1. Explain the difference between an incorporated and non-incorporated company in the US and give examples of the latter

Should US substantially limit its global involvement? As the leader of the world, do you think US needs substantially revise its foreign policy in this century. Please consider the following issues:

Does the world need a leader and why?

Why the US has played the role in the past decades?

Does the US benefit from its position as the world leader?

If the US really limits its global involvement, what would be the consequences?

Data show that an average Canadian and American citizen hold CA$2000 and US$4000 of their currency respectively. Since money is bulky, it can be stolen, pays no interest and in general we do not see our fellow Canadians holding $2000 in their pockets, where are these dollars and who is holding them?

1) Define each of the insurance terms on page 211.

2) Which are the 4 four parts of Medicare? Explain each with 2-3 sentences.

3) What is Medicaid? Who is eligible?

4) State the three characteristics to each of the following health care systems: US, UK, and Canada.

1. Do you find it intuitive, or not, that the mean and standard deviation of a sampling distribution aren't impacted by population size? Explain to a friend who hasn't taken statistics what a sampling distribution is, and what makes them useful. What questions can they help us answer, and what information is required?

Reflection on Coronavirus outbreak and how to cope

Who would have thought that our lives would be so dramatically changed in a matter of weeks?

There are shared challenges we will all face locally, nationally, and globally.  I’d like us to use this forum to discuss issues and ideas on how to cope.

In a telephone conversation with a sales representative of a linen company, the manager of a hotel ordered $1,000 worth of sheets. Following the conversation, the manager wrote a memo to the file documenting the agreement, initialed it, and sent a copy to the sales representative. One of the linen company’s competitors learned of this contract and contacted the hotel to tell them that the sheets were poorly manufactured and that they should stop buying from the linen company and buy everything from the competitor. The hotel then cancels the contract and starts buying from the competitor.

The linen company’s sheets are not poorly manufactured. The linen company can sue both the competitor and the hotel for losses suffered, one for a tort and one for breach of contract, but the linen company is not allowed to recover twice for the same harm.

What is the tort that the linen company can sue for and who is the defendant?

Who should they sue for the breach of contract claim?

What damages would be recoverable from each defendant so that it would not be recovering the same damages twice?

Does the Statute of Frauds create a defense to the lawsuit against the hotel?

Why or why not?

Its a law question

Methods

Participants

Participants (N = 8,997) were undergraduate students at 20 2- and 4-year college and university campuses in Minnesota who completed the 2015 College Student Health Survey.¹⁷ Data were collected online between February 16, 2015 and March 27, 2015. Most (68%) participants were female. Participants identified as White (81.6%), Asian (8.6%), Black or African American (6.1%), American Indian or Alaska Native (2.1%), Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander (0.4%), other races (1.9%), and prefer not to answer (2.9%). Percentages did not add to 100% because respondents could indicate more than one race. The median age of the sample was 21 years old (range =18–74). Most (73%) of the sample was enrolled in 4-year colleges and universities. Almost half (47%) were first-generation college students (ie, neither parent had a 4-year college degree). The sample included participants who identified as heterosexual (89%), bisexual (4%), g** or lesbian (2%), or other (4%). The study was approved by the institutional review board (IRB) of the university that sent the survey (Study # 0012S75881). Other schools signed an agreement with that university or sought approval from their own IRB. All study procedures were carried out in accordance with the latest version of the Declaration of Helsinki. Students provided consent on the online survey.

Measures

Factors perceived to affect academic performance

Factors that were perceived to affect college academic performance were assessed by a measure that presented students with a list of 20 factors, including stress.¹⁷Students rated each factor in terms of whether they had experienced it and, if so, whether or not it had affected their academic performance during the past 12 months (1 = I do not have this issue/not applicable; 2 = I have this issue, my academics have not been affected; 3 = I have this issue, my academics have been affected). The similar question on the NCHA survey assessed how academics were affected (eg, scored lower on a test or project) in separate responses, graded for severity of the academic impairment, whereas this survey had a single response option for academics being affected by the factor.

Stress

Stress was measured on a 10-point scale on which students rated their average level of stress over the past 30 days (1 = Not stressed at all to 10 = Very stressed). The construct validity of scores on this measure was supported by the finding that students who scored higher on this measure also reported more days with poor mental health (including stress, depression, and problems with emotions) in the past month (r = .49, p < .001).

Coping self-efficacy

Coping self-efficacy was measured on a 10-point scale on which students rated their ability to manage their stress over the past 30 days (1 = Ineffective to 10 = Very effective). The construct validity of scores on this measure was supported by a negative correlation between coping self-efficacy and stress (r = −.47, p < .001).

Resilience

The Brief Resilience Scale (BRS)¹⁸ is a 6-item measure of resilience, defined as the ability to “bounce back or recover from stress” (p. 194). Students rated each item (eg, “It does not take me a long time to recover from a stressful event”) on a 5-point scale (1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly Agree). Higher scores indicate greater resilience. Smith et al reported a test-retest reliability coefficient of .69 in a sample of undergraduate students over a one-month period and Cronbach’s alphas ranging from .84 to .87. In the current sample, α was .88.

Social support

Students rated the supportiveness of their family, friends, college/university faculty, and college/university staff on four separate items. Each item was rated on a 10-point scale (1 = Very unsupportive to 10 = Very supportive). To create an overall measure of social support, scores on these four items were averaged (α = .84).

Academic performance

Participants reported their cumulative grade point average (GPA) to two decimal places (M = 3.35, SD = 0.49). The correlation between self-reported college GPA and data from student records was r = .90 in a meta-analysis.¹⁹

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Discuss the methods the researchers used for: selecting study participants and collecting and analysing data.

What were the strengths and weaknesses of the methods used?

On January 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, Regis Company's employees earned $25,760 of office salaries and $60,840 of sales salaries. Withholdings from the employees' salaries include FICA Social Security taxes at the rate of 6.2%, FICA Medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,060 of federal income taxes, $1,350 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. No employee earned more than $7,000 in this first period.

Required:
1.1 Calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of Regis Company. Regis’s state unemployment tax rate is 5.4% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. The federal unemployment tax rate is 0.6%.
1.2 Prepare the journal entry to record Regis Company's January 8 employee payroll expenses and liabilities.
2. Prepare the journal entry to record Regis’s employer payroll taxes resulting from the January 8 payroll. Regis’s state unemployment tax rate is 5.4% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. The federal unemployment tax rate is 0.6%.

On January 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, Regis Company's employees earned $25,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. Withholdings from the employees' salaries include FICA Social Security taxes at the rate of 6.2%, FICA Medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,160 of federal income taxes, $1,390 of medical insurance deductions, and $880 of union dues. No employee earned more than $7,000 in this first period.

Required:
1.1 Calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of Regis Company. Regis’s state unemployment tax rate is 5.4% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. The federal unemployment tax rate is 0.6%.
1.2 Prepare the journal entry to record Regis Company's January 8 employee payroll expenses and liabilities.
2. Prepare the journal entry to record Regis’s employer payroll taxes resulting from the January 8 payroll. Regis’s state unemployment tax rate is 5.4% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. The federal unemployment tax rate is 0.6%.