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Circle the cause/effect structure. Underline the causes and double underline the effects. 1. Based at years...

Circle the cause/effect structure. Underline the causes and double underline the effects.

1. Based at years of scientific data, the majority of climate scientists now support the idea that climate change is a result of human activity.

2.   One effect of a mother’s heavy alcohol during pregnancy is a baby born with low birthweight.

3.   Bullying, which can be defined as the use of violent actions and / or threatening language to cause physical, social, or psychological harm, is a common cause of depression, social isolation, and low school performance in middle school students.

4. The theory of Natural Selection states that organisms change as a response to changes in their environment.

5. Regular visits to green spaces such as parks, forests, and rural areas have a positive effect on people’s moods.

6. Strong academic performance in elementary school is often attributed to the parents’ readiness to help their children with homework.

7. The overall health of a nation is directly linked to the health of the population. Therefore, governments need to take measures to ensure the people are healthy.

8. Because of extensive time living in China, some native speakers of English are highly proficient in Chinese.

9. Early voter registration usually results in better voter turnout.

10. Wet environments and hot weather are two factors that contribute to insect-borne illnesses.

In: Nursing

Circle the cause/effect structure. Underline the causes and double underline the effects. 1. Based at years...

Circle the cause/effect structure. Underline the causes and double underline the effects.

1. Based at years of scientific data, the majority of climate scientists now support the idea that climate change is a result of human activity.

2.   One effect of a mother’s heavy alcohol during pregnancy is a baby born with low birthweight.

3.   Bullying, which can be defined as the use of violent actions and / or threatening language to cause physical, social, or psychological harm, is a common cause of depression, social isolation, and low school performance in middle school students.

4. The theory of Natural Selection states that organisms change as a response to changes in their environment.

5. Regular visits to green spaces such as parks, forests, and rural areas have a positive effect on people’s moods.

6. Strong academic performance in elementary school is often attributed to the parents’ readiness to help their children with homework.

7. The overall health of a nation is directly linked to the health of the population. Therefore, governments need to take measures to ensure the people are healthy.

8. Because of extensive time living in China, some native speakers of English are highly proficient in Chinese.

9. Early voter registration usually results in better voter turnout.

10. Wet environments and hot weather are two factors that contribute to insect-borne illnesses.

In: Nursing

can You please write the paragraph bellow in your own words and with academic and easy...

can You please write the paragraph bellow in your own words and with academic and easy words

Methodology for employee retention can be broadly divided in following steps-

1 Identifying the critical & early warning signals of talents before exit - Purpose to ensure the critical positions which have direct impact on client or output are being identified. As well evaluation done by supervisor or manager to capture early warning signals.

2. Quantify the risk associated with the exit of particular person, & assess what is objective (motivation), weakness & strength of particular individual

3.Basis particular case profile, suggest suitable actions for instance- Female employees not comfortable in night shift due to no travel provided by company and locality is not safe for females employees in night. On discussion with female employees, it was suggested either to provide company sponsored cab services for pick up or drop.

4. Take actions on agreed points - discuss with relevant authorities about case, and advantages of retention of particular employee. As well potential assessment, how it would positively motivate other employees as well

5. Evaluate on strategic basis whether what are changes can be done which will make employees to associate with organization, making their job more enjoyable and provides their comprehensive development on functional as well personal basis

In: Economics

In about 300 – 400 words, write an essay analyzing the below case study using the SWOT framework.

In about 300 – 400 words, write an essay analyzing the below case study using the SWOT framework. 
 
Wendy’s International, Inc.
 
Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers was considered the third largest fast-food hamburger business in the world, although it reported higher revenues in 2002 than did Burger King. The company as a whole generated $2.73 billion in revenues in 2002, up 14.2 percent from the previous year. With headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, the corporation operated over 9,000 restaurants in 33 countries worldwide.
 
General menu items were similar to those of McDonald’s and Burger King --- hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, and fries---- but Wendy’s also offered several unique products such as Frostys and Spicy Chicken Sandwiches, as well as many healthy alternatives like salads, baked potatoes and even chili. One very important innovation contributed by Wendy’s was a special value menu that consisted of about 10 items that could be purchased for 99 cents. Since its initiation in Wendy’s stores, the value menu had also been implemented in McDonald’s and Burger King’s restaurants in order to compete with Wendy’s. All fast-food hamburger chains, were now expected to meet new consumer health expectations without compromising the menu items on which the companies were founded. Following suit, soon Burger King’s menu also offered a few items that set it apart from other fast-food restaurants, thereby offering customers a varied menu and posing a serious threat to Wendy’s.
 
Founded in 1969 in Ohio by David Thomas, Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers was incorporated and in 1976 had its first public offering of 1 million shares at dollar 28 per share. By 1981 the company had been listed on the New York Stock Exchange and had built its 2,000th restaurant. Unlike a few of its competitors, Wendy’s faced difficulties with international expansion. Despite these failures, the corporation had grown by acquiring several smaller companies such as Tim Horton’s and Baja Fresh Mexican Grill.
 
Wendy’s, early on sought to distinguish itself in a rapidly growing industry by providing its customers with a unique fast-food experience. However, several of its unique features were embedded with both pitfalls and advantages. The company’s Super Value Menu was definitely one of its strongest asset, although the concept had been picked up by other major companies. Also, in 2002, most fast food chains were desperately slashing prices in a bid to go increasingly lower. However, Wendy’s chose that year as a time to focus on product quality and product expansion by offering its Garden Sensations, a new selection of fresh, healthy salads. One weak point in Wendy’s business plan was the lack of an easily recognizable product comparable to McDonald’s Big Mac or Burger King’s Whopper.
 
Unlike McDonald’s and virtually every other burger chain in the world, Wendy’s overlooked the shift in consumer preferences from indoor dining to drive-through windows at its restaurants. It did not respond well to the above mentioned shift in consumer preferences which soon started looming over as threats. In 1975, Burger King began to install and operate drive-through windows at its restaurants. Now customers who were busy with family, jobs, and children could buy a quality meal in a hurry without ever leaving the car. However, Wendy’s at that point of time in selecting potential acquisition targets, completely overlooked the concept.
 
As Wendy’s moved into the future without founder Dave Thomas, who passed away in 2002, it planned to add between 2,000 and 4,000 new Wendy’s locations in the next decade and to focus its international expansion in Latin America. However, the company’s chief executive officer and chairman, Jack Schuessler, stated that the company planned to increasingly use acquisitions of smaller brands and joint ventures as the primary driver of future growth. In selecting potential acquisition targets, Wendy’s was avoiding concepts that directly competed with core Wendy’s offerings and looking to the fast casual segment and to concepts that involved offering high quality food without table service.
 
Adapted for purely academic purpose: Marino L and Jackson K.B. ; McDonald’s : Polishing the Golden Arches; (pp. C-213 - C-223) ; Thompson, A.A.; et.al.; 2005; Crafting and Executing Strategy; McGraw-Hill, New York.
 
Answer Notes:
 
Students may begin by creating a grid to identify the SWOT components as Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats to construct the analysis text.
Students are required to identify 3 strengths, 3 weaknesses, 2 opportunities, and 2 threats. Then to write an analytical text for the case study .
Students are required to provide definitions for each SWOT factor by referring to different relevant external resources

In: Economics

6. Consider the one dimensional wave equation with boundary conditions and initial conditions: PDE : utt...

6. Consider the one dimensional wave equation with boundary conditions and initial conditions:

PDE : utt = c 2 uxx, BC : u(0, t) = u(L, t) = 0, IC : u(x, 0) = f(x), ut(x, 0) = g(x)

a) Suppose c = 1, L = 1, f(x) = 180x 2 (1 − x), and g(x) = 0. Using the first 10 terms in the series, plot the solution surface and enough time snapshots to display the dynamics of the solution

b) What happens to the solution as t → ∞? Explain your answer in light of (a) and the physical interpretation of the problem. Does (b) reflect this?

c) Redo parts (a) and (b) for c = 1, L = π, f(x) = 2 sin 3x, and g(x) = 1 − x.

In: Advanced Math

Description For this part of the assignment, you will create a Grid representing the pacman’s game...

Description For this part of the assignment, you will create a Grid representing the pacman’s game grid by using a 2D array of Strings as shown in Section 1. Also, you will design the functionality of the pacman as described in Section 2 and represent it in the grid. 1 The Grid The dimensions of the grid is 15 x 15 and the gird is composed of 4 boundaries: north, south, east, and west boundaries as shown in the Figure. The grid has the following characteristics: 1. The boundaries are represented with “X”, and this will block the pacman. 2. There may be obstacles that obstruct the pacman’s movement. 3. There are 4 gates represented with “ ”, and these gates communicates with the opposite gate. E.g., the north gate communicates with the south gate, and the east gate communicates with the west. This means that if the pacman is located in the north gate, next time it moves up will appear in the south gate, similar with the east and west gate. 4. The grid contains cookies represented with “.”. The idea is to collect all the cookies from the grid in order to win the game. Every time the the pacman eats a cookie, the cookie disappears. The Grid has the following fields • grid: is a 2D array of Strings • x-pos: the x-coordinate where the pacman is located • y-pos: the y-coordinate where the pacman is located • counter: a counter that represents the total number of cookies consumed by the pacman In addition, the Grid has the following methods: • initializeGrid(): This method will print a “fresh” new grid with the pacman located in the middle of the grid and the rest of the grid will contain cookies “.”. Except the boundaries of the grid. Your maze shall have four boundaries i.e., north, south, east, and west. The boundaries are represented with an “X”. Each boundary has a gate in the middle that allows the pacman to communicate to the opposite gate. • updateGrid(): will happen after the selection of moving “a”,“s”,“d” or “w” is done. Since these four options will move to west, south, east, or north, then you need to “update” the grid. The way to do this is by passing the x-coordinate and the y-coordinate as arguments to this method. The method then, will update the new position of the pacman (that is, the x and y coordinate from the arguments). Here is where the previous x and y position of the pacman will “disappear” (which is now a blank space “ ”). This method will reflect the new position of the pacman in the grid in case it moved. This method will also reflect the number of cookies consumed. • checkBoundaries(): Before moving the pacman to the new position, this method will check if is possible according the current coordinates. In case is a valid movement, the method will return true. In case the movement is invalid, due to a boundary or through something else, then your method will return false. The Pacman The pacman has the following characteristics: • The pacman has the ability to move through the gates (i.e., north to south, east to west). • The maze is full of cookies (e.g., “.”). The pacman must eat all the cookies to finish the game. Every time the pacman eats a cookie, it disappears from the maze the counter increases by 1. • If pacman movesUp by typing the key w, the pacman’s y-coordinate must increase by one unit. If the pacman’s y-coordinate exceeds the maze’s upper boundary, then the pacman’s y-coordinate AND the maze’s position shall not be updated. • If pacman movesDown by typing the key s, the pacman’s y-coordinate must decrease by one unit. If the pacman’s y-coordinate exceeds the maze’s lower boundary, then the pacman’s y-coordinate AND the maze’s position shall not be updated. • If pacman movesRight, by typing the key d, the pacman’s x-coordinate must increase by one unit. If the pacman’s x-coordinate exceeds the maze’s right boundary, then the pacman’s x-coordinate AND the maze’s position shall not be updated. • If pacman movesLeft, by typing the key a, the pacman’s x-coordinate must decrease by one unit. If the pacman’s x-coordinate exceeds the maze’s left boundary, then the pacman’s x-coordinate AND the maze’s position shall not be updated. Notice that by moving through the y-coordinate the program deals with the rows of the array, similar when dealing with the x-coordinate, the program deals with the columns of array. 3 The Game Engine In order to simulate a game, you must have an engine that keeps looping the position. This is exactly what happens in the old movie theater when they have the 35mm projectors. Here, we will simulate the same idea with a loop: 1. import java.util.Scanner; 2. public class Engine{ 3. public static void main(String [] args){ 4. String[][] grid = new String[10][10]; 5. int col = 5; 6. initializeGrid(grid); 7. grid[5][col] = "P"; 8. Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); 9. while(true){ 10. print(grid); 11. String option = input.nextLine(); 12. if(option.equals("d")){ 13. // code goes here 14. } 15. // more code goes here 16. } 17. } 18. // methods go here 19. } In Line 4, will create a grid of 10 x 10 of Strings. In Line 7 will store the pacman (’P’) in the middle of the maze. In Line 9 will allow to run your program “forever” until you decide to finish your program. Line 11 will wait for the input from the user to move the pacman (i.e., “a”, “s”, “d”, or “w”). A complete engine can be found in Grid.java.

In: Computer Science

Construction Management and Site Management can be treated as two separate entities although with a very...

Construction Management and Site Management can be treated as two separate entities although with a very fine and at times obscure line dividing them.

Summarise to what extent the above statement is valid. Your discussion should specifically interpret and apply the above statement in the context of a large commercial construction project in the UK and distinguish the similarities and differences in the two roles and the duties discharged. Your arguments can be supported with practical examples, diagrams, etc.

In: Civil Engineering

Hypothecation taxation has been discussed as one way of improving the public’s perception and acceptance of...

Hypothecation taxation has been discussed as one way of improving the public’s perception and acceptance of new taxes and tax increases in particular with regards to “green taxes”.

YOU ARE REQUIRED TO:

  1. Explain, using an example, what is meant by the term hypothecation taxation. (maximum word count 40 words)

  1. Critically discuss whether hypothecation could assist the UK government in meeting its green tax objectives. (maximum word count 360 words)

In: Finance

ABC Company in southwest UK manufactures leather lacing and kits. It consists of 5 Leather Factory...

ABC Company in southwest UK manufactures leather lacing and kits. It consists of 5 Leather Factory stores of, which three are located in the UK and others are located in Europe. Recently the overall demand for its products has declined. Therefore, intermediate-term attempts to control costs have centered on forecasting demand and reducing inventory costs. To help ABC Company better manage its resources and more effectively respond to demand, management team is considering ways to improve its planning process by finding demand/inventory management methods that can reasonably predict demand six to eight weeks into the future, and establishing procedures for managing inventory costs.

  • If ABC Company is considering using Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) to manage its inventory costs, answer the following question:
  • What are the assumptions of the basic EOQ model, and to what extent do they limit the usefulness of the model?

Could the answer please be presented in report style, the question is worth 15% of a level 6 report with around 300-400 words maximum. Please do not simply copy and paste from google or a negative review will follow. Positive review will be received for quality answers, thanks in advance

In: Finance

Please I need answer for This question and it is very important and I need solution...

Please I need answer for This question and it is very important and I need solution for this issue with all the details just nu , and help me with all the details, so that I can read and understand your answer clearly.thanks in advance/Ha

2. Answer whether the following examples of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) describe horizontal or vertical FDI. Explain your answers. a) Volvo builds a car factory in Austin, Texas, which is similar to Volvo’s factory in Gothenburg. The main purpose is to avoid US import tariffs. (5 points)

b) H&M relocates production of its clothes from Sweden to Bangladesh to reduce wage costs.

c) Microsoft splits up its R&D department so that it no longer only has one in the US but also four new R&D departments in four additional countries.

d) Following Brexit, Honda splits its UK factory, which produces only for the European market, into one which remains in the UK and a new one in Germany.

e) Volkswagen’s location of production across countries such that each input in its value chain is produced in the location in the world where its quality-adjusted cost is the lowest.

In: Economics