Which of the following statements is most accurate concerning the speculations of the Nature Philosophers concerning the realm of Being?

Pythagoras is a rare example of an ancient nature philosopher who…?

Democritus is famous for his ideas concerning the “atom”–a word which in Greek literally means…?

A researcher wants to gather information on citizens’ reactions to the local government’s decision to construct a new airport in their neighborhood. The researcher gathers groups of citizens and asks them to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed airport. This type of data would be considered  ________ in nature.

A researcher is asked to guide the formulation of public policy to increase voter turnout, which has been on a steady decline in her country. In this scenario, the idea behind the research originates from

Tiana, a researcher, investigated the relationship between the length of a test and the grades in a western civilization course. After randomly assigning students to groups and giving them tests of different lengths, she found that the students who took longer exams received better grades than students who took shorter exams. In this scenario, the independent variable is the

Over the past 2+ decades, environmental regulation has used the idea of internalizing negative externalities to create an incentive for reducing the cost to society from environmental pollution.  For this question, explain how this works and why it results in efforts to reduce the cost to society from pollution?

Given the various dangers associated with differentiating based on values, can a firm avoid these problems by refusing to take a stand on a controversial issue?  Be sure to explain your answer for full credit.

Linear Hashing-2 Give Input index key as:  11, 12, 5, 9, 3, 2, 1, 10, 8, 13, 16. According to the hash table from the above index keys, with the bucket size = 3. What is the hash function using for searching the index keys at the end of round 0?

Suppose the program has page requires as: 1, 4, 3, 2, 1, 4, 3, 4, 8, 1, 2, 5, 4. Show the buffer’s page allocation using the replacement policy: Least Recently Used-LRU, where the buffer size = 3.  (Note: the victim page should be on the top of a buffer, please upload file to answer the question.)