Cut off angle cocks are provided on air brake systems to facilitate coupling and uncoupling of air hoses. When the handle of the cut off angle cock is closed, it cuts off the passage of compressed air, allowing air hoses to be coupled and uncoupled. Cut off angle cocks have a handle that can be placed in an open or closed position to control the flow of compressed air.
The State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio released a statement regarding their financial status. STRS investments experienced strong returns over the past year, with their portfolio growing to over $85 billion in assets. However, their long-term funding challenges remain an ongoing concern due to factors such as declining enrollment in public schools and increasing life expectancies among retirees.
The document provides instructions for passing a level in a game by following the blue track and avoiding rotating stars to reach the finish line. It also briefly explains the origins and definitions of the words "maze" and "labyrinth", tracing "maze" back to the 13th century Middle English word meaning delirium or delusion and "labyrinth" back to the 14th century Latin and Greek words referring to a building with intricate passages. References for the etymological information are also included.
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game developed by Shanghai Moonton Technology where teams of 5 players battle each other using different heroes with unique skills on classic MOBA maps, requiring teamwork and strategy to defeat the enemy team. The document provides information on the game's developer, gameplay mode, and includes links to external websites with hero role guides and game screenshots.
The document provides information on performance appraisals, which are used to systematically evaluate employee job performance. It discusses that performance appraisals measure how employees' work compares to targets and plans, allow supervisors to analyze performance factors, and guide employees. The document also outlines objectives of performance appraisals such as determining compensation and identifying strengths/weaknesses. Additionally, it describes common appraisal tools like ranking, forced distribution, and checklists, as well as potential biases that can influence evaluations.
This document discusses personality development, leadership styles, group dynamics, and team building. It defines personality as unique patterns of thinking and behavior. Leadership is defined as guiding individuals or organizations, and different leadership styles like autocratic, democratic, and transformational are described. Group dynamics involve how people interact in groups and strategies to strengthen dynamics include defining roles and improving communication. Team building enhances social relations, roles, and turns individuals into cohesive teams through activities, collaboration, and communication.
Cut off angle cocks are provided on air brake systems to facilitate coupling and uncoupling of air hoses. When the handle of the cut off angle cock is closed, it cuts off the passage of compressed air, allowing air hoses to be coupled and uncoupled. Cut off angle cocks have a handle that can be placed in an open or closed position to control the flow of compressed air.
The State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio released a statement regarding their financial status. STRS investments experienced strong returns over the past year, with their portfolio growing to over $85 billion in assets. However, their long-term funding challenges remain an ongoing concern due to factors such as declining enrollment in public schools and increasing life expectancies among retirees.
The document provides instructions for passing a level in a game by following the blue track and avoiding rotating stars to reach the finish line. It also briefly explains the origins and definitions of the words "maze" and "labyrinth", tracing "maze" back to the 13th century Middle English word meaning delirium or delusion and "labyrinth" back to the 14th century Latin and Greek words referring to a building with intricate passages. References for the etymological information are also included.
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game developed by Shanghai Moonton Technology where teams of 5 players battle each other using different heroes with unique skills on classic MOBA maps, requiring teamwork and strategy to defeat the enemy team. The document provides information on the game's developer, gameplay mode, and includes links to external websites with hero role guides and game screenshots.
The document provides information on performance appraisals, which are used to systematically evaluate employee job performance. It discusses that performance appraisals measure how employees' work compares to targets and plans, allow supervisors to analyze performance factors, and guide employees. The document also outlines objectives of performance appraisals such as determining compensation and identifying strengths/weaknesses. Additionally, it describes common appraisal tools like ranking, forced distribution, and checklists, as well as potential biases that can influence evaluations.
This document discusses personality development, leadership styles, group dynamics, and team building. It defines personality as unique patterns of thinking and behavior. Leadership is defined as guiding individuals or organizations, and different leadership styles like autocratic, democratic, and transformational are described. Group dynamics involve how people interact in groups and strategies to strengthen dynamics include defining roles and improving communication. Team building enhances social relations, roles, and turns individuals into cohesive teams through activities, collaboration, and communication.
Evaluating the curriculum curriculum development, ronquillo & rayosFernando Rayos Jr.
Curriculums can be evaluated through various methods including pencil-and-paper tests that assess simple recall, matching, essays, and extended responses. Evaluations also use checklists, rating scales, and rubrics to assess curriculums.
The document discusses effective communication skills. It emphasizes the importance of listening, using clear and concise language, showing respect for others, giving and receiving feedback, and being adaptable in one's communication approach. Specific tips are provided such as maintaining eye contact, using a friendly tone, personalizing messages, and understanding other perspectives. Overcoming barriers like assumptions, distractions, and language differences is also addressed.
The document discusses item analysis, which evaluates test items and the test as a whole. It describes the U-L Index Method for conducting item analysis, which involves separating students into upper and lower scoring groups, tallying responses from each group, and calculating difficulty and discrimination indices. Difficulty index indicates how easy or difficult an item is, while discrimination index shows how well an item distinguishes high-scoring from low-scoring students. Together these can be used to interpret items and determine whether to accept, revise, or discard them. An example analysis is provided to illustrate the process.
This document summarizes the history and techniques of stonemasonry. It discusses how stonemasonry has been used since ancient times to construct important structures like the Taj Mahal, Great Wall of China, and Egyptian pyramids. It describes the different roles of apprentices, journeymen, and master masons during the medieval period. The document also outlines various stone types used in masonry like granite, limestone, and sandstone. It concludes by discussing modern stonemasonry techniques such as fixer masonry, memorial masonry, and slipform stonemasonry.
This document discusses different types of storm drains from various locations around the world. It describes an ancient Roman gully, a 114-inch aluminized pipe drain in Guasave, Mexico that flows at 25 cubic meters per second, and an American-style curbside drain. It also mentions the lack of storm drainage in an urban slum in Bangladesh, which is a common issue in developing countries.
The document provides information on effective communication skills. It discusses the importance of communication being a two-way process that involves both sending and receiving messages well. Some key communication skills discussed include listening actively, using body language to convey messages clearly, speaking concisely, being personable, exhibiting confidence, understanding other perspectives, showing respect, giving and receiving feedback appropriately, and choosing the right communication channel for different situations. Barriers to effective communication mentioned include assumptions, interruptions, physical obstacles, language differences, and emotional barriers.
Torte is a type of cake made with many eggs and often nuts or dry bread crumbs. It originated in Hungary as the Dobosh Torte and spread throughout Europe. While similar to cakes, tortes tend to be more elaborate and use higher quality ingredients like ground nuts instead of flour, resulting in a lighter texture. They are also shorter in height, often topped with frostings, glazes or creams, and the cake layer may be soaked in syrup or liqueur.
The brain is a three-pound organ responsible for all mental functions and control of vital activities. It contains over 100 billion neurons at birth. The document describes the development of the brain before and at birth, including the separation of the medulla, cerebellum, and cerebrum by the fourth month and the appearance of an indent on the cerebrum by the sixth month. It then provides details about several parts of the brain in response to a series of questions.
The document summarizes key aspects of brain anatomy and development. It describes the brain as a three-pound organ made up of 10 billion nerve cells responsible for mental functions and controlling vital activities. It then discusses brain development before and at birth, the anatomy and structures of the brain including the cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem, and more. Finally, it briefly outlines theories of how memories are stored at the cellular level in the brain.
This document discusses various methods for controlling pests without using pesticides. It describes integrated pest management as using natural enemies of pests and interfering with their ability to breed. Some non-chemical control methods mentioned include physical barriers, mechanical traps, handpicking pests, and manipulating temperature. The document provides examples of how these ecological methods work to manage pest populations in a sustainable manner.
Make use of my presentation with a twist. Learn how this presentation works. It has a game in it. Enjoy and make your students learn on different types of saw :)
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.
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 cost of acquiring information by natural selectionCarl Bergstrom
This is a short talk that I gave at the Banff International Research Station workshop on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. The idea is to try to understand how the burden of natural selection relates to the amount of information that selection puts into the genome.
It's based on the first part of this research paper:
The cost of information acquisition by natural selection
Ryan Seamus McGee, Olivia Kosterlitz, Artem Kaznatcheev, Benjamin Kerr, Carl T. Bergstrom
bioRxiv 2022.07.02.498577; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.02.498577
Evaluating the curriculum curriculum development, ronquillo & rayosFernando Rayos Jr.
Curriculums can be evaluated through various methods including pencil-and-paper tests that assess simple recall, matching, essays, and extended responses. Evaluations also use checklists, rating scales, and rubrics to assess curriculums.
The document discusses effective communication skills. It emphasizes the importance of listening, using clear and concise language, showing respect for others, giving and receiving feedback, and being adaptable in one's communication approach. Specific tips are provided such as maintaining eye contact, using a friendly tone, personalizing messages, and understanding other perspectives. Overcoming barriers like assumptions, distractions, and language differences is also addressed.
The document discusses item analysis, which evaluates test items and the test as a whole. It describes the U-L Index Method for conducting item analysis, which involves separating students into upper and lower scoring groups, tallying responses from each group, and calculating difficulty and discrimination indices. Difficulty index indicates how easy or difficult an item is, while discrimination index shows how well an item distinguishes high-scoring from low-scoring students. Together these can be used to interpret items and determine whether to accept, revise, or discard them. An example analysis is provided to illustrate the process.
This document summarizes the history and techniques of stonemasonry. It discusses how stonemasonry has been used since ancient times to construct important structures like the Taj Mahal, Great Wall of China, and Egyptian pyramids. It describes the different roles of apprentices, journeymen, and master masons during the medieval period. The document also outlines various stone types used in masonry like granite, limestone, and sandstone. It concludes by discussing modern stonemasonry techniques such as fixer masonry, memorial masonry, and slipform stonemasonry.
This document discusses different types of storm drains from various locations around the world. It describes an ancient Roman gully, a 114-inch aluminized pipe drain in Guasave, Mexico that flows at 25 cubic meters per second, and an American-style curbside drain. It also mentions the lack of storm drainage in an urban slum in Bangladesh, which is a common issue in developing countries.
The document provides information on effective communication skills. It discusses the importance of communication being a two-way process that involves both sending and receiving messages well. Some key communication skills discussed include listening actively, using body language to convey messages clearly, speaking concisely, being personable, exhibiting confidence, understanding other perspectives, showing respect, giving and receiving feedback appropriately, and choosing the right communication channel for different situations. Barriers to effective communication mentioned include assumptions, interruptions, physical obstacles, language differences, and emotional barriers.
Torte is a type of cake made with many eggs and often nuts or dry bread crumbs. It originated in Hungary as the Dobosh Torte and spread throughout Europe. While similar to cakes, tortes tend to be more elaborate and use higher quality ingredients like ground nuts instead of flour, resulting in a lighter texture. They are also shorter in height, often topped with frostings, glazes or creams, and the cake layer may be soaked in syrup or liqueur.
The brain is a three-pound organ responsible for all mental functions and control of vital activities. It contains over 100 billion neurons at birth. The document describes the development of the brain before and at birth, including the separation of the medulla, cerebellum, and cerebrum by the fourth month and the appearance of an indent on the cerebrum by the sixth month. It then provides details about several parts of the brain in response to a series of questions.
The document summarizes key aspects of brain anatomy and development. It describes the brain as a three-pound organ made up of 10 billion nerve cells responsible for mental functions and controlling vital activities. It then discusses brain development before and at birth, the anatomy and structures of the brain including the cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem, and more. Finally, it briefly outlines theories of how memories are stored at the cellular level in the brain.
This document discusses various methods for controlling pests without using pesticides. It describes integrated pest management as using natural enemies of pests and interfering with their ability to breed. Some non-chemical control methods mentioned include physical barriers, mechanical traps, handpicking pests, and manipulating temperature. The document provides examples of how these ecological methods work to manage pest populations in a sustainable manner.
Make use of my presentation with a twist. Learn how this presentation works. It has a game in it. Enjoy and make your students learn on different types of saw :)
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.
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 cost of acquiring information by natural selectionCarl Bergstrom
This is a short talk that I gave at the Banff International Research Station workshop on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. The idea is to try to understand how the burden of natural selection relates to the amount of information that selection puts into the genome.
It's based on the first part of this research paper:
The cost of information acquisition by natural selection
Ryan Seamus McGee, Olivia Kosterlitz, Artem Kaznatcheev, Benjamin Kerr, Carl T. Bergstrom
bioRxiv 2022.07.02.498577; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.02.498577
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.
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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.
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.
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/
Immersive Learning That Works: Research Grounding and Paths ForwardLeonel Morgado
We will metaverse into the essence of immersive learning, into its three dimensions and conceptual models. This approach encompasses elements from teaching methodologies to social involvement, through organizational concerns and technologies. Challenging the perception of learning as knowledge transfer, we introduce a 'Uses, Practices & Strategies' model operationalized by the 'Immersive Learning Brain' and ‘Immersion Cube’ frameworks. This approach offers a comprehensive guide through the intricacies of immersive educational experiences and spotlighting research frontiers, along the immersion dimensions of system, narrative, and agency. Our discourse extends to stakeholders beyond the academic sphere, addressing the interests of technologists, instructional designers, and policymakers. We span various contexts, from formal education to organizational transformation to the new horizon of an AI-pervasive society. This keynote aims to unite the iLRN community in a collaborative journey towards a future where immersive learning research and practice coalesce, paving the way for innovative educational research and practice landscapes.
The debris of the ‘last major merger’ is dynamically youngSérgio Sacani
The Milky Way’s (MW) inner stellar halo contains an [Fe/H]-rich component with highly eccentric orbits, often referred to as the
‘last major merger.’ Hypotheses for the origin of this component include Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus (GSE), where the progenitor
collided with the MW proto-disc 8–11 Gyr ago, and the Virgo Radial Merger (VRM), where the progenitor collided with the
MW disc within the last 3 Gyr. These two scenarios make different predictions about observable structure in local phase space,
because the morphology of debris depends on how long it has had to phase mix. The recently identified phase-space folds in Gaia
DR3 have positive caustic velocities, making them fundamentally different than the phase-mixed chevrons found in simulations
at late times. Roughly 20 per cent of the stars in the prograde local stellar halo are associated with the observed caustics. Based
on a simple phase-mixing model, the observed number of caustics are consistent with a merger that occurred 1–2 Gyr ago.
We also compare the observed phase-space distribution to FIRE-2 Latte simulations of GSE-like mergers, using a quantitative
measurement of phase mixing (2D causticality). The observed local phase-space distribution best matches the simulated data
1–2 Gyr after collision, and certainly not later than 3 Gyr. This is further evidence that the progenitor of the ‘last major merger’
did not collide with the MW proto-disc at early times, as is thought for the GSE, but instead collided with the MW disc within
the last few Gyr, consistent with the body of work surrounding the VRM.
When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.