Suppose that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported the following sulphur dioxide emissions (in tons) for the 48 states in the continental United States for a particular year.

Use these data to calculate the values (in tons) in the five-number summary. (Hint: See Example 3.13.)

smallest observation

slower quartile  

median  

upper quartile  

Largest observation tons

In 2006, the top ten nations with the highest HDI rating are listed below. Each observation shows a country and in parentheses the proportion of women in that country’s parliament and the HDI Score (% women, HDI Score). Norway (38, .94), Iceland (33, .90), Australia (28, .93) Ireland (14, .92), Sweden (45, .91), Canada (24, .91), Japan (11, .89), United States (15, .92), Switzerland (25, .93), Netherlands (34, .92). (i.e. the US had 15 percent of seats held by women and an HDI score of .92)

a) Calculate the mean and the standard deviation for the percentage of seats in parliament held by women in these states.

b) Calculate the mean and the standard deviation for HDI index and interpret your results.

c) Calculate the correlation between the HDI index score and the percentage of seats in the country’s parliament held by women.

d) Calculate the coefficient on the HDI score of a regression in which the HDI score is the independent variable and the proportion of seats held by women is the dependent variable.

e) Calculate the r2 from this simple regression model.

f) Input these observations into Stata and show (simply circle or highlight) where the answers to (c), (d), and (e) appear in the regression output. (Here it is ok to paste Stata output into your answer.)

__________ are the most numerous WBC and are primarily involved in ___________.

A) Lymphocytes; acquired immunity

B) Neutrophilis; phagocytosis

C) Neutrophilis; acquired immunity

D) Lymphocytes; phagocytosis

Describe the types of risks that Fiat could have experienced by acquiring Chrysler.

Describe Chrysler’s culture after acquired after Fiat acquired Chrysler.

Yes, it needs to be written in essay format. During the final week of the course, you will submit a paper that will be written as if you were making recommendations to a member of Congress. Imagine that the United States Congress was considering sweeping legislation that would provide intensive regulation of nonprofit fundraising, including the imposition of more filing requirements to the Internal Revenue Service for nonprofits, as well as more active obligations on the part of nonprofit leaders to explain in detail their fundraising strategies, marketing, and fundraising efforts. Imagine also that such legislation would provide greater public oversight of the nonprofit fundraising process, but would also burden nonprofits with significant paperwork and accountability requirements. In your paper, discuss your views on whether or not the federal government should play a much larger role in regulating nonprofits and especially how nonprofits identify donors, collect funds, and spend fundraising dollars. Remember that there are only forty states that have state regulations while ten states have no state regulations at all. For example, there was a significant controversy after 9/11 regarding the American Red Cross because they collected fundraising monies and did not use those funds for the victims of 9/11 -- they instead diverted those funds to other projects of the Red Cross. Here are four questions to help frame your discussion. • Do you believe that government has a strong role to play in the regulation of nonprofit fundraising? • Do you think that states should play a role in regulating nonprofit fundraising? • Should there be a Sarbanes-Oxley-type legislation regarding nonprofit fundraising? • If so, what values should guide politicians as they attempt to set up regulatory systems to ensure that nonprofit fundraising is done in an ethical fashion? Would stronger regulation of nonprofits have a chilling effect by decreasing contributions to nonprofits and diminishing the willingness of individuals to create nonprofits to address serious public crises and controversies? It needs to be in essay-type format.

Chinese differences; cultural and institutional profiles compared to the United Kingdom.

A Chinese employee is coming to work in your organisation in the United Kingdom, you are a manager of your organisation in the United Kingdom.

A. Put together a report advising about cultural differences that they may have coming to work in the United Kingdom, and the differences in the institutional business environment.

B. What challenges will be had as a manager in the United Kingdom, dealing with a Chinese employee?

Tweet Inc. is planning its initial public offerings (IPO). The firm’s current value of equity is estimated to be $750 million. The founder of Tweet Inc. and a few venture capital funds together hold all the 48 million existing shares, and they want to retain 75% of the firm after the IPO. The floatation costs, including underwriting fees charged by Silverman Sachs, the investment bank, will be 10% of the proceeds. How many shares will be sold and for how much per share?

Please show work using Financial Calculator not excel.

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What is your opinion or thoughts on this question below? I need a 4500-word summary including an introduction, body, sub-title, conclusion and 2-3 references. please, thank you.

The new president of Toyota, Akio Toyoda (grandson of the founder), has said, “Everyone says Toyota is the best company in the world, but the consumer doesn’t care about the world. They care if we are the best in town.” What do you think he means by that? Answer: Toyoda understands his customers.

Please read the article below: This article is a few years old. However, it captures the ongoing issue (within various countries) as to how confederalism might be the proper structure of government for Iraq, a country with large sectarian divisions and conflict. Only a few years ago policy analysts were suggesting Federalism as the proper form and structure of government for Iraq. After you read this article, click on the link to the accompanying Discussion Board and answer the following questions:

1. How does confederalism differ from federalism?

2. Do you agree or disagree with the author? Why or why not?

3. In what context might one of those forms of structured government be preferable to the other?

Respond to at least one other post by a classmate. In that response, please critique the other student's opinion regarding the author's thesis.

Not ready for nationhood; A confederation model of government makes sense in Iraq.
Author: Ellis, Joseph J.

The year the American war for independence ended, 1781, the United States adopted the Articles of Confederation as its preferred form of government. Even a cursory glance at the Articles reveals that the first clause in the most famous speech in American history is incorrect.

At Gettysburg in 1863 Lincoln began as follows: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation." No, they did not. They established a confederation of sovereign states, loosely bound together in a diplomatic alliance that vested only limited power in the central government. No American nation was possible at the time because allegiances remained local and regional at best, so a confederation acknowledging that political reality offered the only kind of union acceptable to all its constituents.

We all know that the confederation model was short-lived, replaced by the nation-state in 1788 with the ratification of the Constitution. But the Articles of Confederation served the useful purpose of sustaining some semblance of political unity for seven years after the Revolutionary War. As transitory as the confederation became in America, it provides the proper model for Iraq and, in fact, for other currently combustible countries in the Middle East, including Syria.

Our fundamental mistake in Iraq also has its origins in America's founding era. Thomas Jefferson believed there was a natural law governing all societies that tyrannical rulers (read King George III) violated. Once you removed such rulers, for instance Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the natural order of peace and harmony would be restored.
If there is any place on Earth designed to expose Jefferson's utopian vision as an illusion, it is the Middle East today, where the removal of autocratic governments have produced sectarian chaos, civil wars and horrific bloodletting. All the national borders in the Middle East are arbitrary lines in the sand drawn by European powers after World War I, in effect an Eurocentric grid imposed on a Muslim mosaic of Sunni, Shiite and minority sects, along with Kurds, Turkmens and other ethnic minorities.

As a result, the very idea of such a thing as "the Iraqi people" is a Western delusion and a geographic fiction. Once the United Stated toppled Hussein, it lifted the lid on Pandora's box, and we are now witnessing the political chaos that has inevitably ensued. We have spent 4,500 American lives, with more than 30,000 wounded, more than 100,000 Iraqi lives and nearly $1 trillion on a cause that was always a fool's errand.
The only way to salvage any semblance of honor from our misguided policy is to recognize that primal allegiances in Iraq remain sectarian, tribal and ethnic rather than national, thereby making our goal of a democratic Iraqi nation inherently impossible. Recent statements by President Obama and Secretary of State John F. Kerry claiming that an "inclusive government" is taking shape in Baghdad are almost certainly wishful thinking.

Which brings us back to the confederation model. In post-revolutionary America it performed the essential task of providing enough political coherence to bridge the gap between state sovereignty and a nation-sized republic. In Iraq, confederation would allow Shiites, Sunni Arabs and Kurds to live apart in separate provinces, each with a measure of political and religious autonomy. Unlike what happened in the United States, an Iraqi Confederation would probably lead to partition rather than nationhood, but in the current context, it remains the best outcome we can hope for.

It is also the only way for the president's strategy against Islamic State to work. That strategy requires Iraq to provide the ground troops in the campaign against the Islamic extremists, and the Sunnis will join such an effort only if they can foresee a secure homeland for themselves in a reconfigured Iraq. Without Sunni participation, the deployment of U.S. air power will mean that we are taking sides in what is, in effect, a civil war between Shiite and Sunni factions. We obviously do not want to do that.
It does seem clear that at some time in the foreseeable future, that is within the next several decades, the map of the Middle East is going to be redrawn. This is likely to be a messy and often bloody business that all Western countries, including the United States, would be wise to avoid, thereby allowing the Islamic world to fashion its own fate. No matter how ingenious the future architects of the new Middle Eastern geography prove to be, crisscrossing sectarian and tribal allegiances will make it impossible to align national borders with one preferred version of Islam.

As a result, the confederation model, rather than the nation-state, could serve a useful purpose until that distant day when Islam embraces Jefferson's version of a secular society.

Credit: Joseph J. Ellis' book on the era of the Articles of Confederation in the United States, "The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution," will be published in the spring.

Cutco Cutlery Corporation: Direct to Consumers for Over 60 Years! CUTCO Corporation, the largest manufacturer and marketer of high-quality kitchen cutlery and accessories in the United States and Canada, celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2009. With the design and manufacture of the highest-quality product as its primary objective, over 100 kitchen cutlery products are sold under the CUTCO name. The company also carries a line of cookware, sporting/pocket knives, and garden tools. The CUTCO corporate family consists of several companies. CUTCO Corporation—parent company CUTCO Cutlery Corporation—manufacturer of CUTCO products since 1949 Vector Marketing Corporation—exclusive marketer of CUTCO products, which are sold direct to consumers CUTCO International, Inc.—marketer of CUTCO products internationally KA-BAR Knives, Inc.—maker of quality sporting knives Schilling Forge—manufacturer of precision forgings All businesses within the corporate family, except for Schilling Forge, are located in Olean, New York (USA), where the company has over 700 manufacturing and administrative employees. Schilling Forge is located in Syracuse, New York. Only a very small percentage of the company’s items are manufactured outside the United States and that is only when the company cannot find a partner in the United States that meets stringent quality standards while simultaneously meeting the pricing needs of the company and its customers. The quality built into a CUTCO product at the point of manufacturing is reinforced by the company’s direct-to-consumer channel of distribution, which enables high-quality consumer engagement during the selling process. The Producer CUTCO’s commitment to quality and innovation is evident throughout every step of the manufacturing process—from the selection of steel to final inspection. The company stands behind each and every product with a FOREVER satisfaction guarantee. The guarantee has four components: FOREVER Performance Guarantee FOREVER Sharpness Guarantee FOREVER Replace Service Agreement for Misuse or Abuse 15-Day Unconditional Money-Back Guarantee CUTCO Cutlery’s American-made products and the hard-working craftsmen and women dedicated to creating this high-quality kitchen cutlery were featured on the Travel Channel’s John Ratzenberger’s Made in America program. With its reputation for high quality, accompanied by a FOREVER satisfaction guarantee, CUTCO Cutlery Corporation distributes its products direct to the consumer via its Vector Marketing sales force. The Consumer CUTCO Cutlery Corporation has approximately 18 million satisfied consumers in North America. Customer response to CUTCO research directs the development of new products and services and the sharing of personal stories about special times with family and friends serves as an inspiration to everyone in the company. Thousands of customers have written letters telling the company about the role the company has played in their lives. These customer letters tell how CUTCO has helped them slice and dice fruits and vegetables for weeknight dinners, create weekend party fare, and chop and carve food for holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries. CUTCO cutlery is given as gifts to newly married sons and daughters and is handed down from generation to generation as a family heirloom. The customers praise the quality of CUTCO and offer thanks for the comfort of the ergonomically designed handles and the CUTCO FOREVER Guarantee. Product to Consumer Direct Channel via Vector Marketing Corporation Unlike many competitive cutlery products, CUTCO cutlery products are not available in mass merchandise or specialty stores. Boasting annual sales of over $200 million, Vector Marketing Corporation is a direct sales firm and the sole distributor of Cutco Cutlery. The independent sales representatives of Vector Marketing Corporation are largely college students from campuses across the nation. According to a company spokesperson, Vector Marketing’s sales force is a group of dynamite individuals who represent the company to the consumer in the same high-quality fashion as the CUTCO product. The sales representatives contact potential consumers via referrals, referred to as the “friends of friends” approach. Conversely, consumers can contact the company directly and be connected to a salesperson in the same geographic region. Divided into six regions (northeast, Midwest, eastern, central, southwest, and western), Vector Marketing has over 300 offices across the United States and Canada. Regional headquarters are in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Detroit, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Dallas, Texas; Austin, Texas; San Diego, California; and Toronto, Canada. Vector Marketing Corporation belongs to the Direct Selling Association (DSA), whose members are leading companies engaged in direct selling in the United States. All DSA members adhere to a strict code of ethics and promote a high standard of integrity in direct selling. From production through sales, the CUTCO Corporation takes ownership of its products. Using this direct-to-consumer channel enables the company to guarantee quality from production to consumption. Sources: CUTCO website, www.cutco.com (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Accessed February 28, 2011); Vector Marketing website, www.vectormarketing.com (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Accessed February 28, 2011). Case Analysis Questions Why would a company such as CUTCO Cutlery opt for the direct channel instead of the retailer channel for its consumer products? Please be specific. What other companies are similar to CUTCO Cutlery in its approach to direct retailing? Please be specific.