The sarcoplasmic reticulum stores             

Choose ONE of the following. (5 pts each – total 5 pts). Choose an extra as your bonus and mark with a * or write bonus, or an extra from part II: only ONE extra essay for the bonus).  1.)  Anne Teak is a 62-year old female.  She was brought to the ER by ambulance because she fell while walking up her stairs and thinks she broke her hip.  The x-ray confirms the broken hip and a DEXA bone scan confirms osteoporosis.  She is one of your patients and has many questions about her condition and the causes of it.  Answer the following questions.         1.) What exactly is osteoporosis?  Why does it occur (at the cellular level)?         2.) What factors help prevent it?  (include 1 dietary and 1 lifestyle and explain each).         3.) Why is it more common in postmenopausal women?         4.) What is a DEXA scan?         5.)  What medication might be used to help Anne heal and build stronger bones? (explain what it does)   B.)  Justin Time is a 5-year old boy who was playing outside without his shoes on (his mother/father was too busy studying for their A&P test to notice that he didn’t put on his shoes).   He stepped on a rusty nail which penetrated his skin (rather deeply).  He is given a tetanus shot in the ER. Answer the following questions.         1.  What bacteria (toxin) is the concern?         2.  What are the effects of this toxin if not treated?         3.  How does this toxin differ from botulism? Explain the effects of each.         4.  How does this toxin differ from curare? Explain the effect of curare.         5.  How long is a tetanus shot “good” for?  

Which of the following are valid reasons to partition a diagram? (Select all that apply.)

Match the DFD concept on the left with its correct description on the right.

Using the following lines of code, complete the following function called compute_grades, which accepts a vector of student grades (initialized as it is in the following example) as an argument to the compute_grades function’s parameter of the same name…vector gradelist = {85, 90, 95, 82, 96, 91, 30, 59, 43, 72, 75, 78};… and determines the average of the list of grades, as well as the highest and lowest grades in the list: void compute_grades(vector gradelist) {} (Hint: Recall that we can get the size of a vector using its size() method, and that we can access a single element by its position within the vector using square brackets.)

What is “speech plus?”

If an employee’s manager issued an explicit or strongly implied threat that submission to sexual demands is a condition of the employee’s job, it would be an example of ________ harassment.

The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion through the establishment clause and the free exercise clause.

The nurse is teaching a patient about the causes of atelectasis. Which statement by the patient indicates an understanding of the condition?

A nurse is assessing a postoperative patient who has not voided for the past 8 hours. The patient reports discomfort in the lower abdomen, and the nurse notes bladder distention upon palpation. The patient’s urine output has been less than 20 mL per hour over the last 3 hours. What is the best nursing action?