after graduating from college, Peter a 24-year-old accountant, noticed he had gained 8 pounds in the past year. His employer provides free soft drinks, juice, and bottled water. Peter decides to keep track of his food intake for a couple of days to track his calories. Just his beverage intake is provided here. To estimate his energy intake from beverages, use Table 14-2 and a nutrient database (e.g., Appendix N) or nutrient analysis computer program, or visit this website: www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search.

A developer was tasked to building a login / authentication system for a website. He creates a table,
USER that has the user-name, and password stored in a database table. He then creates a web-page
that prompts the user to enter in his user-id and password. On the server side, the developer takes the
two pieces of information (user-id and password) and invokes the following query:
Select * from USER where user =’$username’ and password=’$password’
You are tasked on performing a peer review on this development. What two pieces of feedback would
you give him, and how would you recommend addressing them?

The HR manager of a large department store believes the number of resignations per week of casual staff at the store can be approximated by a normal distribution with a mean of 42 resignations per week and variance 51.1 (resignations per week)2 . From a large amount of historical data available on the HR database regarding weekly resignations of casuals, a sample of 52 weeks was selected. What must the value of the sample mean be so that only 15% of all possible sample means (of size 52) are less than this value? Give your answer correct to 2 decimal places.

There are MANY versions of MySQL in production (and in some cases, test) environments. Why is this? Why not just upgrade as soon as possible? Why are commands depreciated? How does this effect tutorials, books and training sites? What impact can be seen from an open-source project being under the control of a commercial company? Show some examples of what may occur. What can you do to keep YOUR database from having issues in the future? Can you future proof? Discuss these and any other issues you may come up with related to MySQL.

One of the responsibilities often associated with management is the gathering of career-specific information on resources or professional development. Familiarity with professional sources shows you have interest in your field and invest time to stay current with developments and debates in your industry. Locker 6th ed Business communications..... sources relating to RN nursing.

For this assignment, you will identify credible sources related to your field. You will identify the sources using accurate APA format. Then, for each source, you will write two complete paragraphs that

1. Summarize the source;
2. Comment on the source’s benefits and currency.

For your sources, you should include at least one of each of the three following sources:

1. An academic or professional source from the Keiser e-library database. Avoid single articles, too. Try to identify a database or a journal relevant to your field.
2. A professional news in your field or a respected commercial site like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal. An online magazine such as Forbes or Fortune might be appropriate, depending on your field.
3. An organizational site such as .org, .edu, and .gov site. Examples could include American Medical Association, the National Criminal Justice Association, the American Dairymen's Association, and so forth.

Clue: When using sources, you want to analyze the source of the data, the numbers, and what the words mean to those who may have been surveyed. For your Final e-Portfolio you will include these sources and an introductory paragraph (250 words minimum) on your skills in researching appropriate sources and vetting them for credibility and relevance to your field.

The immediacy and personalization of social networks and, more broadly, the web itself set up the environment for ________.

Select one:

a. newspaper advertising

b. predatory pricing

c. viral marketing

d. green marketing

e. prosocial marketing

A recent study found that about 70 percent of Americans consult either a user review site or an independent review site before ________.

Select one:

a. believing advertising

b. making a purchase

c. beginning the shopping process

d. using a product

e. posting product information on social media

A marketing manager wants to build a strong relationship with the customers and to customize messages without high costs. He understands that relationship building and message customization would require constant updating of the database due to the reliance on CRM and he plans to hire staff to make sure the database stays up to date. Based on the manager's consideration, ________ will be the most appropriate promotion mix element.

Select one:

a. advertising

b. digital and social media marketing

c. sales promotion

d. personal selling

e. public relations and covert advertising

To encourage the ultimate purchase, marketers often rely on ________ to close the sale.

Select one:

a. social media

b. salespeople

c. cold calls

d. print ads

e. emails

In the context of social networks, ________ is targeted at working professionals and offers some distinct advantages in terms of content relevant to a professional audience.

Select one:

a. LinkedIn

b. Facebook

c. Twitter

d. Google Plus

e. Reddit.com

Merger and Stock Investment

Saxton Corporation purchases all of Taylor Company’s assets and liabilities on January 1, 2016, for $15 million in cash. At the date of acquisition, Taylor’s reported assets consist of current assets of $10 million and plant and equipment of $70 million. It reports current liabilities of $16 million and long-term debt of $58 million. Investigation reveals that Taylor’s plant and equipment is overvalued by $2 million and it has an unreported customer database valued at $700,000.

a. Prepare the necessary journal entry on Saxton's books to record its acquisition of Taylor on January 1, 2016.

Enter all of your answers in thousands. For example, $1 million = $1,000 or $700,000 = $700.

b. Assume that Saxton purchases all of Taylor's voting stock on January 1, 2016, for $15 million in cash. Prepare the necessary journal entry on Saxton's books to record the acquisition.

Enter all of your answers in thousands. For example, $1 million = $1,000 or $700,000 = $700.

1.Storing all blocks of a large file on consecutive disk blocks would minimize

seeks during sequential file reads. Why is it impractical to do so? What do operating

systems do instead, to minimize the number of seeks during sequential

reads?

2. Some databases use magnetic disks in a way that only sectors in outer tracks are

used, while sectors in inner tracks are left unused. What might be the benefits

of doing so?

3. A database administrator can choose how many disks are organized into a

single RAID 5 array. What are the trade-offs between having fewer disks versus

more disks, in terms of cost, reliability, performance during failure, and

performance during rebuild?

4. SSDs can be used as a storage layer between memory and magnetic disks, with

some parts of the database (e.g., some relations) stored on SSDs and the rest

on magnetic disks. Alternatively, SSDs can be used as a buffer or cache for

magnetic disks; frequently used blocks would reside on the SSD layer, while

infrequently used blocks would reside on magnetic disk.

a. Which of the two alternatives would you choose if you need to support

real-time queries that must be answered within a guaranteed short period

of time? Explain why.

b. Which of the two alternatives would you choose if you had a very large

customer relation, where only some disk blocks of the relation are accessed

frequently, with other blocks rarely accessed.

Use the Target Corporation’s Form 10-K to answer the following questions related to Target’s 2015 fiscal year (year ended January 30, 2016). Target’s Form 10-K is available on the company’s website ir through the SEC’s EDGAR database. Appendix A provides instructions for using the EDGAR database.

Required

1. What percentage of Target’s total revenues end up as net earning?
2. What percentage of Target’s sales to go to pay for the costs of the goods being sold?
3. What cost does Target include in its Cost of Sales account?
4. When does Target recognize revenue from the sale of gift cards?

Information

The guide provides you with information that will make you better in case analysis, information synthesis, evaluation, and presentation. This will enhance your understanding of the issues discussed in the case and enable you to answer questions fully and in an informed manner that is logical and systematic.

Also included in the folder is a paper from the Harvard Business School titled: An Introduction to Cases. This paper provides an in depth look at the use of case method to enhance your learning experience. You are encouraged to read the two papers before beginning case analysis for this course or any other course.

For case studies, the write-up must at least answer the following questions:

What are the main problems or issues of the case?

What alternatives have been attempted to resolve the problems or issues?

What recommendations can be made to resolve the case?

Relevance of the issues raised in the case to real life business problems and applications

Other questions raised by the instructor

( 750- 1000 words)

Create a set of use cases for the following system: A video store (AVS) runs a series of fairly standard video stores. Before a video can be put on the shelf , it must be catalogued and entered into the video database. Every customer must have a valid AVS customer card in order to rent a video. Customers rent videos for 3 days at a time. Every time a customer rents a video the system must ensure that the customer doesn't have any overdue videos. If so the overdue videos must be returned and overdue fee paid before the customer can rent any more videos. Likewise if the customer has returned overdue videos , but has not paid the overdue fee, the fee must be paid before any new videos can be rented. Every morning the store manager prints a report that lists overdue videos, if a video is 2 or more days overdue then the manager calls the customer to remind them to return the video. If a video is returned in damaged condition the manager removes it from the video database and may sometimes charge the customer.

Please help me! CREATE USE CASE DIAGRAM for the situation in exercise F – Use MS Word to draw it using Insert and Shapes menu) – 1p. Consider that for a customer to have a valid video store card the customer must create an account. Also consider that as a step after renting a video (or videos) the customer must pay for the rental(s). The assumption is that a customer pays only using credit card