Regarding the scenario below, state below PRECISELY what criteria you are going to use to identify the top candidates based on the records provided. Be brief but be complete.

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Imagine you are hired for Moople, a well-known tech company that receives thousands of job applications from students every year. You are asked to create a program that algorithmically selects the applications that are worth a second look. Moople claims that algorithms will reduce costs and help negate the biases that result from tired application readers (will it?).

To help with this process, Moople’s application collects numerical data about each applicant’s computer science education. Applicants must enter the grades they received across 6 core CS courses as well as their overall GPA. The information for each applicant will be stored in a list, such as the following:

[100, 95, 80, 89, 91, 75, 83]

This list will represent their performance across the following courses:

• [0] Intro to CS: 100
• [1] Data Structures: 95
• [2] Software Engineering: 80
• [3] Algorithms: 89
• [4] Computer Organization: 91
• [5] Operating Systems: 75
• [6] Overall College GPA: 83

Why would we want to use a state-space approach for control systems?  What are the advantages or disadvantages?  Would it allow more or less flexibility?  Would it cost more?  

All of the macroeconomic material is related to this model: GDP, inflation, unemployment. In chapter 12, you’ll read about how fiscal policy can affect the economy. The fiscal policy tools that you read about in this chapter are meant to adjust the aggregate demand side of the economy. But there is a debate about whether this is the side of the market that should be targeted. Some economists and policymakers would rather focus on policies that shift the aggregate supply (so-called “supply-side policies”). For this discussion board, explain one of the reasons why policymakers usually focus on demand-side policies to achieve their macroeconomic goals as opposed to the supply-side ones. Be sure to include concepts from the chapters. Provide one example of a demand-side policy and explain why and how it causes the aggregate demand to shift. Similarly for the supply side, you need to explain one of the reasons why some may prefer to use supply-side policies. Provide one example of a supply-side policy and explain why and how it causes the aggregate supply to shift. In both cases, make certain that you are giving reasons supporting the use of these policies as opposed to giving reasons against the opposite policies. Both supply-side and demand-side policies have impacts on inflation and unemployment. Explain what these impacts are for each type of policy (i.e. demand-side and supply-side policy). Knowing these impacts and the reasons you explained above, which type of policy do you favor and why?

Support your opinion with economic reasoning and concepts. If you use any other sources, be sure to cite them within the text as well as provide a bibliographical citation at the end.

What is the situation surrounding hunger? Describe the programs available in your State and County: Who they are for, availability, effectiveness, percentage using. Is there additional need?

Discuss the concept of preventive detention. What is it?

Why would your state practice this method and what are the benefits to this concept?

What are the possible effects should a state opt not to incorporate preventive detention?

Do you see any negative aspects to it and what types of offenders do you believe should fall under this concept?

In your opinion, what can the US government (state or federal or local government) do to ensure that uninsured individuals get the health care services at a low cost?

2. What the process is by which a banker’s acceptance is created?

Clearly state your answer to each problem. Answers without justification/explanation will not be given credit

1. What is the Central Limit Theorem? Try to state it in your own words. 2. Consider the random variable x, where x is the number of dots after rolling a die. Make a sketch of the probability distribution of this variable. What is the expected value of x? 3. Now consider the random variable that is the average number of dots after four rolls. Is this variable normally distributed? Explain. 4. Suppose we changed the definition to the average number of dots after forty rolls. Would this variable be normally distributed? Explain. 5. Going forward, let’s define ?̅ as the average number of dots after forty rolls. a. What is the expected value of ?̅?   b. The standard deviation of x is 2.197. What is the standard error of ?̅?   6. What is the probability of obtaining an average that is less than 4.25? 7. What is the probability of obtaining an average that is within 0.5 of the expected value? Make a sketch to illustrate the probability. 8. Suppose that you increased the number of rolls to 100. You again calculate the probability that the average is within 0.5 of the expected value. Is this probability less than or greater than the probability you calculated in question 7? Why? (Try to answer without doing any calculations.) 9. What must be true so that the sampling distribution of ?̅ follows the normal distribution? 10. The probability of winning at the board game Monopoly is 32.5% if you move first. If you play 20 games of Monopoly where you move first, what is the probability that you win at least 10 out of 20 times? a. Express 10 out of 20 as a proportion. b. What is the population proportion? c. Calculate the standard error of the sample proportion. d. Now compute the probability of winning at least 10 out of 20 times.

Question 4

Red Balloons Ltd, a Canadian supplier of military radar equipment, has just won a bid to lease the Spanish Air Force some high-end sensors for the next ten years. The first of 20 semi-annual payments of €5.3 million will be made on January 1, 2013.

1. Assuming Red Balloons will need to convert Euros into dollars before they can pay their expenses, does this contract provide them with a long or short exposure to the Canadian Dollar? Explain. (1 mark)

To manage their risk, Red Balloons contacted the swap desk at their bank who offered to buy their foreign currency every six months for a rate of $1.2585 CAD per Euro for the length of the contract.

2. If Red Balloons accepts the offer, will the bank have a long or short exposure to Euro as a result of this new contract? Explain with a diagram showing both transactions between the three parties
3. When banks take on these kinds of currency risks and enable their clients to hedge, they neutralize their own exposures by swapping the foreign currency to banks domiciled in the originating country. If the Canadian bank needs to make a present value of $465,000 from arranging this swap to cover their costs, and the appropriate semi-annual discount rate is 2%, what is the lowest price in dollars that the Canadian bank can accept for the Euros they will resell? Keep 4 decimal places.
4. In the case of cross-currency swaps like this, the entire amounts are exchanged each time, not simply a net payment. Explain why this is. (1 mark)

Read the following story and comment briefly on why the manipulation of LIBOR had important consequences for the market for interest rate swaps. Who profited from the underreporting of LIBOR? How could a bank profit by reporting a lower borrowing rate than they actually had?

For each of the following, identify the antibody or antibodies (if more than one) that meet each of the following criteria. Briefly (about one sentence or less) answer the follow-up question.

a)________ Only antibody formed in the absence of TH-B cell interaction (T-independent pathway). What types of antigen allow this mechanism of B cell activation? b)________ Able to activate the complement cascade. What are three consequences of complement activation?

c)________ Able to initiate ADCC. What happens during ADCC?

d)________ Able to opsonize a pathogen. What is another opsonin that we talked about in Bio 221?

e)________ Main antibody secreted across mucosal surfaces. How do bacteria that use this portal of entry prevent this antibody from finding them?

f)________ Used to prevent Rh- moms from being sensitized against an Rh+ baby. Briefly explain how this type of hypersensitive reaction could kill subsequent babies.

g)________ Found on the surface of a naïve B cell. What is a “naïve” B cell?

h)________ Responsible for the allergic response What happens during the two exposures required for the allergic response? (>1 sentence is OK)

i)________ Used in artificial passive immunizations What is the difference between “active” and “passive” immunity? State some examples.