37 Which of the following items would be expected to have the lowest price elasticity of demand?

3. Draw and label the bond market graph covered in chapter 5. Then, using the graph, illustrate how the equilibrium price, yield to maturity, and quantity changes as a result of:

A) an increase in expected inflation. Explain the movement from one equilibrium to another.

B) A decrease in the riskiness of bonds. Explain the movement from one equilibrium to another.

C) an increase in the government budget deficit. Explain the movement from one equilibrium to another.

Three moles of an ideal monatomic gas expand at a constant pressure of 2.10 atm ; the volume of the gas changes from 3.30×10−2 m3 to 4.50×10−2 m3 .

a) Calculate the initial temperature of the gas.

b) Calculate the final temperature of the gas.

c) Calculate the amount of work the gas does in expanding.

d) Calculate the amount of heat added to the gas.

e) Calculate the change in internal energy of the gas

Topic 10b: Project Management Maturity Models

de Souza & Gomes (2015) briefly discuss five project management maturity models. Select and research one model (other than the Kerzner model). Briefly describe the maturity stages associated with the model, assess where your organization fits in the hierarchy and explain why. Describe what cultural changes would have to occur for the organization to reach the next level.  

You (or your child) have come to the conclusion that your moral and/or religious identity has changed in many ways since you were a child. Describe the changes: how they conflict (or not) with those of your parents; perhaps you have matured according to Fowler's stages of faith; perhaps you identify with two or more of Haidt's clusters of moral values; perhaps your gender has contributed to your moral development

In order to illustrate the social construction of illness, choose a specific "disease” and trace how it’s been approached historically, as well as clearly explain how it is approached in the present. For example, the history of alcoholism shows a view that changes from concerns of morality and self-control to one of chemical addiction based on genetic tendencies. Other possibilities include schizophrenia, ADD, depression, etc. Use appropriate textual evidence to support your claims.

Explain how the adoption of the cloud may be a model for future outsourcing of applications and jobs. List some changes and developments that will have an effect on an organization’s management of IS and IT. How might the gig economy affect organizational effectiveness? Explain how robotics and automation will affect the workplace. Describe how virtual workers and “connected” digital devices may actually make an organization less cohesive. Explain the organizational cultural change that will affect the IS department.

Discuss performance management and your likes and dislikes about the system you currently work with? Do you agree or disagree that performance appraisals are important for the worker and the organization and why? What format do you believe they should take to be effective?

Consider 5 major developments you believe will have a significant impact on human resource planning in the future. Do not limit yourself only to technological, social, political or cultural changes.

True/False

1. ___ In the MTS environment the inventory that defines the customer service is the inventory of components.
2. ____ The objective of moving-average is to smooth out the random fluctuations while being sensitive to any possible changes that may be taking place with the underlying average.
3. ____ Often the most recent history is the most relevant in forecasting short-term demand.
4. ____ The mean error (ME) is concerned with the error magnitude.
5. ____ The mean absolute deviation (MAD) is used to measure bias.

The National Financing Company paid $2.00 per share in common stock

dividends last year. The company’s policy is to allow its dividend to grow

at g₁=10 percent for 4 years and then the rate of growth changes to g₂=3 percent per year from year five and on. What is the fair value of the stock if the required rate of return is 8 percent? Would you buy this stock if the market price is $55.2?