Question: What principle elaborates more on the view described?
Answer: the Novikov self-consistency principle.

Question: What type of drugs can impair the judgement of time?
Answer: Psychoactive drugs

Question: Stimulants lead humans to overestimate what?
Answer: time intervals

Question: What causes humans to underestimate time intervals?
Answer: depressants

Question: The level of what is the reason stimulants and depressants change human perceptions of time?
Answer: The level of activity in the brain of neurotransmitters

Question: Such chemicals do what to the firing of the brain's neurons?
Answer: either excite or inhibit the firing of neurons

Question: The use of time is important in understanding what?
Answer: human behavior, education, and travel behavior

Question: What is a developing field of time related study?
Answer: Time-use research

Question: Time use is always changing with advances in what?
Answer: technology

Question: Travelling to work has been observed to be about how long for a large number of cities over a long period?
Answer: 20–30 minutes one-way

Question: What may the description of events include?
Answer: a timestamp

Question: What never precedes cause because of causality?
Answer: effect

Question: A sequence of events used to describe a sequential path can be referred to as what?
Answer: a world line

Question: In what ways can a sequence of events be presented?
Answer: in text, tables, charts, or timelines

Question: What is another way of phrasing "time order"?
Answer: chronological order

Question: Uses of sequences of events include what?
Answer: stories, historical events (chronology), directions and steps in procedures, and timetables

Question: What may a sequence of events be used to describe?
Answer: processes in science, technology, and medicine

Question: The use of what occurs in fields as diverse as machines, documentaries, or computer simulation?
Answer: a sequence of events

Question: What is a specific example of a sequence of events?
Answer: the timeline of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster

Question: What former managing director od Goldman Sachs international division is president of The European Central Bank?
Answer: Mario Draghi

Question: What is the official, central bank for the euro?
Answer: The European Central Bank

Question: What is the Eurozone?
Answer: consists of 19 EU member states and is one of the largest currency areas in the world

Question: Who owns the capital stock of The European Central Bank?
Answer: the central banks of all 28 EU member states

Question: What established The European Central Bank?
Answer: The Treaty of Amsterdam

Question: What is the main mission of the ECB?
Answer: maintain price stability within the Eurozone

Question: What gives the ECB the right to authorise the issuance of euro banknotes?
Answer: Article 16 of its Statute

Question: How can a member state use euro coins?
Answer: the amount must be authorised by the ECB beforehand

Question: Where is the mission for the European Central Bank found?
Answer: Article 2 of the Statute of the ECB

Question: Where can the basic tasks of the European Central Bank be found?
Answer: Article 3 of the Statute

Question: Who was the first president of the ECB?
Answer: Wim Duisenberg

Question: What was Duisenberg's previous business experience?
Answer: former president of the Dutch central bank and the European Monetary Institute

Question: Who did the French government think was best candidate for President of the ECB?
Answer: Jean-Claude Trichet

Question: Why did the French want a French bank president?
Answer: since the ECB was to be located in Germany, its president should be French

Question: What did the French, German, Dutch and Belgian governments finally compromise on with regards to managing the ECB?
Answer: Duisenberg would stand down before the end of his mandate, to be replaced by Trichet

Question: What is price stability defined as?
Answer: inflation of under 2%

Question: What did the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices state that price stability had to be maintained at?
Answer: over the medium term

Question: When did the Governing Council define price stability?
Answer: October 1998

Question: What is the primary goal of the ECB?
Answer: maintain price stability within the Eurozone

Question: Where is the primary mission of the European Central Bank listed?
Answer: Article 127(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

Question: What happens when a lot of repo notes come due?
Answer: increase in liquidity in the economy

Question: What happens whe not as many repo notes are coming due?
Answer: contrary effect

Question: What happens when members increase their deposits?
Answer: more money has been put into the economy

Question: What is a good way to boost the economy?
Answer: increase in deposits in member banks

Question: Where are contracts recorded?
Answer: on the asset side of the European Central Bank's balance sheet

Question: How does a bank make sure that they can participate in auctions?
Answer: must be able to offer proof of appropriate collateral in the form of loans to other entities

Question: What kind of proof is acceptable for participation in auctions?
Answer: public debt of member states, but a fairly wide range of private banking securities are also accepted

Question: What should all assets offered up as collateral be?
Answer: all equally good, and all equally protected from the risk of inflation

Question: What must be a part of a states Gross Domestic Product in order for them to be considered for particpation in auctions?
Answer: sovereign debt

Question: Who is responsible for overseeing all monetary policy?
Answer: The Executive Board

Question: Who is the current president of the ECB?
Answer: Mario Draghi

Question: Who is the Vice-President of The European Central Bank?
Answer: Vitor Constâncio

Question: Along with the President and Vice President, how many other members make up the Executive Board?
Answer: four

Question: For how long are the other members of the Executive Board appointed?
Answer: non-renewable terms of eight years

Question: Who did the Spanish want to take José Manuel González-Páramo's seat on the board?
Answer: Antonio Sáinz de Vicuña

Question: Who was ulitmately named as González-Páramo's replacement?
Answer: Luxembourg's Yves Mersch

Question: When was González-Páramo's supposed to leave his seat on the board?
Answer: June 2012

Question: When did González-Páramo take his seat on the Executive Board?
Answer: June 2004

Question: Why did the Spanish think that Vicuña would be a suitable replacement for González-Páramo?
Answer: ECB veteran who heads its legal department

Question: What does the Supervisory Board discuss at it's meetings?
Answer: discuss, plan and carry out the ECB’s supervisory tasks

Question: How long is the term for the Chairman of the Supervisory Board?
Answer: appointed for a non-renewable term of five years

Question: How long is the term for Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board?
Answer: chosen from among the members of the ECB's Executive Board

Question: Besides the Chair and Vice-Chair, who else is on the Supervisory Board?
Answer: four ECB representatives and representatives of national supervisors

Question: What happens if the national supervisory authority designated by a Member State is not a national central bank?
Answer: the representative of the competent authority can be accompanied by a representative from their NCB

Question: What governs the ECB?
Answer: European law

Question: How does the ECB mimic a corporation?
Answer: shareholders and stock capital

Question: How much does the ECB have as capital?
Answer: five billion euros

Question: Who holds the ECB's capital?
Answer: the national central banks of the member states as shareholders

Question: What determined the ECB's initial capital?
Answer: the basis of the states' population and GDP