Market Behavior: Rent Controls - There are several major universities and colleges in Boston, Massachusetts. It is a city with high rents and low vacancies. Students attending these schools have complained that they cannot find “affordable” housing in areas near their schools and asked the City Council of Boston to impose rent controls at rates student could afford. As an economics student, the Council has asked for your opinion concerning this request. What is your opinion?
In: Economics
A 133-kg horizontal platform is a uniform disk of radius 1.51 m and can rotate about the vertical axis through its center. A 66.5-kg person stands on the platform at a distance of 1.07 m from the center and a 27.5-kg dog sits on the platform near the person, 1.39 m from the center. Find the moment of inertia of this system, consisting of the platform and its population, with respect to the axis. _____ kg*m^2
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Case Scenario: A 72- year old woman presents with shingles. The blisters began near her spine and have continued around her rib cage. She is in pain and states nothing helps. She is the primary care giver for her aging mother and a grandson.
Question: Make a starting treatment plan for this patient. Support your answer using specific facts, data, examples, and other information drawn from the textbook
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1. Examine the financial ratios, stock valuation and news about
Walmart. Do you see the firm’s share price rising/decreasing in the
near-, intermediate- and long-term? Do you believe the firm has a
stable future of sustainable growth, currently stagnant, or is
heading for financial failure? Why?
2. Would you invest in Walmart? Why or why not?
through their 10 k filling or using recent price
In: Finance
In: Biology
3. Use the supply and demand model to illustrate how each of the following affects the market for cocoa beans, ceteris paribus.
a. A blight on cacao trees kills of much of the crop in Latin America.
b. The price of carob increases.
c. Workers organize into a union and get higher wages for farming Cocoa.
d. Chocolate is clinically proven to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. e. The price cocoa beans are expected to drop in the near future.
In: Economics
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization in which there are 189 countries involve in working with foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world. IMF was created in 1945 which responsible to the 189 countries that make up to near-global membership. Discuss the main purpose of the IMF and how the IMF monitor all the countries
In: Finance
Question 1: 250 words
How do managers motivate employees during economic fluctuation? (10 marks )
In: Operations Management
2. Planet Zero has a mass of 5.0 × 10^23 kg.
a. If a stone is dropped near the surface of the planet and falls 20 m in 2.19 s, what is the radius of Planet Zero?
b. A space probe is launched vertically from the surface of Zero with an initial speed of 4.0 km/s.
C.What is the speed of the probe when it is 3.0 × 10^6 m from Zero's center?
annotate, explain the processes.
In: Physics
1. What was the Embargo Act of 1807? Why do you think President Jefferson and others thought it was necessary to sign this act into law?
2. What similarities between the Embargo Act and the current economic tension between the U.S. and China do you see? How do they differ?
3. What lessons can we take from the failed Embargo Act as the threat of a trade war looms near?
In: Economics