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For this homework assignment, the task is to come up with a way to test the hypothesis that heat increases aggression experimentally. That is, you are expected to (1) choose a true experimental design that is suitable to test this hypothesis, (2) explain why your design is suitable to address this particular research question, (3) describe exactly how you would operationalize the independent and dependent variables (i.e., how you would manipulate the IV and measure the DV, respectively), and (4) explain how you would examine statistically whether you found support for the hypothesis or not.

In order to do well on this assignment, it is important that you carefully think through every decision that you make as you develop your experiment. Use what you have learned from class and from the book about potential threats to validity, about the remedies available to reduce them, and about the pros and cons with specific experimental designs. The specific questions that you need to address are presented on the following page.

Questions

1 What experimental design will you use to test the heat-aggression hypothesis? (2 points)

2 Why did you decide to use this particular design? What specific threats to validity guided your choice of experimental design? (4 points)

3 How will you operationalize your independent variable? Here you first have to define the construct (so that we can evaluate whether your operationalization appropriately captures the construct). Then you also have to describe the general outline of the experiment so that we can evaluate your manipulation in the right context. For example, where will you conduct the experiment? Will you have a cover story for participants about the purpose of the study? If so, what will you tell them? Finally, how will you ensure that your manipulation of the independent variable is “clean” (no confounds)? (6 points)

4. How will you operationalize your dependent variable? Again, you must first define the construct, and then explain how you will measure it. You must also explain why you decided to measure your dependent variable in this way – and not in another way. (6 points)

5 State your hypothesis – using your specific operationalizations of the constructs. (2 points)

6 How will you test your hypothesis statistically? Under what circumstances would you conclude that the data supports your hypothesis? (2 points)

The ASH1 protein is part of a histone deacetylase complex that plays important roles in cell cycle progression in yeast. ASH1 mRNA is known to be transported to daughter cells before cytokinesis, and was one of the first known examples of mRNA localization. Propose a set of experiments that would enable you to determine:
a. What portion of the ASH1 mRNA is the localization sequence (i.e., is necessary to traffic ASH1 mRNA to its destination).
b. What proteins ASH1 interacts with that may be involved in trafficking it
In your responses, note what genetic constructs/manipulations you would make to help you address the question at hand.

Write a paragraph that describes the 1920s.

Include in your paragraph events and trends that had an impact on American culture.

step in her downward course was in her ceasing to instruct me.

She now commenced to practise her husband's precepts. She finally became even more violent in her opposition than her husband himself. She was not satisfied with simply doing as well as he had commanded; she seemed anxious to do better.

5. What are the causes according to him? Refer to specific examples of diction and imagery from the first part of Chapter VI in your response.

6. Identify and explain textual examples of each of the three rhetorical appeals Douglass uses in Chapter VI. Be sure to select examples of strong rhetoric.

ETHOS (Credibility)

PATHOS (Emotions)

LOGOS (Logic)

Nothing seemed to make her more angry than to see me with a newspaper. She seemed to think that here lay the danger. I have had her rush at me with a face made all up of fury, and snatch from me a newspaper, in a manner that fully revealed her apprehension. She was an apt woman; and a little experience soon demonstrated, to her satisfaction, that education and slavery were incompatible with each other.

From this time I was most narrowly watched. If I was in a separate room any considerable length of time, I was sure to be suspected of having a book, and was at once called to give an account of myself. All this, however, was too late. The first step had been taken. Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch, and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell.

The plan which I adopted, and the one by which I was most successful, was that of making friends of all the little white boys whom I met in the street. As many of these as I could, I converted into teachers. With their kindly aid, obtained at different times and in different places, I finally succeeded in learning to read. When I was sent of errands, I always took my book with me, and by going one part of my errand quickly, I found time to get a lesson before my return. I used also to carry bread with me, enough of which was always in the house, and to which I was always welcome; for I was much better off in this regard than many of the poor white children in our neighborhood. This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge. I am strongly tempted to give the names of two or three of those little boys, as a testimonial of the gratitude and affection I bear them; but prudence forbids; not that it would injure me, but it might embarrass them; for it is almost an unpardonable offence to teach slaves to read in this Christian country.

Choose an important question about blood pressure machines concept that you can answer via prototyping to reduce overall project risk. Design a model and accompanying test(s) will best enable you to address the question. Construct a simple/crude prototype and execute tests.

Help me with this concept map