Samantha Johnson GSB 714 Bus‚ Gov’t & Glb Economy August 3rd‚ 2014 Case 5: Merck‚ the FDA‚ and the Vioxx Recall Section I Merck was one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical firms. The company ranked 4th I sales after Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson and it ranked 5th in assets and market value. Merck ranked 1st in profits‚ earning $7.33 billion on $30.78 billion in sales. In 2006‚ Merck faced major challenges with their once best selling prescription painkillers‚ Vioxx which was pulled
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Where Do Serial Killers Come From? It was January 1974‚ and the people of Wichita‚ Kansas were staying up all night‚ with their guns in their hands‚ ready for the unthinkable to happen. Four members of the Ortero family had just been brutally murdered in their own home‚ in the middle of the day. Julie and Joseph‚ the mother and father‚ had been found tied at the hands and wrists‚ strangled‚ in their bedroom. Beside them lay their nine year old son Joey‚ who had been murdered the same way. Even
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1) Why serial dilutions are preferred to one large dilution in lab experiments? Answer: Serial dilution is the technique of performing repeated dilutions on the same chemical in order to change its concentration. The diluted solution from a serial dilution can be used to calculate the concentration of the actual solution. In experimental work‚ often we need to obtain a range of concentrations for a specific compound. Thus‚ instead of preparing one large dilution‚ if we take a concentrated sample
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As quoted from the Vancouver Sun‚ “A serial killer is one who commits more than three murders over a period that spans more than one month. For the most part‚ serial killers commit murder for some sort of psychological benefit.” Looking at a serial killer’s motives‚ their choice of torture‚ and the ending of their spree‚ this definition will be brought to life. In order to carry out an act one must have a motive. Serial killers are prime examples of someone who finds not only motivation to kill
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According to the studies of Kelleher and Kelleher (1998)‚ they were able to discover that the methods behind a female serial killer was based on motivation. They established a theory based on the limitations defined by serial killers; which often excluded women as serial killers. Based on the findings of Farrell‚ 2006; Jensen‚ 2001; Mann‚ 1996; Pollock‚ Mulllings‚ & Crouch‚ 2006; Schurman-Kauflin‚ 2000; Scott‚ 2005‚ they were able to conclude that women have the ability‚ to be sensitive‚ rather than
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are considered insanity. In modern usage insanity is most commonly encountered as an informal unscientific term denoting mental instability‚ or in the narrow legal context of the insanity defense. In the derivation of the word insanity lies its definition. In English‚ the word sane derives from the Latin adjective sanus meaning healthy. The word insanity was first used in the 1550s. Naturally the word insane means unhealthy. From Latin insanus meaning mad‚ insane‚ then comes the root of in meaning
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and killed two of his classmates without even thinking. No one would’ve ever thought a young man like him would ever think about killing. All serial killers are often labeled by mental health professionals with various mental health issues; they often become another statistics but they are more than a statistic. Many assume there is a specific profile for serial killers‚ that they all have the same MO‚ they target the same victims‚ however they are more clever than ordinary people‚ and some go undetected
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What does it mean to be an educated person? According to Merriam- Webster’s Dictionary definition‚ to be educated is someone who has learned how to acquire‚ analyze‚ synthesize‚ evaluate‚ understand‚ and communicate knowledge and information. I believe that being well-educated means‚ you need to have a degree in a specific field and also be able to excel and easily adapt to a different field with substantial amount of knowledge to it. For some people‚ being educated means you need to have a college
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SERIAL KILLERS A serial killer is a person whom everybody knows as a friend‚ a lover or even a father but no one knows about his killer instinct until it’s to late. Serial killers have plagued this country and others for many years. They are hard to find and virtually undetectable until they start murdering the innocent. Serial killers are usually young‚ white males who are quite intelligent and often come from broken homes. They may have been abused either physically or sexually
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What is the difference between Serial transmission and parallel transmission? Answer: Digital data transmission can occur in two basic modes: serial or parallel. Data within a computer system is transmitted via parallel mode on buses with the width of the parallel bus matched to the word size of the computer system. Data between computer systems is usually transmitted in bit serial mode . Consequently‚ it is necessary to make a parallel-to-serial conversion at a computer interface when sending
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