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Which culture type sits at the bottom left quadrant of the Competing Values Framework (CVF), and can be characterized by stability, control, and an internal focus? (Please type your response in the field below)

What kind of demographic information and other characteristics will you collect? Justify your selection.  

What study design will you use to answer the research question? Justify why you selected the study design.

List inclusion and exclusion criteria for your sample and justification for the criteria. 

List potential confounding variables and provide your justification for the selection.  (If some of the variables listed under #9, you can list here as well if they are confounders)

Research Question: What are the effects of a six-week nutrition education program on blood pressure, sodium intake, fruit and vegetable consumption, as well as knowledge and self-efficacy related to fruit and vegetable consumption? —— Is it a good research question based on the criteria we discussed at the beginning of the class?  Justify your answer.  If not, modify it, justify your modification, and then restate it.

In chemical digestion, large food molecules are reduced to smaller molecules that can be absorbed through the intestinal wall.

*BONUS (+1):  Now that you know about digestion and metabolism, what are a few ways in which gastric bypass surgery allows an individual to lose weight?  (Note that both the stomach and duodenum are bypassed in the surgery)

The evaporation method of heat loss from the blood occurs by the absorption of heat by water vaporization.

Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote about Andrew Jackson that “surely he was a great man, and his native strength, as well of intellect as of character,compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the morecunning the individual might be, it served only to make him the sharpertool.” Take that statement and apply it to the life of Andrew Jackson from hisroughhewn childhood and adolescence through his presidency. Make note ofthose men who came within Jackson’s orbit and those who dared cross him.Specifically consider the following men: William Weatherford, John C.Calhoun, Henry Clay, Nicholas Biddle, and John Q. Adams. Whileaccomplishing that task, weave together a narrative, a biography, ofJackson’s life and actions.