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1. Mario Echazabal worked for Chevron, through independent contractors, for over twenty-four years. When he applied to work directly for Chevron in 1992, they withdrew the offer after discovering the liver disease being exacerbated by working in the plant. However, they continued to allow him to work in the plant through the independent contractor for another four years. When Chevron offered Mr. Echazabal a job for the second time in 1995, they once again discovered the liver disease,…

Out of the three sets of expert testimony admissibility standards: The Frye Standard, Rule 702, and the Daubert Standard, the last standard is the best option for Florida. Three main reasons why the Daubert Standard is the better option is: 1) It increases the reliability of evidence by examining factors such as error rate, alternative explanations, and peer reviews 2) It has more checks and balances than the Frye Standard’s criteria of just general acceptance. 3) It is more likely to filter out…

1. How do the various types of scores differ regarding the information they provide? Scores provide feedback to teachers and students and reflect how a student is learning, meeting objectives, and achievement level. Raw scores are actual scores calculated by the sum of total correct answers or percentage and provide criterion-referenced information about a student’s performance. Number correct scores add up the number of items a student answered correcting and interpret the instructional…

Created in 1890, the Sherman Antitrust Act was the first legislation allowing the government to enforce regulations on trusts that interfered with free trade and market competition. Named after U.S. Senator John Sherman of Ohio, the act allowed government to establish proceedings against trusts in order to disassemble these organizations. Trusts had created many problems in the free market such as establishing monopolies over certain industries. This lead to extremely high prices and low supply…

Climate Change Many debate whether global warming and climate change is really an issue. It should not even be up for debate. Here are some facts about global climate change, according to the Tenth Edition Environmental Science; by Daniel D. Chiras: There are thousands of temperature sensors distributed over land and sea all across the surface of the Earth. Readings from these sensors show that there has been a steady increase in the average global temperature since the 1880’s. Glaciers in…

of his competition and expanded into new and profitable markets. By this time, in 1882, Rockefeller established what was known as the Standard Oil Trust which established itself to coordinate all oil exploration, production, and distribution activities throughout the nation. In reality the trust was a giant conglomerate of many small corporations. Having Standard Oil well established, by the 1890s, Rockefeller’s empire controlled almost 90% of all oil that was produced in America. His ventures…

Another numerical question is µ1>µ2. µ1 is defined as the sample mean of Hispanic workers salaries and µ2 defined as the sample mean of Caucasian workers salaries. The Hispanic sample population is six workers from the “Wages and Wage Earners Data Set.” Learning Team B needs to consider whether or not the population is normal as the population size is less than 30. This also prohibits use of the Central Limit Theorem until the data set is proven normal. The wage of one worker being much…

Gold margins are standardized because of adornment+ investment factor. However, quest for greater margins is driving diversification from gold jewellery products. Demand for gold jewellery remains very strong because of cultural traditions, Gold jewellery sales - for weddings, in particular - will continue to generate volume growth for jewellery retailers. Platinum and diamond jewellery sales will generate margin growth. The shift to more profitable diamond jewellery has been smooth because…

earlier include foreign direct investments, agriculture and industry. The graph provided below is a summary statistic of the three variables in thirty two countries that were randomly chosen. In the table provided, you will see the average, median, standard deviation, maximum, and minimum of the given set of data. All information provided below was taken from World Bank 2007 database and calculations were calculated using the SPSS software: Descriptive Statistics N Range Minimum Maximum Mean…

form a comprehensive policy that gives each individual country reasonable standards which to abide by. So the question remains, to what extent will countries in the coming years cooperate to slow global warming? While there has been meager cooperation among European nations, the sustained world cooperation that is necessary is absent. The…