Consider the following quote based on the firm Rubbermaid. Rubbermaid has experienced major increases in the cost of resin (an important raw material...) and attempted to pass on these costs with large price increases to its customers. Wal-Mart was particularly angered by the large price increases... Wal-Mart refused to stock a number of Rubbermaid products and deleted Rubbermaid's products from its promotional materials... Instead, Wal-Mart featured Sterilite, one of Rubbermaid's prominent new competitors... When Rubbermaid passed on the huge price increases to its customers, the competitors had only small price increases, deciding instead to reduce their profits rather than pass on the full cost of the raw materials. The quote illustrates three of Porter's five forces. Which three

10. which of the following is true regarding preretirement inflation? a. defined-benefit plans provide more inflation protection than defined-contribution plans. b. because of preretirement inflation, possible investment-related growth is increased for defined-contribution plans. c. all types of benefits are designed to cope with preretirement inflation. d. preretirement inflation is generally reflected in the increase in an employee's compensation level over a working career.

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1

Before the tools that have come from computational psychiatry are ready to be used in everyday practice by psychiatrics, what is needed