experiment was to measure reaction activity over time and how substrate concentration affects their activity level. A supernatant was made through the dilution of blended potato extract. Then the supernatant was mixed with catechol and the reaction rate was measured in units of absorbance through a spectrophotometer every 30 seconds for ten minutes. The results supported the prediction that enzyme activity slows down over time. The next experiment done was to measure the effect of substrate…
In order to successfully run the program, there are five parties that need to cooperate. Government who is the decision maker on the project timeline and the expected outcomes, also design the rate of return that will be offered to the private sector (Ainsworth, 2011). Intermediary organisation will be partnered with the government to coordinate the program, and also the one that will be issuing the bonds to the investors. Private investor is…
control and it was estimated to be 8% in the future. Brazil was the second largest trading partner with the US and the nation’s economy was going to be the sixth largest in the world by 2015. For Wiley and the automobile industry Brazil’s 3-4% growth rate in the next few years presented a great opportunity given its influence in the Latin American economies. Other advantage and disadvantages of locating its operations in Brazil included: Advantages High number of diverse and skilled industrial…
Along the lines of rate laws come half-lives. Such a common topic that comes to mind with half-lives is the decay of radioactive elements, or the time it takes for a certain sample of an element to reach half of its original size. For example, during the Chernobyl power plant incident in 1986, one of the most dangerous elements to begin its decay was Cesium-137 which has a half-life of 30 years. Therefore, people can’t move back to the area because of the deadly amounts of Cesium-137 still…
A fungus. That’s how the human race was taken out. Pathetic. Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. Also known as the zombie virus, it was discovered by British Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1859. It affected ants of the Camponotini tribe. The infected ant would leave its nest and travel to an area with the perfect temperature and humidity for fungal growth, then the ant would use its mandibles to hang on a leaf upside down until the inevitable death that would follow. Over the next one hundred and…
share some similarities, there are also significant differences one needs to be aware of, such as how the investment works, the outside forces that influence value, liquidity, and the markets where they are traded. It is also important to understand rates of return, so I shall include multiple examples using a stock with and without a dividend component. Stocks are probably the most easily understood by the novice investor and are a market that is accessible by almost anyone. There are dozens of…
AlfaTrade account types and platforms also offering Islamic account The forex market is a large trading market involving currency trade. This fast paced market is dominated by central banks, wealthy individuals, hedge funds and other financial institutions. Advanced in technology has made it easy to trade currencies, as this can now be done online through a brokerage account. The greatest advantage of currency trading remains the facts that it is less volatile compared to commodity or share…
setting the interest rate on overnight loans in the money market. This is known as the “cash rate”. RBA further explains that the cash rate influences other interest rates in the economy (including the money-market rates and the key rates of banks and financial intermediaries such as mortgage and business loan rates), and this affects the behaviour of borrowers and lenders, economic activity, and ultimately, the rate of inflation. As mentioned, monetary policy sets the cash rate, and this in…
The global financial market has actively changed since the 1990s after experiencing two financial crises in 1997 and 2008, and consequently, the central bank’s features such as structure and functions have altered too, especially its position with the government. To date, central bank’s independence, accountability, and transparency have been seen as three essential pillars of this change. Padayachee (2004) and Crowe & Meade (2008) comment that this is a real revolution in the central bank’s…
inter-bank offered rate). The rate is widely considered the primary benchmark in finance upon which trillions of dollars of contracts are exchanged. Libor is a money market interest rate which banks and financial institutions use as a yardstick for borrowing from one another. It is determined each morning from a survey of 11 to 17 leading banks which asks them to estimate a rate they would be willing to pay to borrow money on a short term basis from another institution. Rates are produced…