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The PVC pipe becomes negatively charged, therefore the cloth becomes:

There are situations where activities do not get the same level of scrutiny if they seem to be small.  From the headlines: Situation 1. The indictment alleges that […], using her position […] would split contract requests from one contract into multiple, smaller contracts, in order to avoid threshold amounts that would trigger a formal, competitive bidding process.  […]  To meet the Department of Education requirement that such an informal bid have at least two competing vendor quotes for comparison, […] would obtain false and inflated quotes, by herself and from the other conspirators, designed to make the intended conspirator’s business the lower bid, and to guarantee the award of the contract.  Situation 2. […] also knew that its outside auditors only questioned additions to fixed asset accounts at any particular facility if the additions exceeded a certain dollar threshold. Thus, when artificially increasing [accounts] at a particular facility, HRC was careful not to exceed the threshold.   In Situation 1, a manager would split contracts into smaller units where the bids did not need the same level of scrutiny.  This allowed the manager to funnel the contracts to associates.  In Situation 2, a manager kept the artificial transactions below a dollar limit, because the auditors would not look at small transactions. Required: a. Which category of objective(s) is involved with Situation 1, Operations, Reporting, or Compliance? b. Which category of objective(s) is involved with Situation 2, Operations, Reporting, or Compliance? c. What can be done to prevent or detect frauds that are individually small, but add up?  I’m asking you for a bit of speculation on what organizations can do.  Incidentally, in both cases, the fraud came to light, but only after they had some effect.

17. (2 points) For the data set: Old Dies: 8000, 12500; New Dies: 7000, 8500, 5000 The above data is the number of cycles to failure of old die-cast automotive parts versus new die-cast parts. My hypothesis is that the new dies don’t last as long as the old dies (i.e.

A set of data contains n paired observations (Xi; Yi); i = 1 …  n. The Spearman correlation is 0.7. If all the Xi are multiplied by 10, what is the resulting Spearman correlation?

Consider the following data set: 2.2, 2.3, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.7, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9,  3.1, 3.2, and 3.5. The rank assigned to the three observations of value 2.7 is

Blood enters the right atrium via three veins:

Give the correct match of the Nonparametric procedures presented on the left with the corresponding experimental design from the list on the right (use each alternative only once).  

The distribution of the test statistic for ANOVA is the

One way ANOVA is applied to three independent samples having means 30, 33 and 38, respectively. If each observation in the third sample were decreased by 30, the value of the F-statistic would

The sinoatrial (SA) node is described as the heart’s pacemaker, and its characteristic rhythm, called sinus rhythm, determines heart rate. From the SA node, the depolarization wave spreads via gap junctions throughout the atria, and to the ________________________, located in the inferior portion of the interatrial septum, right above the tricuspid valve.