Semiotics Symbols are a means of communication – can include authority and process. A symbol is something which signifies something else. The purpose of symbols is to convey meaning. Semiotics Symbols are a means of communication – can include authority and process. A symbol is something which signifies something else. The purpose of symbols is to convey meaning. Ideology Coherent set of ideas and their underpinning logic‚ which inform action‚ preferences. It is the framework we use to
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Probability Concepts 1. Fundamental Concepts of Probability 2. Mutually Exclusive and Collectively Exhaustive 3. Statistically Independent and Dependent Events 4. Bayes’Theorem Learning Objectives • Understand the basic foundations of probability analysis • Learn the probability rules for conditional probability and joint probability • Use Bayes’ theorem to establish posterior probabilities Reference: Text Chapter 2 Introduction • Life is uncertain; we are note sure what the
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Patterns in Nature 1. Organisms are made of cells that have similar structural characteristics * Outline the historical development of the cell theory‚ in particular the contributions of Robert Hooke and Robert Brown Robert Hooke was the first person to observe a cell through a compound microscope in 1665. Franscesco Redi used a microscope to observe that flies do not spontaneously appear but develop from eggs laid by other flies. Many years later‚ Robert Brown observed a large body in
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FNCE90051 Fundamentals of Portfolio Management Assignment Part B The assessments of these portfolios combine portfolio evaluation‚ market efficiency‚ and whether or not CAPM and Fama-French Model are adequate. According to CAPM‚ the portfolios of companies with very small market capitalizations and very high book-to-market ratios have essentially doing well‚ since the coefficient of is 0.5 that means the average monthly return 0.5% above the return it should have been given
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Trends in Consumption Patterns This article is designed to: 1. define economics‚ 2. define microeconomics‚ 3. define law of supply‚ 4. define the law of demand‚ and 5. to identify the factors that lead to a change in supply and a change in demand. Economics is defined as: The social science that deals with the production‚ distribution‚ and consumption of goods and services and with the theory and management of economies or economic systems (www.answers .com accessed 02Oct07). Basically I believe
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Fundamental of Macroeconomics ECO/372 There are many words out there that people do not think about all the time but these terms are mainly used in the business world. These words are Gross Domestic Product‚ Real GDP‚ Nominal GDP‚ Unemployment rate‚ Inflation rate‚ and Interest Rate. Gross Domestic Product is defined as the market value of all the final goods and services produced within a country during a given period. Real GDP is considered to be a nation’s total output of goods
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Date : _________________________________ ( √ ) Tick mark in front of the assignments submitted |Assignment ‘A’ |√ |Assignment ‘B’ |√ |Assignment ‘C’ |√ | Fundamentals of E-Commerce Assignment - A
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Fundamentals of Macroeconomics Paper Part 1. Economists use gross domestic product‚ unemployment rate‚ and interest rates as tools to determine economic trends and predict the future changes in the economy. They try to manipulate the frequency‚ duration‚ and extremes of those changes; a never-ending effort to minimize the roller coaster effect. Following is a list of loose definitions for those tools. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) The gross domestic product‚ or GDP‚ is the amount
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Assignment 02 Chapter 2 pg 70: 1‚ 2‚ 7‚ 10‚ 11‚ 12‚ 13‚ 16‚ 19‚ 20‚ 26 1. What are the different types of application architectures? There are three different fundamental application architectures. In host-based networks‚ the server performs virtually all of the work. In client-based networks‚ the client computer does most of the work; the server is used only for data storage. In client-server networks‚ the work is shared between the servers and clients. The client performs all presentation
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Environmental science is the branch of science that deals with the physical‚ chemical and biological components of the environment and their effects on organisms. Environmental science encompasses various aspects of biology‚ chemistry‚ economics‚ hydrology‚ physics‚ law‚ and other social sciences and topical environmental issues like climate change‚ conservation‚ groundwater and soil contamination‚ ozone depletion‚ use of natural resources‚ waste management‚ air and noise pollution. Environmental
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