Explain what Secularization is in your own words. Could you please give your opinion on whether or not you think it is a good thing and use examples. I would love to understand this topic in a more extensive way as a way of reviewing for my exam.

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What line item on income statement is most affected by their depreciation policy? Why? What “red flags” might one look for in order to assess whether a company is overly conservative or overly aggressive in taking depreciation expenses?

Three (3) companies supply the same part. All three companies operate in-control processes for the single quality characteristic of part-length. All three companies have a mean part-length equal to 17. The "red company" has a part-length standard deviation of 0.29 for the parts they produce. The "blue company" has a part-length standard deviation of 0.37 for the parts they produce. The "green company" has a part-length standard deviation of 0.20 for the parts they produce. The part-length specification has a tolerance span from 16 to 18.

Which company is more capable of meeting the specification? Explain and support your company choice with process capability statistics.

nterleaving for Learning" Please respond to the following:

Please read this Wired article, “Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong”, then respond to the following questions:

What’s the difference between block learning and interleaving?

Explain how you can use interleaving to learn or improve your mastery of a sport, instrument, course, or skill (e.g. basketball, golf, guitar, math, painting, public speaking, etc.) Specify the mini-skills you would interleave together.

In a two-page paper, define and talk about the qualities that make a good (effective) leader. Please elaborate on and explain these qualities. I encourage you to give examples of good (effective) and bad (ineffective) leadership from your own experience. You may use any content that you find in our textbook and cite outside sources on this subject (on a “Works Cited” page). Please remember to follow MLA format and proofread grammar, sentence structure, spelling and punctuation.

Use the Peng-Robinson equation of state to compute the specific volume, V (L/mol), for methane gas at 298 K and 40 atm. Report your answer with 2 significant figures.

Measuring the Economy’s Performance For this assignment, you should use the information in the textbook and the information found on the official government website: www.bea.gov/index.htm Based on the information contained in the textbook and on the Web site above, answer the following questions: What does gross domestic product (GDP) tell us? How did GDP change from 2008? What caused these changes? What is real GDP? What was real GDP in 2008 and has it changed since 2008? What was national income (NI) for 2008? What does national income tell us? What is the difference between GDP and NI? How has NI changed since 2008? What caused these changes? What was disposable income (DI) for 2009? What does disposable income consist of? How did DI change from 2008? What caused these changes? Does GDP measure the well-being of society? Why or why not? What was GDP in 2008 (sometimes called GSP) for your state? How does your state rate when compared to other states? Submission Details: Submit a 4 to 6 page Microsoft Word document, using APA style. Name your document SU_ECO2072_W2_ LastName_FirstInitial Submit your document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

Watch a commercial. Analyze its use of rhetorical devices giving specific evidence regarding what its messages are and how it's conveying its messages. Don't only talk about the words in the commercial, but talk about the visual information, the music, the editing, whatever other things in addition to words the commercial conveys. Please include a link to the commercial in your post.

Paul, a 32-year-old man, seeks counseling at a community mental health center. He has recently returned from his third deployment to a combat zone. He reports drinking frequently and feeling anxious. Paul's wife has tried to reassure him that everything is fine, but he is reluctant to leave the house and has missed more than a week of work.

For this part, apply what you have learned about counseling and how professionals can work together to explain how you might collaborate with a professional in Addictions Counseling to serve the client you chose.

In this part, complete the following:

1) Assess how to ensure good collaboration and communication between the Mental Health Counselor and Addictions Counselor.

                a) Identify the type of outside agency that could assist this client to promote optimal wellness, providing two examples.

                b) Explain the standards or criteria that you would use to evaluate the collaboration.

***************Cite at least one resources from the professional literature that you use as the basis of your ideas

Trade in Hormone-Treated Beef

In the 1970s, scientists discovered how to synthesize certain hormones and use them to accelerate the growth rate of livestock animals, reduce the fat content of meat, and increase milk production. Bovine somatotropin (BST), a growth hormone produced by cattle, was first synthesized by the biotechnology firm Genentech. Injections of BST could be used to supplement an animal’s own hormone production and increase its growth rate. These hormones soon became popular among farmers, who found that they could cut costs and help satisfy consumer demands for leaner meat. Although these hormones occurred naturally in animals, consumer groups in several countries soon raised concerns about the practice. They argued that the use of hormone supplements was unnatural and that the health consequences of consuming hormone-treated meat were unknown but might include hormonal irregularities and cancer. The European Union responded to these concerns in 1989 by banning the use of growth-promoting hormones in the production of livestock and the importation of hormone-treated meat. The ban was controversial because a reasonable consensus existed among scientists that the hormones posed no health risk. Although the EU banned hormone-treated meat, many other countries did not, including big meat-producing countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The use of hormones soon became widespread in these countries. According to trade officials outside the EU, the European ban constituted an unfair restraint on trade. As a result of this ban, exports of meat to the EU fell. For example, U.S. red meat exports to the EU declined from $231 million in 1988 to $98 million in 1994. The complaints of meat exporters were bolstered in 1995 when Codex Aliment Arius, the international food standards body of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization, approved the use of growth hormones. In making this decision, Codex reviewed the scientific literature and found no evidence of a link between the consumption of hormone- treated meat and human health problems, such as cancer. Fortified by such decisions, in 1995 the United States pressed the EU to drop the import ban on hormone-treated beef. The EU refused, citing “consumer concerns about food safety.” In response, both Canada and the United States in- dependently filed formal complaints with the World Trade Organization. The United States was joined in its complaint by a number of other countries, including Australia and New Zealand. The WTO created a trade panel of three independent experts. After reviewing evidence and hearing from a range of experts and representatives of both parties, the panel in May 1997 ruled that the EU ban on hormone-treated beef was illegal because it had no scientific justification. The EU immediately indicated it would appeal the finding to the WTO court of appeals. The WTO court heard the appeal in November 1997 and in February 1998 agreed with the findings of the trade panel that the EU had not presented any scientific evidence to justify the hormone ban. This ruling left the EU in a difficult position. Legally, the EU had to lift the ban or face punitive sanctions, but the ban had wide public support in Europe. The EU feared that lifting the ban could produce a consumer backlash. Instead the EU did nothing, so in February 1999 the United States asked the WTO for permission to impose punitive sanctions on the EU. The WTO responded by allowing the United States to impose punitive tariffs valued at $120 million on EU exports to the United States. The EU decided to accept these tariffs rather than lift the ban on hormone-treated beef, and as of 2010, the ban and punitive tariffs were still in place.

Read the Country Focus “Trade in Hormone-Treated Beef.” Applying the facts of the case, answer the following questions.

a) What was the main argument that the European Union used to ban importations of hormone-treated beef? Who benefited from this ban and who did not benefit from this ban? Explain how for each case.

b) What action did the European Union take when it realized that it could face punitive actions for imposing this ban? In your opinion, what were the advantages and disadvantages of taking this action?

c)   Based on the result of the EU-U.S. trade negotiations over hormone-, treated beef, what observations can you make about the realities of

international trade in terms of national sovereignty versus national benefit? Explain your answer.