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Please read the following case study and answer the following question in COMPLETE sentences.  Points will be deducted if an absence of consideration is detected in your response. Chapter 5 Daily Hospital Responsibilities CASE STUDY on p. 142 -Large Animal Clinical Procedures for Veterinary Technicians (review material on Special Cases-pp. 136-140, 142) A case of Streptococcus Equi (“Strangles”) has just been confirmed in one of your current patients. The horse is going to be staying in the clinic with you. Your practice is new and does not have a current contagious case protocol. You have been assigned the task of writing the new protocol. You have several veterinary assistants and doctors who will be using the protocol. Please write a DETAILED contagious case protocol for this busy practice.  Please consider the following in preparing your response. Location [multiple barns vs one barn] Material to use in stall Traffic flow of patient and people How could you indicate to staff contagious nature of disease while protecting privacy of diagnosis from public?  PPE?  Who should enter? Equipment? Tools? Disinfection protocol? Contact time? Nursing care for the equine patient- considerations for patients with diarrhea Laundry? Bedding? Used supply disposal?  Upon discharge of patient- protocol to prepare area for next patient Unused supplies [wrapped vs unwrapped]    

In rabbits, brown fur (B) is dominant to white fur (b) and short fur (H) is dominant to long fur (h). A brown, long-furred rabbit (Bbhh) is crossed with a white, short-furred rabbit (bbHh). Both the B and H traits assort independently from one another. What percentage of the offspring will be brown with long fur? Cross: Bbhh x bbHh

Case Study [p. 376, Large Animal textbook] Your veterinarian is trying to perform a joint injection on a 5-year-old racing thoroughbred owned by Mr. Frickel.  As he is preparing the injection site, the horse is shifting its weight and trying to step forward. The veterinarian tells you to keep him still. (1) Why is it important for the horse to remain still for this procedure? [2 points] (2) How should the injection site be prepared? [2 points] (3) When would local anesthesia be required? [2 points]

Which of the following is a closed space [cavity] that has membrane linings (serous membranes) that secrete fluid into the cavity.   

Imagine that you are a rabbit breeder with two purebred rabbits, a male with black fur and a female with tan fur. When you cross your rabbits, all of the F1 kits (baby rabbits) have tan fur.

Identify the radiographic image:  

If it is known that a goal is definitely many arcs away from the starting position in a very large search space with a high branching factor, which search strategy would run the highest risk of having a long or indefinite runtime?  

If a CSP had 3 boolean variables (A, B, and C) and had the constraints that A=B, B=!C, and one of A and B must be True, what values can be assigned to these variables to meet the constraints?  (use either True or False for your answers): A = , B=, C=  

____ is the problem of a learning model being too closely trained to the specifics of the training set leading to low performance on the test set.  

Develop an ontology using the knowledge representation of your choice that models the following information:   Digoxin, Amiodarone, Verapamil, and Acetaminophen are drugs. Digoxin and Amiodaraone interact.Digoxin and Verapamil interact. Amiodaraone and Verapamil interact. Digoxin and Amiodarone are Antiarrhythmic drugs. Verapamil is an Antihypertensive drug. Acetaminophen is an Analgesic drug. A patient can take one or more drugs. A patient taking drugs that interact is in danger.