• What are some memory tips that you can use to improve your listening skills?
• What benefits does listening offer in your everyday life?
• Explain why the listening process is easier when you understand the basic stages of listening.

What complementary and alternative approaches to health have you tried? What influenced your decision to use those approaches?

What external factors will impact your business decisions? what types of technology would you use to market a Chinese restaurant business and how would you use them?

TS Inc. is a small, growing aviation company; the CEO makes the hiring decisions based on his years of experience as well as his gut feeling. He started the business 10 years ago with 10 employees and the company has grown to over 30 employees. Since you have been hired, you have guided management through several stages of the recruitment and selection process to hire an aircraft maintenance engineer. TS Inc. has used proper selection methods, such as screening, testing, and structured interviews, but is not sure about how to integrate the data from these various sources. In the past, the president relied on his gut feeling about applicants and made poor hiring decisions. At TS Inc. recruitment rests on the shoulders of the president. Like most small companies, TS Inc. frequently uses employee referrals as a method of recruitment. The company wants to use Internet recruitment technologies but is not well versed in information technology. The CEO is very concerned about poor hiring decisions and turnover costs.

1. The CEO has asked you, the HRM, to explain some of the differences between the use of his practice-based selection approach and an empirical-based process. Also explain what challenges you anticipate he would face in using validation techniques.

2. Define and describe one potential decision making model TS Inc. could use. Explain the decision-making model and discuss its advantages and disadvantages.

3. Explain TS Inc.’s president’s decision-making style, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this method of decision making.

4. TS Inc. has made costly selection errors in the past when the company underestimated the potential of an aircraft maintenance engineer, which resulted in a no-hire decision. Explain this type of selection error and discuss the potential impact of such an error and why TS Inc. should be concerned.

5. What would be some effective e-recruitment method for recruiting aircraft maintenance engineers?

This is from an Intro Astrophysics class:

(a) Name the two factors that primarily determine the size of an H II region.

(b) Explain the physical basis for your answer to part (a) in terms of the Str ̈omgren sphere.

(c) The brightness of an H II region depends only on the gas density of the nebula. Explain this phenomenon in terms of what you know about the hydrogen atom. (Hint: Remember the Saha equation.)

Cancer

a. Some chemotherapy drugs used to treat cancer work by blocking the formation of microtubules. Why would this reduce the growth of cancer cells? Explain your answer.

b. Based on what you know about how these drugs work, explain why it also affects cells in hair follicles, the lining of our digestive system, and our immune system (side effects of these drugs).

I don’t understand this. Last year [year 1], we decided to drop our highest-end Red model and only produce the Yellow and Green models, because the cost system indicated we were losing money on Red. Now, looking at the preliminary numbers, our profit is actually lower than last year and it looks like Yellow has become a money loser, even though our prices, volumes, and direct costs are the same. Can someone please explain this to me and maybe help me decide what to do next year?

Robert Dolan

President & CEO

Dolan Products

Dolan Products is a small, family-owned audio component manufacturer. Several years ago, the company decided to concentrate on only three models, which were sold under many brand names to electronic retailers and mass-market discount stores. For internal purposes, the company uses the product names Red, Yellow, and Green to refer to the three components.

Data on the three models and selected costs follow:

This year (year 2), the company only produced the Yellow and Green models. Total overhead was $625,400. All other volumes, unit prices, costs, and direct labor usage were the same as in year 1. The product cost system at Dolan Products allocates manufacturing overhead based on direct labor hours.

Required:

a. Compute the product costs and gross margins (revenue less cost of goods sold) for the three products and total gross profit for year 1. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

b. Compute the product costs and gross margins (revenue less cost of goods sold) for the two remaining products and total gross profit for year 2. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
     

c. Should Dolan Products drop Yellow for year 3?   

I don’t understand this. Last year [year 1], we decided to drop our highest-end Red model and only produce the Yellow and Green models, because the cost system indicated we were losing money on Red. Now, looking at the preliminary numbers, our profit is actually lower than last year and it looks like Yellow has become a money loser, even though our prices, volumes, and direct costs are the same. Can someone please explain this to me and maybe help me decide what to do next year?

Robert Dolan

President & CEO

Dolan Products

Dolan Products is a small, family-owned audio component manufacturer. Several years ago, the company decided to concentrate on only three models, which were sold under many brand names to electronic retailers and mass-market discount stores. For internal purposes, the company uses the product names Red, Yellow, and Green to refer to the three components.

Data on the three models and selected costs follow:

This year (year 2), the company only produced the Yellow and Green models. Total overhead was $764,100. All other volumes, unit prices, costs, and direct labor usage were the same as in year 1. The product cost system at Dolan Products allocates manufacturing overhead based on direct labor hours.

Required:

a. Compute the product costs and gross margins (revenue less cost of goods sold) for the three products and total gross profit for year 1. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

b. Compute the product costs and gross margins (revenue less cost of goods sold) for the two remaining products and total gross profit for year 2. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
     

c. Should Dolan Products drop Yellow for year 3?   

Mention at least 3 significant changes that came about with the discovery or manipulation of fire.

Changes - what was the change "cooking"

Description - explain how it was manifested, "how it was done"

Reflection - how do you think this changed humanity in general

List and describe the changes that emerged after the discovery and mastery of the use of fire.