The urinary system consists of organs involved in filtering waste from the bloodstream and excreting it as urine. These organs include the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra. Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) is a blood test that evaluates kidney function by measuring nitrogenous waste products in the blood that are normally excreted by healthy kidneys. A retrograde pyelogram is an x-ray procedure using contrast dye to evaluate the ureters and renal pelvis for obstructions. Acute renal failure is the sudden loss of kidney function where waste builds up, and can be caused by reduced blood flow, injury, or surgery. Chronic renal failure is the gradual loss of kidney
The document introduces PageRank, an algorithm developed by Larry Page for ranking web pages. It discusses the motivation for developing PageRank to bring order to the unstructured web. It provides an overview of how PageRank models the random surfing behavior of users to determine the importance of pages based on both the number and quality of backlinks. It also summarizes some implementations and applications of PageRank, as well as limitations and areas for further refinement.
The document describes the enrollment and survey tools used for a mentoring program. It includes:
- A student application and parent consent form to enroll students in the program.
- A pre-survey given to students to collect data on their supportive relationships, school engagement, attitudes, and coping strategies. This information helps tailor the program to individual students' needs.
- Post-surveys are also given to students, mentors, and parents to provide feedback on the program and identify areas for improvement.
- Example questions are provided for each category in the pre-survey to assess students' relationships, engagement, behaviors, and ways of coping.
Three mini-stories are summarized from a document about genomics and bioinformatics in non-model organisms:
1. Building better gene models for the chicken genome using RNA-seq data helped recover annotated isoforms and detect unknown isoforms, resulting in over 15,000 genes and 46,000 transcripts identified.
2. Digital normalization of sequencing data enabled iterative use of new data by setting aside 90% of redundant sequences, allowing analyses that would otherwise be impossible with limited computing resources.
3. Comparing pathway predictions using Ensembl gene models versus gene models constructed with the Gimme pipeline showed both recovered known pathways but Gimme identified additional pathways, demonstrating effects of gene model completeness on downstream analyses.
The document discusses identifying properties that can be found in both roses and various other objects, living things, ideas, and concepts. It encourages analytical thinking by asking what properties a rose shares with other flowers, plants, animals, parts of the body, natural landscapes, objects, scientific concepts, and societal constructs. It suggests asking a teacher or referring to the Analytical Thinker's Manual for help identifying properties that can be found in both a rose and other things.
This document summarizes a keynote presentation about challenges in bioinformatics software development and proposed solutions. Some of the key points made include: 1) bioinformatics software development involves multiple disciplines including computer science, software engineering, statistics, and biology, each with different priorities; 2) there is a massive proliferation of bioinformatics software packages that leads to many difficult choices for researchers; 3) proposed solutions include developing software in a more modular and automated way, using common benchmarks and protocols to evaluate tools, and focusing on reproducibility and usability.
The urinary system consists of organs involved in filtering waste from the bloodstream and excreting it as urine. These organs include the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra. Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) is a blood test that evaluates kidney function by measuring nitrogenous waste products in the blood that are normally excreted by healthy kidneys. A retrograde pyelogram is an x-ray procedure using contrast dye to evaluate the ureters and renal pelvis for obstructions. Acute renal failure is the sudden loss of kidney function where waste builds up, and can be caused by reduced blood flow, injury, or surgery. Chronic renal failure is the gradual loss of kidney
The document introduces PageRank, an algorithm developed by Larry Page for ranking web pages. It discusses the motivation for developing PageRank to bring order to the unstructured web. It provides an overview of how PageRank models the random surfing behavior of users to determine the importance of pages based on both the number and quality of backlinks. It also summarizes some implementations and applications of PageRank, as well as limitations and areas for further refinement.
The document describes the enrollment and survey tools used for a mentoring program. It includes:
- A student application and parent consent form to enroll students in the program.
- A pre-survey given to students to collect data on their supportive relationships, school engagement, attitudes, and coping strategies. This information helps tailor the program to individual students' needs.
- Post-surveys are also given to students, mentors, and parents to provide feedback on the program and identify areas for improvement.
- Example questions are provided for each category in the pre-survey to assess students' relationships, engagement, behaviors, and ways of coping.
Three mini-stories are summarized from a document about genomics and bioinformatics in non-model organisms:
1. Building better gene models for the chicken genome using RNA-seq data helped recover annotated isoforms and detect unknown isoforms, resulting in over 15,000 genes and 46,000 transcripts identified.
2. Digital normalization of sequencing data enabled iterative use of new data by setting aside 90% of redundant sequences, allowing analyses that would otherwise be impossible with limited computing resources.
3. Comparing pathway predictions using Ensembl gene models versus gene models constructed with the Gimme pipeline showed both recovered known pathways but Gimme identified additional pathways, demonstrating effects of gene model completeness on downstream analyses.
The document discusses identifying properties that can be found in both roses and various other objects, living things, ideas, and concepts. It encourages analytical thinking by asking what properties a rose shares with other flowers, plants, animals, parts of the body, natural landscapes, objects, scientific concepts, and societal constructs. It suggests asking a teacher or referring to the Analytical Thinker's Manual for help identifying properties that can be found in both a rose and other things.
This document summarizes a keynote presentation about challenges in bioinformatics software development and proposed solutions. Some of the key points made include: 1) bioinformatics software development involves multiple disciplines including computer science, software engineering, statistics, and biology, each with different priorities; 2) there is a massive proliferation of bioinformatics software packages that leads to many difficult choices for researchers; 3) proposed solutions include developing software in a more modular and automated way, using common benchmarks and protocols to evaluate tools, and focusing on reproducibility and usability.
Alex Rascanu delivered the "33 Lead Generation Tips in 33 Minutes - Boost Your Marketing Career" presentation at the Inbound Marketing Toronto event on April 24, 2014. More information on the speaker: http://www.alexrascanu.com
Kegler Brown's creditors' rights and bankruptcy attorneys presented this seminar to a full house on 6/10/2009. Topics covered included an overview of collections in today's economy, the necessity of critical contract terms and negotiations, and resources that every credit manager can use to improve his or her collections process.
The Power of Section 1031 for Accounting ProfessionalsEdmund_Wheeler
The document discusses Section 1031 like-kind exchanges, which allow taxpayers to defer capital gains taxes when selling business or investment property and replacing it with similar property. Key points include:
1) Section 1031 exchanges allow taxpayers to defer capital gains taxes by exchanging eligible investment or business use properties for other like-kind properties through a qualified intermediary.
2) There are strict rules regarding identification of replacement properties within 45 days and completion of the acquisition within 180 days to qualify for tax deferral.
3) Common misconceptions are that exchanges must involve other property owners or close simultaneously, but Section 1031 allows for deferred exchanges through qualified intermediaries.
The critical role of the manager in supporting learning at work through coach...Acas Comms
1. Southern Coaching introduced coaching in 2004/05 and made it a core part of its "Cycle of Success" HR strategy in 2006 to improve employee engagement, customer satisfaction and profits.
2. Southern achieved its best performance through coaching including improved reliability, customer service, staff turnover and engagement. Coaching helped staff and managers adapt to changes and increased innovation.
3. Interviews with Southern staff showed coaching positively changed their lives both personally and professionally by helping them realize their capabilities and improve leadership and listening skills.
Aiden was worried about bringing his secret favorite thing to school because he thought his classmates would laugh at him. However, on the first day back, he discovered that all the students had the same bright green bag from the Bigbarn store. Later, when the bags got mixed up, the teacher had each student open their bag to identify the owner. Surprisingly, no one laughed at the unusual items found in the bags, including a large bone, a dead frog, and a tea bag. When Aiden opened his bag to reveal his own secret item, again nobody laughed.
This document summarizes challenges in assembling large DNA sequence data sets and strategies to address them.
1. The cost to generate DNA sequence data is decreasing rapidly, creating data sets too large for most computers to assemble. Hundreds to thousands of such data sets are generated each year.
2. Techniques like streaming compression and low-memory probabilistic data structures allow assembly memory usage to scale linearly with the sample size rather than the total data, enabling assembly of larger datasets.
3. Benchmarking different computational platforms revealed that while some platforms have faster processors, the ability to store large amounts of data locally is also important for assembly tasks. Scaling algorithms, rather than just optimizing code, is key to addressing
This survey aims to gather information from youth participating in a mentoring program about their experiences and how the program can be improved. It asks questions about demographics, school engagement, attitudes, coping strategies, and their relationship with their mentor. The goal is to learn how the youth benefit from participation and help strengthen the program for next year. Honest feedback is encouraged so the program coordinator can better understand the impact and make adjustments.
This document discusses openness and reproducibility in computational science. It begins with an introduction and background on the challenges of analyzing non-model organisms. It then describes the goals and challenges of shotgun sequencing analysis, including assembly, counting, and variant calling. It emphasizes the need for efficient data structures, algorithms, and cloud-based analysis to handle large datasets. The document advocates for open science practices like publishing code, data, and analyses to ensure reproducibility of computational results.
Luis presented to Brazilian law firm Peixoto e Cury Advogados on April 12, 2012, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Luis discussed the background of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, along with the rules, regulations and sanctions.
The document outlines homework expectations and activities for terms 3 and 4 of 2015 for the Puketapapa Team. Students are expected to complete 1-2 homework activities per fortnight, with some shaded activities taking longer to complete. Students should submit their highest quality work via several methods. In addition to homework activities, students are expected to read daily, participate in Mathletics, and use SpellingCity. The document provides several homework activity options centered around financial literacy.
Australia during 1900-1914 by Jason Eweguest201494
Juelz Decoy lived a difficult life in 1900-1914 as a working class newspaper publisher in Australia. He had to walk several kilometers each day to the factory where he worked 12 hour days for low pay. One day, Juelz's father and mother contracted the bubonic plague and died from it, leaving him in sorrow. Determined to honor his parents, Juelz worked even harder and eventually started his own successful company, becoming a wealthy man 25 years later.
This is a paper that was developed as a collaboration with Bill Milligan at Level 3 in the late 90's. We extended the OFA concept of Cary Millsap to the 11.0.3 Apps.
The document discusses using data analysis to create systemic change in schools through a single plan for student achievement. It recommends identifying performance gaps and their systemic causes, then crafting systemic solutions like changing schedules or textbook purchases. Schools should create feedback systems for staff and professional development to monitor progress, making adjustments as needed. The goal is to increase awareness of challenges, engage stakeholders, and create lasting improvements in student achievement through strategic, evolutionary processes that build teacher capacity and shed ineffective practices. An example given is transforming school culture from one of low feedback and isolation to a highly collaborative one focused on motivating instructional strategies known to improve outcomes.
The document introduces h-ubu, a service-based injection framework for JavaScript that allows components to publish and consume services through a central hub, addressing issues like visibility, dependencies, and organization through a modular component model based on services, contracts, and events. It describes how components can register with the hub, provide and require services through contracts, and publish and subscribe to events, aiming to make JavaScript applications more modular, configurable, substitutable, and testable.
The most flexible teaching platform for schools and universities to teach Mandarin Chinese as a Foreign Language. Delivered as SaaS (Software as a Service) on a monthly basis. Allows quality live 1-1 lessons with the school and universities own teachers and own students with simplicity and privacy protections.
El resumen describe y compara la citología testicular en perros adultos y geriátricos mediante aspiración con aguja fina. Se estudiaron 10 perros adultos de 2-6 años y 10 perros geriátricos de más de 8 años sin patologías testiculares aparentes. En ambos grupos se observaron células redondas, multinucleación y núcleos bien teñidos. Los perros adultos mostraron mayor número de células germinales, espermatozoides y células totales, mientras que los perros ger
Alex Rascanu delivered the "33 Lead Generation Tips in 33 Minutes - Boost Your Marketing Career" presentation at the Inbound Marketing Toronto event on April 24, 2014. More information on the speaker: http://www.alexrascanu.com
Kegler Brown's creditors' rights and bankruptcy attorneys presented this seminar to a full house on 6/10/2009. Topics covered included an overview of collections in today's economy, the necessity of critical contract terms and negotiations, and resources that every credit manager can use to improve his or her collections process.
The Power of Section 1031 for Accounting ProfessionalsEdmund_Wheeler
The document discusses Section 1031 like-kind exchanges, which allow taxpayers to defer capital gains taxes when selling business or investment property and replacing it with similar property. Key points include:
1) Section 1031 exchanges allow taxpayers to defer capital gains taxes by exchanging eligible investment or business use properties for other like-kind properties through a qualified intermediary.
2) There are strict rules regarding identification of replacement properties within 45 days and completion of the acquisition within 180 days to qualify for tax deferral.
3) Common misconceptions are that exchanges must involve other property owners or close simultaneously, but Section 1031 allows for deferred exchanges through qualified intermediaries.
The critical role of the manager in supporting learning at work through coach...Acas Comms
1. Southern Coaching introduced coaching in 2004/05 and made it a core part of its "Cycle of Success" HR strategy in 2006 to improve employee engagement, customer satisfaction and profits.
2. Southern achieved its best performance through coaching including improved reliability, customer service, staff turnover and engagement. Coaching helped staff and managers adapt to changes and increased innovation.
3. Interviews with Southern staff showed coaching positively changed their lives both personally and professionally by helping them realize their capabilities and improve leadership and listening skills.
Aiden was worried about bringing his secret favorite thing to school because he thought his classmates would laugh at him. However, on the first day back, he discovered that all the students had the same bright green bag from the Bigbarn store. Later, when the bags got mixed up, the teacher had each student open their bag to identify the owner. Surprisingly, no one laughed at the unusual items found in the bags, including a large bone, a dead frog, and a tea bag. When Aiden opened his bag to reveal his own secret item, again nobody laughed.
This document summarizes challenges in assembling large DNA sequence data sets and strategies to address them.
1. The cost to generate DNA sequence data is decreasing rapidly, creating data sets too large for most computers to assemble. Hundreds to thousands of such data sets are generated each year.
2. Techniques like streaming compression and low-memory probabilistic data structures allow assembly memory usage to scale linearly with the sample size rather than the total data, enabling assembly of larger datasets.
3. Benchmarking different computational platforms revealed that while some platforms have faster processors, the ability to store large amounts of data locally is also important for assembly tasks. Scaling algorithms, rather than just optimizing code, is key to addressing
This survey aims to gather information from youth participating in a mentoring program about their experiences and how the program can be improved. It asks questions about demographics, school engagement, attitudes, coping strategies, and their relationship with their mentor. The goal is to learn how the youth benefit from participation and help strengthen the program for next year. Honest feedback is encouraged so the program coordinator can better understand the impact and make adjustments.
This document discusses openness and reproducibility in computational science. It begins with an introduction and background on the challenges of analyzing non-model organisms. It then describes the goals and challenges of shotgun sequencing analysis, including assembly, counting, and variant calling. It emphasizes the need for efficient data structures, algorithms, and cloud-based analysis to handle large datasets. The document advocates for open science practices like publishing code, data, and analyses to ensure reproducibility of computational results.
Luis presented to Brazilian law firm Peixoto e Cury Advogados on April 12, 2012, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Luis discussed the background of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, along with the rules, regulations and sanctions.
The document outlines homework expectations and activities for terms 3 and 4 of 2015 for the Puketapapa Team. Students are expected to complete 1-2 homework activities per fortnight, with some shaded activities taking longer to complete. Students should submit their highest quality work via several methods. In addition to homework activities, students are expected to read daily, participate in Mathletics, and use SpellingCity. The document provides several homework activity options centered around financial literacy.
Australia during 1900-1914 by Jason Eweguest201494
Juelz Decoy lived a difficult life in 1900-1914 as a working class newspaper publisher in Australia. He had to walk several kilometers each day to the factory where he worked 12 hour days for low pay. One day, Juelz's father and mother contracted the bubonic plague and died from it, leaving him in sorrow. Determined to honor his parents, Juelz worked even harder and eventually started his own successful company, becoming a wealthy man 25 years later.
This is a paper that was developed as a collaboration with Bill Milligan at Level 3 in the late 90's. We extended the OFA concept of Cary Millsap to the 11.0.3 Apps.
The document discusses using data analysis to create systemic change in schools through a single plan for student achievement. It recommends identifying performance gaps and their systemic causes, then crafting systemic solutions like changing schedules or textbook purchases. Schools should create feedback systems for staff and professional development to monitor progress, making adjustments as needed. The goal is to increase awareness of challenges, engage stakeholders, and create lasting improvements in student achievement through strategic, evolutionary processes that build teacher capacity and shed ineffective practices. An example given is transforming school culture from one of low feedback and isolation to a highly collaborative one focused on motivating instructional strategies known to improve outcomes.
The document introduces h-ubu, a service-based injection framework for JavaScript that allows components to publish and consume services through a central hub, addressing issues like visibility, dependencies, and organization through a modular component model based on services, contracts, and events. It describes how components can register with the hub, provide and require services through contracts, and publish and subscribe to events, aiming to make JavaScript applications more modular, configurable, substitutable, and testable.
The most flexible teaching platform for schools and universities to teach Mandarin Chinese as a Foreign Language. Delivered as SaaS (Software as a Service) on a monthly basis. Allows quality live 1-1 lessons with the school and universities own teachers and own students with simplicity and privacy protections.
El resumen describe y compara la citología testicular en perros adultos y geriátricos mediante aspiración con aguja fina. Se estudiaron 10 perros adultos de 2-6 años y 10 perros geriátricos de más de 8 años sin patologías testiculares aparentes. En ambos grupos se observaron células redondas, multinucleación y núcleos bien teñidos. Los perros adultos mostraron mayor número de células germinales, espermatozoides y células totales, mientras que los perros ger
The town of Thisted in Denmark has successfully transitioned to using renewable energy sources for 85% of its public heating and 100% of its electricity through various initiatives over several decades. Some of the key aspects of Thisted's transition include establishing a geothermal plant in 1988, a straw-fueled plant in 2005, a waste-to-energy CHP plant that provides heat and electricity to the district heating system, and utilizing 226 wind turbines to power the town with renewable electricity. Thisted has also implemented district cooling powered by an absorption heat pump fueled by renewables.
Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy's manager Preben Maegaard is giving a speech about the decentralized nature of Thisted's energy succes. 100 % Sustainable renewable energy for the entire community.
1. w w w . p a s s i v h u s n o r d v e s t . d k Program 16.30 – 16.40: Velkomst og aktiviteter i Passivhus Nordvest 16.40 – 17. 30: Indlæg om klimaskærme til passivhuse med udgangspunkt i Danmarks første 0g største passivhusprojekt “komforthusene” ved Charlotte Højmark, Teknisk konsulent, Isover 17.30 – 17. 45: Pause. Nyd en sandwich med sodavand og kaffe 1745 – 18.30: Passivhus Nordvest’s medlemmer Vipo og Idealcombi præsenterer virksomhedernes helt nye passivhus vinduer
2. Kom med jeres ideer til emner ! ○ Fokus på de mange energiklasser og begreber - passivhusklasse, bolig +, 0-energi, klasse 1, klasse 2015, klasse 2020, aktivhuse osv. - en afklaring ○ Energiforsyning af superlavenergiboliger i det åbne land ○ Fjernvarme og superlavenergibyggeri - Skal - Skal ikke? ○ Varmeafgivelse (luftvarme, gulvvarme, radiatorer, loft/vægvarme osv.) ○ Indeklima i superlavenergiboliger (temperaturer, fugtighed mv) ○ Styring af temperaturer - solafskærmning / køling / ventilation mv. ○ Renovering af enfamiliehuse – løsninger / økonomi / bæredygtighed ○ Renovering af etageboliger, skoler mv. – løsninger / økonomi /bæredygtighed ○ Elbesparelser, intelligente elsystemer i bygninger mv. ○ Fokus på special isolering – nye isoleringstyper ○ osv.
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