Historically, it has been observed that computer processing speeds tend to double every two years. which of the following best describes how technology companies can use this observation for planning purposes?
a. technology companies can accurately predict the dates when new computing innovations will be available to use.
b. technology companies can plan to double the costs of new products each time advances in processing speed occur.
c. technology companies can set research and development goals based on anticipated processing speeds.
d. technology companies can spend less effort developing new processors because processing speed will always improve at the observed rate.

Knowing that the central portion of link bd has a uniform cross sectional area of 800 mm2 , determine the magnitude of the load p for which the normal stress in link bd is 50 mpa. (hint: link bd is a two-force member.) ans: p = 62.7 kn

Report all segments of identity by descent longer than 20 polymorphisms between pairs of individuals in the following cohort of 15 individuals across 49 polymorphisms: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 numeric input 2 points possible (graded) you have 2 attempts to complete the assignment below. for example if the sequence is "bcd", which occurs in "abcdef" , the starting point would be 2 (b), and the finishing point would be 4(d). individuals 7,10 between positions

The idea that, for each pair of devices v and w, there’s a strict dichotomy between being “in range” or “out of range” is a simplified abstraction. more accurately, there’s a power decay function f (·) that specifies, for a pair of devices at distance δ, the signal strength f(δ) that they’ll be able to achieve on their wireless connection. (we’ll assume that f (δ) decreases with increasing δ.) we might want to build this into our notion of back-up sets as follows: among the k devices in the back-up set of v, there should be at least one that can be reached with very high signal strength, at least one other that can be reached with moderately high signal strength, and so forth. more concretely, we have values p1 ≥ p2 ≥ . . ≥ pk, so that if the back-up set for v consists of devices at distances d1≤d2≤≤dk, thenweshouldhavef(dj)≥pj foreachj. give an algorithm that determines whether it is possible to choose a back-up set for each device subject to this more detailed condition, still requiring that no device should appear in the back-up set of more than b other devices. again, the algorithm should output the back-up sets themselves, provided they can be found.\