1. Identify an industry that is best characterized with the Monopolistic Competition market model. Explain in specific detail why you believe this industry is filled with monopolistic competitors. Specifically identify one company in the industry you have selected and describe (again, in specific detail) how this company competes ON A NON-PRICE BASIS within its industry.

4. To determine the effectiveness of a proposed public relations campaign, the senior vice president for customer relations for an automobile manufacturer asked seven consumers how much they liked the company (on a scale from 0 [do not like] to 50 [like very much]) before and after viewing the primary television advertisement of the campaign. Use the following data to test whether the consumers’ ratings of the company increased, on average, after viewing the television advertisement:

a. State the null and alternative hypotheses associated with the test.
b. If α = 0.05, what is the critical value of the associated test statistic?
c. What is the calculated value of the associated test statistic?
d. State your decision about the null hypothesis by comparing the critical and calculated values of the test statistic (Parts b and c).
e. Comment on the effectiveness of the primary television advertisement of the campaign.

Use formal, descriptive language to discuss the biggest influences on your educational career. These influences can be people such as teachers, friends, or family members; they can be moments, such as a field trip or a lesson; they can be items such as a book or a movie; as long as the things you are describing influenced you in some way in regards to education, it should be acceptable.

In as much detail as possible, describe the thing or thigs that influenced you, and describe how and why they influenced you. What made them so influential? What has it meant to you in your life? You have some freedom in the narrative structure of this essay, but you should create a logical flow of ideas through sensible organization.

A rigid tank with volume Vtank=20 liter is maintained at T1=300 C and initially contain m1=0.08 kg of water as shown in the figure. At some time, a valve is opened allowing Vin=2 liters of waters at Tin=20 C and Pin=20.0 MPa to enter the tank. The valve is shut and eventually all of the water in the tank comes to T2=300 C.

a)Locate state 1 and state in, the states of the water initially in the tank and the water added to the tank, respectively, on a sketch of a T-v diagram. Indicate on your diagram what two properties define each state as well as lines of constant pressures (isobars), lines of constant specific volume (isochors) and/or lines of constant temperatures (isotherms)).

b)What is the initial pressure in the tank (MPa)?

c)What is the mass of the water added to the tank (kg)?

d)Locate state 2, the final state of the water in the tank, on the T-v diagram from (a).

e) What is the final pressure in the tank (MPa)?

f) Explain how it is possible for the temperature of the water in the tank to remain constant at 3000C after adding water with much lower temperature ( 20oC ) to the tank.

g)On a P-v diagram overlay initial state and final state of water in the tank. Indicate on your diagram what two properties define each states and draw isotherms.

Wild fruit flies have red eyes. A recessive mutation produces white-eyed individuals. A researcher wants to assess the proportion of heterozygous individuals. A heterozygous red-eyed fly can be identified through its off-spring. When crossed with a white-eyed fly it will have a mixed progeny.

A random sample of 100 red-eyed fruit flies was taken. Each was crossed with a white- eyed fly. Of the sample flies, 12 were shown to be heterozygous because they produced mixed progeny.

a) Check this data for the conditions necessary for the calculation of a large-sample confidence interval. Does it comply OR should you use the plus-four interval only?

b) Calculate the summary statistics from these data.

c) Determine a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of heterozygous flies.

d) Also use a test of significance at the 5% level to test the hypothesis that the proportion of heterozygous red-eyed flies is different to a proposed theoretical value of 17%?

e) Compare the answer from this test at the 5% level in d) to the conclusion you could make from the 95% confidence interval in c). Would you necessarily expect the same answer?

North Carolina State University posts the grade distribution for its courses online. Students in one section of English 210 in the Fall 2008 semester received 33% A's, 24% B's, 18% C's, 16% D's, and 9% F's.

A.) Using A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, and F=0, take X to be the grade of a randomly chose English 210 student. Use the definition of mean, and standard deviation for discrete random variables to find the mean and standard deviation of grades in this course.

B.) English 210 is a large course. We can take the grade of an SRS of 50 students to be independent of each other. If x̅ is the average of these 50 grades, what are the mean and standard deviation of x?

C.) What is the probability P(X≥3) that a randomly chosen English 210 students gets a B or better? What is the approximate probability P(x̅ ≥3) that the grade point average for 50 randomly chosen English 210 students is a B or better?

D.) Give the 95% confidence interval of μ

The small group gathered in a conference room at a Red Roof Inn near Pittsburgh had a common bond and an unusual goal. They all worked for restaurants in the Red Lobster chain. Now they had to figure out whether a Red Lobster waitress had been unjustly fired. The panel included a general manager, an assistant manager, a server, a hostess and a bartender, all of whom had volunteered to review circumstances of the firing and had been told simply to do what they felt was fair.

The waitress, Ruth Hatton, was fired in 1996 for stealing a guest-comment card from the Pleasant Hills, Pa., Red Lobster where she worked. Ms. Hatton was then a 19-year Red Lobster veteran; when she was fired, she says, "it felt like a knife going through me." –– ADVERTISEMENT –– But Red Lobster allows employees who have been fired or disciplined to appeal to panels of co- workers, who hear testimony and can overturn management decisions and award damages. Thus, instead of suing, Ms. Hatton called for peer review, which took place three weeks after the firing. Across the country, a growing number of companies, including TRW Inc., Rockwell International Corp. and Marriott International Inc., are adopting similar ways of limiting worker lawsuits and easing workplace tensions. The most popular method is peer review, which lawyers say is particularly effective because it channels the pain and fury employees feel after being fired.

Darden Restaurants Inc., the Orlando, Fla., company that owns the Red Lobster and Olive Garden chains and has 110,000 workers, adopted peer review four years ago. The program has been "tremendously successful" in keeping valuable employees from unfair dismissal and cutting $1 million from annual legal expenses for employee disputes, which now total $3.5 million, says general counsel Clifford Whitehill. Until recent changes, about 100 disputes end up in peer review yearly, with only 10 resulting in lawsuits. Red Lobster managers and many employees also credit peer review with reducing racial tensions. They say peer review has, in some cases, reversed decisions by managers who overreacted to complaints from minority customers and employees.

Ms. Hatton's case, like at least half of the dozen or so disputes to go through peer review in the company's Pittsburgh region had a racial component. Ms. Hatton, who is white, was fired for pocketing a black couple's comment card complaining their prime rib was "rare" and their waitress "uncooperative." Ms. Hatton says she intended to show the card to her boss, not to steal it. Ms. Hatton chose peer review over going to court because it was "a lot cheaper," she says, adding: "I also liked the idea of being judged by people who know how things work in a little restaurant." Diane K. Canant, the Pleasant Hills restaurant's general manager, testified first. Ms. Canant, who supervised about 100 employees, said she fired Ms. Hatton after the irate customer complained to her and her supervisor. Through circumstances that remain unclear, the customer learned that Ms. Hatton had removed her comment card from the box.

"The customer felt violated because her card was taken from the box, and she felt that her complaint about the food had been ignored," Ms. Canant recalls telling the peer-review panel. Brandishing a company rule book, the manager said Ms. Hatton had violated a policy forbidding the removal of company property. Ms. Hatton, who says she received dozens of calls of support, testified next. The waitress, 53 years old at the time, explained that the woman had requested a well-done piece of prime rib and complained that the meat was fatty and undercooked. Ms. Hatton said she politely suggested that "prime rib always has fat on it," and the woman scowled. Ms. Hatton didn't explain her comment to the panel. She says now that she thought that, based on her experience with black customers in the working-class area, the customer might have confused prime rib and spare rib. Ms. Hatton then had the meat cooked some more. When the customer remained displeased, Ms. Hatton offered a free dessert. Apparently still unhappy, the woman doused the meat with steak sauce and then shoved away her plate. She or her companion then filled out a comment card, paid the bill and left, Ms. Hatton said. Consumed by curiosity, Ms. Hatton asked the hostess for the key to the comment box. She said she read the card, then pocketed it, intending to show it to Ms. Canant, who had fretted earlier that the prime rib was overcooked, not undercooked. Because of a problem that day heating the prime rib to the proper temperature, Ms. Hatton said, the restaurant was serving meat that had been cooked the previous day and then reheated. Ms. Hatton said further that she forgot about the card and inadvertently threw it out. (Red Lobster says it's against company policy to serve reheated meat. The chain no longer serves prime rib.) Third and last to testify was the hostess, Dawn Brown, then a 17-year-old student employed at the Pleasant Hills Red Lobster for the summer. "I didn't think it was a big deal to give her the key," she recalls telling the panel. "A lot of people would come up to me to get it."

In deliberations, panelists balanced the facts that a customer's feelings had been hurt and that an unofficial policy forbidding employees from going into the comment box had been violated against their belief that Ms. Hatton hadn't intended to steal company property. "We basically believed her. Ruth may not have really wanted Diane to see the comment card, but she really didn't think she had done anything wrong," says panelist Larry Simpson, the general manager of the Greensburg, Pa., Red Lobster and a friend of Ms. Canant's. All of the panelists had peer-review training and were being paid regular wages and travel expenses. Several panelists criticized Ms. Canant for not putting a rebuke in Ms. Hatton's personnel file and leaving it at that. Others suggested that her hands might have been tied by corporate headquarters. "Red Lobster is sensitive to race on a corporate level, and Florida could have said, 'Whack her. You have someone who [upset] a guest,' " Mr. Simpson says. "I think the whole thing snowballed." The panelists' views initially split by rank, with the hourly workers supporting Ms. Hatton. "By the end we were all going in the same direction," Mr. Simpson says. After an hour and a half, they unanimously restored Ms. Hatton's job. The unofficial policy against reading the contents of a comment box, they reasoned, hadn't been enforced at the restaurant. Still, because policy had been violated, the panel didn't grant the waitress the three weeks of lost wages she sought. Mr. Whitehill, Darden's general counsel, says the panel "reached the right result." Given Ms. Hatton's years of experience, he says, "she's somebody we want to keep." Ms. Canant says it "didn't bother me a bit that she got her job back." When she returned to work, Ms. Hatton says Ms. Canant treated her professionally and even cut her some slack when she had a bad back. When the manager transferred to Texas last summer, Ms. Hatton contributed to a going-away gift. "The process worked," the waitress says. "The panel took my claim seriously."

part 1) According to the article, peer review panels... (Please select all that apply)

You are a new graduate registered nurse working in a small local hospital emergency department.

Mr Gary MacDonald is a 52- year-old businessman. McDonald has a very stressful position, and as a coping mechanism he drinks quite heavily. Mr McDonald has been feeling increasingly unwell lately but has been too busy to go to the doctor for a check-up. His abdominal girth has increased, his ankles are a bit swollen and he gets short of breath on exertion.

Mr McDonald was attending a business meeting when he began to vomit quite a lot of bright red blood.

On arrival at the Emergency Department of the local hospital he has a vomit bag with about 350 mL of bright red blood. He is pale and complaining of feeling dizzy and appears confused as to what is happening to him and where he is. His immediate vital signs are:

Blood pressure 80/50mmHg, Pulse 130bpm, Respiratory rate 28, Oxygen saturation 91% on room air, Temperature 36.1 Celsius, Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) 13.

Question 1:

Based on your A-G assessment identify two (2) areas that are your highest priorities and express then as Nursing Diagnoses with “Related to” and “Evidenced by” statements.

Question 2:

The doctor makes an initial medical diagnosis of bleeding oesophageal varices due to alcoholic cirrhosis. Explain the pathophysiology that caused his bleeding oesophageal varices.

Question 3:  

Based on Mr McDonald’s current condition, and NSW Health SAGO chart and DETECT policy requirements, outline four immediate nursing actions and their rationales within your scope of practice (as RN new graduate).

Question 4:

Briefly discuss the current best medical practice recommendations for the treatment of bleeding oesophageal varices including likely intravenous fluids, medications, and procedures.

Question 5:

Following treatment, Mr McDonald’s bleeding varices settled, and he was discharged home on the following medications: Lactulose orally 20 mL BD, Spironolactone 50mg mane. Explain the reason for each of these in relation to his underlying disease process.

SORRY FOR POSTING 5 QUESTIONS BUT ITS ALL BASED ON THE SAME SCENARIO

Your grandmother just turned 65 and she is very confused about Medicare and Medicaid. She doesn't understand the differences between the two programs. She has asked you to help her enroll in a program to provide her some financial assistance.

Read the "Comparison Chart" between Medicare and Medicaid

Explore the government website comparing Medicaid with Medicare

Based on the comparative chart given above, summarize the differences between Medicare and Medicaid.

Since the number of Medicaid recipients have increased in the recent times, some people argue that our country has become an entitlement state. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your response

In recent years the Nobel Prize in economics goes to work in behavioral economic theory. In your text the authors state the basic economic theory is people make rational decisions? The links led to stories about lottery winners or losers depending on your viewpoint. If society uses rational behavior why do some lottery winners go broke?

The bulk of economic analysis continue to reply on rational assumptions. Economist continue to contend that rational thought is a reasonable viewpoint.

Is this a micro or macroeconomic issue?

Is this a reasonable assumption?

Is this a positive or normative assumption?

How does self-interest come into play?

Explain why economics a science or a social science?