BUSINESS LAW

Assume the following facts based on the Jennings case study: Agristar, the successor company to Agriprocessor Inc., has decided to sell the meat packing plant. Your client, Agriprofit, has asked your consulting firm to evaluate the wisdom of acquiring the company. Specifically, as the case study indicates, the plant requires a large employee base of unskilled workers and the previous owners had not been able to hire enough employees without resorting to hiring alien workers. Agriprocessor got into trouble after the workers requested jobs for their minor children to increase household income. Agriprofit has no intention of hiring minors to work in the plant or undocumented aliens but papers can be forged and sometimes, the company must look the other way to meet its production quotas. Given the federal government's inability to resolve the problem of illegal immigration and the Supreme Court's decision in Arizona vs. U.S., which limits a state's ability to pass legislation to resolve the issues inside of its own state borders due to the Supremacy Clause, companies that require unskilled workers have little legal guidance and a lot of criminal and civil exposure if the company's workforce violates immigration and employment laws and regulations. Illegal workers have a different perspective. Many are grateful for employment but pay the price of abusive working conditions. These workers cannot behave as organized labor, in the traditional sense, because they do not wish to be deported.

What would you advise the client to acquire the company or not and the reasons for your recommendations?

Question 8- Discuss the organization and functions of the primary motor cortex.

construct the trace table or trace table list for the function call CR (111) where the definition of CR () is
bool CR ( int n )
{
bool w,x,y,z,r;
int c;
c= 3*n;
c + = 16;
c=c%5;
w=c==4;

(a) Why do firms practice transfer pricing?

Explain how transfer pricing is affected when:

(b) There is a competitive external market for the intermediate product. (c) There is a non-competitive external market for the intermediate product.

define all these

Corporate culture -

Strong culture companies -

Weak culture companies -

High performance cultures -

Adaptive cultures -

Unhealthy cultures -

Change-resistant cultures -

Politicized cultures -

Insular, Inwardly focused cultures -

Unethical and Greed driven cultures -

Incompatible, Clashing subcultures -

Substantive culture changing actions -

Symbolic culture changing actions-

Management by walking around -

Leading the strategy execution process

Staying on top of process -

Mobilizing efforts -

Making adjustments -

Why corporate culture matters

Focuses effort and attention

Encourages doing the right things

Deepens employee commitment

define all these

Organizational structure -

Simple organizational structure -

Functional organizational structure -

Multidivisional organizational structure -

Matrix organizational structure -

International organizational structure -

Network structure -

Boundaryless organizational designs -

Barrier free organizations -

Modular organizations -

Virtual organizations -

Centralized decision making -

Decentralized decision making -

Informal organizational structure -

Building an organization for execution

Staffing the organization -

Managing resources and capabilities-

Structuring the organization -

Three approaches to building resources and capabilities

Developing capabilities internally -

Mergers and Acquisitions -

Collective partnerships -

Staffing the organization

Strong management team -

Recruit, train, retain -

Two signs of good strategy execution-

Please completely answer the below Biostatistic question.

Hurricanes Rita and Katrina caused flooding of large parts of New Orleans, leaving behind large amounts of new sediment. Before the hurricanes, the soils of New Oleans were known to have high concentrations of lead, a dangerous toxin capable of creating potential health hazard. Zaharan et al. (2010) were interested in the human health impacts of the flood and so measured lead concentrations of blood (in ug/dl) of children who lived in 46 different affected areas both before and after the floods. Complete the responses for the following R outputs.

R Output

data: lead$bloodLeadAfter and lead$bloodLeadBefore

t = -6.0538, df = 70.325, p-value = 6.212e-08

alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0

95% confidence interval: -2.563481 -1.293041

sample estimates: mean of x = 3.21087, mean of y = 5.13913

a.) Name the sampling unit and sample size

b.) Name the variable(s) and associated scale(s)

c.) Name the design (one-sample t-test, two-sample t-test, paired t-test)

d.) Is this an appropriate design, given the narrative above? Why or why not?

e.) Name the population parameter of interest, using specific descriptors from the narrative (hint: write what are we estimating in specific terms)

f.) Use the output to write the null hypothesis for the associated t-test (be sure to state it in terms of the population parameter of interest)

g.) Use the confidence interval from the output to write a statement about the set of plausible values for the parameter estimate, and to evaluate the plausibility of the null hypothesis.

h.) Use the null hypothesis to write a statement interpreting the p-value from the output. (Do not use more or less than 0.05.as reasoning)

The Cre8tor™ is in need of an office management software package. After considerable research, the company has narrowed its choice to one of three packages: N-able, VersaSuite, and SoftTrack. They have determined the decision-making criteria, assigned a weight to each criterion, and rated how well each alternative satisfies each criterion as follows

            Using a scoring model, determine the recommended software package for The Cre8tor™.

A beaker with 1.70×102 mL of an acetic acid buffer with a pH of 5.000 is sitting on a benchtop. The total molarity of acid and conjugate base in this buffer is 0.100 M. A student adds 5.70 mL of a 0.430 M HCl solution to the beaker. How much will the pH change? The pKa of acetic acid is 4.740.

QUESTION 16

1. How many of the following statements is true?
   1. Expensing costs that are capitalizable cause cash flow from operations to be lower and cash flows from investing activities to be higher.
   2. Expensing costs that are capitalizable cause interest coverage in the first year to be lower and interest coverage in subsequent years to be higher
   3. Expensing costs that are capitalizable cause the debt ratio and the debt-to-equity ratio to be lower.

1. Trace the history of a word (its etymology) like we did with calculate earlier in the chapter. Discuss how the meaning of the word (the symbol) has changed as it has gotten further from its original meaning. Two interesting words to trace are hazard and phony.

WHITE COLLAR CRIMES

Distinguish between the concepts of governmental crime, state crime, and political white collar crime and give an example of each.  

Why has governmental crime been relatively neglected by criminologists?

Plan production for a four-month period: February through May. For February and March, you should produce to exact demand forecast. For April and May, you should use overtime and inventory with a stable workforce; stable means that the number of workers needed for March will be held constant through May. However, government constraints put a maximum of 5,000 hours of overtime labor per month in April and May (zero overtime in February and March). If demand exceeds supply, then backorders occur. There are 100 workers on January 31. You are given the following demand forecast: February, 80,256; March, 70,400; April, 100,360; May, 40,360. Productivity is four units per worker hour, eight hours per day, 22 days per month. Assume zero inventory on February 1. Costs are hiring, $45 per new worker; layoff, $65 per worker laid off; inventory holding, $10 per unit-month; straight-time labor, $10 per hour; overtime, $15 per hour; backorder, $20 per unit.

Develop a production plan and calculate the total cost of this plan. Note: Assume any layoffs occur at beginning of next month. (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. Negative values should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your answers to the nearest whole number.)

Who is the Protagonist and who is the Antagonist in the following short story?

How does the story let you know that one character is the protagonist and that another character is acting as the antagonist?

What specific cues does the story provide for the reader to know the roles of the characters in the conflict, theme, and plot?

Why are the characters not easy to define as good and bad?

What cues does the author provide for the reader to decide individually about the meaning and moral of the story?

The King of Sharks: A Native American Myth from Hawaii retold by S. E. Schlosser One day, the King of Sharks saw a beautiful girl swimming near the shore. He immediately fell in love with the girl. Transforming himself into a handsome man, he dressed himself in the feathered cape of a chief and followed her to her village. The villagers were thrilled by the visit of a foreign chief. They made a great luau, with feasting and games. The King of Sharks won every game, and the girl was delighted when he asked to marry with her. The King of Sharks lived happily with his bride in a house near a waterfall. The King of Sharks, in his human form, would swim daily in the pool of water beneath the falls. Sometimes he would stay underneath the water so long that his bride would grow frightened. But the King of Sharks reassured her, telling her that he was making a place at the bottom of the pool for their son. Before the birth of the child, the King of Sharks returned to his people. He made his wife swear that she would always keep his feathered cape about the shoulders of their son. When the child was born, his mother saw a mark upon his back which looked like the mouth of a shark. It was then she realized who her husband had been. The child's name was Nanave. As he grew towards manhood, Nanave would swim daily in the pool beside the house. Sometimes, his mother would gaze into the pool and see a shark swimming beneath the water. Each morning, Nanave would stand beside the pool, the feathered cloak about his shoulders, and would ask the passing fishermen where they were going to fish that day. The fisherman always told the friendly youth where they intended to go. Then Nanave would dive into the pool and disappear for hours. The fishermen soon noticed that they were catching fewer and fewer fish. The people of their village were growing hungry. The chief of the village called the people to the temple. "There is a bad god among us," the chief told the people. "He prevents our fishermen from catching fish. I will use my magic to find him." The chief laid out a bed of leaves. He instructed all the men and boys to walk among the leaves. A human's feet would bruise the tender leaves, but the feet of a god would leave no mark. Nanave's mother was frightened. She knew her son was the child of a god, and he would be killed if the people discovered his identity. When it came turn for the youth to walk across the leaves, he ran fast, and slipped. A man caught at the feathered cape Nanave always wore to prevent him from being hurt. But the cape fell from the youth's shoulders, and all the people could see the shark's mouth upon his back. The people chased Nanave out of the village, but he slipped away from them and dived into the pool. The people threw big rocks into the pool, filling it up. They thought they had killed Nanave. But his mother remembered that the King of Sharks had made a place for her son at the bottom of the pool, a passage that led to the ocean. Nanave had taken the form of a shark and had swum out to join his father, the King of Sharks, in the sea. But since then, the fishermen have never told anyone where they go to fish, for fear the sharks will hear and chase the fish away.