1. What are some actions a firm can take to shorten its cash conversion cycle?

2. What are some costs associated with high inventories? With low inventories?

3. What is a “supply chain” and how are supply chains related to just-in-time inventory procedures?

4. Explain how a new firm’s receivables balance is built up over time.

Program that does conversions (i.e. decimal to hexadecimal, binary to decimal) but needs to have a drop down menu to give you the option to choose with conversion you want to go from and convert into (JOptionPane). Cannot use the conversion tool that is built-in Java. Need to use equations or some sort. Please include comments on what is happening to understand.

1. The romantic image of “community” is “gemeinschaft”—where everyone at the table has similar backgrounds and values. How can strong ties and social capital be built in a diverse community (“gesellschaft”)? Choose two unrelated groups in your area and brainstorm ways you could work to increase networks and shared values to create a greater social capital.

True or False if false state why:

While she initially committed to becoming a nun and serving the poor, Austrian Catholic immigrant descendant Philadelphian Katherine Drexel soon found her vow of poverty to be tiresome, and she subsequently returned to her life of wealth and privilege in Philadelphia and built a spectacular mansion with all of her millions. ____

In MATLAB define a function named primes that takes a non-negative integer, ?, as its only argument and returns a row vector containing the first ? prime numbers in order. Assume that the first prime number is 2.  Other than the zeros function, the ones function, and the colon (:) operator, you may not use any Matlab built-in array functions.

1. Why don't processors for laptop computers require the large heat sink and fan combinations that PCs use to dissipate heat?

2. What types of devices do notebooks use instead of a mouse?

3. What is the function of the docking station?

4. What kinds of components are typically built into a notebook computer?

5. How do you add devices to a notebook computer?

Design a Ship class that the following members: A field for the name of the ship (a string). A field for the year that the ship was built (a string). A constructor and appropriate accessors and mutators. A toString method that displays the ship’s name and the year it was built. Design a CruiseShip class that extends the Ship class. The CruiseShip class should have the following members: A field for the maximum number of passengers (an int). A constructor and appropriate accessors and mutators. A toString method that overrides the toString method in the base class. The CruiseShip class’s toString method should display only the ship’s name and the maximum number of passengers. Design a CargoShip class that extends the Ship class. The CargoShip class should have the following members: A field for the cargo capacity in tonnage (an int). A constructor and appropriate accessors and mutators. A toString method that overrides the toString method in the base class. The CargoShip class’s toString method should display only the ship’s name and the ship’s cargo capacity.

I need user input aka asking the user to input a ship name, the number of passengers, and the year.

Nonparametric Methods
In this assignment, we will use the following nonparametric methods:

• The Wilcoxon signed-rank test: The Wilcoxon signed-rank test is the nonparametric test analog of the paired t-test.
• The Wilcoxon rank-sum test or the Mann-Whitney U test: The Wilcoxon rank-sum test is an analog to the two-sample t-test for independent samples.

Part 1: Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test

Let's take a hypothetical situation. The World Health Organization (WHO) wants to investigate whether building irrigation systems in an African region helped reduce the number of new cases of malaria and increased the public health level.

Data was collected for the following variables from ten different cities of Africa:

• The number of new cases of malaria before the irrigation systems were built
• The number of new cases of malaria after the irrigation systems were built

Table 1: Cases of Malaria

Using the Minitab statistical analysis program to enter the data and perform the analysis, complete the following:

• Run a sample Wilcoxon signed-rank test to show whether there is a statistically significant difference between the number of cases before and after the irrigation systems were built.
• Obtain the rank-sum.
• Determine the significance of the difference between the groups.
• Determine whether building these systems helped reduce new cases of malaria.
• In a Microsoft Word document, provide a written interpretation of your results.

1. Horizontal siding may be attached

2. Structural steel members are

3. Light-gauge steel studs are attached to top and bottom tracks using

4. A length of LVL lumber is more likely to warp or deform than sawn lumber of an equivalent size and length.

True

False

5. Light-gauge steel studs are attached to top and bottom tracks using

rivets.

staples.

nails.

bolts in predrilled holes.

self-tapping screws.

6. A length of LVL lumber is more likely to warp or deform than sawn lumber of an equivalent size and length.

True

False

7. Distinguishing characteristic(s) of platform framing construction include (choose most complete overall answer)

8. In which of the following situations would a light-gauge steel connector be used?

Pratt is ready to graduate and leave College Park. His future employer (Ferndale Corp.) offers the following four compensation packages from which Pratt may choose. Pratt will start working for Ferndale on January 1, year 1.

Assume that the restricted stock is 1,000 shares that trade at $5 per share on the grant date (January 1, year 1) and are expected to be worth $10 per share on the vesting date at the end of year 1 and that no 83(b) election is made. Assume that the NQOs (100 options that each allow the employee to purchase 10 shares at $5 exercise price). The stock trades at $5 per share on the grant date (January 1, year 1) and is expected to be worth $10 per share on the vesting date at the end of year 1 and that the options are exercised and sold at the end of the year. Also assume that Pratt spends on average $3,000 on health-related costs that would be covered by insurance if he has coverage. Assume that Pratt's marginal tax rate is 35 percent. Assume that Pratt spends $3,000 in after-tax dollars for health expenses when he doesn't have health insurance coverage (treat this as an outflow), and that there is no effect when he has health insurance coverage. (Ignore FICA taxes and the time value of money considerations).

Required:

1. What is the after-tax value of each compensation package for year 1?
2. If Pratt’s sole consideration is maximizing after-tax value for year 1, which scheme should he select?