Problem set 3 (Answer) 7.6. A farmer uses three inputs to produce vegetables: land‚ capital‚ and labor. The production function for the farm exhibits diminishing marginal rate of technical substitution. a) In the short run the amount of land is fixed. Suppose the prices of capital and labor both increase by 5 percent. What happens to the cost-minimizing quantities of labor and capital for a given output level? Remember that there are three inputs‚ one of which is fixed. b) Suppose only the cost
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Conflict occurs when two or more people who‚ despite their first attempts at agreement‚ do not yet have an agreement or a course of action‚ usually because their values‚ perspectives and opinions are contradictory in nature. The credit and accounting departments are interdependent and share a common goal in the company but conflict arose because of the increase in sales caused the credit and accounting offices to become busier and this has caused conflict between Linda Sims‚ the accounting department
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Ethics can be defined as a “set of moral principles and beliefs that govern a person’s behaviour or the conducting of an activity” with its main principle of doing ‘good’ and preventing harm (Oxford Dictionaries: 2011). However Orb et al (2002:93) states that Ethical issues can best be described or expressed as the “tension between the aims of research to make generalizations for the good of others‚ and the rights of participants to maintain privacy.” Ethical issues and moral dilemmas are seen to
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Q1 Describe how you might contribute to a lesson given to a group of seven year-old children learning to play percussion instruments? The role of a teaching assistant is to maximise learning‚ create a safe and positive learning environment and to minimise behaviour problems. I would contribute to the lesson by trying to achieve this goal in the following way: o Making sure there is suitable‚ safe space for all the equipment to be set up in. o I would check to make sure that all the working
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Supporting the school 1. Explain the legal responsibilities of the school relating to the duty of care and the welfare of the child. All adults working with children or young people have a legal responsibility to protect them; these responsibilities are outlined in child protection laws. As outlined in the children’s act 1989 the welfare of the child is paramount‚ this act gives guidelines for schools‚ local authorities and courts which they must adhere to in order to protect children. Within
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Learning Science Through Forensics Activities Activity #5: Creating a Field Guide to Blood Spatter‚ Part I Objectives: Students will learn about the physical properties of water. Students will apply the basic concepts of experimental design. Students will further develop their graphing skills. Students will develop a tool for use in a follow-up activity. Time: 60-80 minutes Introduction: With the blood spatter activities (Part I alone or Part I and II in combination)
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Stakeholder analysis Stakeholders are defined in many ways. Traditionally in UNICEF guidance‚ stakeholders are defined as "people or groups that have an interest in a program or activity and/or are likely to be affected by it." Stakeholder analysis as a strategic tool often casts wider‚ including all the actors who can influence or be influenced by the achievement of a given goal or undertaking. These include the winners (those who have something to gain by achieving a goal) and the losers (those
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Multiple Sclerosis. Journal Of Behavioral Medicine‚ 28(1)‚ 35-41. doi:10.1007/s10865-005-2561-0 Instructions: In the library‚ conduct a search in Academic Search Premiere and Psych Articles at the same time (to do this‚ above the search box‚ check both when “Selecting Databases”_ IN ADVANCE SEARCH OPTIONS‚ BE SURE THAT THE FULL TEXT AND SCHOLARLY (PEER REVIEWED) JOURNALS ARE BOTH CHECKED FOR EACH SEARCH YOU DO. ANSWER TO #2 HO CHEUNG WILLIAM‚ L.‚ & LOPEZ‚ V. (2005). DO TRAIT ANXIETY AND AGE PREDICT
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Coping: How People Deal with Stress? Whether caused by schoolwork‚ traffic‚ or the job‚ stress is an inevitable phenomenon that is seen daily in the human life. Stress is not always bad. In small doses‚ stress is a good thing. It can energize and motivate a person to deal with challenges. But prolonged or excessive stress is “a negative emotional state occurring in response to events that are perceived as taxing or exceeding a person’s resource or ability to cope (Hockenbury & Hockenbury‚ 2001)
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CYPOP 7: 1.2: Explain current theoretical approaches to creativity and creative learning in early childhood. There are many theoretical approaches to creativity and creative learning these are nature verses nurture this could mean that people are born with it or they learn it from life or other people. Some people believe that children will learn from watching other people this is called role modelling. Many may believe that creativity is a progress‚ this means that creativity will follow a
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