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Learning Objectives Determine the tax implications of partnership formation Apply the operating rules for partnerships Understand the tax implications (to the partnership and its partners) of distributions to partners Understand the requirements for electing and maintaining S Corporation status Apply the operating rules for S Corporations Determine tax treatment of an S Corporation's shareholders

Learning Objectives Explain the rules for adopting and changing an accounting period Explain the differences among cash, accrual, and hybrid accounting Determine whether specific costs must be included in inventory

Learning Objectives Use the tax formula to compute an individual's taxable income Determine the amount allowable for the standard deduction Determine the amount and the correct number of personal and dependency deductions

Discrete-Time Systems A discrete-time system processes a given input sequence x[] to generates an output sequencey[n] with more desirable properties In most applications, the discrete-time system is a single-input, single-output system:

Chapter 7 Regulation of Gene Expression Regulation of Enzyme Activity Constitutive enzymes -Enzymes induced by specific circumstances Two major modes of regulation in the cell Control the activity of preexisting enzymes Control the amount of an enzyme

Dynamics The branch of physics involving the motion of an object and the relationship between that motion and other physics concepts Kinematics is a part of dynamics In kinematics, you are interested in the description of motion Not concerned with the cause of the motion

Discrete-Time Signals: Time-Domain Representation Signals are represented as sequences of numbers, called samples Sample value of a typical signal or sequence denoted as x[n] with n being an integer in the range-∞≤n≤∞ ·x[n] defined only for integer values of and undefined for non-integer values

Comb Filters The simple filters discussed so far are characterized either by single passband and/or a single stopband There are applications where filters with multiple passbands and stopbands are required The comb filter is an example of such filters Copyright 2001, S. K. Mitra

Globalization defined 1. The manifestations of globalization include the spatial reorganization of production, the interpenetration of industries across borders, the spread of financial markets, the diffusion of identical consumer goods to distant countries, massive transfers of population within the South as well as from the South and the East to the West, resultant conflicts between immigrant and established communities in formerly tight-knit neighborhoods, and an emerging worldwide