India and Tiffin Boxes: A Sophisticated Logistic System
Although Mumbai -- India's most crowded city -- seems disorganized and chaotic, it is home to one of the world's most efficient distribution
networks using a number of delivery means. The lunches are placed in containers called tiffin boxes. The video is compelling and shows how these largely illiterate delivery people have created a most sophisticated system.
Functional and Structural Insights Revealed by Molecular Dynamics Simulations of an Essential RNA Ed
RNA editing ligase 1 (TbREL1) is required for the survival of both the insect and bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite responsible for the devastating tropical disease African sleeping sickness. The type of RNA editing that TbREL1 is involved in is unique to the trypanosomes, and no close human homolog is known to exist. In addition, the high-resolution crystal structure revealed several unique features of the active site, making this enzyme a promising target for structure-base
Writing Acrostic Poems
You will visit different Web sites to learn about writing acrostic poems. Then, you will create an acrostic poem of your own.
How Lou Got the Flu
This article from our family magazine series traces the spread of the flu virus from a duck in China to a young girl in Kansas. The article begins by introducing kids to Louise and the symptoms of influenza. On a series of clickable screens, they learn how the flu virus traveled from a duck to a pig to a farmer to a shopper to a student to Louise. A sidebar (But I Got a Flu Shot Last Year...) explains why influenza is trickier to outsmart than smallpox and polio. Another sidebar ("Microbes on th
Multiple Sclerosis - General Observations Exam - Opening Interview Sub-exam - Patient 16
Shelly is a 38-year-old African American female who initially presented with transverse myelitis 2 years ago. A lumbar puncture revealed multiple oligoclonal bands in the cerebral spinal fluid. MRI has demonstrated numerous plaques in the bilateral cerebral white matter. She eventually went on to recover from her initial attack but since her second attack has continued to progressively worsen. Her gait and other motor functioning have deteriorated and she is now wheelchair bound.
Hormone Concentrations During Puberty
Guide questions - Do the reproductive systems of males and females function during childhood as they do in adults? Is the hypothalamic-pituitary unit sensitive to gonadal steroids during childhood? How do gonadotropin and reproductive steroid hormone levels fluctuate during fetal life, infancy, childhood, puberty and adulthood? When do males and females undergo puberty? What is the first observed hormonal change for males and females at puberty? University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Repro
The Blitz - Quiz
Pupils will be enabled to test their knowledge on The Blitz.
Pastimes - Quiz 2
The pupil will revise the theme of Weather. The pupil will use interactive resources to encourage reading. The pupil will have an opportunity to do functional reading. Written questions will be used to assess the understanding of the pupil.
Students at Martin Luther King School
African American students and white students in woodshop and sewing classes at the Martin Luther King Middle School. Exterior shots of the Martin Luther King Middle School.
Colaborar
To practice oral skills - and basically, speaking: ¡Vamos a hablar! To reinforce structures: talking about preferences (me gusta, prefiero…) and giving reasons (¿Por qué? Porque…)
Cifras y letras
-¿Cuánto cuesta…? -To reinforce the use of numbers. Los porcentajes. Cifras y tantos por cientos -To introduce adjectives and pronouns: todos, ningún, ninguno, alguno -To reinforce expressions like: ¡qué interesante!, ¡qué bueno!, ¡qué caro! -To reinforce the Present Perfect tense.
Contar una historia I
To reading a story; To develop writing skills: writing a possible end of the story. To review the present tense and reinforce verbs in the future.
Contar una historia II
To develop writing skills. To reinforce the use of the past tenses: pretérito indefinido y el pretérito imperfecto. To encourage students to use the dictionary.
Descriptions
To improve the reading comprehension. To develop writing skills: describing persons. To reinforce vocabulary: physic and psychological adjectives.
The Naked City
Renowned sociologist Sharon Zukin will discuss her latest book, The Naked City: the death and life of authentic urban places, which explores the gentrification of cities. Sharon Zukin is professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and City University Graduate Center.
The Greek bail-out one year on: how can Greece return to growth?
One year after Greece agreed a rescue package with the EU and the IMF, this debate considers how best Greece can secure future economic growth. Is the austerity plan working? Can Greece avoid a sovereign debt default? What new reform measures might be desirable in the future? Costas Meghir is Professor of Economics, University College London; Douglas A. Warner III Professor, Yale University; and co-director ESRC Research Centre, Institute for Fiscal Studies. Herakles Polemarchakis is Professor o
Zero Degrees of Empathy: a new theory of human cruelty
World-expert Simon Baron-Cohen presents new discoveries on the importance of empathy, and the problems with evil. Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, has always wanted to isolate and understand the factors that cause people to treat others as if they were mere objects. In this book he proposes a radical shift, turning the focus away from evil and on to the central factor, empathy. Unlike the concept of evil, he argues, empathy has real explanatory power. Puttin
6.5 Conformational changes upon protein–DNA interactions
This unit helps you understand the properties of nucleotides and how they contribute to secondary and tertiary structures of nucleic acids at the molecular level. You will learn about the different composition and roles of nucleic acids in the cell, their interactions with each other and the use of ribozymes, aptamers, antisense and hybridization as tools in molecular research. The unit covers the function of DNA packaging within the cell, the interactions between the DNA double helix and the nu
6.4 Non-specific DNA-protein interactions
This unit helps you understand the properties of nucleotides and how they contribute to secondary and tertiary structures of nucleic acids at the molecular level. You will learn about the different composition and roles of nucleic acids in the cell, their interactions with each other and the use of ribozymes, aptamers, antisense and hybridization as tools in molecular research. The unit covers the function of DNA packaging within the cell, the interactions between the DNA double helix and the nu
6.3 The recognition of specific DNA sequences by proteins
This unit helps you understand the properties of nucleotides and how they contribute to secondary and tertiary structures of nucleic acids at the molecular level. You will learn about the different composition and roles of nucleic acids in the cell, their interactions with each other and the use of ribozymes, aptamers, antisense and hybridization as tools in molecular research. The unit covers the function of DNA packaging within the cell, the interactions between the DNA double helix and the nu
