Juan, a17-year-old Hispanic youth, was referred to the school psychologist at the end of the first school term because of apparent academic and emotional concerns. His grades were slipping, and it looked like he might not get any credits his first term. The counselor has also explained that Juan was the driver in a fatal car wreck at the end of the previous academic year, in which his bestfriend was killed. Although Juan was hospitalized, the counselo rsaid that he insisted on going to the funeral, even though he could barely move, having suffered several broken ribs. When the psychologist met with Juan, he was initially reluctant to discuss the accident but as rapport was established, he admitted to feeling helpless, feeling fatigued because of lack of sleep, and having problems concentrating on his schoolwork. He wanted to quit school, because he did not want to be in the same class with students who blamed him for his friend’s death, and furthermore he did not see why he should plan for a future. He admitted to having vivid dreams of his friend, seeing him as if he were alive. Often he would wakeup, startled.He had no recollection of how the accident happened, as he could not remember the details, even though a witness had said that another car was involved. Although he has a girlfriend, Juan rarely feels like doing anything, and in the past few month she has preferred to be alone. Although he was very close to his deceased friend’s family(theywereinseparable), he has not seen them since the funeral. In this case, Juan is faced with the aftermath of a traumatic experience in which he was seriously injured and his friend was killed. He feels helpless because of the accidental nature of the wreck. Undoubtedly, Juan has significant survivor guilt. Faced with traumatic events of this nature, individuals react with fear, horror, or helplessness. In younger children, these feelings are often expressed in disorganized anda gitated behaviors.

IN 250 words:

Identify at least three stressor-related features that Juan’s case presents.

Explain the significance of the symptoms affecting Juan.

Juan, a17-year-old Hispanic youth, was referred to the school psychologist at the end of the first school term because of apparent academic and emotional concerns. His grades were slipping, and it looked like he might not get any credits his first term. The counselor has also explained that Juan was the driver in a fatal car wreck at the end of the previous academic year, in which his bestfriend was killed. Although Juan was hospitalized, the counselo rsaid that he insisted on going to the funeral, even though he could barely move, having suffered several broken ribs. When the psychologist met with Juan, he was initially reluctant to discuss the accident but as rapport was established, he admitted to feeling helpless, feeling fatigued because of lack of sleep, and having problems concentrating on his schoolwork. He wanted to quit school, because he did not want to be in the same class with students who blamed him for his friend’s death, and furthermore he did not see why he should plan for a future. He admitted to having vivid dreams of his friend, seeing him as if he were alive. Often he would wakeup, startled.He had no recollection of how the accident happened, as he could not remember the details, even though a witness had said that another car was involved. Although he has a girlfriend, Juan rarely feels like doing anything, and in the past few month she has preferred to be alone. Although he was very close to his deceased friend’s family(theywereinseparable), he has not seen them since the funeral. In this case, Juan is faced with the aftermath of a traumatic experience in which he was seriously injured and his friend was killed. He feels helpless because of the accidental nature of the wreck. Undoubtedly, Juan has significant survivor guilt. Faced with traumatic events of this nature, individuals react with fear, horror, or helplessness. In younger children, these feelings are often expressed in disorganized anda gitated behaviors.

IN 250 words:

Examine the diagnostic criteria and two areas on the diagnostic continuum. Identify three prominent symptoms related to comorbid or co-occurring disorders that may be present in Juan’s situation.

Using the Internet or your school library research the challenges associated with eCommerce payments that cross international borders.

• As you research, locate information that addresses the following:
  • Do most E-Commerce firms engage in international business transactions?
  • Look up the term repudiation, and research how firms that engage in international business protect themselves from it?
  • How are online purchases impacted by exchange rates and shipping charges?

You’re working for the DOJ as an economist in the Economic Analysis Group (EAG) group. You’ve been asked by Nancy Rose, the chief economist at the DOJ and airline-industry expert, to review the American Airlines – US Airways merger. Given the recent consolidation in the airline industry prior to this proposed merger, she along with other regulators are very concerned about the approval of further mergers.

1. American and US Air have claimed that there will be substantial variable costs savings when they merge (as is often the case with proposed mergers).   Suppose in a representative market, there are 4 firms: American, US Air, Southwest, and Delta. Further, suppose that demand is of a constant elasticity form, Q=p^-E.
   1. What is a reasonable value for E based on academic or government research?
   2. Suppose further that the marginal costs for American, US Air and Delta equal $5, and marginal costs for Southwest equal $4, while fixed costs are zero. Take your value you suggest for E above, and calculate the Cournot equilibrium before any merger takes place.   What are the equilibrium quantities and market price?
   3. Suppose the proposed merger is permitted, what happens to equilibrium quantities and the market price? Does this seem like a reasonable prediction? Why or why not?
   4. What would costs need to fall to for the merged entity to do no harm to consumers?

Given your modeling efforts, what would you recommend regarding the unconditional approval of the merger? Are there conditions under which you would let the firms merge? Think big in terms of requests to both airlines and airports that would make you comfortable with the merger being ap

3) Ego Manufacturing produces a pesticide chemical and uses process costing. There are three processing departments—Mixing, Refining, and Packaging. On January 1, the Refining Department had 2,000 gallons of partially processed product in production. During January, 33,000 gallons were transferred in from the Mixing Department, and 29,000 gallons were completed and transferred out. At the end of the month, there were 6,000 gallons of partially processed product remaining in the Refining Department. See additional details below.

Refining Department, beginning balance at January 1

Quantity:                                                                  2,000 units (partially processed)

Cost:                                                                          $15,600 of costs transferred in

                                                                                    $4,500 of materials cost

                                                                                    $1,000 of conversion cost

                                                                                    21,100 total account balance

Costs added during January

Cost of units transferred in                               $222,400

Direct materials cost                                            $93,750

Conversion cost                                                    $48,000

Refining Department, ending balance at January 31

Quantity:                                                                  6,000 units (partially processed)

Percent complete for materials cost:              90%

Percent complete for conversion cost:           75%

What was the cost per equivalent unit with respect to transferred-in costs, direct materials cost, and conversion costs for the Refining Department in the month of January? (Use the weighted-average method, and round your calculations to the nearest cent.)

INFO: How is a production cost report prepared using the FIFO method?

1.    Prior period costs are not merged with current period costs.

2.    Equivalent units of production must be calculated for units in beginning inventory completed in the current period, units started and completed in the current period, and units started and still in process at the end of the current period.

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The MBA Decision

Raj Danielson graduated from university six years ago with a finance undergraduate degree. Although he is satisfied with his current job, his goal is to become an investment banker. He feels that an MBA degree would allow him to achieve this goal. After examining schools, he has narrowed his choice to either Assiniboine University or the University of Passy. Both schools encourage internships, but to get class credit for the internship, no salary can be accepted. Other than internships, neither school allows its students to work while enrolled in its MBA program.
Raj currently works at the money management firm of Prash and Sid. His annual salary at the firm is $63,000 and his salary is expected to increase at 5 percent per year until retirement. He is currently 28 years old and expects to work for 38 more years. His current job includes a fully paid health insurance plan, and his current average tax rate is 24 percent. Raj has a savings account with enough money to cover the entire cost of his MBA program.

The Sentinel School of Business at Assiniboine University is one of the top MBA programs in the country. The MBA degree requires two years of full-time enrollment at the university. The annual tuition is $65,000, payable at the beginning of each school year. Books and other supplies are estimated to cost $4,500 per year. Raj expects that after graduation from Assiniboine, he will receive a job offer for about $88,000 per year, with a $14,000 signing bonus. The salary at this job will increase at 5.5 percent per year. Because of the higher salary, his average income tax rate will increase to 31 percent.
The Pond School of Business at the University of Passy began its MBA program 16 years ago. The Pond School is smaller and less well known than the Sentinel School. It offers an accelerated one-year program, with a tuition cost of $90,000 to be paid upon matriculation. Books and other supplies for the program are expected to cost $3,000. Raj thinks that he will receive an offer of $85,000 per year upon graduation, with a
$9,000 signing bonus. The salary at this job will increase at 3.7 percent per year. His average tax rate at this level of income will be 31 percent.
Both schools offer a health insurance plan that will cost $2,500 per year, payable at the beginning of the year. Raj also estimates that room and board expenses will cost
$20,000 per year at both schools. The appropriate discount rate is 6.5 percent.
You are required to:

1.   (1%) How does Raj’s age affect his decision to get an MBA?
2.   (1%) What other, perhaps non-quantifiable, factors affect Raj’s decision to get an MBA?
3.   (4%) Assuming all salaries are paid at the end of each year, what is the best option for Raj from a strictly financial standpoint? Show your assumptions, calculations and explain why one of the option is better than the other alternatives.
There are three options to compare: remain at his current job, pursue a Wilton MBA, or pursue a Mt. Perry MBA. Compare the options using after-tax cash flows. Hint: room and board costs are irrelevant since presumably they will be the same whether he attends college or keeps his current job. Take in account the opportunity costs: lost salary during the MBA.
4.   (2%) What initial salary would Raj need to receive to make him indifferent between attending Assiniboine University and staying in his current position?
Since the first salary payment will not be received for three years, you need to compound this value two years into the future to arrive at the salary amount after graduation.
5.   (1%) Suppose, instead of being able to pay cash for his MBA, Raj must borrow the money. Explain how would this affect his decision?

Part A

Answer ALL Key Terms below. Meaning / definition and examples and / graphs wherever necessary.

1) Production possibilities 2) Opportunity cost 3) Economic growth 4) Public goods versus private goods 5) Cost-benefit analysis 6) Inelastic demand versus Elastic demand 7) Externality 8) Performance standards versus Design Standards 9) Marketable pollution permits 10) Minimum wage

Part B

Answer the following questions at least in 150 words. Please include graphs and / examples wherever necessary.

1- Discuss the reasons behind higher incarceration rates in US. What does the empirical evidence suggest about the trends in violent crimes since 1990s in USA?

2- How could taxes be used to regulate legal drug markets? How are excise taxes on drugs similar to excise taxes on cigarettes? Why are excise taxes on cigarettes and alcohol sometimes called “sin taxes”? Do we tax them solely because they are “sins”?

3- How could taxes be used to regulate legal drug markets? How are excise taxes on drugs similar to excise taxes on cigarettes? Why are excise taxes on cigarettes and alcohol sometimes called “sin taxes”? Do we tax them solely because they are “sins”?

4- Discuss the progress and failures of some of the global policies on environment.

Comet ISON is one of the more recent comets that was originally called the "comet of the century" but turned out to be less spectacular than predicted, while in the mid-1990s, there were two other very bright comets visible that made them real "comets of the century". Still, though, let's compare their orbits.

a) Here is the link to the ephemeris for ISON: http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/returnprepeph.cgi?d=c&o=CK12S010 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. -- note that q is the perihelion distance, and e is its eccentricity. Why don't they list a semi-major axis or period for its orbit? Can you describe what happened after its perihelion passage and how that relates to the values you gave previously?

b) Here is the link to the ephemeris for Hale-Bopp: http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/comet/ephemjpl8.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. -- note that q and e are provided for it, too. Calculate its semi-major axis in AU.

c) Calculate the aphelion and perihelion velocities for Hale-Bopp. Calculate the circular velocity for an object with a circular orbit with a radius equal to the aphelion distance of Hale-Bopp. How much would you have to change the velocity of an object on a circular orbit at that distance to put it on an orbit like Hale-Bopp's? What mechanisms do you know of that would potentially be able to change an object's velocity by that much?

The Data Mining Process and manual extraction of patterns from data has occurred for centuries. Early methods of identifying patterns and trends in data include Bayes' theorem (circa 1700s) and regression analysis (circa 1800s). The proliferation, ubiquity and increasing power of computer technology has dramatically increased data collection, storage, and manipulation capabilities.

As data sets have grown and increased in complexity forming “Big Data” farms and structured Data Warehouses, "hands-on" data analysis has increasingly been enhanced with automated data processing and aided by other discoveries in computer science, such as neural networks, cluster analysis, genetic algorithms (circa 1950s), decision trees and decision rules (circa 1960s), and support vector machines (circa 1990s).

Data Mining is the process of applying these methods with the intention of uncovering hidden patterns and trends within large data warehouses. This helps to bridge the gap from applied statistics to artificial intelligence (AI), by exploiting the way data is stored and indexed in databases, thus producing the actual learning and execution of discovery algorithms, and allowing such methods to be applied to even larger data sets.

Discussion Topic #1:

Data Mining

Research the latest Privacy Issues with Data Mining and determine whether they are substantiated.

Also, research the most common mistakes and myths evolving around data mining.

Enuresis is a problem that affects children and families both physically and psychosocially. Parents can be frustrated because the cause might be unknown, and interventions that work for one child may not necessarily help another. Children may feel isolated and embarrassed and avoid age-appropriate activities. Initial Discussion Post: Jorge is a nine-year-old boy who never established night time bladder control and wets the bed every night. He does not have toileting accidents during the day. Jorge lives at home with a single working mother, who privately tells the RN that she is frustrated with the additional laundry, and having to get up extra early so her son can shower in the morning rather than at night. She asks the RN in the pediatrician’s office for advice to manage the problem at home. Jorge is excited to go on a Boy Scout camping trip, and the mother is concerned that he will experience embarrassment, because the boys and the leader could find out about this problem. What type of enuresis is Jorge experiencing? Identify two (2) pieces of assessment data the RN should collect. How will this data be used in planning nursing care? Describe one (1) physiological, and one (1) psychosocial intervention that could help either Jorge or his mother deal with this problem.