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

Scholarship

• Describe a meaningful volunteer experience you’ve had?
• How did this experience change you?
• From a financial standpoint, what impact would this scholarship have on your education?

In ethical decision making. discuss about the important of fundamental principles and core values. (750 words)

Laboratory Tasks

public class LinkedList {

             Node head;

              class Node {  

                    int data;

                    Node next;

                    Node(int d) {

                            data = d;

                            next = null;

                    }

                }

}

Complete the above java program by adding the following methods:

Part1:

1. isEmpty() checks if the linked list is empty or not. (return type is boolean)
2. printList() prints all data in the linked list. (void method)
3. insertFirst(int newData) add newData at the head of the linked list. (void method)
4. insertLasL(int newData) add newData at the tail of the linked list. (void method)
5. findMiddle() finds the middle element in the list and displays its value. (void method)
6. deleteFirst() deletes the first element of the list. (void method)
7. sizeList() returns the number of elements in the list. (return type is int)
8. Main method that calls all the previous seven methods.

Your group has the following equipment: An electroscope, a foam tube, fur, a small plastic cup, a small metal cup. You perform the experiments described below and record the outcomes. For each of the experiments, use your understanding of the electric field to explain why each outcome happened.

-Make sure your explanations use the concept of the electric field rather than “opposite charges attract/same charges repel” ideas.

-Draw LARGE charge diagrams to illustrate your explanations. Show the shape of the electric field by including electric field lines.

Experiments:

a. Bring the charged end of a foam tube down toward the top of an uncharged electroscope without touching the electroscope. Outcome: The metal strips separate.

b. Take the charged end of the foam rod away from the top of the uncharged electroscope. Outcome: The metal strips come back together

c. Repeat the first two experiments, only this time a metal can covers the electroscope but doesn’t touch it. Outcome: The metal strips do not separate.

d. Repeat the first two experiments, only this time a glass beaker covers the electroscope but doesn’t touch it. Outcome: The metal strips separate then come back together, but much less significantly than in experiments a. and b.

Reasons that people disagree about public issues that involve science and technology

There is a wealth of information available on how companies can select projects which will be profitable, how to align projects with a company's strategic objectives, how to evaluate proposals, and in general, how to have a successful project.   Yet while projects today are more successful than ever, a substantial number still fail.

Consider some projects that you have worked on either at your job (e.g. office software upgrades, new accounting system, moving to a new location) or in your personal life (e.g. a wedding, modernizing a kitchen, an extensive vacation). Please try and explain why the project you worked on was successful or a failure.

You are a community leader with a long experience in fighting for quality improvement in health care. The new CEO of the most important hospital (nonprofit) in your city received the mandate from the Board of Directors (BOD) to set a formal patient and family advisory council (PAC). This council will report directly to the BOD. Additionally, the BOD has appointed you as the first Chair of the PAC.

You are told that the hospital has serious problems in quality and performance.

Following the Five C’s rationale

• Identify at least two possible problems by each C (a total of 10 problems) that you presume the hospital might be having;
• Discuss how the PAC could cooperate in solving those problems. If you think that the PAC would not have any role in addressing/solving the problem, please say so for each problem and mention who could address them.

please this is a health care system question not nursing or psychology.