maandag 19 september 2016

week 3 video summary




In this video  “genetically modified food”, Eric R. Olson (2013) explains this history behind genetically modified food.
People think that genetically modified food is bad for them. And that they will get stomach diseases.
Genetically modified food was discovered thousand years ago. It started with corn, will picking organisms with desirable traits and making them together. People were able to mold species  to meet their daily needs. By changing the DNA teosinte became corn. The farmers were manipulating the DNA.

In the video, "Renewable Energie", P. Anderson (2015) explains the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy. The amount of energy has to be reduced and the renewable energy has to be increased. He discusses five sources of renewable energy: solar, hydrogen, wind, hydroelectric. The renewable energy supplies less money than non-renewables.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8WuEyL-YNY






week 3 assignment 1



The death of yearbooks

 From The Economist print edition

A tradition in decline

 ONE fixture of college life is rapidly disappearing. Yearbooks, those beloved annual publications recording the events and people of the academic year, are suffering from plummeting print-runs, or are even being dropped altogether, in colleges across the country.

The phenomenon is due in part to the price of the hard-bound volumes, typically as high as $75. For cash-strapped students facing ever-rising tuition and living costs they are a luxury that many can’t afford. But the main cause is not the cost so much as the replacement of print with electronic media by and for the Facebook and MySpace generation. With social networks linking hundreds of friends and offering digital photographs and videos the traditional yearbook looks like a bit of a dinosaur.
After more than a hundred years of publication Purdue University, in Indiana, has published its last yearbook, as has nearby DePauw University. Even where colleges have tried to adapt to the new media by, for instance, including DVDs summing up the year along with the print version, yearbooks are attracting few students, readers or editors.
McKendree University is the oldest college in Illinois. Inside its historic buildings, some dating back to the 1820s, its 1,500 students use the latest technology. Although the university still publishes a yearbook, the print-run is a mere 150 copies, only half of which are bought by students. Being on the staff of the yearbook used to be considered prestigious: now only eight students show up for the job. The downturn in print publications has also hit magazines for alumni. These, for instance at McKendree, are increasingly being replaced by online editions.
Yearbooks are hanging on in American high schools but the future is unclear. Parents and students complain about the high prices, and a generation that has never known a time before the internet is losing interest.
Although today’s students find yearbooks old-fashioned, they may one day miss their vanished youth. Long after Facebook and MySpace have become obsolete and the electrons dispersed to the ether, future alumni might just wish for the permanence of ink on paper.

dinsdag 13 september 2016

Week 2: AWL highligther



File produced at level 10
Within days, DNA sequencing confirmed that the virus had been circulating in the region undetected for about 4 years. The new case was discovered in Monguno district, but the family came from Marte district, as did the family of the Jere case.
"We have to understand why we did not see the virus for 4 years," says Michel Zaffran, director of GPEI at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
True, Borno poses unique challenges to the program, which has long been familiar with working in conflict zones by brokering "days of tranquility" during which vaccinations can occur, for instance, or else conducting "hit and run" operations when there is a lull in the fighting. The strategy has also relied heavily on vaccinating the streams of people who flee the violence. But under Boko Haram "the population is forbidden to leave," Zaffran says. (The three cases detected so far are children whose families somehow managed to escape.)
"We thought surveillance was good enough," Zaffran says%97and overall in Borno state it was. What they missed were the "totally inaccessible" areas where the population had been trapped and was large enough to sustain transmission of the virus. "Are there other places we are blind? We can't exclude that other populations have not moved. What innovative strategies can we use?" he asks. 

Sequencing: bepalen van volgorde base
confirmed: bevestigen
Poses: poseren
Unique challenge: unieke uitdaging
Conflict: conflict
Occur: gebeuren, zich voordoen
Instance: bijvoorbeeld
Conducting: leiden
Strategy: strategie
Relied: rekenen op
Detected: ontdekken
Overall: globaal
Inaccessible: ontoegankelijk
Area: gebied
Sustain: doorstaan
Transmission: transmissie
Exclude: uitsluiten
Innovative: vernieuwend


Week 2: grammar exercises



-          S2: the researchers last week sent for the second time to the journal their manuscript
-          S4: X is  a  new  feature  for  calculating  velocity. It is  particularly interesting for physicists.
-          S1: A  gradual  decline in  germinability  and  vigor of  the  resultant seedling, a higher sensitivity to stresses upon germination, and possibly a loss of the ability to germinate are recorded in the literature.
S3: There is  generally  a  gradual  decline in  germinability  and of  the resultant  seedling,  followed by  a  higher  sensitivity to  stress  upon germination, and possibly a loss of the ability to germinate.
-          S1: We  can associate  a  high   cost, higher   overheads, a significant increase in man-hours and several other problems with these values.
S2: We  can associate  a  high  cost  with  these  values,  along  with  higher overheads, a significant increase in man-hours   and   several   other problems.
-          S3: In the last few years there has been an increasing interest in 3D cellular phones.
-          S1: For this reason / It follows that / As a consequence / As a result, it is not a good idea to use the old system.
S2: The new system should be used. In  addition, it  should be integrated with all the data from the previous project.
-          S2: This is a paper particularly interesting for PhD students.
S5: We examined a patient, 30 years old, to investigate whether…
-          S1: The editor main interface.
S2: The algorithm computational complexity
-          S1: The main document contribution.

 Assignment 5
1.     a bike
2.     an umbrella
3.     an airport
4.     a one-dollar bill
5.     a younger brother
6.     an elephant
7.     a wild animal
8.     an honourable profession
9.     an English book
10.  a son 

1.       The bee is a flying insect
2.       A bee stung me yesterday
3.       The sting on my leg was very painful
4.       Bees live in hives
5.       My biology book says, “The honey bee is a very social insect. It lives in a colony.”
6.       It is true. Bees are very social insects
7.       A bee group consists of a mother and her daughters
8.       The mother is the queen bee and her daughters are the workers
9.       The bee in this picture is a honey bee
10.   The legs of the bee are covered with pollen
11.   Most of the pollen is used as food for larvae
12.   Nectar and pollen feed the queen bee.

1. Every year hundreds of exchange students come to study in the Netherlands.
2. House prices will definitely rise over the next few months.
3. Students typically get their degree before the age of 25.
4. As of this week the school's website is only accessible to authorised users.
5. During exam periods students typically drink at least seven cups of coffee a day.
6. Most people probably go the dentist once a year.
7. A large number of people typically watch at least eight hours of TV a week.
8. In the Netherlands trains are hardly ever exactly one time.