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The standards establish guidelines for English language arts (ELA) as well as for literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects. Because students must learn to read, write, speak, listen, and use language effectively in a variety of content areas, the standards promote the literacy skills and concepts required for college and career readiness in multiple disciplines.
The College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards form the backbone of the ELA/literacy standards by articulating core knowledge and skills, while grade-specific standards provide additional specificity. Beginning in grade 6, the literacy standards allow teachers of ELA, history/social studies, science, and technical subjects to use their content area expertise to help students meet the particular challenges of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language in their respective fields.
It is important to note that the grade 6–12 literacy standards in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects are meant to supplement content standards in those areas, not replace them. States determine how to incorporate these standards into their existing standards for those subjects or adopt them as content area literacy standards.
The skills and knowledge captured in the ELA/literacy standards are designed to prepare students for life outside the classroom. They include critical-thinking skills and the ability to closely and attentively read texts in a way that will help them understand and enjoy complex works of literature. Students will learn to use cogent reasoning and evidence collection skills that are essential for success in college, career, and life. The standards also lay out a vision of what it means to be a literate person who is prepared for success in the 21st century.
For more than a decade, research studies of mathematics education in high-performing countries have concluded that mathematics education in the United States must become substantially more focused and coherent in order to improve mathematics achievement in this country. To deliver on this promise, the mathematics standards are designed to address the problem of a curriculum that is "a mile wide and an inch deep."
These new standards build on the best of high-quality math standards from states across the country. They also draw on the most important international models for mathematical practice, as well as research and input from numerous sources, including state departments of education, scholars, assessment developers, professional organizations, educators, parents and students, and members of the public.
The math standards provide clarity and specificity rather than broad general statements. They endeavor to follow the design envisioned by William Schmidt and Richard Houang (2002), by not only stressing conceptual understanding of key ideas, but also by continually returning to organizing principles such as place value and the laws of arithmetic to structure those ideas.
In addition, the "sequence of topics and performances" that is outlined in a body of math standards must respect what is already known about how students learn. As Confrey (2007) points out, developing "sequenced obstacles and challenges for students…absent the insights about meaning that derive from careful study of learning, would be unfortunate and unwise." Therefore, the development of the standards began with research-based learning progressions detailing what is known today about how students' mathematical knowledge, skill, and understanding develop over time. The knowledge and skills students need to be prepared for mathematics in college, career, and life are woven throughout the mathematics standards. They do not include separate Anchor Standards like those used in the ELA/literacy standards.
These standards define what students should understand and be able to do in their study of mathematics. But asking a student to understand something also means asking a teacher to assess whether the student has understood it. But what does mathematical understanding look like? One way for teachers to do that is to ask the student to justify, in a way that is appropriate to the student's mathematical maturity, why a particular mathematical statement is true or where a mathematical rule comes from. Mathematical understanding and procedural skill are equally important, and both are assessable using mathematical tasks of sufficient richness.
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The British Science Fiction anthology comic 2000AD has, as of this week, reached issue 2104, which means it has overtaken War Picture Library (Amalgamated Press / Fleetway / IPC, from 1 Sep 1958 to 3 Dec 1984) in the number-of-issues stakes and thus moved into tenth place in the longevity charts. (I've decided to keep … Continue reading The British Comics Top-10 Longevity Chart!
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Eaglution of British Comics, part 3
Amazingly, it turns out that comics aren't just for boys! No one saw that coming, right? Except, of course, for the countless millions of readers of non-boy-exclusive comics whose voices are still frequently being either ignored or silenced. Younger readers might find it hard to believe, but back in the day (that day being roughly … Continue reading Eaglution of British Comics, part 3
Can You Help Me Track Down My Guy?
"My guy's mad at me," sang Tracey Ullman in her gender-swapped version of the classic 1979 hit "My Girl" by Madness. I'm guessing, however, that no matter how mad Tracey's guy was at her, I'm even madder at My Guy. That's My Guy the magazine, of course. But why am I mad at it, I … Continue reading Can You Help Me Track Down My Guy?
Pocket-Money Comics: Debbie
Debbie Publisher: DC Thomson Issues: 518 First issue: 17 February 1973 Last issue: 15 January 1983 Merged into: Mandy Absorbed: Spellbound As mentioned before on this blog, the first rule of British girls' comics was that the title had to be a girl's name (the only exceptions I can think of at the moment are … Continue reading Pocket-Money Comics: Debbie
The British Comics Top-11 Longevity Chart!
PLEASE NOTE: This chart is now OUT OF DATE! Click here for the latest version! … Continue reading The British Comics Top-11 Longevity Chart!
Deciphering the Logo
A good few visitors to this blog have told me they've been attempting to identify the comics from which the letters of the blog's logo were taken. If you're also playing that game, then read no further because I'm about to reveal all the answers... First, the rules: I decided that each letter had to … Continue reading Deciphering the Logo
Bea: The Rarest Marvel UK Comic?
(Note: This was originally published on the always excellent but sadly-missed 2000AD and Beyond blog) For a few years now I've been steadily compiling a list of all the comics (and story-papers) ever published in the UK. The list is nowhere near complete (it currently contains 1,559 different titles: I'm guessing that I've passed the … Continue reading Bea: The Rarest Marvel UK Comic?


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Diabetes is a condition that many people have to live with each day. For those with diabetes, their lives change the moment that they find out they have the condition. Living with diabetes requires life style alterations in order to ensure proper health. The article below will help you adjust to having diabetes.
Many health care providers offer diabetic classes for patients who want to be informed on their treatments. Find one in your area and get educated so you can take your treatment under control and know why you're being given what has been prescribed to you. You never know, it may save your life!
It's okay to reuse lancets on your blood glucose monitor, or syringes when you inject yourself with insulin. As long as you're not sharing then there is next to no real danger in reusing either, so change them when they begin to hurt you, or at least once a month.
It is important for diabetics to learn to eat a healthy diet and control portion sizes. Eating excessively large portions is a sure way to gain weight. Eating too much, even of foods that are good for you, will result in weight gain and blood sugar problems. Use smaller plates, put your utensils down between bites and eat slower.
Treat yourself to a leg and foot massage once in a while to keep your circulation pumping. Diabetes causes peripheral neuropathy, which can be painful and not reversible. Have your spouse put some lotion on your calves and give you a soothing rub to relieve your stress and help your feet stay healthy.
It is important that you eat a lot of fiber in order to prevent diabetes. Fiber helps to prevent diabetes by stabilizing your blood glucose levels. You can get fiber from certain foods such as whole grains, nuts, beans, seeds, fruits and vegetables. You can also take a fiber supplement.
You can control, prevent, or even reverse diabetes just through nutrition, healthy weight levels and exercise. There is no need for special diets. Just try to eat a healthy diet concentrating on vegetables, whole grains, fruits and good fats. That's a healthy diet for everyone!
If you are the primary caregiver of a person with diabetes, you may need support also. You carry a heavy load caring for and making decisions for your loved one as well as monitoring their diet and lifestyle to keep them healthy. If you feel overwhelmed, ask for help. Your doctor can recommend respite care to give you a break, or even a nurse to help with care. You don't have to do it alone.
If you find that your A1C levels are disproportionately higher than your typical blood glucose levels, the problem may be that you are measuring your pre-meal levels, which does not give you an accurate reading. Your average levels may not accurately reflect readings that are taken before, during, and after eating your meals.
As stated before, many people live with the condition known as diabetes each day. Those with diabetes experience a change in their lives, as they make alterations to many aspects of their life. By using the information in this article, you can deal with the changes that diabetes brings.


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You will find TWILIGHT TV series Math here.
Archive for the 'Hollywood Maths' Category
VAMPIRES: a math horror storyMarch 6, 2019
When ruthless anti-gun activists pick up guns, who will they shoot first?January 21, 2019
My satirical novel on US gun culture, TARGET 91, has just been published by Penmore Press.
I became interested in the maths of guns when trying to work out why "Dirty" Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in the film
carries a Smith & Wesson Model 29, .44 Magnum.
What's this .44?
The caliber of guns in the USA is the diameter of the bullet measured in decimalised inches.
.44 = .44 inch
Why write satire on such a serious topic?
Because HUMOUR HAS THE POWER TO TAKE ILLOGICAL THINKING TO ITS LOGICAL CONCLUSION.
TARGET 91 includes illogical and often hilarious thinking on both sides of this debate.
More at Penmore Press here.
You'll find TARGET 91 print copy & ebook on AMAZON USA, UK and finally now on AMAZON AUS.
Also KOBO, SMASHWORDS and Barnes&Noble NOOK and Apple iBook.
1. You can duck a bulletJanuary 15, 2019
You will find all the ballistics stats you need here:
2.You can out run a fireball?January 14, 2019
In nearly every Action Movie our hero possibly holding hands with his love interest will run and jump ( just in time ) out of the way of explosion. eg. Man on Fire (2004) with Denzel Washington, The Marine (2006) with John Triton, Mad MAX FURY ROAD (2015) with Charlize Theron and Predator 2 (1990) with Danny Glover .
We will use car bomb stats that come from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. (We in Australia can only assume this bureau exists because, um , there are many exploding cigars in America.) You will find these at Car Bomb Response.
3. You can out run machine gun fireJanuary 12, 2019
4. If you are involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion, volcanic eruption or alien invasion, you will not go into shock.January 10, 2019
Here are just a few of the popular disaster movies:
Avalanche (2001), Earthquake (1974), Armageddon (Involves meteors 1998), Deep Impact (More meteors 1998), 2012 (Tsunamis, earthquakes, the lot. 2009), Twister (tornadoes 1996), Backdraft (Fire. 1991) and Towering Inferno (They don't make thunderous movie titles like that anymore. (1974)
But what percentage of people involved in, say, an explosion suffer from SHOCK! There are many statistics about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) available. In one excellent study in The National Centre for PTSD Journal involved an explosion in a paint factory in Norway (1976), the 246 employees were ranked for their exposure to shock as follows:.
A. 66 Narrow escape
B. 59 Involved but not in danger
C. 121 Not present on the day.
80% Group A suffered shock and PTSD. Both Groups A & B showed symptoms of PTSD 7 months later. If, say, a plane crashed into your school sports field and your class survived with minor injuries calculate how many students in your maths class would go into SHOCK and how many would be left to take action using the above statistics.
These stats can also be used as a fraction or decimal exercise using 0.8 or 4/5 as the fraction of students in shock.
More information at the Health Dept WA
NOTE: Many schools in Australia today not only practise fire drills but terrorist attack lockdowns.
5. You can jump out of an airplane that is about to crash and catch the baddie who took the last parachute.January 10, 2019
The names Bond, James Bond. In Moonraker with Roger Moore (1979) 007 jumps out of a plane without a parachute to avoid an assassination attempt. He catches up with, Jaws, arch-baddie, in mid-air and takes his parachute. Jaws survives his fall by landing on a big top circus tent.
In Point Break with FBI agent Johnny Utah, Keanu Reeves, leaps from a skydiving plane after Patrick Swayzes' characer, Bohdi, who has taken the last parachute. Utah catches Bohdi in mid-air, and after a tense confrontation with a gun, both survive using Bodhi's chute. The remake was in 2015.
There are more movie and real life stories at the Free Fall Maths link.
Note: We'll assume Bhodi and Utah have equal horizontal velocities (plane exit velocity plus wind) so the following calculations only involve the vertical or falling velocity. The terminal velocities used for Bhodi and Utah are realistic estimates.


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About Co-Curricular Internships
The Co-Curricular Internships Initiative within the Office of International and Summer Programs (OISP) seeks to:
- Connect students with meaningful internships that align with their liberal arts majors
- Create structured credit-bearing opportunities to translate liberal arts skills into workplace experiences
- Prepare students for the global workforce through enhanced cross-cultural competencies
Pathways to pursue co-curricular internships:
- OISP Comprehensive Program option:
Global Internships in Summer
- OISP Independent Internship option:
1-credit INTERN 496 in Summer
- Academic Departments:
Internships in your Major Area
The Co-Curricular Internships Initiative also seeks to support connected curriculum integration initaitives.
Alumni Spotlight
Aniqa Premjee C'20
Economics and Political Science Major; Economic Policy Concentration | Global Intern at Finance Startup in Singapore: "My internship experience helped me gain a deeper understanding of what I want to do in the future. I was able to test drive a career without having to make any serious commitments while also being able to further sharpen and hone the business skills I have already possessed and learned in my classes at Emory. Not only did it allow me to see what it would to be like to work in the business industry, it provided me with real life experiences, lessons, and tools that I need to get a full-time career in the finance field."
- Pilot Seminar to Prepare College Students for Career Search- in Emory Wheel
- Congrats to 2019 Global Intern Katelyn Boisvert, Udall Scholar and Sustainability Intern in Dublin
- Congrats to Bobby Jones Scholar Farah Al Chammas, 2018 Global Intern in Singapore
- McMullan Award recipient Wei Wei Chen heading to Hong Kong 2018
- Online course connects Emory undergraduates in global internships- in Emory News
- Liberal Arts in the Data Age- in Harvard Business Review
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Security for Small Business -in Points
Monday, June 4, 2012
1) No security plan is foolproof. Comforting, isn't it? But it's true--there is no such thing as 100% secure, and I've yet to an encounter a security pro that would argue otherwise. (Some governments in the Middle East would likely agree now, too.) That's not an excuse to do nothing. When online crooks target SMBs, either via targeted attacks or indiscriminate malware, they usually do so for two reasons: SMBs have more money than the average individual, and they have less security in place than large enterprises. That can make them easy, profitable targets. The SMB's job: don't be an easy mark. Practice good basic security at bare minimum. If time and money are key challenges, consider a risk-management approach--more on that below in number five.
2) You might not know it if you're infected. Flame's just now coming to light, but it has existed since 2010--and possibly as far back as 2007. Even if you've got strong security controls in place, you might not necessarily know if you've been infected by malware or other means. "Most malware is written to be very stealth and not let you know that it's on the machine, so what Flame does is very typical," Haley said. Robust, current security technology is a good first step toward minimizing the chance of undetected breaches--the straightforward anti-virus programs of yore aren't likely to cut it. Haley also advises SMBs take steps to eliminate spam in their corporate email accounts; the bane of inboxes continues to be a favorite delivery method for malware makers. Expect social media to continue to grow as a malware vector, too. Haley thinks SMBs need to be thinking about social risk and actively monitoring their accounts for unusual activity.
3) Attacks are increasingly sophisticated. The complexity of today's security threats almost make you long for the good old days of the Wazzu virus. Flame appears to have reset the bar. For SMBs, it's a reminder that a set-it-and-forget security plan is a recipe for failure. What worked in 2010 probably won't pass muster in 2012. "You really need to review everything [periodically]," Haley said. That's important even if you outsource security to a consultant or other vendor. If time is an issue, an annual review is better than none at all. Depending on how much a particular company invests in security--or doesn't--it might want to consider more frequent checks on its technologies and processes to ensure it's keeping up with the times.
4) Reputation harm can be expensive. The fallout from the Flame revelation is just getting started, but it's safe to say this is a public embarrassment for the affected governments. For SMBs, it's a reminder that security breaches don't necessarily need to hit your bank account to be costly. A website that gets co-opted into a malware host, for example--they're at an all-time high, according Symantec's most recent annual security report--could have a difficult time earning back the trust of its customers and other visitors. Likewise, data theft can be both embarrassing and expensive.
"It's bad enough if you get your money or your customer list or some sort of intellectual property stolen," Haley said. "But also the damage of the publicity from it could be really crippling to a business. Some people may be reluctant to do business with you if they think that you can't keep your information secure."
5) Prioritize your most important assets. A sound strategy for some SMBs is simply to not try to protect everything. Rather, identify your most valuable assets--banking credentials and other financial information, customer databases, and intellectual property, to name a few examples--and focus your efforts there. That can help resource-strapped organizations minimize their vulnerabilities in a practical manner rather than waving a white flag of surrender.


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"Lovely to see you! Let's sit down," said my host. "Please could you give me your phone?"
I handed it over and he left the room with it, returning empty-handed a few minutes later. "We've all learned to be careful," he explained. "You're never sure who might be listening."
I hadn't been in Cairo for a couple of years and liberals' exuberance at the Arab Spring seems to have well and truly vanished. When I left a couple of hours later, the phone was strangely cold. It had been shut in the fridge.
It would be comical, were the background not so terrifying. The Egyptian interior ministry explained last week that the grotesque abduction, torture and murder of Giulio Regeni, an Italian postgraduate student, had been the work of a criminal gang. The gang specialised, the ministry said, in impersonating policemen. The crime was settled now, though, because the real police had shot the fake police very dead.
I was more than usually sensitive to the issue of abduction, having just read a proof copy of the Libyan novelist Hisham Matar's new book, The Return, which is to be published in June. It tells of his journey to Libya after the Arab Spring to try to discover what happened to his father, who had been kidnapped by "colonel" Gaddafi's thugs. Death — even violent death — is one thing. A permanent, unexplained absence is another. "I envy the finality of funerals," he writes. "I covet the certainty."
Matar, a gentle man with a bookish air, is a delightful writer, and the book bristles with arresting wisdom, alongside some chilling insights into what the Gaddafi regime was really like — how ashamed those of us who laughed at him should be. One's stomach slightly heaves to recall the pictures of Tony Blair embracing the dictator in 2007.
That was supposed to be "constructive engagement". But the destructive engagement that followed the 2010 UK election wasn't much more effective. Downing Street were displeased the other day when President Obama remarked on how gung-ho Britain and France had been for destroying the Gaddafi regime, but lost interest once he'd been deposed and the country slid into chaos. I don't suppose David Cameron or Nicolas Sarkozy will lose much sleep reflecting on the days when they had themselves flown into Libya to bask in the gratitude of "liberated" Libyans who now find themselves citizens of a failed state ruled by armed gangs. But it is a very sorry tale indeed. More and more, Colin Powell's appropriation of the china-shop motto, "If you break it, you own it", seems a responsible approach to military adventuring.
One of the things that has happened since the failed revolution in Egypt has been a spike in the number of marriages. I heard a few different estimates of the size of the population of Cairo, varying by millions. Whatever the true figure, it is too many: the city is one enormous traffic jam. Most British driving instructors teach "mirror, signal, manoeuvre". The Cairene version is "honk, swerve, throttle". It is deafening and, in its way, quite exhilarating.
As for the rubbish piled up on every corner, the Egyptian Gazette — a daily dominated by photos of men in suits sitting in chairs chatting to other men in suits — discloses that much of the problem has been caused by a decision to modernise trash-collection. Apparently, the job was traditionally done by zabaleen, rural migrants who went door-to-door collecting rubbish. In the swine flu panic of 2009, the zabaleens' pigs, which ate the organic waste, were slaughtered, while rubbish collection was outsourced to foreign refuse firms. It clearly doesn't work very well.
I took the opportunity while in Egypt to visit Alexandria. There are other romantic-sounding cities in the world — Xanadu or Samarkand, of course. But Alex is certainly in the top 10. The lighthouse, which was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, was long ago destroyed by earthquake, but there has been an attempt to create a modern counterpart to the city's other great edifice, its library. It is a stunning building, looking out across the Mediterranean, its vast roof shaped like an enormous tilted sundial and its granite walls inscribed with characters from more than 100 languages. Ptolemy's ancient library — burnt down 2,000 years ago, and forever a symbol of the eradication of learning (it was reputed to have been the biggest library in the world) — is a hard act to follow. Still, it's a brave stab.
Alexandrians are clearly very proud of their new building, and so they should be. But there is something odd about elaborate buildings to hold books. The point about books is the doors they open in your mind.
When you visit the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo, which looks permanently down-at-heel, despite its amazing collection, you begin to wonder whether, increasingly, spectacular modern buildings are being used like the old trick in which you give someone a present with endless layers of wrapping and nothing much inside. Daniel Libeskind's wonderful design for the Imperial War Museum North comes to mind.
Yet museums and libraries are the cathedrals of our secular times — and perhaps there were a few sceptics around even when they saw the cathedrals at Salisbury and Notre-Dame being topped out.
Jeremy Paxman is an FT contributing editor
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Gudný Rósa Ingimarsdóttir | Brussels, Belgium
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Wab Exhibition – Gudný Rósa Ingimarsdóttir
Hoedstraat 10 Rue du Chapeau, 1070 Brussels
November the 10th – December the 9th, 2018
Gudný Rósa Ingimarsdóttir participant of 3rdWAB
Gudný Rósa Ingimarsdóttir produces drawings and paintings with many layers, which she cuts, peels and carves – during or after its making, aiming to get closer to the essence. Every work has its own geometric structure and system, and flirts with the borders of abstraction.
At first sight one can often not situate the work within figuration or abstraction. The work builds itself slowly – some works can take up to 20 years in their making – each line traced or erased (removed or not) has equal value – the things that stay are equal to the things gone.
In her art Rosa is showing a macro and micro version of the world, which stands for inner and outer sentiments. Pain, marvel of the simplest things, acceptance and mechanism are some key words to describe feelings that lead her to creation. She is inspired by personal experiences and feelings, while at the same time she is showing universal emotions such as vulnerability and doubt.
"starting points to time travels: a box of responding letters to those now missing.
recovering stories of places, sharing of moments and/or actions.
reconnecting with individuals now absent or changed.
rediscovering people still close and those with whom paths have now parted.
following a timeline.
the year of '87.
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For example, if you are asked to estimate the exact temperature outside your house, and you estimate the value.921730971, it is pretty unlikely that you are exactly correct. One common way of dividing the field is into the areas of descriptive and inferential statistics. Computer scientists are taught to design real-world algorithms that will be used as part of software packages, while statisticians are trained to provide the mathematical foundation for scientific research. Machine Learning has been sold these days consistently by marketers even before it has reached its full potential. The possibilities around Machine Learning and Neural Networks are endless. In my case, over the last 10 years, I specialized in machine -to- machine and device-to-device communications, developing systems to automatically process large data sets, to perform automated transactions: for instance, purchasing Internet traffic or automatically generating content. Given a sample of the whole population, what is the estimated size of the population? It becomes part of a pipeline in which it consumes some data and emits decisions. Machine learning may emphasize prediction, and statistics may focus more on estimation and inference, but both focus on using mathematical techniques to answer questions.
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However, prediction of unseen data points, a major concern of Machine Learning, is less of a concern to the statistician. But these papers simply reinforce the original point: the community must be reminded that intelligibility is desirable because it is so often forgotten. I dont know what Machine Learning will look like in ten years, but whatever it is Im sure Statisticians will be whining that they did it earlier and better. In machine learning, you will most likely write a custom program for a unique loss function specific to your problem. On the other hand, Machine Learning is mostly about acquiring knowledge and maintaining better accuracy instead of success. Very often, the goal of predictive analytics is ultimately to deploy the prediction method so the decision is automated. But in the real world, there is always uncertainty. The model does not represent a belief about or a commitment to the data generation process. As a typical example, consider random forests and boosted decision trees. In particular, data science also covers data integration distributed architecture automating machine learning data visualization dashboards and BI data engineering deployment in production mode automated, data -driven decisions Of course, in many organisations, data scientists focus on only one part of this process. For instance, unsupervised clustering - a statistical and data science technique - aims at detecting clusters and cluster structures without any a-priori knowledge or training set to help the classification algorithm.
The question has been askedand continues to be asked regularlyon Quora, StackExchange, LinkedIn, KDNuggets, and other social sites. Each assumption of the model should be listed and checked, and every diagnostic test run and its results reported. Other useful resources: forex machine learning data science difference Follow us on Twitter: @DataScienceCtrl @AnalyticBridge. Originally it was part of AI and was very aligned with it, concerned with all the ways in which human intelligent behavior could be learned. On the other hand, AI is about building intelligent systems which require advanced tools and techniques and often used in big companies like Google, Facebook, etc.
The statisticians analysis, in effect, guarantees that the model is an appropriate fit for the data under a specified set of conditions. Statistical Science (2001) 16: 3, 199231. Both are non-parametric techniques that require a relatively large number of examples to fit. While the data scientist is generally portrayed as a coder forex machine learning data science difference experienced in R, Python, SQL, Hadoop and statistics, this is just the tip of the iceberg, made popular by data camps focusing on teaching some elements of data science. The application of Machine Learning is diversified in various domains like Banking, Healthcare, Retail, etc. How many people will show up at the local grocery store tomorrow? In practice, a statistician has to make trade-offs between using models with strong assumptions or weak assumptions. In a startup, data scientists generally wear several hats, such as executive, data miner, data engineer or architect, researcher, statistician, modeler (as in predictive modeling) or developer. The thought behind letting the computer learn from themselves and voluminous data that are getting generated from various sources in the present world has led to the emergence of Machine Learning. It often doesnt requiem how computational capacity. AI could be seen as something of the old by the marketers who believe Machine Learning is the Holy Grail in the field of analytics. As an example, there are many companies on the various stock exchanges. Machine learning is concerned with one aspect of this: given some AI problem that can be described in discrete terms (e.g.
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Neither field is a subset of the other, and neither lays exclusive claim to a technique. Then a new set of unknown emails is fed to the trained system which then categorizes it as spam or not spam. For a list of machine learning problems, click here. Companies like TCS, Infosys are yet to unleash the full potential of Machine Learning and trying to incorporate ML in their applications to keep pace with the rapidly growing Analytics space. Googles AlphaGo defeated experts in Go using this approach. The Texas Death Match of, data, science. To a Statistician, Machine Learning may look like an engineering discipline Note from Drew: You bet it does! This means that any claim you make has a chance of being wrongand for some types of claims, it is almost certain you will be slightly wrong. The system is trained with a set of emails labeled as spam and not spam known as the training instance.
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In the forex machine learning data science difference last few decades, as with much of AI, it has shifted to an engineering/performance approach, in which the goal is to achieve a fairly specific task with high performance. Some techniques are hybrid, such as semi-supervised classification. To master Machine Learning, one needs to have a natural intuition about the data, ask the right questions, and find out the correct algorithms to use to build a model. Various manual, repetitive tasks are being replaced by machine learning models. Many automobile companies are gradually adopting the concept of self-driving cars. Specifically, the learning algorithm analyzes the data examples and creates a procedure that, given a new unseen example, can accurately predict its class. One other application of AI which has gained popularity in recent times is the self-driving cars. Has been asked now for decades.
Machine learning is a set of algorithms that train on a data set to make predictions or take actions in order to optimize some systems. But the basic idea is sound. For a detailed list of algorithms, click here. Computer Vision is the study of identifying objects such as Face Recognition, Real-time object detection, and. Some pattern detection or density estimation techniques fit in this category. If we had complete perfect information, it might be possible to calculate these values exactly. In this blog, we would dissect each term and understand how Artificial Intelligence and, machine, learning are related to each other. A human being is needed to label the clusters found. These statistics provide a form of data reduction where raw data is converted into a smaller number of statistics. The problem is that the statistician will have to decide which approach to use without having certainty about which approach is best. In Healthcare, Machine Learning is often been used to predict patients stay in the hospital, the likelihood of occurrence of a disease, identifying abnormal patterns in the cell, etc. Some ML practitioners care about model intelligibility.
When these algorithms are automated, as in automated piloting or driver-less cars, it is called AI, and more specifically, deep learning. In contrast to Statistics, note that the goal here to generate the best prediction. The author writes that statistics is machine learning with confidence intervals for the quantities being predicted forex machine learning data science difference or estimated. Both Freitas and Shmueli (see References) have written about the importance of intelligible data models and descriptive data analysis. This is the future advancement of AI which could configure self-representations.
Unlike the Statistician, the ML practitioner assumes the samples are chosen independent and identically distributed (IID) from a static population, and are representative of that population. What if its implemented in Spark?, Is Regression Analysis Really Machine Learning? In essence, all ML techniques employ a single diagnostic test: the prediction performance on a holdout set. What is Machine Learning? In the absolute best case, the claims made by a statistician will be wrong at least some portion of the time. The machines could be conscious, and super-intelligent. Suffice it to say that Machine Learning is a lot like a war orphan: it has sketchy lineage, it has been through a lot, and has seen a lot, not all of which it wants to remember. Statisticians have the techniques to do prediction, but these are just special cases of inference in general. Data Scientists are known variously as Statistician, Quantitative Analyst, Decision Support Engineering Analyst, or Data Scientist, and probably a few more. Perhaps more importantly, the common dialogue can bring improvements in both fields. In a given year, how many people are likely to need medical treatment in the city of Bentonville? Much has been made of these differences.
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DomingosPazzani: On the Optimality of the Simple Bayesian Classifier under Zero-One Loss. All these predictions are made by a certain group of Regression, and Classification algorithms like Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, Random Forest, XGBoost, and. Each pair looks at the others board with bemusement forex machine learning data science difference and thinks theyre not very good at the game. The more complex the problem is, the better it is for AI to solve the complexity. Artificial Intelligence is about acquiring knowledge and applying them to ensure success instead of accuracy. It makes the computer intelligent to make smart decisions on its own akin to the decisions made by a human being.
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We are exaggerating to make a point. The same can be said about data scientists: fields are as varied as bioinformatics, information technology, simulations and quality control, computational finance, epidemiology, industrial engineering, and even number theory. One of the use cases in the banking industry is predicting the probability of credit loan default by a borrower given its past transactions, credit history, debt ratio, annual income, and. Deep learning is one kind of machine learning thats very popular now. To read about some of my original contributions to data science, click here. Conclusion There are great areas of Statistics and Machine Learning we have said nothing about, such as clustering, association rules, feature selection, evaluation methodologies, etc. Several tedious tasks are getting automated through ML which saves both time and money. And because Machine Learning often deals with large data sets, the ML practitioner can choose non-parametric forex machine learning data science difference models that typically require a great deal more data than parametric models. We have spent hours trying to understand the thought processes and discussing the differences. The future is not far when we would see human-like. Data Science versus Machine Learning Machine learning and statistics are part of data science.
Since statisticians are required to draw formal conclusions, the goal is to prepare every statistical analysis as if you were going to be an expert witness at a trial. From ChatBot Development to Speech Recognition like Amazons Alexa or Apples Siri all uses Natural Language to extract relevant meaning from the data. The two fields dont always see eye-to-eye on these, but we are aware of little confusion on their fundamental use. Since Breimans article is more elaborate than this essay, and his work is always worth reading, we refer the reader. Theory of Mind, such type of AI is yet to be built as it involves dealing with human emotions, and psychology. Machine Learning is a state-of-the-art subset of Artificial Intelligence which let machines learn from past data, and make accurate predictions. The Data Science blogs of Dimensionless is a good place to start with.
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Limited Memory, in the case of the limited memory, the past data is kept on adding to the memory. These descriptive statistics provide a much simpler way of understanding what can be very complex data. In this article, I clarify the various roles of the data scientist, and how data science compares and overlaps with related fields such as machine learning, deep learning, AI, statistics, IoT, operations research, and applied mathematics. We concentrate here on predictive modeling, which seems to be the main point of friction between the fields. It creates a model, the purpose which is prediction. 3 Putting the two groups together into a common data science team (while often adding individuals trained in other scientific fields) can create a very interesting team dynamic. They have scored highly on many Kaggle competitions, and are standard go-to models for participants to use. In predictive analytics, the ML algorithm is given a set of historical labeled examples. Starting from a simple google search which gives the best results of a query to the creation of Siri or Alexa, one of the significant breakthroughs of the 21st century is Artificial Intelligence. Calling Machine Learning applied Statistics is misleading, and does a disservice to both fields. Where does the model get its data and what does it do with the final decision? Machine, learning has adopted many of Statistics methods, but was never intended to replace statistics, or even to have a statistical basis originally. A machine learning application could also listen to music, and even play a piece of appropriate music based on a persons mood.
Artificial Intelligence and, machine, learning have empowered our lives to a large extent. If the population is subject to change (called concept drift in ML) some techniques can be brought into play to test and adjust for this, but by default the ML practitioner is not responsible if the sample becomes unrepresentative. The exponential growth of AI in the last decade or so has affected every sphere of our lives. It uses reinforcement learning technique to learn its best moves and identify the restrictions or blockage in front of the road. Though the methods and reasoning may overlap, the purposes rarely. Machine learning is Statistics minus any checking of models and assumptions. The only thing that has changed is how we perceive AI and define its applications in the present world. Machine Learning versus Deep Learning Before digging deeper into the link between data science and machine learning, let's briefly discuss machine learning and deep learning. Though some of the original work dates back to the 18th and 19th century, the field really came into its own with the pioneering work of Karl Pearson, RA Fisher, and others at the turn of the 20th century. But since test set performance is the ultimate arbiter of model quality, the practitioner can usually relegate assumption testing to model evaluation. The purpose of this blog post is to explain the two games being played. The following articles, published during the same time period, are still useful: More recently (August 2016). For example, in the case of selecting the best restaurant, the past locations would be taken into account and would be suggested accordingly.
It is important to understand the implications of this. The rapid advancement in technology has taken us closer than ever before to inevitability. Type B Data Scientist: The B is for Building. ACM sigkdd Explorations Newsletter. How fast does it have to be? In particular, a so-called Strong AI would be a system that can do anything a human can (perhaps without purely physical things). Doi:10.1023/A: Freitas: Comprehensible Classification Modelsa position paper.


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Concept: Aedes aegypti
Heritability of Attractiveness to Mosquitoes
Female mosquitoes display preferences for certain individuals over others, which is determined by differences in volatile chemicals produced by the human body and detected by mosquitoes. Body odour can be controlled genetically but the existence of a genetic basis for differential attraction to insects has never been formally demonstrated. This study investigated heritability of attractiveness to mosquitoes by evaluating the response of Aedes aegypti (=Stegomyia aegypti) mosquitoes to odours from the hands of identical and non-identical twins in a dual-choice assay. Volatiles from individuals in an identical twin pair showed a high correlation in attractiveness to mosquitoes, while non-identical twin pairs showed a significantly lower correlation. Overall, there was a strong narrow-sense heritability of 0.62 (SE 0.124) for relative attraction and 0.67 (0.354) for flight activity based on the average of ten measurements. The results demonstrate an underlying genetic component detectable by mosquitoes through olfaction. Understanding the genetic basis for attractiveness could create a more informed approach to repellent development.
The Efficacy of Some Commercially Available Insect Repellents for Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae)
- Journal of insect science (Online)
- Published over 4 years ago
- Discuss
Reducing the number of host-vector interactions is an effective way to reduce the spread of vector-borne diseases. Repellents are widely used to protect humans from a variety of protozoans, viruses, and nematodes. DEET (N,N-Diethyl-meta-toluamide), a safe and effective repellent, was developed during World War II. Fear of possible side effects of DEET has created a large market for "natural" DEET-free repellents with a variety of active ingredients. We present a comparative study on the efficacy of eight commercially available products, two fragrances, and a vitamin B patch. The products were tested using a human hand as attractant in a Y-tube olfactometer setup with Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) and Aedes albopictus (Skuse), both major human disease vectors. We found that Ae. albopictus were generally less attracted to the test subject's hand compared with Ae, aegypti. Repellents with DEET as active ingredient had a prominent repellency effect over longer times and on both species. Repellents containing p-menthane-3,8-diol produced comparable results but for shorter time periods. Some of the DEET-free products containing citronella or geraniol did not have any significant repellency effect. Interestingly, the perfume we tested had a modest repellency effect early after application, and the vitamin B patch had no effect on either species. This study shows that the different active ingredients in commercially available mosquito repellent products are not equivalent in terms of duration and strength of repellency. Our results suggest that products containing DEET or p-menthane-3,8-diol have long-lasting repellent effects and therefore provide good protection from mosquito-borne diseases.
Mapping global environmental suitability for Zika virus
Zika virus was discovered in Uganda in 1947 and is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, which also act as vectors for dengue and chikungunya viruses throughout much of the tropical world. In 2007, an outbreak in the Federated States of Micronesia sparked public health concern. In 2013, the virus began to spread across other parts of Oceania and in 2015, a large outbreak in Latin America began in Brazil. Possible associations with microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome observed in this outbreak have raised concerns about continued global spread of Zika virus, prompting its declaration as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization. We conducted species distribution modelling to map environmental suitability for Zika. We show a large portion of tropical and sub-tropical regions globally have suitable environmental conditions with over 2.17 billion people inhabiting these areas.
Host Inflammatory Response to Mosquito Bites Enhances the Severity of Arbovirus Infection
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are responsible for transmitting many medically important viruses such as those that cause Zika and dengue. The inoculation of viruses into mosquito bite sites is an important and common stage of all mosquito-borne virus infections. We show, using Semliki Forest virus and Bunyamwera virus, that these viruses use this inflammatory niche to aid their replication and dissemination in vivo. Mosquito bites were characterized by an edema that retained virus at the inoculation site and an inflammatory influx of neutrophils that coordinated a localized innate immune program that inadvertently facilitated virus infection by encouraging the entry and infection of virus-permissive myeloid cells. Neutrophil depletion and therapeutic blockade of inflammasome activity suppressed inflammation and abrogated the ability of the bite to promote infection. This study identifies facets of mosquito bite inflammation that are important determinants of the subsequent systemic course and clinical outcome of virus infection.
Vertical Transmission of Zika Virus in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes
- The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
- Published over 3 years ago
- Discuss
Previous experimental studies have demonstrated that a number of mosquito-borne flavivirus pathogens are vertically transmitted in their insect vectors, providing a mechanism for these arboviruses to persist during adverse climatic conditions or in the absence of a susceptible vertebrate host. In this study, designed to test whether Zika virus (ZIKV) could be vertically transmitted, female Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus were injected with ZIKV, and their F1 adult progeny were tested for ZIKV infection. Of 69 Ae. aegypti pools, six consisted of a total of 1,738 F1 adults, yielded ZIKV upon culture, giving a minimum filial infection rate of 1:290. In contrast, none of 803 F1 Ae. albopictus adults (32 pools) yielded ZIKV. The MFIR for Ae. aegypti was comparable to MFIRs reported for other flaviviruses in mosquitoes, including dengue, Japanese encephalitis, yellow fever, West Nile, and St. Louis encephalitis viruses. The results suggest that vertical transmission may provide a potential mechanism for the virus to survive during adverse conditions.
Local Transmission of Zika Virus - Puerto Rico, November 23, 2015-January 28, 2016
- MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report
- Published about 4 years ago
- Discuss
Zika virus, a mosquito-borne flavivirus, spread to the Region of the Americas (Americas) in mid-2015, and appears to be related to congenital microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome (1,2). On February 1, 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the occurrence of microcephaly cases in association with Zika virus infection to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.* On December 31, 2015, Puerto Rico Department of Health (PRDH) reported the first locally acquired (index) case of Zika virus disease in a jurisdiction of the United States in a patient from southeastern Puerto Rico. During November 23, 2015-January 28, 2016, passive and enhanced surveillance for Zika virus disease identified 30 laboratory-confirmed cases. Most (93%) patients resided in eastern Puerto Rico or the San Juan metropolitan area. The most frequently reported signs and symptoms were rash (77%), myalgia (77%), arthralgia (73%), and fever (73%). Three (10%) patients were hospitalized. One case occurred in a patient hospitalized for Guillain-Barré syndrome, and one occurred in a pregnant woman. Because the most common mosquito vector of Zika virus, Aedes aegypti, is present throughout Puerto Rico, Zika virus is expected to continue to spread across the island. The public health response in Puerto Rico is being coordinated by PRDH with assistance from CDC. Clinicians in Puerto Rico should report all cases of microcephaly, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and suspected Zika virus disease to PRDH. Other adverse reproductive outcomes, including fetal demise associated with Zika virus infection, should be reported to PRDH. To avoid infection with Zika virus, residents of and visitors to Puerto Rico, particularly pregnant women, should strictly follow steps to avoid mosquito bites, including wearing pants and long-sleeved shirts, using permethrin-treated clothing and gear, using an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-registered insect repellent, and ensuring that windows and doors have intact screens.
Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Exhibit Decreased Repellency by DEET following Previous Exposure
DEET (N,N-Diethyl-m-toluamide) is one of the most widely used mosquito repellents. Although DEET has been shown to be extremely effective, recent studies have revealed that certain individual insects are unaffected by its presence. A genetic basis for this has been shown in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, but, for the triatomine bug, Rhodnius prolixus, a decrease in response to DEET occurred shortly after previous exposure, indicating that non-genetic factors may also be involved in DEET "insensitivity". In this study, we examined host-seeking behaviour and electrophysiological responses of A. aegypti after pre-exposure to DEET. We found that three hours after pre-exposure the mosquitoes showed behavioural insensitivity, and electroantennography revealed this correlated with the olfactory receptor neurons responding less to DEET. The change in behaviour as a result of pre-exposure to DEET has implications for the use of repellents and the ability of mosquitoes to overcome them.
Suppression of a Field Population of Aedes aegypti in Brazil by Sustained Release of Transgenic Male Mosquitoes
- PLoS neglected tropical diseases
- Published almost 5 years ago
- Discuss
The increasing burden of dengue, and the relative failure of traditional vector control programs highlight the need to develop new control methods. SIT using self-limiting genetic technology is one such promising method. A self-limiting strain of Aedes aegypti, OX513A, has already reached the stage of field evaluation. Sustained releases of OX513A Ae. aegypti males led to 80% suppression of a target wild Ae. aegypti population in the Cayman Islands in 2010. Here we describe sustained series of field releases of OX513A Ae. aegypti males in a suburb of Juazeiro, Bahia, Brazil. This study spanned over a year and reduced the local Ae. aegypti population by 95% (95% CI: 92.2%-97.5%) based on adult trap data and 81% (95% CI: 74.9-85.2%) based on ovitrap indices compared to the adjacent no-release control area. The mating competitiveness of the released males (0.031; 95% CI: 0.025-0.036) was similar to that estimated in the Cayman trials (0.059; 95% CI: 0.011 - 0.210), indicating that environmental and target-strain differences had little impact on the mating success of the OX513A males. We conclude that sustained release of OX513A males may be an effective and widely useful method for suppression of the key dengue vector Ae. aegypti. The observed level of suppression would likely be sufficient to prevent dengue epidemics in the locality tested and other areas with similar or lower transmission.
Wolbachia Blocks Currently Circulating Zika Virus Isolates in Brazilian Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes
- Cell host & microbe
- Published almost 4 years ago
- Discuss
The recent association of Zika virus with cases of microcephaly has sparked a global health crisis and highlighted the need for mechanisms to combat the Zika vector, Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Wolbachia pipientis, a bacterial endosymbiont of insect, has recently garnered attention as a mechanism for arbovirus control. Here we report that Aedes aegypti harboring Wolbachia are highly resistant to infection with two currently circulating Zika virus isolates from the recent Brazilian epidemic. Wolbachia-harboring mosquitoes displayed lower viral prevalence and intensity and decreased disseminated infection and, critically, did not carry infectious virus in the saliva, suggesting that viral transmission was blocked. Our data indicate that the use of Wolbachia-harboring mosquitoes could represent an effective mechanism to reduce Zika virus transmission and should be included as part of Zika control strategies.
Repellents Inhibit P450 Enzymes in Stegomyia (Aedes) aegypti.
The primary defence against mosquitoes and other disease vectors is often the application of a repellent. Despite their common use, the mechanism(s) underlying the activity of repellents is not fully understood, with even the mode of action of DEET having been reported to be via different mechanisms; e.g. interference with olfactory receptor neurones or actively detected by olfactory receptor neurones on the antennae or maxillary palps. In this study, we discuss a novel mechanism for repellence, one of P450 inhibition. Thirteen essential oil extracts from Colombian plants were assayed for potency as P450 inhibitors, using a kinetic fluorometric assay, and for repellency using a modified World Health Organisation Pesticide Evaluations Scheme (WHOPES) arm-in cage assay with Stegomyia (Aedes) aegypti mosquitoes. Bootstrap analysis on the inhibition analysis revealed a significant correlation between P450-inhibition and repellent activity of the oils.


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The PSP has quickly become the most popular portable game system ever to reach the gaming industry. It isfull of features and is sure to keep anyone entertained. A popular feature is the possibility to download games and movies for your PSP that you can instantly use on your PSP.
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Boulder, Colo. February 21, 2012 - Circadence, a leading provider of WAN and network optimization solutions for commercial, healthcare and government customers, today announced the most comprehensive set of solutions for optimizing electronic content delivery to iOS, Android and Windows clients. Circadence MVO for Mobile provides the Enterprise with rapid, reliable and secure data delivery to all mobile devices including iPhones and iPads.
Mobile device use has grown exponentially and with that the demand for real-time access to data and information formerly reserved for laptops and desktops, said Michael Moniz, CEO of Circadence. Technologies, including those from Circadence, are guaranteeing secure and reliable data delivery to these devices, allowing government and commercial organizations to ease restrictions on personal device use in the workplace. As a result, optimization is no longer about better user experiences, but reliable delivery of mission-critical data to mobile devices so that employees can more effectively do their jobs.
Companies depend on Circadence MVO WAN optimization solutions for rapid, reliable and secure transfer of data. With increased performance ranging from 100 to 4,000 percent across any network connection, Circadence patented Link Resilience eliminates downtime while data remains secure from end to end. Circadence MVO for Mobile extends the full benefits of the Circadence approach to a wide variety of mobile devices.
Circadence MVO for Mobile provides organizations with:
Industry analyst firms are citing Circadences leadership in providing WAN optimization for mobile devices. According to a story on SearchEnterpriseWAN, a TechTarget property, the recent WAN optimization Magic Quadrant report from Gartner praised Circadence for its improved Microsoft Windows mobile client and its small-footprint client for Android devices.
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As an example of one industry already realizing the benefits of Circadences technology, healthcare providers use Circadence WAN optimization solutions to enhance patient care with high-speed, secure and reliable transmission of data, ranging from individual electronic health records (EHR) to large data and image files used for diagnostics and treatment. As physicians and workers increasingly rely on their mobile devices, it is more important than ever to make sure that critical information can be accessed anytime and anywhere without impacting mandated security and compliance protocols.


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PTFE Architectural Fabrics is a material made by coating the super fine glass fiber fabric with PTFE resin. The major characteristics of PTFE membrane are: lightweight, high strength, fireproofing and flame retardation, good self-cleaning, free from the influence of ultraviolet, fatigue resistance, torsion resistance, anti-ageing, and long service life. It is characterized by high light transmittance and very low thermal absorption. It is the invention of this epoch-making membrane material that has made membrane structure building become the modern permanent building.Building membrane is widely used in large public facilities: gymnasium roofing system, airport hall, exhibition center, platform and landscape pavilion and so on.
Self-cleaning property
PTFE membrane has very good self-cleaning property. Since rainwater will be accumulated into water drops on its surface, so its surface may be naturally cleaned.
Optical property
Membrane material can remove most of ultraviolet and prevent the color fading of the internal articles. Its transmission for natural light is up to 25%. Transmitting light generates uniform diffused light in the structure, without shadow, without glaze, but with good color rendering. In the evening, the membrane structure can emit natural and tender light under the joint effect of the surrounding environment light and internal lighting.
Mechanical property
MD PTFE membrane: with the thickness only 0.8mm, but its tensile strength has reached the level of steel. Membrane has low modulus of elasticity, which makes it beneficial to form the complex curve pattern. Its very lightweight has met the requirements of large-span building very well, and can reduce the total construction cost of the large-span building to a large extent.
Acoustic property
General membrane structure is transparent to the low frequency lower than 60Hz, and for the structure with special sound absorbing requirements, the membrane structure with FABRASORB unit may be used, to achieve better sound absorbing effect than that of glass.
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In the present, the widely used membrane materials have the BI fireproofing level, belonging to a nonflammable material. The fireproofing properties can meet the national fireproofing standards inFrance,Germany,USAandJapan.
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I am now on the train heading home. Thankfully this time it has not been cancelled or delayed.
Alan's funeral is to be on Wednesday, at 1pm in St Mary's Church, Whickham. I sent out an email bulletin to constituents about the date and time. Many have asked me over the last few days when it is to be.
I tried to book rail tickets for the coming week on the National Express website tonight. I left it to the last moment, not knowing until last night when the funeral will be. As I got to the last stage the website page crashed. So I will have to book them tomorrow (I had to leave the office at that point to go to Kings Cross to head home). It probably means the last cheap ticket I thought I bought tonight will be long gone.
I also got a message from David today to say he had been down to the allotment. We are, it seems, to spend much of the weekend weeding. Since I spent much of last Saturday doing the same, this raises the possibility that the thistles and other weeds growing on our land are enjoying the manure and soil conditioner we so thoughtfully put down for our spuds, peas, beans, onions, carrots, chard, parsnips etc.
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Wet Room Drain
The most important factor for a drain is that its capacity is superior to the shower's flow rate; if it is not then water will not drain fast enough and water will pool on the floor. If possible, use the drain configuration with the largest capacity as alterations may be made to the shower which can increase the flow rate beyond the drain's capacity. A common issue mainly with concrete constructions is low building depth which can determine if level access is achievable. When calculating the available depth to install a drain, the fall in the floor and distance from SVP should also be calculated. Even is level access is desired; the presence on level access should not lead to the use of poor quality products. Most drains are specifically for tiled or vinyl flooring and most are not compatible with both so it is essential that the drain is suitable for the floor covering.
Fall / Slope to drain
For water to travel towards the drain, the floor in the shower are needs to fall towards the drain. There are a few different methods for creating the fall in the floor and the methods typically depends on the installers preferences and experience. The most common in the UK & Ireland is to use a preformed board which has the fall built into it. Instead of a preformed board, ply or tile backer board can be used which are formed so that there is a fall to the drain. Another method is to use a specialist screed which is poured and formed , this is the method preferred by Advanced Wetrooms as it provides a very strong base for the drain and can achieve any wet room design. Specialist screed which can work at very thin levels is recommended to others compounds such as a sand and cement mix as support around the drain is essential and is typically a thin layer. The call in a wet room should be between 1.25% and 2%. When using small tiles like mosaic, it is advisable that 1.5% to 2% gradient is used.
Waterproofing / tanking membrane is available in a number of forms such as liquid, paste and sheet. When waterproofing a wet room / bathrooms / unitility room etc. we reccomend the below waterproofing zones are used. By waterproofing all of the floor and 100mm up all walls it prevents the issue of leaks traveling through another part of the room and through the floor / walls. All major moevement joints should be reifroces using the reifocnremnt tape typically provided with waterpoofing kits. Moevemnt joints are where two materials will meet each other e.g. around the drain, where the wall and wall / floor meet, any gaps between ply and tile backer board. Some flooring is not compatible with waterproofing membrane e.g. some vinyl / resin flooring.
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We built our ranch in Eaton just 2 years ago. We where truly blessed to find this wonderful piece of heaven on 66acres in Eaton. We have plenty of pasture for the horses to roam, and lots of room for our children to run and grow.
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What do we know about Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis?
IPF kills 5,000 people in the UK every year but it doesn't have a high profile and is poorly understood.
'Idiopathic' means the cause is not known and we still don't always understand the reasons why someone may develop pulmonary fibrosis. Researchers now believe that in people with IPF after the lung suffers an initial injury the body tries to heal the damaged area of lung but creates too much scar tissue. This is called fibrosis. Over time, the scarring gets worse and it becomes hard to take in a deep breath and your lungs cannot take in enough oxygen. IPF is just one form of interstitial lung disease. It mainly involves the interstitium which is the tissue and space around the air sacs of the lungs. There are many other kinds of interstitial lung disease that can also cause inflammation and/or fibrosis, and these are treated differently. It is important to work with your doctor to determine if you have IPF as this will influence your treatment.
Symptoms & causes
Symptoms of IPF include feeling short of breath, even when your resting, a persistent cough and 'clubbing' of your fingers and toes. Clubbing is when pools of fluid appear at the ends of the fingers and toes creating a rounding effect. It usually occurs in stages, with the fingernails lifting from the nail bed first and then they enlarge and start to round. There are many possible reasons suspected for developing the disease such as environmental factors and lifestyle choices. Factors such as working in occupations where you might be exposed to fine dust particles, toxins or chemicals could contribute to you developing pulmonary fibrosis. Smoking is also considered a risk factor and having an autoimmune disease puts you at a higher risk as do some medications and treatments such as chemotherapy. Some people are genetically predisposed to develop IPF when their lung is damaged. The scar tissue cannot currently be changed back to healthy tissue, so there is no cure yet for IPF. Current treatments aim to slow the rate of scarring, but they do not stop it.
What happens now?
Treatments include pulmonary rehabilitation, an exercise programme, which will help you cope with the feelings of breathlessness. Oxygen therapy if the level of oxygen in your blood falls this could be from a portable oxygen cylinder or an oxygen concentrator at home. Medication to help with symptoms as well as medication to slow the scarring in your lungs. Only rarely are people offered a lung transplant.
IPF is an irreversible, progressive disease. So it is important to learn good coping skills and educate yourself about the disease as much as possible. Stopping smoking (if you do smoke) is the most important thing you can do to help slow down the progression of any lung disease. Others things you can do include remembering to get your flu vaccine every year as well as one for pneumonia. Keep away from people with chest infections and colds and wash your hands properly and often.
Staying fit and healthy is important too and you can find some useful hints and tips on how to get started on our blog post - Can you improve your lung function? It's important to look after your mental health too and the British Lung Foundation has a list of support groups where you can make new friends who know what you're going through, and get lots of information about pulmonary fibrosis.
Ongoing support
Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis is a charity dedicated to raising awareness of the disease as well as improving the quality of life for patients and funding research. Founded in 2013 by patients, family members and IPF specialists, they are now recognised at a national level. They raise awareness of the disease by talking to the medical professionals, decision-makers and the wider public. They actively campaign to parliament, the NHS and policy-makers to represent patient interests and encouraging prompt diagnosis. They support research into improved outcomes and greater understanding of the disease and to champion research programmes and one of their key aims has been to increase the number of IPF support groups and to make them accessible to as many patients as possible. If you are newly diagnosed, living with pulmonary fibrosis or have a family member who needs support why not take a look at their website.
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Last night Chipping Norton school had their annual awards evening and 8 out of the 12 awards for Y7 went to ex-pupils from Hook Norton School as well as the majority of nominees! Well done to all of those involved – we are very proud of you!
Reminder: Incredible Edible Grand opening on Saturday 23rd June with tea and cakes from 2-4pm. Thank you for your kind donations of cakes and cookies. Please come along and see what an 'incredible' job our gardeners have done.
Non-Uniform Day next Friday 29th June: Children may wear their own casual clothes in return for pocket money toys or sweets (no chocolate) for the Family BBQ prizes.
Activities this week:
N: Made bug hotels and went on minibeast hunts.
R: Everything to do with the World Cup, including painting flags and designing football strips.
Y1/Y2: Learnt seaside poems, designed seaside towns and wrote holiday brochures about them.
Y3: Newspaper reports on 'The Witches', Virtual Athletics.
Y4: Made Big Ben out of straws and learnt how sound gets to our ears.
Y5: Learnt about insect life cycles and Roman numerals, researched Ancient Egypt, took part in the CNS Bake Off.
Y6: Have had a wonderful time in Yenworthy, trying out all sorts of new activities such as kayaking, stream walking, coasteering as well as developing their independence.
I went to the Department for Education in London this week with Scott Orchard, our Chair of Governors and our MP Victoria Prentis, where I met with Nick Gibb, the Minister for Education, to talk about our school budget.
Congratulations to Alfie Simmonds who won the Y5 Bake Off with his light –as- a- feather cupcakes. He will be representing Hook Norton at the CNS partnership finals.
Attendance: Well done to Forest Owls and Year 3 for Almost Full Attendance 11-15 June.
Out of School Achievements : Swimming- Attie Yost Personal Survival Level 2 and Stage 6, Lauren Barnett Stage 4, Violet Robey Student First Aid, Rosie Brown Diamond Blue Peter Badge.
Well Done; This week we have said well done to: Ralph Lambourne, Will Garrett, Lilla Jarvas,
Beau Lawrence, Alfie Simmonds, Scarlet Pitout, Ava Wilson, John Legg, Sydney Maule, Alex Lewis, Ava Wallwork, Bella-May Perry.
Pen Licence: Thomas Hewitt-Gray.
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The Seattle/Tacoma/Portland band's first full-length is a cauldron pot of love, sex, death, and distorted guitars. Martin Douglas investigates.
Proceeds from the limited edition EP, titled Turning Time Around, will benefit Mitchell's mom, who has Alzheimer's disease.
KEXP's Owen Murphy talks to the acclaimed producer from his studio on Vashon Island.
Martin Douglas' local music-inspired short fiction series returns with flying cars and smoldering debris.
The newest single from the Seattle band's forthcoming debut album includes a dark yet prismatic video.
The legendary locals kick off the series with their rendition of Stevie Wonder's 1967 hit "Someday at Christmas."
The "Indian Ocean (The End of Everything)" / "In Dreams" 7" single will be released December 13th via Matinée Recordings.
In advance of the Seattle-based multidisciplinary artist's new solo album dropping next year, Denial offers this dark and heady single featuring DoNormaal.
The Tacoma native's recently released EP is a remarkable twenty minutes of singing and rapping, of sex and self-love. Martin Douglas investigates.
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Their fifth studio album Thin Mind is scheduled for release on January 24th via Sub Pop.
The soulful Seattleite celebrates the release of his fourth full-length, Building Balance.