Sarah Tynan's image of a hen harrier taking a Range Rover as its prey is clearly a piece of wishful thinking--or, as Jeremy Deller called the exhibition in which it served as the focal point, English Magic. What is "magical" about it? Are you sympathetic with Deller's point of view? In the United States, wolves are protected by the Endangered Species Act, but wolves often come into conflict with ranchers who claim that they kill their livestock. If you could imagine reimaging Tynan's hen harrier as a wolf, what would it have in its jaws?
In: Psychology
Question 1
It is often easier to see manifestations of women’s oppression in cultures other than our own, since they don’t seem “natural” to us. However, as we have seen in class, for every issue we have located in “other cultures” we can find an analogous manifestation in the culture(s) of the United States that reveals a shared rootedness in patriarchal society. Offer and explain U.S. analogues to three of the following: stark division of gender roles, son preference, child marriage, and control of women’s sexuality.
In: Psychology
Essay Topic: Impact of Coronavirus
Please discuss the recent pandemic COVID-19, aka the coronavirus. First give intel on the whole pandemic, explaining the root of the virus and how it got its way into the US, based on the updated news. Then talk about the various factors of the pandemic including the effects of it nationwide, especially the United States. Then organize the concerns into categories of food, economy, politics, race, and inequality. Explain each topic under the current pandemic.
Use citations and references for the essay. Use APA 6th format
In: Operations Management
Forward versus Money Market Hedge on Receivables. Assume the following information:
180‑day U.S. interest rate = 0.08
180‑day British interest rate = 0.10
180‑day forward rate of British pound = $1.42
Spot rate of British pound = $1.48
Assume that Banc Corp. from the United States will receive 421,000 pounds in 180 days. How much more (or less) would the firm receive in 180 days if it uses a forward hedge instead of a money market hedge?
In: Finance
Current U.S. military doctrine recognizes four categories of power available to a nation: diplomatic, informational, military, and economic. Upon examination, it is apparent that only a nation/state can wield these elements of power; they would be beyond the reach of weaker powers or organizations. How then, can these lesser entities influence the powerful? Five “underdog” strategies are outlined as alternative sources of power for the weak. If you are trying to influence the national policy of the United States, which of these five strategies do you feel would be the most effective? Why?
In: Computer Science
A firm uses skilled labor, unskilled labor, and capital, and is initially in equilibrium. Suppose that the wage paid to unskilled labor falls, and that unskilled labor is a substitute in production with both skilled labor and capital. Depict in separate graphs of (a) capital and unskilled labor and (b) capital and skilled labor how the original equilibrium choices change in response to the decline in wages paid to unskilled workers. What are the expected impacts on the wage and employment level for each group of worker, and why? How does this factor into the growth of inequality in recent decades in the United States?
In: Economics
In August 2015, Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of Daraprim from $13.30 a tablet to $750, an increase of 5,456 percent (Over and Silverman 2015). Daraprim is the only available treatment for toxoplasmosis, a rare infection that can become deadly for patients with weakened immune systems. This price increase means that an individual's treatment could cost up to $634,000. Daraprim's patent expired in 1953, and it can be compounded for less than a dollar per tablet. (Langreth 2015).
Two contradictory trends are evident. Generic drug prices have been declining in the United States since at least 2010, yet multiple generic drugs have risen in price.(Ornstein and Thomas 2017). The price increases generate far more attention than the price decreases, yet the structure of the market has not changed.
In the United States, pharmaceutical prices (indeed most medical prices) are based on negotiations between private insurers and suppliers. The US market has two features that are uncommon in other countries.. First, pharmacy benefit managers often act as an intermediary between insurers and suppliers. Second, the federal government plays a limited role in negotiating prices. Although the Department of Veterans Affairs negotiates drug prices for its beneficiaries, private firms negotiate for Medicare.
Questions
6. Can you provide another example of large price increases for off-patent drugs??
In: Economics
1. A manufacturer knows that their items have a normally
distributed lifespan, with a mean of 14.1 years, and standard
deviation of 2.8 years.
If you randomly purchase one item, what is the probability it will
last longer than 20 years?
2.
A particular fruit's weights are normally distributed, with a
mean of 506 grams and a standard deviation of 21 grams.
If you pick one fruit at random, what is the probability that it
will weigh between 475 grams and 565 grams
3.
In the country of United States of Heightlandia, the height
measurements of ten-year-old children are approximately normally
distributed with a mean of 55.2 inches, and standard deviation of
6.1 inches.
A) What is the probability that a randomly chosen child has a
height of less than 69.75 inches?
Answer= (Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)
B) What is the probability that a randomly chosen child has a
height of more than 37.1 inches?
Answer= (Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)
4.
In the country of United States of Heightlandia, the height
measurements of ten-year-old children are approximately normally
distributed with a mean of 55.9 inches, and standard deviation of
3.4 inches.
What is the probability that the height of a randomly chosen child
is between 61.1 and 63.7 inches? Do not round
until you get your your final answer, and then round to 3 decimal
places.
Answer= (Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)
In: Statistics and Probability
7. Below are research scenarios. For each, indicate whether the researcher committee a Type 1 error, a Type 2 error, or no error in hypothesis testing
(a) Assume there is a strong, positive relationship between
variable X (number of hours per week a child reads for pleasure)
and variable Y (language arts scores in the classroom) in the
population of 3rd grade students in the United States. As with any
educational study, researchers investigating the relationship
between X and Y are not aware of the true relationship in the
population, so researchers must conduct studies with samples and
then use inferential statistics to make decisions whether to reject
the null hypothesis (Ho: There is no relationship between X and Y)
or fail to reject the null hypothesis. A local researcher wishes to
study the relationship between X and Y and he samples 3rd grade
students from Bulloch County. After collecting relevant data, the
researcher finds no relationship between X and Y and therefore
fails to rejects the null hypothesis. The local researcher infers
there is no relationship between X and Y in the population of 3rd
grade students in the United States.
(b) A researcher found a statistically insignificant difference
between group means. If the researcher committed an error in
hypothesis testing, which error is possible?
(c) A researcher found a statistically significant relationship
between perceived autonomy and job satisfaction. If the researcher
committed an error in hypothesis testing, which error is
possible?
In: Statistics and Probability
Phoenix-based CompTronics manufactures audio speakers for desktop computers. The following data relate to the period just ended when the company produced and sold 44,000 speaker sets: Sales $ 3,608,000 Variable costs 902,000 Fixed costs 2,250,000 Management is considering relocating its manufacturing facilities to northern Mexico to reduce costs. Variable costs are expected to average $18.00 per set; annual fixed costs are anticipated to be $1,988,000. (In the following requirements, ignore income taxes.) Required:
1. Calculate the company’s current income and determine the level of dollar sales needed to double that figure, assuming that manufacturing operations remain in the United States. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answers to nearest whole dollar.)
2. Determine the break-even point in speaker sets if operations are shifted to Mexico. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer up to nearest whole number.)
3. Assume that management desires to achieve the Mexican break-even point; however, operations will remain in the United States.
a. If variable costs remain constant, by how much must fixed costs change? (Round your final answer to nearest whole dollar.)
b. If fixed costs remain constant, by how much must unit variable cost change? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places.)
In: Accounting