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Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act aka Obamacare How do you feel about the Act:                                                                                                                               Yes     No Mostly support the Act Mostly do not support the Act (1) Explain/defend your position:  (2) Whether you  support or do not support the act, are there any provisions you like     

Mutual funds that periodically rebalance asset percentages between stocks, bonds, and cash over time as investors age are called

Which of the following is not a reason to refinance a home

A good investment starting point guideline for the percentage of stocks to include in a diversified retirement asset allocation model is 100 minus one’s age, which can then be adjusted/tweaked up or down, if needed, to match an investor’s preferred risk tolerance and time horizon paramenters.

In which financial crisis did Congress approve a larger stimulus plan 

Only a small percentage of people will end up needing nursing home care, so long  term care insurance does not need to be a part of one’s defensive insurance game plan.

A researcher at a pharmaceutical company is interested in testing out the effects of a new drug, which he thinks will improve attention.  However, he also suspects that the effects of the drug interact with caffeine.  To test this, he tests six separate groups (n = 10, in each group), given either a drug, a placebo, or no drug, and either having consumed caffeine, or no caffeine.  Each performs an attention task.  He collects the following data.   drug placebo no drug Caffeine  x = 5  x = 10  x = 15  x2 = 210  x2 = 330  x2 = 415 No Caffeine  x = 20  x = 10  x = 6  x2 = 780  x2 = 345  x2 = 270 What is the F-value (F-obtained) for the interaction between drug and caffeine (AxB interaction)?

A medicinal chemist needs to determine if the peptide bond found in a potential drug is important for rigidity or hydrogen bond formation. Which of the following substitutions for the peptide (amide) bond will show that rigidity is important?

Cimetidine is an antacid derived from a natural source which is itself derived from an amino acid.  What is cimetidine a derivative of?

Which of the following properties of a drug is most likely to result in a minimum of side effects?