RESEARCH ESSAY WORKSHEET – Exploring your topic further

1. Growing up in the digital age

• Children are now growing up in the ubiquitous presence of electronic screens. (The other day, my friend’s two-year-old swiped at a page in a print magazine, expecting it to behave like a tablet screen.) Some have argued that excessive screen time, especially from a young age, is rewiring the human brain. Many studies have already shown effects on attention. How much are new electronic gadgets changing the way our brains work? Is there any cause for concern?

OK, now you try it.

1. What is your topic? (Broadly speaking)

2. Jot down as many questions about this topic as you can (like I did above).

3. Can you write down a preliminary paper outline like the one I just did (aim for 3 – 6 main body paragraphs/subtopics)?

Python Code Needed

Two-Player, Two-Dimensional Tic-Tac-Toe Write a script to play two-dimensional Tic-Tac-Toe between two human players who alternate entering their moves on the same computer. Create a 3-by-3 two-dimensional array. Each player indicates their moves by entering a pair of numbers representing the row and column indices of the square in which they want to place their mark, either an 'X' or an 'O'. When the first player moves, place an 'X' in the specified square. When the second player moves, place an 'O' in the specified square. Each move must be to an empty square. After each move, determine whether the game has been won or if it’s a draw.

Please try to set the Tic tac code up similar to the code below if possible

n2 = np.array([[0,10,100],[0,10,100], [0,10,100]])
n2.dtype
n2.size
if n2[:,0].any() == 0:
print("Well Done")
else:
print("ok")
n2[:,0]

Make sure it works on jsfiddle

and keep the code seperate

html:

css:

javascript:

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Assignment

You should already have some experience with jQuery and some simple experience with JSON (from charting). In this assignment we will be creating some JSON data, parsing it, and displaying it.

Step 1 – If you are not familiar with JSON you should complete the JSON tutorial at w3schools

Step 2- You will now create a JSON file to represent some data of your own making some examples of data that you could create such as A sports score database ex. players, playerName, season, and scoring. Feel free to create data on something that is of interest to you (and share on the discussion board).

Step 3 – Validate your JSON (you can use JSON Lint) jsonlint.c o m  and save it to your server as a text file.

Step 4 – In a web page, read the JSON data and display the data in a nice human readable format (table or list). This is demonstrated in the W3Schools tutorial.

Information

Question 4 a) "SuDS are designed to mirnic the natural rnovement of water and slow down the process of the water getting into the watercourse. They can channel the flow of water above ground and reduce the burden on the piped sewerage system- The Pitt Review 2007. This extraction from the Pitt Review surnmarised the application of Sustainable Drainage Systerns of which there are rnany designs. Briefly explain each of the different types of SuDS noted below. i. Green Roofs ii. Balancing Ponds iii. Infiltration trenches iv. Swales v. Permeable pavements (10) b) The floods for a particular river conform to an Extreme Value Type I (i.e. Gumbel) distribution. If the 100-year flood has a magnitude of 260 ri,/s and the 10-year flood has a rnagnitude of 170 rnsVs. what is the probability of having a flood as great as or greater than 240 rn-, and what is the return period of that event. c) Give 3 examples of Human flood causes (12) (3)

*Weathering, Soil and Mass Wasting*

FILL THE BLANKS

10. The downward movement of material along a curved surface of rupture, which is characterized by the backward rotation of the displaced block, is called a(n) _____.

9. The material accumulated at the base of cliffs where rocks fall is known as _____.

8. Additional weight added to a hillside, which is always the result of human activities, is called _____ .

7. Soils that are a result of intense weathering and are typically found in the tropics are _______.

6. A rapid downslope mass movement of snow and ice is called a(n) ____.

5. _____ is an essential component of soil as it provides nutrients to plants and increases the ability of the soil to retain _____.

4. A(n) ____ soil forms where the parent material has weathered, whereas ____ soil develops from eroded material that was weathered at another location.

3. Geologists call the downslope movement of material under the direct influence of gravity _____ .

2. All slopes are constantly adjusting to new conditions, which means they are in a state of _____.

1. A general term for mass movements of earth is ______.

Which one of the following would Ferdowsian and Hope (2011) most likely reject?
A) the three R’s are a very important ingredient of animal research ethics.
B) existing codes of ethics for animal research don’t go far enough.
C) recent research has shown that animals feel emotions like humans.
D) most animal models are relevant to human experimentation.

Kant, Warren, Cohen, Singer, Rachels and Regan would all agree with which one of the following?
A) animals have a right to life
B) we have a direct duty to treat animals well
C) animals have the ability to suffer to the same extent that humans do
D) it is morally wrong to treat animals cruelly
E) none of the above

A strong animal rights view endorsed by philosophers such as Singer and Regan would be inconsistent with which of the following codes of ethics?
A) CCAC guidelines
B) Helsinki Declaration
C) Nuremberg Code
D) All of the above

According to the Solow model, in the steady state, both output per worker Y/L and the capital stock per worker K/L grow at the rate of technological progress, and (choose one or both)

A this is confirmed by U.S. data for the past half century—about 2 percent per year

B this means that the capital-output ratio has remained approximately constant over time

Technological progress also affects factor prices, and in the steady state, (choose two)

A the real wage is constant over time

B the real wage grows at the rate of technological progress

C the real rental price of capital is constant over time

D the real rental price of capital grows at the rate of technological progress

The economies of the world exhibit

A conditional convergence

B unconditional convergence

International differences in income per person can be attributed to (choose one or more)

A differences in the quantities of physical and human capital

B differences in the efficiency with which economies use their factors of production

1. Consider the economy of country A. The nominal GDP increases from $40,000 to $80,000 in 15 years. Annual population growth rate is 2% and the annual inflation rate is 1%.  

1. Calculate the annual economic growth rate of country A.
2. Approximately, how long will it take for the real GDP per capita of country A to double?
3. The country discovered a new oil field, but economic growth rate fell afterward. Explain how this could happen.
4. For each of the following separate policies, determine the associated factor of economic growth.

(1) natural resources; (2) physical capital; (3) human capital; (4) technology; or (5) institutions:

(Explanations are not required, choose only one from the above list for each of the following)

1. The government allows for the freedom of speech.
2. Small companies receive tax credit from the government for hiring high-school dropouts.
3. Firms are penalized for burning coal as a source of energy.
4. The country plans to expand the subway system.
5. The government hires more police to improve the law and order.

(Article 9.4) Match each of the following growth and development policies that countries might choose to either Developmental State or Neoliberal.

1. Which of the following quotes is a good description of the moral hazard problem?

1. Milton Friedman: “Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as he uses his own.”
2. Di Lorenzo: “Whenever government allocates resources … the more affluent in the society will always receive a disproportionate share of the benefits.”
3. Von Mises: “Motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. As soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up.”
4. George Orwell: “On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”

2. The primary enforcement mechanism for the 1962 Kefauver-Harris Amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act was

1. A shift in power from pharmaceutical companies to the FDA   
2. Positive inducement in the form of patent protection for FDA-approved drugs
3. A set of rules establishing standards for drug testing
4. Negative inducement in the form of fines imposed on companies who bring unsafe drugs to the market