...osteoporosis, bone-removing cells cause you to lose bone at a rate that is too fast. The result is thinner, weaker bones that can break more easily. In women, bone loss increases after menopause. In the 5 to 7 years after menopause, you can lose up to 20 percent of your bone mass—leaving you at risk for fracture. Researchers estimate that about 1 out of 5 American women over the age of 50 have osteoporosis. About half of all women over the age of 50 will have a fracture of the hip, wrist, or vertebra . (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001400/ ) Osteoporosis affects all bones in the body. However, breaks are most common in the hip, wrist, and spine, also called vertebrae (VUR-tuh-bray). Vertebrae support your body, helping you to stand and sit up. Osteoporosis in the vertebrae can cause serious problems for women. A fracture in this area occurs from day-to-day activities like climbing stairs, lifting objects, or bending forward. Signs of osteoporosis include sloping shoulders, curve in the back, height loss, back pain, hunched posture and a protruding abdomen. [pic] (http://www.womenshealth.gov/publications/our-publications/fact-sheet/osteoporosis.cfm#a ) There are several risk factors that raise your chances of developing osteoporosis. Some of these factors are things you can control, while some you can’t control. Some of the factors that you cannot control are being female, being older, menopause, having a small thin body and having a family history...
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...uses Ethos in a way to give a credibility to the audience how the cyber attack affects the healthcare. Cyber attacks are accelerating worldwide especially in the U.S. healthcare system to hack all the information to their patients. According to Chris Wysopal said that “Patient medical records are online”. That hacker can easily to hack all the medical records of the patients by cutting into the production of medicines that was given by that could trade any side effects to the patient's health. He also includes the doctors comments about this issues about what would be their opinion and what would be the causes of this cyber attacks in the healthcare system that can...
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...REASONING SKILLS SUCCESS IN 20 MINUTES A DAY REASONING SKILLS SUCCESS IN 20 MINUTES A DAY 2nd Edition ® NEW YORK Copyright © 2005 LearningExpress, LLC. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by LearningExpress, LLC, New York. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Reasoning skills success in 20 minutes a day.—2nd ed. p. cm. ISBN 1-57685-493-0 1. Reasoning (Psychology) I. Title: Reasoning skills success in twenty minutes a day. II. Title. BF442.C48 2005 153.4'3—dc22 2005047185 Printed in the United States of America 987654321 Second Edition ISBN 1-57685-493-0 For information on LearningExpress, other LearningExpress products, or bulk sales, please write to us at: LearningExpress 55 Broadway 8th Floor New York, NY 10006 Or visit us at: www.learnatest.com Contents HOW TO USE THIS BOOK ix PRETEST 1 LESSON 1 Critical Thinking and Reasoning Skills The importance of critical thinking and reasoning skills, justifying your decisions, the difference between reason and emotion 15 LESSON 2 Problem-Solving Strategies Identifying the main issue of a problem and its parts, prioritizing issues 21 LESSON 3 Thinking vs. Knowing Distinguishing between fact and opinion, determining whether facts are true or tentative truths 27 LESSON 4 Who Makes the Claim? Evaluating credibility: recognizing bias, determining level...
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...Dementia Alzheimer’s I. INTRODUCTION a. Attention Device – Alzheimer’s disease has had a huge impact on many lives. The Alz.org, estimates that about a half million Americans younger than age 65 have some form of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. 1 in 9 people over the age of 65 is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. b. Tie to the audience – Everyone has a loved one over the age of 65 or may know someone who has a tough time remembering things, and even witness strange behavior in elderly people. Behaviors such as wearing multiple layers of clothes, aggressiveness and even lack of communication. These may very well be symptoms c. Credentials – In 2009 my grandmother, who was 69 years of age was diagnosed with dementia Alzheimer’s. I have sought...
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...Brent Leder who is a Reformed Jew. When he was in the fourth grade, Brent had started to learn Hebrew. In order for him to be Bar Mitzvah, he must know the Hebrew language and must read from the Torah at the age of 13. He has inspired me to learn more about the Jewish religion and what it means to be Jewish. That’s great. It’s good to have an open mind and want to learn more about religion. As I sat down and asked Brent questions about his religion, he began to tell me about the meaning and the history of Judaism. Since he practices the reformed sect of the religion there are more lenient rules because it is the least strict of the three sects. When I had asked him about what the Jewish thoughts and beliefs are about Jesus, Brent said, “Jesus was just a carpenter that was sentenced to crucifixion on the cross.” Interesting response. More dismissive of Jesus than many Jews are. As I asked questions, Brent began to get in depth about the religion by telling me everything he knows. I was informed about Temple Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield, Michigan and was invited to a Thursday service. According to Brent, “The traditions of the religion have been getting lost through time and Yiddish is a dying language that is used less and less each day.” Judaism is defined by its culture and is a cultural lifestyle choice. At the end of the interview, I asked Brent why the Jewish...
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...Human Resources Task I Western Governors University May 19, 2014 2 A. Constructive discharge as a legal concept is relative to this specific scenario in the aspect of the previous employee quitting because of a perceived evidence of difficult or hostile work environment. A specific event or chain of events, that do not have to be related, can lead to this evidence and elective discharge. In this specific case, a mandated change in scheduling causing an overlap with a religious holy day is the issue at hand. B. A protected category under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that is relevant to the scenario would be religious class. “It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin” (SEC. 2000e-2, 2014). C. The company should respond to the employee’s charge of constructive discharge by first acknowledging the formal charge and then contact their legal team to start building a case to fight the charge. 1. Discuss how three chosen legal references support your recommendation. a. “Employee must show that the intolerable working condition with the intent of forcing the resignation was deliberate” (Dempsey, & Petsche, 2006). As stated in the scenario the entire production...
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...be known outside the mind. 2. d) The passage says that, Hegel asserts that the twin aims of philosophy are to account for the contradictions apparent in human experience and also simultaneously to resolve and preserve these contradictions by showing their compatibility at a higher level of examination. 3. d) The topic idealism falls under the branch of philosophy and it is also a theory. 4. d) Hegel admitted that his ideas were not new to that of the existing ones and that he merely felt he needed to complete them. Explanation for questions 5 to 7: Correct Answer: ABA ‘Since’ indicates a consequence. Since they failed to conquer (subjugate) the tribes, they built a wall to keep out, or ‘exclude’ the tribes. The question at the end suggests that this attempt was misguided (or overoptimistic’) as no wall can ‘deter’ the determined. The word ‘deter’ is also better than the other options as the wall was to exclude the natives not to conquer or limit them. Explanation for Questions 8 to 10: Correct Answer: BDD. You need to know that ‘bantering’ means ‘playful’. So, although the talk seemed playful, it actually masked bad feeling. Here we have a ‘good word’ followed by ‘bad word’ situation. Hence we choose ‘amicable’ for the good word, and ‘antagonism’ for the bad. The first blank needs care because of the double negative. Simon apparently was not usually bad at seeing such things; hence we can say he was not ‘unperceptive’. 11. d) In this passage, statement C makes...
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...PROPHETS OR PROFITS Ever since the beginning of time people have been obsessed with the concept of the end of days. So if there is one topic that can create a good conversation, it’s the “Apocalypse”. In our times, we get more than our share of talk about the apocalypse. An apocalypse is a revelation, an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling (wikipedia.org). This means that no one could possibly know when this event will occur. Still, for thousands of years people have tried to predict when and how the world will end. From where do all these apocalyptic prophecies originate? Are we the victims of the hidden agendas of the media and secret societies? Are modern interpretations of ancient Mayan calendars and prophecies accurate; and do these prophecies predict the end of the world in 2012? And what has NASA said about all of this? When it comes to apocalyptic or “end of the world” prophecies it doesn’t matter. “End of the world” prophecies are ridiculous. We can’t rely on people, books, internet sites or movies to tell us an exact date because it is clearly something of the unknown? People are using prophets for profits! Apocalyptic prophecies derive from the stories told about the death of Jesus Christ and his ascension from the grave. It was said that He would one day return. The first written stories about His return are told in the Bible and are often referred to as the “apocalypse” or the “great reveal”. But...
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...Both 1984 and We depict a dystopian world where everything is controlled and everyone is watched. These books present societies where, no matter what, the governments can never entirely control the sexual desire of its citizens; although they are written 25 years apart, they both contain an ill-fated affair between an orthodox male character, who in the case of D-503 in We, fully believes in the regime, or like Winston Smith in 1984 who does not necessarily agree with the ruling party, but has surrendered to it, and a rebellious female character who eventually manages to sway the political beliefs of the orthodox male and make them seemingly more radical than the female. In both novels, the male characters are suddenly overpowered with emotion...
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...The invasion of D-Day The invasion of D-Day was a very important battle during World War II. It was the battle in which the Allies landed on German-controlled beaches in an attempt to gain the upper hand on Hitler and the Axis powers. For me, I learned about the Axis and Allies through playing old WWII video games a s a kid, but not many people actually know what these two words mean or consist of. The Axis powers were the bad guys and consisted of Germany, Italy, and Japan. Oddly enough, Italy switched over to the Allied powers later in the war. The Allies were the supporters of the U.S., the good guys. They consisted of Poland, Britain, and Russia, formerly known as the USSR. The United States was also a part of the Allies but they didn’t join into the fighting until later in the war. A big portion of the credit of the victory on D-Day has to go to the 101st airborne division. They parachuted in and fought from behind enemy lines to flank the Germans from the rear. They had a huge impact on this very crucial battle. D-Day was the beginning of many Allied victories that led to the end of Hitler’s reign. The 101st airborne were a very big asset to the Allies. They were an elite force of skilled paratroopers that were the best of their kind. These highly trained killers were dropped in during the invasion. They actually had a lot of miscommunications on the landing zones and drop sites for these men because of the poor weather conditions. They had planned the invasion to...
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...Logic—Problems, exercises, etc. 2. Reasoning—Problems, exercises, etc. 3. Critical thinking—Problems, exercises, etc. I. LearningExpress (Organization) II. Title: 501 challenging logic and reasoning problems. III. Series. BC108.A15 2006 160'.76—dc22 2005057953 Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Second Edition ISBN 1-57685-534-1 For information or to place an order, contact LearningExpress at: 55 Broadway 8th Floor New York, NY 10006 Or visit us at: www.learnatest.com Contents INTRODUCTION QUESTIONS ANSWERS vii 1 99 v Introduction his book—which can be used alone, with other logic and reasoning texts of your choice, or in combination with LearningExpress’s Reasoning Skills Success in 20 Minutes a Day—will give you practice dealing with the types of multiple-choice questions that appear on standardized tests assessing logic, reasoning, judgment, and critical thinking. It is designed to be used by individuals working on their own and by teachers or tutors helping students learn, review, or practice basic logic and reasoning skills. Practice on 501 logic and reasoning questions will go a long way in alleviating test anxiety, too! Maybe you’re one of the millions of people who, as students in elementary or high school, never understood the necessity of having to read opinion essays and draw conclusions from the...
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...between groups. Polish people and British, although have a lot of common in terms of historical inheritance, they vary in many aspects of social life and these differences naturally affect the behaviour and culture. Much of the differences in culture have to do with superstitions. Many of today’s traditions and superstitions date back thousands of years. It is surprising how many of these were originally to ward off evil spirits, as well to enhance good luck, fertility and prosperity. For example, bielief that black cat crossing your path can affect your luck goes far back in time. In Poland, it is considered unlucky to see the black cat crossing the road and it is probably because of the fact that the black cat was supposed to be a witch in disguise, or some kind of spy or helper for her. It may therefore have been imagined to possess the same magical abilty to cause harm. Conversly, in England the black cat is considered to be something lucky. There is a story about King Charles the first of England who owned a black cat and whom he valued very much. He treasured the cat so much that he had his guards watch over it twenty-four hours a day. Coincidentally the cat died the very day before Oliver Cromwell's parliamentary troops came and arrested the king. Shortly after, King Charles was taken to the scaffold and beheaded. Nowadys, black Cats are featured on many good luck greetings cards and birthday cards in England. Other interesting superstitions are connected with wedding...
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...choice/power/income i. Pay gap: women earn $0.74 for every $1.00 a man earns b. Linda Hershman article, Homeward Bound: Many educated & intelligent women decide to stay home with their babies > those decisions are connected to the fact that women are paid less than men, in general c. Evolution in law i. Common law (blackstone): women lost their identity after marriage (merged with husband) & considered inferior to men (acted under husband) - Result: Tenants in the entirety or joint accounts > assumed man put in all the $ (women has BOP to prove otherwise) ii. After 14th amendment > women began to feel that they should have rights as well B. 19th Century: 2 sphere ideology where women queen of home & men marketplace people > no = protection because genders seperaet 1) Privileges and Immunities Clause of the 14th amendment - a. Bradwell v. Illinois (1873) i. FACTS: Bradwell and her husband ran the most influential legal paper in the Midwest & she wanted a license to practice law > was denied to her on the basis of the fact that she was a woman ii. CLAIM: P & I Clause gives the right to earn a living to all American citizens iii. NOTE: EPC not really used for these arguments because men and women were so separately situated ...
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...eliminate confusing nested lists d) Capitalize the first word in each item. End all items with a period only if at least one item is a complete sentence. 2) Recommended ways to explain how your proposal is organized include a Table of Contents, section introductions, and what? a) Compliance Matrix b) Theme statement c) Endnotes in an appendix d) List of graphics 3) How should opportunities be qualified? a) By analyzing customer, competition and capability b) By analyzing competition c) By value only d) By solution only 4) Unless the RFP specifies otherwise, numbered subheadings should be limited to how many levels? a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 d) 5 5) When estimating the required expert resources for writing detailed technical proposal sections for which no boilerplate exists, which of the following metrics is typical? a) 1 page/person day b) 4 pages/ person day c) 10 to 15 pages/person day d) More than 25 pages/person day 6) Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding Price and Value? a) Price is what you charge for a product or service b) The customer will always attribute value to additional features that have not been requested c) Value and price are the same 7) Why is it important to qualify opportunities before committing time and effort? a) To ensure internal resource is fully utilized b) To maximize win rate c) To raise your profile with the customer d) To undercut the competition ...
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...WEEK 12-Labor Law 1 a. NLRA and Section 7 and Labor Peace * Employers and unions if employees elect a union then an employer is required to bargain the union over wages, hours, terms, and conditions of employment. b. NLRB * 5 people appointed by the president that administer the act. They have to be approved by the senate c. PERA (Michigan) * Public employees relation act-covers public sector(payed by tax dollars) d. MERC * Michigan employment relations commission-governor appoints and state senate approves. e. ULP * Unfair Labor Practice-violation of PERA or NLRA f. ULP – Regional Manager – ALJ – NLRB – COA – S. Ct. * Labor judge, NLRB, court of appeals, supreme court g. Section 8 – Enforces Section 7 * Section 7 tells what act is about section 8 enforces it h. Wages, Hours, Terms and Conditions of Employment * What you bargain for, terms(healthcare, uniforms) i. Section 8 a - applies to ERS * Tells employer what they can or cannot do j. Section 8 b – applies to Unions * Tells unions what they can or cannot do k. Who is a protected EE under the NLRA? * (Not supervisors, not K workers, not managerial EES, not confidential EES.) j. Who is a protected EE under Michigan’s PERA? * (Everyone except Executives) ARTICLE 1 A. A collective bargaining agreement (CBA) * Is a process of negotiations between employers and a group of employees aimed at reaching agreements that regulate working conditions. The collective...
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