Roads Co. is bidding for constructing 2 bridges per year around Sydney for the next 3 years. This project requires initial investment of $847,000 in specialized machinery. The machinery will be fully depreciated to zero book value using straight-line depreciation over the life of the project. The machinery can be sold at the end of the project for $415,000. You will also need $165,000 in net working capital over the life of the project. The fixed costs will be $528,000 a year and the variable costs will be $1,640,000 per bridge. The required rate of return is 16 percent for this project and the tax rate is 24 percent. What is the minimal amount, rounded to the nearest $100, the firm should bid per bridge?

Required information

Spectra Scientific of Santa Clara, California, manufactures Q-switched solid-state industrial lasers for LED substrate scribing and silicon wafer dicing. The company got a $50 million loan, amortized over a 8-year period at 8% per year interest.

What is the amount of the unrecovered balance immediately before the payment is made at the end of year 1. (Enter your answer in dollars and not in millions.)

The amount of the unrecovered balance is $__________ .

1/ Can Foothill College (a publicly funded community college) discriminate in the hiring of its instructors based upon religion? Can Santa Clara University (a private, Catholic-affiliated university in Santa Clara, CA) do so? More generally, if an employer is sued for discrimination, what defenses against an allegation of discrimination does the employer have? ( the discussion about bona fide occupational qualifications)

2/ How might employers be proactive in avoiding employment discrimination claims? For instance, when Silicon Valley law firms lay off attorneys, they typically provide a cash severance payment, which is payable if and only if the laid-off employee waives any and all claims with respect to employment discrimination. Is this a good idea for the employer? Why or why not.

3/ A friend of the instructor’s was laid off several years ago by a small Silicon Valley consulting firm and, as part of the lay off paperwork, he was asked to sign an employment discrimination waiver in exchange for receipt of his final paycheck, but no additional severance payment was offered to the laid-off employee by the employer. On these facts, can you see a reason for why the waiver might be deemed invalid if the ex-employee decided to then sue the employer for employment discrimination?

A presidential candidate's aide estimates that, among all college students, the proportion p who intend to vote in the upcoming election is at least 60%. If 118 out of a random sample of 225 college students expressed an intent to vote, can we reject the aide's estimate at the 0.05 level of significance?

Perform a one-tailed test. Then fill in the table below.

Carry your intermediate computations to at least three decimal places and round your answers as specified in the table. (If necessary, consult a list of formulas.)

Capstone Case H: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Type II Diabetes

Diabetes is a major health problem, particularly for the millions of Americans with undiagnosed diabetes, for whom treatment and glycemic control could substantially reduce the onset of complications of this disease. The CDC Diabetes Cost-Effectiveness Group has published a number of articles based on cost-effectiveness analyses (CEA) using a sophisticated Markov simulation model. This probability- based model predicts the onset of diabetes in a hypothetical cohort of patients and follows them as they transition into the various disease states associated with complications and ultimately death. The first analysis (1998) estimates the cost-effectiveness of one-time opportunistic screening (i.e., done during routine contact with a health system). Two cohorts were used in this study, (1) a hypothetical population without diabetes assigned to either opportunistic screening or current clinical practice, and (2) a hypothetical cohort of 10,000 newly diagnosed diabetics who are followed for the development of major complications under the two screening alternatives. The second analysis (2002) estimates the cost-effectiveness of three interventions for the hypothetical cohort of 10,000 newly diagnosed diabetics: (1) intensive glycemic control; (2) intensive hypertension control; and (3) reduction in serum cholesterol. Hoerger and colleagues (2004) use the CDC Markov model to estimate the cost-effectiveness of two screening strategies: (1) diabetes screening targeted at those individuals with hypertension and (2) universal diabetes screening.

Questions

1. What is the difference between cost–benefit, cost-effectiveness, and cost–utility analysis?

2. What is the relationship between cost and effectiveness? Does more effectiveness always cost more money?

3. When doing CEA it is important to identify the perspective from which the analysis is conducted. In other words, from whose perspective are the costs and benefits recognized? What are the different perspectives? With the diabetes CEA, a single-payer perspective is assumed. What does this mean, and what kinds of costs are ignored?

4. What kinds of costs are usually included in a CEA? The diabetes CEA included screening costs, treatment costs, diabetes intervention costs, and diabetes complication costs. Under what category of costs would screening and treatments fall?

#11-16. For each study described, state whether it will experimental or observational. If observational, identify which type specifically (retrospective cohort, prospective cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, ecological). Briefly explain how you can tell.

• We plan to distribute a questionnaire to all UNLV faculty, students and staff ages 40 and 60. In that questionnaire, we will ask if they suffer from kidney disease, and if they take regular medications including BZDs. We than assess how many people with kidney disease take BZDs and how many people without KC take BZDs.

• We select a group of 1,000 middle-aged volunteers without kidney disease who are likely to suffer from insomnia/anxiety. We assign them randomly into two groups. Group 1 is told to live their lives as normal and take any meds proscribed by their doctor. Group 2 is told not to use BZDs for 2 years, and doctors prescribe Group 2 with natural alternatives to BZDs. After those 2 years, we follow them up and check to see who developed kidney disease in each group, and compare the groups.   

• We will get the age-adjusted incidence rates of kidney disease in 30 different countries and compare those with the rates of BZD consumption per capita (total usage in country/total population of that country). We will then check to see if there is a correlation between the BZD consumption and kidney disease.

• In 2010, we examined the medical records of 2,000 patients ages 53+ associated with Kaiser Permanente (large health care organization) who did NOT have kidney disease in 2005. Then, we look back in the records to see who took BZDs from 2000-2005. After that, we look to see who developed kidney disease from 2006 until 2008. We compared the rates of kidney disease among those who took the BZDs and those who didn’t.

• We plan to select a large healthy group of 4000 50-year old people from the general population and give them a questionnaire to fill out. One of the questions concerns the use of BZDs. We are going to follow them for 5 years and compare how many developed kidney disease among those who said yes to BZD consumption and among those who said no to BZD consumption.

• We will select 200 patients with kidney disease and 600 patients without kidney disease. We will then access their prescription records to see if they used BZDs regularly when they were aged 40-50 years of age.

This lab uses a Student class with the following fields:

private final String firstName;
private final String lastName;
private final String major;
private final int zipcode;
private final String studentID;
private final double gpa;

A TestData class has been provided that contains a createStudents() method that returns an array of populated Student objects.

Assignmen

The Main method prints the list of Students sorted by last name. It uses the Arrays.sort() method and an anonymous Comparator object to sort the array by the student’s last name.

Using the Arrays.sort() method and anonymous Comparator objects print out the array of students using the following three sorting criteria:

1. Sorted in order of major (A-Z)
2. Sorted by zip code (increasing)
3. Sorted by Grade Point Average (GPA) (decreasing)

Note: when sorting by GPA, you will need to be clever to correctly sort GPA’s such as 3.1, 3.2, 3.4 in the correct order.

Note: In this assignment the Comparator class will be instantiated as:

                new Comparator<Student>()

The <Student> type argument means that the Comparator operates on Student objects. You will learn more about this in the next lesson on Generics.

Example Output

Students Sorted By LastName

First Name   Last Name    Major              Zip Code     GPA        

Penny        Adiyodi      Finance            90304        3.1        

Marina       Andrieski    Marketing          76821        3.4        

Quentin      Coldwater    Biology            43109        2.7        

Henry        Fogg         Botany             49022        3.8        

Margo        Hanson       Psychology         56231        2.91       

Josh         Hoberman     Astronomy          33021        2.5        

Kady         Orloff-Diaz English            65421        3.2        

Alice        Quinn        Math               89123        4.0        

Eliot        Waugh        Chemistry          12345        2.1        

Julia        Wicker       Computer Science   43210        4.0        

==============================================================

Students Sorted By Major

First Name   Last Name    Major              Zip Code     GPA        

Josh         Hoberman     Astronomy          33021        2.5        

Quentin     Coldwater    Biology            43109        2.7        

Henry        Fogg         Botany             49022        3.8        

Eliot        Waugh        Chemistry          12345        2.1        

Julia        Wicker       Computer Science   43210        4.0        

Kady         Orloff-Diaz English            65421        3.2        

Penny        Adiyodi      Finance            90304        3.1   

==============================================================

Students Sorted By Zip Code

First Name   Last Name    Major              Zip Code     GPA        

Eliot        Waugh        Chemistry          12345        2.1        

Josh         Hoberman     Astronomy          33021        2.5        

Quentin      Coldwater    Biology            43109        2.7        

Julia        Wicker       Computer Science   43210        4.0        

Henry        Fogg         Botany             49022        3.8        

Margo        Hanson       Psychology         56231        2.91       

Kady         Orloff-Diaz English            65421        3.2        

==============================================================

Students Sorted By GPA

First Name   Last Name    Major              Zip Code     GPA        

Julia        Wicker       Computer Science   43210        4.0        

Alice        Quinn        Math               89123        4.0        

Henry        Fogg         Botany             49022        3.8        

Marina       Andrieski    Marketing          76821        3.4        

Kady         Orloff-Diaz English            65421        3.2   

Coding:

package home;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Comparator;

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {
Student[] students = TestData.createStudents();
Arrays.sort(students,new Comparator<Student>() {
public int compare(Student s1,Student s2) {
String lastname1 = s1.getLastName();
String lastname2 = s2.getLastName();
return lastname1.compareTo(lastname2);
}
});
printStudentList("Students Sorted By LastName",students);

// TODO - sort students by major
printStudentList("Students Sorted By Major",students);

// TODO - sort students by zip code
printStudentList("Students Sorted By Zip Code",students);

// TODO - sort students by GPA
printStudentList("Students Sorted By GPA",students);
}

public static void printStudentList(String title,Student[] list) {
final String format = "%-12s %-12s %-18s %-12s %-12s\n";
System.out.println(title);
System.out.printf(format,"First Name","Last Name","Major","Zip Code","GPA");
for (Student s : list) {
System.out.printf(format,s.getFirstName(),s.getLastName(),s.getMajor(),s.getZipcode(),s.getGpa());
}
System.out.println("==============================================================\n");
}
}

package home;

/**
* Student class (immutable)
*/
public final class Student {
private final String firstName;
private final String lastName;
private final String major;
private final int zipcode;
private final String studentID;
private final double gpa;

public Student(String firstName, String lastName, String major, int zipcode, String studentID, double gpa) {
this.firstName = firstName;
this.lastName = lastName;
this.major = major;
this.zipcode = zipcode;
this.studentID = studentID;
this.gpa = gpa;
}

public String getFirstName() {
return firstName;
}

public String getLastName() {
return lastName;
}

public String getMajor() {
return major;
}

public int getZipcode() {
return zipcode;
}

public String getStudentID() {
return studentID;
}

public double getGpa() {
return gpa;
}
}

package home;

public class TestData {
public static Student[] createStudents() {
Student[] students = {
new Student("Julia","Wicker","Computer Science",43210,"A0123",4.0),
new Student("Quentin","Coldwater","Biology",43109,"D3902",2.7),
new Student("Eliot","Waugh","Chemistry",12345,"Z0101",2.1),
new Student("Penny","Adiyodi","Finance",90304,"M2030",3.1),
new Student("Margo","Hanson","Psychology",56231,"L9832",2.91),
new Student("Alice","Quinn","Math",89123,"U8932",4.0),
new Student("Kady","Orloff-Diaz","English",65421,"K3949",3.2),
new Student("Henry","Fogg","Botany",49022,"R9392",3.8),
new Student("Josh","Hoberman","Astronomy",33021,"H3021",2.5),
new Student("Marina","Andrieski","Marketing",76821,"J3491",3.4)
};
return students;
}
}

could you please assign this homework to this person if possible: Dumpydnp

Write a 200- to 400-word essay about the most important thing you learned while watching "Freedom of Speech."" Please answer based on the video-thank you

Please watch the video- do not copy and paste from internet-thank you

link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zeeq0qaEaLw&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOfse2ncvffeelTrqvhrz8H&index=25

or typing in youtube: Freedom of Speech: Crash Course Government and Politics #25