How does self-disclosure influence relational development? Analyze the role of self-disclosure in shaping relationships in different contexts at different times. How does faith shape a person’s self-disclosure in their friendships, family relationships, and workplace relationships? Provide concrete examples to illustrate.

How can you manage a communication campaign successfully? Would you use the same strategies for every campaign (informative and persuasive)? Why?

Gerrymandering is, for example, the setting of congressional district lines in order to make it more difficult for a new candidate to beat the incumbent. Economists view gerrymandering as generally inefficient – a type of market failure. Why do you think economists view it this way? Do you agree with the economic argument you identified as applied to this case? Why?

Problem 6-19 Break-Even Analysis; Pricing [LO6-1, LO6-4, LO6-5] Minden Company introduced a new product last year for which it is trying to find an optimal selling price. Marketing studies suggest that the company can increase sales by 5,000 units for each $2 reduction in the selling price. The company’s present selling price is $96 per unit, and variable expenses are $66 per unit. Fixed expenses are $832,200 per year. The present annual sales volume (at the $96 selling price) is 25,300 units. Required: 1. What is the present yearly net operating income or loss? 2. What is the present break-even point in unit sales and in dollar sales? 3. Assuming that the marketing studies are correct, what is the maximum annual profit that the company can earn? At how many units and at what selling price per unit would the company generate this profit? 4. What would be the break-even point in unit sales and in dollar sales using the selling price you determined in (3) above (e.g., the selling price at the level of maximum profits)?

Identify five different persuasive strategies in "What Critics Don't Understand About Gun Culture."

For each persuasive technique, you identify, discuss its effectiveness. Why do you think the writer chose this particular technique for this particular subject, goal, audience, etc.? Do you think it's effective? Why or why not?

explain condition under which you would use a nonparametric test

Identify two (2) pieces of information not included in the principle financial statements (balance sheet, income statements, financial ratios) and legal actions being taken against the company, that you think would be important to someone considering whether to invest in your company. Explain your reasons for believing that this information would be important in making an investment decision.

An organization that is managed in a traditional and bureaucratic way will find itself stagnant, dysfunctional, and unable to adapt to its environment. Write a short essay that explains people change and culture change, and evaluate why they are necessary to achieve the change process. Be sure to include a detailed example of each in your answer.

Tell me about a retailer that has a distinct positioning other than the Disney Store, Big Bass Pro Shop, or Cabelas. What is the positioning and how has the retailer achieved it (i.e., in terms of their brand name, logo, products they carry, employees, where they're located, how the store is designed)?

Case 14.1 The LOGON Project
Top management of the Iron Butterfl y Company
(IBC) has decided to adopt a project-management
form of organization for the LOGON project. As
a consultant to top management, you have been
given two tasks to help implement this. First, you
must develop a project management policy statement
and a project manager job description. Your
policy statement should defi ne the project manager’s
role with respect to other functional managers,
as well as clarify the role of functional managers in
the project. Your job description must defi ne the
specifi c responsibilities and legal authority of the
project manager. You should consider the reactions
of functional managers to the policy statement
and job description, and how best to get their
“buy in.” How can you give the project manager
suffi cient authority to manage the LOGON project
without usurping the authority of other managers
who must give their support? You should also
suggest to top management what forms of evaluation
can be used as incentives for team members
to work together toward project goals. Remember,
the functional departments are also currently
involved in their own work and work in other
project activities.
Your second task is to specify and document
the qualifi cations for the position of LOGON project
manager. After considering the nature of the
project (technical scope, risks, complexity, etc.) as
described in Case 13.1 in Chapter 13, prepare a list
of qualifi cations—general background and experience,
personality characteristics, managerial,
technical, and interpersonal skills—for screening
candidates and making the fi nal selection. IBC has
some employees who have worked as project coordinators
and expediters, but no one with experience
as a pure project or matrix manager. Consider
the assumptions and pros and cons of selecting a
functional manager or technical specialist from
inside IBC, or an experienced project manager
from an outside the company. A contract has been
signed, and LOGON is to begin in 4 months.

Explain how do you do indexing in a circular queue? (java programing)

Children explore and react differently to their environment and experience according to

Kagan (1971). What behaviors might one observe in an impulsive child and a reflective child? Or a field-independent child and a field-dependent one?

What are the roles of the following groups in the healthcare value improvement process: boards of directors, senior leaders, physicians, employees, and payers?

Using the C language:

In the old days, data was stored on punched cards of 80 or 96 columns.

Presume your job is to update a database to include the newly found data in the file punchcard.txt
into a currently used data base. In order to do that, you must read in the data in columnar format
and convert it to comma separated fields so it can be imported.

Using buffered I/O functions (e.g. fopen, fclose, fprintf, fscanf, fread or fwrite, fgets, fgets, etc),
read the columnar data in punchcard.txt into your program. It has the following fields:

   unsigned int user_number 6 columns
   char name 32 columns
   char address 32 columns

Write the data out to a file called import.txt which is of the following CSV format for each line:

   user_number,name,address<carriage return>

If the data in name or address contains a comma, it must be delimited with double quotes around
it. Make sure you remove all extraneous spaces in front of, or behind the data so that the entry in
the import.txt file has no extraneous spaces which is not part of the data. This is often called
"trimming" the data.

punchcard.txt contains...

289383Estefana Lewey 9940 Ohio Drv, 85021
930886Burl Livermore 226 Amherst, 08330
692777Lannie Crisler 8143 Woods Drv, 20901
636915Zena Hoke 82 Roehampton St, 47905
747793Vicente Clevenger 9954 San Carlos St., 55016
238335Lidia Janes 348 Depot Ave, 29576
885386Claire Paladino 587 Front Ave, 32703
760492Leland Stillson 9793 Boston Lane, 08610
516649Wes Althouse 8597 Annadale Drive, 06514
641421Nadia Gard 218 George Street, 29150

Thank you in advance.

Answer the following questions (minimum 3 sentences for each question):

• Describe a time where you had to manage a number of projects at once.
• Next, discuss how you chose to assign your resources in order to complete them all (ie portfolio management).
• Lastly, respond to at least one classmate and share your thoughts on their portfolio management.