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Problem 3-4A Weighted average: Process cost summary, equivalent units, cost estimates LO C2, C3, P4
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Tamar Co. manufactures a single product in one department. All
direct materials are added at the beginning of the manufacturing
process. Conversion costs are added evenly throughout the process.
During May, the company completed and transferred 22,700 units of
product to finished goods inventory. Its 3,100 units of beginning
work in process consisted of $19,900 of direct materials and
$226,440 of conversion costs. It has 2,450 units (100% complete
with respect to direct materials and 80% complete with respect to
conversion) in process at month-end. During the month, $483,100 of
direct material costs and $1,992,960 of conversion costs were
charged to production.
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In: Accounting
You are once again the science officer stationed on the starship NX-01. Upon discovery of a new planet, the mission of you team is to conduct a survey of the resources found on the planet. Now that you have conducted an ecological analysis of the planet, you have been called upon to some examine some of the living organisms on the planet. The area your team has been assigned to explore is located on East Darwin near the coast. The seawater is salty, approximately the same concentration as the seas on earth. Inland from the sea is a dry desert region with very little fresh water available. Between the desert and the sea are patches of scrubby grass, averaging approximately 35 cm in height.
Q1
While exploring the coastal areas of east Darwin, you find the
remains of a large organism on the beach. The body is approximately
25m long, and appears to be some type of vertebrate-like organism.
The organism has four relatively short limbs, attached to a heavy
pectoral and pelvic girdle. Because of it’s location, you are at
first unsure if it is an aquatic organism that washed up on the
beach, or a terrestrial organism that died near the seashore. What
respiratory, circulatory excretory and, structural
features would you look for during your dissection to
determine if it was aquatic or terrestrial? Explain why the
structures you have mentioned are important in determining aquatic
or terrestrial origins for the organism? (10 pts)
Q2
Describe some of the problems associated with the size of the organism mentioned in question #1. In your answer, address possible problems with movement, transfer of heat energy generated by the body and movement of materials across the epidermis. You must refer to the square cube law in your answer. If you answered terrestrial in question 1 assume your organism is terrestrial for question 2 as well. If you answered aquatic in question 1, assume your organism is aquatic for question 2 as well. (10)
Q3
In a stream you are observing, you see a living organism that appears to be Catadromous. Explain what this means for their physiology? (5)
Q4
These aquatic organisms can sense their environment in a variety of different ways. Discuss two different sensory systems that aquatic organisms may have that humans do not have. (5)
Q5 While continuing to explore your assigned area, you come across a small 4-legged organism (approximately 40 cm high, weight approximately 6 kg) with a feather-like outer covering. It inhabits the scrubby grass strips between the sea and the desert. As you observe the animal, you notice that after grazing on the grass, it walks to the sea and drinks the water. What adaptations might this organism have to be able to drink seawater? Explain. (10)
Q6
You are to travel to the cold regions in far north of the planet for your final explorations before you return to Earth from your continuing mission. Would you expect to large, small animals, both or none in this region? Why? (10)
In: Biology
Read the following case study while considering the questions below:
Beverly Jones is an 83-year-old retired nurse who lives independently in her home in Oak Creek. She was a flight nurse in the Korean War and would fly into combat to help evacuate injured soldiers. After the war, she worked at St. Luke’s hospital in the Emergency Department for 20 years and then at a clinic near the airport and close to home for 20 years before retiring. She has never been married and does not have children.
Ms. Jones feels healthy at her age. She has a past medical history of hypertension, hypothyroidism, and arthritis. She takes lisinopril 20 mg daily and Lasix 40 mg daily for her hypertension. This combination has well controlled her blood pressure for the past 30 years. About 10 years ago, her physician started her on aspirin for her heart and she takes 325 mg daily. She takes Synthroid 88 mg for her hypothyroidism and 600 mg of ibuprofen BID as needed for her arthritis. She does not drink but has smoked a pack a day for 70 years.
You meet Ms. Jones for the first time when she comes in for her annual check-up and flu shot. You notice she asks you to repeat yourself frequently and she turns her head as you move around the room. She does not answer all of your questions appropriately and has difficulty following some of your directions. You are concerned about Ms. Jones’ hearing and complete the HHIE-S. She scores a 28.
o What age-related changes would you expect to find in the external, middle, and inner ear and nervous system?
o What are Ms. Jones risk factors for hearing loss?
§ Age
§ Environmental noise: planes and guns in war, ambulances in the ER, living and working near the airport
§ Smoking
§ Medication: aspirin, Lasix, ibuprofen, especially for a long time
§ HTN, hypothyroidism
o What behavior cues do you notice and expect to see that indicate a hearing deficit?
§ See Text
o What is the HHIE-S and what does her score indicate?
§ Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly: assesses the presence and functional consequences of hearing loss in cognitively intact older adults
§ 84% probability of hearing impairment- severe handicap- need to refer
o What additional questions would you ask Ms. Jones to assess her hearing?
§ See Text
o What are the different types of hearing loss and how do you differentiate between them?
§ Conductive: problem with external or middle ear
§ Sensorineural: problem with inner ear or neural structures
§ Mixed
§ Noise Induced Hearing Loss
o What interventions could you implement today while Ms. Jones is in the office to help with her hearing loss?
In: Nursing
JAPANESE CASE STUDY #1
This case study is a composite of actual situations. Marianne, who is American, and Ken Shimizu, who is Japanese, have worked in Tokyo for over 30 years as Methodist missionaries. They have annual furloughs and occasional sabbaticals, during which they visit relatives and sponsoring organizations and engage in continuing education in the United States. They met as college students in the United States, and their three grown children have established their own careers in the United States.
Ken’s 98-year-old mother resides with Marianne and Ken. She is not Christian but has always been extremely supportive of Ken and Marianne’s work. Ken teaches at a large Christian university, whereas Marianne has served in various church-related positions over the years. As missionaries, they live in subsidized post–World War II housing near Ken’s university. Marianne has been a frugal housewife, preparing local foods in the Japanese style for her family.
Ken, who is nearly 60, recently learned that he has glaucoma. By the time it was discovered, he had lost a significant amount of peripheral vision. Although Marianne delivered all three children at a Christian hospital in Tokyo, she gets her annual physical examination when visiting relatives in the United States. She has never believed that the Japanese health system is as proactive as that in the United States. On her most recent visit to the United States, Marianne learned that she has hypertension. Her physician prescribed a medication that is readily available in Japan, but the physician was concerned about the level of stress in Marianne’s life. Mother Shimizu is quite confused and requires considerable care, but it is unthinkable for Ken, the only child, to put his mother in a long-term-care facility. Even if he would, the
quality of facilities in Japan leaves much to be desired. Most of the responsibility for Mother Shimizu falls on Marianne, in addition to her work. Marianne’s relatives are urging her to consider placing Mother Shimizu in a church-related life-care community near Marianne’s family in the United States, where Marianne and Ken would like to retire. Marianne’s own parents lived in this facility at the end of their lives. She is considering these issues as she returns to Tokyo.
1. In what ways might you consider Ken to be countercultural as a Japanese man?
2. What social pressures might Marianne have faced, given some of her choices, as a housewife in Japan?
3. What pressures will Ken likely experience as he considers how to meet the needs of both his mother and his wife?
9. Compare and contrast the fertility and mortality rates of Japan and the United States.
10. Do the traditional Japanese maintain sustained eye contact with strangers? Why or why not?
11. To which drugs might Japanese people have greater sensitivity than that of white ethnic populations?
12. How do most Japanese people meet their need for calcium?
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In: Nursing
Please answer the following questions.
Fed Officials Step Up Calls for More Government Spending to Speed Economic Recovery
Summary: Federal Reserve officials stepped up calls for additional government spending to avoid an uneven and protracted economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The recovery would move along faster “if there is support coming both from Congress and from the Fed,” Chairman Jerome Powell said during the second of three days of congressional testimony Wednesday. The Fed committed last week to a much longer interval of low rates than it did initially after the 2008 financial crisis. Officials said they would hold short-term rates near zero until inflation reaches 2% and is likely to stay somewhat above that level, something most officials don’t see happening in the next three years. But Mr. Powell and his colleagues said Congress and the White House, more than the Fed, had the power to hasten a faster recovery.
Questions:
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Dollar Regains Draw in Carry Trades Summary: This year’s decline in the U.S. dollar is drawing investors back into a practice that they had eschewed for some years: Borrowing the greenback to buy riskier assets in what is known as a "carry trade." A number of investors are pursuing higher returns by buying overseas assets. The dollar is being used to fund such trades after a drop in U.S. interest rates this year made it less attractive for investors to hold dollar-denominated assets. With the Fed pledging to keep U.S. rates near zero for the foreseeable future, it may stay that way for a while. Questions:
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In: Economics
The employer is a small, nonunion furniture manufacturer with 15 employees engaged in interstate commerce. Both of the employees involved in this case worked in the machine shop building as band-saw operators. Because the band saws were located near the shop’s large overhead door, to facilitate the disposal of sawdust, the band-saw operators were often subject to lower temperatures and drafts on cool or cold days, whereas other employees farther from the overhead door often felt too warm. To resolve this long-standing problem, the plant manager established a rule that stated: “The overhead door will remain open when the temperature in the shop exceeds 68 degrees and closed when the temperature is at or below 68 degrees.” On the day in question, employees Drake and Keeler, who were both band-saw operators, complained to the shop supervisor that they were too cold and requested that the overhead door be closed. When questioned by the shop supervisor, the majority of the other shop employees present responded that they thought the door should be left open. The thermometer on the wall of the shop supervisor’s office, located in approximately the center of the machine shop building, read 72 degrees. On this day, employee Drake was wearing a sleeve- less shirt and shorts. Employee Keeler was dressed in blue jeans, a short-sleeved shirt, a flannel shirt, and a heavy sweater. Both Keeler and Drake claimed it was too cold and drafty at their workstation near the open overhead door. The shop supervisor refused to close the overhead door because the majority of employees wanted it left open. During a scheduled lunch break, Drake and Keeler discussed their problem and decided to walk off the job for the remainder of the day to protest the cold temperature at their workstation. Upon returning to work the following morning, Drake and Keeler were informed by the plant manager that they had been fired for leaving work the previous day without management’s permission. Drake and Kee- ler subsequently filed an unfair labor practice charge with the NLRB alleging their discharge represented unlawful discrimination of their right to engage in con- certed and protected activity under Section 7 of the LMRA. Drake and Keeler requested a remedy to include reinstatement with full back pay and restora- tion of any lost privileges.
QUESTIONS
1. Because Drake and Keeler’s employer meets the standard for coverage under the LMRA by engaging in interstate commerce, which specific employee right protected by Section 7 of the LMRA could Drake and Keeler argue they were engaged in which at least partially motivated the employer’s decision to discharge them?
2. On what grounds might the employer try to argue that the discharge of Drake and Keeler was an appropriate (legal) exercise of management’s rights?
3. Wastheemployer’sdischargeofDrakeandKeeleran unfair labor practice under the LMRA, as amended? If so, what should be the appropriate remedy?
In: Operations Management
URGENT!!!!!
You are once again the science officer stationed on the starship NX-01. Upon discovery of a new planet, the mission of you team is to conduct a survey of the resources found on the planet. Now that you have conducted an ecological analysis of the planet, you have been called upon to some examine some of the living organisms on the planet. The area your team has been assigned to explore is located on East Darwin near the coast. The seawater is salty, approximately the same concentration as the seas on earth. Inland from the sea is a dry desert region with very little fresh water available. Between the desert and the sea are patches of scrubby grass, averaging approximately 35 cm in height.
While exploring the coastal areas of east Darwin, you find the
remains of a large organism on the beach. The body is approximately
25m long, and appears to be some type of vertebrate-like organism.
The organism has four relatively short limbs, attached to a heavy
pectoral and pelvic girdle. Because of it’s location, you are at
first unsure if it is an aquatic organism that washed up on the
beach, or a terrestrial organism that died near the seashore. What
respiratory, circulatory excretory and, structural
features would you look for during your dissection to
determine if it was aquatic or terrestrial? Explain why the
structures you have mentioned are important in determining aquatic
or terrestrial origins for the organism? (10 pts)
Describe some of the problems associated with the size of the organism mentioned in question #1. In your answer, address possible problems with movement, transfer of heat energy generated by the body and movement of materials across the epidermis. You must refer to the square cube law in your answer. If you answered terrestrial in question 1 assume your organism is terrestrial for question 2 as well. If you answered aquatic in question 1, assume your organism is aquatic for question 2 as well. (10)
In a stream you are observing, you see a living organism that appears to be Catadromous. Explain what this means for their physiology? (5)
These aquatic organisms can sense their environment in a variety of different ways. Discuss two different sensory systems that aquatic organisms may have that humans do not have. (5)
While continuing to explore your assigned area, you come across a small 4-legged organism (approximately 40 cm high, weight approximately 6 kg) with a feather-like outer covering. It inhabits the scrubby grass strips between the sea and the desert. As you observe the animal, you notice that after grazing on the grass, it walks to the sea and drinks the water. What adaptations might this organism have to be able to drink seawater? Explain. (10)
You are to travel to the cold regions in far north of the planet for your final explorations before you return to Earth from your continuing mission. Would you expect to large, small animals, both or none in this region? Why? (10)
In: Biology
Decimal value data types such as float and double represent the decimal number as an approximation. In other words, float or double arithmetic do not give exact answer but near approximation to the answer. As an example, run the following program and check its result:
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
float x= 0.1 * 7; if (x == 0.7)
cout<< "TRUE. \n"; else
cout<< "FALSE. \n"; return 0;
}
In some situations, we need our programs to give exact solutions instead of near to exact answers. Some programming languages provide a special data type called Decimal that represents decimal numbers without the use of approximation. Write a program in C++ that implements the Decimal data type using a class called BigDecimal. This class will allow users to create decimal values and perform several operations on these values. The class should use two member variables:
- the integer part saved as a string
- the decimal part saved as a string
For example, the following instance BigDecimal d("6.45678"); will
store "6" in the first variable and "45678" in the second
variable
The class should have the following functionalities:
BigDecimal() The default constructor. Creates the number 0.0 BigDecimal(string) A constructor that accepts a string representing the numeric
value with the decimal point.
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Member Function |
Description |
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== operator |
Accepts two BigDecimal values and compares their values. If the two decimal values are equal then the method should return true otherwise it should return false. |
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!= operator |
Accepts two BigDecimal values and compares their values. If the two decimal values are equal then the method should return false otherwise it should return true. |
++ operator (prefix) |
This operator should increment the integer part of BigDecimal object by one. The overloaded ++ operator should return the contents of the object (using this pointer) after it is incremented. |
++ operator (postfix) |
This operator should increment the integer part of BigDecimal object by one. The overloaded ++ operator should return the contents of the object before it is incremented. |
Displays the numeric value of BigDecimal to the standard output. BigDecimal object.
<< operator
>> operator Reads a string value from the standard input and
stores it in the
double toDouble() Converts the BigDecimal value to a
double.
You can assume that all the values of BigDecimal are nonnegative.
Here is an example of how
BigDecimal can be used: BigDecimal x("45.67");
BigDecimal y("2.5"); //Should print 2.5
cout << x++ << endl;
//Should print 4.5
cout << ++x << endl;
//Should print false
cout << (x==y) << endl;
What to hand in
Submit your project electronically through D2L. Please hand in the following:
C++ source file (for example .cpp file) that you implemented for this assignment.
Please follow the documentation rules (programming guidelines) that are attached under
Week 1.
In: Computer Science
PLEASE READ AND ANSWER
CASE #3 TATA'S TIME(STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN ACTION SIXTH EDITION)
It holds the number 6 spot on the list of the world's most admired companies in the steel industry. The Tata Group, based in Mumbai, India, is the largest conglomerate in that country. Its latest revenues are estimated at $67.4 billion, of which 61 percent is from business outside India. Tata has more than 100 operating companies in seven main business groups doing business in 80 countries: chemicals, information systems and communications, consumer products, energy, engineering, materials, and services. Its two largest businesses are Tata Steel and Tata Motors. Its Tata Tea, which owns the valued Tetley brand, also is one of the largest tea producers in the world. Ratan Tata, Tata Group's chairper son, has forged a strategy that encompasses the globe. In 1999, he issued a "clarion call to push outside India with acquisitions and exports." One of the company's executive directors recalled, "We didn't know what to expect, to be honest."
Today, Tata controls many businesses ranging from Eight O'clock Coffee Co. in the United Sates to the Taj Group of hotels, which took over management of the landmark Pierre Hotel on Central Park in New York City. Tata made its boldest global strategic push, however, in October 2006 when Tata Steel formally proposed buying British steelmaker Corus Group PLC for about $8 billion USD. Corus, which was formed by a merger of British Steel and Hoogovens, was three times the size of Tata Steel. The buyout offer soon turned into a bidding war when Tata Group discovered another company, Companhia Siderùrgica, Nacional of Brazil (CSN), was also preparing a bid and therefore upped its opening offer to $9.2 billion; CSN then raised the stakes by offering to pay $9.6 billion. A Tata Group spokesman said that the company's attempt to acquire Corus was "based on a compelling strategic rationale." Ratan Tata explained further by saying, "The revised terms deliver substantial additional value to Corus shareholders." The increased takeover bid did not impress investors as the company's share price fell 6 percent after the news was announced. Analysts and investors both "expressed concern that Tata is overpricing Corus, whose operating costs are among the highest of any steel maker—something that would affect its profitability and its plans to expand in India." However, Ratan Tata knew that the acquisition could catapult Tata Steel from its mid-50s ranking in the global steel list to the sixth-largest industry competitor. He said, "Analysts were taking a short-term, harsh view of the deal. Hopefully, the market will look back and say it was the right move." By the end of JanuaQi 2007, the U.K. Takeover Panel called an auction in order to end the bidding war and "presided over the contest that started on Tuesday, January 30." The "contest" continued for several hours until CSN pulled out. Tata Steel won its coveted prize for $12.2 billion—a 22 percent premium over what it had originally offered. That acquisition represented the latest consolidation in the global steel industry. The combined Tata-Corus can produce 25 million tons of steel a year. The deal also represented the largest foreign acquisition by an Indian company and made the diversified Tata Group the largest company in India.
In 2008, Tata made an even bigger global splash, at least in terms of recognized consumer brand names. It acquired the Land Rover and Jaguar brands from Ford for an estimated $2.3 billion.
Tata's leaders believe the group "can survive on the world stage only by being both too big to beat and too good to fail." In December 2012, when Chairman Ratan Tata steps down, Cyrus Mistry will take over as chairman of Tata Group and he "faces the daunting challenge of steering a giant, increasingly multinational conglomerate of more than 100 companies through economic headwinds at home and abroad."
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
4. Do some research on the Tata Group [wvvw.tata.com]. What is its purpose? How would its core values Influence strategic choices? Does its international strategy approach seem to be working?
5. Do you think an international conglomerate would be more difficult or less difficult to strategically manage than a more focused company? Discuss.
6. What Implications does the statement about "surviving on the world stage" have for the future strategies pursued by the Tata Group?
THANK YOU!
In: Operations Management