COMPARATIVE POLITICS QUALIFYING EXAMINATION Department of International Studies Spring 2008 DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME OR STUDENT NUMBER ON YOUR EXAM

Honors Algorithms/Written Qualifying Exam

1 2 hour examination. All questions carry the same weight. Answer all six questions. • Please print your name on the sticky note attached to the outside envelope, and nowhere else. • Please do not write your name on the examination booklets. • Please answer each question in a separate booklet, and number each booklet with that question number. • Read the questions carefully. Keep your answers b...

Written Qualifying Exam Theory of Computing

This is a three hour examination. All questions carry the same weight. Answer all of the following six questions. • Please check to see that your name and address are correct as printed on your blue-card. • Please print your name on each exam booklet. Answer each question in a separate booklet, and number each booklet according to the question. Read the questions carefully. Keep your answers le...

Comparative Politics Qualifying Examination

Comparative politics scholars disagree about what the ideal research program should entail. Some scholars argue in favor of deductive hypotheses and/or large N research designs relying on sophisticated statistical techniques that do not require much in-depth knowledge of a particular polity. Other scholars favor a more inductive approach and pursue more qualitative work using case study methods...

Do you Recommend an Interdisciplinary Field to Your Graduate Student?

Distributed Computing Exam Principles of Distributed Computing

The exam lasts 120 minutes, and there is a total of 120 points. The maximal number of points for each question is indicated in parentheses. Your answers may be in English or in German. Be sure to always justify your answers. Algorithms can be specified in high-level pseudocode or as a verbal description, unless otherwise mentioned. You do not need to give every last detail, but the main aspects...

Factoring Health Equations; Comment on “Do You Recommend an Interdisciplinary Field to Your Graduate Student?”

The International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM) is a new journal that aims to stimulate not only inter-disciplinary research relating to health, but even an entire new generation of such journals. The challenges of improving human health worldwide clearly suggest ‘why’ such a journal is needed, but ‘how’ bridges and junctions across fields of study towards this end might be fo...