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Sue enjoyed skiing on lakes and swimming in rivers.  After an outpatient surgery on her elbow,she began to experience flatulence, bloating, stomach aches and weight loss.  She learned that the cysts of the microbe that caused her GI symptoms had probably been acquired swimming in freshwater lakes and rivers.   The surgery was a stress that caused her to become susceptible to an infection by this microbe.  Which of the following was probably the microbe? 

This disease has three different clinical forms; cutaneous, mucocutaneous and visceral.  Upon initial infection, the microbe infects macrophages which release chemical messages that cause inflammation.  The pathogen is transmitted from rodents to dogs to humans by sand flies.  What is this disease called? 

What are two distinct potential advantages of using a word embedding approach over simple bag of words (e.g., using one-hot coding) for feature engineering text data?

When would you considering upsampling your outcome variable (y)?  Describe how upsampling is done.  Make sure you specifically describe how the held-in and held-out data are modified.

The Internet is essentially a worldwide wide area network (WAN).

An enterprise portal is an internal Web site that provides proprietary corporate information to a defined user group.

Today’s companies are spending increasing amounts of money on IT and reaping the benefits of this investment.

Why is An Ecclesiastical History of the English People considered historically significant?

Blogs provide marketers with a real-time dialogue with customers and an avenue to promote their products.

Sales promotions are marketing events or sales efforts that stimulate consumer buying.