Compare and contrast weak sustainability and strong sustainability. discuss how a policymaker might decide which sustainability concept to use

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

Copan italia is a distributor of laboratory products and manufacturer of laboratory commodities, including transfer pipettes and flexible hematology cups used on a variety of automatic instruments to count blood corpuscle elements. copan's says that the company's business is to continually work to improve the quality of the collection and preservation of the microbiological sample in the "pre-analytical phase," as the demand for better protection of the specimen is growing day by day.

Business applications of information systems are typically combinations of several types of information systems. this integration is referred to as systems. information reporting decision support cross-functional informational end user computing