Identify and discuss six (6) examples of characteristics of valid nutritional information and/or characteristics of nutrition quackery found in your article with direct links to your course readings.

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Dietary or nutritional claim

Find an article that makes a dietary or nutritional claim.

Question 1: A copy of the online article must be submitted with your assignment (include a screen shot of the article, a picture of the article or copy and paste the article into a Microsoft Word document. A weblink to the article does not count).

Write a critique (in point form) about this article. Include the following information:

Question 2: Describe the dietary or nutritional claim made in your article.

Question 3: Identify and discuss six (6) examples of characteristics of valid nutritional information and/or characteristics of nutrition quackery (or lack of these characteristics) found in your article with direct links to your course readings [6 characteristics with example from your article]. (e.g. “The claim in the article is ‘too good to be true’: the article promises weight loss while you sleep”).

Consult your course notes for Unit 1 and the corresponding chapter in your textbook, specifically:

Consumer Corner: Reading Nutrition News with an Educated Eye

Controversy Unit 1: Sorting the Imposters from the Real Nutrition Experts

  1. p) – Figure: Earmarks of Nutrition Quackery
  2. q) – Table: Is this Site Reliable?

Question 4: Clearly state your conclusion (i.e. is your article an example of valid nutrition information or does it have the characteristics of nutrition quackery?)

Reference list: Include the items referenced in your assignment in any format (as a minimum, everyone should have the article, the textbook (or course notes), and Canada’s Food Guide website listed).

 

Explain why you would rather be a borrower during a period of unexpected rising inflation and a lender during a period of unexpected declining inflation.

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Declining inflation

Explain why you would rather be a borrower during a period of unexpected rising inflation and a lender during a period of unexpected declining inflation.

Provide a 2 page presentation/document on synthesizing sources using signal phrases and transitional phrases. Provide original examples, graphics, and sources to help illustrate the process of synthesizing sources.the paper must be at least 525 words.

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Process of synthesizing sources

Provide a 2 page presentation/document on synthesizing sources using signal phrases and transitional phrases.

Provide original examples, graphics, and sources to help illustrate the process of synthesizing sources.the paper must be at least 525 words.

Cite intext ad at the bottom of the page from below sources and 1 outside source such as Perdue.

 

https://cdn.grammarcheck.net/transition-words-infographic.jpg

Show examples and explain in your own words

 

When reviewing the film, imagine we just sat down and watched it together and now you are going to open your computer and explain what you got out of the film. What is significant about the film? How is it different from other films you’ve watched.

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Visions of Light

Watch the documentary called Visions of Light from Youtube from the given link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVns3k-NGAo

Then watch the movie called, “The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari” by Robert Wiene. While writing this review compare and contrast how these Silent Features show the advancements from the early filmmakers such as Porter, Lumiere, Melies and Blache.

Use what you learned from watching Visions of Light to explain the use of light, camera movement and possibly production design.

When reviewing the film, imagine we just sat down and watched it together and now you are going to open your computer and explain what you got out of the film.

What is significant about the film? How is it different from other films you’ve watched.

 

Explain the strengths of the community you are assessing. Determine the inherent challenges in that community. Interpret the reasons members belong to that community. Analyze the impact of community membership on specific community members.

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Nongeographical factors

When you are engaging communities, it is important to understand the nongeographical factors within the community (e.g., professional, spiritual, ethnic, racial, sexual orientation). For this assignment, build on last week’s work to explain how you will engage a specific community.

Assume you have been asked to describe your community to a new potential employer (e.g., the next Amazon headquarters, a large factory). This company is looking to understand why your community would be the best place to invest their resources. It is up to you to describe the strengths and challenges of your community to support the investment of this employer. Be sure to be honest about the challenges facing your community while being an advocate for what the community has to offer.

For your identified community, address the following:

  • Explain the strengths of the community you are assessing.
  • Determine the inherent challenges in that community.
  • Interpret the reasons members belong to that community.
  • Analyze the impact of community membership on specific community members.
  • Identify the leaders (both elected and unelected) of the community.
  • Consider how you, as a social worker, would engage members of the community to support your advocacy efforts.

Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists and should cite material appropriately. Add audio to each slide using the Media section of the Insert tab in the top menu bar for each slide.

Support your presentation with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.

 

Are children of “tall parents” as tall as their parents? And similarly, are children of “short parents” as short as their parents? Does the assumption of having 928 parents rather than 205 matter for this exercise?

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Galton, F. (1886):

Part 1: Analysis with Galton’s original data set Galton’s work on children and parents’ height was published in: Galton, F. (1886): “Regression towards mediocrity in hereditary stature”, Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 15: 246-63. In this first part of the project you are asked to reconstruct the original data from this original article and replicate his analysis.

  • Question 1.1. Find Galton’s original article (you can use www.jstor.org). You can also find it on LEARN. On Table I of his article, the data used is summarized. You need to create a STATA data set that contains the 928 observations that Galton collected. It is recommended that you first type the data in an excel file and then have STATA read that file. Some versions of the Galton data set are available online. You are advised NOT to use them. It is part of this project that you show that you understand how to make a data set from such a table. There are important conceptual issues that you will miss if you borrow the data from somewhere else.

(i) For those observations reported in Table I of Galton’s article as “below” or “above” the minimum and maximum height values, you need to assume some particular values. Please state these explicitly in a table (Table 1.1.a.) and provide a justification with one sentence.

(ii) Given your assumptions, what is the sample mean height and standard deviation for adult children and for parents, respectively? Report this in a table (Table 1.1.b.).

  • Question 1.2. For the rest of part 1, assume that there are 928 parents in the sample rather than 205. Define “tall parents” and “short parents”. Then divide your sample into two corresponding groups.

(i) Are children of “tall parents” as tall as their parents? And similarly, are children of “short parents” as short as their parents? Report your results in a table.

(ii) Does the assumption of having 928 parents rather than 205 matter for this exercise?

  • Question 1.3. Galton was the first to describe and explain the phenomenon of “regression to- wards the mean”. Being concerned about the height of the English aristocracy, he interpreted his results as “regression to mediocrity” (hence the name “regression”).

(i) Regress the height of adult children against the height of parents. Report your results in a table and interpret the estimated coe

Choose your topic and purpose, but your topic must relate to your academic major. Relate to a current problem in your field which you’ll offer solutions for in the report.

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Proposal Assignment

Maximum Points: 100 points

Submission Requirements: Submit on or before the due date via Assessments in Blackboard by attaching your assignment.

Format and Length Requirements: Use standard memo format (single-space) and 12 point Times New Roman font; Place each heading flush with the left margin and bold it. 1,200-1,400 words

Introductory Comments about the Proposal Assignment
A proposal is one kind of informal report. Lengthy research projects, reports, and papers often begin with a proposal to do research. A proposal serves several purposes:

The proposal is a planning document for the writer in the sense that the proposal requires you to draft an outline for the future report or paper, create a thoughtful schedule of key tasks, list relevant sources, and so on. The goal is for you to actually use the plan that you develop as you write the report or paper.
The proposal is a decision making tool for the audience. With a proposal, the audience might be an instructor, employer, thesis committee, book publisher, and so on. The audience for the proposal may or may not be the same audience as the audience for the future report or paper. Essentially, the proposal audience has the power to approve or reject your request to research, meaning the proposal audience decides if your plan is feasible and if the resulting document (or other deliverable) will make a significant contribution to the company or field of study. In this sense, the proposal’s purpose is persuasive. Sections like the background section help your audience understand why its important for you to complete the research, while other sections (e.g., the outline, schedule, and methods sections) allow the reader to verify that your plan is strong (meaning that there is research available, that you have a reasonable schedule, etc.).
Your Proposal Assignment will serve as a planning document for the Formal Report Assignment. For your proposal assignment, I am the audience who will approve or reject your request, but I will not be the audience for the formal report. For your report, you’ll choose an audience that fits the topic and purpose of the formal report.

REQUIREMENTS FOR PROPOSAL TOPIC

You get to choose your topic and purpose, but your topic must relate to your academic major. Generally, the topic chosen should relate to a current problem in your field which you’ll offer solutions for in the report. Proposals submitted on topics that do not relate to the student’s major will be rejected and receive a “0.” Note, we’ll discuss topics and audiences informally in the Discussions in week 1. Once your proposal has been submitted and approved, you may not change your topic.

ATTENTION BUSINESS STUDENTS
Students who are earning a degree within UHV’s School of Business are required as a part of the School’s AACSB accrediting to incorporate some aspect of diversity into their formal report topic. The formal report does not have to be entirely about diversity, but must include at least a subtopic that relates to diversity in business – for example, gender or race issues in the workplace, communication with people from different cultures, etc.

If you’re not sure if your major is offered from UHV’s School of Business, please send me a Message within Blackboard. The School of Business offers the following majors and concentrations: accounting, finance, marketing, management, general business, economics, entrepreneurship, healthcare administration, human resource management, international business, supply chain management, and business administration.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY REMINDER

As you complete this assignment, it may be useful to review UHV’s Academic Honesty Policy. UHV considers academic dishonesty, including plagiarism, cheating, and collaborating inappropriately, as a serious breach of ethical conduct with various disciplinary actions, including, but not limited to, failure of an assignment or course. Please be sure to cite research carefully, including providing in-text citations and reference entries for all research whether quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

Proposal Assignment Guidelines
Use the headings below for your proposal. Follow the guidelines beneath each section to help you decide what information to include under each section.

Date: (Due Date)

To: Summer Leibensperger

From: (Your Name)

Subject: (Purpose of Your Proposal)

Begin the memo with a brief paragraph that explains the purpose of the proposal and the subject, audience, and purpose of your report. Be concise but clear.

Background
The Background section should use research and discussion to introduce a topic or problem and to convince the proposal’s reader that the topic is important. As you write this section, keep in mind that the proposal is a decision making tool for the audience—you must prove the problem is significant or the opportunity shouldn’t be missed. If you fail to be persuasive, the proposal may be rejected.

In this section, aim for three well-researched paragraphs and incorporate at least three authoritative sources. Cite the research using APA documentation style unless you have been directed to use MLA documentation style.

Audience
In this section, you should name the primary audience for your formal report, discuss the readers’ knowledge level about the topic (and any important assumptions), indicate any potential negative attitudes or objections to your topic, and discuss how you will meet the readers’ needs and overcome objections. Keep in mind that most audiences will have objections of some kind. (Minimally, most readers are busy people, and they may not want to read a report.)

Your primary audience should be a professional audience and will most likely be within your field. It cannot be the general public or any other general audience.

Topics to Investigate

This section should list the major research topics and sub-topics that your formal report will cover and provide relevant descriptions to explain the scope of the report. You may need to provide the rationale for discussing some topics and not others.

Basically, in this section you are providing an annotated outline for the body of your report so that readers have a clear picture of the formal report.

Methods
In this section, you should describe where you plan to research (databases, journal names, etc.) and how you will evaluate research. Then, provide a working or tentative bibliography of at least 5 authoritative sources you have read and plan to use in your report. At least 4 of these sources must be scholarly journal articles obtained from the UHV Library. They should be current. In your bibliography, please also include any sources you have cited in the Background or Topics to Investigate sections of the proposal. APA should be used to format the bibliography entries unless you’ve been directed to use MLA.

Note, if you are not able to find at least 4 scholarly journal articles on your topic, then the topic is not a good fit for this particular project.

You may include an interview as a source, but you must include the interview questions as an appendix to your proposal and to your formal report. The questions should clearly indicate the kind of information you expect to learn from the interview. In addition, you should include a discussion of the authority of the interview source. Note, an interview does not count as a scholarly source. Textbooks are also not usually scholarly sources.

If you are interested in doing other kinds of primary research (e.g., a survey), please write to me via Messages before turning in the proposal assignment.

Work Schedule
This section should include the work schedule you will use to complete your report. It should list the major tasks needed to complete this project (writing, editing, proofreading, etc.) and the corresponding due dates. This section shows your plan for completing the project in a timely manner.

Request for Approval
Here you ask for permission to proceed and for suggestions. The request for approval is usually formulaic. Use or adapt the following sentence: I ask that you approve my topic and my approach to it.

Using the times taken to begin transfer of each marker, draw a unified chromosome map of the E. coli chromosome, showing its total length in minutes of transfer and the order and relative distances between these markers.

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Overall chromosome map

In order to determine the overall chromosome map for E. coli, three Hfr strains (# 1, 2, & 3) were obtained from F+ ancestors. The start times of transfer during conjugation matings with Fstrains carrying auxotrophic, resistance, and fermentation markers were determined for each Hfr strain, as listed.

  1. Using the times for transfer of each maker, draw a unified chromosome map of
  1. coli, showing the order and relative distances between these markers.
  1. Place the origin of transfer (site of F insertion) on the map for each Hfr strain.
  1. What is the total length of the E. coli chromosome, in transfer minutes? Time (min) of marker transfer Strain: 1 2 3

Gene

Leu 8 – 12

Ala 12 – 8

Gal 24 – –

Erm 32 4 –

Ade 36 8 –

His 50 22 44

Trp – 34 32

Ser – 40 26

  1. A prototrophic Hfr strain is used to map four genes involved in the synthesis of various amino acids in an interrupted mating experiment. A prototrophic Hfr strain with genotype leu+val+ phe+tyr+ kans was mated to an auxotrophic F- strain with the genotype leuval- phetyrkanr . (No map order is implied in the listing of the alleles and kanr is resistance to the antibiotic kanamycin). The cross is initiated at time=0 and at various times the mating mixture is plated on four types of medium. Each plate contains minimal medium (MM) and kanamycin plus specific supplements as indicated in the table. The results for each time interval are shown as the number of colonies growing on each plate.

Suppl. Added to MM + kanamycin Time of Mating Interruption

12 min 20 min 30 min 37 min 43 min 60 min

Plate#1 leu val phe 0 0 0 2 31 72

Plate#2 val phe tyr 0 0 1 21 45 98

Plate#3 leu phe tyr 0 0 0 0 3 56

Plate#4 leu val tyr 2 19 43 67 89 134

  1. What is the purpose of kanamycin in this experiment?
  2. What is the order of these genes? (Write the order of transfer from first to last in left to right order).
  1. What is the distance between phe and tyr?
  2. In the recipient strain, where is the ideal location of the kanr gene?
  3. Bacteriophage T2 normally infects the different E. coli strains, B and C. However, certain mutations, designated r, block growth on strain B. Ten r mutations were mapped by two-point recombination frequencies to a small region of the T2 chromosome, shown below.

a g d j h b e f i k c

———-|—|–|————|—|———-|————————-|——|————-|——-|———-|—

0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 map units

  1. When the same ten r mutants were tested for complementation by mixed-infection of strain B, certain pairs could kill the B host (+), while other pairs failed to grow completely (-). Assuming the mutations a, b, and c are known to lie in the genes A, B, and C, use the complementation data in the table below to mark gene boundaries on the genetic map. a b c d e f g h I j k

a –

b + –

c + + –

d – + + –

e + + + + –

f + + + + – –

g – + + – + + –

h + – + + + + + –

I + + + + – – + + –

j – + + – + + – + + –

k + + – + + + + + + + –

  1. Do the data reveal the presence of a fourth gene in this region?
  2. If so, please show its location on the map.
  3. Using the technique of interrupted mating, five Hfr strains were tested for the sequence in which they transmitted a number of different genes to an F- strain. Each Hfr strain was found to transmit its genes in a unique sequence, as follows (only the first six genes transmitted were scored).
  1. F O S R P Q
  2. R S O F G Y
  3. Y X W Q P R
  4. W Q P R S O
  5. F G Y X W Q
  6. Place all markers in order on a single circular genetic map.
  7. Show the location and orientation of the F factor in each Hfr strain.
  8. For each of the Hfr strains, state which donor-gene marker should be selected in the recipients after conjugation to obtain the highest proportion of recombinants that will be converted to become Hfrs?

Strain 1

Strain 2

Strain 3

Strain 4

Strain 5

  1. In order to determine the overall chromosome map for a new wild type strain of E. coli, two Hfr strains were obtained by independent insertions of the F factor. The start times of transfer of several genes were determined during a conjugation mating between each Hfr strain and an F recipient carrying six auxotrophic mutations.

Time (min) of marker transfer

Hfr Strain: 1 2 3

Gene

Ade 22 62 12

His 27 – 17

Ile 32 – 22

Lys 50 10 –

Bio – 14 –

Met – 20 –

  1. Using the times taken to begin transfer of each marker, draw a unified chromosome map of the E. coli chromosome, showing its total length in minutes of transfer and the order and relative distances between these markers.
  1. Show the position of the F factor in Hfr strain #2

 

Using the GCU library, conduct a literature review in which you identify, review, and list five current peer-reviewed scholarly sources of relevance to your topic in APA reference format.

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Engage in Policy Practice

Topic 8, you will be completing a policy brief related to one of the content areas covered throughout this course. You will use this literature review to complete your policy brief for Topic 8. Select a social issue/problem with a clearly delineated topic in one of the 10 social welfare content areas and identify a topic suitable for proposing a policy change. You will use this same social welfare problem in the Topic 7 and 8 assignments.

This is a two-part assignment.

  1. Using the GCU library, conduct a literature review in which you identify, review, and list five current (published within the last 5 years) peer-reviewed scholarly sources of relevance to your topic in APA reference format.
  2. Prepare a “statement of the issue” (300-500 words), supported with information drawn from your selected scholarly sources.

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

 

Using the spreadsheet attached below, continue to populate the materials matrix with flooring materials.

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Using the spreadsheet attached below, continue to populate the materials matrix with flooring materials. There is one example in the first row you can go based off of, fill-in all the cells unless . You should have a minimum of one type in each of the following materials represented. Feel free to add any additional flooring materials or additional varieties from those on the list. Many of the types listed have multiple species or sub-types which should be included in the matrix. i.e. wood has a great number of species.

Use Excel sheet

Add the following to your materials matrix and analyze as per directed in column headings:

  1. Bamboo,
  2. Brick,
  3. Carpet,
  4. Carpet Tile,
  5. Cementitious top coatings (Epoxy),
  6. Ceramic Tile,
  7. Composite Floor Tiles,
  8. Concrete,
  9. Cork,
  10. Engineered and/or Laminated Wood,
  11. Glass,
  12. Linoleum (Marmoleum),
  13. Leather,
  14. Metal,
  15. Mosaic Tile,
  16. Oriented Strand Board (OSB),
  17. Plywood,
  18. Rubber,
  19. Stone,
  20. Terrazzo,
  21. Terra Cotta Tile,
  22. Vinyl,
  23. Wood