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    Chapter 2 Review

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    1. When determining the appropriate hardware components of new information system‚ what role must the user of the system play? 2. Identify two basic characteristic of RAM and ROM? - RAM is temporary and volatile‚ it lose its content (data) is turned off or disrupted. - ROM is nonvolatile and not lost its contests if the power is removed. 3. What is RFID technology? How does it work? - A technology that employs a microchip with an antenna to broadcast its unique identifier and location receivers

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    Week 2 Assignment Pages 180-182 1.) Pick a product good or service that you are interested in consuming sometime in the near future. Analyze the offerings of two competing firms. How do the products compare on various dimensions of quality? From these differences‚ what can you infer about each company’s strategy and the customers that they seem to be targeting? A good that I will be purchasing sometime soon is a new vehicle. My husband and I are looking at either a Chevy Silverado‚ or a Ford

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    Solution of Chapter 2

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    PHI Chapter 2

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    the university exists in the same way that libraries‚ museums‚ and laboratories do. Similarly‚ dualists make a category mistake in assuming that minds exist the same way as the body. Minds‚ like universities‚ are simply complex patterns of behavior. 2. According to logical behaviorism‚ what is it to be in a mental state? Mental states are behavioral dispositions. 3. What is the verifiability theory of meaning? The doctrine that the meaning of a statement is its method of verification. 4. According

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    Chapter 2 Homework

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    1 What changes when an ion is formed from an atom? A. Neutrons are lost or gained. B. Protons are lost or gained. C. The nucleus disintegrates. D. Electrons are lost or gained. E. Either protons or electrons are lost or gained. 2 When comparing a 10.00 g sample of iron with a 10.00 g sample of lead: A. each sample has the same number of atoms. B. there are more iron atoms than lead atoms. C. there are more lead atoms than iron atoms. D. it is not possible to tell which sample contains

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    Chapter 2 Nutrient

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    in the United States only. the Dietary Reference Intakes are to be used on food labels. the Daily Values are a better way of determining nutrient goals of individuals. the Dietary Reference Intakes do not account for age or gender.  Question 2 1 out of 1 points When referring to the DRI recommended intakes‚ it is important to remember that: Selected Answer: they are based on the latest available scientific research. Answers: they are designed to help an individual recover from an

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    The book Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt challenges conventional wisdom to find a hidden side of everything. The book takes some of America’s most controversial topics such as‚ cheating‚ the Ku Klux Klan‚ drugs and Roe vs. Wade and challenges common knowledge by asking provocative questions. Did you know that if you give a school teachers a large enough incentive‚ then they will cheat to win? At first when Dubner and Levitt proposed this question I did not believe them. I would

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    A criminological theory known as the broken window theory is something that interests me a lot. I first learned of this theory through my required school reading of “Freakonomics” by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner. The theory was being used to support the argument that the broken windows theory was responsible for New York’s 1990’s crime drop. The theory is believed to be responsible for the crime drop because of William Bratton‚ the New York City police commissioner. William Bratton used the

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    Sociology Chapter 2

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    Culture – the way of life of a people. Shared & human-created strategies for adapting & responding to one’s surroundings (people & creatures) Can be as vast as US culture or smaller like a family or school Blueprint that guides & determines behavior Cultures are learned at birth & passed down from generation to generation. Material culture –natural & human-created objects which people have assigned a name to & attached a meaning. iPods‚ cars‚ clothing‚ tattoos‚ trees‚ diamonds offers clues

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    Ethics - Chapter 2

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    Q1. What are the ethical and legal issues? A1. The ethical issue is that Kent has made a game that has both a lot of violence and nudity in it. He knows that the game would be marketing sex‚ violence‚ and gambling; and he knows that all three are bad to be imbedded into a teenagers mind. When he talks to Brad about these at first he does not understand why Kent has changed his mind about this game that will make the company lots of money. Then some legal issues come into play when Brad decided

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