Define watershed and the watershed approach to water quality management. What are the implications of water quality management regulations based on watershed management?

What are the primary laws/acts that regulate water quality in the US?

What federal and state agencies are responsible for regulating water quality? What role does each agency serve?

Can a small farm be required to have a permit to operate a waste management? If so, why would this be the case?

Define a nutrient management plan.

What are the important components of a nutrient management plan?

What nutrients are being regulated/managed?

Why is having proper nutrient management important?

When describing “animal welfare”, what conditions must be met and/or supplied for the animals as outlined in the Five Freedoms?

What does the phrase “a rat is a dog is a boy” imply?

Compare and contrast Animal Rights and Animal Welfare.

Name a leader that has helped advance Animal Rights in the US.

Name two animal rights groups.

Name leaders who have served as advocates for animal welfare.

Describe how property rights have been established and what protects a citizen’s property rights.

a)Briefly explain five differences between moral standards and legal standards (you may use table format).

b) In 2014, a Malaysian couple was charged in Sweden for allegedly abusing their four children. The case involving Azizul Raheem Awalludin and Shalwati Nurshal, surfaced after a teacher of the couple’s son discovered that he and his siblings were caned for misbehavior. The 12 years old boy had confessed to his teacher that they have been caned with a hanger, carpet beater and/or cane (rotan) as punishment for misbehaving (refusing to pray, among other things). Swedish authorities swiftly acted, placing the couple on remand- Azizul and Shalwati faced up to six years in jail if convicted. Meanwhile, back in Malaysia, people’s reaction to the case was more concerned with ‘saving face’ rather than saving the children, all of whom were understandably frightened and confused by this devastating disruption in their lives. Source: Adapted from Sitting on the Fence of ‘Cultural Relativism’, 2014. Required:

Discuss the above case by relating it to:

i. relativism theory

ii. deontological moral theory

iii. virtue ethics

please ans the question before 5.30 . thank you

Case Study: Muscular Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription

Harold is a 40-year-old biology professor who teaches at the university and does research on cellular aging of skeletal muscle in dogs. Harold weighs 180 lb (81.6 kg). He recently purchased a new townhome that requires very little household or yard maintenance. His primary recreation consists of playing chess, reading, and playing classical guitar. For physical exercise he regularly puts the garbage out on Monday, presses remote control buttons for the TV and CD player, and rides his bicycle to work (2 miles [3.2 km] round-trip) 5 days per week. His research on aging prompted concern about his own muscular fitness. He contacted you to assess his strength and to design a resistance training program to increase his strength in an attempt to retard the degeneration of his muscular system. The results of his strength assessment were as follows:

Question

Harold's goal is to improve strength. If you were to design a resistance training program for him that uses free weights and exercise machines (Table 7.3 and Table 7.6), what would week 1 of the program entail. Be sure to complete this in the table below (it is not necessary to use the entire table below to complete week 1 of his program). How will you know when it is time to increase Harold’s resistance?

Weekly Workout Plan

Week:

Phase:

Goals:

Resistance Exercise Prescription:

Facility financing is a challenge, particularly for professional teams. St. Louis just went through a painful process of offering the NFL and owner Stan Kroenke’s Rams an option for a nearly $1 billion new stadium on the banks of the Mississippi River. Of course, Kronenke and the NFL ultimately decided to move the Rams back to Los Angeles (where the franchise moved from in 1995), and Kroenke is paying $3 billion of his own money to build a new stadium. Right now, St. Louis is debating the use of public funds to build a new MLS stadium for a franchise that has yet-to-be-awarded to the city. Using www.theatlantic.com, find and read at least one article on the concept of public facility financing. Then post a brief (5-line) summary of the article (be sure to include the title, the author, and a link), followed by your reaction. Consider also: Why do you think cities agree to give huge tax breaks to teams or go into significant debt to build sports facilities? Are these good deals for taxpayers? Why or why not? Should cities like St. Louis, which struggles to fund municipal services like police, fire, and schools, offer these benefits to professional teams?

Time series are particularly useful to track variables such as revenues, costs, and profits over time. Time series models help evaluate performance and make predictions. Consider the following and respond in a minimum of 175 words:

• Time series decomposition seeks to separate the time series (Y) into 4 components: trend (T), cycle (C), seasonal (S), and irregular (I). What is the difference between these components?
• The model can be additive or multiplicative.When we do use an additive model? When do we use a multiplicative model?
• The following list gives the gross federal debt(in millions of dollars) for the U.S. every 5 years from 1945 to 2000:

Year    Gross Federal Debt ($millions)

1945    260,123

1950    256,853

1955    274,366

1960    290,525

1965    322,318

1970    380,921

1975    541,925

1980    909,050

1985    1,817,521

1990    3,206,564

1995    4,921,005

2000    5,686,338

• Construct a scatter plot with this data. Do you observe a trend? If so, what type of trend do you observe?
• Use Excel to fit a linear trend and an exponential trend to the data. Display the models and their respective r^2.
• Interpret both models. Which model seems to be more appropriate? Why?

A boundary survey is being conducted for a client’s parcel of land. You find and accept a concrete monument for a boundary corner and determine its position to have X and Y coordinates of 3496.45 ft & 9798.03 feet, respectively (Corner A). You also find & accept an iron rod as a corner and determine its position to have X and Y coordinates of 5272.92 ft & 10161.36 feet, respectively (Corner C). You determine that you should replace a lost corner (Corner B) between these accepted monuments using record distances provided on a 1995 survey map. The record distance from Corner A to B is 1405.91’. The record distance from Corner C to B is 1121.30’. What are the coordinates the field crew should use to reset corner B? HINT: You will get 2 solutions using distance-distance intersection techniques. Calculate both solutions but chose the solution that is northeasterly from Corner A & northwesterly from Corner C as your final solution. Also, use Civil 3D to check your answer. Show screenshot of your steps. Hint: by plotting the given coordinates and then using circles with radii, we can determine the intersection points.

The average number of people in a family that attended college for various years is given in Table 12.29

1. Using “year” as the independent variable and “Number of Family Members Attending College” as the dependent variable, draw a scatter plot of the data.
2. Calculate the least-squares line. Put the equation in the form of: ŷ = a + bx
3. Find the correlation coefficient. Is it significant?
4. Pick two years between 1969 and 1991 and find the estimated number of family members attending college.
5. Based on the data in Table 12.29, is there a linear relationship between the year and the average number of family members attending college?
6. Using the least-squares line, estimate the number of family members attending college for 1960 and 1995. Does the least-squares line give an accurate estimate for those years? Explain why or why not.
7. Are there any outliers in the data?
8. What is the estimated average number of family members attending college for 1986? Does the least squares line give an accurate estimate for that year? Explain why or why not.
9. What is the slope of the least squares (best-fit) line? Interpret the slope.