Case 3: Recently, an association that represented police in New Jersey complained that the incidence of cancer was unusually high among police officers who used radar guns in tracking the speed of drivers. The association brought suit against the state, claiming that those officers who used these radar guns had an incidence of cancer 18 percent higher than a comparable group of government workers from the state park service who were randomly selected for comparison purposes. The comparison sample and the police officers were matched on educational level, age, gender, and years of service. The sample was large: 283 police officers and 231 park workers.
Was the case justified? Why or why not? (Be sure to support your answer with reference to the strengths and weaknesses of the design, and consider possible confounds.)
What kind of study is this? What are the problems associated with this kind of study?
How would you improve the study?
In: Psychology
You travel to one of the shops where you park your car beside a
Ferrari Testa Rossa in the store car park, and
enter the store to find an immaculately dressed lady who runs the
store on her own. The dresses sold in the
store retail for several thousand dollars an item. On chatting to
the lady, you discover the Ferrari is her
“getting to work” car. You note that there is no cash register and
are told that given the value of the dresses,
only a few sales a day are processed, and these are either by
EFTPOS using a single machine, or cash, which
is immediately banked. Customers are given handwritten detailed
receipts, which do not carry a serial
number.
Required:
Given the above situation critically analyse the sales process and
describe in detail what management
assertions may be at risk relative to sales. Give full reasons for
your choices. In your answer explain what
management assertions are.
In: Accounting
Case 401
Hotel Front Office Management
Ana Chavarria, front office manager, and Lorraine DeSantes, director of marketing and sales, have just returned from a computer conference at which they were able to look at the latest property management systems for hotels. Ana is enthusiastic about updating and adopting front office applications for reservations, registration, room status, posting, call accounting, checkout, and night audit. Lorraine is sure the marketing and sales applications will help her department be more efficient. Both realize the cost involved in obtaining modules for a property management system. What would you suggest they do prior to discussing this issue with Margaret Chu, general manager of The Times Hotel? Assuming Ms. Chu is willing to consider the purchase of a PMS, how should Ana and Lorraine proceed? Whom should they include in developing a PMS adoption plan, and why? What areas should they investigate?
In: Operations Management
A survey found that women's heights are normally distributed with mean 62.6 in. and standard deviation 2.1 in. The survey also found that men's heights are normally distributed with mean 69.4 in. and standard deviation 3.8 in. Most of the live characters employed at an amusement park have height requirements of a minimum of 57 in. and a maximum of 63 in. Complete parts (a) and (b) below. a. Find the percentage of men meeting the height requirement. What does the result suggest about the genders of the people who are employed as characters at the amusement park? The percentage of men who meet the height requirement is nothing%. (Round to two decimal places as needed.) Since most men ▼ meet do not meet the height requirement, it is likely that most of the characters are ▼ men. women. b. If the height requirements are changed to exclude only the tallest 50% of men and the shortest 5% of men, what are the new height requirements? The new height requirements are a minimum of nothing in. and a maximum of nothing in. (Round to one decimal place as needed.)
In: Statistics and Probability
Please answer fast! time limit ! just need 200 words+ Business Law paper
1.Identify the key legal issue(s) and address the question raised; 2) identify and correctly summarize supportive case law and any applicable statutory law and 3) in your analysis, apply law, including case law, to the facts in the essay prompt.
Question:Bianca was hired to drive an airport shuttle for a hotel. When Bianca was hired, she signed a written contract that stated specifically that she was an independent contractor. The hotel pays her by the hour and makes no withholding from her pay for taxes. She drives the hotel’s van and wears the required uniform when she is on duty. She is on-call twenty-four hours per day and she transports the hotel’s guests back and forth to the airport at the hotel’s request. Is Bianca an employee or independent contractor? Explain and provide thorough legal analysis.
In: Operations Management
| A large hotel chain buys its cleaning supplies in bulk from a national vendor. The hotal purchasing manager currently orders a multi-purpose cleanser used to clean the guest bathrooms in quantities of 6,000 gallons at a time. She is considering changing the order quantity to the EOQ. The manager has collected the data in the table below. Use the data to answer questions a-d below. The hotel is open 365 days out of the year. | ||
| Inventory Information for Shower Cleanser | ||
| The Cost of a Gallon of the Cleanser | $9.95 | |
| Annual Holding Cost (as a % of Cost) | 18% | |
| Cost to Place an Order | $15.00 | |
| Average Daily Demand (in gallons) | 1000 | |
| Current Order Quantity | 6000 | |
| a) What is the EOQ for the cleanser? | ||
| b) What would the annual ordering cost be under the EOQ? | ||
| c) What would the annual holding cost be under the EOQ? | ||
| d) How much money would the company save annually if it switched to the EOQ? | ||
In: Operations Management
E10.12 Interfund Transactions
Interfund transfers of the general fund of Timberline County for 2020 were as follows:
1. $2,000,000 advance to the Park Development special revenue fund, to permit initial expenditures under a project to be fully supported by a federal grant.
2. $1,500,000 to the Timberline County Fire Protection District (a special revenue fund) as the county’s contribution to fire and emergency medical service activities for the year.
3. $500,000 from the Roads capital projects fund, unspent proceeds of a bond issue.
4. $3,000,000 to the County Hospital (enterprise fund), as the city’s cost of services provided.
5. $2,900,000 to the Airport Fund (enterprise fund) to temporarily finance the maintenance of runways.
6. $2,000,000 from the Park Development special revenue fund, to repay the advance.
Required
For each of the above interfund transfers, state how the transaction is reported on the general fund’s balance sheet and/or statement of revenues, expenditures, and changes in fund balances.
In: Accounting
4. Indicate which variable is the independent and dependent for each pair. If either could be the independent, answer “reciprocal.” If the two variables do not seem related, answer “unrelated.”
a) Property inspections completed, number of inspectors
b) Property tax rate, property value
c) Consumption of ice cream in a month, average daily temperature in a month
d) Satisfaction with local services, voting in a local election
e) Work commute time, time of day
f) Merit pay, work productivity
g) Flu cases per capita, average age of population
h) Road miles constructed, number of commuters
i) Husband’s income, wife’s income
j) Visitors to a state park, visitors to a nearby national park
k) Season of the year, number of animals dropped at a shelter
l) Drop-out rate from high school, teenage pregnancy rate
m) Donations to a local ballet, Sales tax rate
In: Math
Most Major airports have separate lots for long-term and short-term parking. The cost to park depends on the lot you select , and how long you stay. Considering this rate structure on the lot you select, and how long you stay. Consider this rate structure from the Salt Lake International Airport during the summer of 2016.
Long-Term (Economy) Parking
-The First Hour is $2.00, and each additional hour or fraction thereof is $1.00
-Daily maximum $9.00
-Weekly maximum $60
Short Term Parking
-The first 30 minutes are $2.00 and each additional 20 minutes or fraction thereof is $1.00
-Daily maximum $32.00
Write a program using matlab that asks the user the following:
-Which lot are you using?
-How many weeks, hours, days, and minutes did you park? Your program should calculate the parking bill.
In: Computer Science
The Bayside Fountain Hotel is adjacent to County Coliseum, a 24,000?seat arena that is home to the city’s professional basketball and ice hockey teams and that hosts a variety of concerts, trade shows, and conventions throughout the year. The hotel has experienced the following occupancy rates for the past 9 years, since the coliseum opened:
1..............83
2..............78
3..............75
4..............81
5..............86
6..............85
7..............89
8...............90
9...............86
a.Use Excel and POM?QM to compute an exponential smoothing
forecast with ? = .20, an adjusted exponential smoothing forecast
with ? = .20 and ? = .20. Print your
results.
b.Use POM?QM to compute a linear trend line forecast. Print your
results. Use the linear function obtained from POM?QM to manually
compute forecast for year 11 through
13.
c.Use MAD to compare three forecasts and indicate which seems to be
most accurate.
In: Operations Management