Fewer families than in our history fit the traditional expectations where mom stays at home to take care of the children and dad works. In your paragraphs please address the following questions:

In American today, what are the social and economic forces that influence the structure of families?

What does divorce look like during middle age?

What are some of the themes and variations in blended families?

Your answer should be a minimum of 5 paragraphs in length. Be sure to use your own words and cite your source. Spelling and grammar matters, so proofread before you post.

compare and contrast the intercultural communication business practices of Spain based on their passport documents.

1. Alice is moving wit 0.8c towards a mirror. She sends a light pulse towards the mirror when she is at a distance L from the mirror. Bob is at rest with respect to the mirror and is observing this experiment. After how long will Alice receive the reflected pulse, as measured by Alice and Bob?

(JAVA)

Balanced

Class diagram:

Balanced

+ swing(int[] a) : boolean

For this exercise, you will have to implement the class diagram above. Basically, the objective of this exercise is to develop the class and the previous method, in such a way that it tells us if an array is balanced or not.

We say that an array is balanced if the sum of the elements belonging to the first half of the array (not including the element in the middle), and the sum of the elements belonging to the second half of the array (not including the element in the middle) They are equal.

Example 1: the balance method receives the array [1,2,3,4,2]

The method returns false

Example 2: the balance method receives the array [1,2,78,3,0]

The method returns true

TIP: for this exercise, ONLY odd arrangements will be made.

A 21500 kg jet airplane is flying through some high winds. At some point in time, the airplane is pointing due north, while the wind is blowing from the north and east. If the force on the plane from the jet engines is 35500 N due north, and the force from the wind is 14700 N in a direction 75.0° south of west, what will be the magnitude and direction of the plane's acceleration at that moment? Enter the direction of the acceleration as an angle measured from due west (positive for clockwise, negative for counterclockwise).

Describe the techniques that can be used when reading.    

Chapter 14 Case Study: Design for Supply Chain Programs

What is the relationship between design for manufacturing (DFM) and design for supply chain (DFSC)?

Design for Supply Chain Programs

Design for Supply Chain (DfSC) is a systematic method of ensuring the best fit between the design of a product throughout its life time and its supply chain members' resources and capabilities. Even something as simple as flattening the tops of soda cans, as beverage makers did in the 1950s, can revolutionize product development, transform transportation and inventory processes, and generate huge cost savings and increased customer satisfaction. Hewlett- Packard (HP) has been in the forefront of adopting DfSC principles, and IBM is another staunch proponent.

IBM developed a 1.hort list of DfSC principles that have helped it create products that are both competitive and supply-chain-efficient throughout their life cycles. Briefly stated, these principles are:

1. Integrate products parts and components as much as possible to reduce product assembly time.

2. Use industry-standard parts whenever possible to lower costs and simplify sourcing efforts.

3. Reduce lead times on critical components to avoid paying premium shipping fees on rush orders.

4. Design products for supply-chain friendliness throughout their life cycle, planning for and minimizing the cost and disruption of design and technology changes as products mature.

5. Build supply chains based on the company's strategic plan, not around the idiosyncratic requirements of specific products.

6. Use common components and modular design, thereby reducing product variability.

7. Minimize inventory costs and reduce the risk of obsolescence by building to order from common components and subassemblies, rather than building to stock.

8. Design products to give customers flexibility when ordering while keeping costs in line.

9. Use high quality parts and parts which can be quickly diagnosed to minimize warranty costs and improve after sales service.

HP similarly uses DfSC to consider the impact of its design decisions over product lifetimes, from pre-launch through production to end of life cycle, in all its business units and regions.

The DfSC strategy-essentially looking back in order to see ahead-helps improve HP's relationships with suppliers, manufacturers, logistics service firms, retailers, and consumers.

To use DISC, which it adopted 111 the early 1990s, HP first asks four questions about its products:

1. What makes the product a good fit for a particular supply chain?

2. Which design decisions produce that result? For example, does the product have unique parts?

3. When and why are design decisions being made, and who is making them?

4. How can the company deliver great products at higher profit margins?

Since adopting DfSC and successfully propagating its use throughout the company, HP has been able to introduce more new products faster and at lower cost. It has increased its revenues and kept customers happy. At the same time, the company has found ways to improve its inventory efficiency without offsetting risks onto its suppliers (which would damage its supply-chain relationships) or reducing the quality of product inputs (which would increase the cost of honoring product warranties as well as damaging customer relationships) .

HP's six DfSC techniques are:

l. Variety control. Having fewer SKUs allowed the company to reduce inventory 42% and increase product availability in its PC division.

2. Logistics enhancement. Making an InkJet printer 45% smaller saved more than $1 per unit in logistics costs.

3. Commonality and reuse. While unique parts make products distinctive, they increase inventory costs and, often, time to market.

4. Postponement. Designing products to remain generic as long as possible during the production process, until it's known how the end user wants to customize them, saves costs.

5. Tax and duty reduction. These costs can be higher or lower based on the country of origin.

6. Take-back facilitation. Design and packaging changes can reduce both manufacturing and environmental costs.

HP estimates that DfSC techniques have saved it about $200 million per year.

What is the relationship between design for manufacturability (DFM) and design for supply chain (DfSC)?

Budget Surplus: A Case Study

A small midwestern city has a $1 million budget surplus. Two groups immediately begin vying for the funds. One of the requests comes from downtown businesses requesting to use the money to beautify downtown by adding brick sidewalks and planting areas with the goal of attracting customers. As city manager, you are aware that the downtown area has not been doing as well as predicted and that the small businesses are necessary for the development of a “vibrant downtown,” as stated in the city’s goals. The other request comes from the city’s police department wanting to begin a unit to pursue “career criminals.” You are familiar with the statistics and know that repeat offenders commit an overwhelming number of crimes. There is an apparent trend in police departments to address this issue separately. The two groups are competing for limited resources. Both causes are considered worthy of city funding, but decisions must be made, given that $1 million will not fully fund both requests. Both crime control and economic development are of vital interest to your community, and both have active constituents who will come to the city council meetings with their requests.

Respond to the following questions:

1. How will you, as city manager, handle these requests? explian
2. What recommendations will you make to the city council? Explian
3. What role will you play with the constituents of both groups to satisfy their requests? Explian

Suppose a country has a floating exchange rate for its currency and begins in long-run equilibrium. Consider the effect of a temporary rise in real money demand. Use a DD-AA-XX diagram to answer the following (you do not need to show the diagram, but you do need to write in words what happens on it).

(a) Indicate any movement(s) of the curves on your diagram that can be observed as a result of the temporary rise in real money demand. What happens to national income, Y, and the exchange rate, E, as a result? What happens to the current account, and how do you know that?

(b) What should the country do regarding fiscal policy to achieve full-employment national income again in the short run? Indicate any movement(s) of the curves on your diagram that can be observed as a result of the country implementing this fiscal policy. How do the equilibrium exchange rate, E, and national income, Y, levels after implementing this policy compare to their ending equilibrium positions in part (a), and how do they compare to their initial positions prior to the rise in real money demand?

(c) What should the country do regarding fiscal policy to achieve the current account level it started with (the current account level the country had prior to the rise in real money demand)? Indicate any movement(s) of the curves on your diagram that can be observed as a result of the country implementing this fiscal policy. How do the equilibrium exchange rate, E, and national income, Y, levels after implementing this policy compare to their ending equilibrium positions in part (a), and how do they compare to their initial positions prior to the rise in real money demand?

Apply the three theoretical approaches to the topic of sexuality. What are important insights provided by the structual-functional, symbolic-interaction, and social-conflict approaches?

Write a JAVA program to store some details of pizzas (menu item number, size, base, extra cheese, extra
garlic), curries (menu item number, size, curry type) and softdrinks (menu item number, size,
flavour, bottle or can) in a single array, with the options of listing all menu items or deleting a
particular menu item.
Your program must continuously prompt the user to choose an option from a list and act on that
option, until the exit option is chosen. (See the sample output below.) If a menu item is not found,
output "Not found" instead of "Done".

You must use inheritance and polymorphism to model your Pizza, Curry and SoftDrink classes (use
those exact class names) as subclasses of the same base class, which forms the basis for the array.

Note: Be very careful to reproduce the output exactly. Copy-and-paste is highly recommended to
avoid minor typographical errors that drive you crazy when submitting online!

Sample Input/Output:
Welcome to Great International Food Court
MENU: add (P)izza, add (C)urry, add (S)oft drink, (D)elete, (L)ist,
(Q)uit
p
Enter the menu item number
123
Enter the size
12"
Enter the base
Hand-tossed
Enter extra cheese
Yes
Enter extra garlic
Yes
Done
MENU: add (P)izza, add (C)urry, add (S)oft drink, (D)elete, (L)ist, (Q)uit
c
Enter the menu item number
456
Enter the size
Large
Enter the curry type
Vindaloo
Done
MENU: add (P)izza, add (C)urry, add (S)oft drink, (D)elete, (L)ist, (Q)uit
s
Enter the menu item number
789
Enter the size
Large
Enter the flavour
Coke
Enter whether it is a bottle or can
Bottle
Done
MENU: add (P)izza, add (C)urry, add (S)oft drink, (D)elete, (L)ist, (Q)uit
d
Enter the menu item number
456
Done
MENU: add (P)izza, add (C)urry, add (S)oft drink, (D)elete, (L)ist, (Q)uit
l
Pizza: 123, 12", Hand-tossed, Yes, Yes
Soft Drink: 789, Large, Coke, Bottle
Done
MENU: add (P)izza, add (C)urry, add (S)oft drink, (D)elete, (L)ist, (Q)uit
q

Where did the atoms that make up a newborn baby originate?

   Identify the goals and describe the structure of the Federal Reserve System.

Compare/ contrast negotiation versus collaboration. Describes the steps of successful negotiation. Identify the components of effective collaboration. Discuss your use of negotiation/ collaboration practices either within your organization or as a student. Describe the situation, strategies used, and the outcome.