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Use your favorite search engine and search for “world’s greatest data breaches and hacks.” Scan through...

Use your favorite search engine and search for “world’s greatest data breaches and hacks.” Scan through the hits until you find visual diagrams or a text-based list of major data breaches that have occurred recently. (Major data breaches are defined as those in excess of 30,000 records.) Select and carefully review at least two of these data breaches. Briefly describe the two data breaches you selected. Explain in layman’s terms how you think these breaches occurred. Discuss whether or not you agree with Verizon’s assertion that over 80% of breaches are caused by human error. Describe how appropriate governance frameworks might have prevented these data breaches from occurring. Support your statements with evidence from your sources.

In: Computer Science

· Assuming no earth atmosphere, what the expected temperature of the earth would be? How this...

  • · Assuming no earth atmosphere, what the expected temperature of the earth would be? How this temperature could be estimated?
  • · Most notable CO2 monitoring station is at Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. Why the CO2 concentration changes with season during the year?
  • · With current rate of CO2 addition to the atmosphere, assuming this rate is constant, how long it will take to double the CO2 atmosphere concentration?
  • · What kinds of effect the global warming may have on the living environment of human being?
  • · List 5 important greenhouse gasses.
  • · What are the stabilization wedges? Can you list 5 of them?
  • · Under the Paris Agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, what is the targeted temperature increase above pre-industrial levels the world try to limit to?

In: Civil Engineering

Instructions: Please answer the following questions to the best of your abilities. Write complete sentences to...

Instructions: Please answer the following questions to the best of your abilities. Write complete sentences to clearly communicate your ideas

1. Describe Stress and provide an example of a stressor to bone?

2. Compare and contrast elasticity and viscoelasticity?

3. What movement related roles do flat bones play?

4. Provide 3 example activities that help maintain bone integrity.

5. Explain Wollf’s law

6. Explain the role of osteoblasts during episodes of high stress.

7. Explain the role of osteoclasts during episodes of immobilization.

8. Explain the graph below as it relates to human structures.

9. Explain the two characteristics (anisotropic and viscoelastic) of bone to meet the demands and promote remodeling

10. What is the role of articular cartilage?

11. What is the function of a ligament?

In: Anatomy and Physiology

1. What are the functions of the spleen? If your spleen were removed [splenectomy], would you...

1. What are the functions of the spleen? If your spleen were removed [splenectomy], would you be able to fight off illness or infections effectively? Why or why not?

2. What is the role of the thymus in the human body?

3. If your tonsils are removed, how does your body develop an immune response against antigens in the throat?

4. The radical mastectomy is an operation in which a cancerous breast, surrounding tissues, and the underlying muscles of the anterior thoracic wall, plus the axillary lymph nodes, are removed. After such an operation, the arm usually swells, or becomes edematous, and is very uncomfortable -- sometimes for months. Why?

5. Could humans live without a lymphatic system? Explain why or why not.

6. Why do lymph nodes enlarge when you are sick?

In: Anatomy and Physiology

2) Biofilms and other multicellular behaviors a) Recall that bacteria (and archaea) exhibit both transient and...

2) Biofilms and other multicellular behaviors a) Recall that bacteria (and archaea) exhibit both transient and permanent multicellularity. How does these behaviors benefit bacteria? What are the costs? b) What kinds of environmentts seem to favor multicellular behaviors? Recall our discussion in the lecture – two that we discussed at length were mechanical antibiotic & chemical resistance and evasion of predators. c) Explain quorum sensing, especially the details we discussed with the Vibrio fischerii example. d) Compare and contrast incipient vs patterned multicellularity, and fit the examples of Bacillus subtillis, Myxococcus xanthus, and Streptomyces spp. into your explanation. How do these examples challenge our notions of the divide between single-celled and multicellular organisms? e) What is the microbiome? What are some of the implications for human health?

In: Biology

The process by which people learn the cultural norms, attitudes, and behaviors appropriate to their gender...

The process by which people learn the cultural norms, attitudes, and behaviors appropriate to their gender is ______.

gender role behavior
sex role development
gender identification

gender socialization

______ are interested in how physical differences between men and women come to be symbols that result in different social rights and rewards.

Conflict theorists
Functionalists
Interactionists

Exchange theorists

The statement, “Each sex plays a complementary role to ensure the survival and efficiency of society,” is a tenet of which sociological theory?

structural-functionalist
conflict
symbolic interactionist

feminist

According to most sociologists, gender roles are all of the following EXCEPT this:

socially constructed
created by human beings
designed to meet the needs of each society

biologically determined

From a structural-functional perspective, each sex has a role to play in the interdependent groups and institutions of society.

True
False

In: Psychology

Select the MOST CORRECT answer. Countercurrent exchange... occurs in the gills of most fish when water...

Select the MOST CORRECT answer. Countercurrent exchange...

occurs in the gills of most fish when water and blood flow in opposite directions allowing gas exchange.

does not require energy for gas exchange, as oxygen and carbon dioxide move down their concentration gradient.

is a process used in capillary beds of mammalian lungs.

Both a) and b) are correct and c) is incorrect.

a), b) and c) are all correct.

Regarding human reproduction (select the MOST CORRECT statement):

At the time of ovulation, the released ovum has not completed meiosis.

In the absence of pregnancy, the corpus luteum degenerates and plasma progesterone levels decline.

Fertilization results in the formation of a zygote, which is a single diploid cell that implants in the uterus.

Both a) and b) are correct and c) is incorrect

a), b) and c) are all correct

In: Anatomy and Physiology

Amir works for a foreign company that has engineering offices in Canada. He notices that his...

Amir works for a foreign company that has engineering offices in Canada. He notices that his boss has hired several men rather than more qualified women. He asks his boss about it and the boss explains that he doesn’t want women in the office because they are distracting to the male engineers. Amir knows that such a policy violates the Ontario Human Rights Code, but doesn’t want to upset his boss. The office in Canada is very small and he doubts that anyone will realize that his boss is doing this. He asks several ethics professors for advice.

What would a cultural relativist say? What would an Act Utilitarian say? What would a Rule Utilitarian say? What would a Virtue Ethicist say? What advice would you give (and why)?

In: Operations Management

Studies shows that Masters and Johnson's four phase model of sexual response listed above 10,000 cycles...

Studies shows that Masters and Johnson's four phase model of sexual response listed above 10,000 cycles of sexual arousal and orgasm in a period of twelve years to arrive at a conclusion about a model of sexual response. In this model, there are four successive phases to the sexual response cycle.

Based on your understanding about this model, compare the phases of this model to the following:

Kaplan's triphasic model of sexual response

Loulan's sexual response model

Why was Masters and Johnson's four phase model so controversial? Johnson argued that sexual problems are not the result of underlying neurosis or personality disorders, but are an outcome of lack of information, poor communication, or conflict between partners. Do you agree or disagree and why?

Which model, according to you, is the most accurate model that describes the human sexual response? Why?

In: Psychology

What are the institutional foundations in Western countries such as the United States that have fostered...

  1. What are the institutional foundations in Western countries such as the United States that have fostered and cultivated significantly higher economic growth over the last 200 years in comparison to many other places around the globe? What role do property rights and rule of law play in creating an economic environment generating human betterment?
  2. There are a large number of critics of the market economy and its growth-sponsoring institutions. Discuss some of the reasons for these “anti-capitalist” views and explain what you consider to be any strengths and weaknesses in them.
  3. Many countries with low or even stagnant economic growth often have high degrees of corruption and suffer from dictatorships or higher controlling governments. Based on the readings, analyze why this is often the case. Why do you think this persists in too many parts of the world?

In: Economics