Instruction for students:

Assume that you are the plant manager for Brice Company. The company is plan to implement a bonus system for purchasing and production managers that provides an annual 10 percent bonus for favorable direct materials variances (MPV and MQV).

Required:

Write a report for the CEO in which you explain the primary assumptions and considerations used in making your recommendation.

1. In your opinion, does having a favorable variances is better than unfavorable? In other words, does achieving favorable variances means that managers in charge have to be rewarded? Conversely, does unfavorable variances always reflect a poor performance by the manager in charge?
2. Explain the potential benefits associated with the new bonus system.
3. Elaborate the potential costs associated with the new bonus system.
4. Identify the potential ethical concerns on the new bonus system.
5. Finally, provide the CEO with a recommendation on whether to adopt or not to adopt the new bonus system.

working on a business plan for my business 101 class. what is a good marketing plan and location analysis for a renting clothes business running in New York

Please, write code in c++. Using iostream and cstring library

Write a function that will find and return most recent word in the given text.
The prototype of the function have to be the following void mostRecent(char *text,char *word)
In char *word your function have to return the most recent word that occurce in the text.
Your program have to be not case-sensitive(ignore case - "Can" and "CAN" are the same words)
Also note than WORD is sequence of letters sepereated by whitespace.

Note. The program have to use pointer.

Input:
First line contains one line that is not longer than 1000 symbols with whitespaces.

Output: The most recent word in UPPER case.

example:

Input:

Can you can the can with can?

output:

CAN

Write a function treble that takes a pointer to an integer and triples its value. Note that this function does not return anything. You can test it using the following example or something similar:
int i=7;
cout << "old value; i="<<i<< "-"
treble(&i);cout <<"New Value:i="<< i <<"\n";

Which prints: Old vvalue:i =7 - new value: i=21

Although the issue of death is still not comfortably thought about and discussed by most individuals, our lives are affected dramatically by the death of family members, close friends, and co-workers.  

Members in my classes have lost persons close to them during the class experience. There have also been those who were grieving the impending death of a terminally ill family member or close friend and even themselves. There are those who grieved a death by suicide or homicide.

Talking about death to someone with a terminal illness is very difficult: yet, it can be therapeutic and meaningful to the dying person to share life experiences and the fear or readiness for death. Such disclosures can be comforting for the ill person and, for the survivor, it can provide meaningful reminiscence as well as serve as a reminder to prepare for their own ultimate transition.

Cultural conceptions of death and dying vary; so, it is of interest for us to learn more about the meaning of life and death and customs and beliefs associated with D&D from your cultural perspectives. Your task, therefore, is to write a brief essay incorporating the following aspects:  

Present your personal cultural conception of dying and death. Be certain to give ethnic background, any diversity issue that would help us become more knowledgeable about different perspectives and practices.

Describe family customs to comfort/care for those with impending death.

What insight does your spiritual system give regarding death. Is there a belief in afterlife?

Eliezrie, Inc., manufactures and sells two products: Product G8 and Product O0. Data concerning the expected production of each product and the expected total direct labor-hours (DLHs) required to produce that output appear below: Expected Production Direct Labor-Hours Per Unit Total Direct Labor-Hours Product G8 800 6.0 4,800 Product O0 400 3.0 1,200 Total direct labor-hours 6,000 The direct labor rate is $23.10 per DLH. The direct materials cost per unit for each product is given below: Direct Materials Cost per Unit Product G8 $123.10 Product O0 $123.50 The company is considering adopting an activity-based costing system with the following activity cost pools, activity measures, and expected activity: Estimated Expected Activity Activity Cost Pools Activity Measures Overhead Cost Product G8 Product O0 Total Labor-related DLHs $ 60,555 4,800 1,200 6,000 Machine setups setups 59,390 900 650 1,550 Order size MHs 370,508 5,300 6,100 11,400 $ 490,453 Which of the following statements concerning the unit product cost of Product G8 is true? (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.) Multiple Choice A.The unit product cost of Product G8 under traditional costing is greater than its unit product cost under activity-based costing by $171.48. B.The unit product cost of Product G8 under traditional costing is less than its unit product cost under activity-based costing by $171.48. C. The unit product cost of Product G8 under traditional costing is greater than its unit product cost under activity-based costing by $291.56. D. The unit product cost of Product G8 under traditional costing is less than its unit product cost under activity-based costing by $291.56.

Complete this requirement by conducting some research using the Internet. Identify three diversity or equity issues that you think are the most challenging or important for you you personally, a group of individuals, the workplace, or for society in general. Write two paragraphs about each issue. Describe each issue and its relevance. What is it about the issue that makes it, in your view, diversity-related? Why do you consider it one of your Top Three diversity-related issue? Who do you think the issue affects? Have you or someone you know been personally or professionally affected by the issue? What actions do you think are necessary to remedy this issue? For each issue, provide links to, or citations for, the sources you used to gather information.

You have two candidates for a marketing position. Both have similar educational backgrounds and certifications. However, the first candidate has 20 years of related experience, while the second candidate has 6 years of similar experience. The first candidate is asking for a competitive base salary plus one week extra vacation as part of the benefits package. The second candidate is asking for a competitive base salary plus a company smartphone (upgraded each year) and paid Internet service at home. The first candidate is willing to work a flexible schedule (nights, weekends, etc.), while the second candidate prefers to work remotely from home. Both are requesting to be included in the company's annual bonus plan. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that includes the following: Compare the direct and indirect compensation requests for each candidate. As an HR professional, what do you think is the best hiring decision for the company, and why? Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Pick any simple game that is played on a mobile device or desktop/tablet or game console. For this discussion you should consider the pros and cons of playing the same game using different interfaces. Select two interfaces, other than the GUI and mobile ones (e.g. tangible, wearable, and shareable) and describe how the game could be redesigned for each of these, taking into account the user group being targeted. For example, the tangible game could be designed for young children, the wearable interface for young adults, and the shareable interface for elderly people.

1. Include the name of the game and the real life platform and interface it is available.
2. Identify the two new interfaces you would play the game. Describe a hypothetical scenario of how the game would be played for each of the two interfaces. (Consider specific design issues that will need to be addressed. For example, for the shareable surface would it be best to have a tabletop or a wall-based surface? How will the users interact with the game features, how will interaction occur? Would you add any other rules?)
3. Compare the pros and cons of designing the game using the two different interfaces with respect to how it is currently played.

Say It Ain't So! Is this the real thing?

David Ortega is the lead researcher for an upscale restaurant group hoping to add another chain that would compete directly with the upscale Smith and Wollensky restaurants (http://www.smithandwollensky.com). Smith and Wollensky is also considering opening a lesser priced “Grill.” David wants to learn what people are willing to pay for and what sacrifice can be made to deliver a satisfying if not luxurious experiences, and how can he create a unique experience at a lower price?

David decides a qualitative research approach will be useful. He wants to understand how the fine dining experience offers value and what intangibles create value for consumers. He uses a phenomenological approach, and the primary tool of investigation is conversational interviewing. He enters into casual conversations with businesspeople in the lounge of the Ritz Carlton by commenting on the wine he is sipping by saying, “It ain’t bad, but it’s hard to believe they get $14 for a glass of this stuff.”

Comments of the five consumers he conversed with are given verbatim (the comments are not given/included), and he decides to use a word count to try to identify the main themes. He hopes this will clarify the business problem and provide a better understanding of the total value proposition offered by restaurants, wines, hotels, and other products.

In no less than 5 sentences a paragraph, answer the following questions related to the problem.

Questions:

1. Comment on the research approach. Do you feel it was an appropriate choice?

2. [Ethics Question] David did not inform these respondents that he was doing marketing research during these conversations. Why do you think he withheld this information and was it appropriate to do so?

3. [Internet Question] Using the Internet, try to identify at least three restaurants that Smith and Wollensky competes with and three with whom the new S&W grill may compete.

4. Try to interpret the discussions above. You may use one of the approaches discussed in the text. What themes should be coded? What themes occur most frequently? Can the different themes be linked together to form a unit of meaning?

5. What is the result of this research? What should David report back to the restaurant group?

Use any C program without using PTHREADS calculate time taken to execute program.

1. Write same program of question 1 using PTHREADS. Calculate time taken to execute program.
2. Identify data races in above program and explain why this situation occurred with an example
3. Rewrite the code to avoid data races should use any of the THREE techniques.

Run program using 1, 2, 4, and 8 threads Comparison study

4. Rewrite the program using OPENMP. Run on 4 processors. Calculate time taken.
5. At the end calculate speed up.  

Draw a Schema Diagram using the information.

Signum Libri (SL) is a publishing company.

SL Operations Database will keep track of the following:

• • For each book SL publishes: a book name, genre, date of publication, and number of pages;
• • For each writer: a unique writer identifier as well as the writer’s name;
• • For each agent: a unique agent identifier as well as the agent’s name;
• • For each editor: a unique editor identifier as well as the editor’s name;
• • Each SL book is written by one writer, and each writer can write many SL books. SL will not keep track of writers who did not write a book for SL. All books written by the same writer have a different book name. However, two writers can write two different books with the same book name.
• • Each writer is represented by one agent. Each agent represents at least one writer, but can represent many.
• • Each book has one editor. Each editor edits at least one book, but can edit many books.
• • Each editor can mentor one or more other editors, but does not have to mentor any. Each editor can have at most one mentor editor, but does not have to have any

Write a C++ program that involves implementing the RSA cryptosystem. In practice for the encryption to be secure and to handle larger messages you would need to utilize a class for large integers. However, for this assignment you can use built-in types to store integers, e.g., unsigned long long int. Also, rather than using the ASCII table for this assignment use BEARCATII, which restricts the characters to the blank character and the lower-case letters of the alphabet as follows: blank character is assigned the value 0. A, …, Z are assigned the values 1, …, 26, respectively. The message M will be represented by replacing each character in the message with its assigned integer base 27. For example, the message M = “TEST” will be represented as N = 20 5 19 20 Translating this to decimal we obtain: D = 20 + 19*27 + 5*272 + 20*273 = 397838 Note that to convert back to base 27, we simply apply the algorithm we discussed in class, i.e., the least significant digit (rightmost) is obtained by performing the operations D mod 27 and performing a recursive call with D/27. For the example above we obtain, 397838 / 27, 397838 mod 27 = 14734, 20 → 14734 / 27, 14734 mod 27, 20 = 545, 19, 20 → 545/27, 545 mod 20, 19, 20 = 20, 5, 19, 20 = N Find primes p and q by choosing positive integers at random and testing for primality using Miller-Rabin probabilistic algorithm. Your program should prompt the user to input a positive integer representing the public key e. If the user enters a number that is not relatively prime to n = pq, then have the user reenter and keep doing this until e and n are coprime, i.e., gcd(e,φ(n)) = 1. Also prompt the user to enter the message M (as a character string). For handing purposes, run your program with M = “TEST”. Output p, q, n, M, C, P where C is the encrypted message, i.e., cyber text, and P is the decrypted message, i.e., plaintext. If your program is working correctly then M should be equal to P.

you can see in the following​ table, demand for heart transplant surgery at Washington General Hospital has increased steadily in the past few​ years:

Year 1 2 3 4 5

Heart Transplants 48.0 48.0 53.0 57.0 57.0  

Year 1 2 3 4 5

Heart Transplants 44.0

The director of medical services predicted 6 years ago that demand in year 1 would be 44.0 sureries.

A) using exponential smoothing with a of 60.0 anf the given forecast for year 1, the forecasts for 2 years through 6 are? (round your answers to one decimal place)

For the forecast made using expotienal smoothing with a=60.0 and the given forecasts for year 1, MAD= _ surgeries (round your response to one decimal place)

Using expotiental smoothing with a of 90.0 and the given forecast for year 1, the forcasts for years 2 through 6 are (round your responses to one decimal place)

For the forecast made using expotiental smoothing with a=0.90 and given forecast for year 1, MAD= _ surgeries (round your response to one decimal place)

b) forecasts for years 4 through 6 using a 3 year moving average are? (round your response to one decimal place)

For forecast made using a 3 year moving average MAD = _ surgeries (round your answer to one decimal place)

C) forecasts for years 1 through 6 using the trend-projection method are (round your response to one decimal place)

For forecasts made using the trend-projection method, MAD= _ surgeries (round your response to one decimal place)

D) based on the comparison of MAD, the best forecast is archived using the _ method