New sources of competitive advantage Lee, K. & Carter, S., (2012), Global Marketing Management, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press
In: Operations Management
In: Anatomy and Physiology
In: Operations Management
Summarize the action(s) taken by the FOMC as per its Press Release and the Decisions Regarding Monetary Policy Implementation on March 15th, 2020.
In: Finance
6. Financial Statements Analysis extracts historical information
(in this case from 1995—2001), and projects for the future
(2002—2011) to value the firm. What do you feel about the accuracy
of the projection?
7. Why does the current outstanding debt value have to be
subtracted from the enterprise value to get to price per share?
In: Finance
Question 10 (1 point)
Which of the following statements is true about productivity growth?
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a |
The largest contributor of productivity
growth |
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b |
The size of the capital stock in the economy explains roughly 70% of productivity growth. More and better plant and equipment make workers more productive. |
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c |
Education and training have a contribution to productivity growth of 15%, and economies of scale and resource allocation have a combined contribution of 15%. |
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d |
All of the above. |
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e |
Only b) and c) |
Question 11 (1 point)
Which of the following statements is true?
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a |
Investment in human capital is an important means of increasing labor productivity. |
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b |
Economies of scale are the increases in per-unit production costs that result from increases in output levels. |
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c |
Improved resource allocation means workers over time have moved from low-productivity employment to high-productivity employment. The long-run movement toward liberalized international trade through international agreements has improved the allocation of resources, increased labor productivity, and expanded real output (both here and abroad). |
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d |
All of the above. |
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e |
Only a) and c) |
Question 12 (1 point)
Which of the following statements is true?
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a |
Productivity growth rate increased significantly in the period of 1995-2010 as compared to the period of 1973-1995. |
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b |
Economists relate the increase in productivity growth in the period 1995-2010 to the significant wave of new technology coupled with global competition. |
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c |
The increase in productivity growth is important as real output, real income, and real wages are all positively linked to it. |
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d |
All of the above. |
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e |
Only a) and b) |
In: Economics
To what extent do syntax textbooks, which analyze the structure of sentences, illustrate gender bias? A study of this question sampled sentences from 10 texts. One part of the study examined the use of the words "girl," "boy," "man," and "woman." We will call the first two words juvenile and the last two adult. Is the proportion of female references that are juvenile (girl) equal to the proportion of male references that are juvenile (boy)? Here are data from one of the texts:
| Gender | n | X(juvenile) |
| Female | 57 | 49 |
| Male | 132 | 53 |
1) Give a 90% confidence interval for the difference. (Do not use rounded values. Round your final answers to three decimal places.)
=( , )
2) Use a test of significance to examine whether the two proportions are equal. (Use p̂F − p̂M. Round your value for z to two decimal places and round your P-value to four decimal places.)
A) z=
B)P-Value=
In: Statistics and Probability
A manufacturer of automotive gaskets has two plants, A and B. Plant A manufactures 65 % of the gaskets and plant B manufactures 35 %. Because of a batch of faulty material from a company supplying both plants, 3% of the gaskets are of sub-standard quality from plant A and 5% are sub-standard from plant B. Despite your internal quality control procedures, you still had a sub-standard gasket returned from one of your customers. What is the probability it came from plant B? i) Illustrate your answer with an event tree and ii) show how to calculate the value using Bayes Equation. b) Using Bayes Theorem, solve the following two problems: 1. A couple has three children, the eldest of which is a boy. What is the probability that they have three boys? 2. A couple has three children, one of which is a boy. What is the probability that they have three boys?
In: Statistics and Probability
Case Scenario: A 12-year-old boy presents with a blood sugar of 600. He is lethargic, and parents state he has had the flu. He has been fatigued and has lost 15 pounds in the last two weeks. This boy’s history is small for age, lack of focus at times, reoccurring bladder infections for the last six months, states his mouth is dry all the time, is often irritable, and has few interests or friends. The doctors’ notes state he has a diagnosis of autoimmune type 1 diabetes. As this is a new diagnosis, the parents are obviously very upset.
In: Nursing
Situation # 2 A 13-year-old boy likes to steal cookies from a local convenience store.
-Explain how the stealing behavior might have developed in terms of Operant Conditioning. In your answer specify: Operant behavior (Voluntary response), Consequence, Reinforcement (specify Positive or Negative).
Operant behavior
Consequence
Reinforcement (specify Positive or Negative)
- In this situation involving the theft of cookies, explain how the concepts of primary and secondary reinforcers might apply.
- Describe how the stealing behavior might have developed using a Social Cognitive (Observational) Learning model.
- Using the Operant model, how might the stealing behavior be extinguished?
- How might the impact of punishment differ from the extinction you described in Q. 10 (above)? In your answer provide an example of punishment that might be effective in this situation.
- Describe how Latent Learning might explain how the boy knows where to find the cookies in the store.
In: Psychology