r * External Determinants of Attraction * The Power of Proximity: Unplanned Contacts * Proximity—in attraction research‚ the physical closeness between two individuals with respect to where they live‚ where they sit in a classroom‚ where they work‚ and so on * Smaller physical distances are related to an increased likelihood that two people will come into repeated contact and exposure to each other‚ feel positive affect‚ and develop mutual attraction. * External
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Business Programs Economics- Homework Set 4 Dr. Demetri Tsanacas 1. When the price of compact discs (CDs) increased from 10 to 11‚ the quantity of CDs demanded decreased from 100 to 87. What is the price elasticity of demand for CDs Is demand elastic or inelastic 2. Explain why the demand for residential natural gas (gas used for heating‚ cooling‚ and cooking) is more elastic than the demand for residential electricity. 3. Would you expect the demand for a specific brand of running
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Medicine journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/socscimed Comparing social determinants of self-rated health across the United States and Canada Steven G. Prus* Department of Sociology‚ Carleton University‚ D795 LA‚ 1125 Colonel By Drive‚ Ottawa‚ Ontario‚ K1S 5B6 Canada a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Available online 18 May 2011 A large body of research shows that social determinants of health have significant impact on the health of Canadians and Americans
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influences the health of individuals? The determinants of health COPY NOTES • • • • • An individual’s level of health status and quality of life are the result of many factors interacting. These factors are referred to as determinants of health. Some of these factors can be controlled or modifiable by the individual‚ such as smoking cigarettes. Some factors are beyond an individual’s capacity to control‚ so they are termed non-modifiable‚ eg. age/heredity. Determinants of health affect health in a cumulative
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Monopolies Because the pure monopolist is the industry‚ the demand curve is the market demand curve. Demand curve is downward sloping: as price decreases‚ quantity demanded increases. Monopoly’s Demand Curve: Marginal Revenue is Less Than Price – the firm can only increase its sales by charging a lower price thus causing marginal revenue to be less than price The lower price applies not only to the extra output sold but also to all prior units of output. Each additional unit of output sold increases
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Health Promotion Essay- The Determinants of Health The determinants of health are economic and social conditions that affect people’s health status. These influence the living and working conditions that impacts people’s everyday living condition. Factors such as the place and the environment we live in‚ genetics‚ educational level or work status and income‚ as well as friends and family are some of the aspects that affects our health condition. On the other hand‚ the people that have an access
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analyze in the FDI dynamic. In Malaysia‚ study by Ang (2008) detects the significant effect of the variables in five models that that takes turn excluding some of the variables via 2SLS estimation. Thus‚ the aim of this paper is to investigate the determinants of FDI in Malaysia during the period 1970-2008 using an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) technique. 2.0 Methodology and Data 2.1. Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) An autoregressive distributed lag model allows cointegration
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The “Iris” data set contains 3 classes‚ Iris Setosa‚ Iris Versicolour‚ and Iris Virginica‚ each with 50 attributes. Each attribute contains the Iris’ sepal and petal length‚ as well as its sepal and petal width in centimeters for its class. The “Adult” data set contains 48‚842 records‚ each with 15 variables to analyze. Those fields include age‚ work class‚ education‚ education-num‚ marital-status‚ occupation‚ relationship‚ race‚ sex‚ capital-gain‚ capital-loss‚ final weight‚ hours-per-week‚ native-country
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Determinants of Demand The concept of Determinants of Demand has coined from the Economics. The financial section of the world is the transient one. With the change of situation‚ it also changes its phase. Based on this‚ the curve of Demand changes its position in the Demand Graph. By seeing the curve lines in the graph‚ economists can determine the present demand background in the financial arena. Starting from unlocking the demands of a country’s financial background to any particular firm’s
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