Social Science
What was the name of the interactive reservation system developed by IBM and American Airlines?
SABRE(Semi-automatic Business Research Environment).
A movement equation is also known as what?
A vector equation.
How is a collective good characterized?
Low degree of rivalry and high excludability.
What can be a consequence of damage to the ventral visual stream?
Difficulty recognizing visual objects.
What was glass like before cristallo glass was invented?
It has a thick wall and a yellow or greenish color.
How was SABRE used by the thousand travel agents at over 50 locations?
Via keyboard terminals(typewriters).
Equations of lines can be written using the ________ equation or a _____ equation.
Coordinate Slope, movement
Define Organizations.
Formal rules and structures used to help organize human interactions.
What does the extrastriate cortex involve?
In high-resolution vision and object recognition.
What were the four key ingredients for making cristallo glass?
A former, a flux, a stabilizer, and a decolorizer.
What did CTSS consist of?
An IBM 7090 attached to a 28-megabytw disk drive.
When two chords intersect in a circle, what is the angle between them equal to?
The average of the arc angles formed by the chords.
What is the source of externalities?
Goods which are rival in consumption but not owned.
Processes information about the "where" of visual stimuli.
How did the Venetians get the flux they needed to make cristallo glass?
It was acquired in the form of a special plant ash called allume catina.
What did BASIC program allow students to do?
Get immediate feedback on the correctness of their programs.
What two points on the parabola y=x2 have a slope of 3 between them?
Name the thee aggregate economic indicators.
Gross Domestic Product(GDP), the cost of living, and the unemployment rate.
What are the specific deficits associated with damage to area MT?
Impaired perception of motion and reduced sensitivity to detecting movement in specific directions.
What does the Behaim Beaker depict?
The Behaim family coats of arms, alongside framed tableau images of St. Catherine and St. Micheal.
How successful was BASIC?
BY 1968, it was being taught by universities and high schools, and it was it most new computer models introduced in the 1970's.
What two chords intersect inside a circle, how are the lengths of the segments of the chords related?
The product of the lengths of the segments of one chord equals the product of the lengths of the segments of the other chord.
What is the second question macroeconomics is concerned with?
What are the causes and consequences of short-run fluctuations in the level of economic activity, unemployment, and inflation.
What is the role of V1 in visual processing?
To send information about color, shape and form to higher-order visual regions specialized for processing such inputs in the occipital and parietal cortex.
What were the restrictions for Murano glassblowers?
If they shared secrets on the process of glassblowing or even tried to leave to work somewhere else, they would be punished by jail time or even execution.