What is Tiffany & Co.'s product assortment? In terms of breadth, length, depth for stock.

In Acid - Base equilibria  problems, how do you know what are the major species. I mean what do " major species " mean exactly?

What is the current state of the US Economy in the last 20 years?” Your report should include the following: GPD, unemployment, inflation and Labor Force Participation Rate. Include a general statement about the state of the economy and then brief commentaries on each of the measures. You can use FRED graph for your comparison

1. How do “buy one, get one free” deals sometimes deceive customers?

2. Why do retailers like Amazon show customers a product’s original list price along with the discounted price?

3. Discuss sales promotions in general. Compare/contrast this type of sales promotions to other promotional tools (e.g. commercials). Consider objectives, costs, and how it can be integrated into a comprehensive, unified promotion message. Use examples from businesses you've seen using this strategy. Think about how it fits into their overall marketing campaign.

CAN SOMEONE REVISE THIS AND MAKE IT BETTER?

Therefore, it is important for the law enforcement agencies of the nation to reflect the diversity in the community which it serves. With the Task Force being recognized, increasing diversity in the law enforcement agencies is an important tool in building trust with the societies. Diversity needs to be defined not only in line with gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, language, gender identity, experience and background. This is a finding which is strengthened by many years of research confirming that if members of the community believe law enforcement represent them, and they foster their trust in law enforcement. When the public views that law enforcement organization understands and responds to them, it instills confidence in the government and provides support to the integrity in democracy. This trust is very important in reducing tension, finding solutions to crimes and establishing a system where residents view law enforcement as just and fair. Witnesses and victims of crime many not engage or approach with the law enforcement when they consider them to be accountable for their concerns or experiences. The trust and the cooperation which they bring about assists officers in becoming more effective in their jobs.

What does Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs describe? what are Herzberg’s Two Factor Theory.

Motivation is of how many types? what are each one of them. What is the examples of motivation.

Below is some code for a rectangle class that needs to be completed. Add member function declarations to the class declaration and member function definitions below the declaration. For the accessor functions, you can add the definitions directly into the class declaration. The goal is to code the class so that it works wthout changing the main program

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

// rectangle has a vertical height and horizontal width
// The class below is a rectangle. It has two private
// data members: height and width.
// TODO: Complete the class declaration and definition.
class rectangle {
public:
// TODO: declare a default constructor
// Make the height and width = 1.
  
// TODO: declare member function void add
// @param int height, int width

// TODO: delcare member function void set
// @param int height, int width
  
// TODO: declare member function void draw
  
// TODO: define accessor for width
  
// TODO: define accessor for height
  
private:
int width;
int height;
};

// TODO: define the default constructor that
// sets height and width to 1.
rectangle::rectangle()
{

}

// TODO: Implement add to increment the length
void rectangle::add(int h, int w)
{

}

// TODO: Implement set to overwrite the data members
void rectangle::set(int h, int w)
{

}

// TODO: Implement draw to draw a rectangle using '*' characters
void rectangle::draw()
{
  
  
}

// TODO: Don't forget to define getWidth and getHeight

int main()
{
// Declare 2 rectangles
rectangle r1, r2;
  
// Print the unit rectangle
cout << "r1 is " << r1.getHeight() << " x " << r1.getWidth() << endl;
  
// Set, print dimensions and draw
r1.set(4, 3);
cout << "r1 is " << r1.getHeight() << " x " << r1.getWidth() << endl;
r1.draw();
  
// Assign, increment, print dimensions and draw
r2 = r1;
r2.add(3, 4);
cout << "r2 is " << r2.getHeight() << " x " << r2.getWidth() << endl;
r2.draw();
  
return 0;
}

A 7 μC charge is at the origin. Another particle, placed at x = 0.2m feels of force of 11N in the negative x-direction.

a) Find the value of the unknown charge.

b) Find the electric field midway between these two charges.

c) Find the potential midway between these two charges.

d) Find the potential energy of this pair of charges.

Find the closed form for the following series: 1 + x2 + x3 + … + xn where x is constant and x > 1

Value is the ratio of costs now and benefits in the future.

• 1) How does the microbiome act as a physical and chemical barrier of the innate immune system?
• 2) How do NK cells recognize cells for destruction?
• 4) What is the difference between an antigen and a PAMP?
• 5) What are the similarities and differences between T-cell receptors (TCRs) and antibodies?
• 6) Early research suggests that the COVID-19 virus causes a cytokine storm in more severe cases. In general terms, how is a cytokine storm triggered?

what would be the appropriate performance appraisal method to assess students' performance in class? What would be the key areas that you would focus on? What areas would you consider less important? How would you approach increasing performance?

HRM

Shamrock Leasing Company signs a lease agreement on January 1, 2017, to lease electronic equipment to Pharoah Company. The term of the non-cancelable lease is 2 years, and payments are required at the end of each year. The following information relates to this agreement:

1. Pharoah has the option to purchase the equipment for $17,500 upon termination of the lease. It is not reasonably certain that Pharoah will exercise this option.

2. The equipment has a cost of $150,000 and fair value of $199,000 to Shamrock Leasing. The useful economic life is 2 years, with a residual value of $17,500.

3. Shamrock Leasing desires to earn a return of 5% on its investment. 4. Collectibility of the payments by Shamrock Leasing is probable.

Prepare the journal entries on the books of Shamrock Leasing to reflect the payments received under the lease and to recognize income for the years 2017 and 2018.

As a city planner, you receive complaints from local residents about the safety of nearby roads and streets. One complaint concerns a stop sign at the corner of Pine Street and 1st Street. Residents complain that the speed limit in the area (89 km/h) is too high to allow vehicles to stop in time. Under normal conditions this is not a problem, but when fog rolls in visibility can reduce to only 47 meters. Since fog is a common occurrence in this region, you decide to investigate. The state highway department states that the effective coefficient of friction between a rolling wheel and asphalt ranges between 0.842 and 0.941, whereas the effective coefficient of friction between a skidding (locked) wheel and asphalt ranges between 0.550 and 0.754. Vehicles of all types travel on the road, from small VW bugs with a mass of 595 kg to large trucks with mass 4095 kg. Considering that some drivers will brake properly when slowing down and others will skid to stop, calculate the miminim and maximum braking distance needed to ensure that all vehicles traveling at the posted speed limit can stop before reaching the intersection. Minimu =? Maximum=?Given that the goal is to allow all vehicles to come safely to a stop before reaching the intersection, calculate the maximum desired speed limit. = kmh?.

Using THIS template, answer the three questions concluding the summary (minimum four sentences, per question).

Fast-Fashion and the Ethics of Low-Cost Labor

Who wants to wait six months for runway looks to hit the stores? In today’s fast-fashion world, six months is an eternity. Nearly extinct is the tradition of three luxurious fashion seasons per year (fall, spring, resort). Those seasons have been replaced by rock-bottom prices on 30 to 50 trend-driven cycles—per year. Consumers in the United States and Europe have embraced the entire fast-fashion approach—inexpensive apparel and high turnover of designs. In fact, their shopping behaviors have allowed companies like H&M and Zara to grow into international retailing behemoths.

The speed of fast-fashion goes beyond the production cycle. Europe’s fast-fashion chains have grown faster than the retail fashion industry as a whole, partly because the combination of low cost, fresh designs, and quick turnover is extremely successful in fueling consumer demand. Fast-fashion companies also boast higher margins that those reported by their traditional counterparts—an average 16% compared to an average of 7%. Undeniably, the application of planned obsolescence to fashion has been financially successful.

The fast-fashion approach is not without controversy, however, particularly when it comes to outsourcing production. Companies like Benetton, Walmart, and Disney place huge orders with offshore vendors who often cannot deliver the entire order without enlisting the help of additional subcontractors. Unauthorized subcontracting is the end result, and brands don’t always know who is producing their products or where. Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia division, affirms this, saying, “I’ve talked to Thai workers who are three or four levels down from the original orders. If the brands don’t know, they should know. A lot of them are turning a blind eye to outsourcing.”

One country that has grown from outsourcing in the garment industry is Bangladesh. With labor rates averaging $40 per month, Bangladeshi garment workers are the cheapest around. (Compare that to approximately $120 per month on average for garment workers in China.) Those low labor costs have caused explosive growth in the size and scope of the country’s garment industry. In 2005, the country exported $6.9 billion worth of clothing. By 2011, that figure had risen to $19.9 billion, making the Bangladesh the world’s third largest exporter of clothing, behind China and Italy.

Makeshift garment factories have popped up all over Bangladesh. It now has roughly 4,500 garment factories, and disasters have ensued from the rapid growth. In November 2012, the fire at the Tazreen Fashion factory resulted in 112 deaths. In the subsequent five months, over 40 other fire-related accidents occurred in Bangladesh, and in April 2013, Rana Plaza, a building housing numerous garment factories, collapsed killing over 1,000 people.

Bangladesh isn’t the only country where concerns about subcontracting are growing. Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia also regularly face issues with multilayer outsourcing, and each of them could be next in line to wear the lowest-labor-cost title.

Subcontracting to vendors to produce garments at lower costs can be beneficial to companies in the following ways:

• Having access to a network of subcontracts provides companies with the flexibility they need to produce last-minute orders. In the same vein, relying on subcontractors allows companies to adapt their production schedules depending on consumer demand and keep fixed costs lower than if they built their own production infrastructures.
• Regularly moving manufacturing work to low-cost labor centers keeps labor costs low and allows companies to compete more ardently against each other.
• Garment work is often the only industry that poorer nations can attract as they develop into more robust economies. Threatening to revoke trade agreements or exit countries risks putting workers desperate for income out of work. One government official said off the record, “If they are really trying to help garment workers in Bangladesh, this is not really the way. These are people who need the work…What use is compassion if it takes away the livelihood of thousands of workers?”
• Using a network of subcontractors insulates brands from direct contact with unsavory work environments with unsafe working conditions.
• Using low-cost labor has created value for the consumer who benefits from lower prices in the store. Fewer household resources need to be spent on the same basket of apparel goods as a decade ago.

Despite the benefits, subcontracting to low-cost providers with unsafe working conditions has generated much controversy, not only in fast-fashion, but in the broader apparel and footwear industry as well:

• The European Union is considering revoking a favored trading status it had awarded to Bangladesh as a result of the series of workplace disasters that happened in that country in 2012 and 2013. The EU is Bangladesh’s larges trading partner. Women’s Wear Daily reported that EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht told Belgian media, “The government of Bangladesh must change something. Otherwise, I am ready to launch an investigation, which may lead to the suspension of Bangladesh’s trade status with the EU.”
• According to an analysis by the Workers Rights Consortium, it would take roughly $3 billion and five years to upgrade Bangladesh’s garment factories to Western standards. However, because the relationships are based on short-term contracts, WRC director Scott Nova told The Atlantic, “Long-term commitments they don’t want to make.”
• Bangladeshi suppliers say Western companies put heavy pressure on prices, resulting in bad pay and unsafe conditions for workers. In fact, demands for ultralow prices and ultrafast turnaround times put extreme pressure on garment manufacturers throughout the developing world. Auret van Heerden, CEO of the Fair Labor Association, argues, “The manufacturing industry is running out of low-cost sourcing destinations, and it’s time to invest in making factories safer and better, rather than searching for cheaper labor.”
• Hopscotching throughout the developing world looking for the lowest labor costs ultimately threatens brands’ reputations. Even Helena Helmersson, head of sustainability for H&M, seems to agree. She told The Observer, “Remember that H&M does not own any factories itself. We are to some extent dependent on the suppliers—it is impossible to be in full control.”
• Sourcing practices have exposed sharp contrasts between fast-fashion and luxury designers and exposed hypocrisy among critics. Italian designer Miuccia Prada, who also holds a PhD in political science, told Women’s Wear Daily, “People who are intellectual leftists, they say I am expensive and horrible, ‘How can you sell clothes at that price?’ Simply, it’s the cost. If you pay people to do everything with the right system, things are expensive. And the same people who criticize the dangerous production environments, when it comes to cost, they like the inexpensive pieces because they think it’s more democratic.”

So, who is ethically responsible?

You Decide:

• Do you agree with the EU’s threat to use trade agreements as a weapon in the fight against low-cost subcontracting? If governments were to regulate the number of subcontractors that can be involved in the production of a product, do you believe businesses that outsource their work would be more prone to respond ethically to catastrophes and to working conditions in general?

• If a brand explicitly forbids a vendor from subcontracting, but the vendor subcontracts anyway, which company bears the responsibility for any tragedy that ensues? In other words, who is ethically responsible for events like Tazreen Fashion factory fire and the New Wave Style building collapse, both in Bangladesh?

• What level of ethical responsibility does the end consumer of fast-fashion apparel bear for those tragedies?