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The EUGDPR Institute Corporate/Company Assessment, Implementation and Conclusion (AIC) certification on EU privacy and security regimes, is a formal component of data protection regulation.
The Information Security Institute Corporate/Company Assessment, Implementation and Conclusion (AIC) certification program is a trust mark that focuses on three critical areas of a GDPR privacy compliance framework:
- Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) objectives as the principal areas of the GDPR privacy principles; that include policies, procedures, controls and records.
- Besides GRC the next three categories of GDPR implementation, the AIC certification program focuses on the GDPR activity related to people, process and technology.
- And finally, The Information Security Institute AIC certification program assesses the compliance framework based on the legislative, regulatory and contractual requirements as the Information Security components of the GDPR compliance.
The performance of the above three elements is instrumental in achieving the accredited external certification. The Information Security Institute AIC certification assures that the certification a proof that the organization protects the information security, Data Security and Cybersecurity due diligence is based on established best practice and recognized standards or frameworks: ISO/IBC 2700I:2013 and BSI 0012:2017.
Based on the certification report the company will be able to enhance the structured way of managing personal data, comply with the complexities of GDPR and meet the requirements on a multi-jurisdictional basis.
The Information Security Institute AIC certification provides organizations with the assurance that the certification which is based on national and international standards will enhance credibility with customers and stakeholders and demonstrate compliance to regulators with a compliance report.
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The GDPR Institute certification mechanisms will provide controllers and processors efficient means for establishing and maintaining compliance. The certifications may serve as a marketing tool, allowing data subjects to choose controllers signaling GDRP compliance or a Processors certified status may play a significant role in facilitating cross-border data transfers.


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10/16/2018 – 1970s: Tales from the Crypt (1972)
Directed by Freddie Francis
If the 1960s saw the industry starting to expand and develop, the 1970s saw that fracturing increase exponentially. The independent scene took hold as the New Hollywood movement developed across the industry.
We'll start again with the classics. With a reputation as "The Scariest Movie of All Time" (for example it's what the poster on my wall says behind me as I write this). William Friedkin's The Exorcist tends to carry a lot of baggage with it for first time viewers. While the head-spinning, and various other effects likely won't have the same impact they did on audiences back in 1973 (not that Linda Blair/Mercedes McCambridge's is any less fun), people forget that it contains far more including a priest wrestling with his very faith even as he is confronted by demons. It would go on to be the template for every exorcism movie that would come. There was also a sequel released later in the decade, but the less said about that one, the better.
Don't Look Now from Nicolas Roeg has become famous for its big scenes, the sex scene and the ending, but it's a fabulous thriller on top of that as well and story of grief whose visual style would go on to be highly influential. Theater of Blood has no such deeper meanings, it is just Vincent Price in the role of a lifetime devouring the scenery as Shakespearean actor getting revenge on the critics who he felt unappreciated him. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre would be the most influential of the three when it comes to horror. Tobe Hooper's low budget film would provide a major part of the blueprint for the slasher genre and its raw feel would shock audience despite its restraint in terms of what it actually showing on screen.
The influence of Jaws (one of the greatest horror films ever made) would be felt far beyond just horror. While it would lead to a boom in knockoff natural horror films (Piranha being far and away the best though Orca isn't bad) in the late '70s and to an extent this day, the film also became the go to example for how to do suspense in a film (slowly revealing the shark and keeping him mostly offscreen), and along with Star Wars two years later, helped establish the trend towards blockbusters in cinema. It also launched the career of director Steven Spielberg who had gotten his start on two horror TV films, the rather good debut (discounting the lost Firelight) Duel and Something Evil. Like The Exorcist, it too would get a sequel a few years after the original that succeeds in comparison by merely being bad.
Brian De Palma would direct a number of horror films in the 70s, the decent Margot Kidder-starring Sisters, the comedic rock opera Phantom of the Paradise, and the supernatural horror film The Fury, but his adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie would be the first of many for King and the best of his uneven career (and an uneven but great film). It took a while for George Romero to achieve success again after Night of the Living Dead (The Crazies is fine but wasn't a success), but he finally did so with the sequel Dawn of the Dead. Bigger and in color with more of an emphasis on the satirical content of the first, it's also the best zombie film made still to this date.
Building off of numerous forebears including the Canadian Black Christmas, John Carpenter's Halloween would solidify many of the tropes of the slasher film, providing a template for those to come. It's also, as much as I enjoy watching slashers, the one that rises above it to become a fantastic horror film in its own right. Donald Sutherland's second entry on this list (after Don't Look Back), Invasion of the Body Snatchers remade the 1956 classic and somehow improved it into a classic of paranoia fiction. Finally, we close out the decade with the excellent Ridley Scott directed sci-fi horror Alien. It blended elements of the slasher film and the classic 50s B-movie while portraying a realistic group of regular workers at the center of the film and one of cinema's greatest design aesthetics, most notably the design of the alien itself.
AIP expanded successfully into a number of other genres in the 70s, but they continued to release horror including some of their best titles. After a Vincent Price special, An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe that I highly recommend (it's merely Price reading Poe, but that's more than enough), Price and AIP would team up for the Dr. Phibes series with The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Dr. Phibes Rises Again. The former is the much better movie, but both are worth seeing. Among their blaxploitation titles, they also crossed over a few with horror. Blacula and Scream, Blacula, Scream are both alright, but Sugar Hill offers the far more engaging experience. The aforementioned Sisters came from the studio as did The Amityville Horror which I may not have liked, it's hard to deny years later staring down a third Annabelle movie that it's had an impact far exceeding its quality and anything else the studio released.
Other great American films of the era include The Stepford Wives which succeeded on the back of its satirical plot and Don Coscarelli's fun cult item Phantasm. There's some imperfect items to consider however. The Velvet Vampire which kicked off this year's leg of coverage of films from female directors is notable for being just that in an era with so few. The Last House on the Left is a wildly uneven and exploitive remake of The Virgin Spring while The Hills Have Eyes is merely mediocre, but they are important for introducing the world to director Wes Craven.
King Kong was both the fifth highest grossing film of 1977 and one of the highest grossing horror titles of the decade making it notable despite its failure. David Lynch's Eraserhead is beloved by fans of surrealist films. I Spit on Your Grave is pretty ineptly made, but I also can't deny its impact or the controversy it generated for its depiction of the rape and revenge genre. When a Stranger Calls is mostly a pretty forgettable film, but that fantastic intro alone deserves a mention.
We already hit one Canadian film in Black Christmas (whose director Bob Clark also helmed the solid Dead of Night), but the most notable director to start in the '70s there was David Cronenberg. After an interesting if not especially good first effort in the body horror film Shivers, he started to really show his promise on his follow up efforts of Rabid and The Brood. There's also Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS the defining Nazisploitation film if that's something to be proud of.
Across the Atlantic, things were looking grim for their prime horror studio. Hammer wouldn't survive the decade with their last film with their last film being released in 1979, but even before then, things were on shaky ground. They'd produce four Dracula, two Frankenstein, 1 Mummy, but each of the series were extremely tired by this point. They'd start a new vampire series with The Karnstein Trilogy featuring explicit for the time lesbian themes (including The Vampire Lovers and Twins of Evil), but that did little to change the overall pattern (Twins of Evil is the one to pick of those two). Amicus, a competing studio that had been producing films since the '60s and were known for their (generally solid) anthology titles would produce their standout title in Asylum as well as today's featured film.
The Omen (a British-American film from Superman director Richard Donner) wrapped up an unofficial trilogy of satanic classics with Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist as the weakest link but filled with too many unforgettable scenes to consider as anything less than great. The Wicker Man featuring Hammer great Christopher Lee may be overshadowed by the comedic remake, but the original still holds up as an effective mystery. I'd comment more on the Ozploitation horror films of the '70s, but of the two I've seen, Wake in Fright is (as wonderful as it is) on the borderline of horror and thriller, and The Plumber isn't very good. Still, the low budget Aussie films that emerged in that period also included The Cars That Ate Paris, Patrick, and Long Weekend.
After Mario Bava created the first giallo in 1964, the genre slowly developed until another director came along to help refine it. Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage added more style and violence and in the next couple years, waves of imitators followed. 1971's A Bay of Blood from Bava would become another influential title in the slasher's development while A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, The Case of The Scorpion's Tail, Don't Torture a Duckling, and What Have You Done to Solange?, and especially Deep Red would all represent prominent titles. Argento would go also go on to make the bold, stylish supernatural film Suspiria in 1977. 1975's Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom has remained controversial to this day and it's not exactly a film one "enjoys", but it is a film with a high degree of critical acclaim. Zombi 2, which serves as a sequel to Dawn of the Dead, has gone on to gain cult recognition among zombie fans and wound up spawning a side series in Italy.
Elsewhere in Europe, the great films were released in the Czech surrealist horror film Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, the Spanish creepy child flick Who Can Kill a Child?, and the German Nosferatu the Vampyre remake directed by Werner Herzog. The Mexican Alucarda was entertaining if a stretch to call a good film while the Japanese House is a fantastic bit of madness. Speaking of Japan, both the Godzilla and Gamera franchises continued into the new era as they continued to get cheesier.
Tales from the Crypt originated as an EC Comics series which ran from 1950 to 1955. It was ultimately killed thanks to the self-censorship by the comics industry bowing to public pressure creating an environment where the gruesome comics had no place. The series is now better known for anthology series that ran on HBO from 1989 through 1996 and more specifically the hilarious, bad pun fueled host, The Cryptkeeper, voiced by John Kassir. I've been slowly working my way through that series over the past year and while it is probably unfair to compare it to its predecessor, the comparisons will crop up.
The film version is also an anthology from anthology specialists Amicus. Gone is our beloved Cryptkeeper and now we have Ralph Richardson in the role dressed in a robe. He's a decent host, far more typical and playing the role straight that the more famous one. He probably would have been a lot better if I wasn't constantly mentally associating him with the very different take we'd get later (that based on my secondhand knowledge of the comics seems more apt), but more than anything SPOILERS1. He's there to tell everyone how they are going to die if they don't change their ways although none of them know how they got there.
Like the series, just about all of them are assholes in their own specific way. The first is a wife who murders her husband on Christmas Eve and has to deal with disposing of the body while her son is upstairs and a man who escaped from the hospital for the criminally insane wearing a Santa suit roams about. Another man takes off with his mistress, but after rolling his car hilariously has to stumble home in first person. While Peter Cushing isn't technically the jerk of the story, he still winds up as the focus in one tale (as is required of all British horror movies) as a poor man whose two neighbors try to chase out with mean valentines. I just wanted to give him a hug so bad in it and I don't think I've ever seen him play so kindly.
The final two stories are probably the most notable. A couple in financial trouble finds a statue in their possession with an inscription they hadn't noticed where they can make three wishes. The Monkey's Paw gets name dropped and then they just go and rip it off as they discuss it and try to subvert it. We just looked at another take on the story in Kagbeni and it's a clever idea to inject some new life into the story with a fun ending. SPOILERS2 The best story is saved for last as one of them runs a home for the blind filled with shit food, no heat, and treating them like garbage. He runs it like a military facility (and keeping all the best food and accommodations for himself) despite the fact that not only are they all mostly elderly and therefore in far worse condition that a typical soldier, but they also have their sense heightened and feel the terrible conditions that much worse. SPOILERS3
Most of the stories feel short, but the layout of them is smartly done as they build in quality throughout. The quality and production value are characteristically solid even if there is are a number of ridiculous effects including some blood straight out of Death Race 2000 in the opening scene and the aforementioned car flip. It's the interconnecting bits that hold the story back the most however as they mostly just exist to cut back to the person reacting hammily about what happened in their story and to set up the ending. SPOILERS4 I still liked the movie, but it fell a bit shy of being something more.
Bonus Episode #26 – A – 1960s: Captain Clegg (1962)
Directed by Peter Graham Scott
Known as Night Creatures in the US and loosely based on the Doctor Syn novels, we move onto our second Peter Cushing film of the night. This one however comes to us from Hammer. The pirate ship of Captain Clegg cuts the tongue out of and abandons a man on an island. The action then moves to the Romney Marshes in England in the late 18th century. Said to be haunted by the Marsh Phantoms who appear to be glow in the dark skeletons on phantom-like horses with eyes behind those skulls, they are also haunted by reports of smuggling.
The Royal Navy is sent into investigate these reports and the film focuses on those seeking to outwit him. For the entire town is in on it including the parson played by Peter Cushing. He refuses the sailors quarter, hides the liquor in coffins, and SPOILERS BUT OBVIOUS5 Captain Clegg has since been buried in the town's graveyard, but the film makes it clear early on there's more to his story. Oliver Reed in an early role following up his title role in The Curse of the Werewolf.
The ties to horror are tenuous, but the look of the Marsh Phantoms, especially from the distance where the horse seem to flicker in and out of existence is great. It's a fun story away from that, allowing Cushing to have fun messing with the king's men and dealing with the stress from their stay. I'll be honest, I watched this merely because it was on the disc with the next movie, but it's one of the better Hammer films I've seen. Not gushing praise, but a well-made film.
Bonus Episode #27 – A – 1960s: The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
Directed by Freddie Francis
When Hammer started remaking the Universal horror films, they had to be careful not to mimic certain distinguishing traits of those films which had been invented for the films. They could pull from any of the novels or adapt similar works, but the iconic Universal look remained off limits. The Evil of Frankenstein was the first Hammer film made under a new distribution deal with Universal that allowed them to more closely mirror the look of those older films. As a result, the laboratory more resembles that old one with all the coils and that big center platform, while the monster also more closely resembles the original with his flat head.
It also abandons the continuity of the current Hammer films in favor of a new one. In an earlier experiment Baron Frankenstein (played by Peter Cushing) had tried to create life. However, when he succeeded, the monster went on a livestock killing rampage which attracted the anger and gunfire of the townspeople. Charged with assaulting a police officer and working against god, Frankenstein was chased out of town and had to work his way back up from scratch. Now, having to head back to Karlstaad after nearly ten in desperate need of money for research (planning to essentially strip his own place for parts). He finds out however that the Burgomeister has moved in to his place in the interim. After discovering that the monster is still alive, frozen in ice, he restarts his work.
This monster is an ugly bastard with a patchwork, leathery face. It's an interesting (if not unique or equal) update to the Karloff version. I feel like complimenting the look of the film is cheating since it is just copying the homework of someone else, but it makes for a solid facsimile of the original. Sadly, the story is a bit of bore with an emphasis on hypnotism brainwashing the creature to do a character's bidding. Said hypnotist (played by (Peter Woodthorpe) isn't even a compelling villain, hamming the same way every other film hypnotist has since they started making sound films. There's a reason Universal Frankenstein films went out of fashion and that is because they got stale. This film can't even manage to reach that level and just drags its feet to the conclusion.
Next up: Ana Lily Amirpour's vampire-western A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

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If your 'Samsung GT-E1050' device displays a "No Service" or an "Emergency Calls" only message, this would usually indicate that you are in a location with poor signal strength / limited network coverage.
As a further test however, we would recommend attempting to select a network manually –
1) Go to the main 'Menu' by pressing the top left button on the keypad.
2) Select "Settings"
3) Select "Network"
4) Change the network search mode to "Manual" and wait while the phone performs a search.
5) Choose a network from the list and select "Save" by pressing the top left button on the keypad.
6) Once complete, test the service and if the issue persists, repeat these steps with any other networks shown
7) If this resolves the issue, please change the network search mode back to "Automatic" when you travel to a new location.


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Transforming the forest industrty into an environmentally sustainable one remains a challenge, The Globe and Mail reports. Producing paper and wood products still generates significant air and water pollution, and companies such as Abitibi-Consolidated, Norbord, Tembec and West Fraser Timber have all paid significant fines for violating environmental regulations in recent years. The Globe article grades nine Canadian Forest industry companies on their corporate social responsibility performance.
Catalyst (A-), the top-rated company, has not been convicted or fined for violating health and safety or environmental regulations during the past five years. In December, 2004, Catalyst joined with Office Depot and PricewaterhouseCoopers to develop a system to track and verify that its paper meets environmental standards through all the production stages, from tree harvesting to manufacturing.
On the other end of the spectrum, Interfor (E+), since 2005, has twice been found guilty of discriminating against workers on disability leave. Also, 12 workersA?AA¢AA¢aAA¬AA¢a?A¬?some employed by contractorsA?AA¢AA¢aAA¬AA¢a?A¬?have died at Interfor operations since 2002.
Other companies rated include: Tembec – B+; Cascades – B-; Norbord – B-; Canfor – C+; TimberWest – C; Abitibi-Consolidated – C-; and West Fraser Timber – D+.


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1. Introduction
Boron Nitride Nanotubes (BNNTs) are one of the basic new nano materials being investigated by researchers in anticipation of industrial applications. Since the first paper on BNNT synthesis was published in 1995 [1], BNNT-related research has steadily increased [2]. BNNT is a combination of nitrogen and boron, and has the same hexagonal nanotube structure as CNT (Carbon Nanotubes). Because of their structural similarities the physical properties of BNNT are comparable to those of CNT. For example, BNNT mechanical properties, thermal conductivity, and thermal expansion characteristics are similar to those of CNT [3-6]. BNNT also has ceramic characteristics, so it has better high temperature safety and chemical resistance than CNT [7-9]. Given these many excellent physical characteristics, application research on BNNT is currently being conducted in various industries.
Various BNNT application studies are also being conducted in the energy industry, including for hydrogen storage. Hydrogen is well-known around the world as a clean fuel, and one of the candidates to replace current carbon-based fossil fuels. To utilize hydrogen, hydrogen storage technologies must be developed and implemented on an industrial scale. Recent research has been conducted on nanostructured materials which can store hydrogen via physical adsorption, including CNT and BNNT, which have a highly porous structure, low mass density, and very large specific surface area [10-14]. It has been reported that hydrogen storage capacity due to physical adsorption is increased by the presence of defect points in the nanostructures or with more open edges, i.e., less crystalline nanostructures [15].
Ion beam irradiation is a technique that can finely change a material's surface's physical, chemical, or mechanical properties at the atomic level. At the surface, the beam energy is converted to kinetic energy, causing a chain collision of atoms within the area where the beam is focused. Atoms on the sample surface are removed by evaporation or elastic collisions or rearranged due to melting or inelastic collisions. Ion beam irradiation is mainly used as a surface engineering technology in areas of micro/nano scale.
In this study, BNNT was synthesized using the RF Plasma method, and nitrogen ions were irradiated on the surface of the BNNT, and structural changes in the BNNT were investigated according to the ion beam energy.
2. Experiments
2.1 BNNT synthesis and specimen preparation
The BNNT for this study was synthesized using a 60 kW RF plasma torch system. A 70 nm sized boron nitride (h-BN) powder was used as the raw material. This plasma torch BNNT synthesis method was introduced by K. S. Kim. This synthesis method uses the Ar/H2/N2 gas discharge. The BNNT is formed by high temperature plasma of h-BN powder, and synthesized BNNT is collected in the collection device [16]. Fig 1 shows a schematic diagram of the plasma torch used for the synthesis of BNNT. Hydrogen was added during the synthesis process to improve the BNNT manufacturing reaction. The BNNT synthesis conditions for this study are shown in Table 1. The addition of hydrogen to improve the BNNT manufacturing reaction is characteristic of this synthesis method, and makes it possible to synthesize highly crystalline BNNT with a very small diameter. In the synthesis, un-melted h-BN particles and amorphous boron are produced as impurities. The synthesized BNNT mixture was then heated at 650 °C for 6 hours to change the amorphous boron in the mixture to B2O3 and then for dispersion was subjected to ultrasonic waves in methanol for 30 minutes. A membrane filter was then used to separate the B2O3 and BNNT compounds dissolved in the methanol dispersion solution. The refined BNNT compounds were then mixed at a rate of 0.002 g per 100 ml of ethanol using ultrasonic waves for 30 minutes. Two to three drops of the dispersion solution were dropped into a carbon coated TEM grid (Pure Carbon, 200 mesh, Cu) to produce specimens for ion beam irradiation and microstructure analysis.
2.2 Ion beam irradiation
Nitrogen (N2) gas was used for the ion beam irradiation. The ion beam was irradiated on the surface of the BNNT specimen using an ion injection device (Neopion Co., Ltd., Korea) as shown in Fig 2. The ion beam irradiation was conducted in a vacuum at 3 × 10-5 torr, with an ion irradiation (dose) ranging from 1 × 103 to 1 × 1017 ions/cm2 at applied ion beam irradiation energies of 40 keV, and 50 keV. The ion irradiation dose was calculated by establishing the area of the specimen being examined, the amount of current, and the time duration.
The ion injection device introduces the gas into the vacuum tube, forms a plasma, and then accelerates the cation in the plasma by applying high voltage to the surface of the material, allowing it to crash and be injected into the surface of the material.
2.3 Characteristics analysis
The microstructural changes in the BNNT following ion irradiation were confirmed using HR-TEM (JEM-2010, JEOL, Japan). The vibration characteristics and lattice vibration characteristics of the BN nanostructures produced by ion irradiation were identified using Raman spectrometry (LabRAM HR, HORIBA, Japan) and FT-IR spectrometry (Nicole iS50, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. USA), respectively.
3. Results and Discussion
Fig 3 shows a TEM image of the microstructure of the synthesized BNNT, and the BNNT following ion beam irradiation. Fig 3 (a) shows a TEM image of BNNT which has undergone a post-synthesis refining process, and a sample of BNNTs grouped together which has a length of hundreds of nm or more. (b) and (c) in Fig 3 are TEM images of the synthesized BNNT after irradiation with a N2+ ion beam dose of 1 × 1015 ions/cm2 at a beam energy of 40 keV (b) and 50 keV (c).
The synthesized BNNT is a multi-walled BNNT with a wall thickness of about 5 nm. As the ion beam dose is increased, the BNNT's tube structure becomes more and more disordered, and finally changes into an amorphous structure [17].
At an ion beam energy of 40 keV, the outermost tube shell of the BNNT was partially broken and changed into an amorphous structure. At an ion beam energy of 50 keV, the tube shell in the middle of the multi-walls became disordered, forming a continuous amorphous layer. This change can be attributed to the difference in ion penetration depth due to the higher ion beam energy. This microstructural change was not seen when the irradiation beam was less than 1 × 1015 ions/cm2 at each ion beam energy.
Fig 4 shows the variation in Raman spectrum following ion beam irradiation. The Raman spectrum of the BNNT was similar to the Raman spectrum of h-BN. All BN nanostructures represent only one E2g mode, which is a Raman active mode, in the wavelength range of 1,000 to 1,500 cm-1. The E2g mode of BN is a mode derived from the in-plane atomic arrangement, in which the B and N atoms are against each other [18]. The peak of the synthesized BNNT was located at 1370 cm-1. The peak of the BNNT irradiated at 40 keV with N2+ ions 1 × 1015 ions/cm2 was located at 1368 cm-1, and at 1365 cm-1 for ion beam irradiation at 50 keV. The E2g mode of all BN nanostructures is transferred to a lower frequency region than the BN in bulk form, which is reported to be due to reduced crystallinity [15,19]. A. L. M. Reddy et al. reported a 0.2~0.3 wt% improvement in hydrogen storage capacity by physical adsorption, although the peak shifted to 4~5 cm-1 lower frequencies with decreasing crystallinity. They also reported that this improvement in hydrogen storage capacity may be due to the presence of more defect sites and many open edged layers on the BNNT outer surface [15].
In this study, the crystalline structure of BNNT was reduced due to the generation and increase of amorphous structure by ion beam irradiation, which can be seen in the results as peaks shifting to lower frequency. These results suggest that the microstructural deformation produced by ion beam irradiation can be useful for improving hydrogen storage capacity.
Fig 5 shows the FT-IR spectrum of the synthesized BNNT, and the ion beam irradiated BNNT. The FT-IR spectrum provides additional information about the lattice vibrations of the BN nanostructures. The FT-IR spectrum of the synthesized BNNT is located near two strong characteristic peaks of 800 cm-1 and 1360 cm-1. That of the ion beam irradiated BNNT is similar to the synthesized BNNT. The characteristic peaks were not changed by ion irradiation. The peak of the 800 cm-1 band represents the A2u mode, which corresponds to the BN vibration perpendicular to the BNNT tube axis, and the peak of the 1360 cm-1 band represents the E1u mode, which is due to the BN vibration parallel to the tube axis [15,20]. The peak produced by the A2u mode of the BN nanostructure, i.e., the BN vibration perpendicular to the tube axis, was shifted to a lower frequency compared to the BN bulk form [15,21]. This shift in frequency is due to the buckled structure in BNNTs.
4. Conclusions
Multi-walled BNNT with a wall thickness of 5 nm was synthesized using a plasma torch system. The synthesized BNNT was irradiated with N2+ ions, and part of the tube shell was transformed into an amorphous structure. At an ion beam energy of 50 keV, a continuous amorphous layer was formed in the middle of the multiple walls. The reduction in the crystalline structure of the BNNT by the formation of amorphous structure was confirmed by Raman spectra. The reduction in nanocrystalline structure by ion injection will advance the application of BNNT for hydrogen storage by physical adsorption.


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This academic year environmental protection will be one of the common compulsory courses in Anhui Normal University (AHNU). It is the first Chinese university to take such a step.
Jiang Yumin, president of AHNU, said much importance was attached to education in environmental protection, both in class and through social activities. It aims to popularize the idea among students.
A related teach and research division has been established, with a dozen key teachers from the College of Environmental Science, the College of Life Science, the College of Chemistry and Materials Science and the College of Land, Resources and Tourism. They will work together to compile teaching materials and develop teaching programs
Altogether, six courses are available to students: Environment and Human Society, Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development, Environmental Pollution and Health, Environment and Resources, Environmental Sociology and Environmental Pedagogy respectively.
Every full-time undergraduate student is required to select one of the courses during the four years on campus. After the 34-hour teaching program, students can acquire two credits on passing the exam.
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#78 Surviving Small Business & Fatherhood
Surviving small business and fatherhood is no easy feat. Yet the pattern of starting a business while simultaneously starting a business seems to be a common one.
Joey, Tee, Paul and Coach Aaron sit down for a chat about this stage of life that each of the boys has either found themselves in, or is about to find themselves in. They reveal their top learnings from this time of life.
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Living with Type 1 Diabetes means that I have to closely watch my carbohydrate intake, and it's easier to do this by eating low-carb foods that make the math easier. Since I don't want to give up on some of the finer things in life – like waffles – I spent some time formulating a decent substitute for carb-heavy grain-based waffles. This lets me have a fairly large breakfast of applesauce, yogurt, and definitely-not-maple (but passable) syrup and still keep things under 45g of carbs.
Keep in mind that this recipe is not gluten-free. Gluten-free flours that provide the proper texture are still high in carbs, so I've chosen to add gluten to the almond flour in this recipe in order to get the proper stretchy and crunchy texture.
This recipe is made to be scaled up (it only makes 1 waffle in my machine). Being so small, I would recommend at least doubling (if not tripling) just to get enough volume in the bowl to mix properly.
Stir together the dry ingredients until they're evenly incorporated:
- 1/4 cup almond flour
- 1 tsbp vital wheat gluten
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon (or more, optional)
Thoroughly mix in:
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup Califia Farms unsweetened almond milk
Let sit 3-4 minutes to allow the gluten and cinnamon to hydrate.
Cook according to waffle maker directions.
- Carbquik:
- Use Carbquick in a 1:1 ratio with this mix for lower fat content and fewer calories.
- The carb count is about the same as almond flour, and I think the two mixtures work well together for better textured waffles.
- Buttermilk:
- Buttermilk adds a nice flavor and bit of browning to the waffles that you just don't get from the almond milk.
- Substitute buttermilk for the almond milk
- Add 1/4 tsp baking soda so the buttermilk's acidity doesn't interfere with the baking powder.
- Buttermilk adds about 3g carbs per 1/4 cup.
- This recipe also works great for pancakes if you add a bit more liquid, and another 1/8 tsp baking powder (I usually triple it and round up to 1/2 tsp baking powder).
- I measure the ingredients by weight because it's faster and saves me from washing a measuring cup.
- According to the packaging, 1/4 cup of almond flour or Carbquik weighs about 30g. In practice, I find that it's closer to 40g.
- I buy the almond milk at Whole Foods but have seen it in other stores. The unsweetened variety is basically 0g net carbs. More info from Califia Farms.
- I count this recipe as 5g net carbs. The almond flour I use is 5g per 1/4 cup but at 60% fiber I count it as 3g net. Everything else is under 1g net for the amounts used in the recipe, and I round up just to be safe.
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For many of us, our homes are our most expensive asset. That's why we protect our homes with insurance, preventing financial hardship in the event that our homes are damaged, stolen from, vandalized, or deemed the cause of an injury.
However, even the most comprehensive home insurance policies don't cover everything. For that reason, homeowners need to be proactive about what they can help prevent.
What are the most common causes of home insurance claims, and what can homeowners do to protect themselves? Read on for the details.
While there are many different reasons homeowners may need to file an insurance claim, insurance agents do spot certain trends. The majority of claims Grange Insurance Association receives are caused by one or more of the following:
How can you protect yourself from these types of claims? While this is not an exhaustive list, these practical tips will certainly help.
Earlier this fall, we devoted an entire blog about how to prevent water damage; below are some highlights:
Safeguard your home from burglary by:
Home Advisor offers an even more comprehensive list of preventative tips, so be sure to review the full list here.
In order to protect your home from fire, be sure to:
You don't want someone to fall or slip on your property. Perform a safety assessment of your home, checking for tripping hazards. Things to look out for include:
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Practice Essentials
For centuries, bowel trauma was associated with a high mortality rate, and survivors escaped death by withstanding hemorrhage and sepsis. With the introduction of radiography, diagnostic accuracy improved. Multirow helical detector CT scans are capable of scanning the abdomen in less than 30 seconds and can detect free air, free fluid, abnormal bowel wall enhancement, bowel wall thickening, and mesenteric infiltration. These advances in CT have brought the debate of conservative management of abdominal trauma full circle. Currently, many patients with blunt abdominal trauma or retroperitoneal penetrating trauma can be managed without surgery and can avoid unnecessary laparotomy. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
(See the related images below.)
Multidetector CT (MDCT) scanning using 16- and 64-slice CT has increased the speed in which trauma patients are scanned. In addition, 16- and 64-slice MDCT imaging allows the creation of isotropic voxels that allow reformats to be performed in sagittal and coronal planes, which can allow better localization of bowel injuries.
Imaging modalities
Bedside ultrasonography is a rapid, portable, noninvasive, and accurate examination that can be performed by emergency clinicians and trauma surgeons to detect hemoperitoneum. In many medical centers, focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) examination is the procedure of choice in the evaluation of hemodynamically unstable trauma patients. FAST has gained acceptance in the evaluation of blunt and penetrating abdominal trauma because of its speed, noninvasiveness, and reproducibility in diagnosing intraperitoneal injury that requires laparotomy. The American College of Radiology (ACR) suggests that it can be useful for triage in hemodynamically stable patients with suspected bowel injury due to blunt trauma. [9]
CT is the first-line diagnostic modality for abdominal trauma and can offer visceral organ information and help determine therapeutic options. The shift to nonoperative management in many cases has made accurate imaging necessary for conservative management. [1] CT of the abdomen is the preferred diagnostic examination for the evaluation of blunt abdominal trauma in the hemodynamically stable patient with blunt abdominal trauma and in selected instances of penetrating trauma to the posterior abdomen. Unstable patients or patients with penetrating injuries to the abdomen undergo exploratory laparotomy. [2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 1, 13, 14, 15, 16]
Abdominal CT examination should be systematic. Traumatic injury to the bowel is rarely isolated. First, evaluate the more commonly injured organs, such as the liver and spleen, as well as the pancreas, adrenals, kidneys, blood vessels, spine, and skeletal structures.
Evaluate traumatic injury to the bowel in the context of the mechanism and location of injury, as follows:
Right upper quadrant: examine the right lung base, right hemidiaphragm, liver, gallbladder, right colon, right adrenal, right kidney, and right abdominal small bowel loops
Midline: evaluate the base of the heart, diaphragm, pancreas, duodenum, aorta, inferior vena cava, and small bowel mesentery
Left upper quadrant: evaluate the base of the heart, base of the left lung, left hemidiaphragm, stomach, spleen, tail of the pancreas, left adrenal, left kidney, left colon, and small bowel loops
Lower abdomen and/or pelvis: evaluate the bladder, rectosigmoid, and small bowel loops.
Each imaging modality (eg, plain abdominal radiograph, US, CT) demonstrates typical findings that suggest a diagnosis of bowel trauma. [17] In the hemodynamically stable patient with abdominal trauma, CT is the study of choice.
The only role of angiography in acute bowel trauma is to identify the site of visceral bleeding. [18]
Limitations of techniques
The accuracy of CT for the evaluation of bowel injury is as high as 97.6%.
CT can be limited if diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) is performed prior to the CT. Free intraperitoneal fluid and air from the DPL observed on CT makes the evaluation for bowel injury very difficult.
Although CT can suggest bowel injury by demonstrating free intraperitoneal air, free fluid, or thickened bowel wall, in many instances it cannot reliably localize the exact location of bowel injury.
Delayed presentation of bowel injury occasionally occurs. Patients returning with continued symptoms several hours or days after a negative trauma should undergo repeat CT. [19]
WSES guidelines
The World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) has published guidelines on bowel trauma diagnosis and management, including the following [20] :
Management of the awake and oriented patient with blunt abdominal trauma starts with the primary survey, E-FAST, physical examination, secondary survey, blood chemistry, vital signs, and contrast-enhanced abdominal CT.
The presence of a seatbelt sign should prompt a CT scan and a high index of suspicion for bowel injury.
In selected cases. repeat CT might be considered. Patients with equivocal signs on initial CT scan should be reimaged after 6 hours. In patients who demonstrate evolving clinical signs suspicious for bowel injury, reimaging should be considered.
The presence of highly specific CT findings such as extraluminal air, extraluminal oral contrast, or bowel-wall defects warrants prompt surgical exploration.
The presence of highly sensitive CT findings such as free fluid in the absence of solid-organ injury, abnormal enhancement of bowel wall, and mesenteric stranding can be used as an adjunct to the clinical picture but should not solely determine management.
Following penetrating trauma, highly sensitive CT findings for bowel injury include free fluid in the absence of solid-organ injury, abnormal enhancement of bowel wall, and mesenteric stranding. These can be used as an adjunct in the clinical picture but should not solely determine management.
IV contrast-enhancing CT scanning has equal sensitivity to triple contrast in detecting bowel injury and is favorable in time-sensitive trauma situations.
Plain radiography findings in bowel injury include the following [21] :
Nonspecific findings may include small and/or large bowel dilation suggestive of ileus or obstruction secondary to peritonitis
Soft tissue density and/or mass effect on bowel gas loops suggest fluid collections, hematoma, or scoliosis resulting from splinting toward the side of injury
Loss of right psoas shadow suggests a retroperitoneal fluid collection from a duodenal injury
Free intraperitoneal air suggests bowel perforation
Upright abdominal films and left lateral decubitus films can detect as little as 1 mL or 2 mL of free intraperitoneal air under the diaphragm or over the liver edge, respectively
On supine abdominal radiographs, free air can be observed outlining the serosa of the bowel loops ("Rigler" or serosa sign) or the falciform ligament
Retroperitoneal air from duodenal or sigmoid injury can outline the diaphragmatic crura or the kidneys
GI studies using contrast can identify areas of extravasation from perforated bowel. GI studies also can help identify a duodenal hematoma
Plain radiographs are not highly specific or sensitive for evaluating bowel injury. Findings of free air, abdominal fluid, scoliosis, and psoas shadow obliteration are observed in fewer than 43% of patients with intestinal trauma. Fluid collections must be large (>800 mL) to be visible on plain radiographs.
Pneumoperitoneum does not always indicate bowel rupture and can be observed in patients with pneumomediastinum or pneumothorax and in patients on mechanical ventilation.
Computed Tomography
CT is the modality of choice for evaluating abdominal trauma in the hemodynamically stable patient (see the images below). [22, 23, 24, 4, 25, 5, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31] CT evaluation for blunt abdominal trauma can be difficult and requires strict attention to meticulous techniques. [1, 32, 33, 34, 35] Multidetector CT scanning using a 16- or 64-slice CT allows for coronal and sagittal reformats. Examination of these off-axis images allows for improved detection and localization of bowel injuries. [6, 7] 7 The coronal plane is especially helpful because it provides an anatomic view and helps referring physicians/surgeons better understand the location and extent of injury.
The sagittal plane is helpful in the evaluation of the thoracic and lumbar spine and can detect associated compression fractures of the spine, which may be missed when viewed in the axial plane alone.
Administer oral and intravenous contrast. Extend sections from the base of the lungs to below the symphysis pubis. View these sections in the "abdominal, lung, liver" and "bone" windows. Carefully search for associated injuries, including Chance or vertebral burst fractures; abdominal bruising; and pancreatic, liver, spleen, adrenal, and kidney injury. Consider administering rectal contrast in patients with suggested penetrating injury to the rectum or retroperitoneal colon. [14]
CT findings in bowel injury include the following (also see Table 1, below):
Bowel injury is suggested by free intraperitoneal air, free intraperitoneal or retroperitoneal fluid, focal areas of bowel wall thickening, abnormal bowel wall enhancement, bowel wall hematoma (ie, duodenal hematoma), and intramural air.
The most specific finding is the visualization of oral contrast extravasation and bowel wall disruption.
A pattern of more diffuse bowel wall thickening, abnormal enhancement, and mesenteric infiltration can suggest mesenteric vascular injury resulting in ischemic bowel.
In intestinal vascular injury, evaluate the celiac axis, superior mesenteric artery, and superior mesenteric vein. A mesenteric hematoma or a focal area of higher density clotted blood (ie, "sentinel clot") can suggest vascular injury.
Focal contrast extravasation can indicate active hemorrhage.
Table 1. CT Findings in Bowel Injury (Open Table in a new window)
Abdominal CT
Direct Findings
Indirect Findings
Bowel injury
Bowel wall disruption and oral contrast extravasation
Free intraperitoneal/retroperitoneal air, free intraperitoneal/retroperitoneal fluid
Focal areas of bowel wall thickening, abnormal bowel wall enhancement
Mesenteric vascular injury
Intravenous contrast extravasation from the area of the mesentery
Diffuse bowel wall thickening, diffuse bowel wall enhancement, mesenteric infiltration/mesenteric hematoma
The accuracy of CT for evaluating bowel injury is 82%, with a sensitivity of 64% and a specificity of 97%.
Some findings on CT suggesting bowel injury can represent false-positive findings, such as the following:
Free intraperitoneal air in a trauma patient can also be observed in a patient with pneumomediastinum, pneumothorax, recent DPL, laparotomy, or barotrauma with no associated bowel injury
Free fluid in a trauma patient can originate from injury to other organs, including the liver, spleen, gallbladder, and urinary bladder, without any injury to the bowel
Bowel wall thickening and abnormal wall enhancement can also be observed in patients with hypotension or hypoperfusion without direct bowel injury
In a study of blunt small bowel perforation in patients from 39 centers, initial CT showed free air in 43% of cases and none in control patients. Mean time to surgery was 8.7 hours (median, 3.7 hr). Following analysis, the study authors noted that intraperitoneal abnormalities on CT scan should always evoke high suspicion and that there should be strong consideration for additional diagnostic/therapeutic intervention by 8 hours after arrival in patients who continue to pose a clinical challenge. [34]
Bowel and/or mesentery injuries are the third most common type of injury in patients who sustain blunt abdominal trauma. In a study by Firetto et al, 34 (4.1%) of 831 patients who sustained blunt abdominal trauma had blunt bowel and/or mesenteric injury on CT. Of the 34 patients, 21 (61.8%) underwent surgical repair and 13 received conservative treatment. Free fluid was shown to have a significant statistical association with surgery. The highest positive predictive values were found to be (1) abdominal guarding with bowel wall discontinuity and (2) extraluminal air (100% and 83.3%, respectively). [13]
In study by Liao et al of 188 patients with blunt bowel and mesenteric injury, the most common characteristics on CT were free fluid (71.3%), free air (43.6%), and mesenteric infiltration (23.4%). [32]
Typically, the role of US in evaluating bowel trauma is limited to detecting free intraperitoneal fluid in trauma patients who are not sufficiently hemodynamically stable to undergo CT. However, the identified fluid cannot be further defined. Considerations include benign ascites, blood, urine, or bile and must be confirmed with CT. [36, 17]
Other findings of bowel injury include dilated bowel loops secondary to an ileus or obstruction. US is insensitive in detecting intraperitoneal free air.


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by Selwyn Duke, The New American:
Commit malpractice — gain control. While this doesn't appear a recipe for success, it absolutely is working for the World Health Organization (WHO). This entity did, after all, claim the coronavirus couldn't be transmitted person-to-person and then sabotage the investigation into whether the pathogen emerged from a Chinese lab. But this isn't stopping the Biden administration from forging an agreement that would give the world body control over your life and those of our fellow Americans.
TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/
The kicker: The WHO's head is a Third World ex-(and maybe current) Marxist who, though not a doctor, was given the opportunity to mismanage health crises in his native Ethiopia.
It's a story that has flown far under the radar despite possibly being one of this year's biggest developments. As Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson reported Thursday evening:
So, imagine the civil liberties abuses that you lived through during the COVID lockdowns, but permanent and administered from a foreign country. Here's what we're looking at tonight. This January, the Biden administration submitted a series of proposed amendments to something called the International Health Regulations (the IHR). Now, the Biden administration's amendments, along with those from several other countries, will be combined to create a new global pandemic treaty. …That treaty is set to be adopted starting this weekend in Geneva at the World Health Assembly.
Now, the full text of the treaty is not yet finished, but a W.H.O. working group has summarized what it's going to look like. The document begins by promising to restrict the W.H.O's authority just to pandemics. Calm down, it's just pandemics….
So, don't get paranoid. Someone just needs to coordinate the pandemic response globally because it's a global problem. Got it? Settle down, conspiracy nut.
But here's the catch. The World Health Organization gets to define what a pandemic is, when a pandemic is in progress and how long a pandemic lasts. Then you read the fine print and you realize the W.H.O will have total authority over emergency operations in the United States if there's ever a "public health emergency." Huh?
What qualifies exactly as a public health emergency? What qualifies exactly as a public health emergency? Well, they don't define that, but they get to…and then they have total authority. You can see where this is going. Now, the Biden administration has made certain that unelected bureaucrats, the W.H.O., have total authority to declare and define public health emergencies. They did it explicitly. The White House eliminated a provision that would have required the World Health Organization to "consult with an attempt to obtain verification from the state party in whose territory the event is allegedly occurring in."
So, as originally written, they couldn't do anything without the permission of their member countries' governments. But thanks to the change that the Biden administration pushed, effectively there is no limit at all on W.H.O's power and then it gets worse from there. The treaty also mandates a "whole of government and a whole of society approach to pandemic preparedness."
Think about that. Every society is always preparing for a pandemic, and that means there will not be a moment ever when the W.H.O. doesn't have operational control over so-called public health matters in this country.
Carlson makes the point that this isn't about public health, but public control. As to this, the Biden administration has ensured that the treaty contains a provision for a "compliance committee," which sounds about as innocuous as a "Disinformation Governance Board" (the currently suspended federal effort to control speech).
As to details, the IHR states that each WHO member must inform the organization "about the establishment of its national competent authority responsible for overall implementation of the IHR that will be recognized and held accountable." Never mind that having a national authority enforcing these rules would be unconstitutional in the U.S. Our government would nonetheless be sanctioned if it didn't enforce this foreign body's diktats.
Moreover, the WHO is headed by a tool of the Chinese government named Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Once a member of Ethiopia's Marxist-Leninist Party, the obedient apparatchik was allowed to lead his native country's health ministry even though he's not a physician (appointing unqualified co-ideologues is typical of corrupt nations). Once there, "for political reasons, he covered up three cholera outbreaks," Carlson reminds us, because they affected "disfavored groups." (So he shares our Left's identity politics passions.)
Tedros also tried to appoint fellow socialist Robert Mugabe as an international goodwill ambassador for public health; Mugabe is the murderous racist who, as the leader of Zimbabwe, reduced the once-prosperous nation to an utter failure. Tedros does have his friends, though — Anthony Fauci praised him as "an outstanding person."
Carlson also avers that the WHO treaty
- demands the addressing of "misinformation" (i.e. censorship);
- gives the WHO the power to institute "vaccine" passports and regulate travel;
- puts the WHO in charge of "the digitalization of all health forms."
- gives the WHO control over vaccine production and distribution;
- states that we will shift "from a model where innovation is left to the market, to a model aimed at delivering global public goods" (i.e., socialism); and
- mandates the distribution of vaccines and essential medicines based on "equity" (generally a euphemism for racial discrimination).
The Thursday Carlson video segment is below.
It should be emphasized that allowing the WHO to define what's a "pandemic" and giving it "total authority over emergency operations in the United States if there's ever a 'public health emergency'" would mean continuous, never-ending control. Oh, it's not just that winter seasons often bring flu pandemics. It's also this:
The New York Times stated in March of last year that we should "declare racism a public health emergency," and in December New York governor Kathy Hochul actually did declare racism a "public health emergency."
And in 2020, American Psychological Association president Sandra L. Shullman, Ph.D. proclaimed, "We are living in a racism pandemic."
But, hey, who listens to the Times and Ph.D. social scientists (except government bureaucrats), anyway?
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Recently, Ohio University held its annual CALL Conference featuring a keynote from TESOL President Deborah Healey. During her visit, she found time to delivered a fantastic primer on gamification to our graduate students. As a result, I thought it would be a great time to explore the topic of gamification for this month's blog post.
It can be challenging to pin down just what gamification is, how it works in the classroom, and how the traditional roles of teacher and student change in a gamified class. This month's post is the first on gamification, and over the next few months we will continue to explore gamification and how it can be implemented in classroom practice.
What Is Gamification?
Gamification is the application of game mechanics to nongame contexts, often for the purpose of amplifying motivation and engagement. Gamification has seen considerable buzz in education with advocates declaring a transformative learning experience for students and educators alike. Opponents of gamification frequently lament its misuse due to an excessive focus on extrinsically motivating rewards, such as points, badges, and leaderboards.
What's an Example of Gamification?
Wearable health trackers, such as Fitbit, utilize game design elements to make fitness more engaging. They do this by leveraging the way games create short-term objectives that lead to long-term goals. Get in shape is a vague long-term goal that can be challenging to accomplish, while walk 10,000 steps today is a more manageable short-term objective that builds to the goal. Health trackers combine this with frequent feedback, such as the steps counter displayed on your wrist, and social challenges, such as walking more per day than your friends. Trophies or achievements may be presented to users for accomplishing more, such as walking 20,000 steps in a day. This combination of short-term objectives leading to long-term goals, frequent feedback, and a reward system are the most frequent mechanics used in gamification.
How Does It Differ From Game-Based Learning?
Game-based learning is the use of games for education as part of the traditional classroom structure. A classroom using Trace Effects, Minecraft, or Quandary would not be considered gamified because the game mechanics stay within the video games and are not applied to nongame contexts. Compare these video games with a quiz delivered through Kahoot or Socrative. At its core, Kahoot is a multiple-choice quiz that has been amplified using a points system, a leaderboard, and rewards: all typical game elements.
How Is Gamification Applied to Education?
One of the first educators to implement gamification in the classroom was Lee Sheldon, who documented his endeavor in The Multiplayer Classroom. His premise began with students starting his course with an F. Students then spent the semester working toward an A. Sheldon utilized the game design principle of leveling up by inverting his grading process. As a result, students witnessed grades increasing over the semester instead of seeing the traditional decline of a grade over the semester. Since then, this has become a fundamental aspect of gamification in the classroom: Students should always see a way forward, even during times of failure.
Students who failed over the course of the semester were allowed repeated attempts to succeed. This opportunity to try, receive feedback, and try again until mastery is achieved is a foundational component of games, and one that is critical to effective gamification. Next month, we will use Lee's approach as a starting point to explore how to apply gamification to our own classroom.
Where Can I Learn More?
One of the foundational texts of gamification is Yu Kai Chou's Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards, which outlines a framework for using game mechanics and game design as a form of human-centered design. Though not exclusively focused on education, his book is an excellent primer on gamification as a whole.
Dr. Deborah Healey's Gamification white paper is another must-have resource that outlines approaches to gamification and research into effective applications of it in education.
What resources have you found useful in implementing gamification in your classroom?
In next month's blog post, we will take a granular look at applying gamification in the classroom and some tools that can help us in our quest to gamify learning. Until then, play more games!


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"Mixture" is an almost patented sound for the California duo. With solid production by Rey Reel, they deliver a record that could live in the club and on radio without compromising the rhyming abilities that we love so much. Lil Dicky comes through and does what Lil Dicky does – dopeness with some comedic values. Listen for yourself below: