b. What technique was used before the BIOS existed in early transistor and microprocessor based computers to boot or start them running code after a power on?
c. Explain how a computer family's "architecture" can remain the same for many years even as the technology used to build the family's members changes drastically.
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choose an industry that faces significant change over the next ten years. identify the main drivers of change can construct two scenarios of how these changes might play out c.t. in relation to one of the leading firms in the industry, what are the implications of the tow scenarios, and what strategy options should the firm consider
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.The Quicky Zippy Lube Station has a mean time for an oil change as 12.6 minutes with a standard deviation of 4.15 minutes. (a) What is the probability that an oil change will take more than 16.0 minutes? (b) What is the probability that a random sample of 22 oil changes yields an average between 10.0 and 14.0 minutes?
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Describe in detail the action potential of myocardial contractile cells. Be sure to names the phases, include the main types of membrane proteins involved, how they are opened, the movements of ions, and the changes in membrane potential. Explain how this type of action potential is different from that seen in a skeletal muscle cell and why the difference(s) are significant.
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Your CEO has decided to restructure the organisation and become more market -oriented. An announcement regarding these changes is going to occur at a meeting scheduled for next week. You have been asked to prepare a short speech outlining the reasons for the new company orientation. Provide context of market orientation and the pro's and con's of the implementation.
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a) Myrtle McGraw described locomotor development as proceeding in a fixed sequence of stages. Briefly describe the developmental changes she cataloged and discuss her explanation for that. b) Explain Esther Thelen & Linda Smith’s different explanation for locomotor development and give examples of the empirical evidence they gathered from their research that disavows McGraw’s interpretation
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Question 8
Consider your sets of indifference curves for (i) Coke and chips, and (ii) Coke and Pepsi.
8.1 Explain why these sets of indifference curves are likely to look different.
8.2 Illustrate with a diagram.
8.3 What does this difference imply about the magnitude of the substitution effects in response to changes in the price of Coke?
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1. What is your team’s understanding of the manner in which legal issues affect business operations and decision making?
2. Create an implementation plan. State with specificity the manner in which you would implement the stated changes providing time frames for training and implementation. For this part of the project you will create an implementation plan.
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Think of this question in the context of the two-period model.
Households hold stocks as part of their financial wealth. Assume that we recently observe stock prices rising. Also assume that consumers believe that changes in stock prices are temporary. What affect would this have on the correlation between stock price indices and consumption? Explain.
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Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Britain rather than in continental Europe or the United States? What exactly is meant by the Industrial Revolution? What were the economic changes that revolutionized manufacturing in the eighteenth century and led to the factory system? How did the technological innovations of the Industrial Revolution change societies in the industrialized countries?
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