Evolution

You work for a forestry department. Your colleague asks your opinion of a proposal to use artificial selection to breed a population of lodgepole pines that are resistant to the mountain pine beetle. They have managed to clone a large number of seedling lodgepole pines all from a single parent. They want to take those clones that are most resistant to the mountain pine beetle and breed those together and then use this next generation to replant in a national park. Will this proposal work? Briefly justify your answer

1. Some car designers at Honda think that the present design of Honda civic is too sporty and that if the new design is more family-friendly, it will sell much more than the current model. Some others in the same design committee disagree. You are the head of sales and design. Describe how you would use a technique you learned in MIS to predict the sales of the new design if it is changed to be family-friendly.
2. What would you do to increase “customer intimacy” at Mandarin Hotel.

How hot does it get in Death Valley? The following data are taken from a study conducted by the National Park System, of which Death Valley is a unit. The ground temperatures (°F) were taken from May to November in the vicinity of Furnace Creek. Compute the mean, median, and mode for these ground temperatures. (Enter your answers to one decimal place.) 144 152 167 176 187 182 183 187 182 167 182 164 152 142

The guns per share 72 inc a developer of radiology equipment has stock outstanding as follows 80000 shares of cumulative preferred 3% stock $20 park and 405000 shares of $25 par common during its 1st 4 years of operations the following amounts were distributed as dividends 1st year $33000 2nd years $76000 3rd year $90000 for theor $100000 determine the dividends per share on each class of stock for each of the 4 years

A hotel chain wants to estimate the average number of rooms rented daily in each month. The population of rooms rented daily is assumed to be normally distributed for each month with a standard deviation of 24 rooms.
During January, a sample of 16 days has a sample mean of 48 rooms. This information is used to calculate an interval estimate for the population mean to be from 40 to 56 rooms. What is the level of confidence of this interval? Report the level of confidence as a percentage and use 2 decimal places.

You  are an entrepreneur who is designing a new line of boutique hotels located along Florida’s coastlines. Each of the 75 guest rooms in each hotel will offer upscale decor, Wi-Fi, and iPod docks for a nightly rate of $299. The hotels will have a spa, an on-site restaurant and a separate full-service bar that features local musicians. Describe the demographics—age, gender, family life cycle, income and social class, ethnicity, and place of residence—of your target customer.

What kind of forward and backward linkages would each of the following publicly funded program might have? Comment on the number, strength, and intrinsic profitability of the linkages. Do you recommend that this initiative should be funded by the government or should it be left to the private sector?

a. Construction of a big hospital in a rural area where is no such hospital for 200 miles.

b. Creation of a large public park that from purchasing private agricultural property from private landowners.

c. Discovery and development of large deposits of natural gas

Wastewater treatment is to be designed for a newly developed area located within the vicinity of forest reserve park and commercial space (shopping mall). Given that the current population are 20,000. You are to design a wastewater treatment plant for only biological process units of Trickling filter which can serve the purpose of both BOD removal and nitrification. You are to submit a design report containing :

1. Growth area and population trends for a design period of 20 years (Use arithmetic method).

A scientific analysis of Jurassic park (first one)

Discuss what was scientifically correct and incorrect. Do you think that the scientifically incorrect part was done out ignorance of the laws of physics/principles of geology or do you think that it was a simple plot device? Why do you think that the creators of these works routinely break the laws of physics/principles of geology? How do you think this affects the public's understanding of science?

at least 3 correct things and at least 4 incorrect things

doing some research on Google or Bing for Hotel TV remote control systems .  List your sources. Be sure to answer all the questions listed below

Discuss each of the following:
1. What does the device do?
2. What data does the device store, manage, or transmit?
3. How valuable is the data?
4. How could an intruder get this data?
5. What harm would result if the intruder succeeded in getting the data or in controlling the device?