1. What effect does the forest canopy have on temperatures at or near the ground /water’s surface? What is the reason for these effects?

                2. What effect does a forest have on humidity ? What is the reason?

3. Since climatic factors vary spatially and temporarily, what variations could you expect in the following factos:

                                a. Temperature

                                                i. on the surface of a still pool of water in a forest opening at noon

                                                ii. within the crevice of a rock cave 1m high at night

                                b. Humidity

                                                i. on the surface of the ground in a treefall gap during the dry season

                                                ii. within a tank bromeliad 3m above the ground in the rainy season

Mr. Zillow wants to research the prices in a Subdivision near Disney World called World of Homes. The prices of 14 homes in this subdivision are listed below. As a conclusion for his research, with a 90% confidence level, he prepares a report indicating the confidence interval for the mean prices of "World of Homes".    

In his report for the mean prices of "World of Homes", he first presents the value of margin of error which is equal to ___ along with the value of degrees of freedom which is equal to ___.

Moreover, Mr. Zillow's report also indicates the mean prices of "World of Homes" with a lower limit of ___ and an upper limit of ___ with a confidence level of 90%.

Round up or down your values to the closest whole numbers.

Fill in the blanks merely by plugging in integer values ONLY.

Please do not use any commas, decimals, or $ sign.

Bill’s Winery is considering opening a winery near campus. To open the winery, they must purchase $370 in equipment. Shipping of the equipment will cost $50 and installation of the equipment will be $40. In addition to the equipment, Bill’s Winery will build a new building with an all-in price of $1000. Bill bought the land for the winery for $200 five years ago and has no plans for the land if he does not build the winery. The modifications and equipment are depreciated using the 5-year MACRS schedule. Bill’s Winery will operate the winery for four years, and then expects to sell the winery to an investor for $1,200 plus any working capital. The firm will have some one-time expenses in year 1 of $170, primarily licenses and legal fees. To operate the winery, Bill’s Winery will need an increase in Inventory of $17, an increase of Accounts Receivables of $24, and will have an increase in Accounts Payable of $49. Working capital will be recovered when we sell the winery.

Annual sales are as follows; $400 in year 1, $1,200 in year 2, $2,200 in year 3, and $2,500 in year 4. Cost of Goods Sold (excluding overhead, depreciation, and lease payments) are 40% of annual sales. Production labor is 20% of sales. To manage the company, executives and administrators must be hired, at an annual fixed cost of $260. Property taxes and alcohol licenses are $300 per year. Bill’s has an agreement for a 3-year 6% amortized Small Business Administration Loan to finance part of the project. The firm needs new equity investors to fund the expansion and Bill’s Winery has only been able to find one equity investor. Both SBA and this equity investor requires that the firm have audited financial statements. The outside investor gets to choose the auditor and the auditor would cost the company $20 per year. The firm’s tax rate is 20%. The cost of capital is 13%.

What are the Initial Cash Flows in Year 0?

What are the Operating Cash Flows in Year 2?

What are the Terminal Cash Flows in Year 4? (I want only Terminal Cash Flows, not operating cash flows in year 4)

Show your work/inputs for partial credit. If you complete this in a spreadsheet, you can copy/paste your answer into the answer area

Q1. PLEASE EXPLAIN THE ANSWER Near to lacO are other DNA sequences similar to lacO.

A. What prevents LacI from occupying these instead of the lacO in the promoter region?

B. What role is proposed for those other lacO-like elements?

Q2. PLEASE EXPLAIN THE ANSWER

You are given an E. coli merodiploid with an F plasmid with this genotype: lacP- lacO+ lacZ+ lacY+ and a chromosome with a second copy of the lac operon with this genotype: lacP+ lacO+ lacZ- lacY-. Depending on the whether lacP- is replaced with lacP+ on the F plasmid by the Holliday or DSBR model, what happens to the copy of lacP on the chromosome? Explain why.

Bob has plans to camp overnight near Mt. Washington, the highest peak in the northeast, in January. Temperatures in that part of the White Mountains, routinely are well below zero, without wind chill. Bob knows he will need a sleeping bag, but has limited funds to purchase a sleeping bag.

In August he travels to LL Bean, Freeport, Maine to purchase a sleeping bag. Bob makes his way to the bag section and without consulting with store employees, selects a bag, primarily because of the bright color and low price. The bag is rated as "warm" down to 40 degrees above zero (F). He pays for the bag, without discussing the purchase with the cashier, or why or when he plans to use the bag.

He goes to Mt. Washington, in January, camps out and the temperature drops to 20 below (F), with wind chill -45 F. It is the first time he has used the bag and he suffers severe frostbite on his toes, necessitating the amputation of five toes.

Bob would like to sue LL Bean for the loss of his toes. His theory is that the bag "should have" protected him from the cold. Based upon the given facts, please discuss the merits of his suit. Is it likely that the suit succeed, why or why not?

Be sure to cite the proper section of the UCC that supports your answer. Hint: Review the sections in UCC 2-301, et al.

# 2: Now consider that Bob discussed his plans with the sleeping bag salesperson at LL Bean. He specifically told the sales associate that he needed a bag for the camping trip tp Mt Washington in January. The salesperson told him that the 40 degree bag was the best choice.   Does this change your analysis of the merits of the law suit? Why or why not?

Lavage Rapide is a Canadian company that owns and operates a large automatic carwash facility near Montreal. The following table provides data concerning the company’s costs:

For example, electricity costs are $1,300 per month plus $0.08 per car washed. The company expected to wash 8,200 cars in August and to collect an average of $6.60 per car washed. The company actually washed 8,300 cars.

The actual operating results for August appear below.

Required:

Compute the company's activity variances for August. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values.)

On game days, homeowners near a college football stadium used to rent parking spaces in their driveways to fans at a market rate of $11 (4,000 spaces available)

Upon hearing rumors that homeowners were unfairly increasing parking prices for certain "high demand" games, the local town council issued a new town ordinance setting the maximum parking fee at $7.

1. How will homeowners react?
2. How will football fans react?
3. What is the outcome of their actions?

Assume that a new theater is opening near campus. The theater owner wants lots of students to come to see movies, but is nervous about what influences their demand. Through masterful research, the theater owner discovers the following is true about demand for his theater tickets:

Own Price Elasticity    =   3.5      
Cross Price Elasticity    =   2.2      
Income Elasticity    =    4.7

If the owner lowers his price by 20%, by how much will quantity demand change? Show all work.

If the competing theater raises his price by 8%, by how much will quantity demand change at this new theater? Show all work.

If students at the Mount get 9% more income, by how much will demand for tickets change? Show all work.

If incomes fall by 5%, by how much does the theater owner need to lower his price to keep the same number of customers as before? (i.e. to keep quantity demand the same as before the drop in income). Show all work.

1. The Dias project site is located at 42232 Mission Boulevard near the Interstate 680 in Fremont, California. Twenty homes were constructed on the hillside property, per the approved general land plan designation of Low-Density Residential. Upon completion of site preparation and grading, the installation of the right of ways and utilities and the construction of the residences was completed over approximately an 18-month period. The Dias project was approved by the City of Fremont in 2012; however, due to the economic downturn, the project did not gain momentum until early 2015. Robson Homes picked up the design and moved forward with the civil, landscape, architect, and joint trench designs. In developing the grading and improvement plans for the future homes, five agencies were involved in the submittal reviews. Agencies included and the respective jurisdictions are as follows:
   • Caltrans – Mission Boulevard right of way (Route 238)
   • Alameda County Water District – public water main connection & service laterals
   • Union Sanitary District – public sanitary sewer main connection & service laterals
   • City of Fremont: Building & Engineering Departments– public right of way and homes
   • PG&E – existing utility easement (two gas lines with a 50’ easement)

Construction on the site was initiated in February 2016. The Dias project gained approval from all five agencies in April 2016. However, unforeseen circumstances necessitated further changes to the engineering design. Despite this setback, the developer decided to move forward with the construction, accepting the risk of agency comments regarding the new engineering design. The constructed homes feature multi-car garages or detached garages with an upstairs studio. Homes are be two-story and have a minimum of four bedrooms and 3.5 baths. Because homes are located on a hillside, extensive grading studies for retaining walls are required. Lots have customized landscaping per Robson’s request and feature multiple trees along the new right of way and in each lot.

For this specific project, perform the following exercise:

• Identify and describe at least four project risks
• Estimate the likelihood of occurrence of the identified risk and rank the risk types by the least likely to most likely to occur.
• For the four identified risk, determine the risk significance (insignificant, minor, moderate, major)
• For the four identified risks, determine proposed mitigation efforts.