One of the most common complaints novice public speakers have is that they simply don’t know how to start a speech. Many times speakers get ideas for how to begin their speeches as they go through the process of researching and organizing ideas. In this chapter, we will explore why introductions are important and various ways speakers can create memorable introductions. There may not be any one “best” way to start a speech, but we can provide some helpful guidelines that will make starting a speech much easier.

When reading a great novel, many people just can’t wait to get to the end of the book. Some people will actually jump ahead hundreds of pages and read the last chapter just to see what happens. Humans have an innate desire to “get to the end.” Imagine reading a novel and finding that the author just stopped writing five or six chapters from the end—how satisfied would you be with that author? In the same way, when a speaker doesn’t think through her or his conclusion properly, audience members are often left just as dissatisfied. In other words, conclusions are really important!

My apologies, This is actually the question I was referring too.. It wants the pseudocode aswell as the flowchart which I am having trouble with the psedocode and what responses I have seen to the question has not made a ton of sense. Any help woudl be apprecitated. Thank you

a. Registration workers at a conference for authors of children’s books have collected data about conference participants, including the number of books each author has written and the target age of their readers. The participants have written from 1 to 40 books each, and target readers’ages range from 0 through 16. Design a program that continuously accepts the number of books written until a sentinel value is entered, and then displays a list of how many participants have written each number of books (1 through 40). b. Modify the author registration program so that a target age for each author’s audience is input until a sentinel value is entered. The output is a count of the number of books written for each of the following age groups: under 3, 3 through 7, 8 through 10, 11 through 13, and 14 and older.

Many managers and executives are too rushed to read long journal articles, but they are eager to stay current in their fields. Assume your boss has asked you to help him stay abreast of research in his field. He asks you to submit to him one executive summary every month on an article of interest.

Your Task. In your field of study, select a professional journal, such as the Journal of Management. Using ProQuest, Factiva, EBSCO, or some other database, look for articles in your target journal. Select an article that is at least five pages long and is interesting to you. Write an executive summary in a memo format. Include an introduction that might begin with As you requested, I am submitting this executive summary of . . . . Identify the author, article title, journal, and date of publication. Explain what the author intended to do in the study or article. Summarize three or four of the most important findings of the study or article. Use descriptive, or “talking,” headings rather than functional headings. Summarize any recommendations made. Your boss would also like a concluding statement indicating your reaction to the article. Address your memo to Marcus E. Fratelli.

When a virus is placed on an oak leaf, small lesions appear on the leaf. Researchers believe different strains of the virus will produce different effects. They wished to test this idea by comparing the mean number of lesions produced by two different strains of the virus. In the experiment, Strain 1 (VS1) was applied to 10 oak leaves and Strain 2 (VS2) was applied to another 10 oak leaves. The lesions that appear on each leaf were then counted. The raw data are shown below:

Strain 1 18 21 17 22 20 20 20 18 19 17

Strain 2 11 18 10 14 17 14 10 14 17 11

a. Symbolically state the null and alternate hypotheses.  

b. Assuming the above data were normally distributed, what is the appropriate test for this experiment?

i. F-test ii. Independent t-test iii. Z-test iv. F-test then paired t-test v. F-test then independent t-test vi. F-test then z-test vii. Paired t-test

c. What is the mean number of lesions for each group?

d. Symbolically state the null and alternate hypotheses for the F-test (use the appropriate symbols)

e. If the variance for VS1 is 2.84 and the variance for VS2 is 9.15, calculate the F statistic.  

f. Given α = 0.05, state the critical value for the F statistic and whether you would accept or reject the F-test null-hypothesis?

g. Regarding the ensuing t-test, is this 1- or 2-tails and what direction is it if 1- tailed?  

h. If the pooled variance (s2 p) is 6.0, calculate the test statistic for the t-test.

i. What are the degrees of freedom for this test? Given α = 0.05, would you accept or reject the t-test null hypothesis? Why?

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Financial information for Powell Panther Corporation is shown below:

Powell Panther Corporation: Income Statements for Year Ending December 31 (Millions of Dollars)

Powell Panther Corporation: Balance Sheets as of December 31 (Millions of Dollars)

Write out your answers completely. For example, 25 million should be entered as 25,000,000.

1. What was net operating working capital for 2015 and 2016?
   
   2015:  $  
   
   2016:  $  
   
2. What was the 2016 free cash flow?
   
   $  
   
3. How would you explain the large increase in 2016 dividends?
   
   1. The large increase in net income from 2015 to 2016 explains the large increase in 2016 dividends.
   2. The large increase in EBIT from 2015 to 2016 explains the large increase in 2016 dividends.
   3. The large increase in free cash flow from 2015 to 2016 explains the large increase in 2016 dividends.
   4. The large increase in sales from 2015 to 2016 explains the large increase in 2016 dividends.
   5. The large increase in retained earnings from 2015 to 2016 explains the large increase in 2016 dividends.
   
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Financial information for Powell Panther Corporation is shown below:

Powell Panther Corporation: Income Statements for Year Ending December 31 (Millions of Dollars)

Powell Panther Corporation: Balance Sheets as of December 31 (Millions of Dollars)

Write out your answers completely. For example, 25 million should be entered as 25,000,000.

1. What was net operating working capital for 2015 and 2016?
   
   2015:  $   
   
   2016:  $   
   
2. What was the 2016 free cash flow?
   
   $   
   
3. How would you explain the large increase in 2016 dividends?
   
   1. The large increase in net income from 2015 to 2016 explains the large increase in 2016 dividends.
   2. The large increase in EBIT from 2015 to 2016 explains the large increase in 2016 dividends.
   3. The large increase in free cash flow from 2015 to 2016 explains the large increase in 2016 dividends.
   4. The large increase in sales from 2015 to 2016 explains the large increase in 2016 dividends.
   5. The large increase in retained earnings from 2015 to 2016 explains the large increase in 2016 dividends.

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Financial information for Powell Panther Corporation is shown below:

Powell Panther Corporation: Income Statements for Year Ending December 31 (Millions of Dollars)

Powell Panther Corporation: Balance Sheets as of December 31 (Millions of Dollars)

Write out your answers completely. For example, 25 million should be entered as 25,000,000.

1. What was net operating working capital for 2015 and 2016?
   
   2015:  $   
   
   2016:  $   
   
2. What was the 2016 free cash flow?
   
   $   
   
3. How would you explain the large increase in 2016 dividends?
   
   1. The large increase in net income from 2015 to 2016 explains the large increase in 2016 dividends.
   2. The large increase in free cash flow from 2015 to 2016 explains the large increase in 2016 dividends.
   3. The large increase in EBIT from 2015 to 2016 explains the large increase in 2016 dividends.
   4. The large increase in sales from 2015 to 2016 explains the large increase in 2016 dividends.
   5. The large increase in retained earnings from 2015 to 2016 explains the large increase in 2016 dividends.

2. Let BT Node be the class we often use for binary-tree nodes. Write the following recursive methods: (a) numLeaves: a method that takes a BT Node T as parameter and returns the number of leaves in the tree rooted at T. (b) isEven: a boolean method that takes a BT Node T and checks whether its tree is strictly binary: every node in the tree has an even number of children.

3. Suppose you want to improve Merge Sort by first applying Heap Sort to a number of consecutive subarrays. Given an array A, your algorithm subdivides A into subarrays A1, A2 · · · Ak, where k is some power of 2, and applies Heap Sort on each subarray Ai alone. The algorithm proceeds into merging pairs of consecutive subarrays until the array is sorted. For example, if k = 4, you first apply Heap Sort to sort each Ai and then you merge A1 with A2 and A3 with A4, then you apply the merge function once to get the sorted array. (a) Does the proposed algorithm improve the asymptotic running time of Merge Sort when k = 2? How about the case k = log n (or a power of 2 that is closest to log n)? Justify. (b) Is the proposed algorithm stable? Is it in-place? Prove your answers.

4. Write a clear pseudocode for Breadth-First Search (BFS) in undirected graphs. How would you modify your code to compute the number of connected components in the input graph? Give details about the used data structures and the running time.

5. Write a clear pseudocode for Depth-First Search (DFS) in graphs. How would you modify your code to check whether the graph is acyclic?

6. The centrality of a vertex v in an undirected graph G is measured as follows: c(v) = n1(v) + n2(v) + · · · nd(v) where ni(v) is the number of vertices at distance i from v (e.g., n1(v) is the number of neighbors of v) and d is the maximum distance between v and a vertex of the same connected component as v in G (so d = 0 if v is isolated). Write the pseudocode of a most-efficient algorithm that computes the centrality of a vertex v in a given graph G. What is the running time of your algorithm? Prove your answer.

You are given the following information. Please use it for the following

Stocks W and X had 2 for 1 splits on December 31, 2016. The information in the table

for 2016 is pre-split.

3.4 Calculate the price weighted series for Dec 31, 2016, prior to the splits.

3.5 Calculate the price weighted series for Dec 31, 2016, after the splits.

3.6 Calculate the price weighted series for Dec 31, 2017.

a.

Calculate the value weighted index for Dec 31, 2016, prior to the splits. Assume a base

index value of 100. The base year is Dec 31, 2016.

b.

Calculate the value weighted index for Dec 31, 2016, after the splits. Assume a base index

value of 100. The base year is Dec 31, 2016.

3.8 Calculate the value weighted index for Dec 31, 2017. Assume a base index value of

100. The base year is Dec 31, 2016.

3.9

a.

Calculate the unweighted index for Dec 31, 2016, prior to the splits. Assume a base index

value of 100. The base year is Dec 31, 2016.

b.

Calculate the unweighted index for Dec 31, 2016, after the splits. Assume a base index

value of 100. The base year is Dec 31, 2016.

3.10 Calculate the unweighted index (geometric mean) for Dec 31, 2017. Assume a base

index value of 100. The base year is Dec 31, 2016.

An infinitely long solid insulating cylinder of radius a = 5.6 cm is positioned with its symmetry axis along the z-axis as shown. The cylinder is uniformly charged with a charge density ρ = 25 μC/m³. Concentric with the cylinder is a cylindrical conducting shell of inner radius b = 14.5 cm, and outer radius c = 17.5 cm. The conducting shell has a linear charge density λ = -0.41μC/m.

1. What is V(P) – V(R), the potential difference between points P and R? Point P is located at (x,y) = (42 cm, 42 cm).

2. What is V(c) - V(a), the potentital difference between the outer surface of the conductor and the outer surface of the insulator?

3. Defining the zero of potential to be along the z-axis (x = y = 0), what is the sign of the potential at the surface of the insulator? V(a) < 0 V(a) = 0 V(a) > 0

4. The charge density of the insulating cylinder is now changed to a new value, ρ’ and it is found that the electric field at point P is now zero. What is the value of ρ’?