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Absolute advantage - -a situation where a country can produce a good or service at a lower cost than other countries. -Balance of payments - -the difference between the amount of money that comes into a country and the amount that goes out of a country. -Balance of trade - -the difference between a country's total exports and total imports. -Com

Gold Standard - -A monetary system in which paper money and coins are equal to the value of a certain amount of gold -dirty float - -A system under which a country's currency is nominally allowed to float freely against other currencies, but in which the government will intervene, buying and selling currency, if it believes that the currency has d

Foraging Ecology - -(Ruminants, kangaroo). Consumers eating the resources and the the predators eating the consumers. -Foregut fermenter - -Pre-gastric fermentation. First fermentation of the carbohydrates. Then enzymatic digestion (break down of proteins). Can not eat very fibrous food , digestive constrain. -Hindgut fermenter - -(Horse, zebra,

What is the problem with using barter for transactions? What is the advantage of using money for transactions instead of barter? - -• Requires a double coincidence of wants • Money simplifies and increases the number of market transactions • Money promotes economic growth -What are the functions of money? - -• It must... 1. Act as a medium of exch

What are the two types of analysis tools? - -Exploratory and confirmatory. Exploratory helps develop a model. Confirmatory confirms a theory. -What are exploratory analysis tools? - -1st generation tools include Cluster analysis, EFA, and Multi dimensional scaling. 2nd generation tools include PLS-SEM, which is non-parametric and OLS estimation.

When should the type of data analysis for the project be determined? - -pre planning. Before you start -What is it called when you assign labels to data that can be read & understood by a computer (e.g., 1=yes, 2=no)? - -Coding the data -What is it called when you need to deal with missing data, and when you check to see if the values are valid &

Bootstrapping - -An approach to validating a multivariate model by drawing a large number of sub- samples and estimating models for each subsample. Estimates from all the subsamples are then com- bined, providing not only the "best" estimated coefficients (e.g., means of each estimated coefficient across all the subsample models), but their expecte

Force - -Any influance that tends to accelerate an object; a push or pull; measured in newtons; vector quantiy -Applied Force - -An external force -Friction - -Force that acts to resist the relative motion (or attempted motion) of objects or materials that are in contact -Net Force - -Combination of all the forces that act on an object -Support

Energy - -the ability to do work/ put matter into motion -Renewable sources of energy - -solar, hydro, and wind -Non-renewable sources of energy - -fossil fuels -Fossil fuels - -highly combustible substances formed from the remains of organisms from past geologic ages -Main fossil fuels - -coal (solid), oil (liquid), and natural gas (gas) -Wha

A patient who has a small cell carcinoma of the lung develops syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH). The nurse should notify the health care provider about which assessment finding? a. Serum hematocrit of 42% b. Serum sodium level of 120 mg/dL c. Reported weight gain of 2.2 lb (1 kg) d. Urinary output of 280 mL during past 8 hours