The freedom of religion, speech, the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble is found in Amendment___________________________.

While we talked about food contamination due to microbial agents or fungi, or other environmental toxins, processed food products can also become contaminated during the food processing itself with non-biological materials such as _____________________________.

Please choose one of the Student Presentations from the Module (NOT YOURS and NOT Pierce’s Ergot) and briefly summarize the evidence that it was a Hazard, exposure situations,  medical or environmental effects, and risk characterization.  Please just one sentence or phrase for each of these as a summary of the presentation highlights is sufficient.

From the group below, choose three (3) of the following microbial Food Contaminants and provide the general cellular mechanism of action and route of exposure and most likely medical effect. Vibrio cholera Vibrio parahemalyticus Samonella Shigella  Listeria Monocytogenes Ecoli 0157  

While we talked about food contamination due to microbial agents or fungi one common way non-processed foods natural food products can become contaminated with several environmental toxins is from contaminated __________________________ .

Briefly describe the specific molecular mechanism of botulinum toxin as a food-borne toxin, mentioning one possible source of contamination and possible medical consequences.

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A 78-year-old woman is brought to the clinic by her daughter, who is concerned about her mother’s recent withdrawal from social activities, poor appetite, and complaints of fatigue over the past month. The patient denies feeling sad but reports trouble sleeping and a lack of interest in her usual hobbies. She has a history of hyperlipidemia and osteoarthritis which have been stable on her medications. On examination, she appears mildly disheveled and has poor eye contact. Which of the following is the most appropriate next step for the Nurse Practitioner evaluating this patient? 

It sometimes happens that a father has an ugly son with no redeeming grace whatever, yet love will draw a veil over the parental eyes which then behold only cleverness and beauty in place of defects, and in speaking to his friends he will make those defects out to be the signs of comeliness and intellect. I, however, who am but  stepfather, have no desire to go with the current of custom, nor would I, dearest reader, beseech you with tears in my eyes as others do to pardon or overlook the faults you discover in this book; you are neither relative nor friend but may call your soul your own and exercise your free judgment. You are in your own house where you are master as the king is of his taxes, for you are familiar with the saying, “Under my cloak I kill the king.” All of which exempts and frees you from any kind of respect or obligation; you may say of this story whatever you choose without fear of being slandered for an ill opinion any more than you will be rewarded for a good one. 

Assume an economy with a a floating exchange rate regime. Use the Mundell-Fleming model to explain the short-run impact of a government spending cut on the dollar exchange rate (e) and output (Y).