Input: A reduction or an elimination of an open position by the appropriate offsetting purchase or sale. An existing long option position is closed by a selling transaction. An existing short option position is closed by a purchase transaction. This transaction will reduce the open interest for the specific option involved. [American Style Option]

Output: Close

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Input: A transaction to eliminate a short position. [American Style Option]

Output: Closing Purchase

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Input: The high and low prices recorded during the period designated as the official close. [American Style Option]

Output: Closing Range

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Input: A transaction to eliminate a long position. [American Style Option]

Output: Closing Sale

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Input: A protective strategy in which a written call and a long put are taken against a previously owned long stock position. The options may have the same strike price or different strike prices and the expiration months may or may not be the same. For example, if the investor previously purchased XYZ Corporation at $46 and it rose to $62, a 'collar' involving the purchase of a May 60 put and the writing of a May 65 call could be established as a way of protecting some of the unrealized profit in the XYZ Corporation stock position. The reverse -- a long call combined with a written put -- might also be used if the investor has previously established a short stock position in XYZ Corporation. See also Fence [American Style Option]

Output: Collar

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Input: A service charge assessed by a broker and his/her investment company in return for arranging the purchase or sale of a security. [American Style Option]

Output: Commission

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Input: The sale or purchase of 2 options with consecutive exercise prices, together with the sale or purchase of 1 option with an immediately lower exercise price and 1 option with an immediately higher exercise price. [American Style Option]

Output: Condor

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Input: A measure of price changes in consumer goods and services. This index is used to identify periods of economic inflation or deflation. [American Style Option]

Output: Consumer Price Index (CPI)

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Input: A unit of trading for a financial or commodity future, or option. [American Style Option]

Output: Contract

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Input: A sudden decline in the price of a security after a period of market strength. [American Style Option]

Output: Correction

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Input: A short call option position against a long position in an underlying stock or futures. An option strategy in which a call option is written against an equivalent amount of long stock. Example: writing 2 XYZ May 60 calls while owning 200 shares or more of XYZ stock. See also Buy-write and Overwrite [American Style Option]

Output: Covered Call

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Input: A short put option position against a short position in an underlying stock or futures. [American Style Option]

Output: Covered Put

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Input: The difference in value between 2 options, where the value of the short position exceeds the value of the long position. [American Style Option]

Output: Credit Spread

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Input: The current exchange rate between differing currencies. [American Style Option]

Output: Cross Rate

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Input: The difference between the high and low price of a security in one trading day. [American Style Option]

Output: Daily Range

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Input: The purchase and sale of a position in the same day. [American Style Option]

Output: Day Trade

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Input: An approach to trading in which the same position is entered and exited within one day. [American Style Option]

Output: Day Trading

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Input: The difference in value between 2 options, where the value of the long position exceeds the value of the short position. [American Style Option]

Output: Debit Spread

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Input: A deep-in-the-money call option has a strike price well below the current price of the underlying instrument. A deep-in-the-money put option has a strike price well above the current price of the underlying instrument. Both primarily consist of intrinsic value. [American Style Option]

Output: Deep-in-the-Money

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Input: The amount by which the price of an option changes for every dollar move in the underlying instrument. [American Style Option]

Output: Delta

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Input: A position arranged by selecting a calculated ratio of short and long positions that balance out to an overall position delta of zero. [American Style Option]

Output: Delta Neutral

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Input: A measure of option or underlying securities delta. [American Style Option]

Output: Delta Position

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Input: An options strategy protecting an option against price changes in the option's underlying instrument by balancing the overall position delta to zero. [American Style Option]

Output: Delta-Hedged

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Input: Financial instruments based on the market value of an underlying asset. [American Style Option]

Output: Derivative

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Input: When 2 or more averages or indices fail to show confirming trends. [American Style Option]

Output: Divergence

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Input: A sum of money paid out to a shareholder from the stock's profits. [American Style Option]

Output: Dividend

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Input: Used as an overall indicator of market performance, this average is composed of 30 blue chip stocks which are traded daily on the New York Stock Exchange. [American Style Option]

Output: Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)

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Input: The potential for prices to decrease. [American Style Option]

Output: Downside

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Input: The potential risk one takes if prices decrease in directional trading. [American Style Option]

Output: Downside Risk

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Input: The close of the trading day when market prices settle. [American Style Option]

Output: End of Day

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Input: A price level in a sideways market equal-distance from the resistance and support levels. [American Style Option]

Output: Equilibrium

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Input: An option on shares of an individual common stock or exchange traded fund. [American Style Option]

Output: Equity option

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Input: An option contract that can only be exercised on the expiration date. [American Style Option]

Output: European Style Option

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Input: An area where an asset, option, future, stock or derivative is bought and sold. [American Style Option]

Output: Exchange

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Input: The price at which one country's currency can be converted into another country's currency. [American Style Option]

Output: Exchange Rate

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Input: The process of completing an order to buy or sell securities. [American Style Option]

Output: Execution

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Input: Implementing an option's right to buy or sell the underlying security. [American Style Option]

Output: Exercise

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Input: A price at which the stock or commodity underlying a call or put option can be purchased (call) or sold (put). [American Style Option]

Output: Exercise Price

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Input: The stock price is randomly projected into the future using the stock's 20-day statistical (historical) volatility (SV) in the Optionetics option trade ranker tool. The stock price projection stops at the expiration of the earlist expiring option leg. The stock price future statistical distribution at option expiration is used to compute possible profits and losses. Expected Profit is the predicted profits minus the predicted losses expressed in total dollars. [American Style Option]

Output: Expected Profit

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Input: The date and time after which an option may no longer be exercised. [American Style Option]

Output: Expiration

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Input: The last day on which an option may be exercised. [American Style Option]

Output: Expiration Date

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Input: An opportunity that can yield large profits with usually a limited risk in a short amount of time. [American Style Option]

Output: Explosive

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Input: The price of an option less its intrinsic value. An out-of-the money option's worth consists of nothing but extrinsic or time value. [American Style Option]

Output: Extrinsic Value

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Input: Selling a rising price or buying a falling price. [American Style Option]

Output: Fade

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Input: The value of an asset under normal conditions. [American Style Option]

Output: Fair Market Value

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Input: An executed order. [American Style Option]

Output: Fill

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Input: Placing an order to buy or sell an exact number of units or none at all. [American Style Option]

Output: Fill or Kill

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Input: An order that must be filled or canceled immediately. [American Style Option]

Output: Fill Order

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Input: The term used for debt instruments. [American Style Option]

Output: Financial Instruments

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Input: A delta figure that does not change with the change in the underlying. A futures contract has a fixed delta of plus or minus 100. [American Style Option]

Output: Fixed Delta

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Input: A variation in the market price of a security. [American Style Option]

Output: Fluctuation

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Input: The first expiration month in a series of months. [American Style Option]

Output: Front Month

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Input: An approach to trading research to predict futures and stock price movements based on a balance sheet and income statements, past records of earnings, sales, assets, management, products and services. [American Style Option]

Output: Fundamental Analysis

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Input: All contracts covering the purchase and sale of financial instruments or physical commodities for future delivery. These orders are transacted on a commodity futures exchange. [American Style Option]

Output: Futures

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Input: Agreement to buy or sell a set number of shares of a commodity or financial instruments in a designated future month at a price agreed upon by the buyer and seller. [American Style Option]

Output: Futures Contract

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Input: The degree by which the delta changes with respect to changes in the underlying instrument's price. [American Style Option]

Output: Gamma

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Input: A day in which the daily range is completely above or below the previous day's daily range. [American Style Option]

Output: Gap

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Input: To buy securities, options or futures. [American Style Option]

Output: Go Long

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Input: To sell securities, options or futures. [American Style Option]

Output: Go Short

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Input: Sometimes simply called "GTC", it means an order to buy or sell stock that is good until you cancel it. [American Style Option]

Output: Good Til' Canceled Order (GTC)

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Input: A strangle where the call and the put are in-the-money. [American Style Option]

Output: Guts

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Input: The intense selling of stocks by speculators who think the market is about to drop because they think prices are inflated. [American Style Option]

Output: Hammering the Market

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Input: Reducing the risk of loss by taking a position through options or futures opposite to the current position they hold in the market. [American Style Option]

Output: Hedge

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Input: The highest price that was paid for a stock during a certain period. [American Style Option]

Output: High (hi)

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Input: Refers to the high and low transactions prices that occur each trading day. [American Style Option]

Output: High and Low

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Input: A speculative high-priced stock that moves up and down sharply over a short period of time. [American Style Option]

Output: High Flyer

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Input: A measurement of how much a contract's price has fluctuated over a period of time in the past; usually calculated by taking a stand`ard deviation of price changes over a time period. [American Style Option]

Output: Historic Volatility

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Input: One who purchases an option. [American Style Option]

Output: Holder

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Input: Market which has no volume that subsequently creates a lot of slippage due to lack of trading volume. [American Style Option]

Output: Illiquid Market

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Input: An order which must be filled immediately or canceled. [American Style Option]

Output: Immediate/Cancel

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Input: An index is a group of stocks which can be traded as one portfolio, such as the S&P 500. Broad-based indexes cover a wide range of industries and companies and narrow-based indexes cover stocks in one industry or economic sector. [American Style Option]

Output: Index

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Input: Call options and put options on indexes of stocks are designed to reflect and fluctuate with market conditions. Index options allow investors to trade in a specific industry group or market without having to buy all the stocks individually. [American Style Option]

Output: Index Options

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Input: The charge for the privilege of borrowing money, usually expressed as an annual percentage rate. [American Style Option]

Output: Interest Rate

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Input: Refers to a point in the business cycle when interest rates are declining and bond prices are rising. [American Style Option]

Output: Interest Rate Driven

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Input: Observing the price movement of one market for the purpose of evaluating a different market. [American Style Option]

Output: Inter-market Analysis

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Input: A spread consisting of opposing positions in instruments with two different markets. [American Style Option]

Output: Inter-market Spread

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Input: If you were to exercise an option and it would generate a profit at the time, it is known to be in the money. [American Style Option]

Output: In-the-Money

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Input: A "call" option is in-the-money if the strike price is less than the market price of the underlying security. A "put" option is in-the-money if the strike price is greater than the market price of the underlying security Intrinsic Value The amount by which a market is in-the-money. Out-of-the-money options have no intrinsic value. Calls = underlying -strike price. Puts = strike price - underlying. [American Style Option]

Output: In-the-Money Option

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Input: The in-the-money portion of an option's price. See also In-the-money option . The value of an option if you excercised it at a given moment. Out-of-the money and at-the-money options have no intrinsic value. For in-the-money options, the intrinsic value is the difference between the strike price and the underlying stock price. [American Style Option]

Output: Intrinsic value

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Input: The combination of a long (short) straddle and a short (long) strangle. All options must have the same underlying and have the same expiration. [American Style Option]

Output: Iron Butterfly

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Input: Long-term stock or index options which are available with expiration dates up to three years in the future. [American Style Option]

Output: LEAPS

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Input: One side of a spread. [American Style Option]

Output: Leg

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Input: A term describing the greater percentage of profit or loss potential when a given amount of money controls a security with a much larger face value. For example, a call option enables the owner to assume the upside potential of 100 shares of stock by investing a much smaller amount than that required to buy the stock. If the stock increases by 10 percent, for example, the option might double in value. Conversely, a 10 percent stock price decline might result in the total loss of the purchase price of the option. [American Style Option]

Output: Leverage

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Input: The maximum daily price limit for an exchange traded contract. [American Style Option]

Output: Limit Move

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Input: An order to buy a stock at or below a specified price or to sell a stock at or above a specified price. [American Style Option]

Output: Limit Order

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Input: Commodity exchange restrictions on the maximum upward or downward movements permitted in the price for a commodity during any trading session day. [American Style Option]

Output: Limit Up, Limit Down

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Input: The ease with which an asset can be converted to cash in the marketplace. A large number of buyers and sellers and a high volume of trading activity provide high liquidity. [American Style Option]

Output: Liquidity

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Input: A market where trading has been halted because prices have reached their daily trading limit. [American Style Option]

Output: Locked Market

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Input: The term used to describe the buying of a security, contract, commodity, or option. When you own a security or option…You might have a long porition, or be long. [American Style Option]

Output: Long

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Input: This is the lowest price paid for a stock during a certain period. [American Style Option]

Output: Low (lo)

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Input: A trade which is hedged for purposes of limiting price loss as opposed to a directional trade where loss is unlimited. [American Style Option]

Output: Low Risk Investing

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Input: A market maker stands ready to buy or sell a particular security for his/her own account to keep the market liquid. [American Style Option]

Output: Make a Market

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Input: A deposit contributed by a customer as a percentage of the current market value of the securities held in a margin account is thus the margin amount. This amount changes as the price of the investment changes. [American Style Option]

Output: Margin

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Input: A customer account in which a brokerage firm lends the customer part of the purchase price of a trade. [American Style Option]

Output: Margin Account

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Input: A call from a broker signaling the need for a trader to deposit additional money into a margin account to maintain a trade. [American Style Option]

Output: Margin Call

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Input: The amount of cash an uncovered (naked) option writer is required to deposit and maintain to cover his daily position price changes. [American Style Option]

Output: Margin Requirements (Options)

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Input: At the end of each business day the open positions carried in an account held at a brokerage firm are credited or debited funds based on the settlement price of the open positions that day. [American Style Option]

Output: Marked to Market

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Input: An order specification that requires the broker to get the best price available on the close of trading, usually during the last five minutes of trading. [American Style Option]

Output: Market on Close

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Input: Buying or selling securities at the price given at the time the order reached the market. A market order is to be executed immediately at the best available price, and is the only order that guarantees execution. [American Style Option]

Output: Market Order

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Input: The most recent price at which a security transaction took place. [American Style Option]

Output: Market Price

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Input: The price at which investors buy or sell a share of common stock or a bond at a given time. Market value is determined by the interaction between buyers and sellers. [American Style Option]

Output: Market Value

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Input: The daily adjustment of margin accounts to reflect profits and losses. In this way, losses are never allowed to accumulate. [American Style Option]

Output: Mark-to-Market

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Input: The simultaneous purchase of stock and put options representing an equivalent number of shares. This is a limited risk strategy during the life of the puts because the stock can always be sold for at least the strike price of the purchased puts. [American Style Option]

Output: Married put strategy

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Input: The maximum amount of losses possible from the option trade in the Optionetics option trade ranker tool. [American Style Option]

Output: Max Loss

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Input: The maximum amount of net profit possible from the option trade in the Optionetics option trade ranker tool. [American Style Option]

Output: Max Profit

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Input: Usually solidly established medium growth firms with less than 100 billion in assets. They provide better growth potential than blue-chip stocks, but do not offer as wide a variety of investment attributes. [American Style Option]

Output: Mid-cap Stocks

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Input: A model value for the option quote is the Bjerksund and Stensland Approximation of the Black-Scholes "fair" value of the option based on the estimated IV from the stock's other options. [American Style Option]

Output: Model

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Input: The Optionetics option trade ranker tool software uses an option mathematical model ( the Bjerksund Stensland American option model) to fairly price the option. The Optionetics software computes what the profit of the option strategy would be using the mathematical model option prices. The profit value is called the Model Profit. If this "model profit", when the trade is formed, is close to the profit of 0.0 ( a new trade should start with no profit ) then we are confident the option data being used for the trade is good. Model profits that exceed $200 likely are caused by incorrect option data. [American Style Option]

Output: Model Profit

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Input: When a market continues in the same direction for a certain time frame, the market is said to have momentum. [American Style Option]

Output: Momentum

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Input: A technical indicator utilizing price and volume statistics for predicting the strength or weakness of a current market. [American Style Option]

Output: Momentum Indicator

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Input: Investing with (or against) the momentum of the market in hopes of profiting from it. [American Style Option]

Output: Momentum Trading

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Input: The moving average is probably the best known, and most versatile, technical indicator. A mathematical procedure in which the sum of a value plus a selected number of previous values are divided by the total number of values. Used to smooth or eliminate t he fluctuations in data and to assist in determining when to buy and sell. [American Style Option]

Output: Moving Averages

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Input: You write a call on a stock you don't hold. [American Style Option]

Output: Naked call

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Input: An option written (sold) without an underlying hedge position. [American Style Option]

Output: Naked Option

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Input: A securities position not hedged from market risk. [American Style Option]

Output: Naked Position

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Input: The closing spread between the bid and asked prices of a security as a result of bidding and offering. [American Style Option]

Output: Narrowing the Spread

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Input: An option with a strike price close to the current price of the underlying tradable. [American Style Option]

Output: Near-the-Money

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Input: A short-term debt security, usually maturing in five years or less. [American Style Option]

Output: Note

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Input: Odds is the predicted profits divided by the predicted losses obtained by projecting the stock price randomly into the future using the Statistical Volatility (SV). The prediction stops at the expiration of the earlist expiring option leg. [American Style Option]

Output: Odds

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Input: The lowest price at which a person is willing to sell. [American Style Option]

Output: Offer

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Input: The change of the offer of the market related to a downward price movement at that specific time. [American Style Option]

Output: Offer Down

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Input: To liquidate a futures position by entering an equivalent but opposite transaction. To offset a long position, a sale is made; to offset a short position, a purchase is made. [American Style Option]

Output: Offset

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Input: The option in question is trading at its exercise price (also referred to as at-the-money).. [American Style Option]

Output: On-the-Money

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Input: If you purchase or write an option, creating a new position on that option, you establish an open position. [American Style Option]

Output: Open

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Input: The total number of outstanding option contracts on a given series or for a given underlying stock. [American Style Option]

Output: Open interest

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Input: An order to buy or sell a security at a specified price, valid until executed or canceled. [American Style Option]

Output: Open Order

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Input: The range of prices at which the first bids and offers were made or first transactions were completed. [American Style Option]

Output: Opening Price

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Input: The theoretical cost of using your capital for one investment versus another. [American Style Option]

Output: Opportunity Costs

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Input: A security that represents the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a specified amount of an underlying security (stock, bond, futures contract, etc.) at a specified price within a specified time. [American Style Option]

Output: Option

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Input: The buyer of either a call or put option. [American Style Option]

Output: Option Holder

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Input: This is the price of an option. [American Style Option]

Output: Option Premium

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Input: The seller of either a call or put option. [American Style Option]

Output: Option Writer

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Input: A tool that lets you see all the available options for an underlying stock, including their prices and other trading data. [American Style Option]

Output: Options chain

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Input: All the calls or all the puts on an underlying security. [American Style Option]

Output: Options class

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Input: All the calls or puts on an underlying stock with identical terms, including expiration month and strike price. [American Style Option]

Output: Options series

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Input: A ticket or voucher representing long or short securities and options. [American Style Option]

Output: Order

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Input: The volume of orders being bought or sold on the exchanges. [American Style Option]

Output: Order Flow

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Input: An option whose exercise price has no intrinsic value. When a call's strike price is above the underlying stock price, or a put's strike price is below the stock price. [American Style Option]

Output: Out-of-the-Money

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Input: A call option is out-of-the-money if its exercise or strike price is above the current market price of the underlying security. A put option is out-of-the-money if its exercise or strike price is below the current market price of the underlying securi ty. [American Style Option]

Output: Out-of-the-Money Option (OTM)

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Input: A term used to describe a security or option whose current price is not justified. [American Style Option]

Output: Overvalued

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Input: The stated or "nominal" value of a bond (typically $1,000) that is paid to the bondholder at maturity. [American Style Option]

Output: Par

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Input: An order to buy or sell a security which expires if not filled by the end of the day. [American Style Option]

Output: paste text

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Input: The theoretical risk of a trade in a specific time frame. [American Style Option]

Output: Perceived Risk

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Input: The price movement required for a security to go from one "full point" level to another (i.e. stock goes up or down $1). [American Style Option]

Output: Point Spread

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Input: Points apply to security prices. In the case of shares, one point indicates $1.00 per share. For bonds, , one point means 1% of par value. Commodities differ from market to market. [American Style Option]

Output: Points

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Input: The total of a trader's open contracts. [American Style Option]

Output: Position

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Input: The sum of all positive and negative deltas in a hedged position. [American Style Option]

Output: Position Delta

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Input: The maximum number of open contracts in a single underlying instrument. [American Style Option]

Output: Position Limit

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Input: The amount of cash that an option buyer pays to an option seller. The price you pay if you are an options buyer, or the amount you receive if you're an options writer. [American Style Option]

Output: Premium

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Input: Price of a share of common stock on the date shown. Highs and lows are based on the highest and lowest intra-day trading price. [American Style Option]

Output: Price

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Input: A technical analysis tool for comparing the prices of different common stocks by assessing how much the market is willing to pay for a share of each corporation's earnings. PE is calculated by dividing the current market price of a stock by the earnin gs per share. [American Style Option]

Output: Price / Earnings Ratio (PE)

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Input: The initial purchase price of a bond on which interest is earned. [American Style Option]

Output: Principal

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Input: Probability of Profit is the probability that the predicted stock price falls within the option trade's profit zones. The predicted stock price distribution is computed by projecting the stock price randomly into the future using the SV. The prediction stops at the expiration of the earlist expiring option leg. [American Style Option]

Output: Probability of Profit

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Input: You purchase a put on stock you already own. [American Style Option]

Output: Protective put

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Input: An option contract giving the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell a specified amount of an underlying security at a specified price within a specified time. The put option buyer hopes the price of the shares will drop by a specific date w hile the put option seller (or writer) hopes that the price of the shares will rise, remain stable, or drop by an amount less than their profit on the premium by the specified date. [American Style Option]

Output: Put Option

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Input: An order that must be filled as soon as it reaches the trading floor at the price specified, or be canceled immediately. [American Style Option]

Output: Quickie

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Input: The price being offered or bid by a market maker or broker-dealer for a particular security. [American Style Option]

Output: Quote

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Input: Refers to the price at which the last sale and purchase of a particular security or commodity took place. [American Style Option]

Output: Quoted Price

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Input: A delta neutral spread where an uneven amount of contracts are bought and sold with a ratio less than 2 to 3. Optimally no net credit or net debit occurs. [American Style Option]

Output: Ratio Backspread

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Input: A bearish or stable strategy in which a trader buys 2 higher strike calls and sell1 lower strike call. This strategy offers limited risk and unlimited profit potential. [American Style Option]

Output: Ratio Call Spread

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Input: A bullish or stable strategy ion which a trader buys 1 higher strike put and sells two lower strike puts. This strategy offers limited risk and unlimited profit potential. [American Style Option]

Output: Ratio Put Spread

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Input: A stock's price movement over the past year as compared to a market index. [American Style Option]

Output: Relative Strength

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Input: An indicator used to identify price tops and bottoms. [American Style Option]

Output: Relative Strength Index (RSI)

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Input: A stop that, when hit, is a signal to reverse the current trading position, i.e., from long to short. Also known as stop and reverse. [American Style Option]

Output: Reversal Stop

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Input: The mathematical relationship between the maximum potential risk and maximum potential reward of a trade. [American Style Option]

Output: Reward-Risk Ratio

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Input: A graphic determination of risk on a trade. This would include the profit and loss of a trade at any given point for any given time frame. [American Style Option]

Output: Risk Profile

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Input: A trading action in which the trader simultaneously closes an open option position and creates a new option position at a different strike price, different expiration, or both. Variations of this include rolling up, rolling down, rolling out and diagonal rolling. [American Style Option]

Output: Rolling

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Input: Procedure by which a long or short position is offset by an opposite transaction. [American Style Option]

Output: Round-turn

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Input: A market with a consistent but short-lived rise or drop in market activity due to predictable changes in climate or calendar. [American Style Option]

Output: Seasonal Market

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Input: If you sell an option, whether opening a new position or closing an existing position, you're a seller. [American Style Option]

Output: Seller

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Input: The practice of borrowing a stock, future or option from a broker and selling it because the investor forecasts that the price of a stock is going down. [American Style Option]

Output: Selling Short

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Input: All option contracts of the same class that also have the same unit of trade, expiration date, and exercise price. [American Style Option]

Output: Series (Options)

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Input: The selling of a security, contract or commodity not owned by the seller.. [American Style Option]

Output: Short

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Input: When you have written an option. You may have a short position, or be short. [American Style Option]

Output: Short

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Input: The sale of shares or futures that a seller does not currently own. The seller borrows them (usually from a broker) and sells them with the intent to replace what s/he has sold through later repurchase in the market at a lower price. [American Style Option]

Output: Short Selling

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Input: Up-and-comer companies that offer big rewards and higher risks. They tend to cost less than mid-caps and have lower liquidity. However, small amounts of media coverage can prompt big gains. [American Style Option]

Output: Small-cap Stocks

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Input: A sharp price rise in one or two days indicating the time for an immediate sale. [American Style Option]

Output: Spike

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Input: The difference between the bid and the ask prices of a security. Also may refer to an options strategy that calls for you to hold two or more simultaneous positions. [American Style Option]

Output: Spread

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Input: A type of contingency order, often erroneously known as a 'stop-loss' order, placed with a broker that becomes a market order when the stock trades, or is bid or offered, at or through a specified price. See also Stop-limit order [American Style Option]

Output: Stop order

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Input: A type of contingency order placed with a broker that becomes a limit order when the stock trades, or is bid or offered, at or through a specific price. [American Style Option]

Output: Stop-limit order

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Input: Buy stops are orders that are placed at a specified price over the current price of the market. Sell stops are orders that are placed with a specified price below the current price. [American Style Option]

Output: Stops

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Input: A position consisting of a long (short) call and a long (short) put, where both options have the same strike price and expiration date. [American Style Option]

Output: Straddle

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Input: A position consisting of a long (short) call and a long (short) put where both options have the same underlying, the same expiration date, but different strike prices. Most strangles involve OTM options. [American Style Option]

Output: Strangle

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Input: A price at which the stock or commodity underlying a call or put option can be purchased (call) or sold (put) over the specified period. [American Style Option]

Output: Strike Price (Exercise Price)

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Input: A historical price level at which falling prices have stopped falling and either moved sideways or reversed direction. [American Style Option]

Output: Support

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Input: The measurement of price movement between extreme highs and lows. [American Style Option]

Output: Swings

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Input: A long put and a long stock or future. [American Style Option]

Output: Synthetic Long Call

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Input: A long call and a short stock or future. [American Style Option]

Output: Synthetic Long Put

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Input: A short put and a long call. [American Style Option]

Output: Synthetic Long Stock

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Input: A short put and a short stock or future. [American Style Option]

Output: Synthetic Short Call

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Input: A short call and a long stock or future. [American Style Option]

Output: Synthetic Short Put

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Input: A short call and a long put. [American Style Option]

Output: Synthetic Short Stock

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Input: Futures and options combined to create a delta neutral trade. [American Style Option]

Output: Synthetic Straddle

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Input: A long (short) call together with a short (long) put. Both options have the same underlying, the same strike price and the same expiration date. [American Style Option]

Output: Synthetic Underlying

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Input: A method of evaluating securities and commodities by analyzing statistics generated by market activity, such as past prices, volume, momentum and stochastics. [American Style Option]

Output: Technical Analysis

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Input: The characteristics of your option, including strike price, exercise style and expiration date. [American Style Option]

Output: Terms

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Input: An option value generated by a mathematical option's pricing model to determine what an option is really worth. [American Style Option]

Output: Theoretical value

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Input: The Greek measurement of the time decay of an option. [American Style Option]

Output: Theta

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Input: A minimum upward or downward movement in the price of a security. For example, bonds trade in 32nds, while most stocks trade in eighths. [American Style Option]

Output: Tick

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Input: The amount of time premium movement within a certain time frame on an option due to the passage of time in relation to the expiration of the option itself. [American Style Option]

Output: Time Decay

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Input: The additional value of an option due to the volatility of the market and the time remaining until expiration. [American Style Option]

Output: Time Premium

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Input: The amount that the current market price of a right, warrant or option exceeds its intrinsic value. [American Style Option]

Output: Time Value (Extrinsic Value)

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Input: These are short-term government securities with maturities of no more than one year. [American Style Option]

Output: Treasury Bill (T-Bill)

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Input: A fixed-interest U.S. government debt security with a maturity of 10 years or more.. [American Style Option]

Output: Treasury Bond (T-Bond)

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Input: A fixed-interest U.S. government debt security with a maturity of between one and ten years. [American Style Option]

Output: Treasury Note (T- Note)

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Input: The third Friday in March, June, September and December when U.S. options, index options and futures contracts all expire simultaneously often resulting in massive trades. [American Style Option]

Output: Triple Witching Day

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Input: The classification of an option contract as either a put or a call. [American Style Option]

Output: Type

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Input: A short option position, also called a "naked" option, in which the writer does not own shares of underlying stock. This is a much riskier strategy than a covered option. [American Style Option]

Output: Uncovered Option

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Input: A trading instrument subject to purchase upon exercise. [American Style Option]

Output: Underlying Instrument

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Input: A security selling below the value the market value analysts believe it is worth. [American Style Option]

Output: Undervalued

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Input: The potential for prices to move up. [American Style Option]

Output: Upside

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Input: The upper price at which a trade breaks-even. [American Style Option]

Output: Upside break-even

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Input: A delta that can change due to the change of an underlying asset or a change in time expiration of an option. [American Style Option]

Output: Variable Delta

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Input: The amount by which the price of an option changes when the volatility changes. Also referred to as volatility. [American Style Option]

Output: Vega

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Input: Most commonly used to describe the purchase of one option and writing of another where both are of the same type and of same expiration month, but have different strike prices. Example: buying 1 XYZ May 60 call and writing 1 XYZ May 65 call. See also Bull (or bullish) spread and Bear (or bearish) spread [American Style Option]

Output: Vertical spread

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Input: A measure of the amount by which an underlying is expected to fluctuate in a given period of time. Volatility is a primary determinant in the valuation of options premiums and time value. There are two basic kinds of volatility, implied and historical (statistical). Implied volatility is calculated by using an option pricing model (Black-Scholes for stocks and indices and Black for futures). Historical volatility is calculated by using the standard deviation of underlying asset price changes from clos e to close trading going back 21 to 23 days. [American Style Option]

Output: Volatility

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Input: Losing money on both sides of a price swing. [American Style Option]

Output: Whipsaw

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Input: Refers to an unusually large spread between the bid and asked prices. [American Style Option]

Output: Wide Opening

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Input: A day on which two or more classes of options and futures expire. [American Style Option]

Output: Witching Day

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Input: An individual who sells an option. If you sell an option to open a position, you're a writer. [American Style Option]

Output: Writer

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Input: The rate of return on an investment. [American Style Option]

Output: Yield

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Input: [by chemical signals] it binds to the zona pellucida, and proteases from the acrosome digest a path for the sperm in the acrosomal reaction

Output: What happens after a sperm breaks through the egg's layer of follicle cells?


Input: [by chemical signals] the cortical reaction -- small vesicles called cortical granules move to and fuse with the egg's plasma membrane, making it hard so that no more sperm can enter

Output: What happens when the sperm gets through the zona pellucida and its membrane fuses with the egg's?


Input: [by chemical signals] No. They carry out mitosis to form a two-cell embryo.

Output: Do the sperm and egg cell nuclei fuse together?


Input: [by chemical signals] estrogen and progesterone

Output: What two hormones secreted by the corpus luteum are needed during pregnancy?


Input: [by chemical signals] The embryo secretes HCG (human chorionic gonadotrophin) after implanting in the uterus wall. HCG makes the corpus luteum grow and keep secreting estrogen and progesterone. The corpus luteum starts to degenerate during the middle of pregnancy, by when the placenta is secreting the two hormones.

Output: What hormone keeps the corpus luteum from degenerating and where does it come from?


Input: [by chemical signals] The fetal blood flows through capillaries in the villi, while the maternal blood flows through inter-villous spaces. The fetal blood never mixes with maternal blood.

Output: Where are the fetal blood and the maternal blood in the placental villi?


Input: [by chemical signals] O2, glucose, lipids, water, mineral, vitamins, antibodies, and hormones diffuse in, and CO2, urea, hormones, and water diffuse out

Output: What diffuses into the fetal blood from maternal blood and what diffuses out?


Input: allows the policy owner to convert or exhange the temporary protection for permanent protection without evidence of insurability [RENEWABLE TERM]

Output: CONVERTIBLE TERM

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Input: insured has the opportunity to provide evidence of insurability at the end of the term to qualify to renew the policy at a lower premium rate than the guaranteed rate available without evidence of insurability [RENEWABLE TERM]

Output: REENTRY/REISSUE

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Input: -minimum guaranteed cash value based on minimum guaranteed rate of return [RENEWABLE TERM]

Output: CURRENT ASSUMPTION INTEREST SENSITIVE WHOLE LIFE EXCESS INTEREST WHOLE LIFE

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Input: both are designed to provide a peried of month income following the death of the insured, if death occurs during the specified time. Income: decreasing term Maintenance: level term [RENEWABLE TERM]

Output: FAMILY MAINTENANCE VS. FAMILY INCOME

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Input: allows the company to use automatically, whatever protion of the cash value is needed to pay premiums as the become due [RENEWABLE TERM]

Output: AUTOMATIC PREMIUM LOAN PROVISION

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Input: after the policy has been in force a certain length of time, the company can no longer contest it or void it except for nonpayment [RENEWABLE TERM]

Output: INCONTESTABILITY CLAUSE

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Input: 14 days 2.a.4 [RENEWABLE TERM]

Output: COMAPNIES OR PERSONS WHO ARE EXAMINED FOR VIOLATIONS MAY REQUEST A HEARING WTIHIN _____ DAYS OF RECEIVING AN EXAMINATION REPORT

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Input: -make rules and reg -conduct investigation, examinations and hearings -subpoena and examin witnesses -anything lawful necessary for enforcing the laws and regulations [RENEWABLE TERM]

Output: DIRECTOR OF INSURANCE HAS THE AUTHORITY TO:

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Input: 14 [RENEWABLE TERM]

Output: PRODUCERS HAVE ___DAYS TO REQUEST A HEARING UPON RECEIVING THE EXAMINATION REPORT

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Input: -may have the license revoked or suspended -civil penalty of 20,000 [RENEWABLE TERM]

Output: A PERSON WHO VIOLATES A WRITTEN ORDER ISSUED BY THE DIRECTOR IS SUBJECT THE THE FOLLOWING PENALTIES:

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Input: may be issued for up to 180 days and may renew for an additional 180 days issued to: court-appointed representative of a licensed producer who dies or becomes disabled allowing for sale of business, or training of new personnel *does NOT require examination* [RENEWABLE TERM]

Output: TEMPORARY INSURANCE PRODUCER LICENSE

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Input: insurance provided by or through the person upon: 1) his own life, person, property, or rishs or those of his spoise; or 2) the life, person, property, or risks of his employer or own business [RENEWABLE TERM]

Output: CONTROLLED BUSINESS

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Input: It authorizes the insurer to designate the payee of life insurance death benefits if the designated beneficiary cannot be located. [RENEWABLE TERM]

Output: FACILITY-OF-PAYMENT CLAUSE

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Input: [plot] character.

Output: You may be fascinated by the motivations of the protagonist

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Input: [plot] setting.

Output: You may find that the description of the surroundings is key

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Input: [plot] point-of-view.

Output: You may notice that a narrator or character’s thinking is curious, contradictory, etc.

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Input: [plot] its theme

Output: Or, you focus on what the author seems to be saying about human nature

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Input: [plot] atmosphere

Output: mood or feeling conveyed by the author’s choice of language

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Input: [plot] complication (of plot)

Output: the introduction and development of a conflict between characters or characters and a situation.

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Input: [plot] chronological/linear plot flow

Output: telling a story in order of events as they take place in time

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Input: [plot] conflict

Output: some form of opposition presented to the main character

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Input: [plot] crises

Output: turning point in a narrative as it moves close to the story’s climax

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Input: [plot] distance

Output: an author’s or narrator’s spatial, temporal, or emotional removal from plot events

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Input: [plot] flashback

Output: breaks up chronological flow of plot events to tell what happened at some past time

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Input: [plot] foreshadowing

Output: introduction of specific words or images that anticipate later events

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Input: [plot] frame story

Output: story within a story, the “outer” story implying an important theme within the “inner” story

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Input: [plot] irony:

Output: reader’s awareness that reality differs from that of the character’s perspective

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Input: [plot] metaphor

Output: an image used to make concrete an abstract idea--doesn't use like or similar to Ex: My love is a Grand Canyon of longing.

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Input: [plot] motivation

Output: eternal and internal forces that cause characters to perform specific acts narrator: *omniscient: knows all thoughts of characters, and events *limited omniscient: knows the thoughts and feelings of certain characters *first-person: uses “I” to tell the story, and may be a character *unreliable: narrator who lies or misrepresents reality on purpose pace: rate at which the action progresses

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Input: [plot] narrator

Output: *omniscient: knows all thoughts of characters, and events *limited omniscient: knows the thoughts and feelings of certain characters *first-person: uses “I” to tell the story, and may be a character *unreliable: narrator who lies or misrepresents reality on purpose pace: rate at which the action progresses

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Input: [plot] pace:

Output: rate at which the action progresses

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Input: Constructive Evaluation takes place when you can seperate your behaviors or actions from yourself as a person [What is Active learning?]

Output: What is Constructive Evaluation?

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Input: Facilitators are responsible for creating a learning environment in which learning can take place. [What is Active learning?]

Output: What is a Facilitator?

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Input: Freedom of expression as long as you dont disrupt or infringe on the rights of others [What is Active learning?]

Output: What is the First Ammendment?

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Input: Planned Organized learning [What is Active learning?]

Output: What is a Formal Education?

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Input: Pitfalls that can take place in adult learners, just because you made A's in high school doesn't mean you can expect to get A's now. [What is Active learning?]

Output: Generalization

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Input: Experience and knowledge gained by every day life [What is Active learning?]

Output: Informal Education

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Input: Paradigm means a shift in thinking, Ex: changing emphasis from teaching to learning [What is Active learning?]

Output: Paradigm

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Input: Observations of performance while in the clinical setting, they indicate knowledge growth and goal achievement [What is Active learning?]

Output: Performance Evaluation

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Input: PMA, Positive thoughts and actions about future success [What is Active learning?]

Output: Positive mental attitude

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Input: Educated Adults starting a new cycle in life, reasons for enrolling in school were: career change, attraction to nursing, new job skills; lack of jobs in which that person already has a degree [What is Active learning?]

Output: Recycled Adult Learner

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Input: being referred to a counselero regarding absences and poor grades [What is Active learning?]

Output: Referral

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Input: Adult has been out of school for several years selecting a new career in mid life [What is Active learning?]

Output: Returning Adult Learner

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Input: Mature, motivated adults who have set goals and made economic, personal, and ocial sacrifices to go back to school [What is Active learning?]

Output: Self directed learner

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Input: NLN states that you are responsible for evaluating your actions in order to be aware of strong behaviors [What is Active learning?]

Output: Self evaluation

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Input: originally teaching was thought of as just lecturingg, it is now seen as a process where their is a relationship of responsibility between teacher and student.Encourages a wide range of teaching techniques [What is Active learning?]

Output: Teaching

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Input: Comes to educational program directly from highschool or another program of study [What is Active learning?]

Output: Traditional Adult Learner

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Input: [Feedforward Control] Concurrent Control

Output: Control that gives managers immediate feedback on how efficiently inputs are being transformed into outputs so that managers can correct problems as they arise.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Feedback Control

Output: Control that gives managers information about customers' reactions to goods and services so that corrective action can be taken if necessary.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Profit Ratios

Output: measures how efficiently managers are using the organization's resources to generate profits.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Return on Investment

Output: An organizations net income before taxes divided by its total assets.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Liquidity Ratios

Output: measure how well managers have protected organizational resources to be able to meet short-term obligations.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Current Ratios

Output: current assets divided by current liabilities.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Activity Ratios

Output: provide measures of how well managers are creating value from organizational assets.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Inventory Turnover

Output: measures how efficiently managers are turning over inventory so that excess inventory is not carried.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Operating Budgets

Output: a budget that states how managers intend to use organizational resources to achieve organizational goals.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] MBO - Management by objectives

Output: A goal-setting process in which a manager and each of his or her subordinates negotiate specific goals and objectives for the subordinate to achieve and then periodically evaluate the extent to which the subordinate is achieving those goals.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Organizational Culture

Output: The set of values, norms, standards of behavior, and common expectations that controls the ways in which individuals and groups in an organization interact with one another and work to achieve organizational goals.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Clan Control

Output: The control exerted on individuals and groups in an organization by shared values, norms, standards of behavior, and expectations.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Top-down change

Output: A fast, revolutionary approach to change in which top managers identify what needs to be changed and then move quickly to implement the changes throughout the organization

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Bottom-up change

Output: a gradual or evolutionary approach to change in which managers at all levels work together to develop a detailed plan for change.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Benchmarking

Output: The process of comparing one company's performance on specific dimensions with the performance of other, high-performing organizations.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Entrepreneurs

Output: People who notice opportunities and take responsibility for mobilizing the resources necessary to produce new and improved goods and services.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Intrapreneurs

Output: Employees of existing organizations who notice opportunities for product or service improvements and are responsible for managing the development process

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Entrepreneurship

Output: The mobilization of resources to take advantage of an opportunity to provide customers with new or improved goods and services.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Motivation

Output: Psychological forces that determine the direction of a person's behavior in an organization, a person's level of effort, and a person's level of persistence.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Intrinsically Motivated Behavior

Output: Behavior that is performed for its own sake.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Extrinsically Motivated Behavior

Output: Behavior that is performed to acquire material or social rewards or to avoid punishment.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Pro-socially Motivated Behavior

Output: Behavior that is performed to benefit or help others.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Outcome

Output: Anything a person gets from a job or an organization.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Input

Output: Anything a person contributes to his or her job or organization.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Expectancy Theory

Output: The theory that motivation will be high when workers believe that high levels of effort lead to high performance and high performance leads to the attainment of desired outcomes.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Expectancy

Output: In expectancy theory, a perception about the extent to which effort results in a certain level of performance.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Need

Output: A requirement or necessity for survival and well-being.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Output: 5 basic kinds of needs: physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Herzberg's Motivator-hygiene theory

Output: A need theory that distinguishes between motivator needs and hygiene needs and proposes that motivator needs must be met for motivation and job satisfaction to be high.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Need for achievement

Output: The extent to which an individual has a strong desire to perform challenging tasks well and to meet personal standards for excellence.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Need for affiliation

Output: The extent to which an individual is concerned about establishing about establishing and maintaining good interpersonal relations, being liked, and having the people around him or her get along with each other.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Need for power

Output: The extent to which an individual desires to control or influence others.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Equity

Output: The justice, impartiality, and fairness to which all organizational members are entitled.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Inequity

Output: Lack of fairness

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Underpayment Inequity

Output: The inequity that exists when a person perceives that his or her own outcome-input ratio is less than ratio of a referent.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Overpayment Inequity

Output: The inequity that exists when a person perceives that his or her own outcome-input ratio is greater than the ratio of a referent.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Positive Reinforcement

Output: Giving people outcomes they desire when they perform organizationally functional behaviors.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Negative Reinforcement

Output: Eliminating or removing undesired outcomes when people perform organizationally functional behaviors.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Punishment

Output: Administering an undesired or negative consequence when dysfunctional behavior occurs.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Vicarious Learning

Output: Learning that occurs when the learner becomes motivated to perform a behavior by watching another person perform it and be reinforced for doing so.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Leadership

Output: The process by which an individual exerts influence over other people and inspires, motivates, and directs their activities to help achieve group or organizational goals.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Leader

Output: An individual who is able to exert influence over other people to help achieve group or organizational goals.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Servant Leader

Output: A leader who has a strong desire to serve and work for the benefit of others.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Legitimate Power

Output: The authority that a manager has by virtue of his or her position in an organization's hierarchy.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Reward Power

Output: The ability of a manager to give or withhold tangible and intangible rewards.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Coercive Power

Output: The ability of a manager to punish others.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Expert Power

Output: Power that is based on the special knowledge, skills, and expertise that a leader possesses.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Reference Power

Output: Power that comes from subordinates' and coworkers' respect, admiration, and loyalty.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Empowerment

Output: The expansion of employees' knowledge, tasks, and decision-making responsibilities.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [Feedforward Control] Charismatic

Output: An enthusiastic, self-confident leader who is able to clearly communicate his or her vision of how good things could be.

Control that allows managers to anticipate problems before they arise.


Input: [antitrust] base year

Output: The time period used for comparative analysis; the basis for indexing, e.g., of price changes

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Input: [antitrust] capital

Output: Final goods produced for use in the production of other goods, e.g., equipment, structures

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Input: [antitrust] capital-intensive

Output: Production processes that use a high ratio of capital to labor inputs

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Input: [antitrust] ceteris paribus

Output: The assumption of nothing else changing

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Input: [antitrust] complementary goods

Output: Goods frequently consumed in combination; when the price of good x rises, the demand for good y falls, ceteris paribus

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Input: [antitrust] demand

Output: The willingness and ability to buy specific quantities of a good at alternative prices in a given time period, ceteris paribus

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Input: [antitrust] demand curve

Output: A curve describing the quantities of a good a consumer is willing and able to buy at alternative prices in a given time period, ceteris paribus

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Input: [antitrust] demand schedule

Output: A table showing the quantities of a good a consumer is willing and able to buy at alternative prices in a given time period, ceteris paribus

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Input: [antitrust] depreciation

Output: The consumption of capital in the production process; the wearing out of plant and equipment

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Input: Kidneys, ureters, bladder, urethra

Output: Urinary System Components


Input: Between abdominal peritoneum and back bones + muscles

Output: Retroperitoneal Cavity


Input: Outer cortex, inner medula, renal pelvis (upper end of ureter)

Output: Kidney Layers


Input: Blood from renal arteries flows into afferent arterioles + enters glomerular capps. Leaves out efferent arterioles into peritubular capps in juxtamedullary nephrons + exits thru renal vein.

Output: Nephron Portal System


Input: Renal corpuscle (glomerulus + Bowman's capsule), proximal tubule, loop of Henle, distal tubule + collecting duct.

Output: Nephron Anatomy


Input: Filtration, reabsorption, secretion.

Output: Kidney Functions


Input: Hydrostatic pressure, colloid osmotic pressure, and fluid pressure.

Output: Filtration driven by...


Input: % total plasma volume that filters into tubule

Output: Filtration Fraction


Input: Capillary endothelium (fenestrated capillaries), basal lamina (course sieve), Bowman's capsule epithelium (filtrations slits)

Output: Renal Corpuscle Filtration Barriers


Input: Volume that filters into Bowman's capsule per unit time

Output: Glomerular Filtration Rate


Input: Net filtration pressure, filtration coefficient, total SA available

Output: GFR Regulation


Input: Hydrostatic pressure (pos.); colloid osmotic pressure (neg.) and fluid pressure created in Bowman's (neg.)

Output: GFR Influences


Input: Afferent resistance (site of most reg.) dec. hydrostatic pressure + GFR; efferent resistance inc. glomerular pressure + GFR

Output: GFR Arteriole Resistance


Input: Maintains constant GFR thru myogenic response, tubuloglomerular feedback, and hormones

Output: Autoregulation


Input: Inc. blood pressure stretches artery smooth muscle to vasoconstrict. Dec. blood pressure results in maximal vasodilation

Output: Myogenic Response


Input: Paracrine signaling mechanisms thru which loop of Henle influences GFR: macula densa senses [Na+] while granular cells secrete renin

Output: Tubuloglomerular Feedback


Input: Sympathetic neurons innervate alpha-receptors to induce vasoconstriction; angiotensin II vasoconstricts; prostaglandins vasodilate

Output: Hormone Autoregulation


Input: Transepithelial transport, paracellular pathway, urea (passive), or plasma proteins (via transcytosis)

Output: Reabsorption Routes


Input: Na+ transport creates electrochemical gradient, drives anion reabsorption, water osmotically follows solutes, dilutes lumen, solutes diffuse into ECF

Output: Reabsorption of Solutes + Water


Input: Apical Na+-glucose cotransporter (SGLT, active), basolateral glucose transporter (GLUT)

Output: Na+-linked Glucose Reabsorption


Input: Max. rate of transport occurs when all available carriers occupied by substrate

Output: Saturation


Input: When no secretion occurs, amt. excreted = amt. filtered - amt. reabsorbed; normal conditions, filtration=reabsorption; renal threshold, filtration > reabsorption & excretion begins

Output: Filtration, Reabsorption, Excretion Relationship


Input: Active transport of molecules from ECF into neph. lumen. Enhances neph. excretion. Competitive process (ex. penicillin + probenicid)

Output: Secretion


Input: Filtration - reabsorption + secretion

Output: Excretion


Input: Rate @ which solute leaves the body, by excretion or metabolism

Output: Clearance


Input: Admin. by continuous IV infusion, 100% excreted, so clearance = GFR

Output: Inulin


Input: Endogenous, in muscles via PCr breakdown, 99% excreted, but need not be admin.

Output: Creatinine


Input: [1] the science dealing with the functions of the body parts is called [2]

Output: physiology

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Input: [1] the science dealing with the structure of the body parts is called [2]

Output: anatomy

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Input: [1] the level of organization when different tissues join together is called [2]

Output: organ

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Input: [1] group of related organs that have a common function [2]

Output: organ system

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Input: [1] the sterum is __________ to the heart [2]

Output: anterior

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Input: [1] the plane that divides the body into a superior and inferior portion is the [2]

Output: transverse OR horizontal OR cross-sectional

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Input: [1] the anatomical term which best describes a structure toward the head is [2]

Output: superior OR cephalic

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Input: [1] in the anatomical position, the ring finger is ___________ to the little finger [2]

Output: lateral

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Input: [1] the anatomical term for navel is [2]

Output: umbilical

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Input: [1] name the nine abdominopelvic regions [2]

Output: right hypochondriac epigastic left hypochondriac right lumbar umbilical left lumbar right inguial (iliac) hypogastric left inguial (iliac)

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Input: [1] the science that deals with the abnormal conditions and structural and functional changes that diseases produce [2]

Output: pathology

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Input: [1] in the anatomical position the subject is positioned [2]

Output: standing with feet together, arms at the sides with the palms facing out

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Input: [1] the plane that divides the body into unequal left and right portions [2]

Output: para-sagittal

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Input: [1] the four basic tissue types [2]

Output: muscle, connective, epithelium, nervous

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Input: [1] the plasma membrane consists of [2]

Output: phosopholipid bi-layer containing steriods, proteins and carbohydrates

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Input: [1] a red blood cell placed in a hypotonic solution will [2]

Output: absorb water,swell and potentially burst

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Input: [1] an isotonic solution for human red blood cells is [2]

Output: 8.5-9% saline

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Input: [1] pinocytosis and phagocytosis involve tructural changes in the [2]

Output: cell membrane (plasma membrane)

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Input: [1] certain white blood cells can destroy bacteria by the process of [2]

Output: phagocytosis

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Input: [1] chromatin is found in the [2]

Output: nucleus

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Input: [1] the packaging and sorting of proteins is the function of the [2]

Output: golgi apparatus (body, complex)

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Input: [1] steriod synthesis is the function of the [2]

Output: smooth endoplasmic reticulum

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Input: [1] protein synthesis can occur in structures attached to what organelle [2]

Output: rough endoplasmic reticulum

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Input: [1] protein synthesis can occure in what structure [2]

Output: ribosomes

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Input: [1] what organelle is considered the "powerhouses" of the cell [2]

Output: mitochondria

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Input: [1] what makes up the cytoskeleton [2]

Output: microtubules, microfilaments and intermediate filaments

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Input: [1] the structure located near the nucleus, made of two cylindrical structures composed of clusters of microtubules is the [2]

Output: centrisome

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Input: [1] what tissue is always avascular [2]

Output: epithelial

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Input: [1] the tissue lining body cavities is called [2]

Output: epithelium

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Input: [1] goblet cells are found in which of the following tissues [2]

Output: columnar

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Input: [1] a type of epithelium consisting of a simgle layer of flat cells which allow diffusion to occur is called [2]

Output: simple squamous

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Input: [1] what tissue is often ciliated [2]

Output: columnar

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Input: [1] the different types of pithelia are named according to their [2]

Output: shapes and layers

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Input: [1] epithelium that appears to have several layers of cells but actually has only one, is classified as [2]

Output: pseudostratified columnar

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Input: [1] what cells can be found in connective tissue [2]

Output: fibroblasts, macrophages, MAST cells, adipose cells, plasma cells, leukocytes, erythrocytes

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Input: [1] a basement membrane is always present in what tissues [2]

Output: epithelial and connective

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Input: [1] the slippery, viscous substance that binds cells together and lubricates joints [2]

Output: hylaronic acid

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Input: [1] what category of tissue does cartilage belong [2]

Output: connective

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Input: [1] a type of connective tissue containing both chondrocytes and elastic fibers [2]

Output: elastic cartilage connective tissue

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Input: [1] the skin belongs to what organ system [2]

Output: integumentary system

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Input: [1] the outermost portion of the skin is the [2]

Output: epidermis

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Input: [1] the cells producing the pigment responsible for skin color [2]

Output: melanocytes

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Input: [1] the layer of the epidermis only found in the thick skin of areas as the fingertips, palms and soles [2]

Output: stratum lucidum

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Input: [1] the base of a hair follicle is enlarged into an onion-shaped structure called [2]

Output: bulb

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Input: [1] the bundle of smooth muscles associated with each hair follicle is [2]

Output: arrector pili

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Input: [1] the glands usually associated with hair follicles [2]

Output: sebaceous and apocrine

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Input: [1] the most common form of skin cancer [2]

Output: basal cell carcinoma

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Input: [1] hair and skin color depend on [2]

Output: melanin

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Input: [1] where are the melanocytes found [2]

Output: stratum basale

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Input: [1] melignant melanoma is a life-threatening type of skin cancer that arises from unregulated growth and division of [2]

Output: melanocytes

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Input: [1] a buene that penetrates through the entire epidermis and some of the dermis is a [2]

Output: 2nd degree burn

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Input: The _____ processor(s) is/are ideal for workstations and low-end servers. [Optical Mouse]

Output: Itanium or Xeon

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Input: A _____ looks similar to a floppy disk but has much greater storage capabilities—up to the equivalent of 170 standard floppy disks. [Optical Mouse]

Output: Zip disk

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Input: Standard CRT monitors today usually display up to a maximum of _____ pixels. [Optical Mouse]

Output: 1600 x 1200

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Input: Groupware is a component of a broad concept called _____, which includes network hardware and software that enables group members to communicate, manage projects, schedule meetings, and make decisions. [Optical Mouse]

Output: Workgroup computing

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Input: Each computer or device on a local area network, called a _____, often shares resources such as printers, large hard disks, and programs. [Optical Mouse]

Output: Node

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Input: The technique of breaking a message into individual packets, sending the packets along the best route available, and then reassembling the data is called _____. [Optical Mouse]

Output: Packet-switching

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Input: A T3 line is _____. [Optical Mouse]

Output: Equal in speed to 28 T1 lines and quite exspensive

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Input: Of the graphics formats that exist on the Web, the two more common are _____ formats because of their smaller file sizes. [Optical Mouse]

Output: JPEG and GIF

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Input: A _____ is equal to exactly 1,024 bytes, but computer users often round it down to 1,000 bytes to simplify memory and storage definitions. [Optical Mouse]

Output: kilobyte (KB or K

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Input: True or False - is mail-merger capability a support tool for word processing software? [Optical Mouse]

Output: False

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Input: True or False - PC speakers are used as an input device for a computer systems? [Optical Mouse]

Output: False

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Input: What capability permits the simultaneous usage of multiple CPUs in a single computer system? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Multiprogramming

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Input: One responsibility that is NOT traditionally given to a beginning programmer is? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Systems design

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Input: In most computer languages, the absence of parentheses implies that the order of mathematical operation, from highest to lowest precedence, is? [Optical Mouse]

Output: exponentiation; multiplication and division; addition and subtraction

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Input: A point-of-sale terminal is typically NOT used as a tool for which of the following activities? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Verifying customer credit

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Input: Flaming is referred to as what? [Optical Mouse]

Output: The act of sending abusive or insulting messages on the Internet

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Input: In the case of a power failure, the contents of RAM will be? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Lost

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Input: Which of the following has as its primary function locating Web sites that deal with particular subjects? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Search engine

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Input: Conversion of data files is part of which of the following phases of the system development process? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Implementation

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Input: What applications is typically NOT available for a personal digital assistant (PDA)? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Statistical software

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Input: During preparation of a document using word processing software, a SAVE operation copies the document from? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Main memory to a disk

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Input: What does GPS stand for? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Global positioning system

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Input: A plan to safeguard a company’s computer system against damage caused by earthquakes, floods, or fires is called? [Optical Mouse]

Output: A disaster recovery plan

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Input: The device that is designed to scan a printed document, convert the image to an electronic representation, and transmit the representation of the image via a phone line is called a? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Fax machine

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Input: In a relational database, each column represents? [Optical Mouse]

Output: A data element

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Input: Which of the following is required to access the Internet from a home location? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Access to an Internet node or a service provider

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Input: Which of the following is NOT a correct characterization of batch processing? [Optical Mouse]

Output: It allows immediate updating of master files.

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Input: Which of the following is NOT true about a Gantt chart? [Optical Mouse]

Output: It lists cost estimates for each activity.

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Input: Which of the following statements about electronic mail is NOT true? [Optical Mouse]

Output: E-mail message content can be considered secure by both the sender and the receiver.

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Input: A modem performs which of the following functions? [Optical Mouse]

Output: It converts digital data into analog signals.

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Input: The special formatting language used to create Web pages is called? [Optical Mouse]

Output: HTML

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Input: The process through which a user is verified and validated to access a computer network/ system is referred to as? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Authentication

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Input: A program written to access and update a master database that maintains sales of tickets to an upcoming concert is called? [Optical Mouse]

Output: An operating system

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Input: In a spreadsheet formula, what type of cell address is fixed and does not change when the formula is copied? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Absolute address

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Input: A transmission line in which data items travel in both directions simultaneously is described as? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Full-duplex

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Input: When applied to the development of computer systems, the term “ergonomics” means? [Optical Mouse]

Output: incorporating human comfort, effi ciency, and safety into the design of the humanmachine interface

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Input: All of the following can be used to secure data against inappropriate access EXCEPT? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Data redundancy

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Input: A set of 8 bits can represent, at most, how many different characters? [Optical Mouse]

Output: 256

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Input: Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a decision support system, as it is usually defined? [Optical Mouse]

Output: It makes the one best or optimal decision.

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Input: Which of the following is NOT true about computer software documentation? [Optical Mouse]

Output: End-user documentation may be embedded in the programming code by the use of comment statements.

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Input: For which of the following programming languages is there always a one-to-one correspondence between a line of code in that language and a line of code in machine language? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Assembler

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Input: For which of the following conditions is it NEVER possible to recover a fi le from the disk to which it was written? [Optical Mouse]

Output: A different file with the same name is copied to the same location on the disk.

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Input: The American Charity Association, a nonprofit foundation, has a home page on the World Wide Web. Which of the following is the most likely address for its home page? [Optical Mouse]

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Input: Which of the following is the method of data transmission in which blocks of fixed lengths are sent with start/stop signals? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Asynchronous

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Input: What is the term that refers to the downloading of live video, audio, or animation in such a manner that the user can begin to access the content before the download is complete? [Optical Mouse]

Output: Streaming

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Input: Which of the following is a set of protocols used to link different types of computers over the Internet? [Optical Mouse]

Output: TCP/IP

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Input: Voice recognition can be included with which of the following systems? I. Office automation systems II. Security systems III. Batch-processing systems [Optical Mouse]

Output: I and II only

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Input: The system component that produces output in a specific printer language is referred to as what? [Optical Mouse]

Output: An interrupt handler

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