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"Technological improvements and reduced equipment costs have made converting solar energy directly into electricity far more cost-efficient in the last decade. However, the threshold of economic viability for solar power (that is, the price per barrel to which oil would have to rise in order for new solar power plants to be more economical than new oil-fired power plants) is unchanged at thirty-five dollars. Which of the following, if true, does most to help explain why the increased cost-efficiency of solar power has not decreased its threshold of economic viability?
(A) The cost of oil has fallen dramatically. (B) The reduction in the cost of solar-power equipment has occurred despite increased raw material costs for that equipment. (C) Technological changes have increased the efficiency of oil-fired power plants. (D) Most electricity is generated by coal-fired or nuclear, rather than oil-fired, power plants. (E) When the price of oil increases, reserves of oil not previously worth exploiting become economically viable."
Answer:
(C) Technological changes have increased the efficiency of oil-fired power plants.
Explanation:
Economic viability is able to reveal the degree of acceptance of consumers in relation to a specific product. This viability is important to understand how the product will be received in the market and how profitable or not it can be for those who produce it.
Economic viability is usually greater when the cost and benefit ratio of the product or service is favorable, however this is not always the case.
Regarding the use of solar energy, although technological changes have made the installation and equipment of this type of energy more cost-effective, these technological changes have also increased the efficiency of oil plants. As a result, the economic viability of solar energy has declined.
Answer:
The pandemic has caused the largest and fastest decline in international flows — including trade, foreign direct investment, and international travel — in modern history. While these numbers imply a major rollback of globalization’s recent gains, they don’t necessarily signal a fundamental collapse of international market integration. But how deep will the plunge really be? How fast can we expect global flows to rebound? And how might future flow patterns look different from the past? Leaders can find clues about the future and actionable implications for their companies by focusing on five key drivers of globalization’s trajectory: 1) global growth patterns; 2) supply-chain policies; 3) superpower frictions and fragility; 4) ongoing technical shifts; and 5) my opinion
Explanation:
16. A Couple with the ability to taste PTC have two grown sons and one grown daughter. The sons have the ability to taste PTC. Their daughter is a PTC non-taster. She married with a PTC non-taster man and have two sons.
The ability to taste Phenylthiocarbamide<span> or PTC is inherited by autosomal dominant trait. The daughter of the first generation should be autosomal recessive(tt) as she was a non-taster. That means her parent would be heterozygotes(Tt) since they have the ability to taste PTC. Her brother could be homozygote dominant(TT) or heterozygote(Tt). The pedigree would be:
i. no-shade square(Tt) -----------------</span>no-shade circle(<span>Tt)
ii. </span>no-shade square(T?), no-shade square(T?), shaded circle(tt)------shaded square(tt)
iii. shaded square(tt) and shade square(tt),
17. She marries with non-taster too which means also a homozygote recessive. Since both parents are homozygote recessive, the children should be 100% homozygote recessive too.
The phenotype of the sons in generation III would be 100% non-taster.
18. The genotype of the female should be XX. To express the recessive trait, an individual need to have all recessive genes. If she has a recessive trait of an X-linked disease then both of the X genes should have a lowercase letter(recessive).
Answer:
C.


19. The genotype of a male should be XY. If he has a recessive trait of an X-linked disease then the X genes should have a lowercase letter(recessive). As there is only one X gene in male, to express recessive he only needs 1 recessive gene.
Answer:
E.

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Answer:
<em>Connectionism </em>
Explanation:
Connectionism is <em>a specific philosophy applicable to machine learning and other developments in technology</em>; it perceives the human mind to be connected to complex networks of interconnection.
Several link the term to <em>data scientist Donald Hebbs</em> who was prominent in the 1940s.
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Connectionism claims that very complicated behavioral and emotional behavior can be explained by evaluating, as a main instance, cells in the brain, the complicated interaction of simple units</em>.