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S.P.I.R.E. Level 5 Blackline Master, Third Edition
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S.P.I.R.E. is a research-proven reading intervention program for your lowest performing students. It is designed to build reading success through an intensive, structured, and spiraling curriculum that incorporates phonological awareness, phonics, spelling, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension in a systematic 10-Step lesson plan.
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- Variety of instructional activities, reading tests, and review assessments provide measurable literacy success and feedback through each lesson plan
- Comprehensive lesson plan and activities cover phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension of each literacy and phonics concept for S.P.I.R.E. Level 5
- A proven educational asset for ELL (English Language Learners), students with dyslexia, or other students with special needs
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- Designed to bring non-readers and struggling readers to full literacy upon completion of the program
- The Initial Placement Assessment (IPA) places students at the appropriate level of S.P.I.R.E.
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S.P.I.R.E. Reading Intervention Program
S.P.I.R.E. ® is a research-proven reading intervention program that can produce dramatic results for non-readers, struggling readers, and students with dyslexia. It is designed to build reading success through an intensive, structured, and spiraling curriculum that incorporates phonological awareness, phonics, spelling, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Each grade level uses systemic, sequentially structured lessons to ensure permanent mastery of concepts through auditory, visual, and kinesthetic activities.
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S.P.I.R.E. PrintTeachers and students work with print and manipulatives for a multisensory classroom experience.
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Why did Islam spread so quickly? Islam is the religion of Muslims which has spread very rapidly across the globe. The faith began in Mecca and then spread to Spain, East Africa, the Middle East, China. There are two significant themes in Islam: “Allah is the one” and “Hazrat Muhammad (S.A.W) is His messenger.”
There are many reasons why did Islam spread so quickly. The most important and main reasons are conquest, law, and trade. The people of the Arab made the trade with faraway regions of the world, which spread Islam faster than other religions.
Islam starts with a man named Muhammad (S.A.W). He spent most of his life working as a merchant, and then he retreated to the cave in a nearby mountain where Hazarat Muhammad (S.A.W) received his first revelation from God at the age of 40. After three years of this revelation, he publicly preached Islam.
Quran is the Holy book of Muslims, and it is revealed to Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W). Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) started sharing this message with his friends and family and later spread it to his tribe. He faced countless difficulties from his tribe. The life of Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) is the basic definition of the Quran and Islam.
What Is Islam?
Islam is the religion of Allah. God teaches us to Pray, and we bow before him five times a day. Islam has five fundamental pillars which Muslims were expected to follow. These pillars are faith, prayer, obligatory, charity, pilgrimage, and fasting. A Muslim can enjoy life by following the teachings of the Holy Quran.
These five pillars teach the world that Islam is the religion of peace. When it is revealed that there were chaos and wars everywhere, Islam teaches people how to stop violence against the innocent and bring peace. That is the main reason why did Islam spread so quickly.
In Holy Quran, Allah says:
“Whosoever killed a person – unless it is for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind” (5: 33).
Reasons Why Did Islam Spread So Quickly
Islam spread quickly across the globe due to multiple reasons. Islam continues to influence society with its unique elements and divine unity of humanity. Muslims believe that their purpose in life is to serve their creator and obey him, which can only be done through Prophet Muhammad’s teachings (S.A.W).
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The message of Islam is very loud and clear. Islam is a religion of peace and gives a clear message to help the poor and needy. Muslims pray five times a day to ask for help and forgiveness from Allah. Remembering Allah makes their connection with him stronger and follows his teachings to serve humanity.
One of the important messages given in Islam is that everything belongs to Allah to purify their possessions set aside a particular portion to give to those in need. Fasting is another message which Islam gives to every non-Muslims. It makes people realize the needs of hungry and poor people. In Quran, Allah says, “O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed to those before you that you may learn self-restraint” (2:183).
Islamic trade routes surrounding Mecca served as one of the effective ways to spread Islam in the world. During the trade, Muslims also preach where they go about Allah, and through their actions and way, they spread Islam. People also come for trade-in Arab and see how Muslims deal with other people through their honest trade methods.
The most famous trade route that helps Islam reach far away is China, Central Asia, Africa, and Europe. Many people from these lands traveled to Arab to witness Islam and its religious theories. Essential elements of Islam reach many foreign lands, making many non-Muslims into Muslims.
3. Military Conquest
Another way from Islam’s rapid spread is its vast land conquered. Muslims conquered many lands such as Europe, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. The main reason why Islam reaches any of the above lands is that the Islamic military conquers these lands and spreads the meaning of Islam.
Islam influences the major and most powerful countries of the world. Muslims enter foreign lands to do trade and spread Islam. One of the reasons why Islam spread so quickly is the military conquest of foreign lands and settling there.
4. Political Order
Islam has a unique political organization that provides equality, serves justice, and maintains order. The Muslim government retains the necessary privileges and rights of Muslims and non-Muslims, which impress people to join this faith and religion.
Muslims’ military wanted to protect people and protect their lives and rights. The political system of Islam includes rights for non-Muslims too. Non-Muslims are allowed to practice their religion in Muslim-dominated land, and they have to pay Jizyah in exchange for protection for Muslims.
5. Missionary Work
The missionary work started, and the Muslim scholars and preachers reached faraway lands to tell people the religion of Islam. From 700 to 1000 AD, there was a massive rise in Islamic missionary work, and many people converted to Muslims.
Muslims impress foreign people through their actions, trades, ways of politics, etc. The work of scholars and preachers has resulted in many communities embracing and adopting Islam.
Why did Islam spread so quickly? There are many reasons behind the spread of Islam. Muslims preach Islam and set examples by their characters and daily life dealings. They impress people across the globe through their unique and fair trade methods. Muslims conquered lands and served justice there to everyone. They protect Muslims and non-Muslims from injustice and give them the right to live and grow. One of the important reasons is missionary work. People from Islamic countries go toward faraway land and spread the religion of Allah and his Prophet (S.A.W).
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Hi, I'm Dr. Martin of the Martin Clinic.
Well, the Martin Clinic has been around a long time. My grandfather, David Martin, established the Martin Clinic in 1911, and I'm third generation, and my son, Dr. Martin Jr. is fourth generation. I am board-certified in natural medicine, and I have a PhD in Clinical Nutrition, and I see thousands of patients a year, and as you can imagine, 44 years of practice and I've seen hundreds of thousands of patients.
Let me give you a little bit of what a typical patient looks like at the Martin Clinic? People come in generally, and they're very frustrated. They're frustrated because no one is listening. No one seems to understand. You have no idea how many times a year that I hear, "Dr. Martin, somebody is finally listening and understands."
You see, every disease or every problem medically, there's a story to it and because people are not listening to that story, doctors traditionally are busy and they're focused in on disease. If they can't find that, I can tell you that routine blood work that is done on most patients, you know what? It's good, but the vast majority of people that I see have had that traditional testing done, and guess what?
They fell right through the cracks and they didn't find anything.
You know their thyroid is normal, and everything seems to be within normal limits. So you can imagine the frustration of people out there that are very unwell, and no one has listened and no one seems to have solved the problem. Now let me just give you a little bit of history here. You don't ... You're not healthy one day, and then diseased the next. It just doesn't happen like that.
I want to give you an example: I've got a ballpoint pen here, and for breast cancer, let's use that as an example. For breast cancer to grow to the size of a tip of a ballpoint pen would take at least five years. To this size. Now, you would never, ladies, if you're listening, palpate that and never feel that. That's too small! Even a mammogram would have trouble picking that up, and yet that process has been going on for five years.
So there's got to be a better way. Well, we at the Martin Clinic, that's what we do. We think outside the box, we look at a person holistically and listen to the story and then we have built a protocol of how we find out where exactly a patient is on their journey from health to disease, and then we reverse the pattern.
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How Can I Provide Access to Clean Water?
It’s a noble desire to provide access to clean water to people in need. Approximately 1.1 billion people worldwide, predominantly in developing regions such as Asia and Africa, lack access to safe drinking water.1 The contaminated water many of these individuals drink often leads to waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid, dysentery, polio and diarrhea. According to the World Water Council, such diseases “are the most common cause of illness and death among the poor of developing countries.”2 Many of these illnesses are preventable.
Access to clean water also eases the burden of collection. In places like South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, many people must walk at least 30 minutes to collect water for their daily needs.3 This chore typically falls to women and girls and drains their time and energy from more fruitful endeavors, such as generating income or gaining an education.
There are numerous non-profit organizations through which you can help these men, women and children gain much-needed access to clean water. GFA World, for example, has been serving people in need since 1979. One avenue of this aid has been through clean water projects, providing clean water in Jesus’ name through BioSand water filters and Jesus Wells.
BioSand water filters are beneficial in areas that have ample access to water but the water is unfit to drink. These simple structures effectively filter out 98 percent of biological impurities and help protect families from waterborne diseases, greatly impacting their lives.
Keeva, for example, suffered from severe stomachaches because of the unsafe drinking water she consumed.4 It was her only option. Then she received a BioSand water filter from GFA pastor Kunja. With her drinking water now purified, Keeva’s stomachaches disappeared, and her health significantly improved.
Jesus Wells impact entire communities, offering clean water to approximately 300 people for up to two decades. Dug up to 600 feet deep and locally maintained, these wells provide water year-round, even in times of drought.
Like many in his area, Ragnar’s family of six struggled to obtain clean water.5 They walked over a half a mile to collect water, but this water was contaminated. His children often fell sick due to the unclean water they drank and struggled in school because of the physical ailments they battled. After receiving a Jesus Well, however, Ragnar’s entire village gained free access to clean water. Their health, and their lives, has vastly improved as a result.
1 Water Supply & Sanitation.” World Water Council. https://www.worldwatercouncil.org/en/water-supply-sanitation. Accessed August 11, 2021.
2 Water Supply & Sanitation.” World Water Council. https://www.worldwatercouncil.org/en/water-supply-sanitation. Accessed August 11, 2021.
3 “Water Inequality.” National Geographic. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/water-inequality/. Accessed August 12, 2021.
4 “Filtering Out Sickness.” GFA World. https://gospelforasia-reports.org/2020/03/filtering-out-sickness/. March 9, 2020.
5 “A Family’s Fight Against Contaminated Water” GFA World. https://www.gfa.org/news/articles/a-familys-fight-against-contaminated-water-wfr21-03/. February 2021.
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WavePad Sound Editor 17.75 Crack + Registration Code Full Free Download 2023
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Quality Improvement Fundamentals for My Nursing Career
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A UPMC Wolff Learning Academy Quality Improvement Fundamentals Certificate of Completion is available for UPMC nurses who complete the following asynchronous coursework (4 hours) and live workshops (8 hours) (estimated total time to complete -12 hours).
- Principles of Quality and Safety
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- Assessing the Current State
- Building the Right Team
- Data for Quality Improvement
- Plan-Do-Study-Act Cycles
- Human Factors Design
- Sustaining Change
- Storytelling: Making Your QI Presentation Your QI Story
- Spreading Your Success: How to Effectively Present to Executive Leadership
- Assessing the Current State
- Connecting the Dots with Data: Introduction to Quality Data Analysis
- Legos: Lessons from Lean
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Steam Heating Installation & Repairs
Steam is one of the oldest known heating agents. Steam powered heating systems were originally used because of the lack of required pumps in a steam heating piping system. While steam heating systems are no longer regularly installed in new homes, older buildings are likely to be using steam heating. Additionally, due to the fact that steam heating is especially adept at heating multi-residence situations, steam heating systems are still regularly used in multi-family houses, apartment buildings and older office buildings.
When it comes to understanding steam heating, determining whether steam is the right heating agent for a home or office building and getting the space prepared for the system, it is well advised to speak with a HVAC professional. To assist in decision-making, this article provides a brief overview of steam heating, an explanation of how it works and what maintenance is required and a review of the advantages and disadvantages of using steam systems for your home or office heating system.
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Steam heating systems operate like a teakettle. Water is heated. Steam is created and released. The house is warmed. To expand upon that very basic overview, the full process is outlined below.
- A boiler uses a gas or oil fired burner to heat water (generally stored in a water tank or water tube boilers, depending on whether the home is using a gas steam boiler or an electric steam boiler).
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- One Pipe vs. Two Pipe Systems: Steam heating systems can operate by using a single or double piping system. In single pipe systems (which are most common), a single pipe is used to supply steam to radiators and then return the condensed water from that steam back to the water tank. Two pipe systems have separate pipes for each of these functions. One pipe sends the steam to the home’s radiators or convectors while a second, separate pipe returns the condensed water back to the system’s water tank. This two pipe system is more common in newer buildings.
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One of the disadvantages of using a steam heating system is the required regular maintenance. When it comes to maintaining a steam heating system, there are tasks that can be safely completed by a home or office owner and tasks which require an HVAC company to safely complete.
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- Professional Maintenance: Professional maintenance should be completed annually, at the very least. An HVAC professional should come and check all control and gauges, inspect and adjust the burners, check the chimneys and flues for blockages and any leakage and inspect and adjust all air valves in the system’s radiators.
Advantages of Steam Heating Systems
A steam heating system’s primary advantages lie in the limited number of moving parts required. Steam heating systems have significantly less moving parts than newer, more complicated systems. This provides increased durability and reliability if properly maintained. Steam heating allows for heat to be distributed in limited locations in a building. This means that owners are able to heat individual rooms and leave others unheated. Therefore, steam heating systems are preferred in multi-family homes and large apartment buildings. Lastly, steam heating systems provide clean, dust-free heat. Homeowners with allergies often find this heating option to be less aggravating to their health.
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The number of disadvantages associated with steam heating is one of the primary reasons why newer models have started becoming more common. The primary disadvantage of steam heating is the lack of efficiency and heat provided. Due to the required heating of a boiler, there is also an increased safety risk associated with steam heaters. Homeowners often complain of lag times between when the system is turned on and when heat is delivered through the radiators. Lastly, these radiators can warp a homeowner’s floors.
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If steam heating is the right option for the home or building in question, an HVAC professional from Argent Plumbing can assess heating needs, help homeowners choose the best heating system and install the steam heating system quickly and safely. Call 908-286-1920 or contact us online to speak with an HVAC technician today.
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Grass is a plant, and in that capacity, it has few methods for communicating how it is doing to the gardener in charge. That's why nature designed it to change the color of its blades as things go wrong. Then, it's up to the gardener to figure out the problem and to fix it. It helps to get an overview of common issues and practical solutions before you begin.
Typical reasons for a lawn turning yellow are too much or too little water or fertilizer.
Provide More Water
Healthy grass blades are a vibrant shade of green, the exact hue depending on the species of grass. If the blades start yellowing, the first thing to check is the amount of irrigation the grass is getting.
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Young grass requires consistently moist soil in order to establish. This is true from the moment the seeds are sowed to the time the grass is mature and strong. Don't create puddles with the hose but do water regularly, up to twice a day right after planting. Cut this back to twice a week or so when the grass is established.
Provide Less Water
This may seen counterintuitive, but too much water can stunt grass root development to the same extent as too little water. If puddles form on the lawn after watering, you have provided too much water.
Overwatering leads to waterlogged grass, which leads to a shallow root system. The grass will be unable to uptake sufficient nutrients, oxygen, and even the water itself. Too much water can also reduce the plant's resistance to fungal diseases and insect pests. Turning yellow is how the grass blades react to any and all of these things.
Provide More Fertilizer
Applying the proper amount of fertilizer provides the grass roots with the nutrients the plant needs to grow in green and dense. If your fertilizer application has been spotty, you may see grass in those areas turning yellow from nutrient deficiency. Look for yellow streaks or fluorescent discoloration on the blades of the grass in strips or spots.
The solution is obvious. You need to pay more attention when you apply lawn fertilizer.
Provide Less Fertilizer
Just like water, fertilizer is essential to lawn health, but too much can cause issues and yellowing grass leaf blades. That's because excess fertilizer can burn the lawn. Synthetic fertilizers are much more likely to do this than organic fertilizer since the excess nitrogen salts in these fertilizers can burn grass leaves, a condition known as leaf scorch.
There are other signs of too much fertilizer. Look for a crust that forms at the soil surface, grass blades that yellow at the base and brown on the top, and slow grass growth.
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Any and all harsh chemicals can damage grass in any of its stages, from seedlings to mature turf. Avoid using chemical insecticides or synthetic fertilizers and try hard to keep cats and dogs from urinating on the lawn.
Salt used in cold-winter climates on roadways can also yellow the grass. The only way to deal with this if it happens is to water down the area well several days in a row.
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Cardiomyopathy—a thickening, enlargement, or weakening of the heart muscle—sometimes runs in families, and may lead to dangerous arrhythmia or cardiac arrest. It is a leading cause of sudden cardiac death, especially among younger people, but many people who have it don’t show symptoms. Temple offers cutting-edge genetic testing and integrated care to identify, counsel, and treat people with inherited cardiomyopathies to reduce the chance of a life-threatening event.
Unmasking a Rare Condition
Family history alone is not enough to pinpoint an individual’s risk of developing cardiomyopathy. Because the disease can remain hidden, all close relatives of patients with certain types of cardiomyopathy, or who have a family history of sudden cardiac death, should receive genetic screening at a specialty center such as Temple’s Heart & Vascular Institute. Advanced genetic testing often lets us identify the genetic markers that predispose someone to the condition. Based on this screening, we can help patients decide on the next steps—including testing for preexisting cardiomyopathy. A compassionate team of genetic counselors helps people who think they may be at risk understand their options. Our researchers constantly discover more about the genetic causes of cardiomyopathy, so we can provide patients with the most up-to-date information.
Easing the Burden of Cardiomyopathy
Once cardiomyopathy is diagnosed, Temple has resources and a skilled staff on hand to manage and treat all types and degrees of the condition—including one of the region’s leading specialty programs in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Many people require only counseling, knowledgeable support, and occasional follow-up tests. If the condition is severe, our surgeons are experienced in procedures that can help reduce the dangers and alleviate symptoms—procedures such as pacemaker implantation, removal of obstructive tissue, or repair of heart valves. In those very rare cases when a heart transplant is needed, patients can rely on Temple’s experience.
Complete Care from an Experienced Team
Our skilled specialist team is here to help patients navigate the world of genetic testing and take the next steps needed to put minds, and hearts, at ease. Along the way, patients have the support of:
- Interventional cardiologists
- Cardiovascular surgeons
- Cardiovascular imaging specialists
- Genetic counselors
Learn More About Inherited Cardiomyopathy
Daniel Edmundowicz, MD, Chief of Temple Cardiology discusses inherited cardiomyopathy and the importance of seeking a specialized center for care.
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It’s that time of the year again—back to school season! For parents of children stepping into the world of kindergarten, this can be an emotional and transformative experience for both you and your little one. The transition from preschool to kindergarten marks a significant milestone in your child’s development, and as a parent, you play a crucial role in ensuring a smooth and successful journey. That’s why we created a guide for parents of children entering Kindergarten.
Preparing for the First Day of Kindergarten:
The first day of kindergarten can be both exciting and nerve-wracking for both parents and children. To make the experience more positive, start preparing your child in advance. Visit the school together, let them explore their new surroundings, and meet their teacher if possible. Talk about what to expect, from the classroom setup to daily routines.
Establishing a Routine:
Kindergarten introduces a structured routine that may differ from what your child is used to. Help them adjust by gradually transitioning into a consistent schedule a few weeks before school starts. This includes setting regular bedtime and wake-up times, as well as meal and playtime routines. A well-established routine can provide comfort and stability during this period of change.
Kindergarten is all about fostering independence. Encourage your child to complete tasks like putting on their shoes, using the restroom, and packing their backpack on their own. These skills not only boost their confidence but also prepare them for the responsibilities of school life.
Communication is Key:
Maintain open communication with your child’s teacher. Attend school orientations, parent-teacher conferences, and stay in touch throughout the school year. Regular updates on your child’s progress, challenges, and achievements will help you stay informed and actively involved in their education.
Encourage Social Skills in Kindergarten: a Guide for Parents
Kindergarten is a wonderful opportunity for children to develop social skills and make new friends. Arrange playdates with classmates before school starts to help your child become familiar with their peers. Teach them how to share, take turns, and communicate effectively to build strong social foundations.
Nurturing a Love for Learning:
Kindergarten is a time for curiosity and exploration. Encourage your child’s natural interests and curiosity by reading together, visiting museums, parks, and engaging in age-appropriate educational activities. A love for learning will set a positive tone for their educational journey.
Managing Separation Anxiety:
It’s natural for both parents and children to experience separation anxiety during this transition. Ease separation anxiety by reassuring your child that you’ll be back to pick them up and that school is a safe and fun place. Establish a goodbye routine that signals the end of your time together each morning.
Healthy Nutrition and Rest:
A balanced diet and sufficient sleep are essential for your child’s physical and mental well-being. Provide nutritious meals and snacks, and ensure they get the recommended amount of sleep each night. A well-rested and well-fed child is more likely to be attentive and engaged in their learning.
Celebrate Kindergarten Achievements, Big and Small:
Acknowledge and celebrate your child’s achievements, whether it’s learning a new skill, making a friend, or completing a project. Positive reinforcement boosts their self-esteem and motivation to continue learning and growing.
Stay Patient and Supportive:
Every child adapts to kindergarten at their own pace. Be patient and offer continuous support, encouragement, and understanding. Celebrate their successes and provide comfort during challenges. As your child embarks on this exciting journey of kindergarten, remember that you are an integral part of their growth and development. Cherish these precious moments and watch as they blossom into confident, curious, and capable individuals ready to take on the world. Your involvement and guidance will help lay the foundation for a successful academic career and a lifelong love of learning.
I hope you enjoyed reading about navigating kindergarten: a guide for parents. Check out this kindergarten reading list: Summer Reading list for Kindergarten
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Regardless of your organization’s size, there is more than likely a large amount of information technology to keep track of and maintain. As is usually the case when so many moving parts and variables are involved, the task of keeping them organized can quickly become difficult and stressful. This week, we’ll give you a few tips on how a proper inventory can help your business stay apprised of its IT resources.
What Can an Inventory Do?
At its core, an inventory serves the purpose of keeping track of the assets and resources a business has in its possession. This spans from how many cases of burger patties a fast food franchise has to how much water a hydroponic plant has in reserve. Not only does this assist the business with ensuring that it always has the resources necessary to operate, it also assists with insurance claims. By keeping you up-to-date on what you have, an inventory serves as a documented resource that can support your claims if the need arises – such as after a disaster event or theft.
Furthermore, a detailed and up-to-date inventory record can help you to identify how old your resources are, allowing you to prioritize when it needs to be refreshed and/or replaced.
As one would imagine, these are all important factors to consider when technology is involved. In light of this, it becomes especially important to develop and enforce a unified and direct system as a standard during the inventorying process.
What Your Inventory Needs to Account For
As you create this system, you need to make sure it addresses the five key details included in a comprehensive inventory record.
1. What is it that you have?
Of course, the whole point of an inventory is to identify the resources you have on hand. Given the long, detailed names that many technology components have (in addition to the many details a piece of hardware or software will have that need to be addressed), it may make the most sense to develop a shorthand that easily and efficiently communicates what exactly it is that your business has in its possession.
For example, if you utilize differently-sized hard drives for different tasks and purposes, you will likely have a stash of these hard drives squirrelled away for later use. Rather than writing out a comprehensive list, creating an internal shorthand will make the task of inventorying these components much easier.
So, if a company were to have 7 spare hard drives, 1 blue hard disk drive with a 5 terabyte capacity, 3 red solid state drives with 10 terabytes each, 2 black hard disk drives with 10 terabytes each, and one purple hard disk drive with a capacity of 5 terabytes, using shorthand might simplify that list into:
- 1 HDD – BLUE – 1TB
- 3 SSD – RED – 10TB
- 2 HDD – BLACK – 10TB
- 1 HDD – PURPLE – 10TB
2. Where is it stored?
This consideration is especially important if a company has more than one location or stores their supplies in more than one spot in the building. Your inventory record needs to keep track of where a given component is kept so it may be found quickly if need be. Make sure you mark the building it is in, as well as the room and where specifically in that room it is kept. This adds a little more information to your shorthand list:
- 1 HDD – BLUE – 1TB (MAIN LOCATION/BASEMENT/SHELF A)
- 3 SSD – RED – 10TB (MAIN LOCATION/BASEMENT/SHELF E)
- 2 HDD – BLACK – 10TB (SAT-OFFICE1/ROOM4/SHELF B)
- 1 HDD – PURPLE – 10TB (SAT-OFFICE2/ROOM2/SHELF D)
3. Additional Details to Include
Finally, there are other pieces of information you should use your inventory process to track. To assist with potential insurance needs and monitoring your solutions for a refresh, it helps to add the date that the technology was acquired, as well as how much it cost to acquire it. As a result, your list becomes:
- 1 HDD – BLUE – 1TB (MAIN LOCATION/BASEMENT/SHELF A) – $95 (May 9, 2017)
- 3 SSD – RED – 1TB (MAIN LOCATION/BASEMENT/SHELF E) – $250 (June 30, 2017)
- 2 HDD – BLACK – 1.5TB (SAT-OFFICE1/ROOM4/SHELF B) – $160 (August 18, 2017)
- 1 HDD – PURPLE – 10TB (SAT-OFFICE2/ROOM2/SHELF D) – $355 (February 2, 2018)
Other Considerations for Your Inventory
Maintaining an up-to-date set of totals for your inventory is an essential process. After all, what’s the point of keeping track of your inventory if it isn’t going to be accurate anyway? This means that, in addition to ensuring that you start off with the right numbers, you need some sort of system to help you keep a running total. Whether this system is manually keeping totals on a clipboard, updating a spreadsheet, or leveraging asset management, is up to you.
Reach out to us here at NuTech Services by calling 810.230.9455 to see how we can help. In the meantime, keep checking back for more helpful tips and tricks.
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What We Do
The National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) strives to advance the health and well-being of our nation’s most vulnerable populations. Although our efforts are broad and far-reaching, we have identified four critical Center-level thematic areas:
- Saving babies through surveillance, research, and prevention of birth defects and infant disorders
- Helping children live to the fullest by understanding developmental disabilities
- Protecting people by preventing the complications of blood disorders
- Improving the health of people living with disabilities
Saving Babies Through Surveillance, Research, and Prevention of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders
Birth defects are common, costly, and critical. Our unique state-based birth defects tracking and public health research provide a wealth of information that we use to identify causes of birth defects, find opportunities to prevent them, and improve the health of those living with birth defects. Together with states, academic centers, healthcare providers, and other partners, we are working towards a day when all babies are born with the best health possible and every child thrives.
Helping Children Live to the Fullest by Understanding Developmental Disabilities
Autism and other developmental disabilities are some of the most significant child health issues facing families and our nation today. We’ve accelerated our search for the causes of autism and ways to address the needs of families and communities. Our tracking system provides an accurate picture of autism across the United States, and we conduct the largest study of its kind to better identify risk factors and causes. Better tracking, research, and improved early identification are leading us to a better understanding of autism and better results for children. These data will drive national, state, and local policy and planning activities to help children and their families get the help and support they need.
Protecting People and Preventing Complications of Blood Disorders
Blood disorders affect millions of people each year in the United States, cutting across the boundaries of age, race, sex, and socioeconomic status. With proper preventive actions and early intervention, many of these disorders and their complications could be eliminated. We are dedicated to helping people with blood disorders by contributing to a better understanding of blood disorders and their complications; working to develop, implement and evaluate prevention programs; helping consumers and health care providers get the information that they need; and encouraging action to improve the quality of life for people living with or affected by these conditions.
Improving the Health of People with Disabilities
People with disabilities need health care and health programs for the same reasons anyone else does – to stay well, active, and a part of the community. We work to make sure that no one is left behind; that people of all different abilities are able to live their life to the fullest. When children and adults with disabilities receive needed programs, services, and health care they can have an improved quality of life and experience independence. We want to make every person count and are committed to equity in health of people with disabilities at every stage of life.
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Fear not if a great wave overtakes us. As a passionate surfer, Roxy Deva’s artwork couldn’t overlook the call of the power of the wave. And so, the imposing artwork “Wave – Radiography of Chaos” (3 x 7.5 m) is born, giving its title to the exhibition. While the force of nature may appear dangerous on one side, on the other, it fascinates precisely because of its power. The wave created by the artist not only represents water moved by the wind but also becomes a symbol of other waves—those hidden, intimate, and emotional waves that often, though visually formless, overwhelm us. Thus, the reference to the wave becomes a call to what lives within us and often shakes us with fear. Fear is not one triggered by external events but secretly resides within the human soul. By magnifying it, Roxy finds the courage to look at it, admire it, and appreciate it—there is no other way to ride it.
Contrasting the Wave is the “Inner Garden” developed on four aluminum sheets. The artwork belongs to the series of “Boxes of Emotions”: “suitcases” containing important emotional states not to be forgotten. The Inner Garden represents the depth of our being, the calm and tranquil place where we find ourselves and regain our strength.
In the exhibition, we encounter the pair “War – Radiography of a Samurai” and “Dare – Radiography of a Mystic with Lotus Flower,” two artworks in dialogue that represent the dichotomy and coexistence of Yin and Yang energies. The first delves into the bellicose impulses present in the human soul, connecting to a philosophical reflection of historical memory and complex relevance. The second links to the opposite impulses, playing on the double meaning of the word “dare” in Italian and English (in English, “dare” means challenge), emphasizing the strength present in empathetic and altruistic energies.
The theme of impermanence is found strong and poignant in the well-known winning artwork of the Audience Award of the Premio Comel 2013, “Sky and Earth – Human Thought.” Thirteen aluminum panels represent a forest shaken by the wind, where past, present, and future merge, creating the sensation of an eternal flow where each moment is inseparable from the previous and the following.
Lastly, the artwork “Hamlet – Radiography of a Skull” portrays an image of ourselves that, over time, questions us with Shakespeare’s immortal questions and the more recent doubts from Fromm on being and having.
“…capture a photo of the soul.
Represent the interiority with its dynamic potential…”
This is Roxy Deva’s mission: A pioneer of digital art,
profound in subjects,
and courageous in experiments.
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A Roundup Of The Best Beauty Appliances Of The Year
Beauty appliances offer a range of benefits that can enhance your beauty and skincare routines. They provide convenience, efficiency, and effectiveness in achieving desired results. These appliances, such as facial cleansing brushes, hair styling tools, and anti-aging devices, offer advanced technologies that help improve the appearance of your skin, hair, and overall beauty.
They can deep clean your skin, promote better product absorption, reduce the signs of aging, create professional-looking hairstyles, and provide targeted treatments for specific beauty concerns. With their user-friendly features and customizable settings, beauty appliances empower individuals to take control of their beauty regimen, saving time and money by offering salon-like treatments in the comfort of their own homes. Visit us now to get the best Gel Nail Products.
Certainly! Here’s a roundup of some of the best beauty appliances that have gained popularity in recent years:
- Dyson Airwrap Styler: This innovative styling tool uses air and heat to curl, wave, smooth, and add volume to your hair without extreme heat damage. It comes with various attachments for different styling options.
- Foreo Luna Facial Cleansing Brush: The Foreo Luna is a silicone facial cleansing brush that uses pulsations to remove dirt, oil, and makeup from your skin. It is gentle yet effective and helps improve the overall cleanliness and appearance of your skin.
- NuFace Trinity Facial Toning Device: This handheld device uses microcurrent technology to tone and lift facial muscles, reducing the appearance of wrinkles and improving skin elasticity. It’s a popular choice for those seeking a non-invasive facial toning solution.
- T3 Whirl Trio Interchangeable Curling Iron: This curling iron set comes with three interchangeable barrels of different sizes, allowing you to create various types of curls and waves. It features advanced heat technology for consistent and long-lasting results.
- Philips Sonicare DiamondClean Electric Toothbrush: This electric toothbrush uses sonic technology to provide a thorough and gentle cleaning experience. It removes plaque effectively, whitens teeth, and improves gum health.
- Clarisonic Mia Smart 3-in-1 Sonic Beauty Device: The Clarisonic Mia Smart is a versatile device that offers multiple beauty functions. It can be used as a facial cleanser, makeup applicator, and massager, providing a comprehensive skincare routine.
- ghd Platinum+ Styler: This flat iron is known for its intelligent heat control technology, which ensures even heat distribution and minimizes hair damage. It provides sleek, shiny, and frizz-free results while styling your hair.
- PMD Personal Microderm Pro: This at-home microdermabrasion device exfoliates the skin, removing dead cells and promoting cell turnover. It helps to reduce the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, and hyperpigmentation, leaving your skin smoother and more radiant.
- BeautyBio GloPRO Microneedling Regeneration Tool: This microneedling device creates tiny punctures in the skin, stimulating collagen production and enhancing product absorption. It improves the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, and uneven skin texture.
- Baby Quasar MD Blue Light Therapy Device: This handheld device uses blue light therapy to target acne-causing bacteria, reducing breakouts and improving the overall clarity of the skin. It is a popular choice for those struggling with acne or occasional blemishes.
Remember to always read and follow the instructions provided by the manufacturers for safe and effective use of these beauty appliances.
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Law is a system of rules made and enforced by social or governmental institutions to regulate conduct and protect individuals and groups. It serves many purposes, but four of the main ones are establishing standards, maintaining order, resolving disputes, and protecting liberties and rights. Because laws are created by and enforced by political authorities, they differ from nation to nation. There are also many differences in the ways that the law is interpreted and applied.
The legal world is vast and varied, encompassing everything from contracts to tax laws to international treaties. Some fields of law are new and highly technical, such as space law and pharmacology, while others have long been familiar to most people, like criminal or family law. Many of these laws are complex, requiring expert knowledge to understand and interpret them.
In some jurisdictions, the law is codified and consolidated by a central authority, while in others, it is based on accumulated case law and judicial precedent. The law shapes politics, economics and history in countless ways and is the subject of intense scholarly inquiry, including legal philosophy, sociology and economic analysis.
For example, the field of constitutional law deals with a country’s constitution, laws and other legal documents, while the law of contracts regulates agreements to exchange goods or services for money or something else of value. Property law governs a person’s rights and duties toward tangible objects such as land or buildings and intangible items such as bank accounts or shares of stock. Criminal law addresses conduct that is considered harmful to society, such as murder or robbery, and the penalties for these crimes, such as imprisonment or fines.
One of the most important functions of law is to protect people’s freedom and security from the abuse of power by governments or other powerful organizations. This is why it is necessary to have fixed principles to guide the administration of justice. For instance, judges should not be allowed to use their own discretion in deciding cases because this could lead to unfair or dishonest decisions.
Law also serves as the basis for regulating the activities of businesses, such as banking or financial regulation and environmental law, and of private companies providing public utilities, such as water or electricity, which are often regulated under public law. It is the source of many questions and issues concerning equality, fairness and justice, which are explored in diverse academic disciplines such as philosophy, religion, political science, economics and sociology. The concept of the rule of law, which was developed by Max Weber, outlines a set of criteria for determining the legitimacy of government and private actions. This includes adherence to the principles of supremacy of the law, accountability to the law, equality before the law and separation of powers. It also requires that the law be publicly promulgated, stable and applied evenly, and that it provide for human rights and other legal guarantees. This is a challenging ideal to achieve, but it is an important one to strive for.
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Search engine optimization (SEO) is an ever-evolving field that requires a strong understanding of numerous strategies and techniques. One of the most effective ways to improve your website’s SEO is through link building, which involves getting other websites to link back to your site. This article will guide you through five key stages of the link-building process, providing a step-by-step approach to enhancing your website’s SEO through strategic backlinking.
Table of Contents
1. Preparing a Link-Building Campaign
The first step in any successful link-building campaign is thorough preparation. Here’s what you need to do:
1.1. Set Clear Goals
Before you start, define what you want to achieve with your link-building campaign. Whether it’s to increase organic traffic, improve keyword rankings, or enhance your site’s domain authority, having clear goals will help you measure your success and keep your efforts focused.
1.2. Research Your Competitors
A crucial part of preparation is understanding your competitors’ backlink profiles. Tools like Ahrefs, SEMRush, or MOZ can provide insights into which sites are linking to your competitors, what kind of content they’re linking to, and how their link-building strategies are structured.
1.3. Identify Your Assets
Understand what your website has to offer in terms of content, products, services, or information that could be valuable to other sites. High-quality and unique content, industry expertise, and compelling products or services are all potential linkable assets.
2 – How to Find Backlink Opportunities
Finding backlink opportunities requires a combination of strategic thinking and creativity. Here are some methods:
2.1. Guest Posting
Guest posting involves writing content for other websites in your niche, typically with a link back to your site. This strategy not only provides a backlink but also allows you to reach a wider audience.
2.2. Broken Link Building
Use tools to find broken links on relevant websites, then suggest your content as a replacement for the dead content. It’s a win-win situation as you get a backlink, and the website owner fixes a broken link.
2.3. Unlinked Mentions
If your brand, products, or services are mentioned on another site without a link, reach out to the website owner and ask them to add a link to your site.
3 – How to Evaluate Websites
Before reaching out for a backlink opportunity, it’s important to evaluate the website. Here’s how:
3.1. Check Domain Authority
Domain Authority (DA) is a score developed by Moz that predicts how well a website will rank on search engine result pages (SERPs). The higher the DA, the more valuable the backlink.
3.2. Analyze Relevance
The website you’re considering should be relevant to your niche. Google values relevance, so the closer the content of the website is to your subject matter, the more valuable the backlink.
3.3. Review Site Traffic
Backlinks from high-traffic websites are more valuable because they’re more likely to bring referral traffic. Tools like SEMRush or SimilarWeb can provide these insights.
4 – How to Create Link Building Content
When creating content for link building, focusing on quality and relevance is key. Here’s how:
4.1. Create High-Quality Content
High-quality content is original, well-researched, and provides valuable information. This kind of content is more likely to attract backlinks naturally because it provides value to readers.
4.2. Use Infographics
Infographics are visually appealing, easy to share, and great for earning backlinks. If you have data or research results, consider presenting them in an infographic.
4.3. Conduct Original Research
Original research, like surveys or studies, is a great way to earn backlinks. If your research provides valuable insights, other websites will likely link to it as a source of information.
5 – How to Pass the Quality Control Process
Ensure that your backlinks are quality ones. Here are some tips:
5.1. Natural Link Profile
Your link profile should look natural, with a blend of follow and no-follow links, different anchor texts, and links from a variety of websites.
5.2. Avoid Link Schemes
Google penalizes websites involved in link schemes, such as buying and selling links, excessive link exchanges, or using automated programs to create links.
5.3. Monitor Your Backlinks
Regularly monitor your backlinks to ensure they’re still active, relevant, and beneficial. Use tools like Google Search Console or Ahrefs for this purpose.
In conclusion, a successful link-building campaign requires careful planning, strategic execution, and continuous monitoring. By following these steps, you can improve your website’s SEO, increase your visibility on search engines, and drive more organic traffic to your site.
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Please Note: This article is a starting point towards better understanding the field of software development. In no way do I believe that I can accurately portray the complete history of software development. I hope that, OVER TIME, I can add to this article in an iterative approach towards telling the story of software development. So please bear with me as I attempt at telling the story.
Sometimes as we are seeking to better understand a particular subject, it is helpful to explore the history of the subject at hand. When it comes to the topic of software development or development, there are a few clear distinctions which can be made. It is helpful to look at each of these movements in history which came about and the context of software for the particular time period.
Origins of Computer Science and Early Computer Software
There is software development whose origin predates the internet and the rise of modern personal computers. This includes the foundations of computer programming languages, the formalization of software development as it has come to be known. This includes algorithms, computer graphics, data structures, structure programming or object oriented programming to name just a few.
Important Events or Movements
The topics below are key events in history which deserve proper attention or study. I will attempt to provide support links to supplement this article.
The Apollo Mission, Bundled and Packaged Software, Unix, Personal Computers aka Microcomputers
A good strating point for researching these events would be the History of Software.
The Internet Revolution
This new group of developers would be responsible for learning a vast array of technologies, which would define modern publishing on the internet. Out of this field, new specialties would emerge which we now know as Web Design, Search Engine Optimization(SEO), Frontend Web Development, Backend Web Development, and Database Administration to name just a few.
This new group of web workers now make up a significant field, which stems from initially what was the role of a web developer. The explosion of the internet created several specialties which did not exist prior to the rise of the internet. Database Administrators are one exception which did exist before the internet’s rise to prominence.
While the majority of readers will focus on the technologies steming from web development, there are large topics which we have not covered such as the rise of mobile computing. In the second part of this article, I will discuss mobile computing and how this field is perhaps a second part to the rise of the internet.
If you have something to add which I have missed, please feel free to find me on social media.
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Symptoms of frozen pipes
One of the earliest signs of a frozen pipe is when no water comes out of your faucet when you turn it on. If you notice that, head first to the basement and check to see that the water is still turned on and that you don’t have a leak. Once you’ve confirmed these two things, continue your inspection to make sure one of your pipes has not burst. If your search reveals that your pipes are frozen but none have ruptured, you have two choices:
- Call a plumber to help thaw your frozen pipes. Most times, this is a better idea if you don’t think you can safely thaw the pipes yourself, you don’t know where the frozen pipes are or you can’t access the frozen area.
- Attempt to thaw the frozen pipes yourself. Be aware this option can be dangerous if not done correctly.
How to fix frozen pipes
If you’re not an experienced DIY-er, it’s safer to defer this one to a professional. However, there are fast fixes you can try if you’re experienced with home maintenance work. If you attempt to thaw the frozen pipes yourself, keep the following tips in mind:
- Keep your faucet open. Water and steam will be created during the thawing process, and your pipes need an opening to discharge this. Keeping the faucet open also allows for moving water to run through the pipe, which will expedite the thawing process.
- Apply heat to the section of the pipe that is frozen. This can be done by wrapping an electronic heating pad around the pipe, heating the area with a hair dryer or both. If you lack either of these items, using towels soaked in hot water will help as well. Remember, this is a temporary fix and the heating pad should not be left unattended to prevent a fire.
- Know what not to do. Never use a blowtorch, propane or kerosene heaters, a charcoal stove or any other open flame device to thaw your frozen pipes. That presents a severe fire hazard. You should also avoid using a space heater unless you are sure the area is clear of any flammable material. Again, never leave the space heater unattended.
- Continue applying heat until water flow returns to normal. Once you have successfully thawed the pipe, turn on other faucets in your home to check for any more frozen water pipes.
- Take swift action if the frozen pipes are located inside an exterior wall. This is a serious situation when you should call a professional contractor, as repairs may involve cutting a hole in the wall toward the inside of the house to expose those pipes to warmer air.
How to Prevent Frozen Pipes
While we can’t control the weather, there are things we can do to prevent pipes from freezing. To prevent pipes from freezing and causing major damage, follow these steps:
- Drain water from pipes that are likely to freeze. This includes your swimming pool and sprinkler water supply lines.
- Disconnect any hoses from the outside of your home, drain the hoses and store them in the garage. Make sure to close the indoor valves supplying these outdoor access points.
- Insulate the area around vents and light fixtures. This helps prevent heat from escaping into the attic.
- Seal any wall cracks. Be sure to pay careful attention to the areas around utility service lines.
- Open kitchen cabinets. This allows the warm air to circulate around the pipes.
- Keep the garage doors closed to protect water lines.
- Allow your faucets to drip cold water on the coldest days. The movement will make it harder for the water to freeze.
- Keep your thermostat at the same temperature day and night. Never let it fall below 55 degrees Fahrenheit when you leave your home.
- Ensure you have proper seals on all doors and windows.
- Place a 60-watt bulb in areas where you’re concerned about pipes freezing. Make sure there are no combustible materials near the bulb.
Protection from Frozen Water Pipes
Frozen water pipes and the damage they can cause are a reality for thousands of people each year. That’s especially the case when you are at below freezing temperatures for an extended period of time.
The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety says a burst pipe can cause more than $5,000 in water damage. That’s because the damage can be extensive.
“We see about 2,000 claims per day during an average January winter,” says Chris Zimmer, senior vice president of claims for Whitbeck Insurance. “A number of them are due to frozen water pipes.”
At ERIE, we’re on the Fortune 500 list, but we’ve never lost the human touch – that’s why we can deliver service that’s personal and immediate. When you need us, we’re there.
Learn more about homeowners insurance that protects you without surprises, or find a local agent to help you feel confident about your insurance protection.
This story was originally published in 2018. It was updated with new information on Feb. 6, 2020.
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DAILY BRUSHING AND flossing are essential to keep a growing child’s smile healthy, but we already know that. We hopefully also know how important it is to set regular dental appointments. Cutting back on sugar intake and limiting it to mealtimes instead of little snacks throughout the day is another important way to reduce the risk of tooth decay.
These aren’t the only things that go into a healthy smile, however. Certain vitamins and minerals help build and protect them.
Important Vitamins for Oral Health
Saliva is the first line of defense our teeth and gum have against tooth decay and gum disease, and vitamin A keeps the saliva flowing. We can get it from foods like melon, sweet potatoes, beef liver, and spinach.
One powerful antioxidant that helps our bodies fight inflammation and heal is vitamin C. Not getting enough can mean gums that are more prone to bleeding and looser teeth, including for kids. Citrus fruits are great sources of vitamin C, but they’re also acidic, so it’s a good idea to rinse with some water after eating an orange!
Vitamin D is what ensures that we can make good use of the other vitamins and minerals we consume. Vitamin D signals our intestines to absorb them into the bloodstream. Getting enough of it will lead to stronger, denser bones, and we can get it in our diet by eating fish, eggs, and dairy products.
Vitamins B2, B3, and B12 are important for oral health too. They all reduce the risk of oral canker sores, and B3 also helps us convert our food into energy. Good sources of B3 are fish and chicken, there’s plenty of B12 in pasta, bagels, almonds, and spinach, and B2 sources include red meat, chicken, fish, liver, and dairy products.
The Minerals Our Teeth Are Made Of
It’s common knowledge that calcium builds strong teeth and bones and that we can get plenty of calcium from dairy products, but magnesium, zinc, and iron are also important minerals for our oral health. Magnesium helps the body to absorb calcium, and we can get it from leafy greens, beans, nuts, seeds, and whole grains.
Iron helps to maintain the oxygen levels in our cells. Having an iron deficiency results in problems like increased risk of infections, mouth sores, inflammation of the tongue, and more buildup of oral bacteria. We can get iron from red meat and liver.
Finally, zinc makes it harder for plaque to build up along the gum line, making it easier to fight oral bacteria. Foods like wheat, cereal, cheese, wild rice, and beef contain zinc. Cheese is particularly good because it also contains casein, which helps keep our tooth enamel strong.
What about calcium sources for those who can’t eat dairy products?
Building and Keeping Lifelong Healthy Smiles
If your child hasn’t been getting each of these nutrients for building a strong, healthy smile, we recommend incorporating more of the foods we mentioned into their diets. Sometimes allergies or food intolerances can make this tricky, so the pediatrician may be able to recommend multivitamins and supplements. Whatever your situation, don’t forget the brushing and flossing!
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The solitaire diamond has a timeless allure. With its singular brilliance and simplicity, it’s no wonder that it continues to captivate us. But beyond their beauty, some diamonds have achieved worldwide fame due to their size, quality, and fascinating stories. This article will take you on a journey through the histories and mysteries of the top five most famous solitaire diamonds in the world.
1. The Hope Diamond: A Legend Shrouded in Blue
The Hope Diamond, a dazzling testament to nature’s wonder, is arguably the most famous diamond in the world. This 45.52-carat gem is distinctive for its rare blue colour, caused by trace amounts of boron atoms. The diamond’s history is steeped in legend, with tales of a curse that brings misfortune to its owners. This has only amplified its allure and intrigue. The Hope Diamond currently resides in the Smithsonian Institution, serving as a gleaming reminder of our enduring fascination with gemstones.
2. Kohmu-i-Noor: The Mountain of Light
The Koh-i-Noor, or “Mountain of Light” in Persian, has a history as rich and complex as its cut. Once considered the largest known diamond in the world, this 105.6-carat diamond has been passed among various Indian, Persian, and British rulers. Each fought fiercely to claim this gem, adding to its mystique. Today, it sits among the British Crown Jewels, set into Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother’s crown. This diamond’s historical journey only enhances its beauty, making it a true treasure.
3. The Cullinan Diamond: A Gem Among Gems
The discovery of the Cullinan Diamond in 1905 caused a sensation. This diamond, the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found, originally weighed a staggering 3,106.75 carats. The diamond was eventually divided into nine major stones and 96 smaller stones. The largest cut gem, known as Cullinan I or the “Great Star of Africa,” is the largest clear-cut diamond globally. This diamond, now part of the British Crown Jewels, continues to captivate us with its unmatched size and splendor.
4. The Centenary Diamond: A Paragon of Perfection
Unearthed in the Premier Mine in South Africa, the Centenary Diamond is one of the world’s largest and most flawless diamonds. This diamond, weighing 273.85 carats, is distinctive for its impeccable quality. The Centenary Diamond is a D-color diamond, the highest grade for colourless diamonds, and is both internally and externally flawless. This diamond has not been seen publicly since 1991, adding a layer of mystery to its story.
5. The Regent Diamond: The Pinnacle of Clarity
Discovered in India in 1698, the Regent Diamond is revered for its perfect cut and unparalleled clarity. This diamond, weighing 140.64 carats, has been owned by numerous historical figures, including Louis XIV, Napoleon Bonaparte, and King Louis XVIII. Today, it shines in the Louvre Museum, enhancing the splendour of Louis XV’s crown.
Understanding the Value of Solitaire Diamonds
Solitaire diamonds, by definition, feature a single diamond, and their appeal lies in this simplicity. This design choice places the focus squarely on the diamond, allowing its natural beauty to shine unimpeded. The quality of a solitaire diamond is of paramount importance, as there are no other stones in the setting to distract from any potential flaws.
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There are several factors to consider when assessing the quality of a solitaire diamond, known as the Four Cs: Carat, Cut, Color, and Clarity. The carat refers to the weight of the diamond, while the cut determines how well the diamond interacts with light, influencing its sparkle. The colour rating assesses how colourless a diamond is, with a D rating being the highest. Finally, the clarity grade evaluates the presence of internal or external flaws, known as inclusions and blemishes, respectively.
The Cultural Significance of Solitaire Diamonds
The enduring allure of solitaire diamonds extends beyond their physical attributes. Over centuries, diamonds have been imbued with deep cultural and symbolic significance. For many, they symbolize eternal love and commitment, making them the gemstone of choice for engagement rings and wedding jewellery.
Furthermore, the rarity and value of diamonds have led to their association with royalty and status, as evidenced by their prominence in the Crown Jewels of various nations. The stories of the Hope, Koh-i-Noor, Cullinan, Centenary, and Regent diamonds are a testament to this, each having been owned or worn by royalty and notable historical figures.
From the Hope Diamond’s captivating blue hue to the Regent Diamond’s exceptional clarity, these famous solitaire diamonds are a testament to the enduring allure of these precious gems. They encapsulate the mystery, romance, and sheer brilliance that diamonds have come to symbolize over centuries. As each solitaire diamond carries its unique tale, it’s essential to remember that when you choose a solitaire diamond, you are not just selecting a gemstone, but also becoming a part of its ongoing story.
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InSight/SEIS probes further into the heart of Mars
A look back at this scientific result, released one year after the landing of the InSight probe on Mars, and the start of recordings by SEIS, the French seismometer that measures the activity of the Martian soil.
In a series of 6 papers published on Monday 24 February 2020 in Nature Geoscience and Nature Communication, the science team of NASA’s InSight mission begins to unravel the mysteries of Mars. The extensive geophysical data collected during the first six months of the mission shed light on the structure of the first few kilometres of the Martian subsurface and provide a new understanding of atmospheric phenomena on the planet’s surface.
Researchers at the Paris Institute of Earth Physics are particularly interested in the seismicity of Mars and the first Martian seismo-tectonic analyses, the internal crustal structures imaged by these first data, and the interaction of the Martian atmosphere with the subsurface of Mars.
By scrutinizing the records of the SEIS seismometer, deployed on the Martian surface since December 2018, seismologists, including IPGP researchers, have indeed identified nearly 460 seismic events in mid-February. 40 of these are low-frequency signals, corresponding to relatively deep earthquakes, while the vast majority are high-frequency events, much more superficial and nearby, the origin of which is still unclear: small surface earthquakes, landslides and cliff microbursts are candidate sources.
Seismic waves from earthquakes, sensitive to the materials they pass through, offer planetary scientists a means of studying the composition of the planet’s internal structure. By combining them with other sources of vibrations (from the lander and its instruments or from the dust devils that criss-cross the Elysium plain), researchers from the Mars Structure Service, coordinated by the IPGP and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, have been able to differentiate 3 distinct layers in the subsurface: the duricrust, an indurated layer of a few centimetres; the regolith, a superficial stratum formed of materials crushed by countless impacts over billions of years, and finally a layer of about ten kilometres altered by several billion years. Underneath these ten kilometres is a consolidated deep crust, where the observed scattering and attenuation of seismic waves resembles that observed in Earth’s crystalline massifs.
While the Martian crust is beginning to reveal its secrets, the seismic events detected so far do not yet allow us to illuminate the interior of Mars, and to ‘illuminate’ the mantle and core. However, the first results provided by the SEIS seismometer during its first year of operations on Mars are very encouraging, and Martian seismology is already stimulating new lines of research, ultimately leading to a better understanding of the formation of all rocky planets, including the Earth and its Moon.
Lognonné, P., W. B. Banerdt, W. T. Pike, D. Giardini, U. Christensen, R. F. Garcia, T. Kawamura, et al. « Constraints on the Shallow Elastic and Anelastic Structure of Mars from InSight Seismic Data ». Nature Geoscience 13, no 3 (mars 2020): 213‑20. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0536-y
The LabEx UnivEarthS contributed to this research by funding the ex-Interface project “Fundamental physics and Geophysics in space” (I3)
This text is partly taken and translated from the press release published by IPGP when the articles were published. For the full press release, go here.
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- Kinetic Inductance Detectors, a promising technology for precision astronomy [4/10]
- Light-speed seismology to prevent earthquakes [5/10]
- ATHENA, a technical challenge for the new generation of X-ray telescope [6/10]
- Dune fields, a key to understanding the climate of other “Earths” in the Solar System [7/10]
- SVOM/ECLAIRs space instrument will pave the way to a deeper understanding of ultra-long gamma-ray bursts [8/10]
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Colorectal Cancer: Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis & Treatments
Colorectal cancer starts in the colon or rectum in one's digestive system. Depending on the start location, it can be called colon or rectal cancer. Since both types share common features, these two types are often grouped.
The colon and rectum make up parts of the large intestine, constituting the digestive system, also known as the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Most of the large intestine comprises the colon. Depending on the direction of food travel, it is named an ascending, transverse, descending, or sigmoid colon.
After absorption of the essential nutrients, the waste material goes into a structure known as the rectum. It is a muscular organ that stores the waste until it is passed through the anus.
Categories of Colorectal Cancer
Most colorectal cancers start as a growth in the inner lining of either the colon or rectum, known as polyps. The different kinds of polyps are as follows.
- Adenomatous polyps (adenomas).
- Hyperplastic polyps and inflammatory polyps.
- Sessile serrated polyps (SSP) and traditional serrated adenomas (TSA).
Colorectal cancers that are most common are Adenocarcinomas. This cancer starts in the cells that make the mucus in the colon and rectum. When the doctor talks of colorectal cancer, it is almost always an adenocarcinoma. Adenocarcinoma-specific subtypes, such as signet ring and mucinous, have a more serious prognosis than the other subtypes.
Some of the other tumors that may also occur in the colon and rectum are as follows.
- Carcinoid tumors.
- Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs).
Colorectal cancer risk factors
Cancer is due to specific mutations in one's gene, inherited in the case of colorectal polyps. These are known as inherited mutations. Some of the more general causes of colorectal cancer are as follows.
- Having a sedentary lifestyle.
- BMI more than 25.
- Being male is associated with an increased risk.
- Older than 60 years.
- If one had breast cancer before.
- Consuming fatty food with significantly less fiber content.
- Having inflammatory bowel disease or Crohn's disease.
- Familial adenomatous polyposis is an inherited condition.
Symptoms of Colorectal Cancer
The most prominent symptoms are as follows:
- A change in how one passes stool, such as constipation or diarrhea, lasting more than a few days.
- Bright red blood passed through the rectum.
- Stool with blood making it dark brown or black.
- Abdominal pain.
- Fatigue and feeling tired.
- Sudden weight loss.
How is colorectal cancer diagnosed?
Some of the prevalent diagnostic tools used to detect colorectal cancer are as follows.
- Blood in stool test: fecal occult blood test (FOBT) or fecal immunochemical test (FIT).
- CBC (Complete Blood Count).
- Liver Enzymes.
- Tumor markers.
- Diagnostic colonoscopy.
- CT scan.
- PET scan.
- Endorectal MRI.
- Chest X-Ray (to know if the tumor has spread to the lungs).
What are the complications associated with Colorectal Cancer?
Some of the complications of the colon that can be associated with colon cancer include the following.
- Abscess formation.
- Acute appendicitis.
- Ischemic colitis.
- Colorectal cancer can spread to distant organs in the body, which makes it highly life-threatening.
- This cancer causes specific lesions in the defecation organs, which can block stool removal.
- There is a high chance that the tumors may return even after treatment.
- It is highly fatal if left untreated at the right time.
How to treat Colorectal Cancer?
The different treatment methods used to cure colorectal cancer are as follows.
- Colorectal Cancer Surgery.
- Targeted therapy.
These techniques are used according to the current stage at which the patient is.
Stage 0 colon/rectal cancer:
Stage I colon/rectal cancer:
tage II colon/rectal cancer:
Stage III colon/rectal cancer:
Stage IV colon cancer:
Polyp removal (polypectomy) cuts out the growth of polyps in the colon and rectum.
Surgery to remove the tumorous parts in the colon.
Colorectal cancer surgery is to remove the tumors. In some instances, doctors may recommend chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Treatment includes colorectal cancer surgery to remove the tumor and chemotherapy to prevent additional tumor formation. In the case of rectal cancer, radiation therapy is used along with chemotherapy either before or after the surgery.
Surgery is generally not possible at this stage. But, if the extent of the tumor's metastasis is not vast, surgery can be recommended with the doctor's decision.
What can be done to prevent Colorectal Cancer?
There is no particular way to prevent the occurrence of colorectal cancer. But, one can make certain lifestyle changes to reduce the risk.
- Avoid gaining weight and maintain a healthy weight.
- Increase daily, regular exercise levels.
- Eat more fresh foods and reduce the intake of red meat and processed foods.
- Consume less alcohol.
- Quit smoking.
- Screen for polyps regularly, especially if there is a family history.
How do people live with Colorectal Cancer?
India has a lower occurrence of colorectal cancer compared to western countries. It appears to be the 7th leading type of cancer in India. According to Globocon, 2018, the number of new cases is 277,605, among which deaths are 19,548. The total number of patients living with this disease is 53,700.
The mean age at which one may be diagnosed with this cancer is 40 to 45 years. If there is a family history of polyps in the colon or rectum, one may need to monitor their health regularly through periodic colorectal cancer screening. If one plans a pregnancy, there is genetic screening to determine if one may pass the genes to their baby.
Colorectal cancer will not severely threaten a person's health if treated at the right stage. A group of specialists, such as gastroenterologists, surgical oncologists, colorectal surgeons, radiation oncologists, and medical oncologists, diagnose and treat cases of colorectal cancer.
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From Couch to Finish Line: A Marathon Training Guide
Running a marathon is a major accomplishment that requires a lot of preparation, training, and dedication. The marathon distance is 26.2 miles or 42.195 kilometers, and it is a long-distance race that challenges your physical and mental endurance. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to run a marathon:
1. Consult a doctor: Before you begin any training program, it’s important to consult your doctor to ensure that you are physically fit to run a marathon.
2. Get proper running shoes: Investing in a good pair of running shoes is essential. The right shoes can help prevent injuries and provide the necessary support for your feet and legs.
3. Start training: Training for a marathon takes several months, so it’s important to start early. You should gradually increase your mileage each week and incorporate cross-training and rest days into your schedule.
4. Follow a training plan: There are many different training plans available online, in books, or through a running coach. Choose one that fits your schedule and fitness level.
5. Fuel your body: Eating a balanced diet and staying hydrated is crucial for marathon training. Make sure to eat plenty of carbohydrates, protein, and healthy fats, and drink plenty of water.
6. Practice good form: Proper running form can help prevent injuries and improve your efficiency. Keep your shoulders relaxed, your arms at a 90-degree angle, and your feet landing under your hips.
7. Learn about pacing: Pacing yourself is important during a marathon. Start off slower than your goal pace to conserve energy and avoid hitting the wall later in the race.
8. Mental preparation: Running a marathon is as much a mental challenge as it is a physical one. Visualize yourself crossing the finish line and use positive self-talk to stay motivated during the race.
9. Race day: On the day of the marathon, make sure to arrive early, warm-up properly, and start the race at your goal pace. Fuel your body with energy gels or other snacks during the race and stay hydrated.
10. Post-race recovery: After the marathon, take time to recover properly. Stretch, hydrate, and rest for a few days before returning to running.
In conclusion, running a marathon is an incredible achievement that requires preparation, training, and dedication. With the right mindset and a solid training plan, anyone can successfully complete a marathon.
From blisters to bonking: Running a marathon ain’t easy
Running a marathon is a significant physical and mental challenge. Here are some common and uncommon issues that runners may face during a marathon and solutions, tips, and advice to overcome them:
1. Blisters: Blisters can be caused by ill-fitting shoes or socks. To prevent blisters, make sure you have properly fitted shoes and moisture-wicking socks. If you develop a blister during the race, try to keep it clean and dry. Cover it with a blister bandage to reduce friction and prevent further damage.
2. Cramps: Cramps can occur due to dehydration, lack of electrolytes, or overexertion. To prevent cramps, make sure you are properly hydrated and replenish electrolytes during the race. Stretching and massaging the affected muscle can also help.
3. Chafing: Chafing can be caused by friction from clothing or skin rubbing against other skin. To prevent chafing, wear moisture-wicking clothing and use anti-chafing products. If you develop chafing during the race, try to keep the area clean and dry. Apply petroleum jelly or anti-chafing cream to the affected area.
4. Injury: Running long distances can put a lot of stress on your body, increasing the risk of injury. To prevent injury, make sure you have a proper training regimen and listen to your body. If you feel pain or discomfort during the race, slow down or stop to prevent further injury.
5. Bonking: Bonking is a term used to describe a sudden loss of energy during a race. To prevent bonking, make sure you are properly fuelled before and during the race. Eat a balanced diet and consume carbohydrates during the race to maintain your energy levels.
6. Mental fatigue: Running a marathon can be mentally exhausting. To overcome mental fatigue, break the race into smaller segments and focus on one segment at a time. Visualize yourself crossing the finish line and use positive self-talk to keep yourself motivated.
7. weather conditions: weather conditions can affect your performance during a race. To prepare for different weather conditions, dress in layers and stay hydrated. If it is hot, slow down your pace and take frequent breaks. If it is cold, wear warm clothing and cover your extremities.
Overall, running a marathon requires proper preparation and training. Listen to your body and take care of yourself before, during, and after the race. With the right mindset and preparation, you can overcome any challenges that come your way during the race.
Conquer the Ultimate Challenge: Mastering the Marathon
For advanced runners who have already mastered the marathon distance, there are several other challenging projects that they can take on. Here are some ideas and advice on how to approach them:
1. Ultramarathons: These are races that are longer than the traditional marathon distance of 26.2 miles. Ultramarathons come in many different distances, ranging from 50K to 100 miles or more. To prepare for an ultramarathon, it is important to gradually increase your mileage and practice running on different types of terrain, such as trails or mountains. You may also want to experiment with different fueling strategies, as ultramarathons can take many hours to complete.
2. Triathlons: Triathlons involve swimming, biking, and running, and come in different distances, from sprint to Ironman. To train for a triathlon, you will need to incorporate swimming and biking into your routine, in addition to running. It is also important to practice transitions between the different disciplines, as this can save valuable time during the race.
3. Trail running: Trail running involves running on unpaved paths, often in mountainous or wilderness areas. Trail running requires different skills than road running, such as navigating uneven terrain and dealing with elevation changes. To prepare for trail running, it is important to practice on different types of trails and to invest in trail running shoes with good grip.
4. Speed work: If you are looking to improve your marathon time, incorporating speed work into your training can be a great way to do so. Speed work involves running shorter distances at a faster pace, which can help you build endurance and increase your overall speed. To incorporate speed work into your training, you can try doing intervals or tempo runs.
No matter which project you decide to take on, it is important to approach it with a gradual and consistent training plan. Pushing yourself too hard or too fast can lead to injury or burnout. Listen to your body, and give yourself time to rest and recover between workouts. And above all, have fun and enjoy the journey!
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What would be the most likely reason for a post-scarcity civilization to preserve humanity from extinction and move it to different planet, along with terrestrial life that has been repopulated on the said planet?
Suppose a post-scarcity interstellar civilization controls a few hundred star systems. Because they are post-scarcity, they can easily supply their bodily needs.
Because lower tiers of their needs had been fulfilled, their society changes their priority to pursue knowledge, to learn more of the universe they lived in.
Then they settle on many lesser civilizations' planets, secretly. One of them is Earth. Their motivation is not to invade, but to study those civilizations and watch them grow.
Their external morphology is quite indistinguishable from humans' external morphology, but their anatomy and physiology is not entirely human-like (I know it's unlikely for this to happen in a species that evolved on a completely different planet, but there is an explanation for this matter in-universe, in which uncovering it on this question would be off-topic), except for skin tones, hair pigments, and ears slightly (not too pronounced like Spock's ears) pointed at their tips. This aids them to blend in human society (just put some cosmetics and they're ready to blend in) to study humans closely.
One member of their second generation on Earth rebels and reproduces with a human woman in its disguise on a human city. The woman gets pregnant and gives birth to the first alien-human hybrids (with more human-like appearances, less pointy ears, and more human-like anatomy up to some degree).
It turns out that the human's genome differs from theirs by less than 1% (really, they were surprised, because in-universe, their understanding of exobiology dictates that it is very unlikely for species that evolved on different planets to have a completely similar genetic make-ups, just like what we understand).
This sparks a wave of curiosity about humanity, and an interest to study humans more. Their public even assigns humanity with informal tag, as their sister race.
Then good things have to end eventually. As described in this question's background, another species, unaware of their existence on Earth, wages a war to take over humanity.
The aliens decide to stay neutral, and let humanity fight for itself, because they believe that even if they had the will and might to overwhelm the invading aliens, the events of humans are not theirs to intervene.
That human-alien hybrid stands for humanity in a trial to preserve humanity, held on the alien's home-world. As humanity is on the brink of extinction, his heart fonds on humanity as much as his fondness to the aliens.
Then, (move to the question above).
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The central mystery of human life is consciousness: the relationship between mind and body, the origin and process of subjective experience. These questions remain confounding, but this is not to say we have not come a long way. While we are by all accounts humbled in the face of both the brain’s extraordinary complexity and the completely unique nature of consciousness, the last 25 years have been a period of exponential growth in our ability to look at these questions scientifically.
Of course, yogis have been inquiring into consciousness for a very long time, but this is purely from the other side of the conversation. Spiritual practice is an entirely subjective affair, whilst science seeks objective evidence.
In a way, consciousness is at the junction of subjectivity and objectivity. It has simultaneously a neurobiological substrate with neuronal and biochemical correlates we are slowly but steadily identifying and brain regions that are being mapped, and a mysteriously private 1st person expression. How exactly the two relate remains inscrutable, but the fact that they are inextricably related is undeniable. With lots of research being done on how practices that train us in mindfulness affect the brain, this dance between subjectivity and objectivity, spirituality and science is more fascinating and exciting than ever before. Far from negating the mysteries of consciousness, this feels like a celebratory exploration.
Up until about 20 years ago it was thought that the brain was “hard-wired” by the age of five or six. But there has been a revolution in neuroscience, based in the discovery of how experience changes the brain’s function and even structure over time. This is called neuroplasticity. Any meaningful conversation about how yoga practice can effect transformation now has a reference point in brain research.
I offer you my Three Principles of Transformational Neuroplasticity, as gleaned from the current neuroscience literature.
It is the repeated, consistent patterns created by new experience that change the brain, and therefore who we are, how we feel, how we deal with our emotions, how aware we are of our bodies and how integrated we are on all levels. The emphasis on consistency in all practice-based traditions is connected to the observation that staying on the path produces results over time. Proponents of spirituality have always understood this intuitively, but now we are closer to understanding why it works! Consistent practice is essential—it is where the rubber meets the road.
Commit yourself to a daily practice,
Your loyalty to that is like a ring on the door.
Keep knocking and eventually the joy that lives inside
Will look out to see who’s there…
Linkage: “What Fires Together, Wires Together”
This is a catchphrase from the research referring to the phenomenon of linkage between neural pathways. We can create powerful chains of association that form strong and complex neural networks with multiple links when we practice. Linking the experience of removing shoes, rolling out and sitting down on our mats with activating breath awareness, becoming oriented to the shared sacred space, and starting to pay closer attention to our bodies constructs a set of positive, safe, disciplined and communcal associuations. Each time we begin our yoga practice we are stimulating this neural network until it is second nature.
Linking the experience of being “resourced” (in touch with resilience, compassion, mindful relationship to our stream of inner excperience) to the experience of consciously and compassionately staying present with what scares us starts to change how we deal with stress and trauma in ourselves and in others.
Linking what I think of as the “practice trinity” of breath, presence and compassion to one another similarly develops a new, interwoven brain skill. In the way I teach, adding the evocative elements like music or poetic images can enrich this still further.
Your Just Desserts: Utilizing the Reward System
Mindfulness activates neuroplasticity, but when the reward system is firing, those new pathways grow even stronger. The reward system releases feel good chemicals like dopamine and endorphins. In the biochemical matrix created by the reward system, the possibilities of neuroplastic transformation are amplified.
Deep breathing, music, poetry, communal experience and physical activity all stimulate the reward system —that’s why they make us feel good.
So experiencing the process of inner work, resourcing, healing and even the discharge of emotional energy in contexts that also make us feel good, means that the transformational pathways will be formed that much more strongly.
Enjoy being in your body when you are practicing, let the good feelings in, maintain a sense of connection to the community around you, radiate and receive compassion, permission, and gratitude and use all of this as fuel for the journey of shifting old patterns, healing wounds and learning new habits.
From The Radiance Sutras:
Rocking, swaying, undulating
Carried by the rhythm,
Ride the waves of ecstatic motion
Into a sublime fusion of passion and peace.
Think of the above three principles of transformational neuroplasticity as a doorway into the “sacred biochemistry” of yoga practice. They represent both a poetic and science-informed way of seeking to frame the experiential processes of self-transformation through yoga practice.
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Printable alphabet letters to cut out are a valuable resource for preschool teachers. These letters can be used for various educational activities such as letter recognition, spelling, and creating vocabulary cards.
Printable alphabet letters to cut out are a valuable resource for preschool teachers. These letters can be used for various educational activities such as letter recognition, spelling, and creating vocabulary cards. They provide a hands-on and interactive way for young learners to explore and practice the alphabet.
For homeschooling parents in need of printable alphabet letters to cut, there are several websites that provide free resources. These printable letters can be easily downloaded and printed at home, making them convenient for teaching letter recognition, spelling, and other language skills. Whether you prefer colorful and decorative letters or simple and straightforward ones, there are plenty of options available online to suit your homeschooling needs.
Printable alphabet letters to cut are a valuable resource for elementary school teachers. These letters can be printed and cut out to create visually appealing displays and learning materials for their classrooms. Teachers can use these letters to create bulletin board headings, word walls, and other interactive activities to help their students learn and practice phonics and letter recognition.
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The alphabet is a Latin letter that consists of 26 letters and each of them has upper and lower cases. There is also a group called consonant which consists of 21 letters and vowels which consists of 5 letters. The origin of the alphabet came from the 7th century in a Latin script. Since then the alphabet is used by almost all people in the world. Meanwhile, the old English alphabet that is recorded the first time by Byrhtferð has 29 letters.
Using printable alphabet letters to cut allows for easy and convenient access to a variety of letter templates. It eliminates the need for manual drawing or tracing, saving time and effort. Printable letters ensure consistency in size and shape, making them useful for a range of crafts and educational activities.
Printable alphabet letters to cut can be helpful in teaching young children because they provide a hands-on and interactive learning experience. By physically cutting out and manipulating the letters, children are able to engage in a tactile activity that helps reinforce their understanding and recognition of the alphabet. Cutting out letters can also improve fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination in young learners.
Yes, there are advantages to using printable alphabet letters to cut. First, printable letters allow for customization, as you can choose the size, font, and color that best suits your needs. Second, it can be more cost-effective, as you can print as many letters as you need, rather than buying pre-made sets. Printable letters offer convenience, as you can easily print them at any time, without having to visit a store or wait for delivery.
Yes, printable alphabet letters to cut can be used for other purposes besides education. They can be used for crafts, decorations, and as templates for other projects. The letters can be cut out and used in various creative ways, allowing for endless possibilities beyond just educational applications.
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Ritter Endodontics is proud to offer the latest in endodontics technology and techniques to provide more effective and more comfortable treatments for our valued clients. Below are some of the cutting-edge tools and methods employed by endodontists at our practice, including surgical microscopes, digital radiographs, 3D imaging, GentleWave® procedures, and endodontic laser treatment.
Modern endodontists often utilize surgical microscopes to improve the precision and success of their treatments. At Ritter Endodontics, we’ve been using surgical microscopes for decades. Here’s why they’re beneficial:
- Magnification: Surgical microscopes can magnify the treatment area, allowing Drs. Ritter and Susin to see intricate details of the tooth.
- Better Lighting: Bright, directed light provides a clearer view, especially in the inner portions of the tooth.
- Accuracy: Enhanced visibility allows for more accurate treatment, reducing the risk of complications.
- Shorter Treatment Time: Better visibility can mean quicker identification and resolution of problems.
Gone are the days of waiting for X-ray films to develop in a darkroom. The digital radiographs (X-rays) offered at Ritter Endodontics provide several advantages in endodontic practice.
- Speed: Images appear on a computer screen almost instantly.
- Re-takes: If needed, another image can be captured right away.
- No Chemicals: Digital X-rays don’t require chemicals for developing, which is better for the environment.
Increased Patient Safety
- Reduced Radiation: Digital radiographs emit up to 90% less radiation compared to traditional X-rays, which reduces the risk of exposure for patients.
3D Imaging (Cone Beam Technology)
For a comprehensive view of the tooth and surrounding structures, we use 3D imaging, also known as Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT).
At Ritter Endodontics, our CBCT imaging offers many advantages to our team and our patients, including:
- Three-Dimensional: Offers a complete 3D image of the tooth, bone, and surrounding structures.
- Precise Treatment Planning: Helps in assessing the shape and number of canals the tooth has, and aids in detecting any anomalies.
Safe and Quick
- Reduced Radiation: Compared to regular medical CT scanners, CBCT emits much less radiation.
- Fast Scan Time: Most scans are completed in less than a minute.
GentleWave® is a groundbreaking procedure that offers a minimally invasive approach to root canal therapy. At Ritter Endodontics, we’re proud to offer this cutting-edge treatment method to help ensure success and patient comfort.
The GentleWave® procedure offers many advantages to traditional root canal therapy, including:
- Advanced Cleaning: Uses fluid dynamics and broad spectrum acoustic energy to clean and disinfect the root canal system.
- Preservation: Requires minimal instrumentation, and preserves more of the tooth’s natural structure.
- Less Discomfort: Many patients report less pain and discomfort compared to traditional methods.
Endodontic Laser Treatment
Laser technology has made its way into endodontics, which offers another avenue for effective treatment. At Ritter Endodontics, Dr. Ritter and Dr. Susin are both skilled in endodontic laser treatment.
The advantages of endodontic laser treatment include:
- Precision: It targets diseased or damaged tissue with accuracy, minimizing damage to healthy tissue.
- Reduced Discomfort: Some patients find laser treatment to be more comfortable than traditional methods.
- Quicker Healing: Laser treatments can promote faster tissue regeneration and reduced inflammation.
Experience the Latest in Technology and Treatments at Ritter Endodontics
Technological advances in endodontics provide patients with more options, reduced pain, and quicker recovery times. If you’re in need of root canal treatment or other endodontic procedures, know that the tools and techniques available at Ritter Endodontics make for a more comfortable and efficient experience.
Talk with your general dentist about a potential referral, or call the experienced team at Ritter Endodontics at (919) 403-5000 for a consultation today.
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Farinaz Koushanfar is a professor and Henry Booker Faculty Scholar in the University of California, San Diego’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, where she directs the Adaptive Computing and Embedded Systems Lab. Her research addresses several aspects of efficient computing and embedded systems, with a focus on hardware and system security, real-time/energy-efficient big data analytics on small devices, design automation, and privacy-preserving computing. Koushanfar serves as an associate partner of the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Secure Computing to aid developing solutions for the next generation of embedded secure devices. Here she talks to us about security issues and solutions at the intersection of the physical and logical worlds.
Question: What role does piracy play in increasing the vulnerability of hardware systems?
Koushanfar: Piracy is a big problem, and a hard problem to address. Every year, more transistors are fabricated than all previous years combined. Just as a comparison point, the number of transistors fabricated in 2017 is estimated to be about two orders of magnitude greater than the total number of ants on Earth. These transistors are rarely precoded with protection. Current methods for detecting piracy are costly and don’t make sense for cheaper legacy devices. For example, say a pirate repackages/recycles some old chips that were trashed and sells them for $50. Does it make sense financially to try to detect every $50 device on the market?
Aside from recycling, another source of piracy is overbuilding. Most chip design houses are fab-less, particularly those in the United States. Designers make the blueprint of the chip and send it offshore to a country that has fab. They might order 1 million copies of the chip, but nothing prevents the fabricator from making another million copies and selling them on some other market. Pirating can also occur after chips are tested. Typically, 10 to 15 percent of chips are found defective during testing. This doesn’t mean that a chip is totally dysfunctional, just that it has reliability problems. If someone gets hold of and sells chips that failed one or two tests, they’re introducing reliability problems into the system. Another issue is that a lot of devices from the same family will likely share keys, so if someone gets possession of some of these devices and cracks the keys, they could use the keys to access the others.
Question: What approaches can be used to protect against piracy?
Koushanfar: Both passive and active approaches are possible but passive methods like monitoring or testing the parameters after production are typically more costly and harder to enforce. My team has invented methods that allow chip designers, for the first time, to actively and uniquely obfuscate and control each chip that’s manufactured in offshore countries. Unique control had been a challenge prior to our work, since for scalability and cost reasons, all the chips are fabricated from the same blueprint (mask). Imagine you have a stamp and every time you stamp it on a piece of paper, you get a slightly different print (fingerprint). We take this idea a bit further by integrating the fingerprints within each chip’s functionality, thus making obfuscated chips with unique functional locks. Basically, manufacturing variations create the same effect as a fingerprint, even though all the chips come from the same mask. We created a method, called hardware metering, for extracting these kinds of analog variations into digital codes and tying those codes to the chips’ functionality. Then, even if the manufacturer builds extra chips, they can’t be activated without the specific codes. Similar hardware-based locking or obfuscation mechanisms can be used to control and attest the software and data running on the IC based on the chip locks or obfuscated properties.
Question: Do you have other projects at the intersection of hardware and software?
Koushanfar: Interestingly, there are problems on the other side of the software protection and data privacy spectrum that can leverage hardware design principals to become practicable. They can simultaneously guide the design of new secure hardware. For example, in a more recent project, called TinyGarble, we introduced the idea of building upon scalable hardware synthesis methodologies for privacy protection with orders of magnitude efficiency compared with the prior art.
A classic problem in secure computing/cryptography at the software level addresses how to allow two parties to jointly compute a function without revealing their data to each other. The well-known example is the millionaire’s problem, where two parties can compare their wealth without revealing their own wealth. Andrew Yao introduced this concept in the 1980s, along with a protocol. For about 20 years, however, the protocol didn’t have any practical application because it’s too computing intensive to implement.
An essential part of garbling is converting the description of the function into Boolean logic. But conversion to logic is a task that hardware designers have been doing for more than 50 years. The contribution of our collaborative work to this field has totally changed the efficiency of these algorithms by bringing a digital designer’s perspective and building upon Boolean logic synthesis techniques. Our first set of techniques, which is more of a software contribution, aimed to show that you could use these hardware compilers to automatically interpret secure functions with an unprecedented efficiency. Next, we realized fully secure processors in hardware, so we now have an actual processor that can operate a garbled program and garbled data. It gives a final result that you can decrypt without knowing the details or the internals of the program or the data. Under certain assumptions, this hardware, which we call a GarbleCPU, is the first known instance of a scalable leakage-resilient cryptography because it processes data in a provably garbled, obfuscated way.
Question: What is the role of scalable domain-specific machine learning solutions in establishing trust?
Koushanfar: The central theme of my research lab is efficiency, scalability, and practicability. Several classic security and cryptography solutions are resource intensive, and despite their conceptual beauty, not easily adoptable in practice. The discrepancy between the physical resources and security is even more pronounced when the content and transactions scale.
For example, consider how much data we share with various companies and entities, such as Google and Facebook, and that for many contemporary businesses, not just these giants, their value is their customer base, i.e., how much customer data they possess. It’s customary for such organizations to do a lot of analytics on this data for various reasons, such as targeted advertising. In domain-specific machine learning, we customize the learning algorithm to the data and to the machine’s architecture in a way that this learning can be done much more efficiently, while we also add security and privacy in a minimal number of places. The focus is to allow privacy-preserving computing, or computing on encrypted data, within limited resources. The idea is philosophically rather simple, since customized solutions are often made to be more efficient than the general-purpose ones. The challenge, however, remains in scaling customized secure solutions to several algorithms and platforms. This is why our research aims at making automated solutions that are robust and can be parametrically customized to various systems and platforms.
Question: What is your vision when it comes to creating a framework to support the Internet of Things (IoT)?
Koushanfar: Many classic security algorithms have been about logically securing things. As we move forward in the IoT era, we are talking not only about the logical world, but also the physical world. We need to integrate physical aspects. For instance, notions of security in this IoT world could be tied to location and time. The idea is that one could leverage or bootstrap the spatial and temporal correlation among things to develop new security protocols. For example, if devices are in physical proximity and have certain other properties that can be used in multifactor authentication, such as exposure to the same noise in a room, one could leverage this info to build a more secure system. It is also possible to use a signal’s time of travel to make a statement about physical proximity. This type of bootstrapping—that is, bootstrapping physical and temporal properties—can be used to authenticate devices. The random generation of keys from chip manufacturing variations is an example of how a physical aspect of the system helps us to generate something that supports logical security.
This is our current focus in IoT security and where I envision a lot of new algorithms for IoT security can be developed—at the intersection of the physical and logical worlds. It’s not yet clear what IoT standards will emerge. But for anyone who is interested, this is the time to have an impact.
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Why are Some Homeowners Relocating Solar Panels During Home Sales?
Have you ever wondered why some San Antonio homeowners choose to remove their solar panels before selling their homes? Despite the growing popularity of rooftop solar installations, a few homeowners have been taking drastic steps to avoid the potential pitfalls of solar panel ownership. As someone who has interviewed several real estate agents, I’ve discovered some common reasons why this is happening. Let’s explore the myths and realities surrounding solar panels and home sales.
Assumable Solar Loans: Separating Fact from Fiction
One of the primary reasons why homeowners may choose to remove their solar panels is due to assumable solar loans. Essentially, these loans allow the buyer of a home to take over the existing solar loan, which can be an attractive feature for some buyers. However, not all solar loan providers offer assumable loans, and this can create complications during home sales. Homeowners may feel compelled to remove their solar panels and relocate them to their new homes to avoid the risk of defaulting on the loan. However, in reality, many real estate agents report successful transfers of assumable solar loans during home sales.
Overpriced Solar Panels: Separating Fact from Fiction
Another reason why some San Antonio homeowners choose to remove their solar panels is due to overpriced solar panels that can’t be paid off during a home sale. This often occurs when solar companies offer expensive solar panels that cannot be paid off at the time of closing. This can create challenges for sellers who want to transfer the solar panel system to the buyer. In some cases, the buyer may demand that the seller take a significant loss on the solar system. However, the reality is that most solar systems will pay for themselves over time by reducing or eliminating the need for expensive electricity bills.
The Benefits of Solar Systems: Separating Fact from Fiction
Despite the challenges associated with solar panel ownership during home sales, it’s essential to remember the benefits of solar power. Solar panels can provide a protective barrier for your roof, reduce energy costs, and add value to your home. In fact, many homeowners report that solar panels have actually improved the quality of their roofs by lowering the temperature of the house and providing shade.
In conclusion, while some San Antonio homeowners may be moving solar panels off their homes during home sales, this is not representative of the majority of experiences with rooftop solar installations. In most cases, solar panels can be transferred to new owners with ease. It’s important to remember that solar panels offer many benefits to homeowners, and with careful research and consideration, you can reap the benefits of clean energy and lower energy bills.
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Schlumberger Foundation Awards Announcement for the 2023-2024 Faculty for the Future Fellowships
The Schlumberger Foundation is an independent nonprofit entity that supports science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. Since its inception, the Foundation has focused on funding
a variety of programs in scientific educational all over the world.
Recognizing the link between science, technology, and socioeconomic development as well as the role of education in realizing individual potential, we developed Faculty for the Future, our flagship program.
This community of women in STEM from developing countries grows every year, and is connecting via Forums, both online and in-person.
Faculty for the Future
The program’s long-term goal is to accelerate gender equality in STEM by generating conditions that result in more women pursuing scientific careers through alleviating some of the barriers they encounter
when enrolling in STEM disciplines. The program is committed to gender parity in science in the interests of sustainable development and recognizes that full access to and participation in a STEM
curriculum is essential for the empowerment of women and girls. By accelerating gender equality in STEM, the talent and capacities of these women can be developed for the benefit of their local communities,
regions and nations.
The program awards fellowships for advanced research in STEM at leading research institutes abroad. Faculty for the Future Fellows are expected to return to their home countries upon completion of their
studies to contribute to the economic, social and technological advancement of their home regions by strengthening the STEM teaching and research faculties of their home institutions as well as through
their leadership in science-based entrepreneurship. They are also expected to contribute to the public sector where their newly acquired technical and scientific skills can help provide evidence-based
support for STEM policy making, including topics of gender representation.
This program acts as a catalyst for these women to further tap into their potential. Through heightened motivation, sharpened self-awareness and a lasting passion for science they in turn capture the
imagination of other women and girls around them to regard scientific pursuits as a necessary means towards advancement and growth.
Since its launch in 2004, 863 women from 90 countries have received Faculty for the Future fellowships for PhD and Post-Doctorate STEM research programs. Through interactive online tools and in-person
meetings, the program provides a platform for these women to take joint action in identifying and unravelling the impediments that are holding back equal opportunities in STEM education and careers
in their local communities and home countries.
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Orlando, Florida, is a city that sparkles with culture, architecture, and a unique blend of natural beauty and modern infrastructure. From the towering skyscrapers of the downtown district to the charming historical buildings, the city boasts a rich and diverse tapestry of structures. However, Orlando’s subtropical climate, marked by high humidity, occasional storms, and abundant rainfall, can lead to the accumulation of dirt, grime, mold, and other contaminants on building exteriors. If you’re a property owner or manager in Orlando, you understand the significance of maintaining the appearance and structural integrity of your buildings. In this unique blog post, we’ll embark on a journey to explore the art of choosing the right building cleaning contractor in Orlando, FL, and why this decision is instrumental in preserving the city’s architectural beauty.
Orlando’s Charisma: Where Beauty Meets Climate
Orlando’s charm lies in its ability to juxtapose modern architecture with lush, natural surroundings. From sleek skyscrapers to quaint historical buildings, the city boasts an eclectic mix of structures. However, this beautiful diversity comes with a cost. Orlando’s climate, characterized by high humidity, occasional hurricanes, and abundant rainfall, can cause unsightly problems such as algae growth, mildew, and dirt accumulation on building exteriors. The result is a constant battle to maintain the aesthetic appeal of the city’s structures.
Building Cleaning: The Orlando Solution
Building cleaning, often referred to as pressure washing, is a powerful tool in the hands of experts. This process involves using high-pressure water to remove dirt, grime, mold, mildew, and other contaminants from building surfaces. In Orlando, this service is not just about aesthetics; it’s about preserving the structural integrity of buildings. Here’s why choosing the right building cleaning contractor is essential:
1. Mold and Mildew Prevention: Mold and mildew thrive in Orlando’s humid climate. These organisms can not only mar the appearance of your building but also eat away at its structure. Regular building cleaning removes existing growth and helps prevent future infestations.
2. Environmental Impact: The accumulation of dirt and grime on buildings can lead to more significant environmental problems. Pollutants from these surfaces can flow into nearby water bodies, harming the environment. Building cleaning helps mitigate these concerns.
3. Enhanced Property Value: A clean building is an attractive one. If you’re a property owner, regular building cleaning can boost your property’s curb appeal and potentially increase its value.
4. Extended Lifespan: By removing contaminants that contribute to the degradation of building materials, such as paint, wood, and concrete, building cleaning can extend the lifespan of your property.
Choosing the Right Building Cleaning Contractor
Selecting the right building cleaning contractor is a decision that can significantly impact the maintenance and longevity of your property. Here are essential considerations to help you make an informed choice:
1. Experience: Look for a contractor with a proven track record in providing high-quality building cleaning services in the Orlando area. Experienced contractors understand the specific challenges posed by Orlando’s climate.
2. Equipment and Techniques: Ensure that the contractor employs state-of-the-art equipment and proven cleaning techniques. The right tools and methods are essential for achieving a thorough and effective clean.
3. Eco-Friendly Practices: Environmental responsibility is crucial. Opt for a contractor who uses eco-friendly cleaning solutions and follows sustainable practices. This not only protects the environment but also ensures the longevity of your building materials.
4. Safety Protocols: Building cleaning can be a complex and sometimes risky task. Ensure the contractor follows strict safety protocols to protect the well-being of their workers and the safety of your property.
Building Cleaning Methods
Professional building cleaning contractors use various methods to rejuvenate building exteriors:
- Pressure Washing: High-pressure water is used to remove dirt, grime, mold, and contaminants from building surfaces.
- Soft Washing: For delicate surfaces like stucco or painted wood, soft washing uses lower water pressure combined with environmentally-friendly cleaning solutions.
- Steam Cleaning: Steam cleaning is effective for removing stubborn stains, oil, or grease from surfaces.
The Building Cleaning Process
A typical building cleaning process involves several crucial steps:
1. Assessment: The building cleaning contractor will assess the condition of your building’s exterior to determine the appropriate cleaning method.
2. Preparation: Surrounding areas will be prepared to protect sensitive items, landscaping, and architectural details from cleaning solutions.
3. Cleaning: The building’s exterior will be cleaned using the chosen method, removing contaminants and restoring its appearance.
4. Rinsing: After cleaning, a thorough rinsing is essential to remove all cleaning agents and contaminants.
5. Final Inspection: The contractor will conduct a final inspection to ensure the building’s exterior meets the highest standards of cleanliness and safety.
Conclusion: Preserving Orlando’s Architectural Beauty
In Orlando, the buildings are not just structures; they are an integral part of the city’s identity and charm. Choosing the right building cleaning contractor in Orlando, FL, is a commitment to preserving the architectural beauty of the city and ensuring that its beauty endures for generations to come.
Investing in professional building cleaning services is an investment in your property’s longevity, aesthetics, and environmental responsibility. It’s a way to ensure that your building continues to shine, even under the challenging conditions of Orlando’s climate. The art of building cleaning is not just about appearances; it’s about preserving the city’s rich history and architectural diversity. So, let the professionals take care of your building, and contribute to the preservation of Orlando’s architectural beauty, one clean facade at a time.
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Introduction to Chronic Pain: What Is It?
Chronic pain is a debilitating condition that affects millions of people around the world. Defined as pain that persists or recurs for more than 12 weeks, chronic pain can be caused by a variety of conditions such as arthritis, nerve damage, fibromyalgia, and cancer. Symptoms can range from mild to severe and can affect different parts of the body. Common symptoms include fatigue, sleep disturbances, depression, and difficulty concentrating.
Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to treating chronic pain. Treatment options vary depending on the individual’s condition and needs. Medications are often prescribed to help manage chronic pain but they come with their own set of risks and side effects. Physical therapy can also help reduce symptoms in some cases while lifestyle changes such as exercise and diet may also provide relief. Alternative therapies like acupuncture have also been found to be effective in some cases.
It is important for those suffering from chronic pain to find a treatment plan that works for them and that addresses all aspects of their condition – physical, emotional, and mental. Support from family members and friends is also crucial in helping individuals cope with the daily challenges of living with chronic pain. With proper management and care, individuals can lead full lives despite their condition.
Understanding Chronic Pain: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Chronic pain is defined as any type of pain that lasts for an extended period of time, usually more than three months. It can be caused by a variety of factors such as injury, disease, inflammation or nerve damage. Common symptoms include persistent dull ache, throbbing, burning sensation or sharp stabbing pains. These symptoms can differ from person to person depending on the cause and severity of the condition.
Treatment for chronic pain depends on the underlying cause and may involve medication, physical therapy or lifestyle changes such as exercise and stress management techniques. Alternative treatments such as acupuncture and massage therapy are also available to help manage chronic pain. In some cases, surgery may be necessary to address the underlying cause of the chronic pain.
It’s important to remember that there is no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to managing chronic pain. Working with your doctor or healthcare provider is key in finding a treatment plan that works best for you and your lifestyle. With proper diagnosis and treatment, you can take back control over your life and live without the burden of chronic pain.
How Can I Manage My Chronic Pain?
Chronic pain is a long-term and persistent type of discomfort that can be caused by various factors. It’s important to understand the definition of chronic pain in order to manage it effectively.
Managing chronic pain requires a combination of treatments, such as physical therapy, medication, lifestyle changes and alternative therapies. Here are some suggestions on how you can manage your chronic pain:
• Physical Therapy: Strengthening the muscles around the affected area can help reduce pain and improve mobility. It can also help with posture and balance.
• Medication: Over-the-counter medications like ibuprofen or acetaminophen, as well as prescription drugs like opioids or muscle relaxants may be prescribed to help manage chronic pain.
• Lifestyle Changes: Stress management techniques like yoga or meditation, getting regular exercise, eating a healthy diet and getting enough sleep are all important for managing chronic pain.
• Alternative Therapies: Acupuncture, massage therapy, biofeedback and aromatherapy may also be beneficial in managing chronic pain.
It’s important to talk to your doctor about the best treatment plan for you. With the right combination of treatments, you can find relief from your chronic pain and get back to living life!
The Impact of Chronic Pain on the Body and Mind
What Is The Definition Of Chronic Pain?
Chronic pain is a long-term and persistent type of discomfort that can be caused by various factors. It can range from mild to severe and last for weeks, months or even years. Managing chronic pain requires a combination of treatments, such as physical therapy, medication, lifestyle changes and alternative therapies. It’s important to talk to your doctor about the best treatment plan for you.
The Impact of Chronic Pain on the Body and Mind
Chronic pain can have a significant effect on both your physical and mental health:
• Muscle tension
• Decreased quality of life
• Increased risk of developing other health problems such as heart disease or diabetes
• Cognitive difficulties including impaired concentration and memory loss
• Changes in brain structure and function over time
These effects can make it difficult to complete daily activities or enjoy life. It’s important to take steps to manage your chronic pain so that you can live a full life. Talk to your doctor about the best treatment plan for you, which may include physical therapy, medication, lifestyle changes and alternative therapies.
Treatments and Therapies for Managing Chronic Pain
What is the definition of chronic pain? Chronic pain is a long-term and persistent type of discomfort that can be caused by various factors, ranging from mild to severe, and lasting for weeks, months or even years.
When it comes to managing chronic pain, there are several treatments and therapies available. Here are some of the most common:
• Medication: Opioids and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are commonly used to reduce pain.
• Physical therapy: Strengthening muscles and improving flexibility can help reduce pain.
• Acupuncture: This traditional Chinese medicine involves inserting thin needles into the skin at specific points to release energy blockages.
• Massage therapy: Relaxing tense muscles and improving circulation can help manage chronic pain.
• Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): This form of psychotherapy helps patients learn to manage their emotions and behaviors related to pain.
• Biofeedback: Technology is used to measure physiological responses in order to teach relaxation techniques.
• Lifestyle changes: Exercise, nutrition counseling, stress management, and support groups may also be beneficial for managing chronic pain.
What is the Prevalence of Chronic Pain?
Chronic pain is a long-term and persistent type of discomfort that can be caused by various factors, ranging from mild to severe, and lasting for weeks, months or even years. It is estimated that 20% of the population worldwide suffer from chronic pain, with up to 40% of those individuals experiencing severe and disabling levels of pain.
The prevalence of chronic pain increases with age, it is more common in women than men and it is estimated that up to half of all elderly people suffer from some form of chronic pain. Children and adolescents are also affected by chronic pain – up to 10% experience some form of chronic discomfort.
There are many different types of chronic pain, each with their own prevalence rates depending on factors such as age, gender, ethnicity, and geography. Some examples include:
• Musculoskeletal conditions such as arthritis and fibromyalgia
• Neuropathic conditions such as trigeminal neuralgia and complex regional pain syndrome
The prevalence of these conditions varies widely across the world. It is important to note that any type or level of chronic pain can have a significant impact on an individual’s quality of life. Therefore, it is essential that people suffering from this condition receive proper diagnosis and treatment in order to improve their wellbeing.
Chronic pain is a debilitating condition that affects millions of people around the world. Defined as pain that persists or recurs for more than 12 weeks, it can range from mild to severe and last for weeks, months or even years. The underlying cause of chronic pain varies, making it difficult to treat. Fortunately, there are a variety of treatments available to help manage this condition.
The most common treatment options for chronic pain include physical therapy, medication, lifestyle changes and alternative therapies. It’s important to talk to your doctor about the best treatment plan for you as each case is unique and requires an individualized approach. Physical therapy may involve exercises to strengthen muscles or stretching techniques to reduce tension in the body. Medication is often used to reduce inflammation and alleviate symptoms of chronic pain. Lifestyle changes such as stress management and healthy eating habits can also help improve overall health and well-being while reducing chronic pain symptoms. Lastly, alternative therapies such as acupuncture, massage therapy or yoga have been found effective in treating chronic pain in some cases.
Living with chronic pain can be a challenge, but with proper treatment it can be managed effectively. It’s important to stay informed on the latest treatments available so you can make the best decisions for your health and well-being. Remember, no one knows your body better than you do – so don’t hesitate to speak up if something doesn’t feel right!
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Title: SEO vs. PPC: Decoding the Best Marketing Strategy for Your Business
Table of Contents:
2. Understanding SEO
3. Unveiling PPC
4. Comparing SEO and PPC
b. Speed of results
c. Targeted audience
d. Long-term vs. short-term benefits
5. Choosing the Right Strategy for Your Business
a. Consider your budget
b. Evaluate your goals
c. Analyze your competition
d. Determine your timeline
6. Combining SEO and PPC
When it comes to maximizing online visibility and driving targeted traffic to your website, two popular strategies often come into play: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising. While both have their advantages, deciphering which is the best marketing strategy for your business can be a challenging task.
SEO is the process of improving your website’s visibility on search engines by optimizing various on-page and off-page elements. It involves techniques such as keyword research, website optimization, content creation, backlink building, and more. The primary goal of SEO is to rank organically in search engine results pages (SERPs) for targeted keywords.
PPC, on the other hand, is a paid advertising model where you bid on keywords and pay a fee each time your ad is clicked. These ads usually appear above organic search results, and you only pay when someone clicks on your ad. PPC offers businesses immediate visibility and control over their ad campaigns, allowing them to target specific keywords and demographics.
Comparing SEO and PPC
a. Cost-effectiveness: SEO can be more cost-effective in the long run as you don’t have to pay for every click. Once you achieve high organic rankings, the traffic generated is essentially free. PPC, while effective, requires continuous investment to maintain visibility.
b. Speed of results: PPC provides instant visibility and immediate results, allowing you to see your ads on top of search results in no time. SEO, on the other hand, requires time and effort to build authority, keyword rankings, and organic traffic.
c. Targeted audience: With PPC, you have precise control over who sees your ads, based on factors such as demographics, location, and search intent. SEO targets a wider audience but may not always guarantee absolute precision.
d. Long-term vs. short-term benefits: SEO generates sustainable long-term benefits as a result of improved organic rankings, while PPC offers immediate but more short-term impact. Balancing the two can be crucial for a successful marketing strategy.
Choosing the Right Strategy for Your Business
a. Consider your budget: Determine how much you can allocate to marketing efforts and decide if the flexibility of PPC or the long-term potential of SEO aligns better with your budgetary constraints.
b. Evaluate your goals: Evaluate whether you need quick results or are willing to invest time and effort for long-term growth. Consider factors like brand visibility, lead generation, or direct sales to align your marketing strategy accordingly.
c. Analyze your competition: Research your competitors to understand whether they are utilizing SEO, PPC, or a combination of both. This analysis can help you uncover which strategies are effective in your industry.
d. Determine your timeline: Establish realistic expectations by considering your business goals and timelines. SEO requires patience, while PPC can boost short-term results.
Combining SEO and PPC
For maximum impact, consider combining SEO and PPC strategies for a comprehensive marketing approach. Use PPC to gain immediate visibility while expanding your organic reach through ongoing SEO efforts. This integration can strengthen your brand’s presence, maximize conversions, and increase ROI.
In the SEO vs. PPC debate, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. The best marketing strategy for your business depends on various factors, including your budget, goals, competition, and timeline. By understanding the unique advantages of each strategy and tailoring them to your specific business needs, you can unlock the true potential of your online marketing efforts. Remember, a well-balanced blend of SEO and PPC can be the winning combination that propels your business towards success.
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4 reasons why Edtech industry is buzzing right now
Edtech is a growing industry. After a long time being simply a branch of regular software developing, it experienced a boom and went mainstream in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic caught the world by storm. There has always been a need for advancing the way we learn, especially in overcoming the old ways of traditional classroom management, and with the perks of the world health crisis the innovative solutions for new age learning made their big breakthrough to the educational institutions.
The public attention and the money that is being invested into edtech ventures is almost equal to the whole hype around it. It is estimated that since 2014, nearly 4500 edtech startups have been founded, and have attracted more than a billion dollars in investments, way more than any other startup sector. Now, within all the buzz around edtech, there are some questions about the sustainability of digital learning.
So what’s the hype all about? Read on to find out.
The education sector is facing skepticism
The popularity of online learning and on-demand courses is consistently rising, due to the public dissatisfaction with the school infrastructure. The rigidity of the traditional school system is being harshly criticized for fostering inequity and misadapted curricula, citing the demand for a more individualized approach to learning.
As the digital age by default offers an opportunity to develop skills of personal choice, and not to be bound to studying predefined curriculums that are tailored for mass educational needs, it is quite logical that the format of the resources that are presented in digital learning modules should be a better fit for many.
Some hype terms such as personalized adaptive learning and AI are exactly what they say – they offer teachers greater flexibility to adapt learning to individual students’ needs, and save a lot of time and energy while still providing quality content for learning.
We live in the Internet-based world
Due to the mass global use of mobile devices and transferring most of the communication to digital networking, it can be comfortably said that smartphones and tablets are the classrooms of the future and so they need proper technology to make the most out of it. The methodology of learning has significantly changed in order to fit the modern abstract formats, and the rise of edtech has come as a natural response to enhancing the whole educational process in terms of exploring the ways the digital world can be used to create very economical, but effective solutions for educational practices.
The usage of the Internet has not only increased the information flow and coordination, but also created a global workspace for connecting everyone involved in the education process, therefore contributing to the democratization of education. The digital infrastructure of the modern world has lowered barriers to access to the resources.
Rise of the multimedia intelligence
One of the most prominent features of edtech is that it provides a platform for interacting with different types of media, according to the needs of the educator or learner. Digital age has brought a significant innovation in content delivery and the educational system is increasingly exploiting that in an effort to revamp the whole learning process by integrating hybrid curriculums and technology.
Most edtech solutions on the market provide more or less similar options led by the new ways of learning concepts based on image/video content analysis, multimedia search, streaming and overall content delivery. Edtech leans on the fact that an incredibly large amount of multimedia data is being produced, therefore leading to a new demand to educate learners on interacting with the type of educational content effectively and develop better digital intelligence.
A cost-effective solution for education
As the edtech industry is growing, there is a constant competition going on among both educators – in terms of resources, and developers – in terms of software delivery: who will create a learning platform that covers the quality of content delivery that matches classic educational methods, and simultaneously make it available for mass use.
Operating school systems is a demanding task and requires a lot of human staff and energy in order to maintain the quality of the service. It is, naturally, quite expensive because it is based on using human resources to do jobs that can be done automatically. Not to mention the expensive tuition rates of traditional schools and colleges.
Digital solutions for learning and management make that effort much less demanding in terms of labour and they save a lot of time. Online education, because it is fast and available to a large number of users at the same time, costs less money and it is a quick and in most cases affordable solution that is gaining more and more popularity.
A look ahead
Educational technology provides personalized support to learners and educators that developers and investors hope will drive the future demand for online education formats. Technology is developing every day and the digital world is coming up with new solutions, so we just might peek into the future and see that edtech sure is becoming the leading learning method of the modern world.
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“Juneteenth is the celebration of African American freedom and achievement and the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Note that this was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ñ which had become official on January 1, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation had little impact on the Texans due to the minimal number of Union troops to enforce the new Executive order. However, with the surrender of General Lee in April of 1865, and the arrival of General Granger’s regiment, the forces were finally strong enough to influence and overcome the resistance”. Texas became the last state to learn of the confederate surrender and the freeing of slaves.
June 19th which was shortened to “Juneteenth” among celebrants, has become the African American addendum to our national Independence Day. The Emancipation Proclamation did not bring about emancipation, and the prevailing portrayal of Independence Day ignores the ignominious incidence of slavery entirely. Although initially associated with Texas and other Southern states, the Civil Rights Era and the Poor People’s March to Washington in 1968, in particular, helped spread the tradition all across America. Typical activities included prayer, speeches, recitation of slave stories, reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, dances, games and plenty of food.
The state of Texas made Juneteenth an official state holiday on January 1, 1980 and several states have since issued proclamations recognizing the holiday. Juneteenth is promoted not only as a commemoration of African American freedom, but as an example and encouragement of self-development and respect for all cultures.
For all its historical past and cultural significance, today African Americans are looking to change their future rather than focus on the past. The National Association of the NAACP is embracing that very mindset and is focusing on economic and social justice issues building upon the civil rights struggles of the past. Juneteenth is a day of reflection, a day of renewal, a pride-filled day. It is a moment in time taken to appreciate the African American experience. It is inclusive of all races, ethnicities and nationalities. Juneteenth is a day on which honor and respect is paid for the sufferings of slavery. It is a day on which we acknowledge the evils of slavery and its aftermath. We think about that moment in time when the enslaved in Galveston, Texas received word of their freedom. We imagine the depth of their emotions who had only known America as a place of servitude and oppression, their jubilant dance and their fear of the unknown.
On Juneteenth celebrations are held for the young and old to come together to listen, to learn and to refresh the drive to achieve. It is a day where we all take one step closer together, to better utilize the energy wasted on racism. This is the day that beckons us to build a more just society. Juneteenth is a day that we pray for peace and liberty for all.
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Smoking harms nearly every system in your body — including your eyes.
Though we are all aware of the health effects associated with smoking, such as lung cancer, heart disease, and bad teeth, few know about the negative impact it can have on our vision.
Smoking and Eye Disease
Smoking, especially 20 cigarettes or more daily over a long period of time, can adversely impact your vision. Cigarette smoke is made up of compounds that can damage health and have been shown to cause cerebral lesions which affect the area of the brain that processes vision.
More specifically, tobacco addiction increases the risk of developing vision-robbing diseases such as macular degeneration (AMD), cataracts, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy. Moreover, smoke is an irritant that can cause or exacerbate dry eye syndrome. Below we'll delve a little further into each of these conditions.
Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Smokers run a high risk of developing AMD, a condition that severely impairs central vision, making it difficult or impossible to read, drive, recognize faces and colors, and leads to permanent vision loss in those aged 65 or older. Fortunately, the risk can be dramatically diminished by putting an end to tobacco smoking — even if later in life.
Heavy smokers double their risk of developing cataracts, the leading cause of blindness. Cataracts are characterized by clouded, blurred or double vision, photophobia, and reduced night vision. However, cataract surgery is common and replaces the clouded lens with an artificial intraocular lens.
Uveitis, the inflammation of the eye's central layer, is an ocular disease that can lead to blindness. This condition damages important structures of the eye, notably the iris and retina, and can lead to cataracts, glaucoma and retinal detachment. Smokers have a 2.2 times higher risk of developing uveitis than non-smokers.
Smoking raises one's risk of developing diabetes by up to 40 percent thereby increasing the risk of retinopathy as well. Diabetes damages the blood vessels in the retina, causing them to leak blood into the eye, which — in severe cases — can deprive the retina of oxygen and result in blindness.
Dry eye syndrome is a common eye condition characterized by insufficient tears to keep your eye lubricated, or the tears are not composed of the correct balance of water, lipids, and mucous to maintain proper lubrication. Common symptoms include red, itchy, and gritty eyes.
Heavy smokers, and those exposed to secondhand smoke, not only double their risk of developing dry eye but also exacerbate an existing condition, especially among the contact lens wearers.
Secondhand Smoke and Eye Disease
Secondhand smoke— which includes the smoke that emanates from the end of a cigarette as well as the smoke exhaled— is nearly as harmful to health and vision. Second-hand smoke places others' eyesight in danger, particularly in young children and infants. Furthermore, studies indicate that women who smoke during pregnancy put the newborn baby at risk of being born with eye disease or visual impairment that could affect his or her ability to learn.
Stop Smoking to Save Your Vision
The good news is that giving up smoking can have an immediate effect on your health — and it’s never too late to quit! Once the habit is broken, your body will begin to repair itself to prevent vision loss. It can be challenging to quit, as it requires dedication, support, and advanced planning. Dr. Mo Al-Bekai and the rest of the staff at Generations Eye Care in Lac La Biche care about your health and will be happy to provide any assistance or resources to help you quit smoking and improve your eye health. Keep in mind that if you smoke, quitting smoking is the most important step you can take to protect your health and vision.
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PTFE Knitted Mesh with Excellent Resistant to Strong Acids and Bases
PTFE knitted mesh is widely used in gas-liquid filtration applications. Working as a filter mesh, PTFE knitted mesh has excellent resistant to chemicals and high temperatures due to its inherent properties and can be used in any kind of chemical media for a long period. However, it has a smooth surface and is not easy to be compressed, therefore, it commonly works with stainless steel woven mesh to enhance its support performance.
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- Chemical stability. It has great resistant to strong acids, strong bases (hydrofluoric acid, phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid and various organic acids) and a variety of organic solvents, and can withstand extreme chemical conditions.
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- High temperature resistance, 400 °C maximum decomposition temperature and up to +250 °C working temperature;
- Low temperature resistance, it can maintain 5% elongation and good mechanical strength even at -196 °C
- Self-Lubricating. Among solid materials, it has a low coefficient of fraction (0.04) and is not easy to attach to any substance.
- Insulating property. Its dielectric property is unrelated to temperature and frequency.
- Nontoxicity. It is chemically inert. Its lead content is less than 10–11 g/ml of lead and uranium content is less than 10–12 g/ml.
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PTFE knitted mesh is widely used in gas-liquid filtration applications, such as industrial flue gas desulfurization mist eliminator, demister pad.
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JournalJournal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports
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AbstractBackground: Current understanding of amyloid-β protein (Aβ) aggregation and toxicity provides an extensive list of drugs for treating Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, one of the most promising strategies for its treatment has been tri-peptides. Objective: The aim of this study is to examine those tri-peptides, such as Arg-Arg-Try (RRY), which have the potential of Aβ1-42 aggregating inhibition and Aβ clearance. Methods: In the present study, in silico, in vitro, and in vivo studies were integrated for screening tri-peptides binding to Aβ, then evaluating its inhibition of aggregation of Aβ, and finally its rescuing cognitive deficit. Results: In the in silico simulations, molecular docking and molecular dynamics determined that seven top-ranking tri-peptides could bind to Aβ1-42 and form stable complexes. Circular dichroism, ThT assay, and transmission electron microscope indicated the seven tri-peptides might inhibit the aggregation of Aβ1-42 in vitro. In the in vivo studies, Morris water maze, ELISA, and Diolistic staining were used, and data showed that RRY was capable of rescuing the Aβ1-42-induced cognitive deficit, reducing the Aβ1-42 load and increasing the dendritic spines in the transgenic mouse model. Conclusion: Such converging outcomes from three consecutive studies lead us to conclude that RRY is a preferred inhibitor of Aβ1-42 aggregation and treatment for Aβ-induced cognitive deficit.
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- Design and synthesis of ruthenium complexes and their studies on the inhibition of amyloid β (1-42) peptide aggregation.
- Authors: Singh S, Navale GR, Agrawal S, Singh HK, Singla L, Sarkar D, Sarma M, Choudhury AR, Ghosh K
- Issue date: 2023 Mar 25
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Failure to Discover a Prolapsed Umbilical Cord
Doctors are responsible for following standard medical practices to handle a prolapsed umbilical cord. The sooner a pregnant mother receives the proper treatment, the less the baby is at risk for harm. Unfortunately, accurate diagnosis and timely treatment does not always occur. At Rich & Rich, P.C., our New York City attorneys can help you or your loved one recover compensation when medical malpractice causes birth injury.
What is umbilical cord prolapse?
Prolapse means to slip or fall down out of place, and in the case of a prolapsed umbilical cord, it refers to a cord that slips out of position and precedes the baby. It usually occurs during labor, but can also occur during a pregnancy. Umbilical cord prolapse is rare, but most frequently occurs when membranes containing the amniotic fluid in the uterus break ― often referred to as the mother's water breaking. These membranes can break prior to or during labor. Mothers should not walk after their water breaks because walking increases the possibility of umbilical cord prolapse. Other causes include a premature birth, multiple births, excessive amounts of amniotic fluid, breech delivery or an unusually long umbilical cord.
Signs that doctors should observe
It is possible for the umbilical cord to be present in the vagina or actually protrude through the vagina between the mother's legs. A doctor should discover the prolapse this during a pelvic examination. Also, heart rate monitoring of the mother and baby can indicate a prolapsed umbilical cord.
Dangers for the baby
The umbilical cord provides nutrients and oxygen to the baby. The danger of having the baby press against the cord is that it cuts off the baby’s blood supply and oxygen, which can cause brain damage. A doctor following acceptable medical standards first would try having the mother shift the position in which she is lying to see if it takes pressure off of the umbilical cord. Obstetricians attach a device onto the baby to monitor fetal heart rate and when it drops below a certain range, it is an indication of umbilical cord prolapse. The doctor must be ready to perform a C-section immediately when fetal distress continues.
Adverse effects of a failure to handle umbilical cord prolapse
Failure to perform a timely C-section can result in a baby born with cerebral palsy, a still birth or other brain damage that causes delays in child development. When departures from standard practices are underlying reasons for the failure, it may indicate medical malpractice.
If your baby suffers birth injury or fetal wrongful death occurs because of medical negligence, arrange a free consultation with one of our New York lawyers at Rich & Rich, P.C.
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Transforming biologics through computational modeling
Schrödinger announces expanded collaboration with AstraZeneca after tapping Google Cloud’s HPC solution earlier this month to bolster drug discovery efforts
NEW YORK—United Kingdom-based AstraZeneca wants to further advance its small-molecule drug discovery efforts, and Schrödinger Inc. in the United States has stepped up to help them deploy its computational platform in that effort.
More specifically, Schrödinger, a company whose physics-based software platform is designed to enable discovery of high-quality, novel molecules for therapeutics and materials, on March 23 announced an expanded collaboration with AstraZeneca focused on refining a biologics modeling solution with the aim of speeding up the development of antibody and protein-based therapeutic candidates.
The new collaboration is aimed at enhancing Schrödinger’s Free Energy Perturbation (FEP+) technology for the optimization of key properties of biologics, such as affinity and selectivity, with particular focus on binding affinity.
“This expansion of our collaboration with AstraZeneca has the potential to transform biologics research by further extending the power of physics-based computational modeling to the design of antibodies and protein therapeutics,” said Dr. Robert Abel, executive vice president of science at Schrödinger. “It’s an exciting collaboration that underscores our commitment to continue investing in research to extend the reach of our industry-leading platform.”
Schrödinger is also applying its computational platform to a diverse and extensive pipeline of drug discovery programs in collaboration with other pharmaceutical companies and has also co-founded some biotech companies. In addition, Schrödinger is using its platform to advance a pipeline of internal, wholly-owned drug discovery programs.
Noted Tristan Vaughan, vice president of antibody discovery and protein engineering, R&D at AstraZeneca: “Our aim through this collaboration is to discover higher affinity, stable and more potent biologics much more efficiently than previously possible. This is part of an ambitious program we have to augment traditional protein-based drug design to deliver high-quality novel biologics rapidly to the clinic.”
Earlier in the month, Schrödinger entered into a three-year agreement with Google Cloud to substantially increase the speed and capacity of its drug discovery platform. As part of the agreement, Schrödinger has selected Google Cloud as the preferred cloud platform for its leading simulation software.
As the company noted, the deal “will enable broader chemical exploration and accelerate advanced molecular modeling across internal and collaborative programs.”
The strategic partnership reportedly gives Schrödinger’s drug discovery team access to the capacity equivalent of the world’s most powerful supercomputers by harnessing thousands of Google Cloud GPUs, which are designed to accelerate complex processes such as large-scale physics-based methods and machine learning through parallel computing. This expanded capacity is designed to further enable Schrödinger and its drug discovery collaborators to rapidly predict critical properties of billions of molecules per week.
“We’re excited to harness Google Cloud’s highly scalable system to run extensive free energy calculations to assess binding affinities through our compute-intensive FEP+ application. This partnership also enables us to further leverage BigQuery to analyze important molecular properties nearly instantaneously,” commented Shane Brauner, Schrödinger’s chief information officer. “This partnership is expected to allow us to expand the use of our physics-based computational platform to continue to rapidly explore very large swaths of chemical space.”
“Our collaboration with Schrödinger has the potential to improve drug discovery for research and life-science organizations by helping the industry move more quickly to identify molecules that can be developed into important therapeutics,” added Rob Enslin, president of Google Cloud. “We are thrilled to work closely with them as part of our long-running partnership.”
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On the heels of his previous paper finding that participating in political activities such as voting is influenced in part by genes, political scientist James Fowler and his graduate student Christopher Dawes announced that they’ve identified two genes that are associated with voting itself.
In the current issue of The Journal of Politics, Fowler and Dawes identify particular variants of the MAOA and 5HTT genes, both of which are part of the biological pathway that influences mood, emotion and judgment, as being “significantly associated with the decision to vote.”
Based on the description above, it’s easy to see how the serotonin pathway can affect social behaviors. Serotonin is a chemical in the brain that can induce feelings of happiness. Studies have shown that MAOA and 5HTT have different functions on the pathway, and variants of each gene have been linked to particular behaviors.
For example, the version of 5HTT with a slightly shorter genetic sequence has been associated with producing low levels of serotonin. Studies indicate that the “short” version of the gene has been linked to conditions such as alcohol dependence and bipolar depression.
Similarly, MAOA has high- and low-activity versions. The high-activity version has been linked with restless legs syndrome while the low-activity version, which is also associated with producing low serotonin levels, has been linked to increased sleep apnea and more severe symptoms of autism.
Because the “long” version of 5HTT and the “high” version of MAOA have been correlated with social behaviors, Fowler and Dawes proposed these as candidate genes for voting participation. They then looked at population data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to find confirmation of their theory.
Known as Add Health, the study itself consists of data collected from more than 15,000 young adults who the researchers tracked for seven years between 1994 and 2001. Among the questions the now 18-26 year-old participants answered for the researchers toward the end of the study were how often they’d attended church services in the past year and whether or not they voted in the 2000 presidential election.
Fowler and Dawes based their conclusions on the data collected from a subset of 2,300 Add Health participants because information for six genetic markers, including 5HTT and MAOA, were also collected from them. They correlated the genetic information with the answers from the surveys to find out if their candidate genes would turn out to play a role in voter turnout.
Turns out they found a couple of links. “Having a high MAOA allele,” Fowler and Dawes wrote in their paper, “raises the likelihood of voting by about 5%. Among people active in their religious organizations, having a long 5HTT allele raises the likelihood of voting by about 10%.”
Given the age range of the study participants, and the timing, it’s worth asking some questions about these conclusions. Fowler and Dawes themselves note that the young adults might have been voting for the first time during the 2000 election; the historic significance of that contest might have been a motivator along with theoretically being genetically inclined towards pro-social behavior. Having older participants in the study might have been able to provide the researchers with a more constant voting behavior perspective.
What Fowler and Dawes don’t discuss, though, is the role of religion during the 2000 election. One study published last year found that 25 percent of the public said their voting decisions for the 2000 election were influenced by the religious media. Another study found that members of evangelical Protestant churches form tight social networks that promote civic involvement such as political participation within these communities.
In short, the correlation between the long 5HTT version, religious involvement and voting might be a little more complicated than Fowler and Dawes contend.
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On 19 December 2022, the High Court judged that the government’s migration and economic development partnership policy is compatible with the UK’s obligations under international and domestic law.
We remind all public bodies discharging immigration functions to comply with the Public Sector Equality Duty set out in the Equality Act 2010, as well as with the Human Rights Act 1998.
It remains vital that the government takes action to reduce the serious threat to human life posed by trafficking and small boats crossing the Channel. We support the government’s commitment to reducing these risks and to establishing safe migration routes.
However, some genuine asylum seekers cannot access the safe routes currently available. Accordingly, we urge the government to improve the availability of such routes, including through providing for the ability to seek asylum prior to entry, not least to reduce the demand for people smuggling.
Following careful consideration of the High Court judgment we have identified four specific issues that we will press the Home Office to address:
- The UK and Rwanda have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to govern relevant operational arrangements. We urge both parties to ensure that procedures and practices remain compliant with international human rights law and we will liaise with our counterparts overseas on this if we deem it necessary.
- The UK government has provided limited detail on the eligibility criteria for the scheme. We welcome the exemption for unaccompanied minors but we urge the government not to remove young people where there are doubts as to whether or not they have reached the age of 18.
- The eligibility criteria require decision makers to ‘take into account’ the position of members of other vulnerable groups, including pregnant and disabled people, people with mental health conditions, and LGBT people. We urge the government to provide more specific protections to ensure the safety and security of these groups, bearing in mind the particular risks that they face.
- The UK government recognises that ‘there are concerns over the treatment’ of LGBT individuals in Rwanda and there is ‘evidence of ill-treatment of those who have undergone gender reassignment’. We ask the government either to exempt this group from transfer or to clarify the circumstances in which they would deem a transfer feasible.
The Home Office must consider individual facts and circumstances when determining immigration outcomes. Decision making must be compliant with equality and human rights law, and include a careful assessment of the circumstances of the person concerned, including any specific vulnerabilities such as their protected characteristics.
On these and other matters relating to equality and human rights, we will continue to provide advice to the Home Office and UK Government on their legal obligations, and on how risks can be mitigated, in line with our statutory remit and responsibilities.
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Smoke is the airborne solid and liquid particulates and gases evolved when a material undergoes pyrolysis or combustion, together with the quantity of air that is entrained or otherwise mixed into the mass. It is commonly an unwanted byproduct of fires (including stoves and lamps) and fireplaces, but may also be used for pest control (fumigation), communication (smoke signals), defense (smoke-screen) or inhalation of tobacco or other drugs. Smoke is sometimes used as a flavoring agent and preservative for various foodstuffs. Smoke is also sometimes a component of internal combustion engine exhaust gas, particularly diesel exhaust.
Smoke inhalation is the primary cause of death in victims of indoor fires. The smoke kills by a combination of thermal damage, poisoning and pulmonary irritation caused by carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, and other combustion products.
The composition of smoke depends on the nature of the burning fuel and the conditions of combustion.
Fires with high availability of oxygen burn in high temperature and with small amount of smoke produced; the particles are mostly composed of ash, or in large temperature differences, of condensed aerosol of water. High temperature also leads to production of nitrogen oxides. Sulfur content yields sulfur dioxide. Carbon and hydrogen get completely oxidized to carbon dioxide and water. Fires burning with lack of oxygen produce significantly wider palette of compounds, many of them toxic. Partial oxidation of carbon produces carbon monoxide, nitrogen-containing materials can yield hydrogen cyanide, ammonia, and nitrogen oxides. Content of chlorine (eg. in polyvinyl chloride) or other halogens may lead to production of hydrogen chloride, phosgene, dioxin, and chloromethane, bromomethane, and other halocarbons.
Pyrolysis of the burning material also results in the production of large amounts of hydrocarbons, both aliphatic (methane, ethane, ethylene, acetylene) and aromatic (benzene and its derivates, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; eg. benzo[a]pyrene, studied as a cancerogen, or retene), terpenes. Heterocyclic compounds may be also present. Heavier hydrocarbons may condense as tar.
Presence of sulfur can lead to formation of eg. hydrogen sulfide, carbonyl sulfide, sulfur dioxide, carbon disulfide, and thiols; especially thiols tend to get adsorbed on surfaces and produce lingering odor even long after the fire. Partial oxidation of the released hydrocarbons yields in a wide palette of other compounds: aldehydes (eg. formaldehyde, acrolein, and furfural), ketones, alcohols (often aromatic, eg. phenol, guaiacol, syringol, catechol, and cresols), carboxylic acids (formic acid, acetic acid, etc.).
The visible particles in such smokes are most commonly composed of carbon (soot). Other particulates may be composed of drops of condensed tar, or solid particles of ash. Content of metals yields particles of metal oxides. Particles of inorganic salts may also be formed, like ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate. Many organic compounds, typically the aromatic hydrocarbons, may be also adsorbed on the surface of the solid particles.
Smoke emissions may contain characteristic trace elements. Vanadium is present in emissions from oil fired power plants and refineries; oil plants also emit some nickel. Coal combustion produces emissions containing selenium, arsenic, chromium, cobalt, copper, and aluminium.
Some components of smoke are characteristic for the combustion source. Guaiacol and its derivates are products of pyrolysis of lignin and are characteristic for wood smoke; other markers are syringol and derivates, and other methoxy phenols. Retene, a product of pyrolysis of conifer trees, is an indicator of forest fires. Levoglucosan is a pyrolysis product of cellulose. Hardwood vs softwood smokes differ in the ratio of guaiacols/syringols. Markers for vehicle exhaust include polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, hopanes, steranes, and specific nitroarenes (eg. 1-nitropyrene). The ratio of hopanes and steranes to elemental carbon can be used to distinguish between emissions of gasoline and diesel engines.
Dangers of smoke
Smoke from oxygen-deprived fires contains a significant amount of compounds that are flammable. A cloud of smoke, in contact with atmospheric oxygen, therefore has the potential of being ignited either by another open flame in the area, or by its own temperature. This leads to effects like backdraft and flashover.
Many compounds of smoke from fires are highly toxic and/or irritant. The most dangerous is carbon monoxide, leading to carbon monoxide poisoning, sometimes with supporting effect of hydrogen cyanide and phosgene. Smoke inhalation can therefore quickly lead to incapacitation and loss of consciousness.
Smoke can obscure visibility, impeding occupant exiting from fire areas. In fact, the poor visibility due to the smoke that was in the Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts was the exact reason why the trapped rescue firefighters couldn't evacuate the building in time. Due to the striking similarity that each floor shared, the dense smoke caused the firefighters to become disoriented.
Visible and invisible particles of combustion
Depending on particle size, smoke can be visible or invisible to the naked eye. This is best illustrated when toasting bread in a toaster. As the bread heats up, the products of combustion increase in size. These particles begin as invisible but become visible if the toast is burnt.
- Smoke detector
- Smoking (cooking technique)
- Smoke bomb
- Smoke signal
- ↑ Contribution of Particulate Organic Compounds to Indoor and Personal Exposures Retrieved October 1, 2007.
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The Best Eyesight In The Animal Kingdom
Human eyes are complex and powerful organs, but there are a few animals who have us beat when it comes to eyesight.
Let’s take a look at some of the best peepers in the animal kingdom and find out what makes them so different from ours!
Difference Between Human And Animal Vision
All eyes work by the same principle of focusing light onto the retina and translating the resultant image into neurological signals in the brain, but depending on what an animal has to do to survive, there will be different adaptations. The adaptations that are important for humans include detailed color vision, the ability to detect motion, and depth perception.
One of the easiest differences to spot between all the kinds of animal eyes is predator versus prey animals. We have our eyes on the front of our faces, like predator animals, while prey animals tend to have their eyes on the sides of their heads so predators can’t sneak up on them.
But the differences go much farther than that. Eagles, for instance, have a much deeper fovea than humans, which essentially gives them built-in telephoto lenses! They can see detail at much greater distances than we can as a result. They also have a wider field of vision and color vision that enables them to see in the UV spectrum!
Which Eyes Are The Best?
Even eagles don’t have the best eyesight out there, though. They might be kings of the daytime skies, but their eyes can’t do everything. Here are some other incredible eyes in the wild:
- The critter with the world’s best color vision (as far as we know) is the bluebottle butterfly. Where we have three different types of cones to detect color, they have a whopping fifteen, some of which see in the UV spectrum.
- When it comes to night vision, owls are at the top. Their eyes are shaped more like tubes than spheres, and they don’t move in their sockets, so they swivel their heads instead. Their eyes are very large and their retinas have five times the rod density that ours do in order to see in the dark. They also have a layer behind the retina called the tapetum lucidum, which reflects the light back to the retinas one more time, sharpening the night vision even more.
- Land animals, no matter how well they can see, lose that advantage underwater. But sharks’ eyes are well adapted to seeing in their ocean habitat. Many shark species have a protective layer over their eyes, and they have the tapetum lucidum like owls to see in dark or murky water.
- The animal with perhaps the most complicated eyes is the mantis shrimp, which has eye-stalks that move independently, each of which has three separate compound eyes (meaning there are numerous separate low-resolution “screens” instead of a single image) that do different things and send the information to different parts of the brain. They also have twelve types of photoreceptors.
Have You Noticed A Change In Your Vision?
While our eyes will never be able to see the way animals do, if you notice a change in your own vision, schedule an appointment so we can check it out! We want to make sure you always have the most current prescription, and we especially want to make sure no eye conditions are developing.
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