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3. According to the Court in United States v. Morrison (2000), why was the provision of the Violence Against Women Act giving victims of gender-motivated crime a remedy in federal court beyond Congress’s enforcement power under the Fourteenth Amendment? Your answer should identify at least two reasons.  You should also evaluate them.

4. Assume that Congress passed the Healthy Drivers Amendment to the Federal Aid Highway Act, which provides for withholding 10% of a State’s allotted federal highway funding if the State refuses to pass a law requiring all of its drivers to eat three balanced meals a day.  Identify the limitations on Congress’s spending power that the Court laid out in South Dakota v. Dole (1987).  If a State brought a similar case challenging the Healthy Drivers Amendment, which of these conditions is likely to be determinative and why?   

What is the primary function of proteins according to the presentation?

The research that we discussed in the course related to individuals’ tweets about their problem drinking is significant because of how it may impact other people’s perceptions. Which construct is this most similar to?

What is the role of telomerase? 

True or false: Ecological models focus exclusively on environmental determinants of behavior.

The ___________ ___________ of the hamster are considered an immunologically privileged site because of an absence of an intact lymphatic drainage pathway.

In the context of behavior, what does function mean?

The institutional group charged with evaluation of animal use and inspection of facilities is _____________.

A machine has a memory of 256 frames, with each frame being 4K (2^12) bytes. Current free-frame list is: 0x19, 0xC2, 0x75, 0xE8, 0x2F, 0x0C, 0x96, 0xDF, 0xE0, 0xD1, 0xC4, and 0x0A (this means hex notation). You just scheduled a process that requires 10 frames. Write the resulting page table. Show the translation of logical address 0x53D7 and 0x4BAA into physical addresses using your page table.