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Which of the following are concerns following gastrointestinal surgery?

Which monitoring methods are best for patients undergoing thoracic or airway surgery?

A teacher has written the following activity objective for her class: During the reading of the book, What Animals Say, the child will say the name of the animal that made the sound in the book.   Now create the correct assessment tool that will DOCUMENT the results of the assessment for the entire class. Make up names and responses to go with your assessment:  10 points

Create a CORRECT example of a class list log.  You will need to complete the headings and write an APPROPRIATE behavior to observe, make up children’s names, and make up the information you observed:    (12 points for a correct class list log with all components) (Obviously, we do not have a chart so type it out the best you can.)

Case 1 (questions 11 and 12) Suppose a researcher is interested in studying whether the use of ginger helps with pain management in adults with osteoarthritis. The researcher plans on conducting a cross-sectional study in which adults with osteoarthritis treated at Tampa General Hospital are randomly selected for participation. To assess the participants’ exposure status, the researcher plans on asking participants if they consume ginger and to classify participants as either “consumes ginger” or “does not consume ginger”. To assess the participants’ outcome status, the researcher plans on asking the participants to report their current level of pain on a scale of 0 to 100 (0= no pain, 100=worst pain imaginable). Finally, to assess the effect of ginger use on pain, the researcher plans on comparing average pain levels across individuals who consume ginger and individuals who do not consume ginger. The fellow researcher is also worried that there may be reverse causation in the study proposed by the team of researchers in case 1. Explain in the context of case 1 what reverse causality means (max. 4 points).

Suppose a team of researchers conducted a prospective cohort study on the effect of physical activity on the 6-month risk of depression. To assess potential effect modification by gender, the researchers estimated the effect of physical activity on depression separately for men and women. In men, the estimated risk difference was -0.11 and the estimated risk ratio was 0.71. In women, the estimated risk difference was -0.07 and the estimated risk ratio was 0.80. Based on these effect estimates the researchers concluded that gender is indeed an effect modifier, so the researchers decided to report the conditional effect estimates in their manuscript.   Please provide an interpretation of the estimated risk ratio of 0.71. Make sure to incorporate the number 0.71 in your interpretation and assume that physical activity was the exposure level of interest and physical inactivity was the comparison level. (max. 4 points)

Smoking during pregnancy is often mentioned as a cause of birth defects, such as cleft lip. However, not all babies born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy develop cleft lip.   Use the sufficient cause framework to explain why not all babies born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy develop cleft lip. Make sure to include the terms component cause and sufficient cause in your answer (max. 6 points).

A team of researchers conducted a prospective cohort study to determine if children who were exposed to secondhand smoke at home are more likely to develop asthma compared to children who were not exposed to secondhand smoke at home. The researchers computed a risk ratio of 1.52 with a standard error of 0.17. As the next step, the researchers want to estimate a 95% confidence interval for the risk ratio using the following formula: ??? ± 1.96 * 0.17.   What value should the researchers use in place of ??? in the formula?

What culture is associated with this weaving?

Which of the following is true about totem poles?