The Animal Demography Unit's Citizen Scientist Day at the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens in Roodepoort, Gauteng. Held on the 16th of August 2014. Thank you to everyone that attended this great event!
1) Five therapy dogs and their attendants visited the preschool unit Medvode to help with the rehabilitation and well-being of the children.
2) The children learned how to properly approach and interact with the dogs through activities like combing, brushing teeth, and listening to hearts.
3) The attendants taught the children about what dogs like, dislike, and fear and the children had a chance to practice commands like sit and paw with the dogs.
Este documento discute la diferencia entre nativos digitales e inmigrantes digitales. Los nativos digitales son estudiantes que han crecido en un mundo dominado por la tecnología digital, mientras que los inmigrantes digitales son personas que aprenden a adaptarse a la tecnología a medida que avanza la sociedad del conocimiento. También menciona cómo la implementación de la tecnología de la información ha traído cambios estructurales a la sociedad y la diferencia entre trabajadores tradicionales y de conocimiento.
The prayer update document provides information about individuals in need of prayers, including Jeanne Wharff who is in the hospital, Cathy Machado, and members of the armed services. It also lists upcoming events at the church, such as a lunch with friends, Ad Council meeting, and potluck at Riverbank UMC on August 31st.
1) Pemerintah mencegah kecurangan UN 2014 dengan melibatkan dosen sebagai pengawas dan membuat soal berbeda untuk siswa sebelahan.
2) Erupsi Gunung Sinabung menyebabkan korban jiwa bertambah dan evakuasi terkendala awan panas.
3) Pencarian korban masih berlanjut meski terkendala erupsi berkelanjutan.
1) El documento describe las propiedades físicas de la especie Mistol (Zizyphus mistol), incluyendo su peso específico, conductividad térmica, porosidad y contracción volumétrica. 2) También analiza el inventario forestal de la provincia de Chaco, identificando 33 especies presentes y encontrando que Mistol tiene el tercer mayor porcentaje de ocupación. 3) El proyecto busca estudiar alternativas para el aprovechamiento sustentable del bosque chaqueño, incluyendo especies como Mistol que presentan bu
Silabos comunicación iv ciclo comp. e inf.hover parionaCarlos Laurente
Este documento presenta el sílabo de la asignatura Comunicación IV para estudiantes de la carrera de Computación e Informática. Incluye la información básica del curso como la institución, nivel, créditos, duración e instructor. Explica que el curso se enfoca en desarrollar habilidades comunicativas y lingüísticas para producir textos orales y escritos de calidad. Además, presenta la matriz organizativa, la cual detalla los contenidos, estrategias de enseñanza, formas de evaluación y productos esper
Policías y agresores de civil agreden a periodistas de VeracruzJorge Luis Sierra
Este es un análisis de un video sobre la agresión sufrida por el periodista Iván Sánchez durante la cobertura de las manifestaciones magisteriales del 22 de noviembre de 2015 en Boca del Río, Veracruz.
1) Five therapy dogs and their attendants visited the preschool unit Medvode to help with the rehabilitation and well-being of the children.
2) The children learned how to properly approach and interact with the dogs through activities like combing, brushing teeth, and listening to hearts.
3) The attendants taught the children about what dogs like, dislike, and fear and the children had a chance to practice commands like sit and paw with the dogs.
Este documento discute la diferencia entre nativos digitales e inmigrantes digitales. Los nativos digitales son estudiantes que han crecido en un mundo dominado por la tecnología digital, mientras que los inmigrantes digitales son personas que aprenden a adaptarse a la tecnología a medida que avanza la sociedad del conocimiento. También menciona cómo la implementación de la tecnología de la información ha traído cambios estructurales a la sociedad y la diferencia entre trabajadores tradicionales y de conocimiento.
The prayer update document provides information about individuals in need of prayers, including Jeanne Wharff who is in the hospital, Cathy Machado, and members of the armed services. It also lists upcoming events at the church, such as a lunch with friends, Ad Council meeting, and potluck at Riverbank UMC on August 31st.
1) Pemerintah mencegah kecurangan UN 2014 dengan melibatkan dosen sebagai pengawas dan membuat soal berbeda untuk siswa sebelahan.
2) Erupsi Gunung Sinabung menyebabkan korban jiwa bertambah dan evakuasi terkendala awan panas.
3) Pencarian korban masih berlanjut meski terkendala erupsi berkelanjutan.
1) El documento describe las propiedades físicas de la especie Mistol (Zizyphus mistol), incluyendo su peso específico, conductividad térmica, porosidad y contracción volumétrica. 2) También analiza el inventario forestal de la provincia de Chaco, identificando 33 especies presentes y encontrando que Mistol tiene el tercer mayor porcentaje de ocupación. 3) El proyecto busca estudiar alternativas para el aprovechamiento sustentable del bosque chaqueño, incluyendo especies como Mistol que presentan bu
Silabos comunicación iv ciclo comp. e inf.hover parionaCarlos Laurente
Este documento presenta el sílabo de la asignatura Comunicación IV para estudiantes de la carrera de Computación e Informática. Incluye la información básica del curso como la institución, nivel, créditos, duración e instructor. Explica que el curso se enfoca en desarrollar habilidades comunicativas y lingüísticas para producir textos orales y escritos de calidad. Además, presenta la matriz organizativa, la cual detalla los contenidos, estrategias de enseñanza, formas de evaluación y productos esper
Policías y agresores de civil agreden a periodistas de VeracruzJorge Luis Sierra
Este es un análisis de un video sobre la agresión sufrida por el periodista Iván Sánchez durante la cobertura de las manifestaciones magisteriales del 22 de noviembre de 2015 en Boca del Río, Veracruz.
The document provides a link to a guide on how to upload records to a virtual museum. The guide is titled "how-to-submit-records-to-the-virtual-museums" and is located on SlideShare from the Animal Demography Unit at the University of Cape Town.
This slideshow uses the data from the Second Southern African Bird Atlas Project (SABAP2) to show how Spotted Flycathers arrive and depart from southern Africa
SABAP2 is the most important bird conservation project in South Africa. This is because conservation interventions depend on knowing the distributions of species and how they are changing. This is a slideshare of the Barn Swallow Seasonality, Migration and Breeding.
The document is a thank you note from the Animal Demography Unit at the University of Cape Town thanking volunteers called "Atlasers" for submitting animal checklists to help complete a coverage map as part of the South African National Biodiversity Institute's atlas project. The note also thanks sponsors for their support and provides a link for how to designate the ADU as the beneficiary of a MyPlanet donation card.
The Virtual Museum Report summarizes the activities of the Animal Demography Unit's Virtual Museum in 2014. It notes that over 56,000 records were added in 2014, a 76% increase over 2013. This pushed the total records in the Virtual Museum database past the 1 million record milestone. Several citizen science projects like LepiMAP contributed large numbers of records. New projects in mushrooms, lacewings, and orchids also joined. A key publication was an atlas and red list of South African reptiles. Work is ongoing to red list mammals with a call for more mammal records.
Les Underhill, Animal Demography Unit, University of Cape Town presented the AP Leventis Lecture at the University of Jos, Nigeria, on 11 November 2014. The event was hosted by the AP Leventis Ornithological Research Institute (APLORI), Amurum Forest, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. The topic of the lecture was "Biodiversity Conservation: how to make a difference"
This document provides instructions for creating a species list from the data in the LepiMAP database. It describes a 6 step process:
1) Go to the Virtual Museum website and click on the LepiMAP logo
2) Click "Species lists" in the left menu
3) Enter the 4-digit code for the desired geographic area, such as 2926 for Bloemfontein
4) Click "Get species list"
5) The server searches the database and returns a list of species found for that area
6) The list provides scientific and common names, as well as threat status, and can be copied into a spreadsheet.
How to register as a Citizen Scientist with the Animal Demography Unit - get involved with our various citizen science projects and make a difference for biodiversity conservation in Africa!
This document discusses Les Underhill's contributions to the Animal Demography Unit's Virtual Museum in Nigeria from November 2014. It notes that building distribution maps of species through thousands of photo-place-date records in the museum is crucial to set conservation priorities by understanding biodiversity distributions and how they are changing. It also emphasizes that establishing current baselines is important to measure how development and climate change impact Africa's biodiversity since knowledge of up-to-date distribution patterns is limited.
The use of Nauplii and metanauplii artemia in aquaculture (brine shrimp).pptxMAGOTI ERNEST
Although Artemia has been known to man for centuries, its use as a food for the culture of larval organisms apparently began only in the 1930s, when several investigators found that it made an excellent food for newly hatched fish larvae (Litvinenko et al., 2023). As aquaculture developed in the 1960s and ‘70s, the use of Artemia also became more widespread, due both to its convenience and to its nutritional value for larval organisms (Arenas-Pardo et al., 2024). The fact that Artemia dormant cysts can be stored for long periods in cans, and then used as an off-the-shelf food requiring only 24 h of incubation makes them the most convenient, least labor-intensive, live food available for aquaculture (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021). The nutritional value of Artemia, especially for marine organisms, is not constant, but varies both geographically and temporally. During the last decade, however, both the causes of Artemia nutritional variability and methods to improve poorquality Artemia have been identified (Loufi et al., 2024).
Brine shrimp (Artemia spp.) are used in marine aquaculture worldwide. Annually, more than 2,000 metric tons of dry cysts are used for cultivation of fish, crustacean, and shellfish larva. Brine shrimp are important to aquaculture because newly hatched brine shrimp nauplii (larvae) provide a food source for many fish fry (Mozanzadeh et al., 2021). Culture and harvesting of brine shrimp eggs represents another aspect of the aquaculture industry. Nauplii and metanauplii of Artemia, commonly known as brine shrimp, play a crucial role in aquaculture due to their nutritional value and suitability as live feed for many aquatic species, particularly in larval stages (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021).
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
Describing and Interpreting an Immersive Learning Case with the Immersion Cub...Leonel Morgado
Current descriptions of immersive learning cases are often difficult or impossible to compare. This is due to a myriad of different options on what details to include, which aspects are relevant, and on the descriptive approaches employed. Also, these aspects often combine very specific details with more general guidelines or indicate intents and rationales without clarifying their implementation. In this paper we provide a method to describe immersive learning cases that is structured to enable comparisons, yet flexible enough to allow researchers and practitioners to decide which aspects to include. This method leverages a taxonomy that classifies educational aspects at three levels (uses, practices, and strategies) and then utilizes two frameworks, the Immersive Learning Brain and the Immersion Cube, to enable a structured description and interpretation of immersive learning cases. The method is then demonstrated on a published immersive learning case on training for wind turbine maintenance using virtual reality. Applying the method results in a structured artifact, the Immersive Learning Case Sheet, that tags the case with its proximal uses, practices, and strategies, and refines the free text case description to ensure that matching details are included. This contribution is thus a case description method in support of future comparative research of immersive learning cases. We then discuss how the resulting description and interpretation can be leveraged to change immersion learning cases, by enriching them (considering low-effort changes or additions) or innovating (exploring more challenging avenues of transformation). The method holds significant promise to support better-grounded research in immersive learning.
ESPP presentation to EU Waste Water Network, 4th June 2024 “EU policies driving nutrient removal and recycling
and the revised UWWTD (Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive)”
The technology uses reclaimed CO₂ as the dyeing medium in a closed loop process. When pressurized, CO₂ becomes supercritical (SC-CO₂). In this state CO₂ has a very high solvent power, allowing the dye to dissolve easily.
Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intellige...University of Maribor
Slides from talk:
Aleš Zamuda: Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intelligent Systems.
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Inter-Society Networking Panel GRSS/MTT-S/CIS Panel Session: Promoting Connection and Cooperation
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
Current Ms word generated power point presentation covers major details about the micronuclei test. It's significance and assays to conduct it. It is used to detect the micronuclei formation inside the cells of nearly every multicellular organism. It's formation takes place during chromosomal sepration at metaphase.
The document provides a link to a guide on how to upload records to a virtual museum. The guide is titled "how-to-submit-records-to-the-virtual-museums" and is located on SlideShare from the Animal Demography Unit at the University of Cape Town.
This slideshow uses the data from the Second Southern African Bird Atlas Project (SABAP2) to show how Spotted Flycathers arrive and depart from southern Africa
SABAP2 is the most important bird conservation project in South Africa. This is because conservation interventions depend on knowing the distributions of species and how they are changing. This is a slideshare of the Barn Swallow Seasonality, Migration and Breeding.
The document is a thank you note from the Animal Demography Unit at the University of Cape Town thanking volunteers called "Atlasers" for submitting animal checklists to help complete a coverage map as part of the South African National Biodiversity Institute's atlas project. The note also thanks sponsors for their support and provides a link for how to designate the ADU as the beneficiary of a MyPlanet donation card.
The Virtual Museum Report summarizes the activities of the Animal Demography Unit's Virtual Museum in 2014. It notes that over 56,000 records were added in 2014, a 76% increase over 2013. This pushed the total records in the Virtual Museum database past the 1 million record milestone. Several citizen science projects like LepiMAP contributed large numbers of records. New projects in mushrooms, lacewings, and orchids also joined. A key publication was an atlas and red list of South African reptiles. Work is ongoing to red list mammals with a call for more mammal records.
Les Underhill, Animal Demography Unit, University of Cape Town presented the AP Leventis Lecture at the University of Jos, Nigeria, on 11 November 2014. The event was hosted by the AP Leventis Ornithological Research Institute (APLORI), Amurum Forest, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. The topic of the lecture was "Biodiversity Conservation: how to make a difference"
This document provides instructions for creating a species list from the data in the LepiMAP database. It describes a 6 step process:
1) Go to the Virtual Museum website and click on the LepiMAP logo
2) Click "Species lists" in the left menu
3) Enter the 4-digit code for the desired geographic area, such as 2926 for Bloemfontein
4) Click "Get species list"
5) The server searches the database and returns a list of species found for that area
6) The list provides scientific and common names, as well as threat status, and can be copied into a spreadsheet.
How to register as a Citizen Scientist with the Animal Demography Unit - get involved with our various citizen science projects and make a difference for biodiversity conservation in Africa!
This document discusses Les Underhill's contributions to the Animal Demography Unit's Virtual Museum in Nigeria from November 2014. It notes that building distribution maps of species through thousands of photo-place-date records in the museum is crucial to set conservation priorities by understanding biodiversity distributions and how they are changing. It also emphasizes that establishing current baselines is important to measure how development and climate change impact Africa's biodiversity since knowledge of up-to-date distribution patterns is limited.
The use of Nauplii and metanauplii artemia in aquaculture (brine shrimp).pptxMAGOTI ERNEST
Although Artemia has been known to man for centuries, its use as a food for the culture of larval organisms apparently began only in the 1930s, when several investigators found that it made an excellent food for newly hatched fish larvae (Litvinenko et al., 2023). As aquaculture developed in the 1960s and ‘70s, the use of Artemia also became more widespread, due both to its convenience and to its nutritional value for larval organisms (Arenas-Pardo et al., 2024). The fact that Artemia dormant cysts can be stored for long periods in cans, and then used as an off-the-shelf food requiring only 24 h of incubation makes them the most convenient, least labor-intensive, live food available for aquaculture (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021). The nutritional value of Artemia, especially for marine organisms, is not constant, but varies both geographically and temporally. During the last decade, however, both the causes of Artemia nutritional variability and methods to improve poorquality Artemia have been identified (Loufi et al., 2024).
Brine shrimp (Artemia spp.) are used in marine aquaculture worldwide. Annually, more than 2,000 metric tons of dry cysts are used for cultivation of fish, crustacean, and shellfish larva. Brine shrimp are important to aquaculture because newly hatched brine shrimp nauplii (larvae) provide a food source for many fish fry (Mozanzadeh et al., 2021). Culture and harvesting of brine shrimp eggs represents another aspect of the aquaculture industry. Nauplii and metanauplii of Artemia, commonly known as brine shrimp, play a crucial role in aquaculture due to their nutritional value and suitability as live feed for many aquatic species, particularly in larval stages (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021).
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
Describing and Interpreting an Immersive Learning Case with the Immersion Cub...Leonel Morgado
Current descriptions of immersive learning cases are often difficult or impossible to compare. This is due to a myriad of different options on what details to include, which aspects are relevant, and on the descriptive approaches employed. Also, these aspects often combine very specific details with more general guidelines or indicate intents and rationales without clarifying their implementation. In this paper we provide a method to describe immersive learning cases that is structured to enable comparisons, yet flexible enough to allow researchers and practitioners to decide which aspects to include. This method leverages a taxonomy that classifies educational aspects at three levels (uses, practices, and strategies) and then utilizes two frameworks, the Immersive Learning Brain and the Immersion Cube, to enable a structured description and interpretation of immersive learning cases. The method is then demonstrated on a published immersive learning case on training for wind turbine maintenance using virtual reality. Applying the method results in a structured artifact, the Immersive Learning Case Sheet, that tags the case with its proximal uses, practices, and strategies, and refines the free text case description to ensure that matching details are included. This contribution is thus a case description method in support of future comparative research of immersive learning cases. We then discuss how the resulting description and interpretation can be leveraged to change immersion learning cases, by enriching them (considering low-effort changes or additions) or innovating (exploring more challenging avenues of transformation). The method holds significant promise to support better-grounded research in immersive learning.
ESPP presentation to EU Waste Water Network, 4th June 2024 “EU policies driving nutrient removal and recycling
and the revised UWWTD (Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive)”
The technology uses reclaimed CO₂ as the dyeing medium in a closed loop process. When pressurized, CO₂ becomes supercritical (SC-CO₂). In this state CO₂ has a very high solvent power, allowing the dye to dissolve easily.
Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intellige...University of Maribor
Slides from talk:
Aleš Zamuda: Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intelligent Systems.
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Inter-Society Networking Panel GRSS/MTT-S/CIS Panel Session: Promoting Connection and Cooperation
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
Current Ms word generated power point presentation covers major details about the micronuclei test. It's significance and assays to conduct it. It is used to detect the micronuclei formation inside the cells of nearly every multicellular organism. It's formation takes place during chromosomal sepration at metaphase.
Or: Beyond linear.
Abstract: Equivariant neural networks are neural networks that incorporate symmetries. The nonlinear activation functions in these networks result in interesting nonlinear equivariant maps between simple representations, and motivate the key player of this talk: piecewise linear representation theory.
Disclaimer: No one is perfect, so please mind that there might be mistakes and typos.
dtubbenhauer@gmail.com
Corrected slides: dtubbenhauer.com/talks.html
Phenomics assisted breeding in crop improvementIshaGoswami9
As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
and analysis methods, numerous infrastructure platforms have been developed for phenotyping.
Authoring a personal GPT for your research and practice: How we created the Q...Leonel Morgado
Thematic analysis in qualitative research is a time-consuming and systematic task, typically done using teams. Team members must ground their activities on common understandings of the major concepts underlying the thematic analysis, and define criteria for its development. However, conceptual misunderstandings, equivocations, and lack of adherence to criteria are challenges to the quality and speed of this process. Given the distributed and uncertain nature of this process, we wondered if the tasks in thematic analysis could be supported by readily available artificial intelligence chatbots. Our early efforts point to potential benefits: not just saving time in the coding process but better adherence to criteria and grounding, by increasing triangulation between humans and artificial intelligence. This tutorial will provide a description and demonstration of the process we followed, as two academic researchers, to develop a custom ChatGPT to assist with qualitative coding in the thematic data analysis process of immersive learning accounts in a survey of the academic literature: QUAL-E Immersive Learning Thematic Analysis Helper. In the hands-on time, participants will try out QUAL-E and develop their ideas for their own qualitative coding ChatGPT. Participants that have the paid ChatGPT Plus subscription can create a draft of their assistants. The organizers will provide course materials and slide deck that participants will be able to utilize to continue development of their custom GPT. The paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus is not required to participate in this workshop, just for trying out personal GPTs during it.
Authoring a personal GPT for your research and practice: How we created the Q...
ADU Citizen Scientist Day at Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens - 16 August 2014
1. Animal Demography Unit
Citizen Science Day
at the Walter Sisulu
National Botanical
Gardens, Roodepoort
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10. Thank you
• To all who supported the event
• To all the presenters who inspired us
• To Christopher Willis and team at SANBI, who
enabled us to use the Nestle Education Centre
at the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens
in Roodepoort
• To Jerome Ainsley, who inspired the idea to
hold the event
• To the hosts who accommodated the ADU team
in Johannesburg