. Kyle believed that his employer Billing RUs is violating state and federal law by not reporting income properly. He registered an anonymous complaint with the IRS who promptly initiated an audit. Following the conclusion of the audit, about six months after his complaint, Kyle is terminated by Billing RUs allegedly for performance issues. While his employer never questioned him about the complaint, Kyle believes that his termination decision was retaliatory for his complaint to the IRS. Assess Kyle ‘s claims and the potential defenses. 2. Karen and Greg are good friends at the law firm where they work. Greg works as an associate for Karen, a partner. After some time, they develop a relationship at work. Although they try to keep it secret, the existence of the relationship is pretty evident to coworkers due to the fact that they come to work together and leave at the same time. Plus, unbeknownst to Karen and Greg, their blackberry texts are regularly monitored by head partner, including pictures sent to each other. If you were in HR for the law firm and asked to advise what, if anything, to do about Karen and Greg, what would you advise? What, if any, are the problems posed by Karen and Greg’s relationship? 3. Doug works at an auto repair shop. The auto mechanics regularly use foul language, and many of them regularly call Doug, a mechanic, “gay” or a “faggot.” Doug is offended by this behavior and reports it to Bob, the supervisor. Bob says that there is nothing that he can do about it. Does Doug have a claim under federal law? Explain why or why not.

How finance companies are distinguishable from savings institutions and credit unions?

Two major risks faced by finance companies based on their uses and sources of funds

A)When 4.52 g of a nonelectrolyte solute is dissolved in water to make 795 mL of solution at 25 °C, the solution exerts an osmotic pressure of 871 torr. Find the concentration, moles of solute and mass of solute.

B)A solution is made by dissolving 0.683 mol of nonelectrolyte solute in 809 g of benzene. Calculate the freezing point, Tf, and boiling point, Tb, of the solution.

C)Assuming 100% dissociation, calculate the freezing point and boiling point of 1.12 m AgNO3(aq).

D)For each solute, identify the better solvent: water or carbon tetrachloride: Br2, CaCl2, C6H6, CH3OH

Compare and contrast Client/Server to Peer-to-Peer networks and which one you would consider to be best for a specific circumstance or context within a metropolitan area and why. Provide at least 3 examples.

Explain and provide examples for 5 ways RFIDs can be utilized in a Smart City. How does this differ from NFC technology? What are at least 3 advantages and disadvantages of NFC; explain reasoning with examples.

Planning/writing reports and proposals-

A large manufacturing company's directors want you to find out why there is a considerable drop in the production units in the previous financial quarter. What will do to find out the cause of the problem and recommend a solution to the problem.

C++ Pie bakery

our bakery makes 8 kinds of pie, and receives orders for these pies from on-line buyers. The program you’ll write for this lab knows the price of each pie, so as each new order is received, it’s possible to know how much money the bakery should be receiving.

The program must read in lines of input which have two fields: a pie type and a quantity. With this, the program needs to update the quantity of that type of pie, adding the new order to those already received. You already have code that you’ve written for previous labs that uses getline() and splits the line read in into two separate parts: you get to re-use that here, since you have the same work to do – breaking an input string into two substrings, the first is the name of a kind of pie string and the second is the quantity int.

The program you are writing would be part of a larger system used by the bakery to track and schedule its baking. That’s good for you because it means that the input your program reads is guaranteed not to have bogus order numbers or pie types. A sample input line looks like:

raspberry 10

When the program reaches the end of input it prints out, for each type of pie, the quantity ordered and the total price of that number of those pies. After that it prints out the grand total of all orders (total number of pies, total price).

One problem you face is mapping pie types as strings (how you read them in) to the int index of the array element holding the struct for that pie type. For example, you might read in ”apple” and need to figure out that it’s in array element 3. You must use a function to handle this.

To make life a bit easier, you should initialize an array of struct with these pie types and prices:

peach lemon pumpkin blueberry apple raspberry strawberry cherry

$3.75 $4.50 $5.75 $4.25 $3.70 $6.35 $5.65 $5.20

Of course, you’ll need more than just these two fields in your struct.
A sample run with 100 individual pie orders might produce output like this.

Orders for peach:
Orders for lemon:
Orders for pumpkin:
Orders for blueberry:
Orders for apple:
Orders for raspberry:
Orders for strawberry:
Orders for cherry:

115 value is $ 431.25 128 value is $ 576.00 75 value is $ 431.25 75 value is $ 318.75 71 value is $ 262.70 89 value is $ 565.15 122 value is $ 689.30 53 value is $ 275.60

Grand total: 728 pies for $3550.00

You can test your program with data you type in, or on a test data file you create.

1. Answer the following questions about the article below:

What is the importance of Roman civilization, from the point of view of Ricardo Vera Tornell? Explain (8 points).

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Readings on the importance of Rome

Importance of Roman History

By: Ricardo Vera Tornell

Of all those empires that existed in the ancient world, it is, without a doubt, the Roman, that has played a more transcendent role in history. To this end, that there is no European country that in some way more or less direct, cannot be regarded as a descendant of that great state and in whose institutions they do not endure, to a greater or lesser degree the traces of the right and the uses which they deprived in the old Ro Ma. And if to civilization and to the culture we make reference, it is well in sight the influence which, in all orders continues to exert the knowledge of the antiquity, of which Rome was depository.

And it is that Rome, of dark and rude origins, in conquering and assimilating the opulent countries that surrounded him, not only appropriated his immense material wealth, but also acquired the invaluable loot of the culture and art that those peoples possessed, and the Taking them to their own soil was then imposing it, in its laws and administration, in how many countries it subjected to its empire.

Rome became the owner of the world known at the time, which allowed him to put all peoples under a single domination and a single regime. This circumstance had to have a capitalísima importance in the course of civilization, because in propagating Christianity in the metropolis civilization of the world, it was necessarily to facilitate its penetration in all the peoples subjected to its dominion, Provides them a new spirituality.

It can be said that Rome ends all ancient history and begins... – The Middle Ages that lead us to the... – Modern. And, although he was not a creator of knowledge, nor of art, he knew so well to assimilate them, that through it he achieved its expansion and even the barbarous peoples who plundered it and managed to ruin its power, settling in the Roman solar itself, they had to be civilized later , drinking in the sources of Latin culture.

Extracted from: Universal History of Civilization, p. 288.

The importance of Roman civilization
By: Vicente reynal

The influence of Roman culture and civilization, even beyond the Western world, has been decisive and comprehensive. For centuries (of the II BC to the V after Christ) Rome was the capital of the empire that emerged in this city and was propagated to all of Italy and to the rest of the countries bathed by the Mediterranean Sea, as well as to others, where it was imposing its government , its laws, its customs, religion, language and art. This forced or voluntary imposition of the culture of Rome on other peoples is known as Romanization.

Then dismembered the empire in the 5th century A.D., the influx of Rome lasted through the language, Latin, and its legislation. Later, of Latin or Roman, Romance languages will emerge: Spanish, Italian, French, Galician, Portuguese, Catalan, Valencian, Romanian and, even today, to signify the continuation and perpetuity of this legacy we call as Latin peoples to those in which, Especially through the language, this influence survives.

You’re a plant manager for a large company that manufactures food products, including yogurt, cereal, and granola bars (among others). Within this company, there are several factories spread across the United States and each produces one or two types of these products. You oversee many employees, but one, in particular, has caught your eye as a star performer. You decide you’d like to discuss her future with the company.

Explain how you would have this developmental conversation with the employees. What main areas should you cover? For each area, what should you be ready to discuss and what should the employee be ready to discuss?

1. a) Explain Einstein’s theories of special relativity and general relativity.

b) Include at least one piece of evidence in support of each theory.

python and mathematical solution

Assume that you design a new affine cipher, where you encrypt three letters at a time, where your alphabet is

{'A':0, 'B':1, 'C':2, 'D':3, 'E':4, 'F':5, 'G':6, 'H':7, 'I':8, 'J':9, 'K':10, 'L':11, 'M':12, 'N':13, 'O':14, 'P':15, 'Q':16, 'R':17, 'S':18, 'T':19, 'U':20, 'V':21, 'W':22, 'X':23, 'Y':24, 'Z':25,     ' ':26, '.':27, ',': 28, '!': 29, '?':30}.

In other words, you group your plaintext message in trigrams (i.e., three-character words) and encrypt each trigram of the plaintext separately using this affine cipher. For example, if the first three letters of a plaintext is “THE” then it will be encoded as follows

THE -> 19×31×31 + 7×31 + 4 = 18480.

If the number of letters in the plaintext is not a multiple of three, you pad it with the letter “X” at the end. Determine the modulus and the size of the key space.

A developer that specializes in compact urban amusement parks has formulated the following list of activities necessary to release a contract for the preparation of a new site. Times are given in weeks.

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Activity           Description                                                     Predecessors         (weeks)            

A                     Preliminary architectural design                               _                      14

B                     Community impact hearings                                      A                     2

C                     Line up potential financiers                                       A                     12

D                     Permit application                                                      A                       5  

E                      Negotiate com’ity impact details                             B                      6

F                      Final Design                                                                  B                      8

G                     Loan approval                                                             C, F                   3

H                     Permit hearings                                                          D                       2

I                       Permit granting                                                          H                       8

J                      Negotiate contract                                                      G, I                    6

K                     Release contract                                                         E, J                      3

Which activities are on the critical path

MURPHY WAREHOUSE COMPANY: Sustainable Logistics Richard Murphy Jr., the CEO of Murphy Warehouse Company, has spent a great deal of time analyzing sustainable ways to conserve resources, reduce costs, improve the well-being of his employees, and promote his company as an environmentally responsible logistics provider. Murphy also realizes that the benefits of sustainable projects must be weighed against the costs and payback periods of these investments. . • Richard Murphy Jr. is the CEO of Murphy Warehouse Company, a family-run company that began over 100 years ago. • He has responsibility to maintain the financial viability of the company that is now in its fourth generation of family ownership. • One of his biggest challenges is to understand how the company should adapt to a changing business environment while conserving the company’s financial resources and protecting the core business model that has sustained it for so long. • One major force in the current business environment is the sustainability movement, which focuses on the responsible use of natural resources. • Richard Murphy, you are trying to find the opportunities to adopt sustainable practices that also make financial sense to Murphy Warehouse Company. • He has successfully implemented several sustainable projects in his company • He is now faced with deciding to invest over a half million dollars in a stormwater project that presents an unusually long payback period. It is a complicated decision that involves high expense, multiple tangible and intangible variables, and a fair amount of risk that something might go wrong. What do you do? • One of Murphy’s biggest challenges is to understand how the company should adapt to a changing business environment, while conserving the company’s financial resources and protecting the core business model that has sustained it for so long. • A major force in the current business environment is sustainable (green) practices, which focuses on the responsible use of natural resources. • The case depicts Richard Murphy trying to find new opportunities to adopt sustainable practices that also make financial sense to MWC. One of the main goals of the case is to move away from the mindset that green practices are primarily for businesses who are willing to sacrifice sound financial decision making models to pursue ethical and moral imperatives to “do the right thing” for society and the environment. The case strives to show how sustainable practices can be part of running a business that can tout its environmental achievements while maximizing long-term profits. The case provides financial details on the conversion of lawn to prairie so you need to calculate a payback period that shows this project made financial sense 2 The lawn to prairie conversion also introduces several intangible and less quantifiable important benefits, including the reduction in the urban heat island effect, the attractive natural buffers between MWC and adjacent properties, and the attraction of wildlife to the area. Murphy has also gained a great deal of positive publicity for his prairie conversion project by sharing his experience at professional society meetings, local universities, and print media publications. Other projects at MWC that are described in the case provide further evidence that sustainable investments and profitability can go hand in hand. • The purchase of dock blankets • Upgrade in the lighting systems • Painting the ceilings white These are examples where green initiatives and disciplined financial decision making can be complementary. The decision point of the case-when Murphy is evaluating the feasibility of the stormwater project You need to evaluate the pros and cons of the stormwater project, considering both tangible and intangible factors. The payback period should be calculated, using the numbers provided in the case. Your team needs to discuss whether the significantly longer payback period can be justified (compared to traditional business practice and to previous projects at MWC). You need to show that sustainability is part of the “continuous improvement” management philosophy. You can see that the case demonstrates this by mentioning Richard Murphy’s explorations of new energy technologies in solar, wind, and geothermal. He seeks partnerships with local utilities and researches government incentive programs that enhance the financial returns for businesses that adopt green practices. Making sustainability part of on-going company culture and management practice is promoted by the USGBC, LEED, and ISO 14000 organizations, as described in the case. The case also mentions several times that sustainability practice is a necessary part of being a player in the competitive marketplace in terms of attracting clients and building positive public relations.

Can you please Recommend what steps should the CEO take?

Considering the topic of police-involved shootings (justified or unjustified), police misconduct and the social justice movement, compare and contrast the use of force, excessive force, and excessive use of force.

Explain the importance of the force factor and the use of force continuum.

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BIOCHEMISTRY: Independent mutations in 4 different gene types are required for the cell to become cancerous. Assume that a hypothetical intestinal stem cell divides every 4 days. The general DNA replication error is 10^-8 per nucleotide per replication, average gene length is 8000 nucleotides, and the person average lifespan is 70 years. If we assume that mutations in both alleles of 4 specific genes are required for the cell to become cancerous, what is an average random chance for that intestinal stem cell to acquire these specific mutations during its lifetime? After calculating this number, think how it compares to the lifetime chances of a person getting cancer, and why these numbers do not seem to match (remember that human body has 10^13 cells).