Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 300–500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Unit 2 has discussed how sociologists identify cultures and subcultures. Cultures and subcultures have unique components, such as language, values, norms (behaviors), and food. For this Discussion Board, you will dive deeper into culture by completing the following:

1. Choose a popular television show (examples include The Simpsons, The Big Bang Theory, The Goldbergs, and Orange is the New Black) or a movie you have enjoyed.  
   • For your chosen show or movie, provide specific examples for each component of culture (language, values, norms, and food) found within your show or movie.
     • For example, in The Simpsons, language can be seen with the word "D'oh" and the phrase, "Don't have a cow, man!"
   • Each TV show could be said to represent a subculture of mainstream society. How do the four components of culture (language, values, norms, and food) identified above combine to create a group that is different from or similar to other groups you would expect to see in mainstream American culture?
2. Finally, choose 1 of the following theorists: Durkheim, Marx, or Cooley. What does your chosen theorist say about the role of culture in shaping human behavior?

Listed below are the log body weights and log brain weights of the primates species in the data set ”mammals”. Find the equation of the least squares line with y = log brain weight and x = log body weight. Do it by hand, by constructing a table like the one in Example 9.1. Then do it with your calculator as efficiently as possible. Finally, use the lm function in R to do it by creating a linear model object ”primates.lm”. The model formula is ”log(brain)∼log(body)”. You can select the primates and put them in a new data frame by first listing the primate species names:

> primatenames=c(”Owl monkey”, ”Patas monkey”, ”Gorilla”, etc.)

and then

> primates=mammals[primatenames, ]

Your ”data” argument in calling lm would be ”data=primates”, as in

> primates.lm=lm(log(brain)∼log(body),data=primates)

Alternatively, you can just use ”mammals[primatenames, ]” as the data argument in lm, that is,

> primates.lm=lm(log(brain)∼log(body), data=mammals[primatenames,])

log body               log brain

Owl monkey                       -0.7339692         2.740840

Patas monkey                    2.3025851           4.744932

Gorilla                                   5.3327188           6.006353

Human                                 4.1271344           7.185387

Rhesus monkey                                1.9169226           5.187386

Chimpanzee                                       3.9543159           6.086775

Baboon                                                 2.3561259           5.190175

Verbet                                                  1.4327007           4.060443

Galago                                                  -1.6094379        1.609438

Slow loris                                             0.3364722           2.525729

Shop Til you drop: Corporate in the real world

To understand more about corporate culture, visit two retail stores and compare them according to various factors. Go to one discount or low-end store such as Kmart, or Walmart, and to one high-end store, such as Saks Fifth Avenue or Nordstrom. Do not interview any employees, but instead be an observer or a shopper. After your visits, fill out the following table for each store. Spend at least two hours in each store on a busy day and be very observant.

Fixed and Variable Cost Allocation

Kumar, Inc., evaluates managers of producing departments on their ability to control costs. In addition to the costs directly traceable to their departments, each production manager is held responsible for a share of the costs of a support center, the Human Resources (HR) Department. The total costs of HR are allocated on the basis of actual direct labor hours used. The total costs of HR and the actual direct labor hours worked by each producing department are as follows:

*$0.25 per direct labor hour plus $100,000.

When the capacity of the HR Department was originally established, the normal usage expected for each department was 18,000 direct labor hours. This usage is also the amount of activity planned for the two departments in Year 1 and Year 2.

Required:

1. Allocate the costs of the HR Department using the direct method and assuming that the purpose is product costing.

2. Allocate the costs of the HR Department using the direct method and assuming that the purpose is to evaluate performance.

Explain in detail how the following microbes transmit to humans, escape from our immunity and causing disease. And suggest and explain the rationale on ONE of its therapeutic methods.
SARS-CoV-2 (Virus for COVID-19)

1. Background of the microbes

-What is the structure?

-What is the unique feature?

2. Transmission route

- direct? indirect?

- when the microbe left human body, what is the survival rate?

- what is the basic reproductive member? (e.g. one people being infect, it can spread to two people)

3. Host-pathogen relationships

- The microbe uses what mechanism to escape the immune system (first line, second line, third line) enter body

- what is the method of microbe use and how it enter body (e.g. stick the mucosa...)?

4. Virulence factors and pathogenicity

- what is the virulence factors of this microbes?

- how much virulence factors that the microbes use to damage body?

- how to damage body (e.g. attack the cell and make you easily being sick, )?

-which molecule of body being break down and how it causes disease?

- when body being attack, which disease it will induce, induce which severe disease?

5. Treatment

- suggest one drug to treat Staphylococcus aureus

- introduce the drug

- target step

- how the drug does in body

- how it affects the bacteria

EMPLOYEE HEALTH AND SAFETY IN THE ORGANIZATION

Organization officials have a legal and moral responsibility to ensure that the workplace is free from unnecessary hazards. Employers hold responsibility for understanding what is necessary to keep workers safe from harm. Conditions surrounding the workplace must be secure for employee’s physical and mental health. As many organizations have implemented wellness program, that focus on smoking cessation, weight control, stress management, early diagnosis of health problems, prevention and education about life-style related and contagious illness. Wellness program can cut Employers health cost and lower absenteeism by preventing health related problems.

Reference: Textbook- DeCenzo, D. A., & Robbins, S. P. (2013). Human resource management , Chapter 13 Health and Safety.

Assignment Questions:

Use scientific journals from the or textbook in your answers

1. Describe the role of HR in offering Healthy and safe work environment to the workers. Also write the ways that Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA assist employers in creating a safer workplace.

2. Discuss the purpose and significance of Wellness Programs/Disease Management in the Organization. Support your answer with the example of two companies that provide these programs to their workers.

3. If you’re HR Manager, how can you support your employees during the Public Health Emergency/Outbreak? Present your HR planning to run the organization effectively along with employees’ safety.

Androgyny is premised on at least four crucial assumptions about the characteristics of adult learners that are different from the assumptions about child learners on which traditional pedagogy is premised. A fifth was added later.

1. Self-concept: As a person matures his self concept moves from one of being a dependent personality toward one of being a self-directed human being

2. Experience: As a person matures he accumulates a growing reservoir of experience that becomes an increasing resource for learning.

3. Readiness to learn. As a person matures his readiness to learn becomes oriented increasingly to the developmental tasks of his social roles.

4. Orientation to learning. As a person matures his time perspective changes from one of postponed application of knowledge to immediacy of application, and accordingly his orientation toward learning shifts from one of subject-centeredness to one of problem centredness.

5. Motivation to learn: As a person matures the motivation to learn is internal (Knowles 1984:12).

Prepare a 2 – 3 page paper that reflects on your personal attainment of each of these 5 assumptions. Are you there yet? Maybe you don’t necessarily agree with one or more of the assumptions-why or why not? And finally, can you see how you might learn differently now than when you were in high school, for example?

Ok, so I'm struggling a bit with my labs being online due to covid. I was provided this information and an empty table.

"Sorghum is a genus of grass containing 25 species. Several species are grown in cultivation as livestock feed and one, Sorghum bicolor, is grown widely as a grain for human consumption and also for production of molasses and ethanol. It is one of the top five grain crops grown and consumed worldwide (along with wheat, corn, rice, and barley). Stem color is a character in Sorghum plants with two traits: red stems (dominant) or green stems (recessive). Complete Procedure 10.5 using the following data: 267 red stems and 103 green stems."

I believe I was meant to hypothesize the expected? Or was there a different way to attain that information through what was provided? Part B of the question is to state whether the hypothesis is supported or rejected, and show the rationale for my decision. Any help/explantation would be greatly appreciated! I have a handful more of these on my homework and I'd like to know that I'm doing them properly. Thank you =)

DATA BELOW

Investment is ________ related to the interest rate, while net capital outflow (NCO) is ________ related to the interest rate.

Using the information in the table shown, what is the inflation rate in 2014?

As new goods and services become available:

Many governments actively work to: