A project based on touch therapy is presented at a science fair by a local high school student. In the study, practitioners of touch therapy are blindfolded to see if they can detect a "human energy field (HEF)" without touching patients. The student believes that a practitioner with less years of experience predicts more correct choices to detect HEF. What can be concluded with α = 0.01?

a) What is the appropriate statistic?
---Select--- na Correlation Slope Chi-Square
Compute the statistic selected above:  

b) Compute the appropriate test statistic(s) to make a decision about H₀.
(Hint: Make sure to write down the null and alternative hypotheses to help solve the problem.)
Critical value =  ; Test statistic =  
Decision:  ---Select--- Reject H0 Fail to reject H0

c) Compute the corresponding effect size(s) and indicate magnitude(s).
If not appropriate, input and/or select "na" below.
Effect size =  ;   ---Select--- na trivial effect small effect medium effect large effect

d) Make an interpretation based on the results.

Practitioners with more years of experience predict more HEF correctly.Practitioners with less years of experience predict more HEF correctly.    Practitioners' years of experience does not predict detecting HEF.

A company having 50 employees working on a 5-day week schedule is choosing between installing an electric water heater with a small filter and a Reverse Osmosis water purifier in providing drinking water to its employees. In Hong Kong, the company is open every day except on 52 Sundays, 52 Saturdays and 17 public holidays in a year. On the average each employee consumes 2 liters per working day (human body requires between 1 and 7 liters of water per day to avoid dehydration). The electric water heater costs $ 2,000 and can be used for 10 years; after its useful life, the salvage value balances with the dismantling costs. It consumes about 10 kWh of electricity per day in use and its filter should be changed 4 times a year which would cost $ 50 each time. The Reverse Osmosis water purifier costs $ 8,000 plus $ 2,000 installation cost and is expected to have a useful life of 10 years and would have no salvage value after its useful life. It requires no electricity to operate but the change of filters and membrane costs $500 per year. Assuming its water production rate is 50 % (half of the water is discarded during production of drinkable water), determine the choice of the company if the electricity tariff is $1.043/kWh and water tariff is $4.58/m3 for the MARR being 8% p.a.

Assignment 5: MS Project Scheduling and Salvaging a Project

Go to iCampus to download a free version of Microsoft Project needed to complete this assignment. Details on how to download the software are available in the online course shell in the Additional Resources section of the Student Center.

Make the needed corrections to Assignment 3 using instructor feedback and initialize a new project in Microsoft Project to complete the following:

1. Create a work breakdown structure in MS Project using the existing information from Assignment 3. Note: This assignment will require you to submit a zipped file. Please see below for details on how to zip a file.

Imagine your human resource project of revamping the employee compensation and benefits package is starting to develop issues. The project is eight (8) weeks off track and your team members are becoming discouraged. Several members of the team are consistently late with deadlines, and you have discovered that your budget depleted quicker than expected. Your project sponsor is looking for you to salvage this project.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Write a memo that communicates the budget situation to the rest of the team.

2. Suggest three (3) ways to improve an underperforming team member.

3. Organize a plan of action to get the project back on track. Develop a new critical path.

• If a developing country wanted to increase its level of investment, which of these actions would directly lead to this goal?

A) Strengthen and enforce private property laws.

B) Provide a minimum level of food to all people in the country.

C) Increase taxes to prevent corporations from keeping excess profits.

D) Nationalize all foreign manufacturing facilities in the country.

• In class, we wrote the production function as Y = AF(K,H). This production

function tells us that

A) output depends on institutions A, K, and H and these vary by country

B) output is a function of the technology (A), physical capital stock (K), and local

government (H).

C) output is a function of the technology (A), physical capital stock (K), and human

Capital/Labor (H).

D) None of the answers are correct.

• Why might economist consider banks efficient?

A) Banks profit by paying interest to savers and lending the money out at a higher interest rate

B) Banks coordinate lenders and borrowers in a way that would be wasteful if they did not exist.

C) Banks generally do not undertake in risky transactions unless they have full information.

D) Banks cannot fail

E) A&B

• Private spending on tools, plant, and equipment (ie. capital goods) that are used to produce future output is called

A) consumption.

B) investment.

C) government spending.

D) net exports.

1) Television Haven buys televisions from a manufacturer and then sells them to department stores. Television Haven is most likely a:

a) Producer b) retailer c) Consumer d) Wholesaler e) marketer

2) -------------is one of the most difficult takes for managers. However, doing so is essential because it gives employees feedback and generates information about the quality of the firms selection, training, and development activities

a) Performance appraisal b) Recruiting employees c) competition analysis d) Development appraisal e) Policy evaluation

3) Irene is a manager at a large car dealership and service shop. She is involved in administering activities associated with planning and designing the can and managing the logistics, quality, and productivity of the service department. She takes her role in the service department very seriously because service is an important Pert of the total product for the dealership's customers. Thus. Irene is a(n) A) human resource manager. B) sales manager. C) marketing manager. D) operations manager. E) finance manager.

4) Ramone has recently started working at an accounting firm. To get him up and running quickly, the firm has paired him with an experienced accountant to offer him support, training, and guidance as he learns the tasks of his new job. this is an example of A) case study training. B) web-based training. C) development. D) mentoring. E) classroom training.

Question:

An outbreak of betacoronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV-2 began in Wuhan, China in December 2019. COVID-19, the disease associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection, rapidly spread to produce a global pandemic. Since then many scientists around world try to understand the mechanism of the virus. One of the very important questions that the scientists are asking is that why there is a difference with respect to severity of the disease between infected individuals. We know some factors such as people with advanced age or underlying health conditions such as heart disease and diabetes are more likely to develop severe symptoms. But those do not explain the whole story, because there are plenty of young and healthy individuals with severe symptoms or old individuals with underlying health conditions with mild symptoms. Why might that be? Could genetics play a role? Because we know from past experiences that genetics is associated with susceptibility to infectious diseases such as particular HBB variants make people less susceptible to malaria, or particular CCR5 variants can protect people from HIV infection, or particular FUT2 variants prevent people to be infected by norovirus.

So,

a) Please discuss the molecular mechanisms of the novel coronavirus and decide which human genes are possible candidates of most likely to influence severity of the disease.

b) Please discuss if the geographical location could affect the severity of the disease in terms of genetic variation and evolutionary migration patterns of humans.

Which of the following blood cell types is paired with its correct function?

Which of the following is the most common human blood type?

1. Which of the following is a function of the pericardium?

   	a.	it provides an enclosure within which the heart can expand and contract
   	b.	it provides a slippery inner lining which minimizes friction when the heart beats
   	c.	it provides protection for the heart
   	d.	all of these are functions of the pericardium

   Contraction of the _____ fills the right ventricle of the heart.

   	a.	superior vena cava
   	b.	right atrium
   	c.	pulmonary artery
   	d.	left atrium

   Which of the following statements about blood vesselsis false?

   	a.	arteries convey blood away from the heart toward capillaries
   	b.	arteries branch into arterioles, which branch into capillaries
   	c.	arteries always convey oxygenated blood
   	d.	veins convey blood toward the heart from capillarie

   Which of the following chambers of the heart pumps blood to the lungs?

   	a.	the right atrium
   	b.	the right ventricle
   	c.	the left atrium
   	d.	the left ventricle

Graphs with Matplotlib Using the library Matplotlib and the provided data files create the following graphs:

I) Pie chart

Create a pie chart that shows the percentage of employees in each department within a company. The provided file: employee_count_by_department.txt contains the data required in order to generate this pie chart.

II) Line Graph

Create a line graph that shows a company's profit over the past ten years. The provided file: last_ten_year_net_profit.txt contains the data required in order to generate this line graph.

III) Bar Graph

Create a bar graph that shows a company's profit over the past ten years. The provided file: last_ten_year_net_profit.txt contains the data required in order to generate this bar graph. Info: Be sure to label all the axes of each graph with meaningful labels and provide an appropriate title to each of the graphs (mentioned above) being generated. Hint, the names of the files and the headers provided in each of the data files should help

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last_ten_year_net_profit.txt

Year ; Profit in $USD

2009 ; $175,000

2010 ; $250,000

2011 ; $525,000

2012 ; $239,000

2013 ; $1,000,000

2014 ; $1,000,500

2015 ; $500,000

2016 ; $740,000

2017 ; $5,625,000

2018 ; $100,000,000

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employee_count_by_department.txt

Department Name    , Total number of employees

Marketing       , 50

Information Technology, 275

Management      , 230

Human Resources    , 250

Finance        , 92

Supply Chain     , 73

Manufacturing     , 30