Suppose that there’s a 7% 5-year coupon (paid annually) bond with F = $1000 and yield to maturity 7.5%.
a. What is the bond’s modified duration?
b. What is the percent change in value of this bond using duration only if rates change +/- 2
percentage points?
c. How do these calculations compare to the actual percent price changes?

9.         Discuss the mechanism(s) by which heart rate and strength of contraction are impacted by sympathetic activation (6 pts)?

10. Discuss the reflex that regulates changes in blood pressure through the activation of baroreceptors (8 pts).

12.       Compare and contrast action potentials in myocardial cells and P cells with respect to mechanism and function (12 points).

Successful new product creation is a collective achievement that requires the energy and commitment of multiple functions in the organization. Describe the Kano Model and explain how the Kano Model works to create new B2B products and services. Explain how, overtime, the model requires changes to new features/products. Include at least two examples of B2B products and/or services.

Your audit client, a manufacturer of surgical gloves, wants to increase the value of its inventory even though it has not experienced any changes in manufacturing costs. Your client explains that it wants the value of its inventory to reflect the fact that it can now charge a higher price for these high demand items. Is this permissible under U.S. GAAP?

First, find the case involving McDonald's and a woman who served when she was burned when she spilled coffee on herself. What were the arguments that McDonald's should pay damages and what were her damages. Part 2 is to find another case where you feel the lawsuit could result in positive changes.

One of the major misconceptions about correlation is that a relationship between two variables means causation; that is, one variable causes changes in the other variable. There is a particular tendency to make this causal error when the two variables seem to be related to each other.

What is one instance where you have seen correlation misinterpreted as causation? Please describe.

A capacitor filled by dielectric slab (k=4.5) is connected to a 12.0V battery and charged up. The capacitor is then disconnected from the battery and the slab is removed.

a) Find the amount by which the potential difference across the plates changes.

b) Find the difference between the new stored energy and the original amount and specify whether this energy difference is an increase or decrease.

1. An air conditioner using R134a as the working fluid operates on an ideal vapour compression system between 0.3 and 0.8 MPa. If the specified capacity for air conditioning is 20 kW. What would be its capacity for food freezing for which the evaporator temperature -20^oC. Show the cycle on a PH diagram and explain the effect of the changes to the compressor and condenser respectively.

Provide a description of a recent waiting line system that you encountered. Was it a single channel or multi-channel? Why? Do you feel that the operating characteristics would indicate an efficient operation? Why? What changes would you suggest that they make? If you are suggesting that they add servers, do you feel that the added service will outweigh the costs? Why?