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Under Islamic law, fatwahs are ________.

When neither the legislature nor the courts in their prior decisions have addressed a topic, the legal system turns to ___________. Originally, this was a set of shared values and views drawn from English and early American legal and social history.

Every society develops a more or less formal system of law to serve it’s interests as a community and to promote the welfare of it’s members.

_____________________ are a wide range of instructions that in principal one might make known their wishes about actions one would or would not want to be taken if one were somehow incapacitated and unable to join in making decisions.

The sense of balance

Which sensation is not sensed by a special sense organ?

Flavor detection is based more on our sense of taste than our sense of smell.

The general sense organ that can detect pain, temperature, tickle and itch is more specifically the 

We have a table below, and we want to apply user-based collaborative filtering to recommend music to Chan. To simplify the calculation, we are going to use the Manhattan distance as our measure. First, please list the distance between Chan and other users.   (1 pt) Angelica – Chan: [a] (1 pt) Bill – Chan: [b] (1 pt) Dan – Chan: [c] (1 pt) Hailey – Chan: [d] (Please continue calculating the distance between Chan and the rest of the users) (3 pts) Next, which band/artist should we recommend to Chan? [h]

E-commerce platforms widely apply collaborative filtering algorithms to recommend products to their customers. There has been a discussion on whether the collaborative filtering-based recommendation would lead to more or less diverse product consumption. Based on the mechanism of collaborative filtering, could you please discuss your hypothesis on this question? Please briefly discuss the supporting points of your hypothesis using the bullet points.