Article Writing

WRITE ONE PARAGRAPH ONLY!

Charts and graphs are used quite often in newspaper articles, magazines, books, and various online articles. There are pros and cons to using these types of visual representations. Describe one pro and one con for using a graph or chart. Share an example of a time when this type of visual changed your mind about something or gave you a deeper understanding of a topic or current event.

Biology

Download two disease-variants datasets that contains the gene name, varients ID, type of varients (Polymorphism, disease), disease name . 

Accounting

Jack and Jill were married on December 1, 2018. Jill and her two children of a previous marriage moved into Jack’s home. Jill’s children are 14 and 16 and have no income.

            Jack and Jill have the following income for tax purposes for 2018:

                                                            Prior to the Marriage             Subsequent to the Marriage

            Jack                                                    $33,000                                   $3,000

            Jill                                                           9,800                                        800

            You have been asked to:

(a)   Determine the optimum personal tax credits under section 118 for both Jack and Jill for 2018.

(b)  How would your answer change in 2019 if the income levels remain the same?

Economics

MBA 6400 Case Study #1 Short-term investment returns: money market instruments Part of your responsibilities as a junior financial analyst is researching and identifying potential shortterm liquid investment options for your firm.  These investment vehicles are at times used by the firm during periods when their cash inflows exceed projections.  The firm, at times, uses excess cash to purchase short-term debt instruments providing a low, but safe marginal return on invested capital. Your Director, who reports to the firm’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has come to you seeking your recommendation on short-term investment options for the upcoming year.  The Director has asked for recommendations and a report illustrating your optimal analysis for investing $2.5m of excess cash.   Current background info: We have a potential impending compound money market problem: The U.S. is issuing more debt, in part due to the recent tax cuts. Simultaneously, the Fed, China, Japan and to a lesser degree Russia have been reducing their holdings of U.S. Debt.  Therefore, if the U.S. Treasury Department can’t get entities to their positions holding U.S. debt, then the pressure to increase interest rates to make newly issued securities attractive increases. Increased interest rates at the Treasury means securities prices fall with cascading impacts. Therefore, the current interest rate environment is one where rates are expected to increase. Parameters for the research and analysis report are as follows: 1. Investments selections are primarily short term (one year or less), but will consider U.S. Treasury Bills of shorter duration as well as TIPS. 2. A minimum of 3 short term debt money market security types are to be recommended.  They may include Federal money market bills, U.S. Savings Bonds, CDs, U.S. Treasury Notes, Treasury Bills, and TIPS. a. Note: money market investments of the range of two to five years are acceptable. b. However, no more than 40% of the portfolio can be invested in a security of with duration of greater than 12 months. 3. A recommendation on the optimal allocation of $2.5 m across the investment portfolio is required. 4. Current (as of the date of this assignment) rates and investments are to be used. The analysis report to be presented to the Director is to include: 1. Your concise statement and recommendation of the specific short-term investment options that meets the firm’s criteria.Followed by:2. A detailed summary of the investment asset and the parameters you will use in which to base your recommendation. 3. A detailed description of the upside and downside risk of each investment.  The latter is of particular importance as the firm may decide to manage excess cash in one or more vehicles for longer than one year. 4. Source identifier for all investment selections

Business & Finance

Supplier Selection Approaches Bhutta and Huq’s 2002 article, “Supplier Selection Problem: A Comparison of the Total Cost of Ownership and Analytic Hierarchy Process Approaches,” in this unit’s study a

Supplier Selection Approaches

Bhutta and Huq’s 2002 article, “Supplier Selection Problem: A Comparison of the Total Cost of Ownership and Analytic Hierarchy Process Approaches,” in this unit’s study advances two approaches to supplier selection: TCO and AHP. Find and consider two examples of supplier selection in current business periodicals. For each example, what are the relative advantages of these two methods? Which approach would be most appropriate? 

History

1.   Discuss the social, political, and economic factors that shaped the 1980’s and the rise of 

the “New Right”. 

2.   The year 1968 has often been considered a watershed moment in U..S history as various 

events that year challenged the systems of power and domination in U.S. Discuss how 

the social movements, both pre-1968 and post-1968 exuded the maxim: “The system 

becomes the target” in the United States. 

3.   The years between 1929 and the 1980’s would prove to be transformative for the role 

the federal government played in U.S. society. Discuss the specific ways the federal 

government evolved and attempted to address various issues in the U.S. throughout 

these decades.  

Marketing

Marketing is more than advertising. It refers to delivering value and benefits by creating products and services that will meet the needs and wants of customers. Another important component of marketing involves delivering the products at a price the consumer is willing to pay and making the products available in places where they are willing and able to buy them. A marketing vehicle is a specific tool that is used to deliver an advertisement to an intended audience. 

For this week’s discussion, please respond to the following: 

  1. Identify the marketing vehicles you will use at your NAB Company. Describe each method of advertisement and explain why it is a good tool to reach your target market.

Literature

Write an APA-formatted essay of 1000 words comparing gender roles in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles with gender roles in the 21st century. The play can be found at the following site: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10623/10623-h/10623-h.htm#TRIFLES (Links to an external site.)

This essay should:

make specific and obvious points of comparison between the two topics

be 1000 words long

have an explicit thesis statement, with the main idea (the topic of the paper) and a controlling idea (what you, as the author, is saying about the topic)

include an integrated, direct quote from the text to support the thesis in each of the body paragraphs

be written using APA formatting guidelines

use APA guidelines for citation, both in-text and on a References page

write in 3rd-person only

be submitted as a MS Word .docx file

This essay must contain properly formatted APA citations and references. References used should be no older than 2012. One reference is the play. Other references can be those presented to you or others you may find. Online only dot gov, dot org, dot edu, and dot net websites are acceptable. Dot coms and Wikipedia are not acceptable.

Tips:

Thesis: The essay that follows contains (a)a discussion of gender roles in Glaspell’s Trifles, (b) discussion gender roles today, and (c) a comparison between the two.

Body paragraph: #1. The second paragraph should have the following: •A level one heading that corresponds to (a) in the thesis statement •A topic sentence •Supporting evidence •Analysis of the evidence •Transition to next paragraph

#2. The third paragraph should have the following: •A level one heading that corresponds to (b) in the thesis statement •A topic sentence •Supporting evidence •Analysis of the evidence •Transition to next paragraph

#3. The fourth paragraph should have the following: •A level one heading that corresponds to (c) in the thesis statement •A topic sentence •Supporting evidence •Analysis of the evidence •Transition to next paragraph

The conclusion should have a level one heading. The conclusion should contain a summary of the essay and should not introduce any new information. The essay must be written in 3rd person.

Engineering

questions from Python,

1.

Define a function is_prime that receives an integer argument and returns

true if the argument is a prime number and otherwise returns false. (An integer is prime if it is greater than 1 and cannot be divided evenly [with no remainder] other than by itself and one. For example, 15 is not prime because it can be divided by 3 or 5 with no remainder. 13 is prime because only 1 and 13 divide it with no remainder.) This function may be written with a for loop, a while loop or using recursion.

2. 

Assume the availability of a function is_prime. Assume a variable  n has been associated with positive integer. Write the statements needed to compute the sum of the first n prime numbers. The sum should be associated with the variable  total.

Note: is_prime takes an integer as a parameter and returns True if and only if that integer is prime.

3.

Assume there are two variables , k and m, each already associated with a positive integer value and further assume that k’s value is smaller than m’s. Write the code necessary to compute the number of perfect squares between k and m. (A perfect square is an integer like 9, 16, 25, 36 that is equal to the square of another integer (in this case 3*3, 4*4, 5*5,6*6 respectively).) Associate the number you compute with the variable  q. For example, if k and m had the values 10 and 40 respectively, you would assign 3 to q because between10 and 40 there are these perfect squares: 16, 25, and 36,.