Visit the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation’s website and read the Program Results Report. Source: Lead States in Public Health Quality Improvement (originally called the Multistate Learning Collaborative). Retrieved from http://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2010/07/multistate-learning-collaborative-.html List the major goals of the program Delineate positive outcomes from a minimum of two states Comment on the stated next steps of the program

not less than 1500 words)

Strategic management and business policies
(Panera Bread Company (2010): Still Rising Fortunes)
Develop a complete strategic audit report that contains the following components
1. Background about the organization
2. Corporate governance
3. External environment analysis
4. Internal environment analysis
5. Financial Analysis
6. SWOT Analysis
7. TOWS Matrix
8. Implementation and Evaluation

Explain the following Australian, international and local legislation and conventions that are
relevant to financial management in an organisation. [120-200 words]
Note: You must briefly explain the legislation and the impact it has upon an organisations
practices.
a) Competition and Consumer Act 2010
b) Privacy Act 1988
c) National Employment Standards under the Fair Work Act 2009
d) World Trade Organisation and the 10 things the WTO can do

Based on the data below, forecast US hotel revenues for 2017, 2018, and 2019. Provide the model developed for your calculations.

YEAR REVENUE ($USD BILLION)

2001 105.00

2002 111.90

2003 118.80

2004 119.30

2005 135.50

2006 146.20

2007 153.80

2008 154.70

2009 133.30

2010 142.00

2011 153.30

2012 155.50

2013 163.00

2014 176.70

2015 189.50

2016 199.30

Search the Web for articles about the Toyota recalls and investigations.

 How have the recalls that Toyota announced in early 2010 affected current public opinion about the company’s record for quality & reliability?

 How has Toyota changed its strategies toward value chain management as a result of these quality & safety problems.

 You are required to write a mini report about the above issues in an A4 paper not exceed three pages.

Explore the Ontario Prenatal Screening website for expectant parents. Consider:

• what testing options are available for Down Syndrome
• when the testing happens in the 40-week pregnancy
• how accurate the testing is
• what the risks of testing are to the pregnancy
• what the risks of Down Syndrome are related to the age of the mother

Create two lists:

• Six reasons why you would recommend prenatal screening for Down Syndrome, and
• Six reasons why you would not recommend prenatal screening for Down Syndrome

SELLING MEDICAL ULTRASOUND TECHNOLOGY IN ASIA
by Linda Trevi~no and Alessandro Gubbini
Asurprisingethicaldilemmaaroseforayoungengineerduringhisfirstbusinesstripto Asia towork with customers of his company’s ultrasound imaging technology. On the long airplane ride, Pat was dutifully reading a travel book to learn more about Korean and Chinese cultures when hewas shocked to learn how ultrasound technologies were being used in these countries. A technology that he had always considered to be a way to help people by diagnosing disease was being commonly used to intentionally identify andterminate pregnancieswhenthefetuswasfemale.Asanengineer,Pat had been trained to be passionate about innovation and problem solving. He was used to thinking about these technologies as innovative high-tech solutions to serious health problems. He was also committed to developing higher-quality, more efficient, affordable devices so that they could be used more widely. It had never occurred to him that in some Asian cultures, where overpopulation combined with a strong patriarchal culture led to a preference for sons over daughters, this technology that he considered to be innovative, helpful, and supportive of people’s well-being might be used to eliminate female lives. As ultrasound technology has advanced and become more available, it has been used more widely in decisions to abort female fetuses in favor of sons. After some more research, Pat learned that this practice has become quite common in China, which controls population growth by allowing families to have only one child. In India, female children are more costly to families because the culture requires the family to bear the expenses of their daughters’ weddings and dowries. By comparison, an ultrasound exam is a small expense even for these poor families. Pat was further surprised to learn that using ultrasound technology to identify fetus gender and abort the fetus based upon gender information is unlawful in most of these countries (for example, in India doctors are forbidden from disclosing the gender of fetuses). However, the enforcement of such laws is difficult and spotty, especially in clinics that are far away from citiies and regulators.The problem is being exacerbated because many ultrasound machines are being sold on the second-hand market, thus making ultrasound more available and more affordable to these clinics. The increasing use of the technology to abort female fetuses is beginning to create a huge societal problem because males are outnumbering females, distorting nature’s careful gender balance. There are estimates that more than 150 million women are“missing”from the world as a result of sex-selective abortions and female infanticide. That’s equivalent to missing every woman in America! The 2001 Indian census demonstrated a huge drop in the number of young girls relative to boys(927 girls for every 1,000 boys compared to 945 to 1,000 a decade earlier) ,and the problem continues to worsen as the use of ultrasound technology increases. According to UNICEF, China now has only 832 girls for every 1,000 boys aged 0–4. Looking to the future as these children grow up, some have predicted increasing trafficking of women for prostitution and violent crime as young males compete for the smaller number of available females. In thinking through what he had learned, Pat found himself considering the patients, the healthcare practitioners, and the healthcare industry as well as his company, other technology developers, and the broader cultures involved. Patients benefit from access to life-saving technologies that can identify diseases at an early stage so that they can be treated more successfully. But patients can also be harmed if, due to early identification of their child’s gender, mothers feel forced into abortions against their will. In these cultures, many mothers apparently do feel compelled by cultural or family pressures to abort female fetuses.Medical practitioners benefit from the ability to do faster and more accurate diagnoses, but they too can be pressured to use these systems for unethical purposes. The industry and the developers (including Pat’s company)certainly profit from the production and sale of more of these products. But the company and industry risk sullying their reputations if they are found responsible for selling these systems to unauthorized users for unlawful purposes. Imagine what the media could make of that story. According to a prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet (2006), the unlawful use of diagnostic ultrasound technologies is contributing to an estimated 1 million abortions of female fetuses every year.Yet, these diagnostic technologies still greatly benefit society world wide in saving and improving the lives of many millions of patients. How should Pat think about this? Do the benefits to society of the technology outweigh the harms? Even if they do, does the company want to be connected to a practice that many people find immoral and that is illegal in many countries?Pat found this practice particularly distasteful when looking at it from the perspective of the females who would not be born simply because of their gender. Pat wondered, “Is this practice fair to them? And aren’t we all facilitating the practice by looking the other way? What would happen if such gender discrimination were globally accepted as normal practice? Could that ever be the right thing to do?” What would international health organizations such as the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB), which provides training and education to doctors worldwide, have to say about such practices? Pat wondered what his wife would think if she knew that his work involved this unexpected result? Would she expect him to do something? What is his individual responsibility here? What is his company’s responsibility? Because Pat felt so confused by what he had read, and he didn’t fully understand the legal or cultural environment, he never mentioned the subject to his Asian clients. But it remained in the back of his mind. When he returned home, he kept thinking aboutit.Therewasnoformalstructureforhimtosurfacetheissuewithinthecompany, so he decided to discuss the subject with some trusted colleagues. He wondered whether they were aware of the issue and what they might think about it. Were they as bothered as he was? It turns out that they were as unaware of these practices as he had been. It also seemed more distant to them because they had not traveled to Asia as he had, and there was no agreement about what to do. Engineers tend to think about products only in technical terms—the potential for technical flaws and dangers that might harm patients. They rarely encounter the ultimate end users, and they’re not trained to think about cultural implications. Asa Westerner, all of this was particularly hard for Pat to deal with. He was caught completely off guard. He asked himself: “What do I need to do, if anything? I’m scheduledtoreturntothesecountriestosupportourclients’useofourtechnology, so I won’t be able to avoid the issue for long. It seems almost ridiculous that I became aware of this issue through a travel book. If it hadn’t been for that book, I probably never would have thought about the issue at all. My company had not prepared me. It offered no special training on cultural or ethical issues for employees they send to work overseas. It seemed like the company’s values of providing people with the opportunity for earlier diagnoses prevented us from exploring the potential misuse of our product. The company and industry focus on how to develop technologies to identify life-threatening conditions earlier, better, and faster. We like to think of our selves and our technologies as saving lives,not risking them. The company’s stated value is to provide healthcare solutions to patients worldwide. But, in this case, our technology was being used to both save and end lives.Do our values need to change? I think of our company as being good and ethical, but we were obviously unprepared in this case. We had not done our homework.” Even if the company wanted to do something, Pat wondered what they could do. The company is an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), meaning that it doesn’t sell directly to the end users. Therefore the responsibility for putting these technologies into the wrong hands is widely dispersed across different manufacturers, distributors and local institutions. Pat also wondered whether and how the company couldinfluencethesedifferentpartiestotakeactionevenifitdecideditwasrighttodo so. On top of that,the company is in the United States, and these end users are halfway across the world.

1. Does this use of our technology breach a core value? Or is this a case where we should respect local cultural practice? Is there some compromise position in between?
2. How might the company think about our responsibility from a supply‐chain perspective? Might they learn anything from companies in other industries that have had to deal with this issue? For example, would it be appropriate to initiate a policy to engage with customers who certify that they will sell exclusively to authorized users? Even if the company did that, how could they be sure customers were complying?

Central City levies taxes of $950,000 in 2019. It collects $ 600,000 of this in 2019, $180,000 in February 2020, $120,000 in May 2020 and the remaining in February 2021. The fiscal year of the City ends on December 31. In 2019, the city will recognize tax revenues at the governmental activities level of:

$600,000

$780,000

$900,000

$950,000

Hops Co. purchased a copyright from Wall Co. for $40,000 on July 1, 2017. Expenditures of $17,000 for unsuccessful litigation in defense of the copyright were paid on July 1, 2020. Hops estimated that the useful life of the copyright will be 20 years from the date of acquisition.

What is the 2020 amortization expense?

Consider the following in Euclidean geometry: Suppose that you want to translate a figure in the coordinate plane along the vector ( 0 2020 ). Find, with a brief explanation, the equations of two lines in the coordinate plane (call them ℓ and m) such that ρ m ∘ ρ ℓ is a translation along the vector ( 0 2020 ).