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Hi,Can you help me to solve below quantitative comparison problem with an lanation? a= 5b^2-10b+7 A B a b Hoping to hearing from you soon. Regards Dinesh

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I got two admissions of PhD program. I want to know which one is better with respect to the training of program, especially placement. It seems that French students graduated from ESSEC could get placement in French business school, I don't know if a Chinese student could have a good placement in France. For HKU, most students go to China mainland. Don't know if it is possible to stay in HK or go to Europe after PhD. Thank you.

Hi All, I have received following admissions for Fall 2014: 1. University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) for MS/PhD in ECE department. No financial aid. I mailed the graduate department and got to know that I will be supposed to find fellowships and advisor in my first semester. Further, depending on circumstances, I can always change my admission from PhD to MS and vice versa. 2. Texas A&M University (TAMU) for MS. No financial aid. Can change to PhD depending on financial aid and advisor. My area of interest is (1) microelectronics and computer architecture and (2) Nano-electronics and fabrication. I am international student, so fee structure would be 47000$ per year for UCSB and 34000$ per year for TAMU. Please suggest me which university should I consider for above field of area considering financial situation, job opportunities and research potential given considerable "extra" amount that I will have to pay for UCSB. Waiting for your responses... any suggestions and replies would be really helpful. Thank You Additional Info: I have also been admitted from MichiganTech for PhD in same area without funding.

Hi everyone! I find it very difficult to choose between UCLA and Minnesota (ECON PhD); I wonder if you have any suggestions! Though Minnesota out-ranked UCLA in Macro, I am not sure about the situation in other fields (Metrics, IO, Trade, Micro Theory...). As people may change directions, I hope to get a more comprehensive overview. On the other hand, UCLA has a great FINA department. If I focus on macro-finance and asset pricing, will I be able to co-author with some FINA professors in UCLA? (In this sense I guess UCLA is superior). Also, UCLA has a larger department. So I am wondering if you would know something about the two departments, such as placement, research strength, performance in 5 years (any trend of declining or arising?), whether faculty members care about their students and etc. I really appreciate your advice! ******************************************************** some info about my research interest Currently I like asset pricing/markets, macro-finance, growth, and some metrics (but I may change my minds...) So UCLA has professors like Andrew Atkeson, Roger Farmer, and Pierre-Olivier Weill, and Ariel Burstein in international econ Minnesota has professors like José Víctor Ríos Rull, Fatih Guvenen and etc... Do you have more information/comments about the faulty in the two departments?

Hello, Could you please take a look at the following argument of mine. I will be much obliged if you state you opinion on it. If you're also preparing for the GRE and have some essays unchecked, feel free to provide a link to your essay, which I'll be glad to comment on in return. Argument: The following is a memorandum written by the director of personnel to the president of the Cedar Corporation. "It would be a mistake to rehire the Good-Taste Company to supply the food in our employee cafeteria next year. It is the second most expensive caterer in the city. In addition, its prices have risen in each of the last three years, and it refuses to provide meals for people on special diets. Just last month three employees complained to me that they no longer eat in the cafeteria because they find the experience 'unbearable.' Our company should instead hire Discount Foods. Discount is a family-owned local company and it offers a varied menu of fish and poultry. I recently tasted a sample lunch at one of the many companies that Discount serves and it was delicious — an indication that hiring Discount will lead to improved employee satisfaction." Analysis: The presented argument's general claim is that the Good-Taste Company is a bad food supplier and that next year it would be better to hire the Discount Foods as a food supplier for the network of cafeterias. The argument contains two groups of statements that should support both parts of this claim. However, these statements do not support the sub-claims well enough, which makes the overall argument inconclusive. First, the writer claims that the Good-Taste Company should not be rehired. The first statement in favor of this decision is that The Good-Taste Company is the second most expensive supplier in the city. However, it has not been said who occupies the first place; maybe it is the Discount Foods. Also, other supplier with low prices may be located in other cities or even abroad. In addition, the fact that for the last three years prices of the Good-Taste grew does not indicate that the final prices are unacceptable. It may be considered only by looking at the final prices. What is more, the growth in prices indicates the growth in demand. In other words, more and more people trust this company. Next, the fact that the Good-Taste refuses to provide food for special diets does not speak in favor or this company. However, it has not been said whether such food is in demand. If there are also a couple of "special" dieters among all cafeteria customers, then the lack of such food would not be such a big problem. Also, it was not indicated why the Good-Food refuses to provide the food for special diets. For instance, if they have such food in stock, but simply do not agree with prices offered by the cafeteria, then this problem may be easily resolved via negotiations. This would be beneficial in the case if the cafeteria has many special diet food consumers. Finally, the fact that for the last three months three employees did not like the food in cafeteria does not indicate that the food supplier is guilty. For instance, the food may be badly-prepared, or it may just have laid too long in the warehouse gotten tainted. In addition, if there were one thousand employees who liked the food for the last three months, then the opinions of the three unsatisfied employees do not have too much weight. Second, the writer proposes the suggestion that the Discount Foods should be hired for the next year. The fact that the Discount is family-owned does not make it any better than its competitors. Also, the fact that it is local make this choice more alluring, but locality of the Discount makes it better only in what concerns location and better only than the supplier located out of city. However, the Good-Taste is also located within the city, so they are equal with the Discount on that account. The fact that the menu of the Discount is rich of fish and poultry is important, however there is not a word of other elements of the Discount's menu, and there is no comparison of this menu and ones of Discount's competitors. It is possible that others provide more rich menus. Finally, the fact that the writer ate once in the place where the food is supplied by the Discount and liked it do not characterizes the Discount significantly. It is only an opinion of a single person, and the tasty food may be ascribed to the merit of cooks but not the food supplier. To conclude, the writer did not support well neither of two claims. Neither the Good-Taste is proven to be an unsatisfactory food supplier, nor the Discount Foods is proven to be the best food supplier for cafeterias for the next year. To strengthen the argument, the detailed comparison of various food supplier should be presented, comparing their prices, locations, menus, food quality, and so forth. ~ FIN ~ Thanks in advance. -- Victor