A dispatcher suffered from multiple sclerosis, which caused, among other things, incontinence and coordination difficulties. After having bowel accidents at work, the dispatcher was subjected to ridicule, which included name-calling, the posting of unflattering drawings and pictures on the office walls, and the theft of his cane.

Has the employer created a hostile work environment? To what extent is the employer required to notify his supervisor of his belief that the work environment is hostile? [Murphy v. Beavex, Conn. D.C., No. 3:06CV01109 (DJS) (2008).]

An Internet retailer would like to investigate the relationship between the amount of time in minutes a purchaser spends on its Web site and the amount of money he or she spends on an order. The table to the right shows the data from a random sample of 12 customers. Construct a 90​% confidence interval for the regression slope. Construct a 90​% confidence interval for the slope. LCL equals nothing and UC Lequals nothing ​(Round to three decimal places as​ needed.)

Short Story: People in America often wonder why we pay higher prices for pharmaceutical drugs versus countries that have socialized medicine like Canada, Great Britain, and Sweden. Here is the dirty little secret. These socialist governments often threaten U.S. pharma firms that they will steal the patents or outright reverse engineer the drug to figure out the formula. If they do this then they will get the drugs fast and cheap while the U.S. pharma firms get stuck with the total cost of the billions they spent on research and development on these life-saving medicines. This is dirty.

These socialist governments then negotiate a deal with the U.S. pharma companies to get the drugs shipped to them at a cheaper price and Americans end up paying higher costs. In a sense, American capitalism is supporting government-run healthcare in these socialist nations.

Of course, U.S. pharma firms are not innocent angels either. They do their best to maintain the monopoly on their drugs for a full 20 years before they will allow the production of generic drugs by all pharma firms.

Many of the new drugs that have been invented over the last 30 years was because of the hard work of the U.S. government-funded National Institute of Health and the bright professors and students in our leading universities such as UC Irvine Medical Center, UC of San Francisco, etc… All of this activity is actually funded by the U.S. taxpayer.

Finally, because of the endless bureaucratic red tape and expensive testing rigor demanded by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, the average cost to produce a new drug is about $2.2 billion.

Essay Question: What a mess! What ideas do you have for this Oligopoly market structure to get U.S. pharma drug prices lower for the average American?     

The indicator crystal violet, (V) reacts with NaOH (OH- ) according to the equation: CV(aq) + OH- (aq) → CV- (aq) (Violet) (Colorless) The rate law for the reaction is: Rate = k2 [CV] [NaOH]. In an experiment the concentration of NaOH exceeds that of the crystal violet by a factor of 1000 so the rate law becomes Rate = k1 [CV] where k1 = k2 [NaOH] . The following data were obtained for the reaction of crystal violet with the NaOH concentration at 0.00800M. The changes in [CV] were followed by measuring the absorbance (A) of the solution. To prove that the reaction is first order in CV, plot a graph of ln(Absorbance) versus time to see if it is linear. k1 is the negative slope of this graph and k2 is equal to k1 divided by the NaOH concentration used in the experiment.

Data

Time (min) Absorbance, (A) Ln(Absorbance)

0.00 0.840

8.00 0.680

12.0 0.640

17.0 0.560

21.0 0.500

25.0 0.460

30.0 0.410

Plot a graph of ln(Absorbance) versus time and determine the slope of the line. Is the reaction first order in CV? Explain your answer.

Evaluate k1 (pseudo first order rate constant) for the reaction if k1 = -(slope)

evaluate the overall rate constant , k2, for the reaction ij k2=k1/[NaOH]

The indicator crystal violet, (V) reacts with NaOH (OH- ) according to the equation: CV(aq) + OH- (aq) → CV- (aq) (Violet) (Colorless) The rate law for the reaction is: Rate = k2 [CV] [NaOH]. In an experiment the concentration of NaOH exceeds that of the crystal violet by a factor of 1000 so the rate law becomes Rate = k1 [CV] where k1 = k2 [NaOH] . The following data were obtained for the reaction of crystal violet with the NaOH concentration at 0.00800M. The changes in [CV] were followed by measuring the absorbance (A) of the solution. To prove that the reaction is first order in CV, plot a graph of ln(Absorbance) versus time to see if it is linear. k1 is the negative slope of this graph and k2 is equal to k1 divided by the NaOH concentration used in the experiment.

Data

Time (min) Absorbance, (A) Ln(Absorbance)

0.00 0.840

8.00 0.680

12.0 0.640

17.0 0.560

21.0 0.500

25.0 0.460

30.0 0.410

Plot a graph of ln(Absorbance) versus time and determine the slope of the line. Is the reaction first order in CV? Explain your answer.

Evaluate k1 (pseudo first order rate constant) for the reaction if k1 = -(slope)

evaluate the overall rate constant , k2, for the reaction ij k2=k1/[NaOH]

"A secret spoken finds wings. - Robert Jorden, The path of Daggers"

How is the quotation related to patient confidentiality? What does the author mean by "wings"?

Describe the role of nutritional food labels impacting health today.

Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice 7th Edition Author: Susan G. Dudek

11)Two books are stacked on a table and are at rest. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy lies on top of War and Peace which sits on the table. War and Peace is much heavier than Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Draw a free body diagram for each book. >> 12)The author Tolstoy claims: “The weight of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a force that acts on War and Peace.” Is this correct? Explain your answer. >> 13)The author Douglas Adams states that there is only one force acting on Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the only reason that it does not move is because War and Peace is in the way. Is this correct? Explain your answer.

Define a class of queues that implements the interface QueueInterface, as defined in Listing 7-1 in Chapter 7. Use an instance of the class ArrayList to contain a queues entries. Then write a driver/test program adequately demonstrates your new class. Note that you might have to handle exceptions thrown by methods of ArrayList.

Deliverables:

• EmptyQueueException.java (given in Lab_7_StartUp folder)
• QueueInterface.java (given in Lab_7_StartUp folder)
• ArrayListQueue.java (need to create)
• Lab7.java (need to create)

QueInterface:

@author Frank M. Carrano
@author Timothy M. Henry
@version 5.0
*/
public interface QueueInterface<T>
{
/** Adds a new entry to the back of this queue.
@param newEntry An object to be added. */
public void enqueue(T newEntry);
  
/** Removes and returns the entry at the front of this queue.
@return The object at the front of the queue.
@throws EmptyQueueException if the queue is empty before the operation. */
public T dequeue();
  
/** Retrieves the entry at the front of this queue.
@return The object at the front of the queue.
@throws EmptyQueueException if the queue is empty. */
public T getFront();
  
/** Detects whether this queue is empty.
@return True if the queue is empty, or false otherwise. */
public boolean isEmpty();
  
/** Removes all entries from this queue. */
public void clear();
} // end QueueInterface

EmptyQueueException:

/**
A class of runtime exceptions thrown by methods to
indicate that a queue is empty.
@author Frank M. Carrano
@author Timothy M. Henry
@version 5.0
*/
public class EmptyQueueException extends RuntimeException
{
public EmptyQueueException()
{
this(null);
} // end default constructor

public EmptyQueueException(String message)
{
super(message);
} // end constructor
} // end EmptyQueueException

The purpose of this exercise is to practice writing an abstract of an academic work. An abstract is a concise summary of the topic, goals, content, and argument of an academic work. Learning to write a good abstract is a key step in developing a critique of an academic work—you cannot provide a good critique of an article or book until you are able to first summarize the author’s argument and the evidence she uses to support it.

Assignment:

For this exercise, write a 150-200 word abstract of chapter 5 (“The Phenomenology of Terror”) in Buried Secrets by Victoria Sanford.

Your goal is to provide a succinct summary of: the topic of the chapter, Sanford’s thesis in the chapter, and the data she uses to support it.

Guidelines:

The first sentence(s) should describe accurately and concisely the main theme of the chapter: What is it about? What is the main topic??Where, when, and with whom was the research done?

The following sentence(s) should concisely state the author’s thesis and how she argues her position. Remember that a thesis must be stated in the form of an argument, not a statement of fact.

The next sentence(s) should briefly outline the information that the author uses to support her thesis. For example, is the data ethnographic or is it historical or a combination of both? Does the author draw primarily on media sources or did she conduct interviews? With whom did she conduct interviews and why? How does the author present or organize her data to support her case?

Your abstract should end with a summary of the implications of the chapter: Why is this chapter significant? What does the author accomplish or hope to accomplish by presenting this data?