Teacher recruitment and retention, particularly in the field of special education is perhaps the key challenge facing today¨s educational system. The work of teachers can be mentally, physically, and emotionally demanding, and while the intrinsic rewards are many, the material benefits can seem few and far between. That¨s why this Valentine¨s Day, we asked you to show teachers (and all educators) the love they deserve.
Thank you to those who followed Accelify on social media and told us why you love teachers using #teacherlove. All participants were entered into a drawing to send their valentine (or fellow colleague or friend) a beautiful bouquet of flowers from thebouqs.com on us! Congratulations to Makeba for showing her special education teachers love with a Facebook post and a bouquet of flowers.
This document proposes a mobile app that crowdsources toilet locations and reviews around the world. The app would allow users to locate toilets using geolocation services, rate various toilets out of 5 for quality, leave reviews, and share reviews on social media. The goal is to move beyond broken and dirty public toilets by harnessing the power of user ratings and reviews to identify both locations and quality of toilets globally.
Better Goals for Better Outcomes: Best Practices for Writing Measurable, Effe...Accelify
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The importance of writing reasonable but challenging goals for students cannot be underestimated. Evidence has shown that goals serve as the foundation for providing effective supports to students; when reasonable and challenging goals are set and progress toward them is used to drive changes to educational programs, students' outcomes are improved. In this webinar, Dr. Danielle Damico will discuss best practices in writing goals and measuring progress toward goals from both research and policy perspectives. Research-based methods and examples will be presented for various providers, and common pitfalls will be discussed.
The Mathematical Epidemiology of Human Babesiosis in the North-Eastern United...QUT_SEF
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The basic reproduction number, R0, is an essential measure in epidemiology used to quantify the transmission potential of a pathogen. It is a dimensionless quantity that represents the expected number of secondary cases produced by a single infected individual over the course of the individuals infectious period in a fully susceptible population. R0 provides information about the initial dynamics of an emerging disease. Most critically there is a threshold condition that determines whether a pathogen will spread, R0 > 1, or fade out, R0 < 1, because infected hosts do not, on average, replace themselves. Higher values of R0 also increase the likelihood of pathogen establishment given that infected individuals are occasionally entering a naive host population, and hence imply a shorter time to establishment. The magnitude of R0 is also a measure of the risk of an epidemic and indicates the level of effort needed to control or prevent an epidemic.
In this talk I present multi-host, multi-pathogen mechanistic models of R0 that explains the zoonotic emergence and persistence of human babesiosis, a tick-borne disease, in the United States. Human babesiosis, spread by the Babesia microti pathogen, is an emerging vector-borne disease transmitted by the Ixodes scapularis tick in the United States. The number of babesiosis cases has been increasing leading to the classification as an ^emerging health risk ̄ by the Center for Disease Control. The reasons for emergence remain largely unknown.
Given the difficulties in constructing models of tick-borne disease the models presented here are derived by way of `direct epidemiological reasoning¨ using the assumptions and specifications of the model used. These models are naturally based on the biology of the disease system of interest. The models derived in this work are mechanistic, transparent and almost all parameters can be measured directly by laboratory or field studies.
Teacher recruitment and retention, particularly in the field of special education is perhaps the key challenge facing today¨s educational system. The work of teachers can be mentally, physically, and emotionally demanding, and while the intrinsic rewards are many, the material benefits can seem few and far between. That¨s why this Valentine¨s Day, we asked you to show teachers (and all educators) the love they deserve.
Thank you to those who followed Accelify on social media and told us why you love teachers using #teacherlove. All participants were entered into a drawing to send their valentine (or fellow colleague or friend) a beautiful bouquet of flowers from thebouqs.com on us! Congratulations to Makeba for showing her special education teachers love with a Facebook post and a bouquet of flowers.
This document proposes a mobile app that crowdsources toilet locations and reviews around the world. The app would allow users to locate toilets using geolocation services, rate various toilets out of 5 for quality, leave reviews, and share reviews on social media. The goal is to move beyond broken and dirty public toilets by harnessing the power of user ratings and reviews to identify both locations and quality of toilets globally.
Better Goals for Better Outcomes: Best Practices for Writing Measurable, Effe...Accelify
?
The importance of writing reasonable but challenging goals for students cannot be underestimated. Evidence has shown that goals serve as the foundation for providing effective supports to students; when reasonable and challenging goals are set and progress toward them is used to drive changes to educational programs, students' outcomes are improved. In this webinar, Dr. Danielle Damico will discuss best practices in writing goals and measuring progress toward goals from both research and policy perspectives. Research-based methods and examples will be presented for various providers, and common pitfalls will be discussed.
The Mathematical Epidemiology of Human Babesiosis in the North-Eastern United...QUT_SEF
?
The basic reproduction number, R0, is an essential measure in epidemiology used to quantify the transmission potential of a pathogen. It is a dimensionless quantity that represents the expected number of secondary cases produced by a single infected individual over the course of the individuals infectious period in a fully susceptible population. R0 provides information about the initial dynamics of an emerging disease. Most critically there is a threshold condition that determines whether a pathogen will spread, R0 > 1, or fade out, R0 < 1, because infected hosts do not, on average, replace themselves. Higher values of R0 also increase the likelihood of pathogen establishment given that infected individuals are occasionally entering a naive host population, and hence imply a shorter time to establishment. The magnitude of R0 is also a measure of the risk of an epidemic and indicates the level of effort needed to control or prevent an epidemic.
In this talk I present multi-host, multi-pathogen mechanistic models of R0 that explains the zoonotic emergence and persistence of human babesiosis, a tick-borne disease, in the United States. Human babesiosis, spread by the Babesia microti pathogen, is an emerging vector-borne disease transmitted by the Ixodes scapularis tick in the United States. The number of babesiosis cases has been increasing leading to the classification as an ^emerging health risk ̄ by the Center for Disease Control. The reasons for emergence remain largely unknown.
Given the difficulties in constructing models of tick-borne disease the models presented here are derived by way of `direct epidemiological reasoning¨ using the assumptions and specifications of the model used. These models are naturally based on the biology of the disease system of interest. The models derived in this work are mechanistic, transparent and almost all parameters can be measured directly by laboratory or field studies.
Michelle Ulman has over 20 years of experience in business development, customer relations, and nonprofit leadership. She has a track record of growing organizations through networking, marketing, and partnership building. Ulman holds a degree in business administration and has received several honors for her work developing local economies and communities.
This document provides information about the services offered by Your WEB Solutions, including customer relationship management, website development for hotels and casinos, and the development of an e-commerce clothing store using Opencart CMS. Contact information is provided for the developing center in Kharkiv, Ukraine and the sales office in Moscow, Russia.
1) Spherical ceria nanoparticles 18-25 nm in size were synthesized and dispersed in propylene glycol via ultrasonication to create stable ceria-propylene glycol nanofluids.
2) Thermal conductivity of the nanofluids increased with ceria concentration and temperature, showing up to an 18.8% enhancement over propylene glycol.
3) Viscosity of the 0.5 and 1 vol% nanofluids was lower than propylene glycol at temperatures below 80<C. Heat absorption of the nanofluids increased with ceria concentration in transient natural convection experiments.