James H. Collier with David M. Toomey http://www.faculty.english.vt.edu/Collier/stc/ch2.htmPart 1.IntroductionPractitioners entering scientific and technical fields are confronted with an ocean of information, and the tide will constantly rise. As a reader, you will struggle to stay current with the literature in order to maintain and advance your position in your field. It is a truism that the task of reading all
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Nanoscale research is currently attracting tremendous attention from both the general public and from a large variety of science and engineering disciplines. The attraction is largely fostered by technological visions, the promises of new scientific discoveries, and huge governmental funds. Such a melting pot of various disciplines promises to be a great opportunity for innovative research through synergetic
Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey will drill 3km through ice sheet to take samples from Lake Ellsworth It is a mission into the uncharted and unknown in search of the hardiest life forms on Earth. British engineers set off last week to explore a lake that has been isolated from the rest of the planet for hundreds of thousands of years three kilometers under the Antarctic ice. Researchers from the
1. Postgraduate A The planning, building, and repair of roads, bridges, large buildings etc 2. Target B To officially arrange to join a school, university, or course, or to arrange for someone else to do this 3. To graduate from university C Thin metal in the form of a thread, or a piece of this 4. Transmission D A machine that has been sent into space and goes around the
1. Why do you think your boss behave this way? 2. What would you answer to your boss? 3. Do you believe it is reasonable to check with your colleagues even if you are sure in the correctness of your decision? 4. What would you do in this situation? Would you like to have a frank discussion with your boss and tell him your vision of situation? Part 4.All cultures can be subdivided into two types: collectivist
Intercultural communication is a very important part of modern world. This term can be explained as a way of how people from different countries and cultures act, communicate and perceive the world around them.Read short articles about different cultures and try to find the way out of the curious situations given below. Part 1.The Ring or «OK», this gesture was popularized in the USA during the early nineteenth
Unit 11) Explain the necessity of using italicized articles in the following passage Schools can also be grouped by 1) the types of programs and degrees they offer. 2) The three major groups are community colleges, 4-year colleges, and universities. Community colleges (sometimes called junior colleges) offer only 3) the first 2 years of undergraduate studies 4) (the freshman and sophomore years). They enroll about 5
1. It crosses two mountain ranges, 561 rivers, 124 km of permafrost and more than 1000 km of West Siberian bog and marsh on its journey through five time zones to Western Europe. 2. It was, for example, quite common in the last century for ivory objects to be carved from mammoth tusk that had been preserved in the permafrost of the Siberian tundra since the last Ice Age! 3. The region is characterized by permafrost,
Criteria for assessment letter Question Yes/no Comments Content 1. Is the content appropriate to the audience and purpose of the letter? 2. Does the letter contain sufficient information? 3. Is the content relevant? Language 4. Is the language appropriate to the audience and purpose of the letter?
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Yours sincerely I am writing to request Thank you for your assistance Dear Mr. Weiner Please send me Sample letter giving informationLook through the letter of giving information and do the following tasks:Define the style of the letterChoose the words / phrases in bold which are more appropriate for the style of the letter Sample letter of apologyRead the letters of apology from hairdressers who put too
2005-09 NIH Risk, Adult Addictions Study Section, member 2003-04 NIH Peer Review Committee: Psychobiology of Aging, ad hoc reviewer 2003- Board of Advisors, Senior Services of Eastern Missouri 2000- Associate Editor, Psychology and Aging 1998- Member, American Geriatrics Society 1998- Member, Gerontological Society of America 1995- Member, American Psychological AssociationHonors2008 Award for Best in
Go through your speech looking for double meanings of words and phrases; for contrasting relationships between ideas, events, situations and people. All of these are possible sources of humor. Try free association. Think about your audience: Who do they dislike and why? Who do they like and why? Who are their rivals? What are the hobbies, occupations, and unusual characteristics of well-known people among them?
1. Overcome speaker’s fright.In order to deal with such bodily symptoms of fear as dry mouth, hands perspiration, adrenalin gushes in veins, faster heart beats, contracting stomach muscles robbing a person of all interest in food you have two things to do: convince yourself that the challenge is not a matter of life and death, and therefore does not require that marshalling of forces which once was required for
Think about the presentation beforehand. It is short-changing the organizers of the event and your audience if you only think about what you’re going to say the day before or while travelling to the event. If necessary, clarify with the organizers exactly what is required of you and what facilities you will require. Be very clear about how much time you have – and stick to that time in preparing and delivering
(KEVIN KELLY:) Science will continue to surprise us with what it discovers and creates; then it will astound us by devising new methods to surprises us. At the core of science's self-modification is technology. New tools enable new structures of knowledge and new ways of discovery. The achievement of science is to know new things; the evolution of science is to know them in new ways. What evolves is less the body of
11/11/2002. The Entropy Formula for the Ricci Flow and its Geometric Applications 3/10/2003. Ricci Flow with Surgery on Three-Manifolds 7/17/2003. Finite Extinction Time for the Solutions to the Ricci Flow on Certain Three-Manifolds Unit 10Meeting with scientistsDmitry Medvedev discussed developing Russian science’s technological base, grants, and social support measures with young scientists. The meeting’s
By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8505203.stm) The results from the highest-energy particle experiments carried out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in December have begun to yield their secrets. Scientists from the LHC's Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector has now totted up all of the resulting particle interactions. They wrote in the Journal of High Energy
By MICHAEL PRAVICA SPECIAL TO THE REVIEW-JOURNAL The year 2005 has been designated the World Year of Physics to recognize physics as a foundation of not only science, but also society. The designation coincides with the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's "miraculous year" of 1905, during which he published papers on the theory of relativity, quantum theory and the theory of Brownian motion, ideas that