Arrange an interview with a senior executive/partner/principal of a firm, preferably a business you are interested in. The manager must have EMPLOYEE supervision responsibilities.  Your task in this interview is to identify the interviewee’s orientation and business philosophy toward key human resource management functions. A face-to-face interview is highly recommended, however, a phone interview is acceptable.   

PRIOR TO THE INTERVIEW

Develop a list of approx. 10 human resource related questions you will ask that cover recruitment, staffing, staff motivation, employee development, and employee appraisal. (In your priority order). One question must cover the Supervisors viewpoint on the “competitive advantage through people”.

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Prepare the responses and your analysis of the interview including:

What you learned about supervising/managing others? Did you learn anything new? Did the interview clear up any misconceptions you had about HR and HR management?

What did you agree with and disagree with?

What was (were) the most memorable part(s) of the interview? Why?

How did the responses of your interviewee compare to class readings and class discussions this far?

What was the interviewee's thoughts on the “competitive advantage through people"?

Summarize the interview and include your thoughts and feelings towards the professional you interviewed. Did you walk away with an overall view of this person's philosophy and values as they relate to HR management?

Critically reflect on your own perceptions of HR management. What beliefs did you have going into the interview about HR management? Has anything changed for you?

Please answer all the questions with the question number and the correct answer (letter) next to it :)

27-Some of the best ways to learn about small business include:

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31-Because in bureaucracies it can take weeks or months to have information passed down to lower-level employees:

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43-Disadvantages of LLCs include

Please type down (easy to copy and paste) your response (agree or disagree why?) 150 word +

In this ted talk video, “The era of blind faith in big data must end”, Cathy O`Neil discusses about algorithms and how they do not make things fair at all. Cathy O`Neil is a Mathematician and a data scientist that also talks about the big data, and showing how algorithms could in fact reinforce human bias. In the beginning of this video, she talks about all of the bad data science things. At the end, Cathy O`Neil talks about the good data science and talks about the features of a good data science. You can find so many bad and good examples of everything. What really matter is the big picture of the good and bad things. I agree that big data has many drawbacks but all the examples and the “thought experiments” were either gender or race based (O`Neil, 2017).

Algorithms can be very useful in different aspect. Algorithms are useful by giving people an idea of how to reach a particular goal. For an example, algorithms would not function without online dating and book recommendation or even travel websites. Algorithms are most invisibly aids, augmenting human lives in incredible ways. There is so much science that is so good out there that we don't even realize it. In general, to use science and data science usefully we all need to have a better understanding of it.

Life Science 2 Answer all questions please!

1. Lack of microbes on the sterile Martian surface may

A. weaken our immune system

B. amplify our immune system

C. have no effect on our immune system

2. Mass vaccinations, along with detection and containment efforts, led to the successful eradication of human-human transmission of

A. Influenza

B. Mumps

C. Smallpox

D. Measles

3. Aging reduces all of the following in the circulatory system except

A. white blood cells

B. hemoglobin

C. lymphocytes

4. A major factor in the spread of transspecies hybrid viruses is

A. lack of vaccines against these novel viruses

B. host organisms lack antibodies against these novel pathogens

C. there is no herd immunity against novel pathogens

D. all of the above

5. There are more stars in the sky than there are grains of sand on all of the beaches on earth.

true

false

6. Aging affects hearing because

A. a decline in the ability to hear high frequencies occurs

B. ear size get smaller as a person ages

C. the bones of the middle ear waste away

7. The action of a neuron is “signal” or “no signal” due to the presence of neurotransmitters.

true

false

8. Physical and physiological differences between humans and life in other galaxies may prohibit contact.

true

false

9. The record number of extreme climate events in 2019

A. increased 14% above average

B. increased 50% above average

C. decreased 14% below average

D. decreased 50% below average

10. The limbic system involves simple memory, including the recollection of favorable and unfavorable circumstances, allowing linkage of experiences as rudimentary “good” or “bad” feelings.

true

false

11. Within the neocortex lies the amygdala, which evaluates every situation as threatening or not.

true

false

12. Endocrine changes as a result of aging

A. differ between genders

B. are regulated by a central pacemaker in the hypothalamus

C. cause hormonal alterations

D. all of the above

13. Warming Mars could be accomplished by

A. using PFCs

B. positioning mirrors to reflect sunlight onto the planet

C. transferring nitrogen from Venus or Titan

D. all of the above

14. Mars is considered favorable for human habitation because

A. the length of day and year are similar to Earth

B. Mars has seasons like Earth

C. Mars tilts on an axis of rotation like Earth

D. all of the above

15. Long-term changes related to extended time in space have been observed in

A. bone formation

B. telomeres

C. the immune system

D. DNA

E. all of the above

16. During aging, there is a slight reduction in heart rate because

A. the heart increases in size

B. fatty & fibrous tissues accumulate around the SA node

C. the heart valve stiffen

17. Bushmeat consumption is thought to be a method of transmission of

A. SIV

B. Zika

C. Influenza

D. SARS

18. Construction of human connectomes would allow detailed study of brain physiology, abilities, and behavior.

true

false

19. The mind is altered by each new event it encounters.

true

false

20. By 2100, global warming is estimated to stunt plant growth by

A. 5%

B. 11%

C. 25%

D. 50%

21. Both humans and the universe are composed of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen

true

false

22. The neocortex overrides the primitive actions of the reptilian brain and limbic system, giving rise to rational thinking.

true

false

23. Human health is affected by climate change

A. through increased disease transmission

B. increased acute and chronic respiratory conditions

C. malnutrition as a result of food insecurity

D. increased melanoma diagnoses due to UV exposure

E. all of the above

24. Increased temperature affects animal physiology by

A. increasing water consumption by 2-3X

B. impairing metabolism

C. decreasing reproduction

D. changing optimum growth rate

E. all of the above

25. Extreme weather events can trigger

A. PTSD

B. increased risk of violence and aggression

C. substance abuse

D. financial and relationship stress

E. all of the above

26. Placing a magnetic dipole field between Mars and the sun may help restore Mars'

A. atmosphere

B. water availability

C. temperature regulation

Symptom Presentation:

Fibromyalgia: Increased overall muscle pain accompanied by fatigue, insomnia, altered mood

Muscle Atrophy: Systemic muscle atrophy associated with disuse

Previously, you researched and considered three conditions through the process of differential diagnosis that would present with varying abnormalities in homeostasis, metabolism, triglycerides and DNA in week 1. Abnormalities in oxidation, plasma and tissue enzyme activity, inflammation and alopecia respectively in week 2 and increased cortisol and demonstrated bone loss in week 3.

Given the new symptom presentation above, consider and answer the following questions

create a 2-3 paragraphs per each of the questions listed below.

Mid-point in the course, is your differential diagnosis more closely centered upon a specialty? Are you focused upon metabolic, autoimmune, infectious, psychological, or neurological? Reconfirm or reestablish your top two diagnoses and rationalize your answers.

Is this a systemic disease affecting multiple organ systems or do you believe this is an isolated condition with random symptom presentation? Rationalize your answer.

Based upon what you currently know through symptom presentation and the process of differential diagnosis, what further tests would you order to help confirm your current diagnoses? Rationalize your answer. Please

Glucose test Strips Benedict's test

Sucrose+ control 35-40C light blue / negative Blue/ Neg   

Sucrose + invertase 35-40C Dark blue/ 2000mg/dL Light Orange/ Pos

Sucrose + invertase 70-90C Emerald/ 100mg/dL light orange/ Pos

Sucrose + lactase 35-40C light blue / neg Blue/ neg

Sucrose + control 35-40C light blue/ neg orange/ pos

Sucrose + lactase 35-40C medium brown/ 1000mg light orange/ pos

Lactose + lactase 70-90C light blue/ neg light orange/ pos

Lactose + Invertase 35-40C Yellow green/ 100mg/dL Yellowish orange/ pos

Glucose control NA light blue/ 500mg/dL Redish orange/ pos

1. what do the results of the glucose test strips suggest about the enzyme specificity of invertase and lactase?

2. Discuss the degree of agreement between the glucose test strip results and Benedict's test results. If there were any disagreements, please explain what may have caused them.

3. Why did one of the disaccharides react with Benedict's test, even without being hydrolyzed? Explain wiht chemical terms.

1. (4 pts) As described in lecture, thyroid hormone receptor (TR) can activate or repress gene expression.  The malic enzyme(ME) gene contains multiple thyroid response elements (TRE) in its regulatory region and is regulated by TR.  Based on the description of how TR regulates gene expression, explain how the following conditions will affect the expression of the ME gene compared to the expression levels that would be observed when thyroid hormone (T3) is present (i.e. would expression be higher, lower, or about the same).  You may assume that all of the cells contain similar levels of TR and other regulatory proteins (the only differences will be caused by the conditions indicated below).  Explain your answers in the context of ME gene expression in the presence of T3.

1. No T3 present.
2. T3 present. Cells treated with an inhibitor of histone deacetylases.  
3. T3 present. Cells treated with an inhibitor of histone acetylase transferases.  

Grading: 1 pt for explaining how TR regulates expression of the ME gene in the presence of T3; 0.5 pt each for clearly indicating whether gene expression levels will increase, decrease, or stay the same for each condition; 0.5 pt each for explaining why each condition would result in those relative expression levels.

Peregrine falcons are one of the several species of raptors whose populations declined       dramatically in the mid-60's after exposure to pesticides that caused them to lay very thin-shelled eggs.  In fact, the population in eastern North America disappeared entirely, but birds have been reintroduced.  Even though use of DDT has been banned in the USA, it is still used elsewhere, and is manufactured in the USA, and so species such as peregrines are still exposed to some extent to these toxins.  At a locus coding for an enzyme involved in laying down calcium in the eggshell, birds of genotype AA lay perfect eggs, while those that are Aa suffer 10% egg breakage (s_Aa = 0.10), and those that are aa suffer 70% egg breakage (s_aa = 0.70).  The original populations starts with 450 individuals of genotype AA, 380 of genotype Aa, and 170 individuals of aa.  

(a)  What is the starting allele frequency for the (A) allele (in other words, what is p₀)?   What would the allele frequency for the (A) allele be in the adults after one generation (what is p₁)?

(b)   If the p₁ generation of adults reproduced by random mating, how many chicks in the population would you expect to find with the aa genotype (the most fragile) if you counted a total of 100 baby falcons?

Question 56 (1 point)

To measure T cell function, we perform

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Question 57 (1 point)

Lack of tonsils as an indicator of the lack of B cells is seen in baby boys with which of the following immunodeficiencies?

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Question 58 (1 point)

____________ infections suggest defects in antibody production, ____________ infections suggest defects in T cell function, and both types of infections suggest ________________.

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Question 59 (1 point)

Acquired immunodeficiencies can be the result of

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Question 60 (1 point)

To diagnose an immunodeficiency of

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Case Study:

An 83-year-old female patient presented in the ER with signs of dehydration such as sunken eyes, dry mucus membranes and low urinary output due to frequent watery diarrhea (five to 10 times a day), for two days. Her stools had turned bloody with mucus in them. At the start of her diarrhea she was given Loperamide at the nursing home she lived in, but the frequency of her diarrhea increased, and she started developing abdominal cramps and bloating .When the doctor took her medical history, she discovered that her patient had completed a course of Clindamycin for a bad sinus infection. The doctor immediately ordered stool tests, enzyme immunoassays for toxins and a colonoscopy. The colonoscopy revealed yellowish adherent plaques, 2–10 mm, called pseudomembranes with a few areas of normal mucosa between them. Her doctor immediately started her on aggressive antibiotic therapy with Metronidazole and Vancomycin. The patient subsequently recovered well enough to be discharged

1) What disease did the doctor suspect?

2) What is the casual organism for this disease?

3) What are the pre-disposing or risk factors for this disease?

4) What toxins would the ELISA test detect?

5) What were the other tests done?