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If a potential Latin American customer insists on giving you a tour of the architectural highlights of his city prior to discussing business, it’s a clue that you are doing business in a high-context culture.

Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer products company, at one time had 30 different package designs and 48 different formulations for its Rexona deodorant brand. This is an example of:

When foreign currencies can be traded for more dollars, U.S. products and companies are more expensive for the foreign customer and exports decrease.

The United States has more lawyers than any other country in the world and is arguably the most litigious nation on earth. This is a reflection of:

A common cause of respiratory alkalosis is:

Table 1: Location quotients for the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metropolitan Statistical Area (the Boston MSA) from the BLS.   Table 2: Location quotients for the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ (the Phoenix MSA) Metropolitan Statistical Area from the BLS.      The questions in this section are about the BLS data for the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (Boston MSA) and the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ (Phoenix MSA) Metropolitan Statistical Areas location quotients, presented in Tables 1 and 2. Use the employment location quotient to answer the questions (as you have done in Homework Assignment 4). This data has not been sorted by the Location Quotient as in your Homework Assignment 4. Choose one option to indicate the best answer.   1. [2 points] Determine the specialization of the Boston and Phoenix MSAs relative to the U.S. in Retail trade and Health care and social assistance: Both the Boston and Phoenix MSAs do not specialize in Retail trade and Health care and social assistance. The Boston MSA specializes in Retail trade, and the Phoenix MSA – in Health care and social assistance. The Boston MSA specializes in Health care and social assistance, and the Phoenix MSA – in Retail trade. Both the Boston and Phoenix MSAs specialize in Retail trade and Health care and social assistance. The Boston MSA specializes in both sectors, but not the Phoenix MSA.   2. [2 points] The industry in Table 2 for which the Phoenix MSA has the proportion of the employment that is the most similar to the share of employment for the US is Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting. Accommodation and food services. Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction. Finance and insurance. None of the above.   3. [2 points] What is the industry in which the Boston MSA has the highest specialization relative to the Phoenix MSA? Information. Arts, entertainment, and recreation. Educational services. Finance and insurance. Wholesale trade.   4. [2 points] If a construction company expects to enjoy significant benefits from agglomeration economies, which MSA, out of these two, should the firm choose based on the employment location quotient alone? The Boston MSA. The Phoenix MSA. Both MSAs will bring significant agglomeration economies. None of MSAs will bring significant agglomeration economies.      

The major source of arsenic in humans is:

A plasma specimen from a hospital patient is analyzed on an osmometer and reported as 400 mOsm/Kg. What is the most likely effect on this patient’s water distribution in the tissues?

An electrolyte panel was performed on a patient in the emergency room. The following values were reported: Sodium: 150 mEq/L Potassium: 5 mEq/L Chloride: 110 mEq/L Bicarbonate: 30 mEq/L The anion gap (without using K) for this patient is:

The following glucose tolerance test results are indicative of what state? Glucose values as assayed by glucose oxidase method are fasting, 130 mg/dL; 60 minutes, 225 mg/dL; and 120 minutes, 205 mg/dL.