Study notes of Bodie‚ Kane & Marcus By Zhipeng Yan Investment Zvi Bodie‚ Alex Kane and Alan J. Marcus Chapter One: The Investment Environment ....................................................................... 2 Chapter Two: Financial Instruments................................................................................... 4 Chapter Three: How Securities Are Traded........................................................................ 8 Chapter Six: Risk and risk aversion...
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ECO331 Behavioural Economics Lecture Notes Lecture 2: Experiment Design Econ vs Psych experiments: -No deception -Incentivized choices Purposes of experiments: Theory Experiments Theory *Testing theory for robustness Internal Validity: -Extent to which differences are due to hypothesized mechanism -Question of sufficient controls -Must assess plausibility of alternative explanations External Validity: -To what extent do experiment results translate into the world -Extrapolating
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Life Course Theory: Role it plays in Relation between health and social causation Life Course Approach to an individual’s development began in the twentieth century‚ and was a full-fledged theory by the 1990’s. Giele and Elder define a life course as “a sequence of socially defined events and roles that the individual enacts over time” (qtd. in “Life Course Theory”). The discipline involves studying the development of individual development holistically‚ and as a part of socio-historical‚ geographical
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January 09‚ 2013 Discussion Notes Scientific Method 1. Observation 2. Formulate a question 3. Hypothesis (educated guess) 4. Test the Hypothesis How to test for cause/type of volcano? 1. Meteor impact will cause movement and depth of rocks. Meteor impact will cause movement and depth of rocks. Test for rocks around the volcano * Meteor Craters form a hole in the ground test for rocks around the volcano * * * * * Salt Dome and Salt GlaciersSalt
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D.A.T.A. Course Notes 1. Module 1: Physiological Factors 1. Subject 1: How alcohol and other drugs enter and leave the body. The rate of absorption and elimination of alcohol and other drugs. 1. Types 1. Central nervous system depressants 1. Alcohol 1. Colorless‚ odorless‚ volatile pungent drug 2. Sleeping pills/barbiturates 3. Tranquilizers 2. Central nervous stimulants 1. Nicotine 2. Cocaine 3. Amphetamines 3. Opioids 1. Opium 2. Codeine 3. Heroin 4. Hallucinogens 1. LSD 2. Mushrooms
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Design & conduct experiment * Collect data * Draw conclusion * Submit for publication DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY Hypothesis * Preliminary question * If-then statement * Can incorporate laws * Tentative‚ often narrow explanation regarding the natural world * Must be testable & falsifiable Theory * Unifying explanation * Diverse lines of evidence * A well substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world *
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A typical ν for rock is between 0.15 and 0.25. Note: isotropic means the properties do not depend on direction‚ and homogeneous means the properties are the same at every point in the material. In general neither of these two properties are true for rocks. 10. Some Relationships Between the Elastic Constants G= E 2(1 + ν ) λ= Eν (1 + ν )(1 − 2ν ) K= E 3(1 − 2ν ) Where λ = Lame’s constant and K = bulk modulus. Note: The five elastic constants listed above (E‚ν‚G‚λ
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Ms Morgini Ramen INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS All questions carry equal marks. Your assignment will be marked on a total of 30 marks. You may choose any TWO questions from the following four questions set. Submission date: 22 March 2014 Please note that any assignment submitted after the deadline for any reason whatsoever will not be considered. Word limit: 1000 words per question Format: Please follow the guidelines in the document “Guide to writing assignments” available on Moodle. In general
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There are many theories that have been developed to try to explain why criminal behavior takes place. The age old debate as to the true source of criminal tendencies leads to two separate thoughts; nature versus nurture. Are we born criminals or does our environment influence our propensity to conduct criminal acts? Two such theories are the life-course theory and the evolutionary neuroandrogenic (ENA) theory.The Life-course theory establishes the connection between a pattern of life events and the
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JavaScript Essentials The purpose of most JavaScript scripts is to make a Web page interactive‚ whether or not a program is running on the server to enhance that interactivity. Making a page interactive means tracking user action and responding with some visible change on the page. The avenues for communication between user and script include familiar onscreen elements‚ such as fields and buttons‚ as well as dynamic. To assist the scripter in working with these elements‚ the browser and JavaScript
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