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Causes of Economic Change in the UK: De-industrialisation - ANS - The north of England used to be a hub for trade with the United States of America and the British Empire. - Cotton and textiles were important English-produced commodities. - Cotton prices in England were benchmarked by the prices ...

How has the function of Stratford changed overtime? - ANS Pre-industrial: known for its agriculture and farming Industrial: manufacturing- all jobs were in manufacturing Present day: retail, tourism, business What global influences have shaped the characteristics of Stratford? - ANS Globalisatio...

What are the 3 aspects of regeneration? - ANS - economic regeneration - social progress - living environment What are 3 ways we can measure the success of economic regeneration? - ANS Compare rates of - income - poverty - employment Before & after the scheme What are 3 ways we can measure th...

intro to demographic transition - ANS -the story of the 20th century was one of massive demographic growth -within the lifetime of just our parents the population has over doubled -3 billion in 1960 -7 billion in 2018 -9 billion projection in 2050 stage one of population growth - ANS -classic ...

Causes of migration - ANS New jobs Higher wages Cheaper housing Natural disaster Persecution Consequences of migration - ANS *Host country* - increased diversity of goods and services e.g. China town - direct effects on wages, taxes, government spending etc *Home country* - brain drain/gain...

What is the 90/10 ratio? - ANS average income of the richest 10% divided by the average income of the poorest 90% What does disposable income not measure? - ANS quality of social and physical environment, amount of free time, goods and services you can't buy, goods and services that are produced...

credit - ANS Borrowed money. debt cancellation - ANS The act of eliminating the debt owed by a developing country government in order to allow it to achieve development objectives. development indicators - ANS Statistics that may be used to assess the level of development of an economy. These ma...

What do Compass Lexecon do? - ANS Compass Lexecon are a world leading economic consultancy firm who provide expert advice to law firms, governments, and corporations across a wide variety of issues. Compass Lexecons global practice has a wide array of divisions (such as international trade and ar...

Variation in production systems that is caused by factors that can be clearly identified and possibly even managed is called assignable variation. - ANS True An example of assignable variation in a production system may be that workers are not identically trained - ANS True An example of assigna...

The process mean and sample mean are the same. - ANS FALSE Two samples from the same population and taken at the same point in time are likely to have the same sample mean. - ANS FALSE A line chart is constructed from a scatter plot. - ANS TRUE A control chart must have an UCL and LCL but it is ...

Which type of test finds the following: (unbounded, UCL) lower/left A set of all items of interest are called the what? population What symbol represents the population size? N Only some of the items of interest are in the what? sample What symbol represent the sample size? n Does the fol...

Introduction: Thesis. (+) - ANS The rise of the economic power of BRICS countries represents a significant power shift in the global political economy. Introduction: Is the power being shifted directly toward the BRICS? What is the mere existence of BRICS attempting to do? (SPE-HBRR-C) - ANS This...

How many base pairs long is a typical gene? - ANS ~10^4bp. What is supercoiling? What is its purpose? - ANS The twisting of a DS DNA helix around itself allowing it to be packaged efficiently into a cell. Why might two sections of DNA which are the same length travel at different rates during gel...

How many base pairs long is a typical gene? - ANS ~10^4bp. What is supercoiling? What is its purpose? - ANS The twisting of a DS DNA helix around itself allowing it to be packaged efficiently into a cell. Why might two sections of DNA which are the same length travel at different rates during gel...