This week, your Mechanical and Electrical Systems in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction textbook refers to the National Electrical Code (NEC), or NFPA 70, the set of specifications and standards for installing electrical wiring and equipment in the United States. Similarly, the Canadian Electrical Code (CEC), or CE Code, defines the requirements for electrical installation in Canada.

For this week’s Discussion, you will focus on the inspection requirements for electrical systems used in commercial buildings in your community. Begin by researching the electrical inspection requirements for commercial buildings in your locale.

In your response, describe the regulations that inspection agencies in your community have put in place for commercial buildings. How do these regulations differ across various electrical systems?

Europeans have been more skeptical than Americans about the use of genetic engineering to improve foods. A sample survey gathered responses from random samples of 826 Americans and 12321 Europeans. (The European sample was larger because Europe is divided into many nations.) Subjects were asked to consider the following issue:

Using modern biotechnology in the production of foods, for example to make them higher in protein, keep longer, or change in taste.

They were asked if they considered this "risky for society." In all, 445 of Americans and 7818 of Europeans thought the application was risky.

Give a 98% confidence interval for the percent difference (±0.1) between Europe (call them group 1) and the United States:   ± %.

In an attempt to reduce the extraordinarily long travel times for voyaging to distant stars, some people have suggested traveling at close to the speed of light. Suppose you wish to visit the red giant star Betelgeuse, which is 430 ly away, and that you want your 20,000 kg rocket to move so fast that you age only 22 years during the round trip.

1.How fast (v) must the rocket travel relative to earth?

2. How much energy is needed to accelerate the rocket to this speed?

3. How many times larger is this energy than the total energy used by the United States in the year 2000, which was roughly 1.0×1020J?

According to the National Center for Health Statistics (2018), there were 3,855,500 births registered in the United States in the year 2017. The mean age of mothers at first birth was 26.8 years. Lets suppose that the standard deviation is 3 years. Use this information to answer questions #1 through #4.

Question 1

What proportion of first time mothers gave birth before the age of 18?

Question 2

What proportion of first time mothers gave birth after the age of 25

Question 3

What proportion of first time mothers gave birth between the ages of 20 and 30?

Question 4

What proportion of first time mothers gave birth after the age of 35?

Case # 2 in Gapenski Cases in Healthcare Finance addresses a typical case of defining provider payments based on Pay for Performance (P4P) standards. Please read the Case and the solution file included in this weeks handouts. Discuss the methods of P4P included in the case (Productivity, Financial and Quality) in respect to healthcare financial viability for providers as we move deeper and deeper into refining and modifying the healthcare payment mechanisms in the United States. Be sure to discuss how these methods enhance and promote (or don't promote) cost reduction and overall value of health care services. Be sure to address the pros and cons of these types of payment plans. (Please reference the Affordable Care Act, personal experience or other sources pertaining to P4P).

IN 600 word counts please discuss the following 2 question in your own words if using internet source please cite in your answer and please add the reference

Part 1:

Despite the documented challenges that the U.S. health care system faces, it also enjoys a number of advantages over other systems around the world.

Choose 2 other countries from around the world and discuss the strengths of the U.S. health care system as compared to these countries from an administrator’s and a third-party payer’s perspectives.

In your answer, be sure to not only discuss each strength, but provide an explanation as to why you believe the United States has this advantage over the other countries you chose.

Roderick Cardwell owns Trafficworld, which sells traffic lights (a sale of goods, according to the court) throughout the United States. Trafficworld’s Massachusetts office sold traffic lights to Mary Lou Lupovitch, a Connecticut resident, for $1250. There was no agreement as to risk of loss. Trafficworld gave the traffic lights to a carrier in Massachusetts who delivered the light to Lupovitch in Connecticut. The state of Connecticut brought an action against Cardwell in a Connecticut state court, charging in part a violation of a state statute that prohibited the sale of traffic lights to private owners. Cardwell contended in part that the statute did not apply because the sale to Lupovitch involved a shipment contract that was formed outside the state. Is Cardwell correct? How will the court rule? Why?

In each of the following? cases, calculate the price of one share of the foreign stock measured in United States dollars? (US$).

a. A Belgian stock priced at

101.6101.6

euros

?(euro€?)

when the exchange rate is

0.84140.8414euro€?/US$.

b. A Swiss stock priced at

92.192.1

Swiss francs? (Sf) when the exchange rate is

0.9620.962?Sf/US$.

c. A Japanese stock priced at

1 comma 3431,343

yen? (¥) when the exchange rate is

107.1538107.1538?¥/US$.

a. The Belgian stock priced in U.S. dollars is

?$nothing.

? (Round to the nearest? cent.)b. The Swiss stock priced in U.S. dollars is

?$nothing.

?(Round to the nearest? cent.)c. The Japanese stock priced in U.S. dollars is

?$nothing.

?(Round to the nearest? cent.)

Bowling Alone was written by Dr. Putnam in an attempt to explain the reduction in civic engagement in the United States. Part of his argument is civic engagement has decreased due to the absence of social capital.

Respond to the following statement: “Civic engagement among community members is essential for public policy decision making and the creation of social capital is mandatory. To assure adequate public policy decisions, the individual must participate, but without regard to personal gain either in monetary gain or personal aggrandizement. All should be for the good of the community. As Mr. Spock stated in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, ‘The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.’ This must be true for all situations and all decisions.”