What are the strengths and weaknesses of the REA Model when compared to a commercial system?

Questions 1a and 1b are about the linear search algorithm that was discussed in the lectures.

1a. Write a Java method called stringyLinear that performs linear search on an array of String’s, so it is defined as follows. Your code appears in place of the three dots ‘‘⋅⋅⋅’’. Do not write a class, only a method.

If a String equal to key appears in keys, then stringyLinear must return an index in keys where it appears. If no String equal to key appears in keys, then stringyLinear must return −1. Assume that no element of keys is null, and that key is not null.

1b. Suppose that a linear search method is given an array whose length is n, where n ≥ 1. Show that the algorithm performs O(n) key comparisons in the average case. For full credit, you must do this by finding constants c and n₀.

Nonconstant growth: Tre-Bien, Inc., is a fast-growing technology company. Management projects rapid growth of 30 percent for the next two years, then a growth rate of 17 percent for the following two years. After that, a constant-growth rate of 8 percent is expected. The firm expects to pay its first dividend of $2.45 a year from now. If dividends will grow at the same rate as the firm and the required rate of return on stocks with similar risk is 22 percent, what is the current value of the stock?

Nonconstant growth: Management of ProCor, a biotech firm, forecasted the following growth rates for the next three years: 35 percent, 28 percent, and 22 percent. Management then expects the company to grow at a constant rate of 9 percent forever. The company paid a dividend of $1.75 last week. If the required rate of return is 20 percent, what is the value of this stock?

NO EXCEL PLEASE. If you do use it please explain how getting each answer. Thank you so much

For the following program fragment, (1) give an analysis of the running time T(n) as a function of n and (2) give a big-O bound on the asymptotic running time (tight bounds for full credit).

Sum = 0;

for (i=0; i< n; i++)

   for(j=0; j < i*i; j++)

if(j % i == 0)

for (k=0; k<j; k++)

Sum = Sum + 1;

According to superfund (CERCLA), what is the formal steps to follow in the cleanup process? How much is the current EPA budget for the Superfund program? How the regulations are applied for recouping cleanup costs?

C programming Assignment

1. Read two integers into two variables, A and B. Print them on terminals. Write functions to Swap them (1) using a temporary variable and (2) without using a temporary variable.

2. Read 10 integers into an array. Sort the array. Then print the sorted array.

3. Read 16 integers into an array. Use merge sort algorithm to sort it.

4. Read 16 integers into an array. Sort it using merge sort algorithm. Then read a number to be searched in the array. Then in no more than 4 comparisons, decide if the given number is in the array or not and print the result.

Case:

How Bad Performance Management Killed Microsoft’s Edge What went wrong? Microsoft has been crippled by a management system known as “stack ranking.” Like the hated bell curve of your high school memory, this program forced each business area to rank a certain percentage of employees as top, good, average, or poor performers. That means that even if your department was full of stars, a certain quota would be getting bad reviews—no matter how hard they worked. Pretty demoralizing. Here is a quote from the preview of the article that’s now available online: “Every current and former Microsoft employee I interviewed—every one—cited stack ranking as the most destructive process inside of Microsoft, something that drove out untold numbers of employees,” Eichenwald writes. “If you were on a team of 10 people, you walked in the first day knowing that, no matter how good everyone was, 2 people were going to get a great review, 7 were going to get mediocre reviews, and 1 was going to get a terrible review,” says a former software developer. “It leads to employees focusing on competing with each other rather than competing with other companies.” This sort of cannibalistic performance management practice—with its rigid, stratified winner’s circle—completely disengaged many workers at the company, and led to a culture that did not encourage cooperation or teamwork. Innovation and excellence fell victim to the need to compete with co-workers for not only recognition but survival. Said one former employee: “It was always much less about how I could become a better engineer and much more about my need to improve my visibility among other managers.” Microsoft, once the uncontested king of the tech industry, has faltered while companies like Facebook, Apple and Google have excelled. Where Microsoft had a head start on technologies like smart phones, social networking and e-reader tablets, in every case the company’s culture, which penalized risk-taking, caused them to fail. Good talent management is not divisive; it is inclusive. It takes into account the viewpoints of peers; it doesn’t pit you against peers. It is flexible and immediate and responsive to the needs of management and the needs of workers. It works in tandem with the culture you want to encourage; it does not set up a new, toxic culture. The surest way to kill your company is to ignore these principles. Answer the following questions:

Q1. Identify the performance measurement system adopted in the Microsoft company and analyze its negative impact on employee morale, creativity and work-outcomes.

Q2. Identify and explain the key stages of the performance management cycle in which Microsoft company made errors in designing an effective performance management system. Give examples  

Q3. In your opinion, is the performance management system at Microsoft ethical? Can it create legal issues for the company?  

Q4. Plan and propose a new performance management system for Microsoft company capable of motivating the employees, taking into consideration all the stages of PMS development.  

1. Using the below two SQL queries and comments below, provide explanation on why the output count varies and which SQL yield correct result.

(20 points)

• Both SQLs are joining two tables
• Both SQLs are syntactically correct
• Query #1 returns about 19614 rows versus Query #2 returns 3550134.

Query #1:

select * from person.Address addr inner join person.StateProvince prov on addr.StateProvinceID = prov.StateProvinceID

Query #2:

select * from person.Address addr,person.StateProvince prov

3. A property consists of 8 office suites, 3 on the first floor and 5 on the second floor. The contract rents are as follows: 2 suites at $1,800 per month, 1 at $3,600 per month and 5, at $1,560 per month. Annual market rent for all suites increase 3% per year after the first year. Vacancy and collection losses are estimated at 10% of potential gross rent per year. Operating expenses and reserve for replacement or capital expenditures are 45% of effective gross income each year. The expected holding period is 5 years. At the end of the holding period you are expecting to sell the property for $1,180,472.

A. Prepare the first year pro forma generating the NOI for year 1.

B. The information below represents the NOI and sales price for 5 comparable properties. Using the information provided from the market we can see that the average cap rate is 8.4%. Using this average cap rate obtained below and the NOI obtained in question A, what is your estimate of value via the direct capitalization approach?

Year 1 Sales

NOI Price   Ro

A 80000 / 919540 = 0.087

B 114000 / 1390244 = 0.082

C 100000 / 1250000 = 0.080

D 72000 / 808989 = 0.089

E 90000 / 1097561 = 0.082

Average = 0.084

C. With the growth rate in income, the expected holding period of 5 years and the sales price estimate at the end of the holding period, estimate the present value of the property via the discounted cash flow approach with a discount rate of 10%.

D. I obtained the following information on 3 sales that includes the sales price and the one year income. Using the income multiplier give your estimate of value for the subject property based on your Effective Gross Income calculated in question A.

A B C

Recent sales prices 1,044,120 1,151,720 904,050

Effective Gross Income   158,200 175,300 143,500

Income multiplier 6.60    6.57 6.30

You are given the job of designing a bridge that is to be made of concrete slabs that rest on a steel support frame. The total length of the bridge is 306 m, and you want to be sure that the expansion joints are sufficiently large. If the temperature increases by 22

Share your campus engagement plan for an international student who wants to have stronger connections to the cultural groups on campus, but are not sure how and where to get involved. They are having a really hard time balancing the rest of their classes, trying to make time for meeting people, and they also want to find a campus job.

Card Shuffling and Dealing (C++)

All in one file with comments explaining please!

Create a program to shuffle and deal a deck of cards. The program should consist of a class Card, class DeckOfCards and a driver program.

Class Card should provide:

a)      Data members face and suit of type int.
b)      A constructor that receives two ints representing the face and suit and uses them to initialize the data members.
c)      Two static arrays of strings representing the faces and suits.
d)      A toString function that returns the Card as a string in the form "face of suit." You can use the + operator to concatenate strings.

Class DeckOfCards should contain:

a)      An array of Cards named deck to store the Cards.
b)      An integer currentCard representing the next card to deal.
c)      A default constructor that initializes the Cards in the deck.
d)      A shuffle function that shuffles the Cards in the deck. The shuffle algorithm should iterate through the array of Cards. For each Card, randomly select another Card in the deck and swap the two Cards.
e)      A dealCard function that returns the next Card object from the deck.
f)       A moreCards function that returns a bool value indicating whether there are more Cards to deal.

The driver program should create a DeckOfCards object, shuffle the cards, and then deal the 52 cards.

please unique answer, no handwriting, for safeAssign Pilgirism submission.API style

You have been hired to design a database for prescriptions for RX pharmacies and your first job now is to design an ER model for this database using the following description of that world.

i. patients are identified by their SSN and have other attributes as names, addresses, and ages.

ii. Doctors are identified by their SSN and have other attributes as names, specialty, and years of experience.

iii. Each pharmaceutical company is identified by name and has a phone number.

iv. For each drug, the trade name and formula must be recorded. Each drug is sold by a given pharmaceutical, and the trade name identifies a drug uniquely from among the products of that company. If a pharmaceutical company is deleted, you need not keep track of its products any longer.

v. Each pharmacy sells several drugs and has a price for each. A drug could be sold at several pharmacies, and the price could vary from one pharmacy to another.

vi. Doctors prescribe drugs for patients. A doctor could prescribe one or more drugs for several patients, and a patient could obtain prescriptions from several doctors. Each prescription has a date and a quantity associated with it. You can assume that if a doctor prescribes the same drug for the same patient more than once, only the last such prescriptions needs to be stored.

vii. Pharmaceutical companies have contracts with pharmacies. A pharmaceutical company can have contracts with several pharmacies and a pharmacy can have contracts with several pharmaceutical companies. For each contract, you need to store a start date, an end date and the contract text.

viii. Pharmacies appoint a supervisor for each contract. There must always be a supervisor for each contract.

Hint: Present the conceptual design first, showing (1) all the entities and their attributes, (2) all the relationships and their attributes, (3) all the constraints before drawing your ER.

You have the following information about Burgundy Basins, a sink manufacturer.

Burgundy is contemplating what for the company is an average-risk investment costing $52 million and promising an annual ATCF of $5.6 million in perpetuity.

a. What is the internal rate of return on the investment? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

b. What is Burgundy's weighted-average cost of capital? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

For the reaction 2Co3+(aq)+2Cl−(aq)→2Co2+(aq)+Cl2(g). E∘=0.483 V what is the cell potential at 25 ∘C if the concentrations are [Co3+]= 0.222 M , [Co2+]= 0.275 M , and [Cl−]= 0.309 M and the pressure of Cl2 is PCl2= 3.80 atm ?