1.(a)Strong acids can dissolve or chemically burn living matter. Why is the stomach tissue not damaged by stomach acid? Describe the mechanism by which the stomach lining is protected from the very acidic gastric juice.

(b)What is the function of the gallbladder? What might be the consequences of having your gallbladder removed?

Calculate the volume, in liters, of 1.656 M KOH that must be added to a 0.125 L solution containing 9.44 g of glutamic acid hydrochloride (H3Glu Cl–, MW = 183.59 g/mol) to achieve a pH of 10.36. Glutamic acid (Glu) is an amino acid with pKa values of pKa1 = 2.23, pKa2 = 4.42, pKa3 = 9.95.

What are the three mechanism used to close/open channels? What is the difference between channels made of proteins with beta-pleated sheets versus alpha helix structures? Give an example of each.

What type of amino acid must produce the helix or sheet that spans the lipid bilayer?

Describe how the glucose transporter is regulated.

What is the most fundamental of the conventions on human rights?

What international human rights convention focuses specifically on children?

What is meant by “the right to health”?

What are some of the key aspects of the rights-based approach to health?

What is an example of a human rights issue related to HIV/AIDS?

What is an example of a human rights issue related to TB control?

What is the opposition that some people have to “opting out” of HIV testing, rather than a policy of “opting in” for testing?

Why are patents on drugs an important concern to a human rights approach to health?

What are two of the most important guidelines, codes, and declarations concerning research on human subjects?

What are two of the most important ethical concerns raised by the Tuskegee Study?

What is an Institutional Review Board

What is “informed consent”?

Why is privacy about health records considered so important?

Suppose a country’s production function has three factors of production: K—capital, L—the number of workers, and H—human capital. The production function is Y = (K^0.3)(L^0.4)(H^0.3). (a) What is the marginal product of labor? How does human capital affect the MPL?

(b) What is the marginal product of human capital? How does human capital affect the MPH?

c) What share of total income is paid to labor? What share of total income is paid to human capital?

(d) What share of total income would workers appear to receive?

(e) An unskilled worker earns the MPL, whereas a skilled worker earns the MPL plus the MPH. Using your above answers, find the ratio of the skilled wage to the unskilled wage. How does human capital affect this ratio? Explain.

Why is there no human-to-human transmission of anthrax? Why is anthrax more common following droughts?

What are the principal objectives of human resource analysis? Why is human resources analysis important.

What is the Resource-Based Theory viewpoint of Strategic Human Resource Management & Human Captial?