A 3-year-old Caucasian boy is brought to the clinic for a chronic productive cough not responding to antibiotics given recently. He has no fever or sick contacts. His medical history is significant for abdominal distention, failure to pass stool, and emesis as an infant. He continues to have bulky,foul-smelling stools. No diarrhea is present. He has several relatives with chronic lung and “stomach” problems, and some have even died at a young age. The examination reveals an ill appearing, slender male in moderate distress. The lung physical reveals poor air movement in the base of lungs bilateral and coarse rhonchi throughout both lung fields. A chloride sweat test was performed and was positive, indicating cystic fibrosis (CF). What is the mechanism of the disease? How might gel electrophoresis assist in making the diagnosis?

This 9-year-old boy was taken to the emergency department with a sore throat. On examination, he had redness of the throat and slightly swollen glands. The physician assistant ordered a throat culture and blood drawn for an antistreptolysin-O antibody (ASO). An antibiotic was prescribed for a 10-day period. His mother was told to make an appointment with his pediatrician for a follow-up. At the follow-up visit 2 weeks later, the results of the laboratory test revealed a throat culture with a few colonies of β-streptococci. The qualitative ASO test result was reported as positive. The acute serum was frozen at the time of testing. The pediatrician ordered a convalescent specimen to be tested semiquantitatively in parallel with the acute specimen for an ASO titer. The results of the parallel testing of the acute and convalescent specimens revealed the following: • Acute specimen positive, 1:1 dilution/titer (IU/mL 200) • Convalescent specimen positive, 1:4 dilution/titer (IU/mL 800)

Thinking Group Discussion Questions

2. What does a rise in titer mean?

This 9-year-old boy was taken to the emergency department with a sore throat. On examination, he had redness of the throat and slightly swollen glands. The physician assistant ordered a throat culture and blood drawn for an antistreptolysin-O antibody (ASO). An antibiotic was prescribed for a 10-day period. His mother was told to make an appointment with his pediatrician for a follow-up. At the follow-up visit 2 weeks later, the results of the laboratory test revealed a throat culture with a few colonies of β-streptococci. The qualitative ASO test result was reported as positive. The acute serum was frozen at the time of testing. The pediatrician ordered a convalescent specimen to be tested semiquantitatively in parallel with the acute specimen for an ASO titer.
The results of the parallel testing of the acute and convalescent specimens revealed the following:
• Acute specimen positive, 1:1 dilution/titer (IU/mL 200)
• Convalescent specimen positive, 1:4 dilution/titer (IU/mL 800)

Thinking Group Discussion Questions
1. Is the difference between the acute and convalescent titers significant?

How to print output vertically in the code attached below:

import operator

with open ('The Boy .txt',encoding='utf8') as my_file:
 contents=my_file.read()

l = contents.strip()
words = l.split()


newdict = dict()

for i in words:
  if i in newdict:
   newdict[i] = newdict[i] + 1
  else:
   newdict[i] = 1

newly = dict()
sorted_Dict = sorted(newdict.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)
for n in sorted_Dict:
    newly[n[0]] = n[1]
print(newly)

with open('freqs.txt','w', encoding='utf8') as final:
    final.write(str(newly))

The Amendment(s) to the United States Constitution having implications in criminal processes in the United States are :

The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution provides what right(s) to a person tried with a crime.

The elements that had to occur for the common law crime of burglary to occur were:

The types of product defects are:

                                                Exercise#1
Please determine the function of the bold clauses and describe the reason for your points.
1. Some people buy expensive cars simply because they can.

2. Many people hope that Canada can resolve its economic problems.

3. The bankers need to know what they should do.

4. Which one is the person who stole your car?

5. Wherever there is a large American city, there will be poverty.

6. The books which the professor assigned were very expensive.

7. Canada might give up its marketing boards if the European Community gives up its grain subsidies.

8. That is the place where Wolfe's and Montcalm's armies fought.

9. Unless the crown can make a better case, the accused murderer will not be convicted.

10. It is important to ask whether the wedding is formal or semi-formal.

Define sexual harassment and discuss applicable law (such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964). How does the state law in your state address sexual harassment? Discuss a recent sexual harassment claim in the news and whether media coverage is beneficial or detrimental to reporting and reducing sexual harassment claims in the workplace. Should sexual harassment claims be addressed publicly or handled privately? Explain the ethical and legal considerations of a business protecting its employees (the accuser, the accused, and other employees in the company) while a workplace sexual harassment investigation is underway. Does your answer change if the allegation is a widely known scandal-making front page news? Compare the sexual harassment liability of a business entity that is a sole proprietorship with an entity that is a corporation. Recommend risk management procedures a business can implement to avoid or reduce sexual harassment claims from occurring in the workplace

Using Arduino:

Emulate dots and dashes telegraph transmission using a button and two LEDs. For instance, if a button is held longer than 500ms, then the red LED will turn on to represent a dash "-". and a short press will turn on the green LED to represent a dot ".". The problem can be approached as a state machine where the states could include "wait_on_press", "delay_500ms", and "read_btn_val".

•Name one economic issue that you have heard discussed by your friends, coworkers, or on the news that you wish you understood better •Research this issue. Find two explanations explaining this issue. One can be a video or popular press article, but one must be a journal article. •In 500 – 750 words, summarize your findings on this issue.