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Functions of political parties - -1. recruiting candidates for public office 2. organizing and running elections 3. Presenting alternative policies to the electorate 4. Accepting responsibility for operating the government 5. acting as the organized opposition to the party in power. From the 1790s until roughly the 1970s, parties relied on party m

acetyl CoA - -Is formed when pyruvate first enters into the mitochondria via active transport. -aerobic respiration - -Respiration that requires oxygen -anaerobic - -Process that does not require oxygen -anaerobic cellular respiration - -the process by which cells obtain energy from an energy source without using oxygen -ATP synthase - -Large p

Where is the DOM set? - -Italy, 1504-1510. -Why was DOM set in Italy? - --Italy had a wide appeal to English writers in the Jacobean period due to what it represented. It enabled writers to comment on English courts/society without directly alluding to it. -It holds a historical lens to the (then) contemporary court of James I. It was set years e

T/F: HCI was adopted in the mid-1980's to denote a new field of study concerned with studying and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of cellphone use. - -False -T/F: Today, HCI is a multi-disciplinary subject with computer science, psychology, and cognitive sciences at its core (Dix et al., 2004). - -True -T/F: HCI became one of the domai

Cash Forecasting - -the treasury staffs need to compile this information from all subsidiaries into short-range and long-range cash forecasts. These forecasts are needed for investment purposes, so the treasury staffs can plan to use investment vehicles that are of the correct duration to match secluded cash flows. -Working Capital Management - -i

Environmental economics - -application of the principles of economics to the study of how scarce environmental resources are allocated by individuals and society. -Failure and successes of incentive based policies - -Tough mexican clean air act and Corporate average fuel economy charge per trash bag -postitive economics - -describes what is -no

sourcing - -all of firm's activities used to manage external resources -strategic sourcing - -managing the firm's external resources to support firm's long term goals -Drivers of Strategic Sourcing - -Reduce costs and delivery cycle times Improve quality and long-term financial performance Increased number of global competitors Increased custome

Pre-incorporation contract - -A written agreement concluded on behalf of a company before its formation with the intention that the company will be bound by it -Ring-fenced company - -A company that has an express limitation on its capacity -A share - -One of the units into which the propriety interest in a profit company is divided -Ultra vires

cash purchase of office supplies - -increase one asset and decrease another asset --owner withdrew cash from the business - -decrease an asset and decrease equity --paid cash on accounts payable - -decrease asset and decrease liability --made a cash sale for services - -increase an asset and increase equity --borrowed money from the bank - -inc

A computer program that is installed on the hard drive of a personal computer and that requires a computer operating system such as Microsoft Windows or Apple OSX to run. - -Desktop app -A sequence of folders (directories) that leads to a specific file or folder. - -Path -An operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation. - -Windows 10 -A c

external scale economies - -when the average cost of the typical firm declines as the output of the industry within a geographic area increases -internal scale economies - -firm specific, caused internally -product differentiation - -the process of distinguishing a product or service from others, to make it more attractive to a particular target

Economic Liberalism - -approach that generally shares the assumption of anarchy but does not see this condition as precluding extensive. Cooperation to realize common gains from economic exchanges. Emphasizes absolute over relative gains and in practice, a commitment to free trade, free capital flows and an open world economy -Free Trade - -the fl

when one part to a transaction knows more than another, the situation is one of - -asymmetric information -when people or firms that are worse than average risks are most likely to enter a contract that is offered to everyone, the problem is called - -adverse selection -a bank offers credit cards with a 25% interest rate, when its competitors' ca

Assets are things that are useful or things that have value. T or F. - -True -One of the most important prices determined in financial markets is the __________________ rate. - -interest -When a coffee shop lists a tall coffee on its menu at $2.95, the coffee shop is using money as a - -unit of account -Mandy goes to the grocery store to buy gro

Gold Standard - -A monetary system in which paper money and coins are equal to the value of a certain amount of gold -dirty float - -A system under which a country's currency is nominally allowed to float freely against other currencies, but in which the government will intervene, buying and selling currency, if it believes that the currency has d

Foraging Ecology - -(Ruminants, kangaroo). Consumers eating the resources and the the predators eating the consumers. -Foregut fermenter - -Pre-gastric fermentation. First fermentation of the carbohydrates. Then enzymatic digestion (break down of proteins). Can not eat very fibrous food , digestive constrain. -Hindgut fermenter - -(Horse, zebra,

What is the problem with using barter for transactions? What is the advantage of using money for transactions instead of barter? - -• Requires a double coincidence of wants • Money simplifies and increases the number of market transactions • Money promotes economic growth -What are the functions of money? - -• It must... 1. Act as a medium of exch

What are the two types of analysis tools? - -Exploratory and confirmatory. Exploratory helps develop a model. Confirmatory confirms a theory. -What are exploratory analysis tools? - -1st generation tools include Cluster analysis, EFA, and Multi dimensional scaling. 2nd generation tools include PLS-SEM, which is non-parametric and OLS estimation.

When should the type of data analysis for the project be determined? - -pre planning. Before you start -What is it called when you assign labels to data that can be read & understood by a computer (e.g., 1=yes, 2=no)? - -Coding the data -What is it called when you need to deal with missing data, and when you check to see if the values are valid &

Bootstrapping - -An approach to validating a multivariate model by drawing a large number of sub- samples and estimating models for each subsample. Estimates from all the subsamples are then com- bined, providing not only the "best" estimated coefficients (e.g., means of each estimated coefficient across all the subsample models), but their expecte