Determine the number of lanes required according to Highway Capacity Manual 2010 methodology to achieve a target Level of Service (LOS) of C for a section of a freeway. The section characteristics are the following: rolling terrain, 15% trucks, 2% RVs, PHF = 0.90, AADT = 30,000 veh/day, 50% traffic in the design direction, 12 ft wide lanes, 5 ft right shoulder clearance, 4 ramps in 6 miles. Use 30^th highest hourly volume for design hour volume assuming that the value will be exceeded in 15% of similar locations.

Suppose you borrowed $400,000 for a home mortgage on January 1, 2010 with an annual interest rate of 3.5% per year compounded monthly.

(a) If you didn't make any payments and were only charged the interest (and no late fees), how much would you owe on the mortgage on January 1, 2030?

(b) Suppose the balance on the mortgage is amortized over 20 years with equal monthly payments at the end of each month. (This means the unpaid balance on January 1, 2030 should be $0). What are the monthly payments?

(c) How much interest was paid during the 20 years of the mortgage?

(d) What is the unpaid balance on the mortgage on January 1, 2015?

The Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama in March 2010. Many of the provisions of the law directly affect health care providers. Review the following topic materials:

Key Features of the Affordable Care Act

Health Care Transformation: the Affordable Care Act and More

What are the most important elements of the Affordable Care Act in relation to community and public health? What is the role of the nurse in implementing this law?

Brick & Stone Notes to the Income Statement

1. The Cost of Sales includes goods valuing $250,000 that were purchased for Mr. Stone’s personal use.

2. Salaries and Wages include $25,000 per month, and $20,000 per month, paid to Mr. Stone and Mr. Brick respectively.

3. $65,000 of the rent relates to the private dwelling of Mr. Brick’s wife.

4. The rates of depreciation on the fixed assets of the business are below those given in the Wear and Tear Schedule of the Income Tax Act. The Wear and Tear allowance total 35 % of qualifying assets valuing $300,000.

5. The partners agreed to dispose of an old pick-up truck with a net book value of $35,000 for $25,000. The pick-up had a tax written down value of $30,000

6. The telephone expense includes 20% for private calls made from Mr. Stone’s cellular phone.

7. The electricity relates to the private dwelling of Mr. Brick.

8. Entertainment expenses relate solely for the promotion of the business to new and prospective customers.

9. Donations of $60,000 were made to a local political party to fund its campaign. The remainder was donated to an approved local children’s home.

10. The partners could not determine if all of the customers would be able to settle their bills on time so a general provision of $80,000 was made to cushion the effect of the any debt going bad.

11. Fines and Penalties include traffic offences of $5,000 and penalties $10,000 for non filing of VAT returns for the period January – March 2014.

Note that the business was owned sole by Mr. Brick and registered in Trinidad and Tobago as a Sole Trading business in 2009. However, through continuous growth, Mr. Brick decided to enter into a partnership agreement with Mr. Stone, thus the status of the business was changed in 2014. The partnership agreement stated that the partners are to share profit and loss in the ratio 45:55

Requirement:

Given the information provided, compute the adjustable profit of the partnership and the share of profit for the year ending 31 December 2016.

According to a survey of 5041 Star Trek fans conducted in 2010, 2873 are females. Use this data to test the claim that the majority of Star Trek fans are female. Use 0.10 as the significance level.

p-value=0.570, evidence not support claim

p-value=1.000, evidence not support claim

p-value=0.570, evidence support claim

p-value=1.578, evidence not support claim

p-value=0.000, evidence support claim

A 1196-kg car and a 2010-kg pickup truck approach a curve on the expressway that has a radius of 253 m .

At what angle should the highway engineer bank this curve so that vehicles traveling at 60.0 mi/h can safely round it regardless of the condition of their tires?

Should the heavy truck go slower than the lighter car?

As the car and truck round the curve at 60.0 mi/h , find the normal force on the car to the highway surface

As the car and truck round the curve at 60.0 mi/h , find the normal force on the truck to the highway surface

Looking at a the case study, "2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill", one of the largest environmental disasters in history, scrutinize and discuss any aspect of the case, including the technical, legal, environmental, or ethical details. However, include some explicit discussion of the decision of the engineers overseeing operations on the Deepwater Horizon. To what were these decisions an engineering failure? What aspects of the engineer’s code of ethics did they violate? What might they have done different to prevent such a disaster?

1) Scenario: Pursuant to the 2010 Health Care Reform Bill, the United States will be challenged to bring into its health care population some 32 million more patients. Formerly, many of these patients were uninsured. Some of these patients were seen and treated in safety-net hospitals, but mostly in emergency rooms. Reliable, independent studies have shown that this population is low income and is disproportionately made up of ethnic and racial minorities; however, it is important to point out that due to the economic downturn at the turn of the decade surrounding 2010, this 32 million will include a significant number of non-minority unemployed individuals. Consider that health care institutions must move beyond simply taking in and treating the sick and injured who come through the door. In the near future, the health of the community will be measured in terms of low disease burden, high vaccination rates, controlled chronic disease rates, healthier life styles, and a better educated public. Clearly, the impacts to the health care system will have to be addressed.

*In your own words please describes the roles and responsibilities of health care management in addressing this pressing dilemma. Apply the following questions to generate your conclusions about how you would proceed:

a) How do the considerations under the concept of governance apply?

b) What are the major financial issues being faced?

c) What are the major physical issues being faced?

d) What are the major demographic issues being faced?

In the Davis & Muehlegger (2010) analysis of pricing above marginal cost under regulation, they observe that

"... decreased consumption along the intensive margin is not costly from the regulated firm’s perspective because the rate base does not depend on the level of natural gas consumption per customer. In short, under traditional rate-of-return regulation a regulated firm attempts to maximize the rate base, and this creates incentive for firms to lobby regulators for low fixed fees.” (p. 803)

In 2-3 sentences, explain what they mean, based on their analysis. Why does traditional ROR regulation provide this incentive?

Analyze the time-series data of Balance of Payment of China (Since 2010). Discuss the trend of changes in current, capital and financial accounts. Based on your observation, with other external economic information, what shall the policymakers do in responding to these changes? 800 words use economic concepts to develop your arguments with clear organization, supported with evidence and statistics.