Chapter 1: -Why Study Politics? – self & public interest -What is politics? – no real definition “Art of the possible” “who get what when & how” “authoritative allocation of values” -Sciences: Hard: biology‚ chemistry‚ physics‚ math(experiments can be replicated & get same results) Soft: archeology‚ political science (cant be replicated‚ lots of theories)‚ experiments cant be replicated -Basic Concepts of politics- -Power- -Political science majors study power NOT politics -Hard power- forcing someone
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freeworld.posterous.com Linux Bash Shell Cheat Sheet (works with about every distribution‚ except for apt-get which is Ubuntu/Debian exclusive) Legend: Everything in “” is to be replaced‚ ex: --> iLovePeanuts.txt Don’t include the ’=’ in your commands ’..’ means that more than one file can be affected with only one command ex: rm file.txt file2.txt movie.mov .. .. Linux Bash Shell Cheat Sheet Basic Commands Basic Terminal Shortcuts Basic file manipulation CTRL L = Clear the
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JNCIA COMMANDS SHEET > show route > show route table inet.0 > show route table inet.1 > show route table inet.2 > show route table inet.3 > show route table inet.4 > show route table inet.6 > show route table mpls.0 > show route hidden > show route protocol direct > show route forwarding-table > show route protocol aggregate detail > show route protocol static > show rip neighbor > show route protocol rip > show route advertising-protocol rip x.x.x.x > show route receive-protocol rip x.x.x.x > show
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Management-art of getting things accomplished in org-s through others.Goals(OB):predicting behaviour‚explain events‚managing ob.Classical viewpoint-high specialization of labour‚‚intensive specialization‚ central decision-making.Scientific Management-taylor‚optimum of special\standard-tion.Burecracy-weber‚srict chain of command‚detailed rules‚high spec.‚central power‚selection\promotion based on competence.Hawthorne-how psychological affect productivity.HumanRelationsMovement(critique)-stric spec
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z LawVariation of contract The issue here is whether the variation of the contract is valid. Generally‚ if the contract itself clearly allows for the variation‚ the variation will be binding. However‚ if the contract does not clearly provide for variations‚ for the variation to be valid‚ both parties must agree to the changes and the following must be present. EITHER Fresh consideration If there is fresh consideration for the change or variation‚ the change or variation will be valid. This means
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NEGLIGENCE According to common law‚ “negligence is defined as a conduct that fall below the standard of care necessary to protect other from unreasonable risk of injury”. The legal issue is whether […….] can successfully sue […….] for negligence. In order to know whether the defendant commit negligence or not‚ 4 elements must be satisfied‚ including 1) Duty of care (DoC)‚ 2) Breach of the DoC‚ 3) Causation and 4) Remoteness. 1) DUTY OF CARE Case 1: PHYSICAL INJURY: The first element to be proven
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The net present value (NPV) rule can be best stated as: An investment should be accepted if the NPV is positive and rejected if it is negative. The discount rate that makes the net present value of investment exactly equal to zero is b. Internal rate of return. Which of the following statements is true? If the financial manager relies on NPV in making capital budgeting decisions‚ she acts in the shareholders’ best interests. Net present value is equal to zero when the interest rate used to discount
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M&A & Restructuring Strategies. Merger: Two Firms agree to integrate operations on relatively equal basis(usually 1 dominates another in mkt share/size/asset value) Hostile takeover: (delivers higher shareholder value than friendly acquires)(Preannouncement returns of hostile takeover anticipated with increase in bidder & target’s share price). Diversification creates value by using excess resource. Restructuring used to correct with ineffective mergers/acquisitions. M&A used as means of growth to
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Perfect Competition: 1. Same product + No barriers to entry + No NPCF easy to switch. 2. Increase P slightly above market P‚ no sales demand is perfectly elastic. 3. D curve is horizontal at the P determined by the intersection of market S&D curves Profit Maximzing decision 1. Since MR=MC 2. Set P (price) = MC 3. MR curve = Demand curve 4. Firms can sell all they want at this market price Q* is the profit maximizing level of output. 1.For output < Q*‚ P < MC. Increase output
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Statistics – body of principles and procedures developed for collecting‚ summarizing‚ and interpreting data Chapter 1 – Distribution – describes what values the variable takes and how often – Pie Charts/Bar Graphs – categorical – Histograms/Stem plots – quantitative – Data set has info on number of individuals – For each individual‚ data gives values for variables – When looking at graph… o Center – middle of data o Shape – symmetry or skewed o Spread – range of data Chapter 5 –
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