...BIOL/ BMSC 114: Asexual vs. sexual reproduction Asexual and sexual reproduction • Two modes of animal reproduction: asexual and sexual reproduction. – In most cases asexual reproduction relies on mitotic cell division. – Sexual reproduction is the creation of offspring by fusion of haploid gametes to form a zygote. • Gametes are formed by meiosis. • Sexual reproduction directly reduces your contribution to the next generation! Phil Lester, KK413 3 Asexual reproduction • Asexual reproduction has many advantages: – All your wonderful genes are contributed to the next generation (no dilution!). – It enables animals living in isolation to reproduce. – It can create numerous offspring in a short amount of time. • Theoretically it is most advantageous in stable, favourable environments because it perpetuates successful genotypes precisely. Types of asexual reproduction: Fission. • Many invertebrates reproduce asexually by fission. – The separation of a parent into two or more individuals of roughly equal size. Phylum Cnidaria– sacs with central digestive system. 4 5 Types of asexual reproduction: Budding. • A new individual splitting off from an existing one. – For example certain species in the Phylum Cnidaria: new individuals grow out from the body of a parent. – May detach or remain joined to the parent. Phylum Cnidaria– hydras can reproduce sexually when conditions are unfavourable. 6 Types of asexual reproduction: Fragmentation. • The breaking of the...
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...documents have to be of high quality, contain detailed and well structured information and a unique content for every customer. Targeted marketing information, dynamic charts produced from business data, spot or full color statements, which are often produced for priority customers only, are common requirements today. Consolidated Statements A good example of such a service strategy is Citibank’s consolidated bank statement. It contains not just the current status of one account at a time, but summarizes and details all the customer's accounts down to the scanned images of all cancelled checks. At the same time it uses the same document to inform of the bank’s new offerings and services by including marketing messages targeted conditionally on the customer’s status. And there is more • Detailed and summarized information on various different accounts; savings, credit card, loans, investments, etc. in a consolidated document • The account status is presented using bar and pie charts • 200 different marketing messages produced with PC text products are selected per customer status and dynamically incorporated into the flow of the document • All cancelled checks are scanned and printed as image with the statement • The statement is generated in the customer’s own language - even Chinese or Japanese in the same print...
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...SCI 100 – Meteorology: Chapter 5 Focus Questions and Topics to Study Comprehensively describe the “adiabatic process”? (Hint: see Fig. 5.2 on page 119) Explain why the moist adiabatic rate and dry adiabatic rate are different. List and describe the ways, both at the surface and aloft, the atmosphere be made more stable. List and describe the ways, both at the surface and aloft, the atmosphere be made more unstable. Chapter 5 Questions and Topics to Study (cont’d) There are three main classifications of atmospheric stability. Describe the one known as “conditionally unstable” and relate it to cloud growth. Explain why an inversion represents a very stable atmosphere. What (general) type of clouds would you expect to see... ...in a stable atmosphere? ...in an unstable atmosphere? List the four primary ways clouds form, hence the four lifting mechanisms, as seen on Fig 5.10. Chapter 5 Questions and Topics to Study (cont’d) Describe the process of convectional lifting. Describe the process of orographic lifting using the classic “wind over the mountain” example. Be sure to understand why it is warmer and drier on the leeward side of some mountain ranges. Know the main aspect of the collision & coalescence precipitation...
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...Graphical model From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A graphical model is a probabilistic model for which a graph denotes the conditional dependence structure between random variables. They are commonly used in probability theory, statistics—particularly Bayesian statistics—and machine learning. An example of a graphical model. Each arrow indicates a dependency. In this example: D depends on A, D depends on B, D depends on C, C depends on B, and C depends on D. Contents [hide] 1 Types of graphical models 1.1 Bayesian network 1.2 Markov random field 1.3 Other types 2 Applications 3 See also 4 Notes 5 References and further reading 5.1 Books and book chapters 5.2 Journal articles 5.3 Other Types of graphical models[edit] Generally, probabilistic graphical models use a graph-based representation as the foundation for encoding a complete distribution over a multi-dimensional space and a graph that is a compact or factorized representation of a set of independences that hold in the specific distribution. Two branches of graphical representations of distributions are commonly used, namely, Bayesian networks and Markov networks. Both families encompass the properties of factorization and independences, but they differ in the set of independences they can encode and the factorization of the distribution that they induce.[1] Bayesian network[edit] Main article: Bayesian network If the network structure of the model is a directed acyclic graph, the model represents...
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...is. Negatively, whoever does not belong to any of the other religious minorities is taken to be a Hindu. British discourse shaped the terminology used in reference to Hinduism. The British in India began by asking the Indians: "Our religion is called Christianity, what is yours?" It was then decided to call India’s religion Hinduism. The British asked, "We have the Bible as our scripture, what is your scripture?" It was decided to consider the Vedas, the Upanishads, etc. as the scriptures of Hinduism. Further the British asked, "We have religious heads like the pope and the bishops, but who are Hinduism’s heads?" They declared the Shankaracharyas as their pontiffs. The West initially tried to understand the religions in India in its own terms and categories. But in truth many religions are grouped together...
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...1 CATEGORICAL DATA ANALYSIS, 3rd edition Solutions to Selected Exercises Alan Agresti Version August 3, 2012, c Alan Agresti 2012 This file contains solutions and hints to solutions for some of the exercises in Categorical Data Analysis, third edition, by Alan Agresti (John Wiley, & Sons, 2012). The solutions given are partly those that are also available at the website www.stat.ufl.edu/~ aa/ cda2/cda.html for many of the odd-numbered exercises in the second edition of the book (some of which are now even-numbered). I intend to expand the document with additional solutions, when I have time. Please report errors in these solutions to the author (Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-8545, e-mail AA@STAT.UFL.EDU), so they can be corrected in future revisions of this site. The author regrets that he cannot provide students with more detailed solutions or with solutions of other exercises not in this file. Chapter 1 1. a. nominal, b. ordinal, c. interval, d. nominal, e. ordinal, f. nominal, 3. π varies from batch to batch, so the counts come from a mixture of binomials rather than a single bin(n, π). Var(Y ) = E[Var(Y | π)] + Var[E(Y | π)] > E[Var(Y | π)] = E[nπ(1 − π)]. 7. a. ℓ(π) = π 20 , so it is not close to quadratic. b. π = 1.0. Wald statistic z = (1.0−.5)/ 1.0(0)/20 = ∞. Wald CI is 1.0 ±1.96 1.0(0)/20 = ˆ 1.0 ± 0.0, or (1.0, 1.0). These are not sensible. c. z = (1.0 − .5)/ .5(.5)/20 = 4.47, P < 0.0001. Score...
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...Date: To: Weymouth Employees From: Weymouth Subject: Company Updates This is to inform you that Weymouth has recently been the best company among other companies in United States. The company has seen progressive improvements in terms of the overall performance as well as the management part. The prosperity goes alongside the successive steel operation as well as the availability of the large market within and outside the country. It has further declared several benefits that are to be channelled to the employees working within the organizational environs. This includes the increase in the salaries and other additional allowances. It sounds of the best benefits to the rest of the staff because, soon, they will start enjoying the planned benefits. However, due to restructuring and meeting the current operational cost, the company has conditionally declared to lay off some of the employees, both the salaried and the hourly workers. It has opted to evaluate the staffs after which the company has estimated to retain only 8000 salaried employees and 40000 hourly workers, who are believed to continue with their normal jobs. Weymouth will be ready to appreciate the departing employees, such that the vacancies will be left for those evaluated. This goes alongside new assignment of the managerial positions and those who will be in charge of various programs within the perimeter of the organization. The company’s postulations have reached a precarious decision of further...
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.../ 387 BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Master of Business Administration Accredited by AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business with concentrations in: Accounting Cyber Security Entrepreneurship Finance Global Business Information Systems and Technology Management Marketing Management Supply Chain Management Master of Business Administration for Executives Master of Business Administration for Professionals College of Business and Public Administration Jack Brown Hall, Room 282 (909) 537-5703 mba.csusb.edu MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Requirements (48 units) The Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) program provides postbaccalaureate students with a high-quality master-level education in the field of business administration. The program is designed to prepare promising students for positions of increasing responsibility and leadership through education in the broad scope of business and through in-depth knowledge in one or more specialized areas of business. The program is open to all qualified students, regardless of undergraduate major. Students who do not have a background in the area of business administration can obtain this required capability by completing designated prerequisite courses or through individual study with competency demonstrated through credit by examination or by demonstrated work experience. Admission to the M.B.A. Program In addition to the general requirements of the university, specific requirements...
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...JAMILLAH DUGAN GRADE 11 Forms of Marriage Monogamy (the union of one wife to one husband) is the prevalent form almost everywhere. Polygyny (or polygamy; having several wives at one time), however, has been a prerogative in many societies . It is commonly found where the value of women's labor is high and may be practiced as a way of acquiring allies: A man may cement his bonds with several other men by marrying their sisters or daughters. Polyandry (having several husbands at one time) is rare, having occurred infrequently in Tibetan society, among the Marquesas of Polynesia, and among certain hill tribes in India. Patterns Of Courtship Courting under Filipino tradition gives very big importance on the value of respecting the woman and her family and strictly adhering with proper rules set by society for pursuing a lady. When the approval is obtained, the suitor can then come to the house with the go-between who will initiate the introductions to the family. The parents in turn will introduce their daughter to the gentleman. In this stage, the suitor is expected to bring "pasalubong" or gifts to the family and a special one to the girl he likes. This he will have to do everytime he visits the girl's house. In the Philippines, when you court a lady, you have to court her whole family as well. In this first visit, the couple will not be left alone on their own to get to know each other. It will just be an informal chatting and introduction and getting-to-know stage...
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...inequality and exploitation are very limited. a-F 4- The Victorian values of the nineteenth century expanded the role of women in the work place and in politics. b-F 5- The gender gap expands when a country develops and the economy grows. b-F 6- In parts of Asia there are more positive signs that increased education that has enabled poorer urban women to secure better paid jobs. The situation is better for lower and upper class women not middle class women. They have educational and occupational opportunities that are comparable to those of men with the same social status. a- F 7- Commercialization of production techniques robbed women of their specialized labor functions which, in turn, increased their political power in the short term. a-F 8- It should be noted that the restoration of Brazilian democracy had the effect of mobilizing women at a higher level. Middle class women became more involved in national politics consolidating the ties they already had with the urban poor. a-T 9- Cuba has the worst record of trying to maintain gender equality in politics, but women are still overrepresented in the top ranks of political leadership. It remains a fact that traditional cultural values concerning gender roles are dramatically have changed. b-F 10- Women enjoy less equality in the advanced democracies of the West. This is particularly true of countries with high literacy rates, education, and industrialization. b-F 11. In ch.8 of text written by Handelman ‘The...
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...ARCH An ARCH (autoregressive conditionally heteroscedastic) model is a model for the variance of a time series. Given the apparent lack of any structural dynamic economic theory explaining the variation in higher order moments, particularly instrumental in this development has been the autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic (ARCH) class of models introduced by Engle (1982). The ARCH model and its various extensions have proven very effective tools along these lines. In truth, by any yardstick, the literature on ARCH has expanded dramatically since the seminal paper by Engle (1982). It is hope that this overview of the extensive ARCH literature may serve as a catalyst in fostering further research in this important area. Engle, R.F. (1982) “Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity with Estimates of the Variance of U.K. Inflation”, Econometrica, 50,987-1OO8. EGARCH For comparison to the TGARCH and GJR-GARCH above models, a radically different specification is used for the FIB density data. Take the place of the Generalized Error Distribution, asymmetric normal distribution is used. The same variables which are used in other models are used for this specification too. Using the different set then the comparison would have been difficult. Turbidity, rainfall, dew point, and cloud cover are significant variables. In the model specification, the skewed normal is replaced with a normal distribution making it a fixed symmetric GARCH model. The consequence of...
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...gnb.ca/immigration. Consult our web site to make sure you have the current version of this guide and application forms. The New Brunswick Provincial Nomination Program will consider your application based on criteria outlined in this guide. To determine if you meet the requirements as a Business Applicant, carefully review the information before submitting your application. Successful applicants must: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Meet eligibility criteria of the New Brunswick Provincial Nominee Program. Complete an exploratory visit, including an interview in New Brunswick. Have a business plan or proposal approved by an official from the Government of New Brunswick. Obtain a minimum score of 50 points in the selection factors. Make a CDN$75,000.00 conditionally refundable deposit. The Province of New Brunswick does not charge any fees for applications to the New Brunswick Provincial Nominee Program. The New Brunswick Provincial Nominee Program requires that the fees charged by Citizenship and Immigration Canada be included in the application. The Program has been designed to allow you to complete the application process without paid assistance. All applications are processed according to the same criteria. No priority or special consideration is given to the files prepared by an immigration representative. New Brunswick will select applicants who meet the requirements of the Provincial Nominee Program. Decisions on applications are final and there is no appeal process. Unsuccessful applicants...
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...Critical and Creative Thinking in Society Situation of Public Interest Reported in 2013, the Veteran Affairs (VA) hospital in Phoenix Arizona was involved in a scandal where alleged 40 patients died awaiting health care. In addition, Phoenix VA officials were misrepresenting data to make patient wait times appear better than they actually were. As result, VA officials were given bonuses for the misrepresentation of data. In some cases veterans were waiting on appointments for over a year. In addition, Sam Foote, a retired VA physician claimed the use of secret lists being used to help falsify the reporting of patients. (Robbins, 2014) The use of critical thinking may have been able to prevent this situation from taking place. In the VA Scandal described above it is clear that the VA wanted to compensate the employees for providing better service to the patients by decreasing the wait times for patients. Although, controls were not put into place to ensure the employees were not falsifying data. Prior to implementing the bonus program, the VA could have put more thought into the planning process. For example, the VA could have implemented external auditors into the bonus program to assure the employees were doing the right thing. In addition, the VA could have put some thought into how they could have provided a well thought out plan to improve healthcare for veterans. The Art of Thinking People have tasks, obligations and obstacles to face every day. In addition...
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...[pic] Aston Martin Graduate Scheme Application Form |In order to consider you for our graduate opportunities it is necessary for you to complete this application form in full. | | | |Prior to submitting this application form: | | | |Make sure you have answered all of the questions | |Complete the declaration form and criminal history pages | |Save your form in the following format: Surname_Forname_1st Choice | |E-mail the form once complete to graduates@astonmartin.com in either Word or PDF format. | | ...
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...China’s Foreign Exchange Management I. The history of China’s foreign exchange management system For a long time China has been implementing relatively strict foreign exchange administration system due to shortage of foreign exchange resources, insufficiency of macro control capability, imperfection of market system. Since China took on the innovative opening-up policy in 1978, China forms a foreign exchange administration profile--“RMB (Chinese Yuan) is convertible for current account items, while partially convertible for capital account ” step by step. China’s foreign exchange reform can be divided into three periods: Exchange regime during the planed economy (1949-1978). A highly centered, planning system was implemented in the planed economy environment. Bank of China was the only specialized bank involving in foreign exchange business. All foreign exchange receipts were obliged to surrender to the state, any purchase of foreign exchange should be included in the state plan. The nation never incurred foreign borrowings or allowed foreign direct investment. Exchange regime during the transitional period (1979-1993). (1) The State Administration of Foreign Exchange, which is authorized for charging foreign exchange control matters under the leadership of the People’s Bank of China, was established. (2) The enterprises were permitted to retain a portion of their foreign exchange earnings. (3) Foreign exchange swap center was set up and developed. (4) The RMB exchange...
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