Bonus (10%) Explain your understanding of effective Stress
concepts. Why effective stress is considered the most important
concept in geotechnical engineering including but not limited to
slope engineering, design of earth structures and foundation
engineering, etc.? How did you make the best
understanding and application of effective stress to soil
engineering? (Note: You have calculated them in your homework jobs
assignment and have been applying them in settlement analysis as in
the tests).
1. Where are stress concentration produced and what design and
manufacturing procedures reduce stress concentrations?
2. How do ductile and brittle materials differ in their response
to tensile loads when a stress concentration is present?
What motivates people?
Why is balanced stress essential for life yet chronic stress
bad?
What are values and what do they help you do?
What is the research on meditation and how it affects the
brain?
9. (10) Phalloidin is a toxin produced by the
death cap mushroom, which binds to actin subunits thereby
disrupting actin function. Circle all that would be affected if
exposed, and explain how they would be affected.
Cell wall composition in Candida
albicans
Inversion in Volvox
Cytoplasmic streaming in Amoeba
proteus
Cilia movement in Stentor
Frustule formation in
Cyclotella
Pellicle structure in Euglena gracilis
Explain
what information is produced from a hypothesis test and an estimate
of effect size. Why is it important to consider both when
interpreting the results of a study?
What are the changes that occur to cellular energy metabolism
during metabolic rate suppression? Name and explain three important
processes that are targeted for inhibition in this state.
8. What are control activities?
9. Give the different types of control activities.
10. Why is it necessary to monitor controls?
11. What are the inherent limitations of internal controls?
12. Enumerate, in chronological order, the steps followed in the
study and evaluation of internal controls. Explain each step
briefly.