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13. According to the GINA Guidelines Asthma Management Step Therapy, what is the best pharmacological recommendations for a patient who has symptoms most days or who wakes up at night with asthma once a week or more?  (Goal:  improve symptom control and reduce exacerbations) 

Briefly explain the meaning of the following lines from Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5, Scene 4. HERO: And when I lived I was your other wife; [Unmasks.]And when you loved you were my other husband. CLAUDIO: Another Hero! HERO: Nothing certainer.One Hero died defiled; but I do live,(65)And surely as I live, I am a maid. DON PEDRO: The former Hero! Hero that is dead! LEONATO: She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived. BENEDICK: I’ll tell thee what, prince; a college of wit-crackers cannotflout me out of my humour. Dost thou think I care for asatire or an epigram? No. If a man will be beaten with              (105)brains, ‘a shall wear nothing handsome about him. In brief,since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to anypurpose that the world can say against it; and thereforenever flout at me for what I have said against it; for manis a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion. For thy part,               (110)Claudio, I did think to have beaten thee; but in that thouart like to be my kinsman, live unbruised, and love mycousin.

A population of gazelles (deer-like animals) had become greatly overpopulated and was causing harm to their ecosystem.  Ecologists then introduced a few cheetahs (a natural predator of gazelles) to the ecosystem. After a couple of years, there were many fewer gazelles, but the average running speed of the gazelle had increased. This is most likely an example of:

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, although the court of King Arthur represents the zenith of chivalry, where courtesy and martial prowess are used to defend what is right, the court is tested when its most valiant knight is challenged.  The person behind the scenes who was responsible for that challenge was

Sketchy Health Insurance Corporation (SHIC) is a Virginia-based health insurance company that offers insurance plans in the private health insurance market, on the state health insurance exchange under the ACA, and via Medicare Advantage (Medicare Part C).  It competes with numerous other insurance companies across the state, but SHIC does most of its business in Northern Virginia, where it insures roughly 15% of the population.  Since SHIC knows it can’t grow much more due to the size of its competitors, it focuses on maintaining the market share it has.  The CEO knows that other, larger insurers have approached some of the providers and businesses with which SHIC has an exclusive contract.  To prevent these providers and businesses from moving to another insurance company, the CEO offers to charge the businesses whose employees it covers 10% less for their insurance plans, and pay the providers it contracts with 10% more.  In exchange, the businesses and providers will agree not to move to other insurers for 5 years.  Two large insurance companies that SHIC compete with learn of the arrangement, and file a complaint with the FTC.  The FTC then files a complaint in Federal District Court that SHIC is violating federal antitrust law.  As the judge, would you use the rule of reason OR “per se” violation doctrine to decide the case, and why?  Should SHIC be found in violation of antitrust law, and why or why not? (2-3 sentences)

Assume a significance level of

When the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Controls were being revised into the current version (i.e., version 8) there were a series of design principles used to help guide the revision process.  One of those principles states that the CIS Controls should help defenders identify the most critical things to do to stop the most important attacks and to avoid the temptation of trying to solve every security problem (that is, avoid ‘good things to do’ or ‘things you could do’).  Which CIS design principle are those statements related to?

Which employee logged into (i.e., accessed) the network, the most times, on weekends (Saturdays and Sundays)?  (Enter the last 5 digits of the employee’s number only – that is, employee number EE076411 should be entered as 76411).

Patricia is a salesperson for a security services company called Star Security and has just submitted a bid to the Texas Department of Licensing to provide security for the boxing re-match of Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson.  Patricia learns that the security contract might be awarded to Star Security or one other security firm.  Patricia contacts the purchasing agent at the Texas Department of Licensing and states that if Star Security is awarded the contract, Patricia will provide the purchasing agent with an all-expense-paid vacation package to some place sick like Tulsa or Little Rock (a Pitch Perfect 2 reference).   What type of fraud is Patricia performing in this situation?

At this time you are to show the camera each page of the work you are submitting and the approved calculator. Each page must be held up individually. (This question must be done last).