Environmentalists concerned about the impact of high-frequency radio transmissions on birds found that there was no evidence of a higher mortality rate among hatchlings in nests near cell towers. They based this conclusion on a test using alpha=0.05. Would they have made the same decision at alpha=0.10? How about alpha=0.01? Explain. (Hint: It would help if you write the null and alternative hypotheses).

Please show all work. Typed work only. no handwritten.

1.Describe the two different ways in which an ADI may be exposed to interest rate risk.  What would it do – in respect of the two different aspects of interest rate risk – if it thought interest rates were going to increase in the near future and wanted to take advantage of this prediction?  Explain how these actions will be of benefit if interest rates do increase as predicted?

2.Describe how a bank could use derivatives to hedge an exposure to decreasing interest rates.

Explain why each of the following actions would negatively impact the results of a recrystallization procedure. Answer each in two sentences or less.

i) After achieving proper dissolution, immediately cooling the solution in an ice bath.

ii) Dissolving all of the material at room temperature, then heating to near the solvent boiling point, followed by cooling to 0 °C.

iii) Upon collection of the recrystallized material on a filter, rinsing with 1-2 mL of room temperature solvent.

Let us say that you work for Starbucks!

Since college campuses are traditionally very attractive locations for Coffee-shops, your District manager is proposing to set up a coffee shop near at the junction of Broadway and 35th   .

As a statistical consultant how would you explore this option?

Discuss what would be your population and variables, type of variables and how many?

Do you think some kind of secondary data would suffice in this case?

Corporate management and the Board of Directors fulfil a vital role to ensure good corporate governance within a company. Which of the reasons, listed below, has been a major contributing factor to corporate governance scandals?

Question 23 options:

1. Spending at All Levels of Government
   1. How much is spent, (not double counting the transfers from the federal government to state and local governments), by ALL levels of US government right now (2019 FY or 2018 full-year OK to report)?
2. 2. On a per capita basis, how much is this? Compare this amount of spending per person with the overall GDP per person of countries with GDP per person near those levels.
      
   3. As a share of GDP, how much is this?

Exercise 5: Let's Build a Moon Base

Prompt: One day in the future we will decide to establish a colony on the Moon. Where should we put it?

Analysis Directions: Make a list of the advantages and disadvantages of locating such a human habitat on poles. Should it be in a crater the near side, the far side, or at the? Highland? Maria?

Also, what site would be best for doing visible-light and radio astronomy from observatories on the Moon? Comment on each other’s lists.

a. What kind of ratios to find from the consolidated statement of operations and consolidated balance sheet of a particular industry for: understanding the financial performance, as well as near-term future for a company. b. Using consolidated statement of operations and consolidated balance sheet as well as that of competitors what ratio tools do we need to analyse their performance. Moreovers what ratio and other tools do we use for making comparison except common size and comparitive statement.

Patents are granted for 20 years, but pharmaceutical companies cannot use their patent-guaranteed monopoly powers for anywhere near this long because it takes several years to acquire the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of drugs.

• What purposes do barriers to entry created by the government serve?
• What are other barriers to entry in the pharmaceutical industry?
• Should drug patents be extended to 20 years after FDA approval?
• Explain what would be the costs and benefits of this extension.

4. We have called plate tectonics a scientific revolution. What other scientific revolutions do you know about? How is the plate tectonics revolution similar to, or different from, other revolutions, such as the Copernican revolution in astronomy? 5. What is the tectonic environment of the place where you live or attend school? Do you live near a plate margin? If so, what type is it? Or do you live in the middle of a plate? If so, which one?