Walmart Supply Chain Controversy August 29‚ 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana coast and Wal-Mart was one of the main sources of aid of this disaster. Their efforts included personally helping their associates with the disaster relief‚ setting up and re-opening he affected stores as soon as possible‚ and even worked hand in hand with government relief agencies. Their trucks were the first to arrive with emergency relief supplies. This was a great act that helped Wal-Mart in the short and long
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DOI: 4/1/2004. The patient is a 70 -year-old male operator who sustained a work-related injury to his right knee‚ shoulder and head when he fell off a bike at the refinery. As per medical report dated 6/6/16‚ the patient continues to take one tablet of Xanax 0.5 mg at nighttime. He notes that he gets anxieties during the day and nighttime. He continues to be forgetful and he reports trouble understating some information. He uses continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) unit regularly at night
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Chosen situation iii): Annik is a 12 year old girl with autism who is severely visually impaired. You are teaching Annik to brush her hair. How might you prompt this and how might you fade the prompts? I am assuming Annik from the above situation hasn’t had any experience in brushing her hair and that she is right handed. Prompting is used to increase the probability of individual’s chances of doing certain behaviour at the appropriate time and in the right situation. The several methods of
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Year 12 results forced the I Guccermes management to seriously take the notice of company performance that is not doing well. After a long discussion among I Guccermes company co-managers‚ I concluded that we should reevaluate the company strategy and offer higher quality products and lower the price a little bit. I believe this strategy can lead to the increase of market shares. In order to achieve maximum profit and top position in footwear market‚ I think we also need considered about the private
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On the subject of discount rate‚ AT&T uses a discount rate of 5.00% as of December 31‚ 2013. It is the rate used in order to estimate the targeted benefit obligations that must be paid among “participants.” The discount rate used by AT&T is based on some aspects‚ such as a “yield curve” of rates of return of high quality corporate bonds. In fact‚ as of December 31‚ 2013 the discount rate of 5.00% has actually been applied with a .70% increase. This resulted to a decrease on the pension plan benefit
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Nike Nike was founded in 1964 by Philip Knight and Bill Bowerman. They started to design shoes that were lighter‚ better padded‚ and featured waffle like patterns in their rubber sole. At first not much commercial success. After that they started importing low cost‚ high quality running shoes out of Asian countries. A deal was made with Onitsuka to import these hoes to the US‚ there were sold under the brand name ‘Blue Ribbon Shoes’ (BRS). Their initial shipment were only 200 shoes. By 1964 BRS
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1. False. In order for a firm to maximize profits‚ marginal revenue must equal marginal cost. The statement is true if it were specifically being applied to long-run equilibrium under perfect competition. If it is not being applied to that specific instance then the statement is false as profit maximization takes place when marginal revenue equals marginal cost. 2. The Miami plant should continue to operate because it only loses $60‚000 per month compared to possibility of losing $68‚000 (its
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Gannett did a fabulous market research and discovered the crevice‚ which existed in the US market of daily papers and news conveyance. The critical effects was that the business class news plus the hard news was conveyed yet the news which related to the different other occurrence was not dealt with. The clients likewise needed a news where there will be games and different areas identified with lifestyle. They required news which might be well composed in a minimized arrangement however educational
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72. Facts: Recently Latrell purchased a free roundtrip ticket to Milan‚ Italy with a value of $1‚200. The ticket was purchases with Latrell’s frequent flyer miles generated from business travels as a CPA. Those previous business trips were paid by Latrell’s employer and he was not taxed on the travel reimbursement. Issue: How much income‚ if any‚ does Latrell have to recognize as a result of purchasing an airline ticket with frequent flyer miles earned from business travel? Authorities:
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Arnold‚ our 48-year-old Hispanic male patient‚ has shown some improvement in his fasting blood glucose (FBG) level and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) level with metformin monotherapy. However‚ we would like to see his FBG at less than 110 mg/dl and his HbA1c at less than 7%. Due to this patient’s desire to only take a single medication and his refusal to alter his lifestyle‚ we have decided to start Arnold on Xigduo XR (dapagliflozin/metformin) 10mg/2000mg once daily‚ taken in the morning with food. It
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