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?

LP1 Assignment: Milestone 1: International Expansion

This assignment will assess competency

1. Build effective global and international linkages for multinational organizations.

Directions

The company you work for is expanding internationally in the near future. A team of employees, which you are a part, have been given the task of evaluating one developed (not the U.S.), one emerging and one developing country for possible expansion. You will pick three countries this week, using the Dow Jones Indexes, and begin the process of evaluation. Choose three countries in which you have an interest – do not focus on finding the best choice (remember there is an entire team doing the same process in other countries). There is every possibility that by the end of the process (i.e., the end of class) your country recommendations will be not chosen for expansion, and that is fine. We are completing our due diligence on all the choices at hand. This week you will look at the political, legal and technological ramifications of your three countries. You will write up, for each country, all the pros and cons of the choice of each country based on your readings of the first three chapters of your text, the CIA World Factbook and the AIB Global Edge, plus other research from other sources. The expectation would be for a minimum of two pages per country. You will follow APA (6th edition) formatting (no abstract is required for this milestone) with title and reference pages, indented paragraphs and a minimum of four APA formatted references and associated in-text citations. This information, and that of the following LPs, will become part of your final project artefact.

Ray Perkins has been employed at Grant Real Estate for almost two years. Prior to receiving his real estate license, he was a property manager with a large real estate agency in another community. During his first year with Grant, he was assigned to the residential property division and sold properties totaling $825,000. He then requested and received a transfer to the commercial division.
Three months ago, Ray obtained a commercial listing that consisted of 26 acres of land near a growing residential neighborhood. The land is zoned commercial and appears to be ideally suited for a mediumsized shopping center. Ray prepared a detailed prospectus and sent it to Vera Maynard, president of Mondale Growth Corporation, a firm specializing in development of shopping centers.
One week later he received a letter from Ms. Maynard requesting more information. Shortly after receiving Ray’s response, Ms. Maynard called to set up an appointment to inspect the property. A time and date were finalized, and Ray agreed to meet her plane and conduct a tour of the property. Ray is a quiet, amiable person who displays the Supportive communication style. Friends say that they like to spend time with him because he is a good listener.
Question:
1. If Ms. Maynard displays the characteristics of the Supportive communication style, how should Ray conduct himself during the meeting? Be specific as you describe those behaviors that would be admired by Ms. Maynard. What if Ms. Maynard displays a Reflective Communication style? Emotive Communication Style?

A neuron can use glucose created from a non-carbohydrate source.  This reaction is termed:

1. glycogenolysis  b) glycogenesis  c) photosynthesis  d) glycolysis  e) none of the above

Which of the following statements is (are) true about epithelial tissue?

      a)  epithelial cells secrete collagen    b)  epithelial tissue functions in absorption

      c)  epithelial tissue has each of the 4 tissue types     d)  epithelial cells are always ciliated

      e)  two of the above are true

Which of the following require “active” transport processes?

1. movement of glucose from a region of high concentration to a region of low concentration
2. osmosis    c)  simple diffusion       d) a and b         e)  none of the above

A bundle of axons in the central nervous system is called a _________ and a bundle of axons in the peripheral nervous system is called a ______________

        a) tract; nerve   b) nerve; tract  c) ganglia; nucleus  d) nucleus, ganglia  e) ganglia; nerve

Which of the following binds to the active site of an enzyme?

            a) non competitive inhibitor       b) water   c) another enzyme    d) substrate   e) pro

In the para sympathetic nervous system, the ganglia containing the post ganglionic somas are located ____________.

      a) adjacent to the spinal cord   b) in the CNS   c) near or on the effector organ

      d) in the spino-cerebellar tract     e) none of the above

When Robin kicks a soccer ball, her leg makes contact with the ball by _______ of the knee.  This is an example of a/an __________ contraction of the quadriceps.

       a)  flexion; concentric         b)  flexion; eccentric      c)  extension; eccentric

       d) extension; concentric      e)  flexion; isometric     

Federal funding agencies must form committees to decide which telescope projects will receive funds for construction. When deciding whic projects wil be funded, the committees must consider:

that certain wavelengths of light are blocked from reaching Earth's surface by the atmosphere,

how efficiently telescopes work at different wavlengths, and

that telescopes in space are much more expensive to construct than Earth-based telescopes.

Using these three criteria, consider each pairing of telescope proposals listed below. For each pair, state which of the two you would choose to fund and explain your reasoning.

Pair A)

Project Beta:  An X-ray wavelength telescope, located near the North Pole, which will be used to examine the Sun.

Project Alpha: An infrared wavelength telescope, placed on a satellite in orbit around Earth, which will be used to view supernovae.

Pair B)

Project Rho: A UV wavelength telescope, placed high atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii at 14,000 ft above sea level, which will be used to look at distant galaxies.

Project Sigma: A visible wavelength telescope, placed on a satellite orbit around Earth, which will be used to observe a pair of binary stars located in the constellation Ursa Major.

Pair C)

Project Zeta:  A radio wavelength telescope, placed on the floor of the Mojave Desert, which will be used to detect potential communications from distant civilizations outside our solar system.

Project Epsilon:  An infrared wavelength telescope, located in the high-elevation mountains of Chile, which will be used to view newly forming stars (protostars) in the Orion nebula.

The following transactions and adjusting entries were completed by a local delivery company called Fast Delivery. The company uses straight-line depreciation for delivery vehicles, double-declining-balance depreciation for buildings, and straight-line amortization for franchise rights. 2018 January 2 Paid $178,000 cash to purchase a small warehouse building near the airport. The building has an estimated life of 20 years and a residual value of $3,600. July 1 Paid $46,000 cash to purchase a delivery van. The van has an estimated useful life of five years and a residual value of $9,200. October 2 Paid $600 cash to paint a small office in the warehouse building. October 13 Paid $200 cash to get the oil changed in the delivery van. December 1 Paid $85,500 cash to UPS to begin operating Fast Delivery business as a franchise using the name The UPS Store. This franchise right expires in five years. December 31 Recorded depreciation and amortization on the delivery van, warehouse building, and franchise right. 2019 June 30 Sold the warehouse building for $142,000 cash. (Record the depreciation on the building prior to recording its disposal.) December 31 Recorded depreciation on the delivery van and amortization on the franchise right. Determined that the franchise right was not impaired in value. Required: Prepare the journal entries required on each of the above dates. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No Journal Entry Required" in the first account field. Do not round intermediate calculations.)

please answer to Part 1 b

please show your work how to get that number and no hand writing plz thanks

Waterways Corporation is considering various business opportunities. It wants to make the best use of its production facilities to maximize income. This problem asks you to help Waterways do incremental analysis on these various opportunities.

Part 1 Waterways mass-produces a special connector unit that it normally sells for $3.90. It sells approximately 35,000 of these units each year. The variable costs for each unit are $2.30. A company in Canada that has been unable to produce enough of a similar connector to meet customer demand would like to buy 15,000 of these units at $2.60 per unit. The production of these units is near full capacity at Waterways, so to accept the offer from the Canadian company would require temporarily adding another shift to its production line. To do this would increase variable manufacturing costs by $0.30 per unit. However, variable selling costs would be reduced by $0.20 a unit. An irrigation company has asked for a special order of 2,000 of the connectors. To meet this special order, Waterways would not need an additional shift, and the irrigation company is willing to pay $3.10 per unit. Instructions Given the information above:

(a) What are the consequences of Waterways agreeing to provide the 15,000 units to the Canadian company? Would this be a wise “special order” to accept?

(b) Should Waterways accept the special order from the irrigation company?

(c) What would be the consequences of accepting both special orders?

please answer to Part 1 c

please show your work how to get that number and no hand writing plz thanks

Waterways Corporation is considering various business opportunities. It wants to make the best use of its production facilities to maximize income. This problem asks you to help Waterways do incremental analysis on these various opportunities.

Part 1 Waterways mass-produces a special connector unit that it normally sells for $3.90. It sells approximately 35,000 of these units each year. The variable costs for each unit are $2.30. A company in Canada that has been unable to produce enough of a similar connector to meet customer demand would like to buy 15,000 of these units at $2.60 per unit. The production of these units is near full capacity at Waterways, so to accept the offer from the Canadian company would require temporarily adding another shift to its production line. To do this would increase variable manufacturing costs by $0.30 per unit. However, variable selling costs would be reduced by $0.20 a unit. An irrigation company has asked for a special order of 2,000 of the connectors. To meet this special order, Waterways would not need an additional shift, and the irrigation company is willing to pay $3.10 per unit. Instructions Given the information above:

(a) What are the consequences of Waterways agreeing to provide the 15,000 units to the Canadian company? Would this be a wise “special order” to accept?

(b) Should Waterways accept the special order from the irrigation company?

(c) What would be the consequences of accepting both special orders?