Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of depression during seasons with less daylight (e.g., winter months). One therapy for SAD is phototherapy, which is increased exposure to light used to improve mood. A researcher tests this therapy by exposing a sample of patients with SAD to different intensities of light (low, medium, high) in a light box, either in the morning or at night (these are the times thought to be most effective for light therapy). All participants rated their mood following this therapy on a scale from 1 (poor mood) to 9 (improved mood). The hypothetical results are given in the following table.

(a) Complete the F-table and make a decision to retain or reject the null hypothesis for each hypothesis test. (Round your answers to two decimal places. Assume experimentwise alpha equal to 0.05.)

State the decision for the main effect of the time of day.

Retain the null hypothesis or Reject the null hypothesis.    

State the decision for the main effect of intensity.

Retain the null hypothesis or Reject the null hypothesis.    

State the decision for the interaction effect.

Retain the null hypothesis or Reject the null hypothesis.    

(b) Compute Tukey's HSD to analyze the significant main effect.

The critical value is_________ for each pairwise comparison.

Summarize the results for this test using APA format.

A proton moves from a location where V =75 V to a spot whereV = -20 V.

(a) What is the change in the proton's kinetic energy?

(b) If we replace a proton with an electron, what is the change in kinetic energy?

Goals:

Apple’s mission statement is, “to bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.” This broad range of offerings ties directly into a good business practice and public statements. Tim Cook’s bold claim that Apple’s investment in health will be its “greatest contribution to mankind” speaks to its mission statement, trying to better the user experience in as many offerings as it can.

Products/Services:

Apple products have a wide variety of use-cases and target markets. These products include the average consumer’s iPhone, the video editor’s iMAC, the layman’s Macbook, the audio enthusiast’s AirPods, the fitness nut’s Apple Watch, the routine show binger’s Apple TV, and the power user’s iHome. These are just the products and offerings that you can physically interact with, Apple also sells a collection of software, from operating systems to versatile applications. To introduce, maintain, and provide support for their consumers, Apple also has a chain of retail stores available to accomplish these goals.

Industry:

The industry that Apple is in is the Consumer Electronics/ Technological Sector. Apple is known for their smartphone manufacturing and computers. One of Apple’s largest selling products is their iPhones. Some of their competitors are companies such as: Google, Dell, Sony, Samsung, Nokia and HP. With Apple’s growing product diversity, they will also find more competitors in each market.

Look over Apples performance summary with lots of detail and fill in there financial performance/ performance summary.

2. 2 Performance Summary

1. Financial Performance:

2. Performance Summary:

1. The Cutting Department of Tangu Carpet Company provides the following data for December 2016. Assume that all materials are added at the beginning of the process.

   Work in process, December 1, 14,600 units, 80% completed		$178,704*
   *Direct materials (14,600 × $9.2)	$134,320
   Conversion (14,600 × 80% × $3.8)	44,384
   	$178,704
   Materials added during December from Weaving Department, 224,800 units		$2,101,880
   Direct labor for December		385,960
   Factory overhead for December		471,728
   Goods finished during December (includes goods in process, December 1), 227,400 units		—
   Work in process, December 31, 12,000 units, 35% completed		—

   a. Prepare a cost of production report for the Cutting Department. If an amount is zero or a blank, enter in "0". For the The rate used to allocate costs between completed and partially completed production.cost per equivalent unit computations, round your answers to two decimal places.

   Tangu Carpet Company
   Cost of Production Report-Cutting Department
   For the Month Ended December 31, 2016
   Unit Information
   Units charged to production:
   Inventory in process, December 1
   Received from Weaving Department
   Total units accounted for by the Cutting Department
   Units to be assigned costs:
   		Equivalent Units
   	Whole Units	Direct Materials	Conversion
   Inventory in process, December 1
   Started and completed in December
   Transferred to finished goods in December
   Inventory in process, December 31
   Total units to be assigned cost
   Cost Information
   Costs per equivalent unit:
   		Direct Materials	Conversion
   Total costs for December in Cutting Department		$	$
   Total equivalent units
   Cost per equivalent unit		$	$
   Costs assigned to production:
   	Direct Materials	Conversion	Total
   Inventory in process, December 1			$
   Costs incurred in December
   Total costs accounted for by the Cutting Department			$
   Costs allocated to completed and partially completed units:
   Inventory in process, December 1 balance			$
   To complete inventory in process, December 1		$
   Cost of completed December 1 work in process			$
   Started and completed in December	$
   Transferred to finished goods in December			$
   Inventory in process, December 31
   Total costs assigned by the Cutting Department			$

   Feedback

   b. Compute and evaluate the change in cost per equivalent unit for direct materials and conversion from the previous month (November). If required, round your answers to two decimal places.

   	Increase or Decrease	Amount
   Change in direct materials cost per equivalent unit	Decrease Increase	$
   Change in conversion cost per equivalent unit	Decrease Increase	$

The PDQ system consists of the following six subsystems:

Pizza Factory Locator

Order Entry

Logistics

Order Submit

Routing

Inventory Management

Pick one of these subsystems and build a complete WBS. You may have to make assumptions in order to complete this exercise. If so, just state them with your rationale.

Give an example of a global policy and an example of a national U.S policy based on one of the following: tobacco use and secondhand smoke, physical inactivity, nutrition, and alcohol use

Find a scholarly article on stakeholders. In two to three pages, critique the article, relating it to a personal experience and a time when stakeholders were important in a negotiation you were involved in. Please include references

List the basic characteristics and agreed-on assumptions that apply to the behavioral approach. What are the key characteristics of behavior therapy that distinguish it from other therapy approaches?

Create a use case diagram for the following system. Attach a WORD file with the diagram.

UVA Chatbot

Chatbot is a computer program powered by AI that allows business to interact with the customers via a chat interface. Assume you are working on a project to develop a Chabot that will provide student services for ODU. The Chabot you are working on has the following functions:

Gathering Information

When a student initiates a conversation, there are some formalities to go through before help is provided. Chatbot will be used to gather the preliminary information (e.g., UIN, name) and verify the student.

After that, Chatbot passes the information to a human advisor and connects the student to the advisor who will helps the student.

Providing Help

The Chabot uses natural language processing (NLP) to understand what the student asks for and searches existing knowledge base (system) to answer the questions (e.g. how to schedule exams in the test center? ).

Feedback Collection

The student will be asked to leave feedback of the service, which is comprised of a text message and a rating. The system administrator should be able to view and delete feedbacks.

Develop a use case narrative/specification for one of the use cases "Provide help" of the system in question 6. Attach a word file. Include use case name, actor, pre- and post-conditions, basic flow, and alternative flow. The use case narrative should include your design of the detail interactions between the actor and the system for one process (use case) only, do not put the whole system processes into the narrative.

How can non aboriginal people assist to make spaces for indegenous persepectives in for instance research as suggested by Kovach

Article From: Applying a decolonizing lens within indigenous research framworks, By margaret Kovach (1000 words)

Conduct an internet search for the datasheet for the SN74HC595N shift register DIP IC. Include proper APA citation for all sources referenced.

Include the following:

• Explanation of how this device “extends” the I/O capabilities of an Arduino or any other microcontroller.
• Explanation of what the Function Table is on the datasheet and how it is used to write programs with the Arduino interfaced to this shift register.
• Describe two applications for which an Arduino based system would benefit from utilizing a shift register.

SCENARIO:

Eva Melon, the CEO and majority shareholder of OuterSpace Corp. (OSC) (incorporated in Delaware) founded the company to develop the technology needed to make commercial space flights available to the average citizen. She believed that space could be made available for colonization and that the energy and resources needed to sustain life in outer space could be harvested from other planets, such as Mars. Eva spent most of her substantial fortune investing in renewable energy and philanthropic endeavors aimed at making life more comfortable through technological breakthroughs. Because Eva’s mother was from the United States and Eva’s father was from France, she held citizenship in both countries. She frequently traveled back and forth operating OSC from her homes in both countries.

Eva’s most recent project for OSC involved the design and construction of a space vehicle. While Eva had initially planned on manufacturing the vehicle in the United States, she projected that she could save approximately $10 million dollars by manufacturing the vehicle in China. However, she wanted to launch the vehicle from a spaceport either in Russia or the United States. Several test flights were slated on the project’s schedule for the years 2020 and 2021 which included a standard flight into low earth orbit, a docking with the international space station, and finally, a trip to Mars for natural resource sample collection. If successful in all the test flights, OSC planned on launching short commercial trips to space for individuals in 2023 and “colonization” flights to Mars some time thereafter.

To help secure funding for the research and development of the project, OSC also developed and produced solar panels for sale to the public, which were very similar to the ones that they would be using on their space vehicles for energy while in space. The panels were highly successful not only because of their technological brilliance, but also thanks to the public’s fascination with Eva, who was portrayed in the media as the “architect of the future.” OSC’s solar panels dominated the solar panel market, effectively shutting down other solar panel companies both domestically and abroad. Upset by the shift in the market, a competing foreign company, SolarX, filed a suit against OSC in federal court for violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act.

Undeterred, OSC entered into agreement with a Chinese company to begin the manufacture of the space vehicle. However, upon learning of the agreement, the United States government immediately notified OSC that they were in violation of the U.S. Department of State’s International Traffic in Arms Regulation laws and that OSC must cease all transfer of technology and data related to the manufacturing of the vehicle. Concurrently, the Chinese government, in learning of the agreement and realizing the benefit of the technology to its national government, seized control of the manufacturing facility. OSC immediately filed suit in the United States against the manufacturing facility and Chinese government. It also brought an injunction against the U.S. government to prevent the enforcement of any federal regulation prohibiting OSC from using the Chinese company to manufacture space vehicles.

Knowing how long the lawsuits would take and wanting to stay on schedule, OSC opened a manufacturing facility in France to continue the construction of the space vehicle through a wholly-owned subsidiary of OSC (rather than an outside company).

The publicity surrounding OSC’s struggle to get its vehicle built and operational was overwhelmingly in support of OSC. As a result, OSC hinted at solidifying its decision to launch the vehicle from the United States, at a spaceport which it would build in Texas, for use in all its testing operations.

ETHICS QUESTION:

1. In 5-10 sentences, answer the following question. Assume OSC grants an exclusive interview to a 24-hour news channel about the economic status of the company hours after the seizure of the manufacturing facility in China. Chen Li is the marketing director for OSC and is assigned to the interview. Li does not know if the news station yet knows about the seizure, but knows he will be asked about the financial state of the company. He confirms that the confiscation has actually cost the company millions, which will impact the company's finances significantly but has been told by Eva "not to spook investors because we will recover." When asked by the interviewer, "Where is the company financially today, and what can we expect in terms of company growth over the next year?" Li responds, "OSC's management is as strong as ever and we expect revenues to climb in the future." Li never mentions the losses incurred by the seizure. Is this an ethical answer and should Li have disclosed the company's losses? Is corporate marketing "spin" an ethical business practice?