...ACID-BASE DISORDERS MADE SO EASY EVEN A CAVEMAN CAN DO IT Lorraine R Franzi, MS/HSM, RD, LDN, CNSD Nutrition Support Specialist University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh, PA I. LEARNING OBJECTIVES The clinician after participating in the roundtable will be able to: 1) Indicate whether the pH level indicates acidosis or alkalosis. 2) State whether the cause of the pH imbalance is respiratory or metabolic. 3) Identify if there is any compensation for the acid-base imbalance. II. INTRODUCTION Acid-Base balance is an intricate concept which requires an intimate and detailed knowledge of the body’s metabolic pathways used to eliminate the H+ ion. Clinicians may find it daunting to understand when first introduced to the subject. This roundtable session will demonstrate how to analyze blood gas levels in a very elementary manner so as to diagnose any acid-base disorder in a matter of minutes. The body is in a constant state of flux delicately stabilizing the pH so as to maintain its normalcy. In order to prevent untoward effects of alkalosis or acidosis the body has three major buffering systems that it uses to adjust the pH. They are: 1) Plasma protein (Prot-) 2) Plasma hemoglobin (Hb-) 3) Bicarbonate (HCO3-) The Bicarbonate-Carbonic acid system is the most dominate buffering system and controls the majority of the hydrogen ion (H+) equilibrium. Maintaining homeostasis when these acid-base shifts occur is vital to survival. Metabolic and respiratory...
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...Educational Innovation TEACHING Teaching Role. My recent teaching has been in Rensselaer’s resident MBA program (both full and parttime), Professional and Distance Education Program and undergraduate programs. My research and teaching have made important contributions to efforts to build the marketing and management and technology curricula in the School of Management at Rensselaer and at other universities who have adopted our teaching materials. As a pioneer in interactive leaning material on product development and manufacturing, I have developed several interactive multimedia cases and collaborated on the development of simulations designed to teach marketing principles and bridge management and engineering disciplines. The simulations teach marketing, design and manufacturing concepts by exposing students to tradeoffs inherent in new product development. They help provide an understanding of design, manufacturing, and marketing decisions, as well as cash and investment flows, inventory management, and product planning. These materials have been used by several universities in the U.S. and abroad, as well as in the training...
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...submitted on 18th April 2013 Marketing Report Assignment 1 MBA7003 Table of Contents S no. Topics Page 01 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………... 2. Primary Research…………………………………………………………………. 01 3. Secondary Research……………………………………………………………… 01 4. Value and weaknesses of Secondary research carried out…………………… 03 5. How primary research may be used to supplement the secondary research…03 6. Research report on UK mobile market…………………..…………………..……..03 7. Conclusion…………………..…………………..…………………..……………….. 04 8. References…………………..…………………..…………………..……………….. 04 Marketing Report Assignment 1 MBA7003 1. Introduction: The report analyzes various aspects of primary research and offers an understanding of how secondary research can be used to supplement it. Merits and demerits of primary and secondary research are discussed in academic and marketing terms. 2. Primary Research: Primary research is developed by researchers by witnessing first hand sources without using their own analysis, interpretation and opinions. It usually includes diaries, speeches, autobiographies, interviews and newspapers or magazines (University of Pittsburgh 2003). Further explanation of primary sources is given by Blythe (2008). He explains that primary sources derived from original research which is usually supported by questionnaires, interviews and product tests involving customers. Primary research is mostly conducted by government and private organizations and not individuals since...
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...Robotic Assistants for Aircraft Inspectors Mel Siegel, Priyan Gunatilake, and Gregg Podnar Intelligent Sensor, Measurement, and Control Laboratory The Robotics Institute -- School of Computer Science -- Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3891 ABSTRACT Aircraft flight pressurization/depressurization cycling causes the skin to inflate and deflate, stressing it around the rivets that fasten it to the airframe. The resulting strain, exacerbated by corrosion, drives the growth of initially microscopic cracks. To avoid catastrophe, aircraft are inspected periodically for cracks and corrosion. The inspection technology employed is ~90% naked-eye vision. We have developed and demonstrated robotic deployment of both remote enhanced 3D-stereoscopic video instrumentation for visual inspection and remote eddy current probes for instrumented inspection. This article describes the aircraft skin inspection application, how robotic deployment may alleviate human performance problems and workplace hazards during inspection, practical robotic deployment systems, their instrumentation packages, and our progress toward developing image enhancement and understanding techniques that could help aircraft inspectors to find cracks, corrosion, and other visually detectable damage. KEYWORDS: automated robot visual NDI inspection enhanced remote stereoscopic multiresolution 1. INTRODUCTION Pressurization and de-pressurization of an airplane during each takeoff and landing cycle causes...
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...treatment options, which do not appear to be evidence based.4-6 There is also little research examining whether long-term cognitive See also pp 954, 958, 971, 974, and 989. 964 JAMA, September 8, 1999—Vol 282, No. 10 Context Despite the high prevalence and potentially serious outcomes associated with concussion in athletes, there is little systematic research examining risk factors and short- and long-term outcomes. Objectives To assess the relationship between concussion history and learning disability (LD) and the association of these variables with neuropsychological performance and to evaluate postconcussion recovery in a sample of college football players. Design, Setting, and Participants A total of 393 athletes from 4 university football programs across the United States received preseason baseline evaluations between May 1997 and February 1999. Subjects who had subsequent football-related acute concussions (n =...
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...[1][2][3] In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, gameplay developments by college coaches such as Eddie Cochems, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Knute Rockne, and Glenn "Pop" Warner helped take advantage of the newly introduced forward pass. The popularity of college football grew as it became the dominant version of the sport in the United States for the first half of the 20th century. Bowl games, a college football tradition, attracted a national audience for college teams. Boosted by fierce rivalries, college football still holds widespread appeal in the US. The origin of professional football can be traced back to 1892, with William "Pudge" Heffelfinger's $500 contract to play in a game for the Allegheny Athletic Association against the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. In 1920 the American Professional Football Association was formed. This league changed its name to the National Football League (NFL) two years later, and eventually became the major league of American football. Primarily a sport of Midwestern industrial towns in the United States, professional football eventually became a national phenomenon. Football's increasing popularity is usually traced to the 1958 NFL Championship Game, a contest that has been dubbed the "Greatest Game Ever Played". A rival league to the NFL, the American Football League (AFL), began play in...
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...Running header: DIGITAL BLENDED CLASSROOM LEARNING Lloyd Wayne Murphy Digital Blended Classroom Learning the New Dawn of Learning for All Strayer University Professor Randi Fass SUMMER 2011 EDU500 August 7, 2011 The intended purpose of this thesis is to illustrate how the ensuing commencement of a new dawn of student instruction, the digital-blended-classroom-learning (DBCL) discipline is upon the academic world. The advent of the innovative blending of computers within classroom instruction referred to as digital learning by some, and by others in academic world refer the discipline as blended learning posit the possession the qualities thereof, exceptionally enhance both SDL and SRL disciplines. A wide variety of DBCL discipline programs exhibit signs of incurring the utmost in achieving efficaciously successful method of instruction with both the age of majority and minority age student proficiency, in a plethora of educational institutions, where the DBCL discipline is employed. DBCL involves the integration of computer and the Internet and Intranet into the classroom, thus allowing the communication technology as a teacher/student instruction tool, along the classroom instruction tools employed in the student’s core curriculum. DBCL disciplines demonstrate signs of the improvement of teacher/student interest, student participation, student aptitude, and of the utmost import is student academic proficiency. DBCL further reveal, when, computers...
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...February 2013 US Airways and American Airlines announced their plans to merge the airlines creating the largest airline in the world. US Airways was founded in 1937 as All American Aviation and in 1996 commenced operations as US Airways with its parent company being US Airways group. The headquarters is located in Tempe Arizona. US Airways operates an intensive international and domestic network and has 198 destinations throughout North and South America, Middle East and Europe. Us Airways is a member of Star Alliance Network with a fleet of 346 mainline jet aircrafts and 256 regional jet and turbo prop aircrafts. Us Airways has a shuttle that provides hourly service between Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. that is known as US Airways Express that is operated by contract and subsidiary airline companies. As of January 2013 US Airways employed 32,213 individuals worldwide and operated 3,028 daily flights. American Airlines, Inc. is owned by the AMR Corporation headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. It operates and extensive international and domestic network as US Airways. American Airlines has scheduled flights throughout North America, South America, Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia/Pacific. The Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is the airlines largest hub with American Airlines accounting for about 85% of the traffic and 83% of landing fees and travel to more destinations than any other hub. American Airlines operates maintenance bases at Tulsa, and Fort...
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...Agenda-setting Weaver D H, Graber D, McCombs M, Eyal C 1981 Media Agenda Setting in a Presidential Election: Issues, Images and Interest. Praeger, New York M. McCombs Agendas: Political The political agenda is the set of issues that are the subject of decision making and debate within a given political system at any one time. Significant research specifically on the topic of agenda setting, as opposed to decision making, dates mostly from the 1960s. Early studies of agenda setting were quite controversial because they were often presented as critiques of the pluralist studies of the 1950s and 1960s. Truman (1951) mostly ignored the issue of who set the agenda of political debate. Dahl (1956) discusses the matter in mentioning that ensuring that no group have control over the range of alternatives discussed within the political system is a requisite for democracy. In his study of New Haven he explicitly raises the question of agenda setting, noting that with a permeable political system virtually all significant issues would likely come to the attention of the elites. ‘Because of the ease with which the political stratum can be penetrated, whenever dissatisfaction builds up in some segment of the electorate party politicians will probably learn of the discontent and calculate whether it might be converted into a political issue with an electoral pay-off’ (Dahl 1961, p. 93). In Dahl’s view, then, any issue with a significant potential following in the public would likely find...
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...Energy Independence How Government Intervention Impacts Economic Growth Howard Riley BUS 528 Energy Independence. When Rudy Giuliani campaigned for the Republican Nomination for the Presidency of the United States of America he touted the ability to achieve energy independence. Unfortunately for the former mayor of New York City this was received by the general public as nothing more than a pipe dream, trying to stir up a sense of patriotism to get voters to the polls. As it turns out, Rudy Giuliani was just able to see a little further down the line than everyone else. Energy Independence has transformed from a buzzword used by politicians and lobbyists to an actual plan to progress the United States presence in the global energy market. This has been made possible by capturing trapped hydrocarbons buried deep below the surface of the United States. Several thousand feet below the earth’s surface lies tightly packed rock formations, known as shale. The shale formation is very dense and traps the natural resources that lie within it very tightly making it previously difficult and costly to recover. The shale that lies below Pennsylvania is known as the Marcellus Shale. The Marcellus Shale is an organic-rich black shale that was deposited in an oxygen-deficient marine environment during the Middle Devonian Time (approximately 390 million years ago). The Marcellus is not just any shale formation either; it is the largest producing gas basin in the United States...
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...Israel and the Nature of Covenant in the ancient Near East A Paper Submitted to Dr. Percy D. Johnson, Jr. Of Beulah Heights University In Partial Fulfillment Of the Research Paper for the Course Interpretation of the Old Testament Bi601 Damon Richardson April 29, 2012 Introduction Exodus chapter 20 is foundational for the proper understanding of the basis of ancient Israel’s relationship with YHWH and the significance of the covenant that YHWH made with them. Therefore the focus of this paper will be to provide the basic framework for viewing this important chapter not only from an exegetical standpoint but more contextually from its ancient Near Eastern cultural matrix in order to gain some perspective and understanding as to the meaning of this familiar text. Genre of Exodus 20ff Over 50 years ago, George Mendenhall, wrote a series of articles centered on newly discovered documents from ancient Mesopotamia upon which he developed a six point formula from the examination of these fourteenth and thirteenth century Hittite treaties that shaped the way many later scholars came to understand the Biblical text in light of these ancient Hittite suzerainty-vassal covenants. Irvin A. Busenitz in his article Introduction to the Biblical Covenants wrote: The rise of the Documentary Hypothesis, fueled by the concept that religion in Israel developed along evolutionary lines, has in recent centuries suggested that ...
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...THE COURSE OUTLINE (SYLLABUS) 1. Course Name and Code: MKT 248/1 – Introduction to Marketing 2. Day, Time, Semester: Thursday, 18:30, Fall 2010 3. Instructor: Gorjan Lazarov, EMBA, Katz Business School, University of Pittsburgh 4. Contact: E-mail: gorjan.lazarov@aauni.edu 5. Office hours: Thursday, 17:30 – 18:30 6. Prerequisites: MTH 111 7. Credits: 3 8. Workload For An Average Student (weekly): |Lecture |3 hours | |Homework | | |Project |3 hours | |Reading (quizzes and tests) |3 hours | |Other assignments |2 hours | 9. Course Description: This is an examination of the overall marketing system from the marketing decision-maker’s viewpoint. The course emphasizes product, price, promotion, and distribution as well as planning, research, and organization required to implement marketing concepts. We examine marketing of consumers and industrial products and services, profit and nonprofit...
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...F.T.C. v. H.J. Heinz Co. United States District Court for the District of Columbia, 2000. 116 F. Supp. 2d 190; 2000-2 Trade Cases (CCH) ¶73,066. The Federal Trade Commission seeks a preliminary injunction pursuant to Section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. § 53(b), to enjoin the proposed merger of the baby food divisions of H.J. Heinz Company and Milnot Holding Corporation ("Beech-Nut"). . . . I. BACKGROUND A. Market overview Four million infants in the United States consume 80 million cases of jarred baby food annually, representing a domestic market of $865 million to $1 billion. There are only three major manufacturers and distributors of jarred baby food in the United States: Heinz, Beech-Nut, and Gerber Products Company. Gerber is by far the largest domestic manufacturer. It enjoys, and has enjoyed for some 40 years, a dominant market share that has recently grown to between 65 and 70 percent. The Gerber market share is now 65 percent, the Heinz share 17.4 percent, and the Beech-Nut share 15.4 percent. . . . Heinz's domestic baby food products are manufactured at its Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania plant, which was recently updated at a cost of $120 million. The Pittsburgh plant now operates at 40 percent of its production capacity and produces 12 million cases of baby food annually. . . . Beech-Nut manufactures all of its baby food in Canajoharie, New York, at a manufacturing plant that was built in 1907 and began manufacturing baby food in 1931. The plant...
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...authorities. It wasn’t until November 5, 2011 that Sandusky was arrested on a $100,000 bail and up to 40 criminal counts. ESPN were quickly in the scene to investigate and report the allegations on Sandusky. They quickly reported saying Sandusky was charged with more than 50 counts of child sex-abuse involving 10 boys he met through The Second Mile, a children's charity he founded. New York Times went on to report Sandusky has been accused of these charges before hand and action was never taken until now. 2 days after Sandusky’s arrest, athletic director Tim Curley and vice president for finance and business Gary Schultz stepped down from their positions, also being facing charges for not notifying the police for Sandusky’s actions. On December 16, 2011, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz were held for trial. "I don't remember any reports to me that it was sexual in nature," Mr. Curley told the grand jury, a statement prosecutors contend was a lie (Schmitz) Tim Curley allegedly said he did not report anything to the authorities because he felt a crime never occurred. This controversy led to charges for lying to the grand jury about what they knew about the actions of Sandusky. Football coach, Joe Paterno and university president, Graham Spanier were fired due to how handled the scandal of Sandusky. "The university is much larger than its athletic teams. The Penn State board of trustees tonight decided it is in the best interest of the university to have a change in...
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