Activity 4: Generation of Action Potentials Name: Instructor: Date: PREDICTIONS 1. Exceeding the threshold depolarization at the trigger zone DECREASES the likelihood of generation of action potential. 2. Action potential amplitude: DOES NOT CHANGE with distance 3. Increasing frequency of stimulation to the trigger zone: DOES NOT increase the production of action potentials. MATERIALS AND METHODS Experiment 1: Effect of Stimulus Strength on Action Potential Generation 1. Dependent Variable
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Literature review/theory Hospital volunteers have the potential to increase patient satisfaction. Hospitals strategy’s focus on reducing costs while delivering excellent service. Performances of hospitals depends on patient satisfaction that is an important feature (Brent Hotchkiss‚ Fottler‚ & Unruh 2009). Organisation strategy and HR practices Strategic human resource management can be defined as a sequence of carefully planned human resource allocation and activities that will help and enable
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different electrode sites. The amplitude and the shape of the signals depend upon the position of the electrodes (Brown‚ 1999) (Conover‚ 1992). The SA node produces the pacemaker potential and if this reaches the threshold then an action potential is generated. There are five stages involved during cardiac action potentials‚ during these stages there is a flow of ions through
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At rest‚ a nerve cell maintains a difference in charge between the inside and the outside of the cell membrane. This difference in charge is continued by three factors. Firstly‚ in the cell membrane‚ there are sodium potassium ‘pumps’ crossing the membrane which are proteins that bring 2 potassium ions into the cell‚ for every 3 sodium ions it pumps out. As well as this‚ there are protein channels which allow potassium ions in the cell to flow out via facilitated diffusion. Potassium diffuses out
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Practice Problems for Confidence Intervals X ± Z σ/n ; X ± t s/n ; p ± Z (p(1-p)/n) 1. A press release issued by our university claims that West Chester students study at least as much as the national average for students at four year universities. Across the nation‚ 73 percent of all students at four year universities study at least four hours per week. Seventy percent of one hundred randomly selected West Chester students surveyed claimed to study more than four hours per week.
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Confidence Intervals Consider the following question: someone takes a sample from a population and finds both the sample mean and the sample standard deviation. What can he learn from this sample mean about the population mean? This is an important problem and is addressed by the Central Limit Theorem. For now‚ let us not bother about what this theorem states but we will look at how it could help us in answering our question. The Central Limit Theorem tells us that if we take very many
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A Study in Determining Confidence Intervals at 95% Charlesatta Johnson PH6014 October 9‚ 2013 Dr. Rodrick Frazier A Study in Determining Confidence Intervals at 95% As hypothesized‚ high cholesterol levels in children can lead to their children being affected with hyperlipidemia. A study is conducted to estimate the mean cholesterol in children between the ages of 2 - 6 years of age. It also attempted to establish a correlation as to the effect family history has on the onset of the disease
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The claim that globalization generates poverty has been the focus of many debates for the last twenty years‚ including the debate between Carlos Caretto‚ Gillian Crowl‚ Steve Grossman‚ and Annie Wong on February 21‚ 2005. Caretto and Crowl argued that poverty is an indirect result of globalization as is evident by high unemployment rates‚ wage inequality‚ and diminishing health and educational programs. Grossman and Wong contended that globalization does not generate poverty‚ but it in fact helps
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STA3003 Fall 2012 Assignment 5 (Total Points Possible: 15) Name: Banner ID: Instructions: Use this page as your cover page‚ and attach your groupwork behind your work. Your assignment answers should be in complete and grammatically correct sentences. 1. According to the National Center for Health Statistics (2004)‚ 22.4% of adults are smokers. A
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stimulate both ___ and ___. Synapses‚ cell bodies‚ dendrites Signals from other neurons are received at junctions called ___‚ located primarily on the ___ ___and ___‚ the receptive and integrative regions of the neuron. Axon hillock‚ action potential The area where the axon emerges from the soma (cell body) is called the ___ ___. This is also where the outgoing signal‚ called a/an ___ ___ is generated. Collaterals‚ terminals An axon can branch‚ forming many axon ___. At the end‚ axons
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