Howls’s Moving Castle is a 2004 Japanese anime‚ released by Walt Disney Productions in both the original language Japanese and in an English version. Written and produced by Hayao Miyazaki‚ staring Christian Bale‚ Jean Simmons and Josh Hutcherson. The movie. Is about a young girl named Sophie who is cursed and transformed into an old lady by the evil Witch of the Waste. Sophie runs away and seeks shelter in a moving castle that is home to a mysterious wizard named Howl‚ a little wizard in training
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Microeconomics Topic 6: “Be able to explain and calculate average and marginal cost to make production decisions.” Reference: Gregory Mankiw’s Principles of Microeconomics‚ 2nd edition‚ Chapter 13. Long-Run versus Short-Run In order to understand average cost and marginal cost‚ it is first necessary to understand the distinction between the “long run” and the “short run.” Short run: a period of time during which one or more of a firm’s inputs cannot be changed. Long run: a period of time during which
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activities other than driving. Young adults live in a connected world where multitasking is the norm. This manifests in the car where they recognize texting and driving is dangerous‚ but do it anyway. An article “Texting While Driving” states “The average text takes a driver’s eyes off the road for nearly five seconds. When traveling at 55mph‚ that’s enough‚ time to cover the length of a football field. The message being conveyed is that texting while driving isn’t multitasking‚ it’s essentially driving
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inventory holding cost rate is $3 per unit‚ and the cost to place an order is estimated tobe $50. Calculate the following:a) Average inventory level• EOQ sqrt(2DS)/H• sqrt(2*5200*50/3)= 416b) The number of orders placed per year• 5200/416= 12.5 per yearc) The total annual inventory holding cost• $3x416/2= 624 holding cost(Holding cost of annual inventory times the average inventory dived by 2)d) The total annual ordering cost• Cost to place order is $50 x 4= $200e) The total annual cost• $3 per unit
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INTRODUCTION: This session long project looks at the calculations used to determine the weighted average cost of capital (WACC). This SLP calculates the WACC for my SLP company – McDonalds‚ discusses how those calculations were arrived at and briefly describes WACC and what investors use it for. COMPANY NAME: McDonalds Inc Balance sheet date: 31 DEC 07 Market values date: 1 SEP 08 SOURCE
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average: What is it and where did it come from? Logan B. Bryant Dr. Ritchie – ABUS 478 University of South Carolina – Aiken Spring 2009 Dow Jones & Company (as it was called in the beginning) was founded in 1882 by Charles Henry Dow‚ Edward Davis Jones‚ and Charles Milford Bergstresser in a small basement office at 15 Wall Street in New York (dowjones.com). In May 1986‚ editor of the Wall Street Journal and founder of Dow Jones & Company‚ Charles Dow‚ first formulated
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Why has the value of cash increased over time? * Thomas W. Bates Arizona State University Thomas.Bates@asu.edu Ching-Hung (Henry) Chang Arizona State University Ching-Hung.Chang@asu.edu Jianxin (Daniel) Chi University of Nevada‚ Las Vegas Daniel.Chi@unlv.edu First Draft: January 2011 This Draft: December 2011 Abstract: The value of cash holdings by U.S. non-financial firms has increased significantly over the past three decades. An additional dollar of cash holdings is valued at $0.61 in
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on the yearly registration for a seminar at GIPS are shown in the following table: Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Registrations (000) 4 6 4 5 10 8 7 9 12 14 15 a) Develop a 3-year moving average to forecast registration from year 4 to year 12. b) Estimate demands again for years 4 to 12 with a weighted moving average in which registration in the most recent year are given a weight of 2 and registration in the other 2 years are given a weight of 1. c) Graph the original data and the two forecasts
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of the Dow Jones Industrial Average Not much had changed in the twelve years between Mr. Dow’s eleven stocks’ first appearance in the daily financial bulletin‚ Customer’s Afternoon Letter‚ and the twelve ‘smokestack’ companies that debuted on the Dow Jones Industrial Average on May 26‚ 1896. An interesting thing to notice is how nearly the entire list is populated by industrial stocks. This is a far cry from the commodity and retail rich list of today. Moving ahead roughly ten years‚ we find
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order chosen. A model which depends only on the previous outputs of the system is called an autoregressive model (AR)‚ while a model which depends only on the inputs to the system is called a moving average model (MA)‚ and of course a model based on both inputs and outputs is an autoregressive-moving-average model (ARMA). Note that by definition‚ the AR model has only poles while the MA model has only zeros. Several methods and algorithms exist for calculating the coefficients of the AR model‚ all
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