⦁   What is the interpretation of the value of the mean taken over a dichotomous variable, such as gender (where the value assigned to women in the sample is 1 and the value assigned to men in the sample is 0)?
⦁   Which of the following statistics are not sensitive to changes in a small number of values within the distribution: mean, median, range, interquartile range, variance?
⦁   Intuitively, what is the standard deviation measuring in terms of characterizing the spread of the distribution?
⦁   Under what circumstances is it more useful to apply the skewness ratio formula instead of the skewness formula?

1. You are assisting Sarah with her breastfeeding, when she tells you she is not sure how she should hold the baby when she is breastfeeding.

She also asks how long to feed the baby on one breast before she changes breast.

She wants to know how she will know if the baby is getting enough to eat since she can’t measure the amount of milk the baby is getting.

      What will you teach Sarah to assist her?

1. What complicating factors can affect urinary incontinence?

2. Discuss why it is important to support the patient with a toileting schedule and promote their hydration.

3. Why is it important to give peri-care, provide garment and linen changes frequently to patients who are incontinent of urine/feces?

4. How can the Personal Support Worker possibly prevent this for the patient and help promote fecal and urinary continence?

5. What types of treatments are sometimes used for individuals experiencing constipation?

Q.6 As new regulation bans smoking in many areas, the demand for cigarettes has decreased. Now people spend their money on other products (denote as Y). Draw the graphs of the market and representative firm for cigarettes and for the market Y.

a. Show the initial long-run equilibrium in both sectors and in a representative firm in each sector on the graph.

b. Show what happens when demand changes in both sectors and representative firms.

c. Show the long-run equilibrium in both sectors.

A person who went to the gym and after 2 hours for his training, discovered that he lost 2 kilograms.

Why and how did you lose the 2 kilograms?
What happened to your plasma [sodium] and why?
What changes will occur, both in your behavior and kidney function, that will regain weight? What are the hormonal and cellular mechanisms by which your behavior and kidney function change? What is your serum [sodium] when you have finally regained weight and why?

Assume that you are attending a meeting of the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC). There is great concern among the members that the U.S. economy is in a recessionary trend, while others believe that the U.S. economy is booming. Based on your reading, write a brief report to summarize your suggestions on how to adjust the current monetary policies. In your discussion, please specify the available tools that the Fed could use and how these policy changes affect your personal life and investment decisions.

A central question in biology is, how do we have > 200 different cell types, complete with unique cell morphologies and functions, when all cells have the same DNA (the concept of genomic equivalence). Epigenetic regulation of gene transcription is one way to explain this. Define what is meant by epigenetic regulation of gene transcription, including different general epigenetic mechanisms, and describe three different contexts of a developmental process that is associated with epigenetic changes that we have discussed in class.

1. Find one new fossil discovery, how it did/did not change what is already known for species related to the discovery and how it relates to Darwin’s theory of evolution

2. DNA evidence of changes to the evolutionary tree that is currently accepted

3. Find one new human DNA or fossil or anthropological discovery and explain how it relates to Darwin’s theory of evolution

4. Choose a new method of artificial selection for crops or animals (pets or livestock usually) and explain its connection with Darwin’s theory of evolution.

World oil prices have been rapidly swinging over the last few years, in part because of the declining value of the U.S. dollar, changes in supply and demand, and OPEC’s attempts to manage output in order to maintain higher prices. (OPEC stands for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) As the president of an oil producing and exporting company in Alberta: Explain how you may use hedging to protect your company’s income. Share a recent publication with your fellow students and your instructor.