July 12, 2016. The 6th MTC
Global Annual Convention
will be held on the 16th and 17th
September in Bangalore, India.
ASIC’s Chairman, Maurice
Dimmock,
is very
pleased
to be
providing
a keynote
address
to the
convention delegates.
The theme of this year’s
convention will be Disruptive
Innovation in Education, and
will be looking at the role of
traditional offline institutions
in the 21st century, new forms
of learning as an engine of
economic growth, and entrepreneurship
and start-ups.
The convention has been
organized by International
School of Management
Excellence & MTC Global in
partnership with SANKALP
2016 and ASIC.
Mr. Dimmock will also be
presenting several awards
at this event and is proud
to be receiving an award on
behalf of ASIC Global for
International Accrediting
Body of the Year.
To find out more about
this event please contact
Prof. Bholanath Dutta at
MTC Global:
president@mtcglobal.org
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MTC Global Annual Convention
Workshop in Brussels
June 28, 2016. The International
Centre for Reproductive
Health has invited Dr.
Alex Lucas to the DIFFER final
workshop in Brussels, Belgium,
on Tuesday September 27th and
Wednesday September
28th 2016.
The workshop’s topic
is “Delivering HIV and
sexual and reproductive
health services to female
sex workers. Lessons
learned from South
Africa, Mozambique,
Kenya and India.” The key
findings from the DIFFER
project in each of the four
countries will be presented
and discussed.
Dr. Alex Lucas is completing
a Post-Doctorate program
in Health Sciences at AIU
Graduation Ceremony
July 2016
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The Monroe doctrine
corollaries for Latin America
By Luis Narváez Ricaurte | PhD in Political Science
This exercise of the Monroe
Doctrine through the
Roosevelt Corollary, which in
terms of time spanned from
the late nineteenth century to
the end of the Second World
War (1945), is underpinned
with the Truman Doctrine,
which unfolds through the
corollary of contention
(Aracil, Oliver, & Segura,
1998, p.42); corollary3 which it
was in force throughout the
period of the Cold War, and
even spread to the attacks on
the Twin Towers at the World
Trade Center in New York in
September 2001.
The scenario for this date
was paradigmatic. The fall of
the Berlin Wall had served as
a milestone for a new world
order arises: single-pole;
and power of a nation to
hegemonic consolidated: we
were in front of the consolidation
of the ‘American Pax’.
In this context court –
making one epistemological
breaks “terrorism” as a new
scenario that requires the US
Head of State and Government,
by then G. W. Bush, to
recompose the axes of foreign
policy and security, through
a broad interpretation– in function of the new reality
globally Monroe and Truman
doctrine, asking what I have
called corollary Bush, same
as summarized in the US the
right to intervene awarded
by the force preemptively
anywhere in the world where
deemed or perceived national
security is affected.
This new conceptual approach
or geopolitical corollary
Bush, returns the value to
the action of the external front
and security (Günter Brauch,
2009, p.283), and in that exercise,
surround way, involves
all existing security structure
and shipped to the international
community, under a
sine qua non for relations with
the United States. The speech
on Capitol Hill after ten days
of the attack sat position on
this phenomenon in Manichean
terms, and immediate
compliance and tax enforcement.
(Bush, 2001)
This new system of international
relations had several
effects, including the consolidation
of the hegemonic structure
of the US through the
pre-eminence of single-pole
(Narvaez Ricaurte, 2016, sent
This exercise of the Monroe
Doctrine through the
Roosevelt Corollary, which in
terms of time spanned from
the late nineteenth century to
the end of the Second World
War (1945), is underpinned
with the Truman Doctrine,
which unfolds through the
corollary of contention
(Aracil, Oliver, & Segura,
1998, p.42); corollary3 which it
was in force throughout the
period of the Cold War, and
even spread to the attacks on
the Twin Towers at the World
Trade Center in New York in
September 2001.
The scenario for this date
was paradigmatic. The fall of
the Berlin Wall had served as
a milestone for a new world
order arises: single-pole;
and power of a nation to
hegemonic consolidated: we
were in front of the consolidation
of the ‘American Pax’.
In this context court –
making one epistemological
breaks “terrorism” as a new
scenario that requires the US
Head of State and Government,
by then G. W. Bush, to
recompose the axes of foreign
policy and security, through
a broad interpretation– in
to publish); survived scenario
until 2014 when the unipolar
scheme was questioned,
formally, China and Russia
through the Joint Declaration
signed between the two
countries on the International
Order in 21st Century (May
2014); thus making visible a
hidden reality that brewing
came and went from being a
subject of academic analysis
to be approached from the
fields of political decision.
(Wilches, 2014)
The Bush corollary, designed
in the most orthodox
terms of realpolitik, is forced
to adapt following the meeting
of these regional and global
powers China and Russia;
rehabilitation that comes
from the hand of the current
administration White House
(Obamas corollary), which
articulates a repeat of the good
neighbor policy, by introducing
certain changes in US
foreign policy and redefine the
actions and positions on the
external front, but not completely
keeping some distance
from the guidelines were, once
defined by the ‘hawks’4 from
the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon.
On this analysis it is illustrative
in that respect by the
Secretary-General of FLACSO,
Dr. Adrian Bonilla, which
allows us to understand the
mentioned corollary, noting
that for Americans while
in Latin America a dramatic
crisis that directly challenged
him on their interests are not
present vital, his presence
will continue to be relatively
indifferent (Bonilla, sf) –and
I would narrow: it is this
indifference, where we notice
the permissibility and leeway
currently gives us the US–.
As can be seen, this doctrine
and its corollaries are
deeply linked to the theory
of Manifest Destiny –understanding
this as the intangible
value that legitimizes all
shares–, bringing the exercise
of implementing their interests
have effects that can be
noticed in the consolidation
space influence and interference;
determining issues of
international agenda; prioritization
of security as an ideal;
the continuity of the current
system; consolidating its hegemony;
including third and
fourth level.
In this logic, the hegemonic consolidation which is implicit in every American action — foreign policy has undergone significant changes since the mechanics of joint. Today we can see that this process is based on knowledge: science and technology, on par with the exercise of force, strengthens its presence under a subtle –in some cases– and others -in obvious social Darwinism. This implies the need to develop proactively –since the fields of science and technology create a space for greater political participation and freedom of action– that considering the existing board, can be introduced, in some cases, improve maneuverability on the stage; and in others, with a view to changing the logic of the game, but under the pragmatic and realistic vision of the game is chess; so, go with football shoes, does not guarantee us better chess players, chess players nor the other, leaving the board to enter a court. The End.
3: The containment policy was outlined by George F. Kennan, the document known as the Long Telegram, published in the journal Foreign Affairs (1947) under the title of X Article, which argued that the primary objective of the United States should be to prevent the spread of communism to non-communist nations; ie “contain” communism within its borders. The corollary of contention was the domino theory, and this corollary became the focus of national security policy of the United States, collected in the speech deliver by President Harry Truman to Congress on March 12th, 1947.
4: Nickname that were given to a group of people, trusted by Bush, responsible for the management of important topics, such as Iraq, such as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz; Chief of Staff of Vice President of the United States, Lewis Libby; among others.
Bibliography. Aracil, R., Oliver, J., & Segura, A. (1998). El Mundo Actual, de la Segunda Guerra Mundial a nuestros días. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona. | Bonilla, A. (s.f.). Nuevo Mandato de Obama y América Latina. Retreived from http://flacso.org/ secretaria-general/nuevo-mandato-obama-y-am-rica-latina | Borja Cevallos, R. (1998). Enciclopedia de la Política. Mexico: Fondo Económico de Cultura. | Bush, G. W. (21 de 9 de 2001). Discurso en el Capitolio. Retreived from http://www.filosofia. org/his/20010921.htm | Cestero, T. M. (1931). Estados Unidos y las Antillas. Compañía Ibero-americano de publicaciones. | Clare, H. (1965). Los Estados Unidos de América y el Congreso Anfitiónico de Panamá de 1826: bocetos biográficos de los plenipotenciarios de los Estados Unidos de América al Congreso de los nuevos estados americanos en Panamá y Tucubaya. El Mundo. | Günter Brauch, H. (2009). Seguritización del espacio y del objeto de referencia. México D.F.: UNAM. | Kasperson, R. E., & Mingh, J. V. (2011). The Structure of Political Geography. Aldine Transactions. | Narváez Ricaurte, L. (2015). Unidad, Solidaridad, Alianza, Integración y Cooperación: ideales progresivos. Revista AFESE N°62, 13-18. | Narváez Ricaurte, L. (2016). La polarización y el nuevo escenario internacional. AFESE, enviado a publicar. | Narváez Rivadeneira, L. (2007). Evangelio de un Peregrino. Santo Domingo: Quipus. | Selser, G. (2001). Cronología de las intervenciones extranjeras en América Latina (Vols. III (1899-1945)). México D.F.: UNAM. | Wilches, V. (5 de 2014). Cumbre Rusia-China: una simple cooperación o una alianza de futuro. Retreived from http://www.alainet.org/es/active/73949
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Luis Narváez Ricaurte is a graduate student from AIU with PhD in Political Science.
He has also got a Master in International Relations, and a Doctorate in Jurisprudence. He is a Lawyer, with a Degree in Public and Social Sciences. He’s been a Diplomat for Ecuador since November 1997.
When Architecture meets Isomorphism
Elvira Mumy Arielle Celina | Master of Science in Architecture | Part 1/3
Many people around
the world are suffering
from the climate changes
due to the non respect of the
whole ecological system. The
need of taking into account
the characteristics of environment
when planning and
acting in all the daily-life’ situations
have become more and
more important. Additionally,
nowadays the protection of
the environment is also one
important need of humankind.
In this perspective, many
people are aware of the necessity
to reduce the gap between
human activities and the
whole ecological system when
even building or planning.
Concerning the issue of harmony
with the environment,
more and more people around
the world are interested in the
problem of building or constructing
houses in connection
with the environment. Building
techniques and of building
construction materials suitable
to the environment are used
more often in many countries.
Given the increasing human
need of reducing the
gap between human activities
and the environment and
given the increasing human
need of improving the way of
resolving the housing problem
in the world, how can
we introduce the principle of
isomorphism so as to solve or
to prevent such architectural
problems? How can we define
the principle of isomorphism
in architecture? What are the
main aspects of the principle
of isomorphism in architecture?
Referring to the problem
situation to be solved, from
which aspects of the principle
of isomorphism in architecture,
appropriate explanation
and changes could be stated
and realized in order to improve
the situation? These are
the questions examined in this
piece of research.
A four part analysis
This work, whose main
objective is to state the understanding
and the extension of
the principle of isomorphism
in architecture from the analysis
of the concept of isomorphism
in some sciences, is
made up of four parts. After
the introduction, the theoretical
framework, then the
methodological aspects, later
on, the results and finally the
conclusion are presented.
Theoretical framework
The concept of isomorphism
in some sciences
The concept of isomorphism
The definition of the notion of
isomorphism has changed. In
the past, the extension of the
general notion of isomorphism
was made up of many concepts
such as: similarity (similitude)
which implies making precise the accord between different
branchs of a field of study or
a discipline such as mathematics.
Additionally, the link
between isomorphism and
structure was one of the characteristics
of an isomorphism.
It was admitted from research
done in this domain that every
structure carried within itself, a
notion of isomorphism.
Nowadays, and according to
Timmermans (2012, p. 42),
A homomorphism Ф A1→A2 is
a mapping from A1 to A2 that
preserves the structure relations
in A1 (…); if a homomorphism
Ф is one-to-one, onto
and if its inverse mapping
Ф-1: A2→A1 is also a homomorphism,
then Ф is called
an isomorphism. A homomorphism
from A1 to itself is
called an endomorphism. If
this endomorphism is also an
isomorphism, it is called an
automorphism.
In mathematics, the word
derives from the Greek ‘iso’
which means «equal» and
‘morphosis’ meaning «to form»
or «to shape». Isomorphism,
in modern algebra according
to William Hosch (2016), is a
one-to-one correspondence
(mapping) between 2 sets that
preserve binary relationships
between elements of the sets.
Given that A&B are sets with
elements an and bm, respectively.
and indicate their
respective binary operations,
2 vectors spaces V and W over
the same field F are said to be
isomorphic if there is a bijection
T:V→ W which preserves addition
and scalar multiplication,
that is , for all vectors u and v in
V, and all scalars c ∈ F,
T(u+v) = T(u)+T(v)
and T(cv) = cT(v)
The correspondence T is then
called an isomorphism of vector
spaces.
In Biology, the concept of
isomorphism is related to
similarity of form or structure
between organism with independent
ancestries; similarity
in form, as in organisms of
different ancestry; similarity
of form, as in different
generations of the same life
cycle; similarity in the form
or structure of organisms that
belong to a different species
or genus4.
In Chemistry Isomorphism
is the existence of two or
more substances that have the
same crystal structure, so that
they form solid solutions; a
close similarity in the crystalline
structure of two or more
substances of similar chemical
composition; the similarity in
the crystal structures of similar
chemical compounds; the existence
of two or more different
substances in the same crystal
form and structure; an identity
or close similarity in the
crystalline form of substances
usually containing different
which operate on any 2 elements
from a set and may be
different.
If there exists a mapping f
such that f (aj ak) = f (aj ak)
and its inverse mapping ∫-1
such that
f-1 (br bs) = f-1 (br) f-1 (bs)
Then the sets are said to
be isomorphic and f and its
inverse are isomorphisms.
• One-to-one correspondence
between the elements
of 2 or more sets such as those
of Arabic and Roman numerals
and between the sum or
products of the elements of
the one sets of these sets and
those of the equivalents elements
of the other set or sets.
• A one-to-one relation onto
the map between the sets
which preserves the relations
existing between elements in
its domain1.
• A one-to-one correspondence
between 2 mathematical
systems sets, etc that preserves
the basic operations, as
the correspondence between
binary numbers and decimal
numbers, each a set of real
numbers2.
• A one-to-one correspondence
between the elements
of sets such that the result of
an operation on elements of
one set corresponds to the
result of the analogous operation
on their images in the
other set.
According to Joyce (2015)3,
elements but having similar
composition.
Then, an isomorphism in
other words implies bijective
correspondence between
the elements of both groups
and between the products of
these elements. Apart from
mathematics, the concept of
isomorphism is studied and
used in other scientific disciplines
(chemistry, biology...). In
these scientific fields, the word
isomorphic is not conceived
and cannot be taken in rigorous
sense, but it frequently
indicates only a great analogy,
similarities, correspondence…
Extension of relations
in an isomorphism
As far as the relations in
isomorphism are concerned,
if taking into consideration
the following conception of
strict extension as stated by
Jayaprasad & Johnson (2012),
a “relation set R* is said to be
the strict extension of R , if
R* contains all relations in R
and at least one relation other
than those in R which is not
derivable from the relations
in R. we denote R ϹR* when
R* is a strict extension of R* ”,
The figure below represented
is a set of notions behind the
concept of isomorphism in
sciences.
To be continued
1 Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary (2016). Retrieved from: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/isomorphism 2 Merriam Webster (2014). Webster dictionary. Retrieved from: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ Isomorphism 3 Joyce, D. (2015) on the isomorphisms of vector spaces. 4 American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fifth Edition (2016). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Retrieved from: http://www.thefreedictionary. com/isomorphism 5 Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (2014). Retrieved from: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/isomorphism
Inalienable right to life, liberty and security
By Dr. Rosa Hilda Lora M. Advisor at AIU | rosa@aiu.edu
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations Organization (UN) in its Article 3rd says: “Everyone has the inalienable right to life, liberty and security for oneself”. Reading the article it seems to be short but if you analyze the topic it shows the greatness and value of human beings. We are living in a society with extraordinary growth of science and technology, in a society of large commercial alliances, in a society where if something happens in the farthest place on our Planet, we have the information immediately. This society suggests that it is a society where all human beings live with all their needs fulfilled and where every human being has every opportunity to do their life as they wish, so that they live satisfied with their accomplishments, therefore we can say they are happy. We think it is difficult to believe that with so much technology, so much communication, so much publicity and so many business relationships; every day there are more violations to the 3rd Article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
What happens with life? What is life worth nowadays? It seems that life is tied to economics for the way that organizations are working; it doesn’t matter what kind of organizations they are. If there is money involved the agreement will be in favor of the most powerful one. We see large commercial treaties, great alliances among the richest countries and how the relationships are with nations that have less financial resources than the other ones have. Moreover they mind about countries that have very important natural resources. History also shows us what life has meant. Think about the great human movements like the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and the American Revolution. We are in a stage of social and economical development, entitled “Globalization”. This movement shows the social and economic scale, the centralization of wealth power and weaknesses of whom don’t have the same social organization. We are living a crisis of organizational production, education, communication and opportunities for everybody. We are witnesses of undeclared wars in the Middle East; different forms of organization in the West, both economical and social.
We are also witnesses of a great social discontent in the West with what must be the democratic form of social organization. There are a lot of extremist movements and human beings are seeking a space to make a living and we wonder where we could live in peace, where we could study, where we could work, where we could have a small space to live and how much we would have to pay for medical care. In this historical moment life seems to us that we would need to look for Diogenes’ lantern to find that special place. As parents, as teachers, we have a great responsibility: we must educate the youngest ones to find the way to be human beings who have the opportunities they deserve. We must educate them respecting the space of others no matter what country it is, what color of skin they have, what religion they believe in and what gender they are. We also need to teach them in the knowledge that the Earth is our home and if we don’t take care of it, the life that we have won’t be the same in the future.
Liberty and security are values that are part of life; without liberty we can’t accomplish our growth as human beings. Life of human beings must be linked to liberty and security. As human beings we can choose the development of our aptitudes we were born and with the skills we are acquiring. We need to look inwards, who we are, and outwards, what does society offer. We have to find the space we need to be: the man or woman we want to be. It is not easy because we are always manipulated by the media which makes us live in a society where human beings are just brain washed to buy everything they want. We live in a consumer society; we don’t think if we really need everything we buy, if we actually realized that everything we buy is not need we might not have to work so hard to pay for it. If we didn’t think people were worth by what they have we would have time to think about who we are as human beings and where we want to go, where we want to live satisfactorily. To study is not to be able to work; to study is to realize what life is, it is to know: who we are and what we should and can do with the most precious gift we are given, the opportunity to be. What will you do with your life? Where do you want to go? Have you thought about your opportunities?
BIBLIOGRAPHY. Loza Ramos, I. (2009). Ética y Valores 2. México: Et. Morin, E. y Anne-Brigitte Kern. (2005). Tierra- Patria. Barcelona: Kairós. United Nations official website. Retrieved from www.un.org/en/index.html . United Nations, Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Retrieved from www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/about-us/
Helping quiet kids
Being present and connecting doesn’t have
to take place through lots of speech.
When Lily Shum was little, she
dreaded speaking up in class. It
wasn’t because she didn’t have anything
interesting to say, or because she
wasn’t paying attention or didn’t know
the answer. She was just quiet. That’s
why she joined more than 60 educators
in New York City recently at the Quiet
Summer Institute. The professional
development workshop was based on
Susan Cain’s best-seller Quiet: The
Power of Introverts in a World That
Can’t Stop Talking.
The two-day course started with
classroom engagement. Instead of
talking, why not try drawing, writing
or working in pairs? Or have students
walk around the room, writing ideas
on tacked-up pieces of paper. They can
Being present and connecting doesn’t have
to take place through lots of speech.
Helping quiet kids
respond to each other’s ideas —like a
sort of silent dialogue.
Corbin offered up this tip for handling
students who dominate the discussion:
W-A-I-T. Sure, it means wait.
But, Corbin explains, it also stands for:
“Why Am I Talking?”
It’s not just about paying attention
to quiet kids. Teachers need to think
about why they’re quiet. Some kids
might be quiet because they have been
shut down.
If teachers don’t start to look past
the students with their hands up, they
are going to miss out on a lot of brilliant
ideas.
Read full text: www.npr.org/sections/
ed/2016/07/06/483272807/how-teachers-can-helpquiet-
kids-tap-their-superpowers?utm_source=facebook.
com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_
term=nprnews&utm_content=20160706
Sober is the new drunk
Why millennials are ditching bar crawls for juice crawls.
On a Saturday afternoon in Manhattan,
Rachel Floyd and her
boyfriend Paul Isham take a shot of
a dark yellow liquid called Mother
F*#%in’ Fireball.
“It kind of makes my leg hair
follicles feel like they’re standing
out,” says Isham, a 33-year-old
audio visual technician. Floyd says
“Oh man. I feel that right up here,”
bringing her left hand over her head.
The 26-year-old clinical psychology
grad student is on her eighth
shot of the day, but she could still
pass a breathalyzer test. The Mother
F*#%in’ Fireball is not the cinnamon
whiskey teenagers steal from their
parents around Christmas –it’s an
orange-based drink with a spicy kick
from a mix of cayenne, ginger and
oregano oil.
Floyd is on a juice crawl, a monthly
event in which participants hop to
three different shops and sample
more than 19 flavors with names such
as “Purple Rain” and “Dr Feelgood”
from 2oz plastic cups. It’s just one of
many booze-free activities that have
popped up in major US cities to serve
a growing number of young people
who are ditching the hooch.
This group is not full of recovering
addicts, but rather people who value
mindfulness, spandex and green
juice. For those 35 and under, cutting
back on booze no longer means
social suicide.
In addition, there are now sober
day raves, alcohol-free bars, boozeless
dinner and dance parties, and a sober
social network that organizes group
outings and launched a dating app so
popular it has temporarily shut down.
Read full article: www.theguardian.
com/society/2016/apr/21/
millennials-booze-free-events-juice-crawl-new-york
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7 big problems facing science
In the past several years, many
scientists have become afflicted
with a serious case of doubt —doubt
in the very institution of science. So,
authors Julia Belluz, Brad Plumer, and
Brian Resnick sent scientists a survey
asking this simple question: If you
could change one thing about
how science works today, what
would it be and why?
They heard back from 270 scientists
all over the world, including graduate
students, senior professors, laboratory
heads, and Fields Medalists. They told
the authors that, in a variety of ways,
their careers are being hijacked by
perverse incentives. The result is bad
science. Before presenting the Seven
biggest problems facing science, there
are some caveats to keep in mind:
The survey was not a scientific poll.
And the respondents disproportionately
hailed from the biomedical and
social sciences and English-speaking
communities.
1. Academia has a huge money
problem.
2. Too many studies are poorly designed.
Blame bad incentives.
3. Replicating results is crucial. But
scientists rarely do it.
4. Peer review is broken.
5. Too much science is locked behind
paywalls.
6. Science is poorly communicated
to the public.
7. Life as a young academic is incredibly
stressful.
If you’re interested in this area, we really
encourage you to read full text: www.vox.com/2016/7/14/12016710/
science-challeges-research-funding-peer-review-process
The smallest engine ever
Nanomachines that could drive a medical revolution.
Scientists from the University of
Mainz in Germany recently built
the smallest engine ever created from
just a single atom. Like any other engine
it converts heat energy into movement
–but it does so on a smaller scale than
ever seen before.
Nanotechnology deals with objects
equivalent to one billionth of a metre in
size. Here are four tiny machines that
could have a big impact.
Graphene engine for nanorobots.
Researchers from Singapore have
recently demonstrated a nano-sized
engine made from a highly elastic piece
of graphene.
Frictionless nano-rotor. Researchers
from Germany created a molecular rotor
by placing moving molecules inside a
tiny hexagonal hole known as a nanopore
in a thin piece of silver.
Controllable nano-rockets. Several
groups of researchers have recently
constructed a high-speed, remotecontrolled
nanoscale version of a
rocket by combining nanoparticles
with biological molecules.
Magnetic nano-vehicles for carrying
drugs. Other research group is
working on a simpler way to carry
drugs through the body that is already
being explored with magnetic
nanoparticles. Drugs are injected into
a magnetic shell structure that can
expand in the presence of heat or
light. Once inserted into the body, they
can be guided to the target area using
magnets and then activated to expand
and release their drug.
Read full text by Tapas Zen, Reader in Nanomaterials
Chemistry, University of Central Lancashire:
3tags.org/article/meet-the-nanomachines-thatcould-
drive-a-medical-revolution
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Smart Highway
Smart Highway are interactive and
sustainable roads of today. Designer
Daan Roosegaarde and Heijmans
Infrastructure develop new designs
and technologies for this ‘Route 66 of
the future’.
New designs include the ‘Glowing
Lines’, ‘Dynamic Paint’ and ‘Electric
Priority Lane’. The goal is to make
roads that are more sustainable and
interactive by using light, energy and
road signs that automatically adapt to
the traffic environment and people.
Smart Highway has been awarded
with ‘Best Future Concept’ by the
Dutch Design Awards and is winner of
the INDEX Award 2013. The first meters
Smart Highway have been installed
in the Netherlands, and will be further
launched international.
Source: www.studioroosegaarde.net/uploads/
files/2014/10/18/199/Factsheet%20Smart%20Highway%
20-%20Daan%20Roosegaarde.pdf
Watch video: www.studioroosegaarde.net/project/
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Is autism different in girls?
Autism has long been more
commonly seen in men.
You’ll often see a ratio thrown
around: there are four times
as many men with autism
than women. And researchers
have been looking for an
explanation —like a difference
in genetic make-up— for this
disparity. But new research
suggests that perhaps the
explanation is simpler than
that. Maybe doctors are simply
missing the signs of autism in
women.
Jennifer McIlwee Myers,
who has Asperger’s and is the
author of “How to Teach Life
Skills to Kids with Autism or
Asperger’s,” says boys on the
spectrum are more likely to
respond to their difficulties
with anger and aggression,
while girls are more likely
to “deal with issues quietly,”
cultivating extreme “niceness”
and imitating other girls’
behavior. Boys who have the
vision problems that sometimes
go with autism spectrum
disorders may hit other boys,
she explains, while girls might
instead cling to other girls.
And a boy who attacks other
kids is going to get intervention
a lot faster than a girl who
cries quietly every day.
Jennifer O’Toole, an author
and founder of the Asperkids
Web site and company, was
not diagnosed until after
her husband, daughter and
sons were found to be on the
spectrum. On the outside,
she looked pretty much the
opposite of autistic. At Brown
University, she was a cheerleader
and sorority girl whose
boyfriend was the president of
his fraternity.
But inside, it was very
different. Social life did not
come at all naturally to her.
She used her formidable
intelligence to become an
excellent mimic and actress,
and the effort this took often
exhausted her. From the time
she started reading at three
and throughout her childhood
in gifted programs, O’Toole
studied people the way others
might study math. And then,
she copied them —learning
what most folks absorb
naturally on the playground
only through voracious novel
reading and the aftermath of
embarrassing gaffes.
O’Toole’s story reflects the
power of an individual to compensate
for a developmental
disability and hints at another
reason females with autism
can be easy to miss.
Read full articles
By Rose Eveleth: www.smithsonianmag.
com/smart-news/autism-is-likely-underdiagnosed-
in-women-due-to-gender-bias-
28003167/#sxExJIqI5hYMUJPc.99 By Maia Szalavitz: www.scientificamerican.
com/article/autism-it-s-different-in-girls/
Emotional distress
Seven surprising signs that you’re suffering from it.
The following list must be
interpreted within a person’s
own world; these symptoms
often develop insidiously
and we forget what life was
like before they were present
and start to accept them
as ‘normal’. But, this can be a
useful check list to chart the
state of your emotional health
and decide whether outside
intervention is needed.
1. Feeling overly emotional. If
we cry at something and think
that wouldn’t normally have
this effect upon us, it may be
an early warning sign of tiredness
and overdoing it or that
there is an illness presenting.
2. Overworking. This represents
just one way of avoiding
dealing with something
important that then leads to
inner stress.
3. Snapping at the slightest
thing. When we become
stressed or emotionally unwell
our resilience usually drops.
4. Mood Swings. Thinking
may become catastrophic in
nature and lead to feelings of
entrapment.
5. Loss of purpose. When we
become emotionally unwell,
pleasure in everything can
diminish.
6. Feeling unappreciated. It
may well lead to frustration,
resentment or low self-esteem
and loss of confidence.
7. Becoming over-controlling.
If we lose our feelings of security
we often try to reinstate
them by controlling our external
environment, and others.
Read full article: www.telegraph.co.uk/
men/thinking-man/seven-surprising-signsthat-
youre-suffering-from-emotional-distr/
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Electricity from water pipes
Portland goes green with innovative system.
Portland has replaced a section of its
existing water supply network with
Lucid Energy pipes containing four
forty-two inch turbines. As water flows
through the pipes, the turbines spin and
power attached generators, which then
feed energy back into the city’s electrical
grid. According to Lucid Energy,
this will be the “first project in the US
to secure a 20-year Power Purchase
Agreement (PPA) for renewable energy
produced by in-pipe hydropower in a
municipal water pipeline.”
Lucid Energy’s system isn’t affected
by the sort of external conditions (the
weather) upon which other renewable
energy sources –like solar and
wind power– are reliant. Nor does the
technology, completely ensconced
within a pipe, have adverse effects on a
surrounding environmental ecosystem,
as an exposed hydroelectric dam might.
Fast Company points out that, in
order to be cost and energy effective,
Portland’s new power generators
must be installed in pipes where water
flows downhill, without having to
be pumped, as the energy necessary
to pump the water would negate the
subsequent energy gleaned. The system
can monitor both the overall condition
of a city’s water supply network as well
as assess the drinking quality of the
water flowing through it.
Read full note: www.good.is/articles/
portland-pipeline-water-turbine-power
The coolest solar grill
It stores latent heat for 25-hour cook time at 450oF
This solar-powered grill uses latent
heat storage to both extend cooking
times, create hotter temperatures,
and reduce the problem of intermittent
sun. Based on technology developed by
MIT professor David Wilson, this grill
could both alleviate the well-known
environmental impact of traditional
charcoal grilling, and also offer a
cleaner, greener and more socially sustainable
cooking option in the developing
world.
A group of MIT students are working
with the technology to develop a prototype
solar grill. Derek Ham, Eric Uva,
and Theodora Vardouli are conducting
a study through their multi-disciplinary course “iTeams,” short for “Innovation
Teams”, to determine the interest
in such a concept and then hopefully
launch a business to manufacture and
distribute these grills.
This study is very timely because
although the students are creating a
new grill for American backyards, the
business plan is designed to allow the
grills to be deployed in developing
countries as an alternative source for
cooking. Wilson originally came up
for the idea during his time spent in
Nigeria. While there he noticed a large
set of problems linked to practice of
cooking with firewood.
Source: www.treehugger.com inhabitat.com
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Family planning
Something that simple is transforming lives in Kenya.
“Until I met the community health
worker, I did not know that one
can have sex and not get pregnant,”
said Wanjiru, a participant of the Tupange
Family Planning program. Wanjiru
is not different from many women
living in the slums of Nairobi.
Wanjiru delivered her first born
and within one year, she had had her
second child. It was not long before she
discovered she was pregnant again with
her third child. She could not adequately
feed her two children as it was, and
here was another pregnancy. To add
to her sorrows, her partner Kamau
disappeared.
Penina told Wanjiru that it was possible
to have sex and not have a pregnancy
and that she could space out her
pregnancies by using a family planning
device like an intrauterine device
(IUD). Wanjiru had heard they could
have side effects, including cancer.
However, after two months of followup
visits by Penina, Wanjiru was
convinced and went to the Kangemi
health facility to start using a family
planning method of her choice.
Today, more than 220 million
women in developing countries have
an unmet need for family planning
—meaning they want to postpone
their next birth for two years or more
or not have any more children but are
not using contraception. In Kenya,
the unmet need for family planning
stands at 26 percent, with higher rates
in informal settlements.
Read full text by JaneOtai: msmagazine.
com/blog/2016/06/28/
family-planning-transforms-lives-in-kenya/
Save the Royal Turtle
There might be only 10 of these turtles left in the wild.
Cambodia’s Royal Turtle, otherwise
known as the Southern River Terrapin,
is now one of the rarest turtle
species in the world and is listed as
one of the 25 most endangered tortoise
and freshwater turtle species by the
International Union for the Conservation
of Nature (IUCN).
They were once thought to have
gone extinct, but a small population
was rediscovered in 2000 and efforts
began to help protect them from being
harmed by predators and poaching of
eggs and adults.
According to WCS, since 2001, combined
conservation efforts resulted in
382 hatchlings. Over the summer last
year, another 21 of them were successfully
released back into the wild.
Unfortunately, despite efforts to
help these turtles recover, their future
is looking grim. WCS is now raising
concerns about how an increase in human
activities in the Sre Ambel River
System, which is the only place they
still exist, are putting them at greater
risk of disappearing.
Now the organization believes there
may be as few as only 10 of these
turtles left in the wild.
Learn how to help: cambodia.wcs.org
www.sospecies.org/sos_projects/
reptiles/river_terrapins/
www.turtlesurvival.org
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Strategy and execution
Two of the three things you need, beside money, to start a successful business. (part 2/2)
Strategy
Now, just because you have knowledge
of the industry doesn’t mean
you will be a success automatically.
You also need a solid strategy. How
will you acquire users or customers?
How will you make money? How will
you deliver the product or service
that people want? Without a strategy,
you are shooting in the dark and just
working like a chicken with your head
cut off. Gary Vaynerchuck describes
this well in his article “First Comes
Smarts, Then Comes the Hustle”.
Without a proper strategy, hustle is
aimless and ineffective. Fred Wilson
of Union Square Ventures also agrees
in his article: “Get the Strategy Right
and The Execution Is Easy”.
Along the way things won’t always
go according to plan. You will have
to adjust and react to things. But if
you have a strategy in place, it will be
much easier to do this.
A classic example of getting the
strategy right comes from PayPal.
PayPal realized it could offer a better
payment method for eBay customers.
Before PayPal, paying on eBay was
painful and typically done by check.
By offering instant payment, PayPal
soon became the primary means of
transferring money. As eBay grew, so
did PayPal.
Execution
Great. You have a knowledge advantage
and a strategy in place, now it’s
time to execute. Execution is a combination
of two things: hard work (aka
grit and hustle) and having the right
team in place. Regarding hard work,
Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator,
sums it up well in a tweet: “[The]
biggest predictor of massive success vs.
minor success among founders: years
and years of relentless determination.”
But hard work alone won’t see you
through. You need the right team in
place. For example, if you are trying to
build a software product to solve the
problem you’ve identified but don’t
have anyone on your team that can
build it, the expertise and strategy
don’t mean anything. The nice thing
about our world today is that there are
so many people that have skills you
can leverage to help with the execution.
You don’t necessarily need to
have everything directly on your team
and can begin executing by working
with an external team of consultants
like JAKT.
So there you have it, the three things
you need to start a business. These
aren’t the only things you will need, but
if you do have these three, the probability
of success will be much higher.
Source: www.entrepreneur.com/article/275844
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–Ernesto “Che” Guevara. (1928-1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist.
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Repurpose used coffee grounds
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Top 10 Tips for making lists by Richard Branson
1. Write down every single idea
you have, no matter how big
or small.
2. Always carry a notebook.
3. Find a list method that works
for you. Doodles, bullet-points,
charts. What suits you best?
4. Make a list of small, manageable
tasks to complete
every day.
5. Mark off every completed task.
You’ll find making each tick
very satisfying.
6. Make your goals measurable
so you know if your plans
are working.
7. Set far off, outlandish goals.
What do you want to have
achieved by 2020?
How about 2050?
8. Include personal goals in your
lists, not just business.
9. Share your goals with others.
You can help motivate each
other further.
10. Celebrate your successes.
Then make new lists
of new goals.
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Bachelor degree in Culinary Arts
School of social and human studies
The Bachelor of Culinary Arts (BA) program offers students a unique opportunity to expand your foundational culinary and hospitality training by focusing on a wide range of topics relevant to advanced positions in the industry such as facilities and event management, financial management and cost control, marketing, research and writing, small business development, and organizational psychology. The Bachelor of Culinary Arts (BA) program is offered online via distance learning. After evaluating both academic record and life experience, AIU staff working in conjunction with Faculty and Academic Advisors will assist students in setting up a custom-made program, designed on an individual basis. This flexibility to meet student needs is seldom found in other distance learning programs. Our online program does not require all students to take the same subjects/courses, use the same books, or learning materials. Instead, the online Bachelor of Culinary Arts (BA) curriculum is designed individually by the student and academic advisor. It specifically addresses strengths and weaknesses with respect to market opportunities in the student’s major and intended field of work. Understanding that industry and geographic factors should influence the content of the curriculum instead of a standardized one-fits-all design is the hallmark of AIU’s unique approach to adult education. This philosophy addresses the dynamic and constantly changing environment of working professionals by helping adult students in reaching their professional and personal goals within the scope of the degree program.
Important:
Food Ecology
Communication & Investigation
Bachelor Thesis Project
Each Bachelor of
Culinary Arts graduate is encouraged
to publish their research papers either
online in the public domain or through
professional journals and periodicals
worldwide
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questions in the area provided.
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the topics or areas you may develop
and work on during your studies. By
no means is it a complete or required
list as AIU programs do not follow a
standardized curriculum. It is meant
solely as a reference point and example.
Want to learn more about the
curriculum design at AIU? Go ahead
and visit our website, especially the
Course and Curriculum section:
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Core Courses and Topics
Food Safety
Basic and Classical Cakes
Beverages and Customer Service
Beverage Management
Business Planning
Café Operations
Chocolates and Confections
Culinary Skills for Bakers
Economics
Classical Banquet Cuisine
Composition and Communication
Computers in the Food Business
Confectionery Art and Special
Occasion Cakes
Baking and Pastry Skill Development
Baking Ingredients and Equipment
Technology
Baking Techniques
Contemporary Cakes and Desserts
Controlling Costs and
Purchasing Food
Cookies, Tarts, and Mignardises
Cuisines of Asia
Cuisines of the Americas
Cuisines of the Mediterranean
Financial Management
Food and Culture
Orientation Courses
(Comprehensive Resume)
Organization Theory (Portfolio)
Experiential Learning
(Autobiography)
Seminar Administrative Development
(Book Summary)
Seminar Cultural Development
(Practical Experience)
Seminar International Development
(Publications)
Research Project
MBM300 Thesis Proposal
MBM302 Bachelor Thesis
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