation temperature of the extracted steam in the closed feedwater heater. The extracted steam leaves the closed feedwater heater as a saturated liquid, which is subsequently throttled to the open feedwater heater. Show the cycle on a T-s diagram with respect to saturation lines, and determine(a) the mass flow rate of steam through the boiler for a net power output of 350 MW and (b) the thermal efficiency of the cycle.

Monty Corp. had the following long-term receivable account balances at December 31, 2019.

Transactions during 2020 and other information relating to Monty' long-term receivables were as follows:

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The tables in this problem are to be used as a reference for this problem. (For calculation purposes, use 5 decimal places as displayed in the factor table provided.)

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Describe the relevant cash flows in terms of amount and timing.

Determine the amount of interest income that should be reported in 2020. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 8,971.)

Determine the portion of the note and any interest that should be reported in current assets at December 31, 2020. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 9,871. Do not leave any answer field blank. Enter 0 for amounts.)

Prepare the long-term receivables section of Monty statement of financial position at December 31, 2020. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 8,971.)

Prepare a schedule showing the current portion of the long-term receivables and accrued interest receivable that would appear in Monty's statement of financial position at December 31, 2020. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 8,971.)

The formula is: Te = (o + 4m + p) / 6

Calculate duration estimates for the following situation:

The operations manager was in the process of upgrading the IT network and preparing estimates from the technology installers in regards to how long the existing network would be down during the upgrade. The technologists believed that it could be done within 8 days if everything went according to plan. There is the possibility it could take up to 16 days if they ran into hardware difficulties. The operations manager asked if there was any way to decrease the number of days. The technologists thought that if they focused all resources, they could be done in as soon as 6 days. Using the beta distribution method, what is the estimated time to complete this task?

Introduction

The Healthy People 2020 initiative of addressing social determinants of health is a high priority for improving physical fitness and healthy lifestyle choices. Factors such as lifestyle, demographics, and heredity ultimately help to determine quality of life and health for both individuals and communities (HealthyPeople.gov, 2014).

Case Study

Promoting individual and community participation in making positive lifestyle changes will require a multitiered approach. For example, empowering people to exercise and increase physical activity by walking more often is a positive behavioral intervention endorsed by Healthy People 2020. Renewed emphases on transformation of health care delivery and support of public health promotion programs by addressing lifestyle choices and healthier decision-making are fundamental drivers of social determinants. For example, the national healthcare environment is primed to support health promotion programs through recent legislative efforts that emphasize disease prevention and care coordination. This approach helps public health interventionists to design strategies and programs by promoting change and enhancing decision-making. Ideally, the call-to-action message will be reinforced with robust health education efforts on social media.

Discussion

The future of health care delivery systems will require novel approaches to meet or exceed the Healthy People 2020 initiatives. For example, Healthy People 2020 establishes a set of standards for health systems to strive toward quality outcomes grounded in evidence-based medicine (EPM). Small- to medium-sized health systems often struggle to implement new care delivery models and evidence-based practices for many reasons, including a lack of external guidelines and monitoring. As a result, clinical care delivery is fragmented at worse and health outcome are inconsistent at best. Thus, clinical care is neither evidence based nor adherent to national quality-based standards.

Conclusion

Health systems with novel models in clinical care delivery are champions of best practices. “An organizational culture that supports and encourages clinical inquiry and welcoming change will lead to improved clinical outcomes” (Hall & Roussel, 2014). The pursuit of the Healthy People 2020 is a worthy goal that can assist future health care delivery systems to develop a modern clinical and administrative infrastructure. Finally, a gap often exists between the skills and knowledge needed for implementation of these types of cutting-edge care delivery models. This type of strategic planning and focus will help reinforce EBM and best-clinical practices for the adoption of quality initiatives such as Healthy People 2020.

Question

1. How can external initiatives such as Healthy People 2020 assist health care delivery systems to implement quality-based measures to improve clinical outcomes? Provide an example with support from the text or a peer-reviewed reference.
2. Research previous Health People initiatives from 2000 and 2010. Track one of the initiatives and monitor its progress over the 10-year period. Prepare a SWOT analysis and discuss your findings in the context of measuring a quality outcome.

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Technology in the news! Technology, Labor, and Society.

instructions:

Select a technology developed between 1980 and 2000, and then craft a narrative which addresses the following questions:

What is the technology?

What problem does it solve?

Who developed it?

How did this technology influence another technology?

Examples?

Is this technology, or a subset of this technology in use today?

What are some of the social and cultural effects of the technology?

Did it effect society? Was it positive, negative, neutral?

Did the technology create equal opportunities, or were they unequal in distribution or access?

How did the technology impact employment and production?

What is the relationship to labor market demand?

Did the technology increase or decrease the need for additional employees?

This writing assignment will begin your exploration of technology, investigating effects, influence, use, and adoption. You are writing a story; a story about the technology. It is not meant to be a scientific paper. It may be written in the first person, as you are describing how "you," have understood the technology and how it has influenced society, etc.

You should identify a minimum of 3 references for your paper, and they should be properly cited.

Closing the Accounts of a Merchandiser From the following list, identify the accounts that should be closed to Income Summary at the end of the fiscal year under a perpetual inventory system. In the dropdowns select "Yes" if an account should be closed, and "No" if it should not be closed. a. Accounts Payable b. Advertising Expense c. Cost of Merchandise Sold d. Dividends e. Merchandise Inventory f. Sales g. Sales Discounts h. Sales Returns and Allowances i. Supplies j. Supplies Expense k. Wages Payable

Consider a closed-loop system with unity feedback. For each G(s) hand sketch the Nyquist plot. Determine Z = P + N, algebraically find the closed-loop pole location, and show that the closed-loop pole location is consistent with the Nyquist plot calculation. K = 2.

a) KG(s) = 2(s-1)

b) KG(s) = 2(s+1)

c)KG(s) = 2/(s+1)

d) KG(s) = 2/(s-1)

Corbett Company develops software. The market is very competitive and Corbett's competitors continue to introduce new products at low prices. Corbett offers a wide variety of software - from simple programs to extremely complex programs. Like most software companies Corbett's raw materials costs are insignificant. You have recently been hired by Corbett as a business analyst and attended a seminar on Activity-Based Costing (ABC) and are considering using it at Corbett. Working with the Software Department Manager you identigy the following activities, related costs, and cost-allocation bases.

Activity Estimated indirect acitivity costs Allocation base estimated quantity of allocation base

Applications development $1,800,000 New applications 6 new applications

Content production 2,800,000 Lines of code 14 million lines

Testing 248,000 Testing hours 1,600 testing hours

Total indirect costs 4,848,000   

Corbett is planning to develop the following new applications

1) X-Page

2) X-Secure

X-page requires 680,000 lines of code and 90 hours of testing, while x-secure requires 10.2 million lines of code and 540 hours of testing. Corbett expects to produce and sell 20,000 units of x-page and 8 units of x-secure.

1) Compute the cost allocation rate for each activity.

2) Use the ABC allocation rates to compute the indirect cost of each unit of x-page and x-secure.

3) The company's original single-allocation based cost system allocated indirect costs to products at $113 per programmer hour. x-page requires 8,000 programmer hours while x-secure requires 12,000 programmer hours. Compute the total indirect costs allocated to x-page and x-secure under the original system. Compute the indirect cost per unit for each product.

4) Write a memo to the General Manager of Corbett Company comparing the ABC costs per unit to the costs from the simpler original system. Explain why the unit costs changed and whether you think the new ABC system is likely to pass the cost-benefit test.

Corbett Company develops software. The market is very competitive and Corbett's competitors continue to introduce new products at low prices. Corbett offers a wide variety of software - from simple programs to extremely complex programs. Like most software companies Corbett's raw materials costs are insignificant. You have recently been hired by Corbett as a business analyst and attended a seminar on Activity-Based Costing (ABC) and are considering using it at Corbett. Working with the Software Department Manager you identigy the following activities, related costs, and cost-allocation bases.

Activity Estimated indirect acitivity costs Allocation base estimated quantity of allocation base

Applications development $1,800,000 New applications 6 new applications

Content production 2,800,000 Lines of code 14 million lines

Testing 248,000 Testing hours 1,600 testing hours

Total indirect costs 4,848,000   

Corbett is planning to develop the following new applications

1) X-Page

2) X-Secure

X-page requires 680,000 lines of code and 90 hours of testing, while x-secure requires 10.2 million lines of code and 540 hours of testing. Corbett expects to produce and sell 20,000 units of x-page and 8 units of x-secure.

1) Compute the cost allocation rate for each activity.

2) Use the ABC allocation rates to compute the indirect cost of each unit of x-page and x-secure.

3) The company's original single-allocation based cost system allocated indirect costs to products at $113 per programmer hour. x-page requires 8,000 programmer hours while x-secure requires 12,000 programmer hours. Compute the total indirect costs allocated to x-page and x-secure under the original system. Compute the indirect cost per unit for each product.

4) Write a memo to the General Manager of Corbett Company comparing the ABC costs per unit to the costs from the simpler original system. Explain why the unit costs changed and whether you think the new ABC system is likely to pass the cost-benefit test.