Top 10 Foods Highest in Zinc Zinc is an essential mineral required by the body for maintaining a sense of smell, keeping a healthy immune system, building proteins, triggering enzymes, and creating DNA. Zinc also helps the cells in your body communicate by functioning as a neurotransmitter. A deficiency in zinc can lead to stunted growth, diarrhea, impotence, hair loss, eye and skin lesions, impaired appetite, and depressed immunity. Conversely, consuming too much zinc can lead to nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, and headaches in the short term, and can disrupt absorption of copper and iron in the long term. If you have a zinc deficiency, then animal foods are better sources of zinc than plant foods. #1: Seafood (Cooked Oysters)Other Seafood High in Zinc (%DV per 3oz cooked): Crab (43%), and Lobster (41%). #3: Wheat Germ (Toasted)Crude or Untoasted Wheat Germ is also a good source of Zinc providing 94% DV per cup:.
4 Must Know To-Do Lists To Prioritize Tasks Do you often feel overwhelmed by the amount of work you have, or have you missed an important deadline? Or have you ever forgotten to do something important? These are symptoms of lacking organizational skills needed to prioritize tasks with a proper to-do list. To-do lists are key for efficiency because they list everything that you have to do, the most important tasks at the top, and the least important tasks at the bottom. Leverage Your Organizational Skills Your ability to improve your organizational skills and prioritize tasks is a measure of your overall competence. One of your top goals at work should be for you to prioritize tasks by using your organizational skills to get the highest possible return on your investment of mental, emotional and physical energy. Create Your To-Do List Put your organizational skills to work and prioritize tasks by always working from a list. Improve your organizational skills and make out your to-do list the night before, at the end of the workday.
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Zinc Introduction Zinc is an essential mineral that is naturally present in some foods, added to others, and available as a dietary supplement. Zinc is also found in many cold lozenges and some over-the-counter drugs sold as cold remedies. Zinc is involved in numerous aspects of cellular metabolism. It is required for the catalytic activity of approximately 100 enzymes [1,2] and it plays a role in immune function [3,4], protein synthesis [4], wound healing [5], DNA synthesis [2,4], and cell division [4]. Recommended Intakes Intake recommendations for zinc and other nutrients are provided in the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) developed by the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (formerly National Academy of Sciences) [2]. Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA): average daily level of intake sufficient to meet the nutrient requirements of nearly all (97%–98%) healthy individuals. The current RDAs for zinc are listed in Table 1 [2]. Sources of Zinc
IELTS Preparation Case study: Band 7.5 in just 10 days. | IELTS-Blog Hey, you're new here! I love new people, welcome. You may want to subscribe to IELTS-Blog and get all the updates via email or via RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Inokoue, a student from Malaysia says: “Hi Simone! It’s going to be a great weekend for me! Speaking 8.5, Listening 8.5, Reading 6.5, Writing 7! Overall: 7.5!!! I am so so happy! Thank you so much. Background Inokoue is a student from Malaysia, who had to take the IELTS test to be accepted to a university in another country. In that short period of time Inokoue managed to raise the score from around 6.5 to 7.5 overall, with band 8.5 for both Speaking and Listening. Apart from reading Target Band 7 and practicing for 10 days Inokoque didn’t have to do ANYTHING. Objective Inokoue urgently needed to get IELTS Band Score of 7 or above within 10 days of studying. Strategy Inokoue estimated her band score by solving IELTS practice tests and found out that it needs to go from 6.5 up to 7 or above. Execution How: A. B. How: A. B. A. B. Results
Global MBA Ranking 2014 Footnotes 1. Indicates the most recent year that KPMG audited a business school, applying specified audit procedures relating to selected data provided for the Financial Times MBA ranking.KPMG reported on the results of obtaining evidence and applying specified audit procedures relating to selected survey data provided for the Financial Times 2014 MBA ranking for selected business schools. Enquiries about the assurance process can be made by contacting Michelle Podhy of KPMG at mpodhy@kpmg.ca. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Left Brain – Right brain and the Spinning Girl Take a look at the spinning girl below. Do you see it spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise? I see it spinning counter-clockwise, and I had a hard time getting it to switch direction. These kinds of optical illusions are always fun. The spinning girl is a form of the more general spinning silhouette illusion. By looking around the image, focusing on the shadow or some other part, you may force your visual system to reconstruct the image and it may choose the opposite direction, and suddenly the image will spin in the opposite direction. This news article, like many others, ignores the true source of this optical illusion and instead claims it is a quick test to see if you use more of your right brain or left brain. We also do have hemispheric dominance, but that determines mostly your handedness and the probability of language being on the right or the left. Addendum: This was sent to me by a reader. The text is almost complete nonsense.
Network of 75 Million Neurons of the Mouse Brain Mapped for the First Time Network of 75 Million Neurons of the Mouse Brain Mapped for the First Time With improved visualization tools and souped-up computers to crunch the massive numbers involved in studying the 100 billion neurons in the human brain, many researchers, including the U.S. government, are trying to map the brain’s wiring, or “connectome.” Some researchers have dived right in to studying the massive human brain, but others see the mouse brain, with just 75 million neurons, as a more logical place to start. A new atlas of study results related to the mouse connectome offers the equivalent of a highway map, with local roads to be filled in later. It’s the most detailed information we have on the brain of any animal other than that of the roundworm C. elegans, which has just 302 neurons. “Understanding how the brain is wired is among the most crucial steps to understanding how the brain encodes information,” project lead Hongkui Zeng said in a news release. But there’s a long way to go.
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iwanttolearnruby Learn Code The Hard Way -- Books And Courses To Learn To Code Begin programming: build your first mobile game — University of Reading Learn the basics of Java programming by developing a simple mobile game that you can run on your computer, Android phone, or tablet. Programming is everywhere: in dishwashers, cars and even space shuttles. This course will help you to understand how programs work and guide you through creating your own computer program – a mobile game. Whether you’re a complete newcomer to programming, or have some basic skills, this course provides a challenging but fun way to start programming in Java. Over seven weeks we will introduce the basic constructs that are used in many programming languages and help you to put this knowledge into practice by changing the game code we have provided. The course will combine video introductions, on-screen examples, downloadable guides, articles and discussions to help you understand the principles behind computer programs and the building blocks that are used to create them. This course includes video content and other visual teaching methods.
Happy Birthday, BASIC Fifty years ago this month, in 1964, a computer programming language winked to life that changed the course of a generation. While many would point to the rise of Unix and other ubiquitous programming languages in the intervening years as formative points in the history of computing, on May 1, 1964, a computer at Dartmouth College ran the first BASIC program, changing the world forever. Created by Professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz and a team of student programmers, the Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code was supposed to be a simple system for teaching computer literacy and escaping the strange runes associated with early mainframe programming. Gone were commands like “EBCDIC ARRAY E [0:11],” replaced by a simple “HELLO” to begin programming and a delightful “READY” prompt that showed the computer was listening. BASIC was perfect for beginners. Early BASIC was a strange beast but the language slowly but surely accreted all of the tools necessary to do real work.