Part Three: Acid/Base Homeostasis in the Human Body

Beginning Questions:

1. Carbon dioxide is formed during cellular respiration and then diffuses out of cells into the interstitial fluid and then into the bloodstream. Most of the carbon dioxide is transported in our blood as bicarbonate. Write the chemical equation for the formation of bicarbonate and hydrogen ions from carbon dioxide and water below.

2. Under which of the following situations would the formation of bicarbonate and hydrogen ions be greater? Circle your answer.

At Rest After Exercise

Change in pH after exercise.

Calculate the percentage change in pH for both procedures and record your values in the table below

• % change in pH = ((control pH – experimental pH)/control pH) * 100

Questions:

1. Explain how blowing air into water caused the change in pH.

2. Describe why exercise caused the observed change in pH.

chemical engineering
*An adult human being at rest produces roughly 0.40 mJ/h of thermal energy through metabolic activity. Use that fact to solve the following problems.
(a)
A college student who weighs 128 pounds put off a major assignment until the day before it was due and worked for eight hours to complete it. If she is modeled as a closed adiabatic system at constant pressure, her heat capacity and molecular weight are approximately the same as that of liquid water, and her temperature was normal when she began to work, what would her temperature have been by the time the assignment was finished?
(b)
Now model the student as an open system and assume that evaporation of perspiration (evaporative cooling) is the only mechanism for heat loss. How much weight would she have lost through evaporation if she maintained a constant body temperature?
(c)
Are either of the models in Parts a and b reasonable? Explain. What is the most likely explanation of what happened to the metabolic energy produced in her body?

Regarding human reproductive physiology (select the MOST CORRECT statement):

Please Answer These: Book is Human Resource Management | 16th Edition by Sean Valentine/Patricia Meglich/Robert L. Mathis/John H. Jackson

1. _____ Companies rarely see benefits as an effective retention tool because employees generally have very little understanding of the benefits provided by their employers. a) True or b) False

2._____ Legally required benefits make up more than half of the total cost of benefits. a) True or b) False

3. _____ The benefits offered to employees, can be positively seen as? a) A non-financial intangible program. b) A federally mandated instrument. c) A means of competitive advantage. d) A financial tangible program.

4.____The following is a legally-required benefit? a) Health Insurance. b) Unemployment Insurance. c) Pension Plans. d) Tuition Reimbursement

5._____Firms are required to pay an unemployment percentage that is based on: a) Type of industry. b) Number of employees. c) Payroll cost. d) Experience rates

6._____Sandra is an HR assistant. Sandra participates in her company’s pension plan. After having worked for eight years, Sandra has been vested by her company. This indicates that: a) When Sandra retires, she will receive the amounts contributed by the company and herself. b) Sandra can now transfer her pension balances to a new employer’s plan if she moves to a new company. c) Sandra will receive the funds her firm contributed to the pension plan only if she is a member of the firm while retiring. d) None of the above

7._____ The following is a voluntary benefit that employers provide in addition to legally required benefits? a) Medicaid insurance. b) Workers’ compensation. c) Education assistance. d) Social security

8.______Maggie who has a pre-existing medical condition quit her job at ABC Company and went to work for XYZ Company. According to the following, Maggie can switch her health insurance plan from her former employer to her new employer? a) Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act – COBRA. b) Family Medical Leave Act - FMLA . c) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act – HIPAA. d) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – PPACA

9.______The following typically consists of approaches that monitor and reduce medical costs through restrictions and market system alternatives. a) Utilization review. b) Managed care. c) HMO. d) PPO

10.____ Benefits approach adopted as part of total rewards depends on many factors include all of the following EXCEPT a) Employee competition. b) Size of the organization. c) Workforce competition. d) Organizational life cycle

11._____Only employees who have worked at least 12 months and 1,250 hours in the previous year are eligible for leave under the FMLA. a) True or b) False

12. _____ Violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) can lead to disqualification of a pension plan. a) True or b) False

SUBJECT: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGMENT//Complete Exercise #2 - page 430 of strategic compensation. Three firms are described briefly below. For each firm, identify the role (if any) that you believe indirect pay should play in the compensation system, and the specific benefits that it would make the most sense to offer. Explain why. a. A company offers lawn maintenance and yard cleanup services in the summer and snow removal services in the winter. It employs about 600 people at peak season (in summer) and has branches in major cities across the Prairies. b. A retail clothing chain offers personalized service and caters to upscale customers. It is located in major cities across Canada and employ's approximately 600 sales staff. c. A computer software firm develops customized software for various specialized applications for individual clients. Located near Ottawa, it employs about 1000 people.

16. How do small businesses handle human resource management issues?

A. Small businesses are exempt from employment laws and do not need to concern themselves about human resource management issues.

B. All HR activities are outsourced.

C. Line managers in the company usually handle HR activities.

D. They let their HR department deal with those issues

E. Their HR departments deal with all issues that are not outsourced.

17. Which of the following would NOT be a factor as to whether the EEOC will pursue litigation?

A. The type of charge

B. Compliance evaluations and complaint investigations of federal contractors and subcontractors

C. The amount of money involved in the charge

D. The number of people affected by the alleged practice

E. Other charges against the employer

18. Which of the following BEST ties sustainability to each aspect of the organization and encourages employee support for the sustainability goal?

A. Cutting carbon emissions from production facilities

B. Pursuing the goals of alternative energy vehicles, even if it is at a financial loss

C. Using a plastic made from plants instead of oil

D. Attaching bonuses and rewards to meeting sustainability goals

E. Informing institutional investors of sustainability plans

19. Evaluating an employee compared to other employees instead of performance standards can most directly result in what kind of error?

A. Halo effect

B. Leniency error

C. Contrast error

D. Strictness error

E. Similar-to-me effect

20. Companies that aligned talent management programs with their business strategy produced a return on investment (ROI) that was approximately ________ percent higher over a five-year period than companies without such an orientation.

A. 20

B. 10

C. 437

D. 38

E. 6

SUBJECT-HUMAN RESOURCE MSMT//BUSINESS FOUNDATION

1. What is the marketing process, and how do businesses use it? Why is it important? Also, explain in your own words how market research works.
2. What are the 4 “P”s, and how do they fit in with the marketing process? Describe a marketing campaign that has caused you to purchase a product.
3. Explain the steps in the accounting cycle. Name and define the three essential financial statements accountants create for businesses. Is this information of interest to the company only? If not, who else would use that info?
4. What is the financial planning process? How important is financial management to running a successful business? In your opinion, are there similarities to an individual’s financial management and that of a company? Explain why or why not.

Create a T-Format Cover Letter for a Human Resources/Business Administration Specialist. Please make sure all of the following points are included and addressed/answered appropriately.

- Locate a job position relevant to HR/Business Admin. that you would be interested in applying to once you graduated from college.

- Identify the specific 'big' categories of education, experiences and skills the job requires or are listed as 'preferred'.

- Identify things you have done that relates to these areas/categories. Or, experiences/skills you will have by the time you apply for this kind of job.

- Make sure you include where the job posting was accessed/found and what the name is of the job posting.

- FORMAT - Outline:

- You will have an opening sentence or two

- Then the "T" format where you have experiences/skills desired on one side, and an example of how you have related experience on the opposite side.

- You will have a closing paragraph

- Signature

1. Determining Inheritance using Punnett Squares

A Punnett is a means to determine the genetic inheritance of offspring if the genotypes of both parents are known. Using Punnett squares answer the questions about the following scenarios. In order to properly answer some of the questions more than 1 Punnett square might be needed. With every Punnett square provide a key for your alleles.

1. Neurofibromatosis (NF), sometimes called von Recklinghausen disease, is one of the most common genetic disorders. It affects roughly 1 in 3,000 people. It is seen equally in every racial and ethnic group throughout the world. At birth or later, the affected individual may have six or more large tan spots on the skin. Such spots may increase in size and number and become darker. Small benign tumors called neurofibromas may occur under the skin or in the muscles. They are made up of nerve cells and other cell types. NF is a dominant disorder. Jane has NF and wants to figure out what the chances are that her children will inherit the disorder if her husband, John, does not have NF.

2. The condition of sickle cell anemia is recessive and only the homozygous recessive individuals are adversely affected. Interestingly, heterozygous individuals have increased resistance to Malaria which is caused by a Plasmodium parasite that infects red blood cells. A heterozygous individual has red blood cells that are minimally affected but are altered enough so that Plasmodium cannot infect the cells. This is one reason why this allele persists in the population – in the heterozygous state it gives the individual an advantage for survival in some environments.

Veronica, who has the sickle cell condition, and Mason who does not have the condition have a child. They are worried about the having a child with sickle cell anemia and malaria because they are moving to a part of Africa where the Plasmodium is common. Who in this family should be worried about sickle cell anemia and contracting malaria?

3. All newborn babies are tested to see if they have a defective enzyme which cannot break down the amino acid phenylalanine. If phenylalanine accumulates in the blood then high levels can cause mental retardation. The condition is called phenylketonuria or PKU. PKU is a recessive allele and only homozygous recessive individuals are affected. A family living in a country where PKU testing is not done wanted to know if they should have their baby in the US. The pregnant mother has a parent who has the PKU condition and the father also has one parent with the condition. Neither the pregnant mother nor the father has the condition. Draw a punnett square demonstrating the likelihood that this new baby will inherit PKU and discuss why or why not the parents should have the baby in the US. (K = dominant, non-disease allele; k = recessive, disease allele)
4. Huntington’s disorder is caused by a dominant allele. Heterozygous individuals with one copy of this allele suffer from progressive degeneration of the nervous system and premature death. The phenotype or symptoms do not appear until the affected individual reaches ~40 years of age. This is after child-bearing age, so people have children before they know they are carrying the affected gene allele.

Jermaine is very worried about passing the dominant Huntington’s gene allele to his children. If Jermaine’s father has the Huntington’s Disorder, his mother does not, and his wife has no history of Huntington’s, does Jermaine need to be tested for Huntington’s before he has children? Note: homozygous dominant is lethal and a fetus will not survive. Draw a punnett square representing the Jermaine’s father and mother, to determine his chances of carrying the Huntington’s disease allele. (H = dominant, disease allele; h = recessive, non-disease allele)

What is the probability that Jermaine has the Huntington’s disease allele? Should he be tested?

If Jermaine is positive for the Huntington’s allele, what are the chances he will pass it on to his children? Do a second punnett square to illustrate this cross.

John, 38, makes $125,000 per year. He has a 35 year old wife, Nancy, and a daughter who just turned 7. John’s share of the family’s consumption is 21%, and he pays an average tax rate of 28%. He plans to work another 30 years and expects salary increases equal to inflation, which he expects to be 3% annually. He expects to earn an 8% nominal rate of return on his investments.

1. Use the Human Life Value (HLV) method to calculate John’s appropriate amount of life insurance coverage.

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