Author: Halski Villafuerte

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Subject:
BL-GE-6116-LEC-1923T SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
Midterm Exam Score 49/50

It is the tendency to distribute information to other people who you think would remember
a certain information more than you do.

Select one:
a. Intrapersonal memory banking
b. Google Effect
c. Memory Group Distribution

d. Transactive Memory System

Answer: Transactive Memory System

It is the application of ideas to something directly useful to mankind.

Select one:
a. Innovation
b. Invention
c. Technology

d. Interpolation
Answer: Innovation

What is google effect?

Select one:
a. It is where people uses another human being as a memory bank
b. It is the ability of a person to incorporate google as part of its memory
c. It is the lack of ability to remember important things

d. It is the manner of changing how people think when they start to largely rely on the
internet for some facts
Answer: It is the manner of changing how people think when they start to largely rely on the internet for
some facts

Which of the following is not one of the reason for having a conflict of interest in doing a
research?

Select one:
a. The scientist has a goal of helping the community
b. The reviewer is inappropriately influenced by his or her action.
c. An editor who has a financial or personal interest in doing the research

d. The researcher has a belief that could affect his or her objectivity
Answer: The scientist has a goal of helping the community

The following are the primary modes of internet regulations except for:

Select one:
a. Bandwidth
b. Laws
c. Architecture

d. Markets
Answer: Bandwidth

Buckyball is a hollow ball made from what element

Select one:
a. Nitrogen
b. Carbon
c. Oxygen

d. Helium
Answer: Carbon

The following are challenges in taking drugs orally except

Select one:
a. The drug has to overcome a mucous layer which is meant to keep out foreign invaders
such as pathogens
b. The drug has to overcome mechanical agitation in the stomach
c. A drug has to be kept away from water until it is ready to be taken
d. If a drug is taken orally it has to survive extreme acidity
Answer: A drug has to be kept away from water until it is ready to be taken

The following are forms of biases in data analysis except for:

Select one:
a. Analyzing the data in relation to the study
b. Eliminating the data which do not support your hypothesis
c. Using inappropriate statistical tests

d. Reporting non-existing data from the experiment

Answer: Analyzing the data in relation to the study

According to the module intellectual property rights may become an issue as

commercialization progresses and nanotechnology matures because?

Select one:
a. There is already a very wide range of patent claims, and the possible formation of patent
thickets, which could contribute to barriers to entry for companies.
b. There are no laws that protects products made from or by nanotechnology which makes
it hard to patent future products
c. In the age as nanotechnology matures it somehow produce many competitors out in the
market making it less possible to start up new patents.

d. People had always been very intact with their businesses that it would be hard for new
businesses with new patents to occur.
Answer: There is already a very wide range of patent claims, and the possible formation of paten
thickets, which could contribute to barriers to entry for companies.

Which of the following is gives the best definition for nanotechnology?

Select one:
a. It is the use of small objects in the field of business and is improved by science
b. It is science, engineering, and technology conducted at a nanoscale
c. It is a field of science inclined in producing nanoscale objects

d. It is measured in nanometer

Answer: It is science, engineering, and technology conducted at a nanoscale

Nanotechnology came from the Greek word "nanos" which means what?

Select one:
a. Small objects
b. Small animals
c. Small Person

d. Small circles
Answer: Small Person

It is concerned with the relevance of biology and the life sciences for the public policy.

Select one:
a. Bio-education
b. Biopolicy
c. Bio-economics

d. World Referendum
Answer: Biopolicy

Which of the following statements define what Bayh-Dole Act?

Select one:
a. The act granted universities and their professor's automatic rights to own and
commercialize federally funded research
b. It is a law that limits private funding in different research
c. It is an act which allows scientist to protect their research from being copied

d. It is the act that regulates the use of research paper by different scientists
Answer: The act granted universities and their professor’s automatic rights to own and commercialize
federally funded research

It is the interception made by technical means without right of any non-public transmission
of computer data to, from, or within a computer system including electromagnetic
emissions from a computer system carrying such computer data.

Select one:
a. System interference
b. Data Interference
c. Illegal Interception

d. Illegal Access
Answer: Illegal Interception
A research surveyed an area to know the population of a certain species of bird. While
gathering the data, the researcher wrongly classified a group of birds and mistaken them to
be the same kind of the bird she was studying. What form of bias took place in gathering
the data?

Select one:
a. Survivor bias
b. Funding bias
c. Selection bias

d. Misclassification bias
Answer: Misclassification bias

The health botanical published a paper that antioxidant was really helpful to our body, but
after a week it was found out that the researcher has a strong connection with a company
that sells product which claims that it contains antioxidants. What kind of bias can be
derived from the situation?

Select one:
a. Survivor bias
b. Misclassification bias
c. Selection bias

d. Funding bias
Answer: Funding bias

It entails the conception of basic ideas and it is a product of laboratory scientist

Select one:
a. Technology
b. Innovation
c. Invention

d. Interpolation
Answer: Invention

It is a course that B.I.O. places online where environmental management, natural resource
economics, international policy, EU environmental policy, and corporate policy are all part of
it.

Select one:
a. Bio-ethics
b. Biopolicy
c. Bio-education

d. Bio-economics
Answer: Bio-economics

One of the most obvious financial relationship which results to conflict of interest in
research where it includes stock ownership in a company, grants coming from the company,
and patents.

Select one:
a. Direct relationship
b. Indirect relationship
c. Net worth

d. Company incentives
Answer: Direct relationship

Which of the following is not true based on the given module

Select one:
a. The fundamental characteristics of nanotechnology have led analysts to suggest that it
may constitute a basis for long-term productivity and economic growth
b. Nanotechnology allows the improvement of technology that can be used to create a
more damaging weapon to protect our nation
c. Nanotechnology is a complex field owing to its dependency on various scientific
disciplines, research/engineering approaches and advanced instrumentation.

d. Nanotechnology allows for both the improvement of existing and the development of
completely new products
Answer: Nanotechnology allows the improvement of technology that can be used to create a more
damaging weapon to protect our nation

It is the intentional alteration or reckless hindering or interference with the functioning of a

computer or computer network by inputting, transmitting, damaging, deleting,
deteriorating, altering, or suppressing right or authority, including the introduction or
transmission of viruses

Select one:
a. System interference
b. Illegal Access
c. Data Interference

d. Illegal Interception
Answer: System interference

Whish of the following would best explain green nanotechnology?

Select one:
a. It is adopting a form of nanotechnology that would focus on addressing issues in the
environment and the social aspects of it.
b. It is where nanotechnology should be developed in a greener point of view where it
would have less wastes.
c. Supporting the production of greener technologies in the future.

d. Nanotechnology should have the ability to produce clean energy

Answer: It is adopting a form of nanotechnology that would focus on addressing issues in the
environment and the social aspects of it.

Pollution loads, genetically modified organism, water and soils, biotechnology, and
environmental policy are all part of which of the following courses?

Select one:
a. Common Agricultural Policy
b. Food and Agriculture
c. Bio-tourism

d. Waste management
Answer: Food and Agriculture

It is a method of building nanomaterials by starting with individual atoms and bringing

them together to form a product

Select one:
a. Top-down approach
b. Down-top approach
c. Bottom-up approach

d. Top-bottom approach
Answer: Bottom-up approach

Modified buckyballs can be used for

Select one:
a. Delivering free radicals inside our body
b. Enter the brain and help regenerate the brain tissues
c. Harvesting the energy from the sun

d. Trapping harmful chemicals inside the body

Answer: Trapping harmful chemicals inside the body

According to the article between the two manners of building materials which is more
promising?

Select one:
a. Top-down approach
b. Top-bottom approach
c. Bottom-up approach

d. Down-top approach
Answer: Bottom-up approach

The advancement of nanotechnology causes which of the following in the field of business?

Select one:
a. Improvement on the role of nanotechnology to the people
b. Incapability to follow the rules of the government
c. Less accessibility for smaller companies

d. Lack of trust from the public

Answer: Less accessibility for smaller companies

Which of the following statement would best describe what the article "Playing god" is
about?

Select one:
a. The article talks about a wider view of opinions about ethics in science
b. It was a view of how many people are in favor of cloning
c. It was about the book of Jane Maienschein entitled "Whose View of Life"

d. A basic analysis of opinions coming from the society about the works of scientist
Answer: The article talks about a wider view of opinions about ethics in science

Which of the following is a potential of nanowires?

Select one:
a. Cover the outside part of wires to make it more efficient
b. Potential Applications in Solar cells and sensors
c. A new way of harvesting energy from the earth

d. Ability to be used for delivering drugs inside our body

Answer: Potential Applications in Solar cells and sensors

Which of the following statement would best define what the line "Technology is partially
non-rival in nature" means?

Select one:
a. It means that technology should not cause any form of war in every country
b. The one who produces technology is the only one who competes with each other and
not the people relying on it
c. People are into sharing each other's technologies

d. Technology can be used by the person without preventing the other person from using it
either
Answer: Technology can be used by the person without preventing the other person from using it either

The following are key findings on the impact of nanotechnology in business except which
off the following?

Select one:
a. Local companies see themselves predominantly as users of nanotechnology, rather than
developers of it
b. Government has a clear role of supporting nanotechnology according to companies
c. Businesses have concerns more about the unknown health and safety side-effects of
nanotechnology

d. Business nowadays largely rely on nanotechnology and would need to come up with new
form of technology to fit in the futures of businesses
Answer: Business nowadays largely rely on nanotechnology and would need to come up with new form
of technology to fit in the futures of businesses

Which of the following is not part of the three core ideas that Mark S. Frankel would like to
see integrated into graduate education?

Select one:
a. Young scientist should appreciate the global dimension of science
b. Science is a social institution, with a mission and baggage like all other social institutions
created by human beings
c. Science requires greater sacrifice coming from the life of the normal people

d. Young scientist should realize that their education and research are being subsidized by
the society
Answer: Science requires greater sacrifice coming from the life of the normal people

What does the review article "Opportunities and Challenges of Nanotechnology in the
Green Economy" analyze?

Select one:
a. It examines the production of new technologies for a green economy
b. It analyze the opportunities and challenges that nanotechnology have in building a
greener economy.
c. It shows a discussions on the laws that nanotechnology may oppose upon its
development

d. It shows the lack of support to nanotechnology because of the government's policies and
low funding on it.
Answer: It analyze the opportunities and challenges that nanotechnology have in building a greener
economy.

Which of the following is one of the major challenges with nanotechnology given by the
article?

Select one:
a. Laws that doesn't support nanotechnology
b. Creating large quantities of nanoscale materials is still time-consuming and expensive
c. Lack of researchers for this form of technology

d. Religious group of people that is against nanotechnologny

Answer: Creating large quantities of nanoscale materials is still time-consuming and expensive

Along studying a new drug for a disease which was in a span of three years, two of the
subjects died, which might be caused by old age. Which of the following bias would be fit to
define the situation?

Select one:
a. Volunteer bias
b. Misclassification bias
c. Selection bias

d. Survivor bias
Answer: Survivor bias

It urges scholars, decision-makers, diplomats, business and civic leaders to actively

contribute to the development of a life supporting society.

Select one:
a. The Millennium Development Goals
b. International University for the Bio-environment
c. Biopolicy

d. Bio-Legislation
Answer: International University for the Bio-environment

An action that is important for the sources of innovation and knowledge, especially for small
companies.

Select one:
a. Asking the government for support to fund small scale industry to afford nanotechnology
b. Collaborating with research community especially those coming from universities and
other scientists
c. Formulating laws that will provide protection for those who can't afford nanotechnology

d. Taking actions in cutting the access of big companies in nanotechnology

Answer: Collaborating with research community especially those coming from universities and other
scientists

The following are benefits of voice recording interviews except:

Select one:
a. The researcher has a chance of going back to the material
b. It will take less time to finish the research.
c. Less distraction from writing and better flow of interview

d. The researcher can concentrate, listen, and respond better

Answer: It will take less time to finish the research.

Photovoltaics, fuel cells, hydrogen storage and transportation are all part of which of the
following areas of application of a greener nanotechnology?

Select one:
a. Nanomaterials for the construction industry
b. Nanomaterials for energy storage
c. Nanomaterials for water clean-up technologies

d. Nanomaterials for energy conversion

Answer: Nanomaterials for energy conversion

It is an admirable effort that aims to solve the world's great problems, it has a goal to
achieve with a given certain dates.

Select one:
a. The Millennium Development Goals
b. Bio-education
c. Biopolicy

d. World Referendum
Answer: The Millennium Development Goals

It has a concept of linking the protection of bios rights to the defense of the rights of future
generations.

Select one:
a. International University for the Bio-environment
b. Biopolicy
c. Bio-Legislation

d. The Millennium Development Goals

Answer: Bio-Legislation

A form of financial relationship which results to conflict of interest where it includes

honoraria, consultancies to sponsoring organizations, mutual fund ownership, and paid
expert testimonies.

Select one:
a. Indirect relationship
b. Direct relationship
c. Company incentives

d. Net worth
Answer: Indirect relationship

Which of the following statement would best define technology?

Select one:
a. It is the existing devices used by mankind to survive
b. Is a complex set of knowledge, ideas and methods and is likely to be the result of a
variety of different activities
c. It is the set of improvements that was seen throughout history

d. A group of knowledge used to improve something from the past including how it will be
processed
Answer: Is a complex set of knowledge, ideas and methods and is likely to be the result of a variety of
different activities

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that requires federal agencies participating
in National Nanotechnology Initiative to what?

Select one:
a. Develop a plan for environmental and safety research
b. Take part in knowing the opinions of people about nanotechnology
c. Use nanotechnology to improve space travel.

d. Take further action in the improvement of nanotechnology research

Answer: Develop a plan for environmental and safety research

It is a method of building nanomaterials by adding something to a material or taking

something away from it.

Select one:
a. Top-down approach
b. Top-bottom approach
c. Down-top approach

d. Bottom-up approach
Answer: Top-down approach

Which of the following would be an example of selection bias?

Select one:
a. Mistaken one thing from another
b. Sharing the data with other researcher even though it was not needed
c. Conducting a survey about quality of life where you were only to gather data from poor
communities
d. Not considering the possibility of limited people to participate
Answer: Conducting a survey about quality of life where you were only to gather data from poor
communities

It is part of the research data recording which takes up about 5 hours in a one hour
interview

Select one:
a. Publishing the paper
b. Transcribing
c. Referencing

d. Recording
Answer: Transcribing

It is a course being offered online by B.I.O. where it has a simplified text for non-experts
who wish to become acquainted with the EU's Common Agricultural Policy.

Select one:
a. Waste management
b. Food and Agriculture
c. Common Agricultural Policy

d. Bio-tourism
Answer: Common Agricultural Policy

The following is said to be required to any research organization except

Select one:
a. Openness to debate and criticism
b. Social space for personal initiative and creativity
c. Time for ideas to grow to maturity

d. Superiority over ordinary people

Answer: Superiority over ordinary people

Which of the following is one of the reasons why nanotechnology is faces challenges when
it comes to funding.

Select one:
a. The government lacks support to it because it's not part of their interests
b. It risk on health, safety, and environment
c. It is not supported by science itself for being too costly limiting its practicality.

d. Nanotechnology needs a lot of money to develop that's why it's hard to find investors
Answer: Nanotechnology needs a lot of money to develop that’s why it’s hard to find investors