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What does it refer to in paragraph 7? 7  Panda breeding season is a race against the biological clock. It only comes once a year, and the giant panda team, including scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Center for Species Survival, and vets, keepers and biologists from the Zoo’s animal care teams, must be ready. Giant panda females, like Mei Xiang, ovulate for just 24 to 72 hours. To identify the opening of that tiny window, animal keepers carefully watch Mei Xiang for any behavioral sign of estrus. At the same time, scientists monitor hormones in her urine to pinpoint the window when she is ready to breed. If attempts at natural breeding are not successful, scientists can step in, collect fresh or frozen-thawed semen from a male and use the genetic material collected to artificially inseminate a female. At the Zoo, three artificial inseminations have resulted in successful births: male Tai Shan in 2005, female Bao Bao in 2013 and male Bei Bei in 2015.

According to paragraph 3, when panda populations become smaller, they face two types of extinction threats. What kind of influences do these specific threats fit into?    drought:   [BLANK-1] inbreeding:  [BLANK-2] 3  As few as 1,864 giant pandas live in their native habitat, while another 300 pandas live in zoos and breeding centers around the world. The largest threat to giant panda survival is habitat destruction. People in need of food and income have cleared forests for agriculture and timber. This logging has fragmented a once continuous habitat, leaving small groups of pandas isolated from each other. When populations become small, they are extremelysusceptible to extinction due to environmental or genetic influences, such as drought or inbreeding. Small populations cannot rebound the same way large populations do; as groups of pandas become more isolated, it is more likely that reproduction, disease resistance and population stability will be threatened.

Name six topics that animal experts have studied about the giant panda. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Near the end of Shyam Benegal’s film, Ankur (1974), Kishtayya audibly speaks.

The Sound of Waves does not show a direct encounter between Hatsue and Shinji’s mother.

Describe clearly and fully two different and specific elements in The Sound of Waves that refer to aspects of the Second World War. Explain specifically how these elements reflect aspects of the Second World War. (Please note: in answering this question, you may drawn on what was discussed in class as well as on anything else in the book.)

Early in Hirokazu Koreeda’s film, Shoplifters (2018), Osamu is supposed to recycle cans (and perhaps other items), but instead he

According to The Sound of Waves, Hatsue has sisters.

A stock has an expected return of 12.4 percent, its beta is 1.25, and the risk-free rate is 4.1 percent. What must the expected return on the market be?

You own a stock portfolio invested 20 percent in Stock U, 25 percent in Stock V, 30 percent in Stock W, and 25 percent in Stock X. The betas are 0.78, 1.12, 1.35, and 1.48, respectively. What is the portfolio beta?