Discuss the benefits of technology in health and medicine.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. People who use health-related mobile gadgets and apps can monitor their blood pressure, calories, and physical fitness. Robotic surgery reduces physician fatigue because one does not have to stand over the patient for hours, and a robot's "hands" can reach into tight spots and move in ways that human hands cannot. In addition, minimally invasive robotic surgeries usually result in less blood loss and faster recoveries because there is a smaller incision to heal.
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b. panel study. c. time series study. d. trend study. e. longitudinal study.
How do rational choice theorists describe the ways social institutions constrain actions?
A. Actors must consider the scarcity of resources. B. Actors must consider the feasibility of actions as prescribed or prohibited by norms, laws, agendas, and voting rules. C. A consideration of the cumulative social effects of individual actors should be considered. D. A consideration of available information (or lack thereof) should be considered.
Falling mortality and fertility rates have altered the kinship bonds of people in the United States. The major change has been
A. decreasing horizontal bonds and increasing vertical bonds of kinship across generations. B. decreasing vertical links across generations. C. decline in bonds of kinship of all types. D. an increase in horizontal ties and a decrease in vertical ties across generations.
One way of decreasing the standard deviation of the distribution of means in a planned study, thereby increasing power, is to have a larger number of participants. Another would be to
A) use a more stringent alpha level. B) use the sample variance in place of the variance of the population. C) change the minimum meaningful difference. D) use a less diverse population.