A block of mass m1 = 6 kg on a rough 30°-inclined plane is connected to a 4-kg mass (m2) by a string of negligible mass passing over a pulley shaped like a ring. The 2-kg pulley has radius 20 cm and rotates about its symmetry axis of rotation. The string causes the blocks and the pulley to rotate without slipping and without friction. The 6-kg block (m1) on the 30°slope is initially pressed against a spring near the bottom of a long rough incline, compressing the spring by 50 cm. The spring is not attached to the block and has a spring constant is 500 N/m. When the system is released, the spring returns to its equilibrium length as it projects the 6-kg block (m1) toward the top of the incline. Assume that the spring just loses contact with the block (m1) at the instant it returns to its equilibrium length. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the block (m1) and the surface of the incline is 0.2. By considering the conservation of energy and any other suitable methods: (a) Calculate the speed of the blocks at the instant the spring first returns to its equilibrium length. [v = 3.2 m/s] (b) What is the total angular momentum of the system when the spring first returns to its equilibrium length? [7.7 kg.m2/s] (c) By considering the total angular momentum of the system, find the rate of change of the angular momentum of the system after the blocks lose contact with the spring. [-0.08 m.N] (d) What is the net torque causing the angular acceleration of the system after the blocks lose contact with the spring? [-0.08 m.N]

A plc is a medium sized listed company. The results for 5 years to 31 December 2019 are as follows:

Dividends are paid on 31 December each year and the dividend shown as declared in a particular year would have been or will be paid on 31 December the following year. If the current dividend policy is maintained, the directors estimate that annual growth in earnings and dividends will no better than the average growth in earnings over the past four years.

X plc does not consider to take on debt at the present time to finance growth. The company is considering a change in its dividend policy and total investment programme to allow 50% of its earnings to be retained for identified capital investment projects which are estimated to have an average post-tax return of 15%. The market risk premium is expected to be 4% over the risk-free rate of 6%. The company’s is currently quoted at 1.5 and is not expected to change for the near future.

Required:

1. Calculate the share price which might be expected by the market

1. If the company does not announce a change in dividend policy
2. If the company does announce a change in dividend policy using whatever model you think appropriate.

1. Comment on the limitations of the models you have used. (Word limit: 100 words).
2. Discuss the reasons why the share price might react differently from the market’s expectations. (Word limit: 100 words).

i. Why does Darwin believe that nature has put such a premium upon the enhanced survival skills of certain creatures?

ii. Darwin compares natural selection to a country undergoing some form of climate change. How does he say that such an example and climate change are similar?

iii. Darwin argues that the hand of "natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and where opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." If Darwin is correct, how come we don't see people, animals, and other organisms morphing before our eyes?

iv. What makes leaf-eating insects green, bark-eating insects mottled grey, and gives hawks such good eyesight? What happened to the insects of the wrong color or the near-sighted hawks?

v. How could this view of the role(s) played by the laws of nature upon the rest of the animal kingdom (yes, you are a part of the animal kingdom: the ape family) be interpreted to apply to human interactions? After reading this kind of expose, what reason might some give for poverty, disease, or the domination of one people over another? [I do not mean to suggest that it should be applied, completely, to the understanding of human interactions, but some did, and I am setting the stage for that movement.]

Presented below is a list of items that may or may not be reported as inventory in a company's Dec 31 balance sheet.

Indicate which of these items would typically be reported as inventory in the financial statements. If an item should not be reported as inventory, indicate how it should be reported in the financial statements.

1) Goods out on consignment at another company's store.

2) Goods sold on an installment basis (bad debts can be reasonably estimated).

3) Goods purchased f.o.b. shipping point that are in transit at Dec 31.

4) Goods purchased f.o.b. destination that are in transit at Dec 31.

5) Goods sold to another company, for which our company has signed an agreement to repurchase at a set price that covers all costs related to the inventory.

6) Goods sold where large returns are predictable.

7) Goods sold f.o.b. shipping point that are in transit at Dec 31.

8) Freight charges on goods purchased.

9) Interest costs incurred for inventories that are routinely manufactured.

10) Costs incurred to advertise goods held for sale.

11) Materials on hand not yet placed into production by a manufacturing firm.

12) Office supplies.

13) Raw materials on which a manufacturing firm has started production but which are not completely processed.

14) Factory supplies.

15) Goods held on consignmnet from another company.

16) Costs identified with units completed by a manufacturing firm but not yet sold.

17) Goods sold f.o.b. destination that are in transit at Dec 31.

18) Short-term investments in stocks and bonds that will be resold in the near future.

1) Scenario: Pursuant to the 2010 Health Care Reform Bill, the United States will be challenged to bring into its health care population some 32 million more patients. Formerly, many of these patients were uninsured. Some of these patients were seen and treated in safety-net hospitals, but mostly in emergency rooms. Reliable, independent studies have shown that this population is low income and is disproportionately made up of ethnic and racial minorities; however, it is important to point out that due to the economic downturn at the turn of the decade surrounding 2010, this 32 million will include a significant number of non-minority unemployed individuals. Consider that health care institutions must move beyond simply taking in and treating the sick and injured who come through the door. In the near future, the health of the community will be measured in terms of low disease burden, high vaccination rates, controlled chronic disease rates, healthier life styles, and a better educated public. Clearly, the impacts to the health care system will have to be addressed.

*In your own words please describes the roles and responsibilities of health care management in addressing this pressing dilemma. Apply the following questions to generate your conclusions about how you would proceed:

a) How do the considerations under the concept of governance apply?

b) What are the major financial issues being faced?

c) What are the major physical issues being faced?

d) What are the major demographic issues being faced?

On July 1, 2018, Truman Company acquired a 70 percent interest in Atlanta Company in exchange for consideration of $763,175 in cash and equity securities. The remaining 30 percent of Atlanta’s shares traded closely near an average price that totaled $327,075 both before and after Truman’s acquisition. In reviewing its acquisition, Truman assigned a $104,500 fair value to a patent recently developed by Atlanta, even though it was not recorded within the financial records of the subsidiary. This patent is anticipated to have a remaining life of five years.The following financial information is available for these two companies for 2018. In addition, the subsidiary’s income was earned uniformly throughout the year. The subsidiary declared dividends quarterly.

Prepare a worksheet to consolidate the financial statements of these two companies as of December 31, 2018.

Financials This section will offer a financial overview of Basket of Goodies as it relates to the marketing activities. Break-even analysis, sales forecasts, and expense forecasts will all be addressed. 4.1 Break-even Analysis The Break-even Analysis indicates that $5,600 will be needed in monthly revenue to reach the important break-even point.Sales Forecast The first month will be spent setting up the business. It is unlikely that there will be much sales activity. In addition to dealing with some legal and accounting issues, equipment will need to be purchased, an office created, and an assembly room/inventory room set up in the basement. Susan will also be developing a system for assembly (work flow processes) within the first month. Susan will also be working on having the Website designed and set up. This will require a bit of time spent with her Web designer to perfect the look and feel of the site as well as to set up BOG as an online e-commerce merchant. Susan plans to use 1st-At-The-Top.com Internet and Ecommerce Consulting, www.1st-At-The-Top.com, to design her secure Website, and assure strong search engine placement on the Internet. Month two - three will begin to see some sales activity. BOG recognizes that it will take a bit of time to really ramp up the sales. Susan will be doing a lot of networking in an attempt to spread awareness about BOG's products and services. Because Susan's husband will be helping out with picking up some of the materials, Susan will not need an employee until near the end of year one.

Question: Discuss the financial information and budgets

In a study examining psychological and organization efforts of pets in the workplace, Wells and Perrine (2001) found that employees believed pets reduced stress and brought positive benefits to the environment. Suppose another researcher, Dr. D, believes that the presence of pets will reduce speech anxiety in oral communication classes. To test this theory, participants were recruited from oral communication classes and randomly assigned to deliver a 10- minute persuasive speech either with or without a small older yet quiet dog resting near the podium. All speeches were videotaped, and trained observers scored the number of anxiety behaviors, such as shaking hands, wobbly legs, and cracking voice. Participants also completed a speech anxiety questionnaire when they finished their speech. As Dr. D expected, participants reported less anxiety when the dog was present than participants in the control condition.

1.Identify the null and research hypotheses for this experiment?

2.Identify the independent variable and state the different levels?

3.Identify the dependent variable?

4.What is the experimental designs?

5.Name several extraneous variables that should be controlled?

6.Evaluate this study for experimenter bias and demand characteristics?

7.If the researcher examined differences in anxiety reduction between female and male participants, what kind of research design would this be?

8.If the difference in anxiety level between the experimental and control groups are due to chance, explain to the researcher why the results would change?

9.If true anxiety differences existed between the two experimental conditions, but they were not detected, what kind of error occurred?

One way to identify use of methamphetamine in a population is to monitor the waste water. Methamphetamine is excreted from the body up to 23% unchanged and can cause unintended environmental exposures. It has been detected in the sewage of all major cities, even after sewage treatment. Methamphetamine is organic base with a pKaof 10.0 [12].

a. Many sewage treatment facilities induce pH ranges from pH 5 to pH 10 to encourage degradation. Is methamphetamine charged at these extremes? Also, circle and name the functional group(s) predominately responsible for the pKa. Please provide your reasoning.

b. Methamphetamine is excreted in urine as a cation. Assuming it enters the environment as a cation, which of the four environmental compartments would you expect to find methamphetamine? Use chemical properties and environmental properties to justify your reasoning. (Hint: there are potentially two compartments.)

c. Assuming methamphetamine enters the environment as a cation through urine, what environmental properties determine which environmental compartment methamphetamine will be in?

d. Roughly three to six pounds of toxic waste is produced for each pound of

methamphetamine produced. Vapors created during production also cause further

environmental contamination, depositing the un-charged drug on surfaces near the

production site. The log Kow of methamphetamine is 2.07. What is the ratio of

methamphetamine in octanol:water?

i. What does this imply about BCF?

ii. What does it imply about K

d

?

iii. Also, what does all of this mean when we are talking about environmental

transport and potential persistence of methamphetamine in the environment?