discuss the importance of parental influences on the development of children based upon what you learned about childrens' emotional and social development.

How did the parental or caregiver influences impact the child?

Do you think birth order had an impact on the relationship between the child and his/her caregiver? Why or why not?

Selected data concerning operations of Cascade Manufacturing Company for the past fiscal year follow:

Raw materials used.........................................................................................................................................$400,000

Total manufacturing costs charged to production during the year (includes raw materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead

applied at a rate of 60 percent of direct labor costs) .....................................................................................$731,000

Cost of goods available for sale .....................................................................................................................$936,000

Selling and general expenses.........................................................................................................................    40,000

                                                                                                                                               Inventories

                                                                                                                            _______________________________

                                                                                                                Beginning                                         Ending

Raw materials              ......................................................              $70,000                                            $80,000

Work-in-process          ......................................................                      $85,000                                           $30,000

Finished goods           ......................................................                       $90,000                                          $110,000

REQUIRED:

Determine each of the following:

1. Cost of raw materials purchased
2. Direct labor costs charged to production
3. Cost of goods manufactured
4. Cost of goods sold

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

A developer is building houses in a new neighborhood. She offers 3 house plans: “Montgomery”, “Kettering”, and “Saxon”   Although all the windows are the same, each house plan requires a different number of windows: the Montgomery takes 20 windows, the Kettering 15, and the Saxon 12.  

She wants you to design a programming solution that will allow her to enter the number of houses she plans to build of each model and have the program display the total number of windows she should order for the neighborhood. She wants to order an extra 1% to allow for breakage and theft. Also, you can only order whole numbers of windows so always truncate the decimal portion of the result and add 1.

Sample screen: (This is an example of what your screen might look like while the program is running.)   Note: don't worry if your expected output is off by +/- 1 window. For example, it is OK if the last line in the display below says to order 289, 290, or 291 windows. We haven't covered some of the techniques for resolving rounding issues.

This is my code below. It's an entry-level course and I'm following her instructions the best I can but my code will output '0'. We are programming in C.

/* PREPROCESSOR COMMANDS */
#ifdef _MSC_VER
#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
#endif
#include <stdio.h>
/* MAIN PROCESSING CONTROL */
int main()
{
   /* VARIABLE DECLARATIONS */
   double MontgomeryHouses; /* The number of windows in Montgomery Houses */
   double KetteringHouses; /* The number of windows in Montgomery Houses */
   double SaxonHouses; /* The number of windows in Montgomery Houses */
   double WindowsRequired; /* The number of windows required for all houses */

   /* ALGORITHM */
   printf("\nHow many Montgomery Houses will you build: ");
   fflush(stdin);
   scanf("\n%d", &MontgomeryHouses);   
   printf("\nHow many Kettering houses will you build: ");
   fflush(stdin);
   scanf("\n%d", &KetteringHouses);
  
   printf("\nHow many Saxon houses will you build: ");
   fflush(stdin);
   scanf("\n%d", &SaxonHouses);
  
   /* CALCULATE NUMBER OF WINDOWS */
   MontgomeryHouses = 20;
   KetteringHouses = 15;
   SaxonHouses = 12;
   WindowsRequired = MontgomeryHouses + KetteringHouses + SaxonHouses

   /* DISPLAY */;
   printf("\nYou should order %d", WindowsRequired);
   fflush(stdin);
   getchar();
  
   /* PAUSE */
   fflush(stdin);
   getchar();
   return 0;
}
/* END OF FILE */

Companies collect a wide variety of information about their foreign markets to decide in which countries to conduct business and which market segments in these markets they should target. What are the three major markets that exist in all foreign markets? Describe the markets and provide an example of each.

For this discussion question, you must support your analysis with a peer-reviewed article.

You are managing a portfolio of $1 million. Your target duration is 10 years, and you can invest in two bonds, a zero-coupon bond with maturity of five years and a perpetuity, each currently yielding 9.0%.

a. What weight of each bond will you hold to immunize your portfolio? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

-zero coupon bond

-perpetuity bond

b. How will these weights change next year if target duration is now nine years? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

-zero coupon bond

-Perpetuity bond

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*OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING*

JAVA PROGRAMMING

GOAL: will be able to throw and catch exceptions and create multi-threaded programs.

Part I

• Create a class called Animal that implements the Runnable interface.
• In the main method create 2 instances of the Animal class, one called rabbit and one called turtle. Make them "user" threads, as opposed to daemon threads.
• Some detail about the Animal class. It has instance variables, name, position, speed, and restMax. It has a static boolean winner. It starts a false. The position represents the position in the race for this Animal object. The restMax represents how long the Animal rests between each time it runs.
• The rabbit rests longer than the turtle, but the rabbit has a higher speed.
• Let's make up some values to make this simulation more concrete.
• The race is 100 yards. The initial position is 0. Suppose the speed of the rabbit is 5, and its maxRest is 150. Suppose the speed of the turtle is 3, and its maxRest is 100.
• Adjust them so that the rabbit wins sometimes, and the turtle wins sometimes.
• In the main method start both the rabbit and the turtle and see which one wins the races.
• Here is the behavior of the run method in the Animal class.
• Loop until the position is >= 100 or there is a winner. Each time through the loop, sleep() some random number of milliseconds. This random number will be between 0 and maxRest. Advance the position of the Animal by its speed.
• Print who is running, what their position is, each time through the loop.
• When someone wins, set the static variable winner to true, and both threads will finish their run method, and thus stop.
• The winner is announced from inside the run method.

Part II

• The objective here is to demonstrate the behavior of threads that share data, and use synchronized methods. You do not NOT use wait/ notify/ notifyAll in this exercise.
• When the above race working, add to it in the following way.
• Create a class called Food. It is not a Thread, and does not run. It's just a class that represents some data that will be shared by multiple threads.
• Simulating an animal eating, simply means that the thread will sleep for some length of time. This is the same as the "resting" that the turtle an rabbit did in part I.
• There is one instance of the Food class that is shared by both of the animals. Pass it to the constructor of the Animal class for both the turtle and the rabbit.
• There is a method in the Food class called eat(). This method is synchronized, i.e., only one Animal can be eating at a time.
• The rabbit eats the food (the thread will sleep) for a longer time than the turtle, thus giving an advantage to the turtle.
• But, the turtle must wait until the rabbit is done eating until it can eat, so the advantage is reduced.
• Print out the message inside the eat method when the animal begins to eat, and when it is done eating. Indicate which animal it is that starts to eat.
• Try making the eat method not synchronized, and observe the different behavior if the eat method allows the rabbit to begin eating before the turtle is done eating.
• *Note that this program will have in some cases exception handling. Make sure that all exceptions are handled according to standard programming practices.

A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government and corporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill money market fund that yields a rate of 6%. The probability distribution of the risky funds is as follows:

The correlation between the fund returns is 0.13.

You require that your portfolio yield an expected return of 11%, and that it be efficient, on the best feasible CAL.

a. What is the standard deviation of your portfolio? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

b. What is the proportion invested in the T-bill fund and each of the two risky funds? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

First select EITHER a current event article - OR - watch a documentary that interests you and/or impacts your life. While reading the article or viewing the documentary, look for themes related to transactional and/or transformational leadership, either within the main figure, the organization, etc. Then answer the following questions:

1. Provide a brief summary of the article or documentary.
2. What was the vision, and what were the goals, of the leader or organization?
3. How did the leader(s) motivate others and foster commitment?
4. What was the outcome? Were the goals achieved? How, or, why not?
5. Would this leader be described as transactional or transformational? Provide evidence for your answer. Also, was the leader effective?

Family Traditions--Extra Credit 10 pts.

Post a family tradition here by doing the following:

a) describe the tradition: what is it, who is involved, when did it start, how long have you been doing it?

b) if it stopped, why did it stop?

c) what does it say about your family? Do you see any cultural world views represented in the tradition?

Respond to one other tradition (in a quality post).

Write a Java program that uses the RC4 cipher algorithm to encrypt the following message using the word CODES as the key:  

Cryptography is a method of protecting information and communications through the use of codes so that only those for whom the information is intended can read and process it.

Instead of using stream length 256, we will use length 26. When encrypting, let A = 0 to Z = 25. Ignore spaces and punctuations and put the message in groups of five letters.

You are considering a new product launch. The project will cost $950,000, have a 5-year life, and have no salvage value; depreciation is straight-line to zero. Sales are projected at 340 units per year; price per unit will be $15,945, variable cost per unit will be $11,950, and fixed costs will be $620,000 per year. The required return on the project is 9 percent, and the relevant tax rate is 22 percent. Based on your experience, you think the unit sales, variable cost, and fixed cost projections given here are probably accurate to within ±10 percent. What are the best-case and worst-case values for each of the projections? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32.) What are the best-case and worst-case OCFs and NPVs with these projections? (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32.) What are the base-case OCF and NPV? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your OCF answer to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32, and round your NPV answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) What are the OCF and NPV with fixed costs of $630,000 per year? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your OCF answer to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32, and round your NPV answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) What is the sensitivity of your base-case NPV to changes in fixed costs? (Enter your answer as a positive value. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

Write a Java class called CityDistances in a class file called CityDistances.java.   

1. Your methods will make use of two text files.

a. The first text file contains the names of cities. However, the first line of the file is a number specifying how many city names are contained within the file. For example,

5

Dallas

Houston

Austin

Nacogdoches

El Paso

b. The second text file contains the distances between the cities in the file described above. This file does not contain an entry for how many distances are within the file. If, as in the example above, there are five (5) city names in the first text file, then this text file should contain 52 = 25 distance entries. The first entry should always be zero (since Dallas is a distance of zero miles from itself). The second entry is the distance from Dallas to Houston, and the third entry is the distance from Dallas to Austin, etc.

3. The CityDistances class contains four static methods: a. A public method called loadCities() that opens the file, reads in the data and returns a one-dimensional array of String containing the city names stored in the file. The method takes a single argument called filename of type String that is the name of the file to be opened. The first item read from the text file should be the number of city names within the file (read as an integer). If done correctly, the returned array should be the correct size to store all city names without any “extra” space within the array. If the file does not exist or a problem reading the file is encountered, then an IOException is thrown. Hint: Be aware that using the nextInt() method from the Scanner class will read the number but not the newline character found after the number. Your method should correctly handle the newline character.

b. A public method called loadDistances() that opens the file, reads in the data and returns a two-dimensional array of double containing the city distances stored in the file. The method takes an argument called filename of type String that is the name of the file to be opened and an argument called numCities of type int corresponding to the number of cities that were listed in the text file read by loadCities(). If done correctly, the returned two-dimensional array should be an n x n array where n is the number of cities represented and organized such that each row corresponds to the distances from a particular city. If the file does not exist or a problem reading the file is encountered, then an IOException is thrown.

c. A private method called getCityIndex() that takes two arguments: the first called cities of type String[] (that is, the array of city names), and the second called cityName of type String (that is, the name of a particular city). The method iterates through the array of city names and returns the index of the location within the array that contains the value of cityName. If the string specified by cityName is not found in cities, then the method returns -1. Hint: In Java, you need to use the equals() method found in the String class to compare two strings instead of the == operator.

d. A public method called findDistance that takes four arguments: the first is called cities of type String[]; the second is called distances of type double[][]; the third is called start of type String; and the fourth is called end of type String. The method makes use of the getCityIndex() helper method to retrieve the indices of the city names corresponding to start and end arguments. Then, the correct distance is retrieved from the distances array and returned to the caller.

Unstructured decision

(i) Provide an example of an unstructured decision regarding inventory management or its supply chain that Target might need to make; (1 mark)

(ii) State what type of software could be used to help finalize or implement the decision and explain why that software is suitable for the decision that you have described; (1 mark)

(iii) Provide an example of how the software that you have described could be used to help with the decision example that you have provided. (1 mark)

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   Thomas Railroad Company organizes its three divisions, the North (N), South (S), and West (W) regions, as profit centers. The chief executive officer (CEO) evaluates divisional performance using income from operations as a percent of revenues. The following quarterly income and expense accounts were provided from the trial balance as of December 31:

   Revenues—N Region	$868,700
   Revenues—S Region	1,063,800
   Revenues—W Region	1,840,300
   Operating Expenses—N Region	550,500
   Operating Expenses—S Region	633,100
   Operating Expenses—W Region	1,112,900
   Corporate Expenses—Dispatching	424,800
   Corporate Expenses—Equipment Management	223,600
   Corporate Expenses—Treasurer’s	132,100
   General Corporate Officers’ Salaries	291,800

   The company operates three service departments: the Dispatching Department, the Equipment Management Department, and the Treasurer’s Department. The Treasurer’s Department and general corporate officers’ salaries are not controllable by division management. The Dispatching Department manages the scheduling and releasing of completed trains. The Equipment Management Department manages the inventories of railroad cars. It makes sure the right freight cars are at the right place at the right time. The Treasurer’s Department conducts a variety of services for the company as a whole. The following additional information has been gathered:

   	North		South		West
   Number of scheduled trains	4,400		5,300		8,000
   Number of railroad cars in inventory	1,300		2,100		1,800

   Required:

   1. Prepare quarterly income statements showing income from operations for the three regions. Use three column headings: North, South, and West. Do not round your interim calculations.

   Thomas Railroad Company
   Divisional Income Statements
   For the Quarter Ended December 31
   	North	South	West
   Revenues	$	$	$
   Operating expenses
   Income from operations before service department charges	$	$	$
   Less service department charges:
   Dispatching	$	$	$
   Equipment Management
   Total service department charges	$	$	$
   Income from operations	$	$	$

   2. What is the profit margin of each division? Round to one decimal place.

   Region	Profit Margin
   North Region	%
   South Region	%
   West Region	%

   Identify the most successful region according to the profit margin.
   

   3. What would you include in a recommendation to the CEO for a better method for evaluating the performance of the divisions?

   1. The method used to evaluate the performance of the divisions should be reevaluated.
   2. A better divisional performance measure would be the rate of return on investment (income from operations divided by divisional assets).
   3. A better divisional performance measure would be the residual income (income from operations less a minimal return on divisional assets).
   4. None of these choices would be included.
   5. All of these choices (a, b & c) would be included.