Drafts

Language is a system of communication either written or spoken used to express ideas from one to another. We are constantly using this form of communication without proposing questions about how it was formed or when it had started. Our desires, questions and feelings are all communicated through a language that all help us understand the world around us. Our language would be classified as one the most important assets as human beings, although most of the time the concept of language is overlooked. Without these languages, forming relationships would be unimaginable. Different languages are the equivalent to the role of covalent bonds holding hydrogen atoms together. These bonds are essential in keeping these atoms together, just as a language is essential in building and forming bonds between people. Within these bonds are the connections that these people have in relation to both their identity and cultural values.

Anaerobic metabolism has vast effects on the body during exercise. At 90-100% oxygen consumption the body burns mostly carbohydrates and very little fat. This is why extreme anaerobic exercises are not recommended for burning fat. Fat is primarily burned at about 20% oxygen consumption. As movement and exercise intensity increases the body’s core and peripheral systems go through very different changes. The core systems stay consistent while the peripheral system is compromised. Blood pH stays at 7.4 until about 90% oxygen consumption. Ventilation steadily increases with oxygen consumption linearly until about 80% where it rises rapidly. Venous oxygen tends to decrease gradually as oxygen consumption increases while arterial oxygen stays consistent the entire time. The distribution of oxygen also changes when exercising. At rest a vast majority of the blood goes to the brain and the kidneys. Meanwhile during activity 85% of the blood supply goes to skeletal muscles.

The Methods Project is a tool to show us, as a class, how important it is for the scientific community to conduct research with procedures that allow for an experiment to be replicated and achieve the same results. For the methods project, we had to make a figure showing an interaction between two species around us. I choose to use Dunfree Conservatory as a space to find one. There is a pond there with koi fish with plants surrounding it and I noticed that the fish sometimes nibble on the plants that either grow in the pond or happen to fall in. Seeing as the building was an enclosed, emperature controlled environment where the plants and the pond are maintains without much outside influence, I thought it would be a perfect area. That helped with the control factors of this project as the both the fish and plants are stuck in one area for easy access and the outside weather wouldn’t affect them.

As said before, the goal or the mission of this project was to create a figure that illustrated the interaction between the koi fish and plants in Dunfree conservatory. The replicated figure completed that task but with small differences in format. In my methods I realized that I did not specify some key components that could have made both figures more identical. I did not specify how many koi fish were to be present in the frame when taking the photo, if it was supposed to be zoomed in or out, or the color of the koi. As for making the figure itself, I did state the scale of the border, but I did not indicate what scale and where to find it on the page. For the arrow, I stated I used “an arrow with a feathered end” and while at the time I thought that was specific, it really was not looking at the style of the other arrows. Overall, both figures used the arrows to point out plant and fish interacting.

    Food science is an interesting field that studies the molecular activity that is occurring at our food, and why our perceptions towards certain foods exists. This includes why we enjoy french fries so much, why the crunch of an apple tastes better than an apple without a crunch, or why we love it when a dorito is the perfect orange. Fast food and certain snack companies actually pay a significant amount in order to have scientists test their food products, and compare it to scientific theory in order to improve consumer revenue. For example, the reason why doritos are always crunchy is not an accident, neither is the reason why a bag of lays is always almost half full of air. When a person opens a bag of Lays chips, the air that gets escaped keeps the chips fresh, but also has a specific synthetically created “potato” smell that is supposed to make the eater a little more hungry and crave the chips a little more. That puff of air that hits your face is almost similar to pavlov’s experiment, where the end goal is to make the consumer used to that puff of air hitting their face whenever they crave a snack, and that will induce a behavior of grabbing (specifically) a bag of Lays.

    It’s interesting to realize the amount of complexity that exists when learning music theory formally. When a child learns how to play a note on the piano or on any instrument, we are taught to hear that specific sound and to associate it with a note name (such as F). Yet when learning music theory as a college student, the idea behind “what is a note” and “what is a sharp”, are all asked. The importance behind such ideas are important to be formally addressed, but is it entirely necessary in order to teach music theory? At the end of the day, a child who has been playing the piano for half a year, can most likely tell an introductory music theory student what simple concepts are, like what a half note is, or what a sharp is. The way they express it might not be formal or coherent, but they still understand what it is. It’s ridiculous to think that an understanding of music theory is necessary in order to make or create music. As an example, those who have been considered “musical legends” such as John Lennon, did not know how to read music until he was well into his career as a well-established musician.

The two scientific multi-panel figures above resulted in the following observational differences. The replicate figure upon initial observation is significantly darker in color than the original figure. Although they are both contain a yellow background, the replicate figure has a dark yellow, orange color, while the original has a light, yellow-beige color background. Both figures contain three images, the first taken of the identical English Ivy strand, the second of the Sweet Olive tree, and the third of both species together taken from a further distance. All three photos of the replicate figure capture the same angles of the original figure almost exactly. However the replicate photos were taken during the evening, as the sun is setting at a different angle as in the original photos. The arrows used on the third photo from the replicate photo are both horizontal, however facing the left direction, as opposed to in the original photo the blue arrow is pointing in the right direction and the red arrow is pointing in the left direction. The text above the actual photos is identical in both figures. The photos in the replicate figure appear to be smaller in size in proportion to the figure than in the original figure.

The researchers would like to assess dosage efficiency through repeated titrations for a standard therapeutic threshold of 50% or greater based on liposomal binding and delivery of its interior components. If a certain percentage of tumor cells are sensitized with each dose, it will allow the researchers to further assess binding efficiencies of the liposome to its targets as well as therapeutic efficiency. Due to its phospholipid bilayer and biochemical interactions with water that hold its structure together, this liposome will be delivered intravenously to the patient suspended in an aqueous or hydrophilic solution. Hydrophilic drugs (ONC201, ABT263, and Cbl) will be located in the interior, while antibodies for pancreatic adenocarcinoma-specific antigens (CA 19-9, MUC-1, and NT5E) will be dispersed among the exterior.