University of California‚ Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics ARE 100B Dr. Larson Winter 2010 Problem Set 3 Answers 1. Intel is a monopolist manufacturing computer chips with a competitive fringe of firms that act as price takers of the price Intel sets. The market willingness to pay for the P80 chip is given by= 400 − Q‚ with p in dollars p F per chip and Q in thousands of chips per month. The fringe marginal cost curve is MC= 40 + .5Q F (with Q F and MC F also
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Silent Spring Why do we not care about exterminating a whole society of insects‚ but we start riots and revolts over the killing of animals like elephants‚ dolphins‚ whales‚ rhinos‚ and other nearly extinct animals? We have reasons to kill these animals just like the insects‚ the slaughter of these animals temporarily benefits us‚ but what people do think about is what will happen if we eliminate every single insect of a certain species. Rachel Carson is an incredibly brave individual
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some people think that an animal would choose any differently? Animal rights and welfare usually are put into the same category or on the same side of an argument‚ but they do have a difference in the fact of the rights of humans using animals. According to Abigail Geer‚ an easy way to define the difference between these two ideas is that “animal rights advocates are campaigning for no cages‚ while animal welfarists are campaigning for bigger cages” ("Animal Welfare and Animal Rights"). There are very
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over 10 billion animals each in the United State alone. Factory farmed livestock account for over 99% of all the meat consumed by Americans even though they are raised in these despicable conditions. Many animals raised on factory farms live in abhorrent conditions where they are unable to turn around in their own cages‚ live in their own feces‚ and never even see the light of day.. Peter Singer dives into the idea that all animals are equal in a selection taken out of his book Animal Liberation‚ found
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Jan Levi O. Pangilinan Mr. Jestoni Basco BSIS – IIIB BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) 1. What is BOIS? The term BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) was invented by Gary Kildall and first appeared in the CP/M operating system in 1975‚ describing the machine-specific part of CP/M loaded during boot time that interfaces directly with the hardware (a CP/M machine usually has only a simple boot loader in its ROM). Later versions of CP/M (as well as Concurrent CP/M‚ Concurrent
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Increasing number of animals and plants are dying out‚ but little has been done to prevent. This problem has given rise to great public concern now. In this essay‚ I’ll analyse some possible causes of this phenomenon and then propose some solutions. Firstly‚ some people think it is waste of resource to prevent animals and plants. They suggest that the money should be better spent on human population. They want take more space and totally ignore the animals’ and the plants’. Secondly‚ human being
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Social and Economic Implications of diseases in Plants and Animals Plants (Social) There are many social implications of disease in plants. Some of which are: Loss of Productivity and reduced consumption: The diseases that affect the plants make them unable to function properly‚ which affects their growth processes. They are dangerous to use and this will negatively affect the consumers of these plants. If these disease-infected plants are consumed‚ they will harm the organisms. It may even
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take part in high energy sports (football) and animals are able to hunt‚ so lipids act as energy storage. His can also be good because it can provide insulation. Increased body fat levels in winter reduce heat losses to the environment; this is good for wild animals. Also lipids are a source of metabolic water. During respiration stored lipids are metabolised for energy‚ producing water and carbon dioxide‚ so it acts as a buoyancy for aquatic animals. Phospholipids which are a class of lipids form
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Estimated Number of Animal and Plant Species on Earth Believe it or not‚ there are about 950‚000 species of insects No one knows for sure how many species of animals exist on Earth. In fact‚ some 10‚000 species of animals are discovered each year‚ with over one and a half million species already described. Projections for the total number of species on Earth range from 2 million to 50 million. Animal group Number of species Vertebrates Amphibians 6‚199 Birds 9‚956 Fish 30‚000 Mammals
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The BIOS computer user in uses in computer’s process‚ can contact BIOS‚ it is playing the very vital role in the computer system. A motherboard high performance or not‚ is decided to a great extent on motherboard’s BIOS management function to be whether advanced. BIOS (Basic Input/Output System‚ basic input-output system) the full title is ROM-BIOS‚ is the non-erasable storage basic input/output system’s simple form‚ it is actually a group is solidified to the computer‚ provides the most preliminary
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