At Plains High School, students who are tardy to class are given “Yard Patrol” after school. Yard patrol amounts to requiring the students to clean up any trash found on the school grounds. As it turns out, the strategy is moderately successful; fewer students are tardy to class. Which of the following concepts from operant conditioning is best illustrated by the school’s strategy?

What is one suggestion your textbook offers for reducing the negative effects of ability grouping?

Which model was adopted by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1997?

Using the CPT manual, assign the appropriate code for the following case: A patient with bilateral vocal cord paralysis presents for removal of arytenoid cartilage. This is being done to improve the patient’s breathing. With the patient placed under general anesthesia, the flexible laryngoscope with operating microscope is inserted into the oral cavity. The pharynx and larynx are examined under the microscope. After adequate visualization is established, the arytenoid cartilage is exposed by excision of the mucosa overlying it and arytenoidectomy performed. CPT Codee

Using the CPT manual, assign the appropriate code for the following case:  The patient consented to cystourethroscopy with possible bladder tumor removal. After the endoscope was inserted through the urethra, the bladder was entered. A lesion approximately 3.0 cm in size was identified in the bladder. This was resected and taken out through the scope. Minimal bleeders were cauterized. The remainder of the bladder was normal in appearance. The cystoscope was removed. CPT Code

The planet Saturn has the most rings around it compared to other outer Solar System planets.

Show all work for full credit. Once you’re finished testing but before you’ve submitted your exam in Canvas, hold up each page of your handwritten work (including scrap work) in front of your webcam to record an image of your worked-out solutions. An extra ten minutes of testing time has been given to each exam for this purpose. Once this process is done, you will then submit your exam in Canvas and will have five minutes to upload your handwritten work to the Canvas assignment File Upload Midterm I Exam Assignment. DON’T TYPE YOUR ANSWER HERE! Evaluate the integral by making a substitution and then by using a table entry from the table of integrals. Label the table entry.

Have you read the testing instructions and policies given above under Quiz Instructions? The exam requires that you have an external webcam placed on its stand about 3 feet away from your work area and 10 inches above your work surface so that your entire workspace to include your hands, papers, entire desk, computer, computer screen, and face is visible in Honorlock during the entire exam. Is your external webcam setup correctly? According to the testing instructions and policies above, if my webcam view in Honorlock is comparable to one of the eight pictures above showing an unsatisfactory workspace view, I will receive a .  Does your workspace view in Honorlock mimic one of three pictures shown above that demonstrate what a satisfactory workspace should look like? Please keep in mind that this is your is your last chance to correct your external webcam view in Honorlock, so please make any necessary adjustments now so you don’t receive a zero on the exam or for the course. Also, here’s the links to the two authorized formula sheets; click the links now to open electronic copies for the exam: Table of Integrals, Hyperbolic Formula Sheet. Finally, make sure you allot ten minutes of your testing time to show each page of your handwritten work to your webcam before you submit your exam in Canvas. Do not move or adjust your external webcam during this process.  Good luck on the exam!

Show all work for full credit. Once you’re finished testing but before you’ve submitted your exam in Canvas, hold up each page of your handwritten work (including scrap work) in front of your webcam to record an image of your worked-out solutions. An extra ten minutes of testing time has been given to each exam for this purpose. Once this process is done, you will then submit your exam in Canvas and will have five minutes to upload your handwritten work to the Canvas assignment File Upload Midterm I Exam Assignment. DON’T TYPE YOUR ANSWER HERE! Use integration, the Direct Comparison Test, or the Limit Comparison test to determine if the integral converges or diverges. If more than one method applies, use whatever method your prefer. 

What are the main challenges in measuring political knowledge?