Lecture 1‚ 9 January 2014 -Pre-crash orthodoxies Draft: I.INTRODUCTION Students at Manchester University and elsewhere have been demanding to be taught ‘post-crash economics’. I want to start this set of six lectures with an account of pre-crash orthodoxies -the theories which underpinned economic policy till 2008; the orthodoxies students are still taught. In my next lecture I tell how the unforeseen crisis caused politicians and policy-makers to jettison these orthodoxies in saving the world from
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China circa 3000BC Casting 2.810 Prof. Timothy Gutowski Casting since about 4000 BC… Ancient Greece; bronze statue casting circa 450BC Iron works in early Europe‚ e.g. cast iron cannons from England circa 1543 Outline • Sand Casting‚ Investment Casting‚ Die Casting • Basics and countermeasures • Phase Change‚ Shrinkage • Heat Transfer • Pattern Design • Variations & Developments • Environmental Issues Casting Readings; 1. Kalpakjian‚ Chapters 10‚ 11‚ 12 2. Booothroyd‚ “Design for Die
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Macro Fall 2009 Test 1 Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Sophia is planning her activities for a hot summer day. She would like to go to the local swimming pool and see the latest blockbuster movie‚ but because she can only get tickets to the movie for the same time that the pool is open she can only choose one activity. This illustrates the basic principle that a. people respond to incentives. b. rational people think
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THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES ON THE INTERPERSONALRELATIONSHIPS OF ROGATIONIST COLLEGE STUDENTS A Research ProposalPresented toMrs. Pilita C. BelardoMr. Reynaldo C. DinampoMr. Louie Sonny D. RiveraRogationist CollegeIn Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements inBasic Research‚ Mathematics IV and Christian Living Education IVByAsilo‚ John Manuel C.Manlapig‚ Justine Angeli P.Rementilla‚ Jerremiah Josh R.IV – St. HannibalFebruary 23‚ 2010
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Developments in Microeconomics ECC001 Topic 1 – Lectures 1 and 2 Recap – Expected Utility and Basic Game Theory Chris Wilson Handout 1 Topic 1: Recap – Expected Utility and Basic Game Theory 1 Expected Utility and Attitudes to Risk 2 Normal Form Games 2a Dominant Strategies 2b Nash Equilibrium 2c Continuous Strategy Spaces - Cournot 3 Extensive Form Games 3a Backward Induction and Subgame Perfection 2 You will be familiar with some of the content in this topic
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WHAT IS HUMAN RESOURCES? Current Employees One of the main roles of an HR department is managing current employees. Unlike managers who directly oversee the employees’ day-to-day work‚ the HR department deals with concerns such as benefits‚ pay‚ company policies and training. Among the benefits that might be handled by the HR department are insurance plans‚ paid vacations‚ paid leave for illnesses and other health matters‚ pension plans and employee investments. The HR department also might settle
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Introduction of housing and density Lecturer: Professor John Mutlow‚ ARCH 693a‚ School of Architecture‚ University of Southern California Recorded by Jason Muller and Yueming Zhou 01/16/2013 (Yueming Zhou) Topic of research: Housing and Density Goals for two semesters: In first semester the task will focus on research and gathering information while in the second semester it will be the analysis of these information and project design based on the research conclusions. Human is evolved to live under
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1 Convergence of MCMC Algorithm We discuss two issues: Convergence and Mixing. These two things are strongly related‚ but not completely the same. The chain have mixing will typically have a slow convergences. But you still can tell the di erence if you study the di erent points. Remember that when we discuss the MCMC algorithm‚ its the algorithm that classically explores the spaces on the posterior distributions‚ and that tends to explore more if you have more posterior probability. If you
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Alina FratilaLecture Assignment #2 Chapter 3: Storage Devices Description Purpose Type of Access: Random (or sometimes called direct access) OR sequential Storage Capacity Type of Storage: Magnetic‚ Optical OR Flash Memory Advantage Disadvantage Magnetic (internal) hard drive Data storage - Magnetic hard drive w metal hard disks or platters and read/write heads and an access mechanism. Design to store data for desktops and laptops Random magnetic Robust and can be used many years They are not
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C247B/ME C218: Introduction to MEMS Lecture 2m: Benefits of Scaling I EE C245 – ME C218 Introduction to MEMS Design Spring 2014 Prof. Clark T.-C. Nguyen Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences University of California at Berkeley Berkeley‚ CA 94720 Lecture Module 2: Benefits of Scaling EE C245: Introduction to MEMS Design LecM 2 C. Nguyen 8/20/09 1 8/20/09 2 Lecture Outline • Reading: Senturia‚ Chapter 1 • Lecture Topics: Benefits of Miniaturization
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