COLLAPSE- Chapter 2 Jared Diamond discusses the Rapanui population of Easter Island in a systematic review of evidence for their decline by examining fives factors: environmental damage‚ climate change‚ foreign relations‚ change in trading patterns‚ and responses/adaptability of inhabitants to change. Diamond explores the natural climatic conditions conducive to Easter Island’s dramatic deforestation‚ among them a very high latitude‚ minimal precipitation‚ low volcanic ash fallout‚ no makatea
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Definition of Economics The social science concerned with the efficient use of limited or scarce resources to achieve maximum satisfaction of human materials wants. Human wants are unlimited‚ but the means to satisfy the wants are limited. The Economic Perspective Scarcity and choice Resources can only be used for one purpose at a time. Scarcity requires that choices be made. The cost of any good‚ service‚ or activity is the value of what must be given up to obtain it.(opportunity cost)
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Chapter One Notes: Marketing profitable customer relationships – Creating and Capturing Customer Value Marketing: Managing profitable customer relationships and to Create value for customers and capture value from customers in return. Example) Zappo’s- customer experience comes first. Two Fold Goal: Attract new customers by promising superior value and Keep and grow current customers by delivering satisfaction. Five Step Model of the Marketing Process: Page 5 Build value from customers to create
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Chapter 2 Declaration of Independence July 4‚ 1776 2 central themes All men are created equal Gov’t must be based on the govern (citizens) Continental Congress 1st was on May 1776 Had each colony make their own constitution Popular sovereignty was referenced a lot Belief that the gov’t exists to benefit the govern Citizens have the right to change/overthrow the gov’t Created a Republic form of gov’t Representative Citizens elect people to represent them 2nd Established our first
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FUSION CENTERS Cecilia Pina 05/16/12 compSc 100: Mon & Wed 4pm-5:50pm “A fusion center is an effective and efficient mechanism to exchange information and intelligence‚ maximize resources‚ streamline operations‚ and improve the ability to fight crime and terrorism by merging data from variety of sources.”(1) Let us break this down‚ fusion is the act of fusing or combining and center is a point or place in which
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What Does the Future Hold for India-Latin America Relations? By Jorge Heine‚ Margaret Myers‚ Jahangir Aziz Latin America Advisor‚ July 24‚ 2012 Originally published in the Dialogue’s daily Latin America Advisor Q: India plans to host the first India-CELAC Foreign Ministers’ Dialogue on Aug. 7 in New Delhi‚ the Press Trust of India reported. While India’s economic engagement with the region has been far overshadowed by China’s‚ bilateral trade has grown from $2 billion in 2000 to more than $25
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operations into cost or profit centers. It is a management and strategic decision for companies to decide which divisions should be cost centers and which ones should be profit centers. . A cost center may actually provide services that could generate a profit if they were offered on the open market. But in most corporate environments‚ cost centers are not expected to generate a profit and operation costs are treated as overhead. Departments that are typically cost centers include information technology
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(voltage)? b. negative 2. What does it mean that the voltage just inside the membrane is negative? b. There are more negative charges than positive charges just inside the membrane. 3. The membrane of most cells‚ including neurons‚ contains passive‚ open‚ K+ leak channels. Given the normal K+ concentrations and the resultant concentration gradient‚ which direction would K+ be expected to move (diffuse) through these leak channels? b. out of the cell 4. What effect does increasing extracellular K+
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Organizational Behavior – Chapter 17‚ Notes institutionalization A condition that occurs when an organization takes ona life of its own‚ apart from any of its members‚ and acquires immortality. When an organization becomes institutionalized‚ it takes on a life of its own‚ apart from its founders or any of its members. When an organization becomes institutionalized‚ it becomes valued for itself‚ not merely for the goods or services it produces. It acquires immortality. If its original goals
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Chapter 11 of To Kill a Mockingbird Vocab: 1. umbrage: (noun) pg. 136 offense or annoyance 2. propensities (noun) pg. 144 inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way Quotes: 1. “I wanted you to see what real courage is‚ instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. Courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what” (149). ** This quote is said by Atticus to Jem. It shows how wise
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