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Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper on legal and ethical issues concerning workplace drug testing while also addressing workplace drug prevention and education programs. Consider these issues:   ·         Types of drug tests, such as urinalysis and sweat tests, and the reliability of those methods ·         Types of drug testing programs, such as mandatory and […]

See attached ESSAY Look at the topics each week and do an internet search or UMUC database search to find websites that fit the definition.  It is an effort to see what resources students can find on their own.  If you find something that is useful, or has great maps, or images, include it in […]

*Python 3.2 should be used for this* Write a program that will allow a user to enter working hours and pay rates for employees: 1) The program should prompt the user for three elements of information for each employee: Last Name Pay Rate Hours Worked 2) The program should allow the user to enter as […]

Due DudUe at  Consider the following topic and write a short essay of about 300 words. Tell us about your position on the copyright issues discussed in the lecture on current issues. · How do you think they should or will be resolved in the future? · Do you think the copyright laws should remain […]

Chapter 17: Problems 1, 5, and 9(c) Week 10 – Check Your Understanding  Chapter 17 Exercise 1, 5, and 9(c) A firm has the opportunity to invest in a project having an initial outlay of $20 ,000.  Net cash inflows (before depreciation and taxes) are expected to be $5,000 per year for five years.  The […]

Chapter 16 Exercise 4, 6(a, c), and 9 4. What are the incentives to innovate for a monopoly firm as compared with a firm in a competitive market if patent protection is not available?  6. The industry demand function for bulk plastics is represented by the following equation: P = 800 – 20Q     where Q […]

Week 7 – Check Your Understanding: Chapter 13 Exercise 2, 13, and 15   2. Consider the following payoff matrix:                          Player B Strategy              1   2                       $1,000   – $2,000       […]

Week 6 – Check Your Understanding Chapter 11 Exercise 2(a, b), 4(a, c), and 6 2. Ajax Cleaning Products is a medium-sized firm operating in an industry dominated by one large firm – Tile king.  Ajax produces a multiheaded tunnel wall scrubber that is similar to a model produced by Tile King.  Ajax decides to […]

Week 5 – Check Your Understanding: Chapter 9 Exercise 3, 4, and 5 3.  A study of the costs of electricity generation for a sample of 56 British firms in 1946-1947 yielded the following long-run cost function: 16 AVC = 1.24 + .0033Q + .0000029Q2 – .00046QZ – .026Z + .00018Z2 Where AVC = average […]

Week 4 – Check Your Understanding:   Chapter 7 Exercise 1, 6, 8, and 9   1.             In the Deep Creek Mining Company example described in this chapter (Table 7.1), suppose again that labor is the variable input and capital is the fixed input.  Specifically, assume that the firm owns a piece of equipment having […]