Use proper spelling, grammar and sentence structure. A suggestion is given about the number of paragraphs needed but you may write more. You may use quotes but don’t overuse them as putting the author’s ideas in your own words is key to the learning process and will help you remember. If you do use a quote put the page number in brackets right after the quote.

Reading Questions: In Defense of Food, pp. 101-136

Transformation in our Food System:

1. From Complexity to Simplicity

(a) Explain why Pollan says the simplification of the soil through artificial fertilizers is not a good thing.

(b) Explain why the simplification of the species we are cultivating is not a good thing.

2. From Quality to Quantity

(a) Give two examples of how the nutritional quality of our food has deteriorated.

(b) Explain the term nutritional inflation and what it means for health.

3. From Seeds to Leaves

(a) Why has our diet shifted from leaves to seeds?

(b) What is missing in seeds that is found in leaves, and what are the health consequences of this deficit?

(Please answer all parts)

1) BEACH VACATION (5 pts)

You take your family on a wonderful, relaxing vacation to the beach. About 15 minutes after you’ve settled into the perfect spot in the sand, your oldest child tells you he’s bored. To keep him busy you tell him to collect some shells, because you read online that the beach where you’re staying is known for having lots of different colors of shells wash up on the beach. A few days later he’s collected over 500 shells, and he tallies up how many of each color he has in the table below. You’re curious if his collection of shells has the same distribution of colors as the overall beach has, so you go online and find the distribution of shell color percentages you should expect to find at that particular beach, and add those to your data table. Perform a hypothesis test to determine if the color distribution of your son’s seashell collection is what you’d expect at that beach. Use α = 0.10.

Step 1) How would you run this test in MINITAB (Menus, Functions used)?

2) (10 point question) Many people love colorful and tasty tomatoes and an ambitious student in horticulture wants to breed such a tomato variety. He searched all the available tomato genetic resources, and found the two inbred lines he needed. One line produces the tomatoes with a colorful red-green-yellow mosaic pattern (rrTT), and the other strain is 'very tasty' (RRtt).

When the student crossed the two strains together, he made the following observations:

In the F1 generation, all the ripe tomatoes have a regular red color and a regular flavor. The student tasted tomatoes from over 40 individual plants, and was sick with regular tasting tomatoes.

In the F2 progeny, the student sampled 1000 tomato plants: 498 had red-color tomatoes with normal taste, 248 colorful tomatoes with normal taste, and 254 red-color tomatoes with great taste. He was disappointed not to find any colorful tomatoes with great taste. He then sampled another 2000 F2 plants: 998 had red-color tomatoes with normal taste, 511 colorful tomatoes with normal taste, 488 red-color tomatoes with great taste, and 3 colorful tomatoes with great taste; he was so happy to find what he wanted!!!

Based on these experimental results, he realized that the alleles he needs are recessive and the two genes are linked.  

C) (2 points) The tomato genome has now been sequenced and genes on the chromosome are in the following order OPQRSTU. The respective physical distances on the chromosome between these seven genes are very similar. But we now know that there is a 'cold spot' between genes RT and 'hot spots' between PQ and TU. Draw a representation of the genetic map relative to the physical map (both maps are needed here) for this part of the tomato genome. Show the relative (approximate) locations of the genes on the two maps.

D) (2 points) What can you predict about the chromosome chromatin structure between the R and T genes?

Please compelete long detailed answer and be specific please draw graphs with your answers of available, but they are not required. If you use graph, you can also explain what information you want me to get from the graph. Please Limit all answers upto words of 300.

1. Suppose the American Medical Association (AMA) wants to improve the quality of physicians. Give TWO examples of how they could change their licensing policies to accomplish this.
2. Using moral hazard as the main basis of your reasoning, explain why having health insurance leads to more use of health care goods and services than is economically desirable.
3. Between 2008 and 2010, TOTAL EMPLOYMENT in the United States declined by approximately 5.1 percent. During this same time, jobs in the Health Care industry increased by 6.4 percent. Using theory discussed in this course, explain WHY the health care industry did not decline with the rest of U.S. employment.
4. Explain why a majority of individuals in nursing homes are women and/or poor.
5. The total volume of prescription and non-prescription pharmaceuticals is about a 50/50 split. The total revenue, however, is far from that with more than 6 times the amount of revenue going towards prescription. Explain why this is.
6. Define revenue risk and explain why this risk is so low in the medical field.
7. Explain the positive externalities of a flu shot. Be specific of who receives these externalities. Your answer should include an explanation of what externalities are.

Using vhdl in a FSM , how could you write code to delay a state change for one hour? For example, you have a fan running in the 'on' state , but after 1 hour you would like that fan to switch back to the 'off' state. What is the best way going about doing this?

Solow growth model: steady state. What does it mean for the economy to be in the steady state? How is the steady state determined? How does steady-state output per person depend upon the investment and depreciation rates? Explain why an increase in the investment rate raises steady-state y. What are the effects of a rise in TFP or a fall in the rate of depreciation on steady-state y?

Financial Reporting III Choose two concepts (Consolidations and Partnership) you have learned in this course and explain how you may use them in a future accounting position. Make sure you provide details to include how each concept will help you support the financial goals of the company you currently work for or will work for in the future.

*Consolidations:

-Subsequent to the Date of Acquisition

-Ownership Patterns and Taxes

*Partnership:

-Formation and Operation

-Termination and Liquidation

In your reflection, include at least one current scholarly article about each concept you have chosen. Research the Shapiro Library for current peer-reviewed articles (within the last five years) on your chosen topics. Then, consider the following:

-What do the authors say about the subject? Do you agree or disagree with their position?

-How does the author’s view impact your understanding of the concept as it was covered in the course? What are the ethical implications of how these concepts are used?

W72A) I am learning EXCEL Functions. Please answer in EXCEL Functions in detail

Stock Returns (relationship between hypothesis testing and confidence intervals)

Suppose you as an investor with a stock portfolio of hundreds of thousands of dollars decide to sue your broker because of low returns due to lack of portfolio diversification, i.e., too many holdings with similar return prospects. The 39 monthly returns, expressed as percentages, are shown in the table below and reproduced in your Excel answer template.

If we graph these data in a histogram, we can reasonably infer that the data are distributed normally.

Suppose you’re on an arbitration panel reviewing this case and decide to compare these returns with the Standard & Poor’s (S&P’s) stock index over the same period and find that the S&P mean, which we can interpret as the population mean (μ), equals .95%.

1.        Test (two-sided) at the 5% level that the mean return you compute   from the investor’s 39-month sample differs from the S&P (population) mean. Use the P-value method, rounding to 4 digits. Make sure to state the null and alternate hypotheses, claim, and your conclusion.   

Remember: since we must compute the sample standard deviation, use the t-statistic to perform the test.)

2.       Now use your P-value calculated in (a) to test at the 1% level whether the sample mean differs from the S&P population main, making sure to state your conclusion. (Do not restate the hypotheses. Simply state the conclusion.

3.        Compute a 95% confidence interval for the population mean,

using the data given in the Table above for α = .05. (Express the results with three decimal places, one more than given in the data.) Does the S&P mean lie in the interval you’ve computed?

4.        Now compute a 99% confidence interval for the population mean, expressing the results with three decimal places. Does the S&P mean lie in the interval you’ve computed?

Under the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, will you explain in-depth the Statistical Section?