Residual Income Midlands Design Ltd. Of Manchester, England, is a company specializing in providing design services to residential developers. Last year the company had net operating income of £400,000 on sales of £2,000,000. The company’s average operating assets for the year were £2,200,000 and its minimum required rate of return was 16%. (The currency in the United Kingdom is the pound, denoted by £) Required: Compute the company’s residual income for the year.

In the past few years, there have been several studies on psychopathic personalities. Psychopathology has always been considered a psychological theory of crime. With these new studies (where they have tested the firing neurons in the brain), there is now a controversy over whether a psychopath would fall under the category of a psychological or biological theory.

For example, one study showed incarcerated psychopaths a series of slides that showed not only photos of happy families and pleasant landscapes but also photos of gruesome crime scenes. It was noted that in what was deemed the normal population, the neurons fired in several sections of the brain when the pleasant photos were shown and in a different section when the gruesome photos were shown. In the psychopathic population, all neurons fired in the same area of the brain.

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

• Do you think psychopaths are more likely to exhibit violent criminal behavior? Why or why not?
  • What factors could increase the likelihood that a psychopathic individual will engage in criminal behavior? Explain.
  • What factors do you think could reduce the likelihood that a psychopathic individual will engage in criminal behavior? Explain.
• Do you believe that the person who is deemed a psychopath would fall under a psychological theory or a biological theory? Why or why not? Explain your rationale.
• Should this make a difference in the incarceration of this person? Why or why not? Explain.

• Criminology Today

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  Frank Schmalleger, Ph.D.

  Distinguished Professor Emeritus, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke

  
  
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Price Elasticity

You are the administrator for a medical practice. Assume all of your practice’s patients are covered by insurance. Insurance pays, on average, 80% of your fee for a physician visit for which your practice charge is $100. The patient is responsible for the $100 fee but receives 80% back from the insurer. Currently, your practice’s volume for this service is 1,500 per year. Answer the following question in regard to this assumption:

• Estimate what would happen to the volume of services and the expected revenue to the practice, should the area’s health insurers increase patient cost sharing from 20% to 30% of this charge. Use the concept of price elasticity to make the projection.

For your calculations, use the following as the price elasticities for physician visits:

• –0.35, for patients in good or excellent health, and
•  â€“0.16, for patients in fair or poor health (taken from Wedig’s, 1988).

After a quick survey, you decide that 65% of the practice’s patients are in at least good health and account for 1,000 of the 1,500 visits. The remaining patients are in fair or poor health. In light of this survey, write out all the steps of the calculation.
Write answers separately for patients in each category of health status—excellent, good, fair, and poor—for all patients. Please cite any references used.

Reference:

Wedig, G. J. (1988). Health status and the demand for health: Results on price
           elasticities. Journal of Health Economics, 7(2), 151–163. Retrieved from
           http://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/jhecon/v7y1988i2p151-163.html

 

Write a 350- to 700-word essay comparing Continental, Pragmatic, and Analytic philosophies. Include the following:

 

•Examples of the three schools.

 

•A definition and description of each school of thought.

 

•A comparison between all three schools.

 

•At least one example from each that adequately describes the school’s position on a topic of your choice.

 

 

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