intense heat of the day‚ he began to experience severe pain in the muscles of his limbs. The cramping made his muscles feel like hard knots. The foreman of the crew instructed the young man to drink some salt water he had available and rest a while. 1. What is the cause of the cramping? (2 points) The man was doing hard work in intense heat. This caused him to sweat‚ taking sodium out of his body. Sodium is needed to control muscle contraction. Without the necessary amount of sodium‚ the nervous
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Assignment 7: Mean-Variance Portfolio Theory ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form 1 . Consider‚ as in Lecture 7.1‚ a portfolio of two risky assets‚ with expected returns rˉ1‚rˉ2‚ variances σ21‚σ22 and covariance σ1‚2. No other assets are available. You have to allocate $1 mln of investment in the portfolio of the two assets in order to minimize total portfolio variance. What is the optimal amount of investment in asset 1 (in mln dollars)? Assume expected returns are
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In order to partake in any lab study of ants‚ the facilities needed to contain them must be built. Building ant farms is a very simple process that can be done cheaply and on a small scale by using jewel cd cases. The exact dimensions of the ant farms built were 142 mm tall x 125 mm wide x 5mm deep. A total of twelve ant farms were built using this method. The ant farms were then filled with organic material‚ mainly partially decomposed wood from a stump‚ from where the ants have a colony in order
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Active &Passive Portfolio – Call/Put Options and Futures This report will document the active traded portfolio held from Friday (July 18th‚ 2014) until Monday (August 11th‚ 2014). In this portfolio‚ the two portfolio managers traded call options and put option for the stocks on the S&P 500‚ as well as futures contracts in many different asset classes (commodities‚ currencies‚ indexes and so on). Trades were made at the end of each week and Monday (August 11‚ 2014)‚ resulting in four trading days
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Strama OUTLINE: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PAPER I. Executive Summary a. One to two paragraph company background b. Summary of recommendations c. Strategy Map to show how all your recommendations hang together Note: not more than 3 pages II. Research Design and Methodology a. Data gathering techniques b. Framework of analysis used c. Processes/Activities Note: Not more than two pages. III. Societal Environment Analysis Choose factors in the societal environment that are relevant to your industry/company
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Collaboration One artifact that shows my growth in collaborating with peers is the stage directions for act one scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet. We added scene directions with a partner‚ and Amanda and I received a 9 out of 10. When we did this assignment earlier in the year‚ we didn’t know how to communicate our ideas to each other. The stage directions weren’t detailed enough because we had ideas‚ but didn’t know how to collaborate and share our ideas. Throughout the year‚ I learned how to work together
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Series and Parallel Circuits Name: Angelica Castro Directions: 1. Go to the following website: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/circuit-construction-kit-ac-virtual-lab 2. Click “Run now.” You now have the raw material to create a circuit. Take a moment to look over the site and find all the different materials. To build a circuit you will need several wires‚ a light bulb‚ a voltage source‚ a voltmeter‚ and a non – contact ammeter. Play with it to see how to grab and manipulate
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Case: Anglo American PLC in South Africa (from Lesson 5) 1. Who are the various stakeholders that Anglo American needs to consider as it adopts an effective HIV/AIDs strategy? In order to effectively adopt Anglo American’s HIV/AIDs strategy‚ they will need to first consider its employees and their families. Primary stakeholders also involve government bodies‚ pharmaceutical companies‚ and financial institutions. Non-profit organizations (NGOs) such as World Health Organization (WHO) will also play
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Case questions with solutions for ‘Alex Sharpe’s Portfolio’ Abhijit Nandi P301413CMG286 Aniket Saha P301413CMG AdityaGanti P301413CMG Devesh Joshi P301413CMG Mallikarjun Swami P301413CMG324 Management Of Risk ( RSK 611) Term 5 ( MBA – Finance & Banking ) Batch 6 Case questions with solutions for ‘Alex Sharpe’s Portfolio’ 1. Estimate and compare the returns and variability (i.e. annual standard deviation over the past five years) of Reynolds and Hasbro
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Global Wind The region of Earth receiving the Sun’s direct rays is the equator. Here‚ air is heated and rises‚ leaving low pressure areas behind. Moving to about thirty degrees north and south of the equator‚ the warm air from the equator begins to cool and sink. Between thirty degrees latitude and the equator‚ most of the cooling sinking air moves back to the equator. The rest of the air flows toward the poles. The air movements toward the equator are called trade winds- warm‚ steady breezes
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