On game days, homeowners near a college football stadium used to rent parking spaces in their driveways to fans at a market rate of $11 (4,000 spaces available)
Upon hearing rumors that homeowners were unfairly increasing parking prices for certain "high demand" games, the local town council issued a new town ordinance setting the maximum parking fee at $7.
In: Economics
For each of the research scenarios depicted below (A-E), state the appropriate inferential statistical analysis. Choose analyses from the following list:
A. A research team is interested in the relationship between personality and social interaction. With a survey, an investigator records various social and personality variables of a group of participants. Among the variables, the investigator specifically evaluates the relationship between Extraversion score and number of Facebook friends (measured on continuous scales).
B. A research team is interested in the relationship between arousal and performance. An investigator administers, to 4 groups of participants, 4 doses of caffeine (0mg, 40mg, 80mg, 120mg). Afterward, the investigator measures performance on a reaction-time task, in milliseconds, where participants must hit a button as quickly as possible when a signal is given.
C. A research team is interested in the relationship between gender and aggression. An investigator observes children on the schoolyard playground. The investigator records the percentage of recess time that each child spends aggressing against classmates. The investigator then compares the girls and boys, on the percent time spent fighting.
D. A research team is interested in the relationship between high-school performance and later income. An investigator ranks 300 members of a graduating class from 1st to 300th. The investigator then ranks them by salary, from 1st to 300th, five years later. The investigator evaluates the relationship between the 2 sets of ranks.
E. A research team is interested in the relationship between development and cognition. An investigator administers an intelligence test (measured on a continuous scale) to the same set of individuals at ages 6, 10, 14, 18, and 22. The data are analyzed to see if the intelligence scores change over the 5 measures.
In your document, please use the letters to organize your answers (e.g. “A. The appropriate analysis for this study is…” etc.)
In: Statistics and Probability
You work for an MNE that makes and markets cellular telephones. Senior managers want to begin selling the phones in Latin America. To pursue a transnational strategy, management wants to minimize adaptation of the phones. They have asked you for a briefing.
Your Task: Focusing on three Latin American countries, prepare a brief report that identifies the common features of Latin American markets that management should consider when developing the cell phones the firm will sell there. For example, what language should be used in the cell phones? What pricing should management use? You may wish to consult the country commercial guides, Country Insights, and market research reports available through globalEDGE™. In addition, the U.S. Department of Commerce (www.export.gov) is a useful resource.
In: Operations Management
2) A new fast food restaurant opens in your town. A new book is released at the same time that exposes the high calorie contents of fast food. Draw and the graph and explain which curve shift first and, then what cause the second curve to shift. Final what happens to price and quantity at the nee equilibrium point?
In: Economics
The Town Council recently enacted new laws that will essentially restrict the number of new businesses allowed to operate each year. The improved Business Bureau is against that decision. You have been asked by the improved Business Bureau President to attend the next Council meeting and oppose the laws, replacing them with looser laws that encourage growth of new businesses.
How would you use calculus and the assignment you have just completed to support the improved Business Bureau’s request? What thought processes would you use? What additional information might you need to make a more informed decision? What additional calculus might you need to perform to help you make a more informed decision?
In: Accounting
You are a new physician setting up your own practice in a new town. You are researching the different MCOs offered in your area and are considering becoming a physician for one of these networks. You have also invited the sales representatives of several health plans to speak with you about the benefits of choosing their plans. Based on the above scenario, answer the following questions: What effects would joining a MCO have on your clinic regarding staffing, patient volume, and financial stability? What policies and procedures should be used by the MCOs to reduce costs for their clientele? Discuss the ethical issues or concerns about MCOs providing a lower quality of care compared to traditional fee-for-service (FFS) organizations? What are some of the questions you would ask each representative about his or her company's specific plan that will help you make a decision? Do you believe that the evolution of MCOs and consumer driven health plans (CDHPs) has affected the healthcare environment today by integrating the financing and delivery of healthcare services? If yes, how? How have the roles and relationships between physicians and patients changed by each of these types of plans?
In: Economics
It is required to develop the normalization from the
Relational Model for the clothing store: Modarte S.A. de
C.V.
-Step 1: Entity-Relationship Model
The clothing store Modarte S.A. de C.V. It has various products for women, men, boys and girls, which requires generating an Entity-Relationship Model for inventory control and sales management.
It is required to develop 3 tables: products, employees and customers.
In the Products table the following fields must be considered: product code, product name, type, size, purchase date, sale date and quantity in stock.
In the Employees table, the following fields must be considered: Employee ID, Employee Name, Address, Telephone and CURP.
In the Clients table, the following fields must be considered: client number, Client name, address, e-mail, payment method, and RFC for billing.
In the Sales table the following fields must be considered: sales code, sale date, payment method and total to pay.
The Products-Sale Relationship contains the following fields: product code and sales code
- Step 2: First normal form.
- Step 3: Second normal form.
- Step 4: Third normal form.
In: Computer Science
Gain Corp. and Loss Corp. are both publicly-held corporations, and neither has any shareholder who owns 5 percent of the stock. In the current year, the two corporations are merged, and less than 50 percent of the stock of the merged corporation is owned by individuals who were shareholders of Loss Corp. If Loss Corp. has a net operating loss, describe how it will be deducted in future years.
How does your answer change if, instead of a merger, Gain Corp. acquired all the stock in Loss Corp. and the two corporations filed a consolidated return?
In: Accounting
Economics is everywhere – even in South Park. If you’re not familiar, South Park is an animated sitcom for adults featuring the adventures of four grade-school boys in the town of South Park, Colorado. In season 13, episode 14, the boys went to Pi Pi’s Water Park. Everybody is peeing in the pool and the pee concentration ends up being so high that it causes a flood that destroys the place. You can watch a clip of the episode here:
Tragedy of the Commons on South Park - Peeing in the Pool
While this is a silly example of tragedy of the commons, there are far more serious examples.
"More widespread wearing of face masks could prevent tens of thousands of deaths by COVID-19, epidemiologists and mathematicians project.
A model from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation shows that near-universal wearing of cloth or homemade masks could prevent between 17,742 and 28,030 deaths across the US before Oct. 1.
The group, which advises the White House as well as state and local governments, is submitting the model for peer review, says Theo Vos., Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at IHME.
Another projection developed by researchers at Arizona State University in April showed that 24–65% of projected deaths could be prevented in Washington state in April and May if 80% of people wore cloth or homemade masks in public.
These projections shed light on the promises face masks might hold as COVID-19 cases surge in some states and more local authorities mandate the wearing of face masks."
There are several people against face mask wearing despite the recommendations from scientists and healthcare officials. See an example below:
Viewers furious with Walmart shoppers not wearing face masks
There are several options to solving or preventing the tragedy of the commons. Think about what the scientists are saying about how "Face Masks" can reduce the spread of COVID-19 and then answer the following questions:
In: Economics
Assume that different groups of couples use a particular method of gender selection and each couple gives birth to one baby. This method is designed to increase the likelihood that each baby will be a? girl, but assume that the method has no? effect, so the probability of a girl is 0.5. Assume that the groups consist of 32 couples. Complete parts? (a) through? (c) below. a. Find the mean and the standard deviation for the numbers of girls in groups of 32 births. The value of the mean is muequals nothing. ?(Type an integer or a decimal. Do not? round.) The value of the standard deviation is sigmaequals nothing. ?(Round to one decimal place as? needed.) b. Use the range rule of thumb to find the values separating results that are significantly low or significantly high. Values of nothing girls or fewer are significantly low. ?(Round to one decimal place as? needed.) Values of nothing girls or greater are significantly high. ?(Round to one decimal place as? needed.) c. Is the result of 26 girls a result that is significantly? high? What does it suggest about the effectiveness of the? method? The result ? is is not significantly? high, because 26 girls is ? less than equal to greater than nothing girls. A result of 26 girls would suggest that the method ? is effective. is not effective. ?(Round to one decimal place as? needed.) Enter your answer in each of the answer boxes.
In: Statistics and Probability