Coronary artery calcium detected by electron beam tomography (EBT) establishes a diagnosis of coronary atherosclerosis, as there are no false positive calcium measurements. The amount of calcium seen on EBT correlates directly with the actual amount of coronary plaque measured by intravascular ultrasound and histopathology. Studies have also shown that a higher coronary artery calcium score on EBT is associated with greater risk of future myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death, or ischemia over follow-up periods of 3-6 years.
All You Need To Know About Network InteroperabilityMahindra Comviva
"Network Interoperability is the continuous ability to send and receive data among the interconnected networks, providing the quality level expected by the end user. It becomes indispensable in order to achieve end-to-end connectivity. The more diverse networks exist, the greater becomes the need to ensure that they can interoperate. Network interoperability being the ability of two networks to communicate can be achieved in two ways: either by having the two networks confirm to a common protocol standard or by defining a standard interface to which all networks need to adhere, or by providing a gateway that translates between the two protocols."
This document proposes a new approach to accountability assessments that reduces the federal role and increases the state and local roles. It involves using curriculum-embedded performance assessments (CEPAs) administered throughout the year as the primary method of assessment, supplemented by shorter statewide assessments that are more performance-based. CEPAs would be developed and approved by states and incorporated into regular classroom instruction. They would provide timely feedback to improve learning and inform accountability. This approach aims to transform teaching and learning to focus on deeper learning skills, while increasing efficiency by reducing over-testing. It would realign accountability to give states and districts more ownership over the process.
What Is Coffee Aroma?
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1867/what-is-coffee-aroma/
Wake up and smell the coffee, the saying goes. The aroma of coffee entices us to drink our java but just what is coffee aroma? The tongue tastes sweet, bitter, salty and sour. The rest of what we call taste comes from aroma and coffee has lots of it. Coffeeresearch.org tells us all about coffee chemistry and coffee aroma.
Coffee aroma is responsible for all coffee flavor attributes other than the mouthfeel and sweet, salt, bitter, and sour taste attributes that are perceived by the tongue. Therefore, it might be said that coffee aroma is the most important attribute to specialty coffee. Even instant coffee has the components responsible for stimulation of our taste buds. The difference, however, is that instant coffee lacks most of the aromatic volatile compounds causing a dramatic decrease in the overall coffee flavor.
It seems like every year more and more aromatic chemical compounds are discovered in coffee. The count today is more than 800 of these. However we don’t experience most of these. The coffee aroma we experience is based on the following:
How strong is the aroma of the compound?
How much of the compound is in your coffee?
How receptive are you to that particular aroma? This is known as the odor threshold.
What compounds provide the most aromas and what aroma do we experience from them? These are the big four in descending order.
Furans: These compounds come from the breakdown of sugars in the coffee bean during roasting and result in a caramel-like aroma.
Pyrazines: These compounds are responsible for cereal, roasted, cracker, toast-like walnut aromas in coffee.
Pyrroles: The sweet, caramel-like and mushroom-like aromas in coffee can come from these compounds.
Thiophens: If your coffee has a meaty aroma it probably comes from the breakdown of amino acids and sulfur in these compounds.
DW 2015: Ivar Steen-Johnsen Nordic ScreensTelenor Group
1) Nordic Screens MCN is a network of YouTube channels that represents YouTubers and their traffic to advertisers and sponsors. It has 22 million views per month across 280 channels.
2) Nordic Screens also provides consulting, production, publishing, and marketing services for businesses wanting to build and manage their own YouTube channels.
3) The presentation provides advice for businesses looking to use YouTube video, including getting started, developing a long-term strategy and video plan, and hiring an "editor in chief" to lead video efforts. It suggests considering how video could help a business.
Digital Mobile Money offers mobile financial services consulting and technology products. They help banks, mobile network operators, and merchants provide digital financial services. Their products and solutions portfolio includes a mobile wallet platform, agent and distribution management, KYC and customer care tools, AML solutions, microfinance products, and on-demand software development services. They have experience launching mobile money services across many global markets since 2008.
SQLI is a digital consulting firm that helps businesses achieve digital transformation. It provides a range of digital services including connected commerce, marketing and CRM, business solutions, mobility and IoT, and digital industrialization. SQLI has over 1850 employees across offices in France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Morocco. In 2014, SQLI reported €162 million in revenue.
Coronary artery calcium detected by electron beam tomography (EBT) establishes a diagnosis of coronary atherosclerosis, as there are no false positive calcium measurements. The amount of calcium seen on EBT correlates directly with the actual amount of coronary plaque measured by intravascular ultrasound and histopathology. Studies have also shown that a higher coronary artery calcium score on EBT is associated with greater risk of future myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death, or ischemia over follow-up periods of 3-6 years.
All You Need To Know About Network InteroperabilityMahindra Comviva
"Network Interoperability is the continuous ability to send and receive data among the interconnected networks, providing the quality level expected by the end user. It becomes indispensable in order to achieve end-to-end connectivity. The more diverse networks exist, the greater becomes the need to ensure that they can interoperate. Network interoperability being the ability of two networks to communicate can be achieved in two ways: either by having the two networks confirm to a common protocol standard or by defining a standard interface to which all networks need to adhere, or by providing a gateway that translates between the two protocols."
This document proposes a new approach to accountability assessments that reduces the federal role and increases the state and local roles. It involves using curriculum-embedded performance assessments (CEPAs) administered throughout the year as the primary method of assessment, supplemented by shorter statewide assessments that are more performance-based. CEPAs would be developed and approved by states and incorporated into regular classroom instruction. They would provide timely feedback to improve learning and inform accountability. This approach aims to transform teaching and learning to focus on deeper learning skills, while increasing efficiency by reducing over-testing. It would realign accountability to give states and districts more ownership over the process.
What Is Coffee Aroma?
http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1867/what-is-coffee-aroma/
Wake up and smell the coffee, the saying goes. The aroma of coffee entices us to drink our java but just what is coffee aroma? The tongue tastes sweet, bitter, salty and sour. The rest of what we call taste comes from aroma and coffee has lots of it. Coffeeresearch.org tells us all about coffee chemistry and coffee aroma.
Coffee aroma is responsible for all coffee flavor attributes other than the mouthfeel and sweet, salt, bitter, and sour taste attributes that are perceived by the tongue. Therefore, it might be said that coffee aroma is the most important attribute to specialty coffee. Even instant coffee has the components responsible for stimulation of our taste buds. The difference, however, is that instant coffee lacks most of the aromatic volatile compounds causing a dramatic decrease in the overall coffee flavor.
It seems like every year more and more aromatic chemical compounds are discovered in coffee. The count today is more than 800 of these. However we don’t experience most of these. The coffee aroma we experience is based on the following:
How strong is the aroma of the compound?
How much of the compound is in your coffee?
How receptive are you to that particular aroma? This is known as the odor threshold.
What compounds provide the most aromas and what aroma do we experience from them? These are the big four in descending order.
Furans: These compounds come from the breakdown of sugars in the coffee bean during roasting and result in a caramel-like aroma.
Pyrazines: These compounds are responsible for cereal, roasted, cracker, toast-like walnut aromas in coffee.
Pyrroles: The sweet, caramel-like and mushroom-like aromas in coffee can come from these compounds.
Thiophens: If your coffee has a meaty aroma it probably comes from the breakdown of amino acids and sulfur in these compounds.
DW 2015: Ivar Steen-Johnsen Nordic ScreensTelenor Group
1) Nordic Screens MCN is a network of YouTube channels that represents YouTubers and their traffic to advertisers and sponsors. It has 22 million views per month across 280 channels.
2) Nordic Screens also provides consulting, production, publishing, and marketing services for businesses wanting to build and manage their own YouTube channels.
3) The presentation provides advice for businesses looking to use YouTube video, including getting started, developing a long-term strategy and video plan, and hiring an "editor in chief" to lead video efforts. It suggests considering how video could help a business.
Digital Mobile Money offers mobile financial services consulting and technology products. They help banks, mobile network operators, and merchants provide digital financial services. Their products and solutions portfolio includes a mobile wallet platform, agent and distribution management, KYC and customer care tools, AML solutions, microfinance products, and on-demand software development services. They have experience launching mobile money services across many global markets since 2008.
SQLI is a digital consulting firm that helps businesses achieve digital transformation. It provides a range of digital services including connected commerce, marketing and CRM, business solutions, mobility and IoT, and digital industrialization. SQLI has over 1850 employees across offices in France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Morocco. In 2014, SQLI reported €162 million in revenue.
El documento resume la historia de Linux. Comenzó como un proyecto de un estudiante de la Universidad de Helsinki llamado Linus Torvalds en 1991 para crear un nuevo sistema operativo como entretenimiento llamado Linux. Programadores de todo el mundo han ido mejorando continuamente Linux. El sistema operativo Linux se completó cuando los componentes de GNU se combinaron con el núcleo de Linux.
Habilidades que desarrolla la inteligencia kinestésicanicolcc
Este documento describe las habilidades que desarrolla la inteligencia kinestésica-corporal como las manualidades, los deportes, la danza y la expresión corporal. También ofrece recomendaciones para desarrollarla en niños a través del juego, como proporcionar espacios para jugar, seleccionar juguetes apropiados para su edad y dedicar tiempo al juego libre. Además, dominar los movimientos del cuerpo ayuda a los niños a comunicarse mejor y desarrollar profesiones que requieran destreza manual
SEO tools can help you deal with your search engine optimization efforts for your site or blog. These tools are for the most part offered on the web. When you are in search for best SEO, it can be hard to discover a suite that offers all that you have to deal with an SEO.
This document is a certificate certifying that Vivek Jain completed a project on "WASTE MANAGEMENT" in the year 2016-17 under the guidance of Mr. H.C. Tiwari, the Principal of Shri Vaishnav Academy in Indore. It acknowledges Vivek Jain's satisfactory work on the project. The document then discusses moving towards a digital cashless economy in India by eliminating cash transactions and problems with the current system like black money. It describes how such a system would work using digital payments and enable direct tax collection at the time of transactions. Potential advantages include reducing crimes, saving government resources and ensuring complete tax collection. Challenges in implementing it in India are also
The document discusses newer aspects of iron supplementation. It summarizes that iron amino acid chelate, or ferrous bis glycinate, has advantages over other forms of iron supplementation, including being non-buffered in the stomach, non-precipitated in the intestine, not antagonized by phytates, and having superior and dependable bioavailability due to its unique chelate design, which potentially allows for smaller doses with fewer side effects. The document examines what is known, unknown, and needs to be known about different forms of iron supplementation and their absorption parameters.
Software defined radio technology : ITB research activitiesDr.Joko Suryana
A.Introduction
1.From 1G to 5G
2.5G, from Device to Data Center
B.Programmable Networks
1.Software Defined Radio Technology
2.From Software-Defined Radio to Software-Defined Networking
3.Project Example : Princeton Univ : Software-Defined Cellular Core networks and New York Univ USA : SDN-controlled LTE using SDR
C.SDR Projects at LTRGM ITB
1.SDR for 5G Physical Layer Design
2.SDR for AESA Radar Receiver
3.SDR for Nanosatellite Ground Station
4.SDR for Communication and Identification for IFX
The document discusses instrumentation and methods for gas analysis using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. It describes the key components of an FTIR gas analysis system including the FTIR spectrometer, gas cell, temperature control, flow control, pressure control, vacuum pump, and gas diluter. It also discusses sampling tools, gas standards, quantitative analysis methods, and the general steps for running an FTIR gas analysis which includes pretest preparations, connecting the sampling loop, preparing the FTIR, and running the analysis.
Polymer degradation is the breakdown of polymers or plastics into smaller molecules due to effects of heat, light, chemicals, or biological activity. There are several types of polymer degradation including photodegradation caused by light, thermal degradation caused by heat, chemical degradation through processes like hydrolysis and solvolysis using acids/bases, and biological degradation by microorganisms. Biodegradable polymers can break down through biological processes to give smaller molecules but require proper conditions like in compost to fully degrade.
This document describes the design, testing, and implementation of a switch driver circuit for a cellular signal blocking system. The author redesigned an existing switch driver board that was malfunctioning due to overheating transistors. Through testing and redesign, the author optimized the switch time and removed current spikes and interruptions. The improved switch driver board successfully switched voltages at 2.5 kHz and was integrated into the full system, which then passed all tests and was demonstrated to clients.
This document summarizes the testing of three printed circuit boards (PCBs) for a switch driver at different temperatures. The switch driver switches between 100V and -7V/-15V voltages at a frequency of 2.5 kHz. Testing was done at room temperature (25°C) and elevated temperature (70°C). Current draw and rise/fall times were measured for the different voltage paths on each PCB. Minor variations were observed between temperatures but all measurements were within specifications. Notes are provided on the function of feedback circuits and proper connection of input signals.
El documento resume la historia de Linux. Comenzó como un proyecto de un estudiante de la Universidad de Helsinki llamado Linus Torvalds en 1991 para crear un nuevo sistema operativo como entretenimiento llamado Linux. Programadores de todo el mundo han ido mejorando continuamente Linux. El sistema operativo Linux se completó cuando los componentes de GNU se combinaron con el núcleo de Linux.
Habilidades que desarrolla la inteligencia kinestésicanicolcc
Este documento describe las habilidades que desarrolla la inteligencia kinestésica-corporal como las manualidades, los deportes, la danza y la expresión corporal. También ofrece recomendaciones para desarrollarla en niños a través del juego, como proporcionar espacios para jugar, seleccionar juguetes apropiados para su edad y dedicar tiempo al juego libre. Además, dominar los movimientos del cuerpo ayuda a los niños a comunicarse mejor y desarrollar profesiones que requieran destreza manual
SEO tools can help you deal with your search engine optimization efforts for your site or blog. These tools are for the most part offered on the web. When you are in search for best SEO, it can be hard to discover a suite that offers all that you have to deal with an SEO.
This document is a certificate certifying that Vivek Jain completed a project on "WASTE MANAGEMENT" in the year 2016-17 under the guidance of Mr. H.C. Tiwari, the Principal of Shri Vaishnav Academy in Indore. It acknowledges Vivek Jain's satisfactory work on the project. The document then discusses moving towards a digital cashless economy in India by eliminating cash transactions and problems with the current system like black money. It describes how such a system would work using digital payments and enable direct tax collection at the time of transactions. Potential advantages include reducing crimes, saving government resources and ensuring complete tax collection. Challenges in implementing it in India are also
The document discusses newer aspects of iron supplementation. It summarizes that iron amino acid chelate, or ferrous bis glycinate, has advantages over other forms of iron supplementation, including being non-buffered in the stomach, non-precipitated in the intestine, not antagonized by phytates, and having superior and dependable bioavailability due to its unique chelate design, which potentially allows for smaller doses with fewer side effects. The document examines what is known, unknown, and needs to be known about different forms of iron supplementation and their absorption parameters.
Software defined radio technology : ITB research activitiesDr.Joko Suryana
A.Introduction
1.From 1G to 5G
2.5G, from Device to Data Center
B.Programmable Networks
1.Software Defined Radio Technology
2.From Software-Defined Radio to Software-Defined Networking
3.Project Example : Princeton Univ : Software-Defined Cellular Core networks and New York Univ USA : SDN-controlled LTE using SDR
C.SDR Projects at LTRGM ITB
1.SDR for 5G Physical Layer Design
2.SDR for AESA Radar Receiver
3.SDR for Nanosatellite Ground Station
4.SDR for Communication and Identification for IFX
The document discusses instrumentation and methods for gas analysis using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. It describes the key components of an FTIR gas analysis system including the FTIR spectrometer, gas cell, temperature control, flow control, pressure control, vacuum pump, and gas diluter. It also discusses sampling tools, gas standards, quantitative analysis methods, and the general steps for running an FTIR gas analysis which includes pretest preparations, connecting the sampling loop, preparing the FTIR, and running the analysis.
Polymer degradation is the breakdown of polymers or plastics into smaller molecules due to effects of heat, light, chemicals, or biological activity. There are several types of polymer degradation including photodegradation caused by light, thermal degradation caused by heat, chemical degradation through processes like hydrolysis and solvolysis using acids/bases, and biological degradation by microorganisms. Biodegradable polymers can break down through biological processes to give smaller molecules but require proper conditions like in compost to fully degrade.
This document describes the design, testing, and implementation of a switch driver circuit for a cellular signal blocking system. The author redesigned an existing switch driver board that was malfunctioning due to overheating transistors. Through testing and redesign, the author optimized the switch time and removed current spikes and interruptions. The improved switch driver board successfully switched voltages at 2.5 kHz and was integrated into the full system, which then passed all tests and was demonstrated to clients.
This document summarizes the testing of three printed circuit boards (PCBs) for a switch driver at different temperatures. The switch driver switches between 100V and -7V/-15V voltages at a frequency of 2.5 kHz. Testing was done at room temperature (25°C) and elevated temperature (70°C). Current draw and rise/fall times were measured for the different voltage paths on each PCB. Minor variations were observed between temperatures but all measurements were within specifications. Notes are provided on the function of feedback circuits and proper connection of input signals.