A common argument from contrarians of the human impact on global warming about the increase in CO2 levels of the atmosphere is that the increase in carbon dioxide by humans is only a small percentage of the total sources of emitted CO2. In other words, the argument is that humans cannot be the cause of the increase in warming of the climate since the added emissions is a small percentage of what is added to the atmosphere from natural forces like volcanoes. In your response, address the following: What are the natural carbon sources and sinks? How does the emission of carbon by humans affect this balance? Why is this argument short-sighted of the feedback mechanisms built into our ecosystem? How would you explain to this contrarian that his argument is missing a larger picture?

The human resources department for your company needs a program that will determine how much to deduct from an employee’s paycheck to cover healthcare costs. Health care deductions are based on several factors. All employees are charged at flat rate of $150 to be enrolled in the company healthcare system. If they are married there is an additional charge of $75 to cover their spouse/partner. If they have children, the cost is $50 per child. In addition, all employees are given a 10% deduction in the total cost if they have declared to be a “non-smoker”.

Your goal is to create a program that gathers the employee’s name, marital status, number of children and whether or not they smoke tobacco for a single employee. While gathering this information, if the user enters at least one invalid value, the program must display one error message telling the user they made a mistake and that they should re-run the program to try again. The program must then end at this point. However, if all valid values are entered, the program should calculate the total cost of the healthcare payroll deduction and then print a well-formatted report that shows the employee’s name, marital status, total number of children, and smoker designation, and total deduction amount.

Please write a pseudocode for the above problem. Don't forget to validate the inputs as necessary.

Research Psychologist A has been conducting a study with human subjects for nearly a year. As a result, A has come to know Participant M quite well. The study is taking longer than expected, and some of the participants are leaving the study. Because of the nature of the working relationship with the participants, Research Psychologist A and Participant M have become interested in an intimate relationship. Since neither one wants to jeopardize the progress of the study, they agree to retain only a professional relationship for the duration of the study, and then to pursue an intimate relationship once the study is completed and the results have been published.

address the ethical issues of this case and present options for resolving the ethical conflict. consider individual perceptions as well as the needs, potential, and motivation of the involved parties when positing your resolution.

Describe the ethical conflict in the scenario above.

Describe the options for resolving the ethical conflict including the interpersonal perceptions and other considerations that influence the options. (Benchmarks: Relationships, Spirit and Self-Discovery C8.2: Evaluate changes in one's ability to be perceptive of others.)

Identify the preferred option for resolving the conflict, and explain why it is the best option. How does this option address the needs, potential, and motivations of the involved parties? (Benchmarks: Relationships, Spirit and Self-Discovery C8.3: Synthesize the potential and motivations of self and others.)

Propose steps Research Psychologist A should take to avoid a similar situation in the future.

Suppose you are at a party, and one of your human friends decides to run around the room screaming "I'm a jawed fish." It's not a costume party, so the other guests look at your friend a bit oddly-- actually a lot oddly-- and they edge away. But you stand up and say that your friend is right. Assuming that the other partygoers are trained in phylogenetic systematics, what argument could you make to convince them? Your answer will be most convincing if it is constructed in complete sentences and uses specific and appropriate terms (spelled correctly); you could also use figures to help illustrate the point you are making.

Please review the following scenario and place yourself in the position of the new Human Resource Manager for Acme Manufacturing. Once you understand the circumstances of the problems in this organization, please respond to the questions that the General Manager has posed.

Scenario: You just started work as the new Human Resources Manager for Acme Manufacturing, a Fortune 1,000 company. The job was vacant for 6 months prior to your hiring. You have wondered about this, especially since reading about employee harassment incidents and fights recently in the news.

The General Manager (GM) calls you into his office the minute you arrive. He shuts the door after saying a quick word of welcome and begins to tell you about an incident that happened last week that needs your immediate attention. The company's manufacturing operation runs three shifts of production workers so that the plant is operating 24/7. Over the past 6 months, hostilities have arisen between employees on the third and first shifts. What started out as jeering and criticisms by the first shift, claiming they have to clean up the mess and complete all of the work left undone by the third shift, has escalated to physical confrontations and altercations. Although the GM says that aggressive bantering back and forth is common for shift workers in manufacturing, he admits that he is worried about further violent escalation. The GM says he needs your help.

• Where do you think that this evaluation should begin? In your reply, explain your reasoning.
• Explain the different levels of disciplinary actions that will be used for the Acme Manufacturing Company. Your reply should include the levels of discipline and 1 example of a disciplinary action for each level.
• How would you determine the disciplinary action appropriate for the employees involved in this scenario? Your response should include your reasoning.
• Why would you draft policies and procedures associated with disciplinary actions for the workplace? Provide a minimum of 2 reasons in your response.
• How would you ensure that the entire workforce is trained on these new policies and procedures? Provide 1 example in your response.

Write a 5–7-page memo to the GM that provides your responses to his questions above. Be sure to cite any references used in proper APA format.

Please review the following scenario and place yourself in the position of the new Human Resource Manager for Acme Manufacturing. Once you understand the circumstances of the problems in this organization, please respond to the questions that the General Manager has posed.

Scenario: You just started work as the new Human Resources Manager for Acme Manufacturing, a Fortune 1,000 company. The job was vacant for 6 months prior to your hiring. You have wondered about this, especially since reading about employee harassment incidents and fights recently in the news.

The General Manager (GM) calls you into his office the minute you arrive. He shuts the door after saying a quick word of welcome and begins to tell you about an incident that happened last week that needs your immediate attention. The company's manufacturing operation runs three shifts of production workers so that the plant is operating 24/7. Over the past 6 months, hostilities have arisen between employees on the third and first shifts. What started out as jeering and criticisms by the first shift, claiming they have to clean up the mess and complete all of the work left undone by the third shift, has escalated to physical confrontations and altercations. Although the GM says that aggressive bantering back and forth is common for shift workers in manufacturing, he admits that he is worried about further violent escalation. The GM says he needs your help.

• Where do you think that this evaluation should begin? In your reply, explain your reasoning.
• Explain the different levels of disciplinary actions that will be used for the Acme Manufacturing Company. Your reply should include the levels of discipline and 1 example of a disciplinary action for each level.
• How would you determine the disciplinary action appropriate for the employees involved in this scenario? Your response should include your reasoning.
• Why would you draft policies and procedures associated with disciplinary actions for the workplace? Provide a minimum of 2 reasons in your response.
• How would you ensure that the entire workforce is trained on these new policies and procedures? Provide 1 example in your response.

Write a 5–7-page memo to the GM that provides your responses to his questions above. Be sure to cite any references used in proper APA format.

Which of the following steps of cellular respiration take place in the inner membrane of mitochondria?

Select one or more:

a. glycolysis

b. citric acid cycle

c. electron transport

d. Calvin Cycle

Glucose and O₂ are reactants of:

Select one or more:

a. neither photosynthesis or cellular respiration

b. photosynthesis

c. cellular respiration

d. both photosynthesis and cellular respiration

• electron transport

• mitochondria

• Photosystems

• photons

• chloroplast

• chlorophyll

• aerobic

• lactic acid

• fermentation

• NADH

Question 55

Increased release of aldosterone will cause:

Select one:

a. increased release of ADH

b. None of these: aldosterone only causes a change in blood pressure

c. increased potassium excretion in urine

d. decreased release of angiotensin

e. increased blood calcium levels

Question 62

Which of the following statements correctly describes the regulation of gastric secretion?

Select one:

a. The sight and smell of food does not increase gastric secretion - only the physical act of eating food.

b. Gastric secretion is inhibited by distension (stretching) of the stomach.

c. Activation of the sympathetic nervous system (i.e. fight or flight) will inhibit gastric secretions.

d. The presence of food (chyme) in the duodenum will always inhibit gastric secretions.

e. All of the above are true.

Question 64

The greatest amount of ATP production occurs during ___________ when the compounds ___________ release their electrons.

Select one:

a. Electron transport chain; NADH & FADH₂

b. Glycolysis; pyruvate & lactate

c. Citric acid (Krebs) cycle; CO₂ & H₂O

d. Deamination; urea & ammonia

e. Beta-oxidation; acetyl CoA & ketone bodies

Question 65

Basal metabolic rate (BMR) can be increased if you:

Select one:

a. Increase your lean body (i.e. muscle) mass

b. Go on a diet

c. Are asleep

d. Have low levels of thyroid hormone

e. All of the above increase BMR

1) Define the following:
Standardization, titrant, primary standard, acid/base indicators, indicator range, end point, equivalence point, titration curve, buffer solution. 


2) What are the requirements for a primary standard? 


3) Write the transition range and color change for the following indicators: Phenolphthalein, 
bromocresol green, methyl orange. 


5) What is the aim of standardization? 


6) What is the difference between primary standard and standard solution? 


7) Define and compare end-point and equivalence point. 


8) Why the weak acids cannot be used as titrant in the titrations? 


9) Why do the indicators change their colors for different pH’s. (Hint: Consider the chemical 
behavior of the indicators.) 


10) What is gravimetric titration? How and why is it different than a volumetric titration? 
Which one is more accurate? 


11) What limits the accuracy of a titration? How can you improve it? 


12) How is mass measured? How can one improve the accuracy of the mass measurement?

1. Graves' disease is a condition in which some of the body's antibodies mimic the function of thyroid-stimulating hormone and cause over activity of the thyroid gland. what consequences would this have on a patient's overall metabolic rate and their ability to maintain a healthy weight? would you expect someone with Graves' disease to have a higher or lower average core body temperature compared to someone who was unaffected?

2. when fatty acids are metabolized for cellular respiration, the first step involves breaking two carbons at a time off the chain to form of acetyl - CoA. This acetyl- CoA than:

3. Stenosis (constriction) of the pyloric sphincter would interfere with:

4. Any organ which helps break down food but is not part of the tube through which the foodstuffs pass is referred to as a(n):

5. At the corners of each hepatic lobule are three vessels, collectively known as the portal triad. what vessels make up this group?

6. The main part of the stomach is called the: