Award Search: Award#1003341 - Advancing Geospatial Technology (GST) Pathways at Palomar College. The Palomar College Advanced Technological Education (ATE) project titled “Advancing Geospatial Technology (GST) Pathways at Palomar College” successfully enhanced the quality of geospatial education in the North San Diego County region and encouraged regional collaborations on various geospatial academic and community projects. Impacts can be divided among the four principal missions of the project: Create educational pathways for high school, college, and university students Create service learning and internship opportunities for geospatial students Provide geospatial professional development opportunities for educators Update infrastructure and curriculum at Palomar College and CSUSM Mission 1: Create educational pathways for high school, college, and university students The NSF ATE project provided resources to create high school geospatial courses that are articulated with the introductory GIS course at Palomar.
GPG Chapter II. Each proposing organization that is new to NSF or has not received an NSF grant within the previous two years should be prepared to submit basic organization and management information and certifications, when requested, to the applicable award making division within BFA. The requisite information is described in the Prospective New Awardee Guide.
The information contained in this Guide will assist the organization in preparing documents which the National Science Foundation requires to conduct administrative and financial reviews of the organization. This Guide also serves as a means of highlighting the accountability requirements associated with Federal awards. To facilitate proposal preparation, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding proposal preparation and submission are available electronically on the NSF website.9 A. Conformance with Instructions for Proposal Preparation It is important that all proposals conform to the instructions provided in the GPG. B. 1. 2. A. B. C. 3. DUE - Advanced Technological Education Active Awards. Back to Program Page. Award Search: Award#1003341 - Advancing Geospatial Technology (GST) Pathways at Palomar College. Award Search: Advanced Search Results.
Award Search: Advanced Search Results. Microsoft PowerPoint - NSF proposal writing.ppt - insideview NSF.pdf. How the NSF allocates billions of federal dollars to top universities - Sunlight Foundation Blog. Greatest Nerd of All Times: Jonathan Vos Post! I have just found a person on the internet that I believe brings a whole new meaning to the word NERD. This is a person that is member of a group called "the Ubergeeks" and breaks all records, by far. He is additionally a very interesting person with a very special character. Let me present to you Jonathan Vos Post! Some of his highlights Programmed in 30 computer languages including Java, XML/XSL, Netscape Application Server (Kiva), Oracle 8i, APL, Assembly Language, BASIC, CITRAN, COBOL, FORTRAN IV, FORTRAN 77, HAL, LISP, PL/1, Pop-2, SNOBOL, TRAC and more.
Taught 12 computer languages Part-time Professor in Astronomy, Computer Science, English Composition, Mathematics and Physics Has also taught Anthropology, Ecology, Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology and other subjects 820+ publications, presentations and broadcasts Widely published author of science fiction, mystery, poetry, opera, Math, Drama, 210 space publications and much more. His most interesting works: Understanding Science: An overview. To understand what science is, just look around you. What do you see? Perhaps your hand on the mouse, a computer screen, papers, ballpoint pens, the family cat, the sun shining through the window …. Science is, in one sense, our knowledge of all that — all the stuff that is in the universe, including the tiniest subatomic particles in a single atom of the metal in your computer’s circuits, the nuclear reactions that formed the immense ball of gas that is our sun, and the complex chemical interactions and electrical fluctuations within your own body that allow you to read and understand these words.
But science is not just a collection of knowledge. Just as importantly, science is also a reliable process by which we learn about all that stuff in the universe. Science helps to satisfy the natural curiosity with which we are all born: Why is the sky blue? Science is complex and multi-faceted, but the most important characteristics of science are straightforward: Where to begin? Oil Pulling: Miracle Treatment or Woo Mouthwash? The phrase "oil pulling" probably makes you think of a Texas wildcatter putting up derricks and extracting black gold from the barren earth. But to some alternative medicine advocates, it means something else entirely: an ancient method of improving oral health and treating diseases of the mouth that will whiten your teeth, strengthen your gums, cut through plaque and most importantly, detoxify the body, relieve pain and even play a role in curing deadly illnesses like heart disease and cancer.
Obviously, those are the kind of lofty claims that skeptics salivate over debunking. But people who practice oil pulling absolutely swear by its benefits — and unlike so much of what we poke holes in, this could actually have some. As you can read on the many, many websites devoted to it, oil pulling (or oil swishing) is quite simple to do. Just put unrefined oil, such as coconut or sunflower, in your mouth, swish it around for a while, making sure to coat your teeth and gums. Or does it?
Reactome | Welcome to Reactome Pathway Database. Taxa selector (root) Reconstructing the tree of life. March 2008 Ernst Haeckel's Monophyletic tree of organisms, 1866. Biologists at the time identified three major groups of species: animals, plants and protista; primitive, mostly unicellular, organisms. Modern biologists also classify all life into three groups, but now animals and plants are considered to belong to the same group, with two different types of bacteria making up the other two groups.
Next year is a great one for biology: not only will we celebrate 150 years since the publication of On the origin of species, but also 200 years since the birth of its author, Charles Darwin. And two important anniversaries these are indeed: Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection revolutionised vast swathes of human thought, from hard science to religion. Mathematics has remained largely untouched by this revolution. But it's not all about quantity. The tree of life A modern phylogenetic tree. Trees like these are not only used to represent the evolution of a group of species. Molecular Geometry.
Molecular Geometry At this point we are ready to explore the three dimensional structure of simple molecular (covalent) compounds and polyatomic ions. We will use a model called the Valence Shell Electron-Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) model that is based on the repulsive behavior of electron-pairs. This model is fairly powerful in its predictive capacity. To use the model we will have to memorize a collection of information. The table below contains several columns. The table below summarizes the molecular and electron-pair geometries for different combinations of bonding groups and nonbonding pairs of electrons on the central atom. Note: for bent molecular geometry when the electron-pair geometry is trigonal planar the bond angle is slightly less than 120 degrees, around 118 degrees. Lets consider the Lewis structure for CCl4. Notice that there are two kinds of electron groups in this structure.
The arrangement of the atoms is correct in my structure. Two Electron Pairs (Linear) u5Fu8s3.png (PNG Image, 789 × 694 pixels) - Scaled (75. The Six Types of Chemical Reaction. Predicting Reactions. There are five different types of reactions possible in the reactions section in the AP Test: 1. Double Replacement Reactions (Metathesis) 2.
Redox (Oxidation - Reduction) Reactions 3. Organic Reactions 4. 5. Other tips and Final Touches. Some practice problems extracted from The Chem Team internet site. ouble Replacement or (Metathesis) Reactions When you see two binary ionic compounds (including acids), the compounds switch partners to form two new compounds. Watchout for: Important stoichiometry...key words "equimolar", etc. for the formation of acid salts like HPO42- Complex ion formation through double replacement does not seem to form new compounds. Zn(OH)42- + Na+. edOx (Oxidation - Reduction) Reactions Memorize the common strong oxidizers, generally ions with lots of oxygen, MnO4-, Cr2O72-, IO3-, etc.
Memorize the common strong reducers (on the handout mentioned above), memorize what they turn into, and look for something to reduce. Reduction: 4H2O + 4e- Oxidation: 2H2O O2 + 4H+ + 4e- 1. 2. Gutless. Back in 2009, Jon Reiner was feeling as healthy as he ever had. Jon has Crohn's disease--an autoimmune condition that affects his gastrointestinal system--but it had been in remission for a year. He was eating like a horse and felt terrific. But then one afternoon, a strange and ferocious pain struck him in the gut. It felt as if his insides had exploded. This is a story about the deep power of the gut--not just to shape our minds, but to keep us from losing them.
Read more: Jon Reiner, The Man Who Couldn't Eat. New Startup ViThera Labs Aims "Weaponized" Bacteria Drugs at Gut Diseases. Ryan McBride8/10/10 Johannes Fruehauf says he started plotting his next move last fall after diminished capital reserves at his previous employer, Cequent Pharmaceuticals (now part of Marina Biotech), led the company to shrink its research staff from 24 people to six. Fruehauf, an inventor of Cambridge, MA-based Cequent’s gene-silencing technology, decided he wanted to launch his own biotech startup. “I thought it was time for me to look for greener pastures, and so I started ViThera,” Fruehauf said.
“The whole premise of starting ViThera was the possibility to weaponize bacteria and equip them with additional properties so they can become therapeutic agents.” Fruehauf, the co-founder and president of ViThera Laboratories, formed the startup in November 2009 to develop engineered bacteria that deliver therapies to the gut. “I’m still quite new to the business,” Fruehauf said, talking to me via Skype while on vacation on the Spanish island of … Next Page » Poop the Magic Gut Cure. Okay, no puns. No polite, squeamish euphemisms. This is big news. A team in the Netherlands has shown that fecal transplants are wildly effective in curing intestinal infections. Fecal transplants! That's the taking of a healthy person's stool and putting it into your gut. The technique was so effective that the trial was actually stopped. The way it works is that the healthy bacteria in the stool transplant essentially repopulate the flora in the barren ecosystem of the sick person.
There's been a lot written about this in the last few days, but I found Maryn McKenna's article at WIRED to be the most thorough. It's true, the nuts and bolts of fecal transplant are pretty grody. The hope is that, over time, it will be possible to isolate the helpful bacteria from the healthy stool, and come up with an easier (and less stomach-churning) way of getting it into patients. So, here is my question for you. Please post your ideas below! Avoid marketing mistakes from times past. The Most Astounding Fact - Neil deGrasse Tyson. Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson - The Amazing Meeting 6. How the Universe came from "Nothing", Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss discuss. National Institute Of Mental Health To Drop DSM Use. By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/03/2013 03:43 PM EDT on LiveScience The National Institute of Mental Health is moving away from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, sometimes known as the psychiatrist's "bible," saying that patients deserve better.
The change won't alter the way patients get diagnosed and treated in the clinic -- at least not for many years. Instead, researchers seeking to study mental disorders with National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) funding will be required to look at patients across traditional diagnoses, rather than limiting their studies to a single DSM diagnosis such as depression, for example. "Studies of biomarkers for 'depression' might begin by looking across many disorders with anhedonia or emotional appraisal bias or psychomotor retardation to understand the circuitry underlying these symptoms," NIMH director Thomas Insel wrote in a statement.
The DSM's fifth revision, the DSM-5, is due out in May. James Randi: Homeopathy, quackery and fraud. Michael Specter: The danger of science denial.
Nutrition. Learning Science. Nrn2994-f1.jpg (JPEG Image, 600 × 600 pixels) - Scaled (94%) Classifying depression: should paradigms los... [Am J Psychiatry. 2000. Objective: Classification of the depressive disorders has long been controversial. The dominant current model is unitarian, with disorders largely distinguished on the basis of severity. Both the unitarian and the contrasting binarian views (of two principal types) have proved to be unsatisfactory. The binarian model's procrustean requirements are too inflexible to address the evident heterogeneity contributed to by clinical manifestations and underlying personality features. Method: This article briefly reviews the historically favored unitarian and binarian viewpoints on classification of depression. Results: The author argues that the "final common pathway" model, articulated in the early 1970s, helped to cement psychiatric classification in subsequent DSM and ICD revisions into a unitarian framework, leading to a relatively sterile period of depression research.
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