Should State or Federal Government be the insurance regulator? Explain why it would be state preferablly please.

Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich reported that the mean temperature of humans is 98.6F. To test this long-held belief about the average body temperature, medical researchers measured the temperature of 36 randomly selected healthy adults. The sample data resulted in a sample mean of 98.2F and a sample standard deviation of 0.6F. Assuming that the population is normal, test whether the mean temperature of humans is different from 98.6F at the 5% significance level. To gain full credit, you should provide the following


(a) State and check the modeling assumptions.

(b) Define the parameter of interest.


(c) State the hypotheses.

(d) Calculate the value of the test statistic. What is the distribution of the test statistic?


(e) Find the p-value using the appropriate table.

(f) State the decision and the conclusion in the context of the problem.


(g) Calculate a 95% confidence interval for the population mean µ and interpret your interval in the context of this problem.

(h) Could we have used the 95% confidence interval calculated in (g) to make a decision about the hypothesis test conducted? Discuss, in depth, why or why not this can be done.

Part III – Blood Transfusion Reaction

“Ok, I get the part that we could have different blood types. So then, how come they couldn’t donate blood to me?” continued Kevin.

“Well, carbohydrates are located on the red blood cell surface; we call them antigens. Meanwhile, corresponding antibodies are created in the blood serum. Antibodies are specific proteins made in the body to bind and react with specific antigens. It’s like a key to a lock. One key can open one lock. One antibody can only react with one antigen. The antibodies won’t react with the body’s own antigen present on red blood cells, but will react with that

of incompatible blood from another person. This is part of your normal defense system called the immune response. Have you guys heard of it?”

“Yes,” said Kevin and Peter.

Ms. B continued, “Well, during a blood transfusion, if the donor’s and recipient’s blood are not compatible with each other, the recipient’s immune response will attack the donor’s blood cells and damage them. This is called a transfusion reaction.”

“Oh, that’s serious; I heard of that when I was hospitalized. What types of antibody does everyone have?” asked Kevin.

“Type A blood has antibody B which will react with type B red blood cells; type B blood has antibody A. Type AB blood contains neither antibody; and finally type O blood, which Kevin has, contains both antibodies A and B. Type O blood will react with both type A and type B blood. Since one of your parents is type A and the other is type B, neither of them can donate blood to you.”

“That’s a complicated system,” said Kevin. “But wait a minute, wouldn’t that be a problem while my mom was pregnant with me? I heard that a mother shares everything with her baby before it’s born.”

“Another good question. As a matter of fact, your mother’s blood cells would not cross the placenta so there was no problem. You are fine,” she said.

After their discussion with Ms B, the boys returned home. Mom welcomed Kevin at the door. “Hi, Kevin. You’re back. How did your test go?”

“Ok. I’m glad that I stayed at home last night. One of questions I studied was on today’s test,” said Kevin. “Great, I’m glad!” Mom’s eyes were full of happiness.

“What’s for dinner?” Kevin headed to the kitchen.

“Oh, today we are going to have your favorite, pasta with spicy meatballs, and …” said Mom.

Questions

1. What types of antibody are made by each ABO blood group?
2. What is a transfusion reaction?
3. If a patient has type A blood, what would be the donor’s blood type during blood transfusion: type A, type B, type AB, or type O? Why?
4. Some individuals are called universal donors for blood transfusions. What blood type would they be? Explain your answer in terms of antibodies and antigens.
5. Other individuals are called universal recipients for blood transfusions. What would be their blood type? Explain your answer in terms of antibodies and antigens.

In the tubular flowers of foxgloves, wild-type coloration is red while a mutation called white produces white flowers. Another mutation, called peloria, causes the flowers at the apex of the stem to be huge. Yet another mutation, called dwarf, affects stem length. You crossed a red-flowered plant (gene symbol, r) to a plant that is dwarf (gene symbol, d) and peloria (gene symbol, p). All of the F1 plants are tall with red, normal stem flowers. You cross an F1 plant back to the dwarf and peloria parent, and you see the 543 progeny shown in the chart.

Dwarf, peloria stem, white 172

Tall, peloria stem, red 56

White, Tall, normal term 48

Red, dwarf, normal stem 6

Red, dwarf, peloria stem 43

White, tall, peloria stem 5

Red, tall, normal stem 162

Dwarf, normal stem, white 51

1) Which alleles are dominant?

2) What were the genotypes of the parents in the original cross?

3) Draw a map showing the linkage relationships of these three loci(R, D, P)

Consider that you are an exporter in the USA having annual sales revenues of $35 million and you are negotiating a potential sale with a customer in Malaysia for specialized machinery. The value of the potential sales contract is $175,000. You have dealt with this customer on the last 2 occasions and have been paid in advance on those occasions. Other than that, you have no other knowledge about your customer including their credit worthiness. Having lost the sale on the last 2 occasions, your competitor is inclined to offer very favorable terms of sale and payment for the present contract under negotiation. What terms of payment would you offer? Justify your answer. What factors will you consider when making the decision? Explain briefly how you would execute the terms of payment you choose to use.

Your task is to write a paragraph (maximum length of one page double spaced) that analyzes one of the following environmental ethical issue. You choose which issue to write about; in this assignment, reflect deeply on a topic that matters to you. You must argue your position with ethical theory and also show how your position is stronger than the opposing position supported by another theory.

Option A:

Should animals be used in medical research? In your response, consider which kind of animals (if any) would be morally permissible to use in medical research and what consideration should be given regarding pain.

explain the theory and demonstrate how your position reflects the logic and reasoning of that theory.

Remember that theory is the “why” behind your beliefs.

A patient has difficulty performing the mental rotation task. What are 2 possible disorders that the patient could have? And where would the lesions be for the 2 possible disorders?

The task would be to mentally rotate an upside down image of a person holding 2 balls (one red one white). The patient would need to rotate it so the person holding the ball is upright, so when asked which hand the red ball is in, they would be able to identify correctly. The activity is done twice, first time with the red ball in the left hand, and second time with the red ball in the right hand. The patient has difficulty in both cases.