Boca Electronics, a manufacturer of semiconductor components,was established in Houston, Texas, in 2002 afterspinning off from its parent company. Originally a branch of Vissay Inc.,Boca Electronics had a solid customer base and strong sales with some major firms such as IBM, Compaq, and Motorola. Semiconductors included a wide array of products
that were broken down according to their application and material. Some of their main products include microprocessors, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), rectifiers, and suppressors. Boca
Electronics operated on a mainframe system that it inherited from its parent company and used additional stand-alone systems to perform many of its other business functions. For
the last four years the company had performed well financially, so little concern had been given to the business operations. However, recent slowdowns in the economy and an increase
in competition in the semiconductor industry had forced Boca Electronics to take another look at the way it operated its business.

Ron Butler, the purchasing manager at Boca Electronics, was responsible for ordering raw materials and ensuring that their delivery was on time and met production requirements.
Ron used his own forecasting software to determine purchasing needs based on past sales. Although this worked most ofthe time, Ron often found himself scrambling to meet large customer orders at the last minute and was forced to expedite a lot of orders to meet the production needs. Ron felt this was due largely to the lack of communication between his department and the sales force. Although he received production forecasts and projected sales from the sales department, it occurred on an irregular basis, and the forecasts would often change by the time he had placed orders to the suppliers. In addition, Ron had a difficult time synchronizing with suppliers and determining factors such as lead times and product prices. He had previously recommended a new software system that would integrate with suppliers of key components but the proposal was turned down by senior management due to a “current lack of need for such an investment.” Boca Electronics also faced issues regarding its cash flows. It took several weeks for the accounting department to process invoices and usually had to e-mail back and forth with the sales manager to make multiple corrections. Because both departments used different systems to manage customer accounts, some of the data was redundant and inaccurate (customer accounts would be updated in the sales department, but not in accounting). Although this issue went largely unnoticed during thriving periods, the recent slowdown in the economy revealed potential repercussions of the current business operations, as Boca Electronics began to run short on its cash flows.

In the last month, one of Boca Electronics’ largest customers began requiring all its suppliers to integrate their manufacturing operations to improve the sharing of information and
further improve its supply chain. This company had recently implemented an ERP system from a major provider and was encouraging its suppliers to do the same. Suppliers had the
option of implementing middleware software to integrate operations. Whether suppliers chose to keep their current systems and implement middleware, or implement an ERP system that would integrate with the company, they had one year to make the changes to continue doing business with this customer.

Paul Andrews, the CIO at Boca Electronics, was well aware of the issues facing the company. He knew that something had to be done to improve communication and information sharing within the company, and the current mainframe system was outdated and inefficient. He was also aware of the constraints that Ron was facing in Purchasing and how much it was costing the company. With the new request from one of its largest customers for further integration, the idea of implementing an ERP system for Boca Electronics seemed like a viable solution to Paul. However, recent economic downturns and a limited amount of capital made such a large capital outlay a risky investment for the company.

Determine the trade-offs of implementing an ERP system
in the company versus buying best-of-breed software and
using middleware to integrate.

What are the potential impacts of such an implementation
on the company’s suppliers and customers?

If the company chose to stay with the system it currently
has, what are some potential consequences that can occur
in the future?

Based on the business nature of the company, the industry,
and the current environment, what would you recommend
doing?

In the book Analysis of Longitudinal Data, 2nd ed., (2002, Oxford University Press), by Diggle, Heagerty, Liang,and Zeger, the authors analyzed the effects of three diets on the protein content of cow’s milk. The data shown here were collected after one week and include 25 cows on the barley diet and 27 cows each on the other two diets:

(a) What is the value of LSD for Barley+Lupins diet and Lupins diet? Use α=0.05.
Round your answer to three decimal places (e.g. 98.765).

(c) What is the absolute value of difference between mean protein content after Barley+Lupins diet and Lupins diet?
Round your answer to three decimal places (e.g. 98.765).

(d) Estimate the standard error for comparing the means using the graphical method. Use minimum sample size.
Round your answer to three decimal places (e.g. 98.765).

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1.Kenia is a small economy somewhere in the Aka Way. The information given in Table 5 is from a recent issue of the Kenia Economic ObserverThere are only 3 goods produced in Kenia.The table below shows the prices and quantities produced of these goods in 2007, 2008, and 2009 as well as other related data. 2008 is the base year for this economy.

a)      Calculate:

(i) The unemployment rate in 2008. Show the formula and workings.(3.5 marks)

(ii) The labor force participation rate in 2009. Show the formula and workings.(2.5 marks)

(iii) GDP deflator 2008. Show the formula and workings.(4.5 marks)

(iv) GDP deflator 2009. Show the formula and workings.          (4.5 marks)

(v) the inflation rate in 2009. Show the formula and workings. (1.5 marks)

Suppose that in a simple economy, only two types of products are produced: computers and automobiles. Sales and price data for these two products for three different years are as shown below:

a)Assuming that all computers and automobiles are final goods, calculate nominal GDP in 2013, 2014 and 2015.    (4.5 marks)

Nominal GDP in 2003:

Nominal GDP in 2004:

Nominal GDP in 2005

b)Calculate real GDP in 2004 and 2005 year using 2003 as the base year. Show the formula.

Thanks for the help really appreciated it Expert!

Write a C# program that prints a calendar for a given year. Call this program calendar. The program prompts the user for two inputs:
      1) The year for which you are generating the calendar.
      2) The day of the week that January first is on, you will use the following notation to set the day of the week:
    
      0 Sunday                     1 Monday                   2 Tuesday                   3 Wednesday
      4 Thursday                 5 Friday                      6 Saturday

Your program should generate a calendar similar to the one shown in the example output below. The calendar should be printed on the screen. Your program should be able to handle leap years. A leap year is a year in which we have 366 days. That extra day comes at the end of February. Thus, a leap year has 366 days with 29 days in February. A century year is a leap year if it is divisible by 400. Other years divisible by 4 but not by 100 are also leap years.

Example: Year 2000 is a leap year because it is divisible by 400.  Year 2004 is a leap year because it is divisible by 4 but not by 100.
Your program should clearly describe the functionality of each function and should display the instructions on how to run the program.

Your need to create one method “displayMonth” for print each month as required. You can choose return method or not that depend on your design.

Sample Input:

Enter the year for which you wish to generate the calendar: 2004
Enter the day of the week that January first is on: 4

Sample output:

Calendar for year 2004

January
Sun      Mon     Tue      Wed     Thu      Fri        Sat
                                                1          2          3
4          5          6          7          8          9          10
11        12        13        14        15        16        17
18        19        20        21        22        23        24
25        26        27        28        29        30        31

February
Sun      Mon     Tue      Wed     Thu      Fri        Sat
1          2          3          4          5          6          7
..         ..          ..          ..          ..          ..          ..
..          ..

• Compare and contrast the use of government spending changes versus tax changes as a means of influencing the course of the economy. Is one or the other preferable in specific situations?

This situation is not over, What of the economic changes and likely changes most worries you due to COVID-19 and why? What do you think can be done about it and why, remembering there are benefits and costs in most of the alternatives? Do you agree with the way Ohio is opening up? If so why? If not, why not?

identify several changes in family since 1990.what factors are responsible for these changes?

The length of a confidence interval changes when either the confidence level changes or the sample size changes. To illustrate this, imagine a statistician takes a sample from a population with a population standard deviation of 2. The sample mean is calculated to be 10. Construct 3 different confidence intervals:

3a) Assume the sample size is 30 and the confidence level is 95%

3b) Assume the sample size is 30 and the confidence level is 90%

3c) Assume the sample size is 50 and the confidence level is 95%

3d) In general, if the confidence level is decreased, does the length of the confidence interval increase or decrease? Explain your answer. Hint: Refer to your answers to (3a), (3b) and (3c) 3e) In general, if the sample size is increased, does the length of the confidence interval increase or decrease? Explain your answer.

3f) In order to make a more accurate prediction of a population mean, it is better to have a shorter confidence interval, in other words, a narrower range of possible values. Based on your answers to (3d) and (3e), is it better to increase the accuracy of an estimation by decreasing the confidence level or increasing the sample size? Explain your answer.