Task A: Complete Club Class:
Use the “Club” project in folder “SD1code/lab8” to complete the following exercises. (Instructions are as follows):
1. Within Club define a field for an ArrayList, which holds the current memberships. Use an appropriate import statement and think carefully about the
element type of the list. Don’t forget to instantiate the field in the constructor.
2. Membership of the club is represented by an instance of the Membership object. (You shouldn’t have to modify the existing membership class.) Complete the Join method in Club.
3. Write a main method, which adds two new members to the club and prints out the current size of the club.
Task B: Add methods to Club:
In this exercise, you have to ‘translate’ code documentation into code. First familiarize yourself with how to write documentation.
4.Add the joinedInMonth method to the Club class, which has the following description.
/**
* Determine the number of members who joined in a given month.
* @param month The month we are interested in.
* @ return the number of members who joined in that month.
*/
Public int joinedInMonth (int month)
5.Define a method in Club with the following description:
/**
* Remove from the club’s collection all members who
* who joined in the given month, and return them
* stored in a separate collection object.
* @param month The month of the membership.
* @param year The year of the membership.
* @return The members who joined in the given month
* and year.
*/
public ArrayList<Membership> purge (int month, int year)
As purge method is slightly more challenging than the other methods! Try using some of the other Iteration methods.
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This is an outline that I wrote as an “argument sketch” that my TA gave me a 19/20 for. His comments were: “your thesis is too general to be established with a page but you did have an interesting argument for it.
I suggest you should rephrase your thesis so that it is “defensible.”
We also do “journal entries” on readings that summarize what we’ve read so if you provide an e-mail or something I could send those along to you.
Thesis: It is equally logical to believe that God exists, as it is to believe that God does not exist.
I. Believing that God does not exist ? not believing that God does exist
A lack of positive belief is not the same thing as the presence of a negative belief. While it is perfectly fine to not believe either which way, I believe
it is hypocritical to assert that God does not exist, calling the believer’s argument invalid for lack of sufficient evidence, since there is not sufficient
evidence for God’s nonexistence either. Both beliefs (does exist/does not exist) are of equal logical grounds (and are valid).
II. There is no physical evidence that God does or does not exist
Beliefs that are based on false assumptions are still logically valid following the assumption. ( If P?Q and ¬P, the statement P?Q is still true.) Since there is no physical evidence for either argument, it is impossible to determine the truth value of P, and therefore both arguments are logically valid
following the initial assumptions they claim. I believe that, in fact, it is truly impossible to prove with 100% that any initial assumption is true. Even
physical evidence of widely accepted notions, for example, is detected through imperfect human sensory organs. “I see that the chair is blue?The chair is blue” is 1. Valid and is 2. The assumption that your eyes are trustworthy is impossible to verify. (the argument that you could refer to someone else, asking
“is the chair blue?” fails because no matter how many people you ask, how do you know that you can trust them, or that they can trust their own eyes? And
what does it really mean to be called blue, anyway?)
III. Metaphysical “evidence” is not invalid
Arguers against metaphysical evidence’s validity do not, I think, fully understand what it means to be called valid. Is any evidence provable with 100%
certainty to be true? In Mathematics, for example, proofs and deductions that bring about new knowledge are almost always based on Theorems or Axioms (but rarely “Laws”). Therefore, while all deductions from these theorems are logically valid, should the Theorem be proven false, the deductions are no longer applicable to the universe in which the theorem as been proven false but they are STILL logically valid deductions. If any belief can be accepted as properly basic, the support from which other arguments can draw, then surely any belief that an individual holds in this regard is valid to draw deductions from.
IV. Applicability ? logically valid
The problem with evidence drawn from the metaphysical realm is that it is very difficult to externally verify. If “The Theorem of Sight” claims that eyes are trustworthy, and you see something that you might not at first believe, it is quite simple to ask your neighbor, “Do you see the same thing?”
Now while this does not necessarily prove that you have seen correctly (because though it is unlikely it is possible that both your and your neighbor’s and anyone else’s eyes are faulty) it definitely does support the theorem and therefore follows that the valid deduction drawn from the sight is also applicable because P seems to be true (though NOT proven true). Beliefs based on metaphysical evidence are not as easy to develop a trust for in this way.
If “The Theorem of Revelatory Experience” yields some profound revelation or understanding (yields a belief in God, for example) and you doubt what you have experienced, it is not as easy to ask your neighbor “have you experienced the same thing?” Perhaps they have, in the past, had similar revelations, but an experience like this is very unique to an individual, very personal. And so, while can feel like very strong evidence, it is impossible to externally verify. Any deductions drawn from this experience, though are STILL VALID deductions, based on the premise that you can trust your revelatory experience.
However, it is difficult to prove this P; how do you know that you can trust this? No one else has experienced exactly the same, so how can you trust that what you’ve experienced is trust-worthy? The answer is you can’t. Therefore the applicability of this P?Q is unverifiable. You simply cannot tell whether P is true/can be trusted. This is where the idea of faith comes in. Faith is trusting in your premise without external validation, supposing it to be true. In my previous example, responses from other’s with regard to what image their eyes produce, yields confidence that what you’ve seen is correct, but it does not prove it correct.
In the same way, faith yields confidence in your premise (that you can trust a revelatory experience) without proving it definitely.
Therefore the deductions from both physical and metaphysical evidences are of the same logical validity, though one is easier to trust as applicable.
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Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation that describes the various scenarios and solutions to each of your team’s selected examples
generated in Weeks Two, Four, and Six. Include at least one math problem from each of the scenarios you created.
Present your project to the class.
For Online and Directed Study students, these are Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations with notes.
Format any citations in your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.
Ok, so this is a group project so you would only be doing between 3-4 slides for me on week 6, and I will be attaching all the required documents and
discussions we did on week 6. The summary I will send you at the end is the summary we sent to the professor once the weekly discussion was over. No one has added any references, but you can cite our class text book, Thomas’ Calculus 12th edition.
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Critically discuss the reasons why China has attracted such huge amounts of foreign direct investment (FDI) over the last 30 years. Carefully evaluate the
alternative investment patterns that are emerging to challenge this.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is when a company owns another company in a different country. FDI is different from when companies simply put their money into assets in another country—what economists call portfolio investment. With FDI, foreign companies are directly involved with day-to-day operations in the other country. This means they aren’t just bringing money with them, but also knowledge, skills and technology.
Please use diagrams and sources visible throughout.
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Correctional Systems Jail and Prisons Comparison Paper
Correctional Systems Jail and Prisons Comparison Paper
Complete the following in CJi Interactive on the student website:
Learning Modules
Ch. 11: Corrections History and Institutions & History of Prisons
Ch. 11: Corrections History and Institutions & Correctional System Myths & Issues Videos
Ch. 11: Corrections History and Institutions; Myth v. Reality: The Correctional System Rehabilitates Offenders
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper using the information found in the CJi Interactive Multimedia and this week’s readings. Include the following in your paper:
A description of jail’s place in corrections and its role throughout history
A summary of the history of state and federal prisons
A comparison of the similarities and differences between security levels in jails, state prisons, and federal prisons
An explanation of factors influencing growth in jails, state prisons, and federal prisons
Technological Change and Behavioral Economics Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:
You are the owner of a small bread factory and are thinking of lowering costs and expanding.
Technological Change and Behavioral Economics
Your small-business advisors suggested that you first review your operations and make some technological changes. Complete the following:
• Explain what a technological change is and how you can use it to lower your costs.
The next thing that your small business advisors asked you to do was to break down your costs and see what you can reduce.
• Develop a table that you believe shows the explicit fixed costs of the bread factory and the total amount of the costs.
• Describe your variable costs.
• Because you are not an expert yet on analyzing costs and optimal production levels, you decide to do a very simple analysis of your short-run fixed and
variable costs if you expand. You decide that your only fixed cost will be the ovens and the variable costs will be the workers.
Quantity of Workers Quantity of Ovens Quantity of Loaves of Bread Produced Cost of Ovens Cost of Workers Per Week
0 2 0 500 0
1 2 50 450
2 2 125
3 2 210
4 2 300
5 2 410
6 2 550
7 2 625
8 2 660
9 2 700
10 2 730
Technological Change and Behavioral Economics Instructions
1. Calculate the total cost and the average total cost, and add it to the table
2. Calculate the marginal product of labor, and add it to the table.
3. Calculate the average product of labor, and add it to the table.
4. Although there seems to be a great demand for your bread, why would productivity decline when you hire more labor in the short run?
5. What are your marginal costs?
6. At what point do your marginal costs and your total costs intersect?
7. Calculate your average total costs, your average fixed costs, and your average variable costs.
8. What happens to your average variable costs as your output goes up? Why is that?
9. How would expanding the business affect the economies of scale? When would you have constant return to scale and diseconomies of scale? Provide examples.
10. Where is the optimal level of production and the optimal level of prices in the short run?
Engineering Economic and the World Financial System In 2008, the world financial system was on the brink of failure and the US Government made a series of decisions to prevent world “meltdown” of the financial systems.
Engineering Economic and the World Financial System
The justification was “Too Big to Fail”. An HBO movie has come out called “Too Big to Fail”. In 2011 the movie “Margin Call” came out and it depicts another aspect of the financial crisis in the United States. I would like you to watch both films and do some research on the basis of these films.
After that, you need to write a 5 to 7-page paper that is typed, single space with 1-inch margins. The page count does not include a cover page or reference
page. In the paper you need to address the following items:
1. You need to provide a summary of what happened between August 2008 and October 2008.
2. Compare the two films and discuss which one portrays a more accurate representation of the real events. Please refer to research that you found on the
events to support this. You may find that both are accurate in a different area. That is ok.
3. Determine if legislation has been passed to overhaul the lending and banking system as a response to this crisis. Please provide an overview/ explanation of this legislation.
4. Pick three items that were part of the crisis and/or legislation and explain how it impacts, good or bad in your opinion, the profession of Industrial
Engineering.
5. Finally, what ethical implications were involved in this financial crisis?
National Law Journal and Economics Final Project Guidelines
The essence of this project is for you to choose a legal topic that is of interest to you and
demonstrate that you can apply economic analysis to the legal issues raised by the topic.
National Law Journal and Economics
One approach to identifying a topic is to skim the National Law Journal or legal sections of The
Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Enquirer, or
similar source for actual cases or other legal disputes that are in the news. Another approach is to
think of an application of a mechanism that we study in the course. It is best if you limit your
topic to the areas of property, contracts, torts, crime, or concepts of justice. You may not do
a project on antitrust law and economics.
You should list sources that you used for the project, but you do not have to use outside sources.
Some very good presentations have been based entirely on the students own ideas, without any
external references.
Most acceptable papers are in the rage of 8 to 12 pages. Shorter papers usually indicate a lack of
effort. Some papers have been 30-40 pages. That is unnecessarily long, but I do not impose a
limit.
Your project should include graphical models where appropriate. You should compose the project
as if you are addressing someone with the background of your classmates. The project is due on
the day that the University schedules the final exam for this course. The project is in place of a
final exam. There is no final exam.
The project requirements are intentionally flexible to permit you to choose an interesting topic
and present it in an interesting manor. My grading will accommodate different approaches to
satisfying the project requirement. Thoughtful application of economics to the law is the main
requirement.
Creativity is rewarded.
National Law Journal and Economics Possible paper topics
Your paper should have some connection to mechanisms as an approach to a legal issue.
You do not necessarily have to have a formal mathematical mechanism, but if you can adapt
an “off-the-shelf” mechanism from the text, that would be great. You should try to use the
framework including: 1) a social goal, 2) agent types representing private information or
heterogeneity, 3) an authority, 4) an information (or strategy) exchange, 5) a set of rules
that specify outcomes based on agent reports of information, types, and/or strategy, 6) an
equilibrium concept, and 7) some discussion of how well the equilibrium concept
implements the social goal. This may be done in words or with math. Demonstrating that
you understand the mechanism concept is an important part of the assignment. Take a look
at the catalogue of mechanisms included in the Sakai site for a summary of the mechanisms
we have studied. You should do something that goes beyond the applications in the text, i.e.,
don’t just summarize something done in class. Independent thought and creativity will be
rewarded.
The following focus on legal issues to which mechanism design can be applied:
1) Coase’s (or other authors) examples (other than the Farmer-rancher example) of
applications of the Coase “theorem.” You will need to check the original version of
the article(s). Try to add private information and discuss how it affects the example.
2) How could you use mechanism design to get people to reveal their subjective
valuation of their property in an eminent domain case.
3) How could you use mechanism design to get people to reveal their subjective
valuation of a business.
4) How could you use mechanism design to get people to reveal their subjective
valuation of a personal injury in a court case.
5) How could you use mechanism design to get people to reveal their subjective
valuation of marital property in a court case.
6) Model the prisoner dilemma with an uniformed prosecutor, who doesn’t know
whether the accused is guilty.
7) Develop a Bayesian model of expectation, reliance, and/or restitution damages for
breach of contract.
8) Design a partnership agreement where partners jointly produce products, but their
skill or effort levels are unobservable.
9) Apply my bilateral externality model from chapter 4 to a real-world nuisance case.
For example, Spur industries.
10) Compare the outcomes of Bayesian models with Rawlsian, utilitarian, wealth
maximizing, and/or Libertarian outcomes.
11) Show how the social goals of efficiency and compensation conflict in Tort, contract,
or property cases.
12) Design a mechanism for “forced pooling” in fracking cases: i.e., how do you
determine whether to pool different owners’ properties (sub surface rights) for sale
to a fracking company, how do you pay the owners for use of their property.
13) Design a mechanism for allocation of water rights that produces a priority system.
Another approach to determining a topic is to think of ways you could apply the following
mechanisms to a real-world problem not studied in class:
1) Vickrey, Clark, Groves (pivotal). 2) Uniform mechanism
3) Canonical Mechanism
4) dVGA mechanism
5) Walker (public goods) mechanism
6) Externality mechanism
7) Divide and Permute mechanism
8) Combinatorial auctions
9) Any other mechanism
Another approach is to take an actual real world mechanism and explain/evaluate it in terms of what you learned in class:
1) Pennnsylvainia’s ( or another state’s) Forced Pooling legistation for Fracking
2) Cap and Trade mechanisms
3) FCC Auctions (don’t just reiterate what is in the Chapter 6 reading)
4) State Health insurance exchanges (determination of costs and prices)
5) Homesteading
6) Ocean mineral rights
7) ITIA slot allocations
8) Medical resident matching
9) Mutual insurance
10) Assignment of spaces in public schools
11) Property division rules in divorces
12) Water rights mechanisms
13) Organ matching for transplantation
14) NASA (or other governmental) project bidding rules
15) Common pool resource allocation.
Summary of Mechanism learnt in the class
1. Introduction 1
The development of Law and Economics 2
What is wrong with the Coase “Theorem”? 5
The Mechanism Design Paradigm 7
Overview of the text 10
National Law Journal and Economics Summary 15
2. General Equilibrium and Welfare 1
The fundamental concepts 1
The two-person, two-commodity, pure-exchange Edgeworth box 7
Pareto efficiency and the welfare theorems 10
An economy with production 13
Market Failures 15
Public Goods 16
Externalities 17
Information Asymmetries 18
Increasing Returns and other non-convexities 19
Incomplete Markets 25
3. The Theory of Social Choice and Mechanisms 1
Social Choice 2
What’s wrong with majority voting? 3
Domain Restrictions 4
Social Choice Functions 5
Summary 6
Determining Social Objectives 7
Mechanisms 7
Implementation in Dominant strategy equilibria 9
Mechanism Design with dominant strategy equilibria 10
Implementation in Nash equilibria 18
Sequential Rationality and Subgame Perfect Implementation 22
Implementation in Bayesian Equilibria 26
Applied Mechanism Design 32
Graph Theory 32
The linear programing approach to mechanism design 34
Allocation Networks 40
Allocation rules and social welfare functions 44
Linear programing formulation of VCG mechanisms 45
VCG Mechanisms and Combinatorial Auctions
VCG mechanisms, combinatorial auctions, and core allocations
Bayesian Incentive Compatibility
Lecture topics
Water rights (F)
FCC auctions (S)
Eminent domain
Intellectual property (D)
Mortgage markets (D)
Contract breach and remedies (F)
Contract bidding and risk sharing (D)
Commercial impracticability v bankruptcy (F)
Impossibility (F)
Unconscionability (D)
Products liability (F)
Negligence v strict liability (F)
Burdens of proof (S)
Takeover law (F) Executive compensation (S)
Airport slot constraints v congestion fees (D)
Divorce proceedings (D)
Mutual insurance agencies (
Differentiating Between Market Structures Write a 1,050 ? 1,400-word market analysis in which you address the following:
You are going to have login to the student website to complete the assignment.
Differentiating Between Market Structures
Based on the details available to you in the strategic plan, marketing overview, market surveys, and other material, how does the organization compete in the
marketplace? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the firm as indicated by the marketing surveys completed by their customers?
Based on your learning, identify the market structure that you believe best applies to this organization. Defend your answer. How does that market structure
positively and negatively affect the firm? How does the effectiveness of the competitive strategies in the market structure affect the organization?s long-
term profitability?
What competitive strategies would you recommend for Kudler Fine Foods? Explain your answer. Identify real-world organizations that are comparable with Kudler
Fine Foods.
Job Interview in Business Questions please put these questions in the interview
Job Interview in Business Questions
1-how did you get started in this job?
2-what a typical day like from the moment you came to leave ?
3- whats something that you normally do?
4-what do you like most?
5-what do you like least?
6-what is the inter salary?
7-what is the advancement opportunities?
8-what some of the competitors of this industry?
9-do you have any advice to someone like me? There are many steps you can take to make sure your interview goes smoothly. One of the easiest ways to get ready for your next job interview is to familiarize yourself with the questions that are frequently asked in interviews and to practice your answers.
