incumbents; and we apply the resulting insights to evaluate the verdicts that were reached in a set of landmark antitrust court cases in the US. Bain (1956) defined an entry barrier as anything that allows incumbent firms to earn above-normal profits without the threat of entry. To defend his contention that large scale economies are an entry barrier‚ Bain argued that if incumbents act in concert and potential entrants expect incumbents to maintain their pre-entry output levels after entry has occurred
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ZH AN G H aotian Room 617‚ Pinyuan Apartm ent N o.1‚ Renm in University of China Beijing (+86)15201150100 Fringejacky@126.com Sep. 3‚ 2012 Bain & Com pany Greater China 31F‚ 2 Plaza 66 No. 1366 Nanjing West Road Jing’an District Shanghai 200040 China Tel.: +86 21 2211 5588 Dear Mr. / Ms. I’m a junior three from Renm in University of China‚ and I’m d esirable for your intern position of PTA by virtue of not only Bain’s charism a‚ but also m y creed to be one of you‚ the problem solvers. Unlike other
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I believe that stress is important‚ because I am a stressor myself. But there is much more to stress than I originally thought. Stress can actually kill you! It made me stop and think. In fact‚ stress is linked to the main causes of death in the world: heart disease‚ cancer‚ lung ailments‚ accidents‚ liver cirrhosis‚ and suicide. Stress is much more than I bargained for! In fact‚ there are many areas of stress that I found‚ but I tried to stick with the ones that affected me most‚ which means the
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To what extent do cognitive and biological factors interact in emotion? Example exam approach: In this answer I will discuss the interaction of cognitive and biological factors with reference to three theories. Psychologists have long debated the role physiological‚ cognitive and behavioural factors play in emotions. Originally believed to be a physiological experience‚ research now suggests that emotions are an interaction of both physiological and cognitive factors. Different theories debate
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your views and social levels‚ to truly look through situations as if you were someone else (Bain‚ 66). He feels so strongly about this to say that if you do not branch out you may not ever genuinely breach your mental wall. Bain goes even deeper when proclaiming students‚ and people in general‚ need to realize their failures and mistakes in order to learn from them and see things from other perspectives (Bain‚ 68 & 69). Approaching my own mental barrier was an easy one for me. Education had set me
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controlling this than children or adults. During adolescence the amygdala (part of the brain that processes fear) develops before the prefrontal cortex (part of the brain that controls reasoning and executive control) this means that the brain at this stage has more capacity for fear and anxiety but is underdeveloped for calm‚ reasoning and moderating emotions. The amygdala and de prefrontal cortex work together in certain events‚ the amygdala responds to fear by sending an alert to the prefrontal cortex
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immature and the emotional decision came from the limbic system which is fully developed. However‚ now there is another part of the brain that has to do with Romeo’s decision‚ it is the amygdala. The amygdala is in charge of emotion; however‚ it is in charge of two specific emotions which are aggression and fear. The amygdala is the one that reacts either aggressive or afraid when you are being challenged to a fight or other. In this case‚ Romeo reacted aggressive when he found out Mercutio died because
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Getting all the associations for a face without that gut feeling of familiarity. Pushed to a choice‚ cortex has to defer to amygdala"; "So it’s not what you think you feel that wins out‚ it’s what you feel you think‚" (P.131‚ The Echo Maker). Again another one of the few accurate statements I have observed in fictional Psych. media representations. Lastly‚ Schluter is asked “Tell
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differences in the structure are in certain regions‚ for example the cerebrum‚ frontal and medial paralimbic cortices‚ the fronto –medial cortex‚ the amygdala‚ and the hypothalamus. These areas of the brain control different behaviors as well as actions and reactions that can contribute to criminal
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three distinct goals‚ to test whether social categorization would be activated. One experiment looked at amygdala activation which represents the early and unconscious neural activation that occurs when one perceives a threat‚ and the second experiment looked at response times when primed with black or white faces during a lexical priming activity. This article is in support of the idea that amygdala activation can predict whether an individual perceives an unfamiliar individual from an out-group as
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